At this very moment, there are five Lenny’s Sub Shops in the state of Texas, including a location on Jackson Street downtown. How are they? Dunno. Never been. Not the point. The point is, in a market crowded with the likes of Which Wich (the homegrown joint operated by Genghis…
Zayra, you have pretty much voted yerself off this island. Every time Rock Star: Supernova host Brook Burke says “the world’s best unsigned rockers,” I throw up in my mouth just a little bit. The last two weeks have been a horrible showing for what the world has to offer…
Have you been checking out the Wright Amendment hearings taking place at this very moment in Washington, D.C., in front of the House Committee on Transporation & Infrastructure’s aviation subcommittee? The Dallas Morning News is providing a video link to what has to be the most rambling, frustrating and ill-informed…
Add one more to this Sorta photo: Chris Holt From the Some Guy Joined And/Or Left A Band Today Department: The winners of 2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards for Musician of the Year and Best Act in Town announced their long-rumored fusion today, as Chris Holt (the former winner) has…
Our Belo-bound (and other downtown day-dwelling) readers are probably familiar with the Women in Black, the group of ladies (wearing guess what color) protesting war, evil and other crappy stuff outside the Federal Building at 207 Houston Street. They’re not exactly formidable by numbers–sometimes just two or three show up–but…
Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong Jr. says there has been no “definitive” decision made concerning impending layoffs buyouts at Dallas’ Only Daily. Over the last two days, I’ve heard from a number of sources, none of whom are mentioned in this post, that Belo Corp. management has decided to…
Clark Vogeler, the Toadie closest to camera, is up for an Emmy. Unfair Park says, “Mazel tov.” We were looking over the complete list of Emmy nominees this morning and were pleased–nay, delighted–to find an old Friend of Unfair Park’s among those in contention. He’s not competing against the likes…
Many of our readers were as surprised as I was to find out about the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law that dictates unwanted or orphaned Native American babies be placed in other Native American families, foster homes or orphanages before they’re placed with a non-Indian family. I became…
Ron Price will probably run for mayor. But doesn’t he wanna be, like, powerful and stuff? Add Ron Price to the long list of elected officials considering a bid for mayor. As recently as last week, the nine-year South Dallas school board member wasn’t even sure he wanted to run…
J Dilla died earlier this year at the age of 32. On Saturday, Dallas’ hip-hop community turned out to pay its last respects. The career of J Dilla (born James Yancey) was illustrious, if tragically abbreviated. A solid and soulful Detroit beat wizard who produced seminal work with an impressive…
Bill Holston, a law-practicing Friend of Unfair Park, has this to say regarding The American Lawyer’s pro bono survey indicating Dallas lawyers need to play some serious catch-up: “The Dallas Bar donates millions of dollars of free legal services to the poor each year. I and many others are members…
He may be the starting AL pitcher tonight, but this is how we’ll always remember Kenny Rogers. Most of us–fine, I–watch baseball about three times a year: Opening Day (Oh, the excitement!), the World Series (Oh, I wonder where the Texas Rangers are) and the All-Star Game (Oh say can…
Robin Arcuri will be making a point, or a few, downtown at noon as does bares all (well, most) for PETA. I don’t know what your lunch plans are, but you may wanna change ’em–if, that is, you wanna see a naked Playboy model gallivanting about Pegasus Plaza, at the…
If you are in this picture or know somebody who is, then this Summer of ’86 shindig is all about you. Scary to think that anybody could be all that nostalgic about 1986 (Challenger, Iran-Contra, Dennis Miller), but for the guys behind the upcoming Summer of ’86 Dallas Punk Reunion,…
Dallas attorneys don’t like people who like the U2 frontman. Wait. That’s not what pro bono means? Dallas attorneys don’t like poor people–at least, they don’t like ’em as much as their colleagues in New York and Washington, D.C. That’s just one way we’re irresponsibly overselling this report released late…
Dan Rather will be working for Mark Cuban. Happens to all of us sooner or later. The local paper says details about Dan Rather’s move to Mark Cuban’s HDNet are forthcoming; we say, why wait? No, seriously. Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer has a lengthy story on the subject, including interviews with…
Two weeks ago, we previewed the federal case Susan Heath v. Dallas/Fort Worth International, in which the former environmental affairs analyst at D/FW alleges that airport officials covered up information that the airport’s industrial waste water and storm water system “grossly violated the Clean Water Act and Texas Water Code”…
Harry Hunsicker’s new book is among the small stack of new tomes with substantial local connections. Just a reminder: Our old pal Will Clarke will be signing his new (to you, anyway) book The Worthy tonight at 7:30 at the Barnes & Noble Booksellers across the street from NorthPark Center,…
The future of Love Field–well, the Wright Amendment, anyway–will be discussed in D.C. on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will meet to discuss “Reforming the Wright Amendment.” (Actually, it’s the Subcommitee on Aviation hosting the hearing that begins at 1 p.m. C.S.T. in the…
I was saddened to read this morning in The New York Times about the death of rock critic Paul Nelson, a writer who had an estimable impact on, among others, Bob Dylan, as the man himself recounted in the 2005 Martin Scorsese-directed documentary No Direction Home. He worked for Circus…
This billboard, on IH-35 and Inwood Road, has spawned many like it across the country. Two months to the day after Grassfire.org planted its first 48-foot-wide go-home-illegals billboard on Stemmons Freeway near Inwood Road, the Iowa-based “conservative, pro-family and pro-faith” organization’s the subject of a piece in today’s Los Angeles…
Dan Rather is now working for Mark Cuban, though oddly not as a point guard. Today’s Washington Post breaks the news that Dan Rather will indeed be working for Mark Cuban, specifically his HDNet high-definition network. The 74-year-old former CBS newsman will announce this week to TV critics, during their…
