Eric Clapp’s the Fort Worth filmmaker who curates the Bobbie Wygant Archive, which has given us much to look at in recent months. But he’s also the producer of director Coleman Anderson’s short film 4 X 4 Camaro, the tale of a local father and son who, with the aid…
From the sound of Andrea’s December 16 liveblog from the City Plan Commission, not to mention the myriad other sit-downs Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano have had with Lower Greenville Avenue stakeholders in recent months, the council members’ Planned Development District ordinance has a lot of support, even if it…
“I can hold the tape recorder,” offers filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell. “I tend to speak quietly.” Graciousness appears to be second nature to Mitchell—once an altar boy, always an altar boy—who has agreed to brave an increasingly cold L.A. afternoon by taking an outside table at a Hollywood coffeehouse, thereby…
Welcome, pardners: More illegals! More illegals over here, please! The Census Bureau released its 2010 numbers last week, bringing tidings of joy locally over the four additional U.S. House seats Texas should get out of the new numbers, which show Texas having grown at more than 20 percent in population…
Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont—a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the manager of the hotel, reminded her while she was there shooting her new film, Somewhere. It’s the first feature to be granted clearance to shoot extensively inside the rooms and on…
Every four years, the American people act en masse to send a message to the nation’s power brokers, and every four years, this vote is interpreted as a sign of the decline in taste, intelligence and moral rectitude of the populace. Every four years, a Jackass movie opens at number…
Many of my favorite films of the year are still awaiting wider release, so although this top 10 list wraps up my 2010, it can also serve as a guide to your 2011. My No. 1 film, in fact, sneaks into New York just three days before the year ends:…
There may have been an Observer staff meeting this year during which Jason Roberts’s name wasn’t brought up. Maybe one. The rest of the time, we were either talking about Jason Roberts or talking about how we should probably write about Jason Roberts, except that we were over-covering Jason Roberts,…
I took the boy to the Highland Park Village Barber Shop this morning, following a particularly cruel trick played on him yesterday at Superchops. Afterward, we came downstairs and ran into original Fearing’s manager Justin Beam, one of the Twomey Concepts-uals behind the cinema, which shuttered in August ’09 for…
A virtual jaunt ’round the Western Hemisphere has led FBI investigators to anonymous users who appear to have used servers from a Dallas-based server company to disable and disrupt PayPal after the money-wiring site froze a WikiLeaks donations account earlier this month. The Smoking Gun has excerpts from the FBI…
While the Texas Rangers waited for Cliff Lee to make up his mind, the best options to fill the team’s hole at designated hitter flew off the board. The Chicago White Sox snatched up the two best fits, re-signing Paul Konerko for three years at $12.5 million per season and…
At this very moment, a fellow Unfair Parker is headed to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to catch a Virgin America flight bound for Los Angeles; looking forward to the in-flight review. But mere weeks after Sir Richard Branson’s airline made its Willie Nelson-serenaded DFW bow, BusinessWeek wonders: Will it fly?Branson…
Back in March we were alerted to a cabbie strike out at Love Field Airport, when the members of the Association of Taxicab Operators protested the city’s eventual vote that allowed compressed natural gas-powered taxis to hop to the front of the line at Love Field. The ATO eventually took…
As quiet as Dealey Plaza’s been since the truth-bearing publishers were cleared out, you could forgive a few tourists for being concerned this morning to find the place crawling with cops. Surrounded by Dallas police, some in Gang Unit windbreakers, one officer was able to reassure an elderly woman that…
10. Mark Teixeira says teammate Andy Pettitte’s “probably leaning toward retirement,” which is good news for the Texas Rangers and everyone else aiming to win the AL pennant next year. With the Yankees missing out on Cliff Lee, their rotation is shaky with CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Phillip Hughes and…
Back in June ’07, the Dallas Theater Center introduced its sixth artistic director — some dude named Kevin Moriarty, who was, at the time, a theater teacher at Brown University and the summer-season-runner at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York. As he told our Elaine Liner upon his arrival:…
Today’s Washington Post offers this heads-up: Last week in U.S. District Court in California, Greenville Avenue-based personal-injury attorney Majed Nachawati and West End-dwelling personal-injury attorney Jeremy Wilson filed a class-action suit in which three locals, among others, claim that Apple and the makers of some iPhone apps are invading their…
No doubt you’ve heard the tale of Sandy McGriff, the 52-year-old Church of the Living God pastor — and a former prostitute with more than 12 aliases, according to the Dallas Police Department — who was spotted breaking into congregant Serita Agnew’s house on Christmas Eve and is accused of…
Flipped over to the Kennedy Center Honors late in the show, just as a certain Arts Magnet grad was foo-fighting over Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.” And first thing I saw was former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, now the United States Trade Representative. Clearly, it still pays to be the…
Hell of a time to get (re)obsessed with KZEW concerts — only, what, 35 years after the fact? But when a Friend of Unfair Park sent me chasing after the Peter Frampton show, look what I found instead last night — Robin Trower at the Travis Street Electric Company on…
“In Dallas, sometimes we don’t look back,” says Veletta Lill, former city council member and executive director of the Dallas Arts District. “It’s aiways important to be looking in one’s rear-view mirror and, at the same time, keep your eye on the road.”Lill, who kept the wrecking ball away from…
Again, something with which to occupy your time while we wait on return calls …This time, it’s a New York Post piece that ran a couple of days back from a local scribe of note who writes that no way, no how would he move to New York City, even…
