Just got this press release about the opening next week of a new club called Metro 5, which occupies the old Starck Club spot on McKinney Avenue in the West End, and three things stick out: “M5 brings a twist to the nightlife scene with weekly promotional offerings such as…
Ssssh. Hear that? Is it butterflies peein’ in a cotton field? Vince Young’s gears turnin’? Bode Miller’s Olympic medals clanging together? Nope, just the hollow clamor surrounding the World Baseball Classic. Chalk up another one for Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig. First, despite a mountain of evidence that Barry…
Dallas may well be the meanest city in Texas when it comes to its treatment of the homeless, but Wichita Falls sounds like it’s hell on Dallas’ homeless too. –Robert Wilonsky…
The underperforming stock of the Belo Corp., owners of The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-Channel 8, is getting much attention today; see here and here for commentary from those who know about such things. Both stories contain this quote from Belo chairman Robert Decherd: “The advertising market has been more…
According to its Web site, the locally based Leadership Network will “identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact.” While only one of the words “high,” “capacity,” “Christian” and “leader” apply to me, I am fascinated by the rise of the movie-theater church; God loves a big room,…
The NarcoSphere sounds like awesome name for a death-metal band or an HBO show about the double lives of 11th-grade cops or maybe even a blockbuster movie about an underwater exploration team that’s high all the time. Try none of the above: It’s part of the 4-year-old NarcoNews site that…
Let me solve one mystery right upfront. During the two hours of Cavalia’s Cirque du Soleil-inspired spectacle combining horses, riders, acrobats and aerialists, not a single animal was seen to relieve itself. Forty-seven horses, most of which had a part in last night’s show: Not a dribble, not a turd…
Uh-oh. Our worst fears may soon be upon us. The Cowboys just released Keyshawn Johnson, minutes after the Eagles released Terrell Owens. Johnson was Dallas’ leading receiver last season. Owens would fill that need, albeit with a ton of extra baggage. (See: psycho.) Put two and two together, and will…
Yeah, you knew that already. But here’s further proof that we know how to dance with what brung us, usually at JR’s Bar & Grill. –Robert Wilonsky…
Today, Docurama releases on DVD the disappointing, underwhelming doc called Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered, which, alas, does not live up to its billing; my mom has more titillating stuff in her collection. (S’what my dad says.) Originally titled The Curse of Debbie Does Dallas, this overwrought mini-doc (clocks in at…
As Jerry Seinfeld so eloquently put it: We don’t cheer players, we cheer laundry. That’s true enough around here: We booed Deion Sanders as a San Francisco 49er and then cheered him as a Dallas Cowboy; and we cheered Steve Nash as a Dallas Maverick and now boo him as…
For those who haven’t seen the ongoing discussion on Fark.com regarding last week’s Observer cover story on Indigo kids, much of it is in response to a quote in the lead section from Dusk, the boy on the cover. The quote reads, “I’m an avatar. I can recognize the four…
Apparently, if you want your church’s cup to runneth over, all you gotta do is call Paul Gage. His Dallas-based consulting service, The Gage Group, will pass the collection plate till it’s got nearly $100 million in it. According to this item from the Agape News, a Web that that…
The Dallas dust-up, over the pretty good chance the big-screen version of the little-screen show will end up shooting in Canada or Florida or Louisiana, is getting much pub these days, and not just in the U.S. In Canada, they’re fretting about the lack of some suitable scenery but gloating…
Taking this picture of Ashlee Simpson with my cell phone made my feel creepy, but in a good way. But since you can barely tell who it is, well, what’s the dif? This item appeared on this blog for about two minutes yesterday, before vanishing into the ether; dunno how…
Texas was not just outplayed yesterday in the Big 12 Men’s Basketball Tournament final. It was out-fanned. Looked to me like burnt orange outnumbered by about two-to-one the grape or periwinkle or whatever color Kansas claims, but the KU fans absolutely shook the American Airlines Center with their ardor. Texas…
Five staples in the head of a Dallas Observer employee. Wound courtesy of a drunk asshole at the Toadies’ reunion concert. The crowd at Saturday’s Greenville Ave. St. Patrick’s Day Parade concert bided its time. As long lines filed into the blocked-off Yale Boulevard party zone, Dallas’ Baboon unleashed some…
Popular link-collecting Web site Fark.com allows users to make fun of news stories in their barely moderated comments section–the exact opposite of the no-comments, autocratic regime we run here at Unfair Park. It’s rare when we make their list, and this week, Jesse Hyde’s Little Boy Blue makes the cut…
Publicists exist to give journalists free stuff. (Alternatively, they also coordinate attempts to prevent us from trying to get the information we really need vs. what they want to tell us.) They may also make a mean meat loaf or run a four-minute mile, but in the grand scheme of…
Remember way back when there were only two sports in Dallas: football and off-season football? Don’t look now, helmet head, but Dallas is suddenly imitating a pretty decent Mecca of basketball. The rise of roundball permeates all levels. Last weekend in Austin, Dallas-area high schools swept the three biggest classes…
Sarah Wamsley ran sobbing out of a Tarrant County courtroom yesterday afternoon as her 21-year-old brother, Andrew Wamsley, was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of both his parents for their $1.65 million estate in December 2003. Prosecuting attorney Mike Parrish had sought the death penalty, because he…
The SXSW wheel is turning, and the first rag to get officially caught in the gears is the Austin Chronicle, whose picks for day one of the music festival went online today. Good news: Dallas has a considerable presence on the hometown city’s recommendation sheet, thanks to Midlake, Baboon and…
