Our Mike Mezeul was at the AAC for yesterday’s season opener, where not a highlight was to be found between the buzzers. His slide show from the interior decorating session can be found here; The Official Banner-Raising Video follows, as do a few other distractions from a Christmas Day blowout,…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have already requested one song for next year’s Christmas special on K-Ticket: Tiger Darrow and Paul Slavens’s “Santa Claus is Coming,” which, per the note affixed to the Soundcloud, was finished just in time for his arrival in the wee small hours of Christmas morning…
Yesterday, over breakfast, I lingered over the brief piece that appears on Page 44 of The New York Times Magazine: “A Day at the Ballpark.” My 8-year-old son, a baseball fan and aspiring catcher, saw the headline and the illustration — a photo of a well-worn baseball — and asked…
If I’m allowed on K-Ticket airwaves for a fourth annual Christmas dance party, I will ask management to carve space enough for a 17-hour set. The list of songs I wanted to play but didn’t is much longer than those that actually made the air. Then again, if you really…
My relationship with Dallas before June 12, 2011, was tenuous. I got tattooed there with Dennis Rodman during the summer of 1994 and stayed for a week, but I was shit-faced the whole time. I visited for a few days during baseball’s winter meetings in 2000, when A-Rod signed with…
I’ve just been informed the office is closed, which would explain why there’s nobody here — I just thought all the new kids got scared off by Hot Fudge Fridays.It’s just as well. I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks collating and curating jingle-bell rock, funky Jesii…
This morning, the Dallas Police Department sent word: It’s looking for two men who, over the course of the past few weeks, have been hitting the 7-Eleven at Walnut Hill and Marsh. There are videos, of course; they follow. In both it’s hard to tell what’s happening, but per the…
Michael Cain says he’s this close to wrapping his long-in-the-works Starck Club documentary — by February, fingers crossed. Just last night, the founder of the Deep Ellum-turned-AFI-turned-Dallas International Film Festival dispatched this teasing look by way of a holiday greeting. But as I got to sniffing around the other M3…
Speaking of the company that operates the American Airlines Center …While going through some federal courthouse docs this morning, which is how everyone should spend the day before the day before Christmas, I discovered that lawsuit concerning the former Chili’s at the AAC lives on, with a trial date set…
That crazy website I stumbled across at the end of last week, the one that turned up those Zevon shows from ’93, is proving to be quite the treasure trove; and just when I was about to ditch this feature too. Don’t think I’m not this close to spending all…
Saw a piece in the Penn State paper this morning about how sales for the TicketCity Bowl in the Cotton Bowl are “struggling,” at least when it comes to dispensing with Penn State’s allotment of 6,000 ducats for the January 2 face-off against Houston. So I called over to the…
Not sure I knew there was going to be a “Northaven Trail” till I drove past the under-construction path beneath the power lines on St. Michaels a few weeks ago. Very nice. Need proof? The City of Dallas Hike & Bike Trails just posted a mini-photo album featuring 13 look-sees…
Way back in April 2009, you may recall, FBI agents raided Core IP Networks, an enormous Internet service provider HQ’d out of 2323 Bryan Street downtown. It made national news, in part because the feds’ raid temporarily disabled some 50 clients’ Web sites. At the time, the FBI would only…
Longtime Friends of Unfair Park will recall: In early 2009, United League Baseball co-founders John Bryant (yes, that John Bryant) and Byron Pierce said that come time for first pitch 2010, they would have a minor-league ballclub on the banks of the Trinity River. Why, they even rendered us a…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now: Joey Dauben, publisher of the Ellis County Observer and several other small-town papers and websites throughout North Texas, has been indicted and arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. The 30-year-old Dauben, who Patrick Michels profiled in an Observer cover story earlier this…
It’s become very clear in recent days that Ross Perot Jr. isn’t about to walk away from his feud with Mark Cuban. On December 2, his attorneys notified the Fifth Court of Appeals that he intends to fight Judge Craig Smith’s order tossing that suit in which Perot accuses Cuban…
We began this holiday tradition three years ago: auctioning off a hard-to-get-hold-of local trinket, with every last cent made going toward the North Texas Food Bank. This year’s offering is a particularly special one — a collection of offerings from the Texas Theatre, graciously and generously donated by Adam Donaghey,…
On the first day of Hanukkah (that is to say, Tuesday) my city gave to me its response to the federally filed lawsuit in which the National Solid Wastes Management Association insists the city’s new ordinance driving all trash to the McCommas Bluff Landfill is “extraordinarily anti-free-enterprise.” Catchy, no? And,…
Margaret, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me), starring Anna Paquin with key supporting performances from Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo, is the best film of 2011. Chances are very, very good that you haven’t seen it — or were even aware that it was something…
THE CLOCK Christian Marclay, U.K. One of the most radical film-objects of the 21st century, Marclay’s 24-hour found-footage assemblage — which screened in Boston, Los Angeles and New York this year — was not only a surprise art-world blockbuster but also, by making an overt spectacle out of time passing,…
Kristen Wiig Six years of Saturday Night Live was threatening to calcify Kristen Wiig’s brand of highly physical yet conceptual comedy of awkwardness. Turns out she was working on a second act all along: As co-writer and star of the summer blockbuster Bridesmaids, Wiig proved, first and foremost, that female-fronted…
Red Tails Remember back in 2005, when George Lucas was making the press rounds to promote Revenge of the Sith, and he was all, “Now I can FINALLY make those experimental movies I’ve been talking about making for 30 years but for whatever reason have never actually made”? Instead of…
