A Friend of Unfair Park with a very long memory recalls that in July, we mentioned that Julia Roberts was named spokesperson for Dallas-based Earth Biofuels, which produces, markets and distributes — what else? — biodiesel fuel. The company only last week launched something called the “BioWillie� Marketing Program,” whatever…
The Secret Machines’ Marfa trip will finally (looks like, anyway) get a proper DVD release in 2007. In the latest issue of Spin there’s a piece about Secret Machines’ 2005 recording session in Marfa, where the ex-pat Dallasites set up shop after Brandon Curtis’ trip way out west some six…
On Friday, a Friend of Unfair Park suggested we link to this piece from Ain’t It Cool News, which went up at the end of the week: an obituary of a set from 1976’s Logan’s Run, most of which, as you likely know, was filmed in Dallas and Fort Worth…
So, how many people at your place of business couldn’t make it in this morning, on this Froze-Over MLK Day-Off? I know at least one guy who doesn’t wanna hear it: Sasha Ardalic, a 19-year-old I see every single day on my way to work, this morning being no exception…
You know who might not have found a manger in Farmers Branch? Hey, don’t yell at us. That’s what Dallas Bishop Charles Grahmann says. During a special mass Sunday at the Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe, the Bishop of Dallas defined his stance on the increasingly bitter and polarizing immigration tug-of-war…
Tony Romo will run into the comforting arms of David Letterman next week. Because Leno sucks. Rest easy Cowboys fans, your quarterback is not sitting alone in a dark room, mindlessly flicking the light switch off, on, off, on… In fact, Tony Romo is beginning his long, painful road to…
Interesting piece yesterday in The New York Times about the (impending?) (inevitable?) (invidious?) George W. Bush Presidential Library and Think Tank and Juice Bar on the S.M.U. campus. There was nothing terribly new, mind you: It dealt mostly with the concerns some faculty members have with turning the school into…
Sure, seems like as good a time as any to honor immigrants; it’s just a good thing they aren’t doing it, like, in Farmers Branch. During noon mass on Sunday at the downtown Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe, Dallas Bishop Charles Grahmann will be on hand to commemorate World Day for…
We’re not big users of celeb-gossip site TMZ.com — at least, far as you know. That said, this item about Kelly Clarkson tickled us: “Kelly Clarkson was spotted leaving Nobu sushi restaurant in New York last night, looking less like an American Idol and more like a Moscow middle school…
Bible Girl has asked me to post to Unfair Park my (late, whatever) New Year’s resolutions that appear in the paper version of Unfair Park — albeit in the advertorial supplement Resolutions guide, which you might have, like, missed or something. So, after the jump, there they are. And since…
This is why people don’t trust the media. All week, it was: Gonna rain, then get cold, then hell will freeze over. Then, this morning: Not so much. Lots of rain, no ice. Now The Dallas Morning News has just updated its weekend weather story with this quote from Dan…
Seriously, how kinky have your Saturday nights been lately? Thought you were really out of control when you rented The DaVinci Code and Click, all in one night? Wooooooweee. You better slow down, bucko, or you might find yourself staying up past midnight and missing Sunday school the next morning…
Once you’ve lost your innocence, you don’t think about it much anymore. We accustom ourselves so quickly to compromise, to an acceptable level of sin. Really, it’s our only line of defense from a loss for which there is no remedy. That and depression. One day, though, you’ll get a…
If you’re interested in playing along, there’s a new guessing game taking place this week in media circles: Who’s the unnamed billionaire mentioned in the first sentence of Michael Wolff’s Vanity Fair piece about very rich men trying to buy into the newspaper biz. Or I guess you could play…
Just a quick reminder that our dear Uncle Barky’s out in Los Angeles for the next few weeks, sending back daily (hourly?) missives from the Television Critics Association’s press tour, where all the networks trot out their biggest names to pimp their latest product. The Startlegram’s Robert Philpot is also…
Yeah, yeah — I know. This is almost a year old, this clip of “Dallas Stadium” (really, the Ballpark in Arlington) being demolished by a “super tornado.” But since the Discovery Channel has no intention of re-running its Perfect Disaster series any time soon, and since someone else posted this…
Constable Mike Dupree met with various activists recently and told them that the recent Dallas Observer story that chronicled his affair-gone-bad with an illegal immigrant from Honduras was inaccurate. Which is sort of odd, since we got the story from Dupree, who readily talked to us about the relationship. Last…
This is how disinterested we are in hockey this season: We had no idea till Richie said so that the Stars had a female public address announcer. That’s cool. Remember waaaay back when goalie Marty Turco had it all figured out and the Dallas Stars jumped out of the gate…
Thirty-five-year-old Dallas man Kenyatta Dante Canady, who’s daring enough to wear an eyepatch into a federal courtroom, claims his chief influence in the bank-robbing game is television — the Discovery Channel, to be precise, which he says is where he picked up his brilliant technique that apparently also involves getting…
Richie thinks Norv Turner might make a good head coach for Your Cowboys. Friends of Unfair Park, discuss. David Beckham is coming. Barbaro is going. And, thanks to Bill Parcells, Your Dallas Cowboys are stuck smack-dab in the middle of nowhere. Should the 65-year-old asshole (now there’s a mental image…
This is an honest-to-God Frank Lloyd Wright chair. And the seller really needs to pay Unfair Park a commission at this point… So, we now have a definitive answer as to the authenticity of that danged seat being auctioned off on eBay: It’s the real deal, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed…
A friend of mine, local artist Zachary Broadhurst, is, like, second only to Davy Rothbart when it comes to finding fascinating things on the ground, in restaurant booths, in books, on signs, wherever. So I wasn’t too surprised to receive a text message containing a photo of something he’d discovered…
