Dozens of Santas crawled the downtown pubs Saturday night, taking over watering holes from Victory Park through the West End and Main Street and out to Expo Park. Along the way, they staged a pillow fight, sang Christmas carols and hula-hooped on the sidewalks. Most in this year’s Dallas Santa…
Okay, I’m technically on vacation. But I know the drill. When a dude predicts the Cowboys will lose 45-10 and is flat dead ass wrong, he needs to show up to take his Season’s Beatings. Right? So here I am, take your best shot. FYI, I like my crow with…
Citadel Broadcasting owns 224 radio stations across the U.S. — three in Texas, all in Dallas-Fort Worth. They’re not unfamiliar brand names: the historic WBAP-AM (News/Talk 820) and KSCS-FM (96.3), which, for a good long while in the 1990s, was the top station in the DFW and, like, WBAP, remains…
Clearly if at first you don’t succeed, you try, and try, and try and try again.In its endless effort to find something to name for César Chávez, the city has, as evidenced by the photo here, clearly set its eyes upon the short bit of Central Expressway that runs through…
Bumped into Ticket program director Jeff Catlin last night, and maybe it was the spiked eggnog and rolled mistletoe talking, but somehow I ended up hosting a post-Cowboys-post-game holiday musical spectacular-spectacular that should commence at half past midnightish on 1310 AM tonight. I imagine it’ll be a cross between my…
Good Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston just returned from a tour of the North Texas Food Bank’s operations in advance of a KERA-FM (90.1) commentary he’s writing for broadcast next week. He sends word:Their goal is 20 million meals by year’s end. Remember that one dollar means four meals…
I know what you’re thinking: The year is almost over, and I need more Schutze! More Schutze you say? Me too, which is why I took a look back at his columns from ’09 and picked my 10 faves for your reconsideration and, well, appreciation. For those who don’t remember…
My favorite cease-the-grease spot remains the North Texas Grease Abatement Council’s 10-minute short film starring Chad, the poor sumbitch whose bath-time plans are foiled by clogged pipes. (Perry the Pipe’s cartoon is a distant second.) But during the holidays, Dallas Water Utilities has stepped up its effort to reach Spanish-speakers;…
For more than a year, Smokey Joe Barton’s been trying to kill the Bowl Championship Series — most recently, of course, with H.R. 390: College Football Playoff Act of 2009, which would …… prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, the promotion, marketing, and advertising of any post-season…
John Carlen does not rank among Hollywood’s best-known screenwriters; though he’d been working in the business since 1978, when he served as a technical adviser on Ulu Grosbard’s Straight Time, his most famous script was for Nic Cage’s critically savaged directoral debut Sonny starring James Franco. Which is why, perhaps,…
There was a time, a looong time ago, when the Flaming Lips played Dallas so often I thought Wayne Coyne was a local. But local Lips performances are hard to come by these days; hence, Pete’s 3:20 in the a.m. post about the band’s long-rumored, now “likely” outdoor performance at…
Speaking of best-of film lists …A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this Irish Times piece, in which critic Donald Clarke lists his Top 20 Films of the Noughties. And right there, at No. 20, is Shane Carruth’s masterful mindfuck Primer, winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Drama…
Last month, Unify South Dallas — a relatively new coalition of community “grassroots organizations and nonprofits,” in the words of The Rev. Gerald Britt Jr., vice president of public policy at Central Dallas Ministries — asked Mayor Tom Leppert to address just hat kind of economic redevelopment folks living near…
This morning’s Los Angeles Times visits Arlington to the story of Malek Hadi, an Iraqi who lost all of his right leg, some of his left leg and several of his fingers in September 2006. At the time the explosive shattered his Humvee outside of Baghdad, Hadi was employed by…
We kicked off yesterday by previewing Dallas’s “billion-dollar” case before the Supreme Court of Texas: City of Dallas v . Kenneth Albert, a 13-year-old consolidated suit involving hundreds of firefighters demanding thousands in back pay. The city says it’s immune from being sued; the attorneys on the other side, of…
A few days ago, Brad Oldham sent over a Traveling Man cuff bracelet — based, of course, upon the sculpture series he and Brandon Oldenburg created for the Deep Ellum Green Line stops — which he’s selling through his StackNWear site. I called to thank him and see if, well,…
As we noted Monday, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins was invited to a White House Christmas party this week. I went over to his Facebook page to see if he’d posted any photos; sure enough. I dunno. I was excepting more. I mean, I guess the president’s somewhere in…
Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander says he can’t talk about the district’s intentions with the former Oak Cliff Christian Church on 10th Street, which, as we first mentioned Tuesday morning, is part of the new Adamson High School campus. (Specifically, the 104-year-old church is scheduled to become tennis…
We attended this morning’s Dallas Park and Recreation Board meeting at Dallas City Hall hoping to learn more about one item of interest we noticed on the agenda: “Museum of Nature and Science Charter School,” which, we assumed, would have fleshed out details concerning plans to turn the existing Fair…
Forthcoming later today is this year’s Unfair Park holiday-season auction benefiting North Texas Food Bank, which features not one by several one-of-a-kind, locally produced items. But while we wrap up this year’s goodies, first this giveaway.Yesterday I posted the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association’s tops-of-2009 list. But what say you…
I love me some journalism. But, God, do I hate me some English. Through and threw. Chord and chat. Axe and aks. And when they’re finished, somehow buildings aren’t builts. In America they’re trades; in England they’re transfer windows. Don’t get me started … or is too late? This Saturday…
The story of Taylor Pugh, the 4-year-old preschooler suspended by the Mesquite Independent School District for his long locks, is making the cross-country rounds today. Thanks to this Associated Press video, MISD spokesperson Laura Jobe’s hairstyle has now been called into question…
