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We wish Big Tuck luck with, what else, a capital “T.” Big Tuck, Dallas’s answer to the much-hyped Houston hip-hop juggernaut, just might be single-handedly spearheading the surge in Big D’s rap rep. Tuck’s the lead artist on T-Town, which inked a deal earlier this year with Universal for a…

Hey, look. It’s Santiago Calatrava again. A Friend of Unfair Park who noticed today’s Santiago Calatrava posting sends word that Wikipedia has some interesting news concerning one of the architect’s other bridges in Holland. Seems a few years back, Calatrava was commissioned to build three bridges in Haarlemmermeer. They opened…

Will Johnson, at right, used to be “a drummer.” Then he became a rock star. Now he’s gonna be a movie star. Will. He’s awesome. Just saw on my boy Sammy Machkovech’s site that someone’s put chocolate in my peanut butter. See, one of my favorite albums of all time…

In the election-season ruckus over immigration, an old idea has surfaced yet again: Should cops be able to deport people who are here illegally? A federal program that trains police to determine immigrants’ legal status and initiate their removal from the country has drawn interest from agencies across the country,…

This is Santiago Calatrava. People love his work–and now they love to make fun of it too. Damn it. Was so gonna post that Calatrava cartoon from The New Yorker that Wick Allison got to earlier on FrontBurner. At last, that New Yorker subscription was gonna pay off; now, not…

Erykah Badu performs at a church on Saturday. For free. She’s good like that. We’ve said it before, but we’ll say so again: If you didn’t know any better, you’d swear Erykah Badu was still a hometown comer trying to make it in show business. She lives here, works here,…

For the past six years, A. John Rush of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has been leading a federal study on depression; it’s been released in bits and pieces over the past few months, with some findings being published as recently as March. But Rush, who’s the vice…

Now that all of us at Unfair Park have our ducats, you’re welcome to go here to get tix to the Beck show at the GTR tomorrow night. Or not. Go here, incidentally, if you wanna hear Beck and the band get “Nausea”-ted on KCRW this morning. Worth it. Not…

I was at the Adolphus Hotel this morning and ran into “Vanilla Face,” which is probably not how the hotel’s director of public relations, David Davis, wants to be referred to. In fact, I can guarantee it: When I asked Davis if he’d mind doing an interview for Unfair Park…

Bowling for Soup will spend Halloween taking online questions from teens. That, my friends, is the true definition of frightening. You guys remember Bowling for Soup, right? They wore powder-blue tuxedos to the Grammys once and used to write songs with lots of pop culture references and catchy hooks. Well,…

The Dixie Chicks doc, Shut Up & Sing, opens locally in a couple of weeks; I know, yer thrilled. Till then, there’s this from New York magazine’s latest issue concerning Chick Natalie Maines and her hometown of Lubbock; seems she ain’t too popular there, can’t imagine why. But we’re a…

This morning, the largest commercial real estate company in the world, CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., issued a press release in which it announced it was acquiring Trammell Crow Company for $2.2 billion, more or less–or $49.51 per share of common stock, if you need to be precise. The Los…

Rudy Giuliani’s got some “sketchy” business deals, says Forbes–including one with a Dallas company. Ever hear of Lighting Science Group? Did not think so. Says here it’s “a world leader in the rapidly developing field of solid state lighting,” and for all we know the McKinney Avenue-HQ’d company may be…

Joe Bieger, who suffers from global amnesia and disappeared October 6, has been found. Last week, Jesse Hyde posted a piece here about Joe Bieger, the 59-year-old assistant athletic director at The Highlands School in Irving who went missing on October 6. As Jesse wrote, on September 21, Bieger had…

Last week deputies with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for making terroristic threats against Sheriff Lupe Valdez. Fifty-three-year-old Norman Russell had called the Garland Police Department threatening to kill “all gays and lesbians in the world” in order to prove somehow that he himself was not gay,…

A few Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent weeks whatever became of that trial concerning Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria’s allegations that Preston Hollow Elementary School’s teachers and its principal, Teresa Parker, were involved in illegally segregating the Hispanic and African-American students from the white neighborhood kids. After all, the…

You can’t be Sirius: Mark Cuban won’t host a satellite radio show after all. Didn’t know till today that Mark Cuban’s also in the hotel business. Only, it’s not here. Not even close. Try his native Pittsburgh (he grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb). Says in the subscription-only Pittsburgh…

Apparently, the Dallas and Houston areas each added more than 60,000 new jobs in the past year, and each “has posted a slightly lower number of new housing permits,” says here. Then why, wonders the Houston Chronicle, did home sales in Houston experience a “sharp” increase in September, while home…