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The new issue of New York magazine profiles Larry Kramer, whose actions on behalf of the gay community have spoken louder than his words, themselves a boisterous collection of plays, novels and journalism. In particular, the magazine is interested in the state of his decades-in-the-writing gay history-of, The American People,…

The freakishly steady snow outside the office, and the absence of a staff inside the office, suggests that perhaps it’s time to head on outta here. And so I leave you with this: Polyphonic Spree performing John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” at the Lakewood Theater in ’07, during…

At some point today we’ll shut down Unfair Park for Christmas. But as long as there’s someone at Dallas City Hall, well, might as well keep on keepin’ on with this sneak peek at the Park and Recreation Department board’s meeting agenda for January 7, during which Daniel Huerta, executive…

1 The Hurt Locker: The decade’s strongest Iraq movie is also the year’s finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow’s personal best. Working from Mark Boal’s knowledgeable script, The Hurt Locker is impressively old-school in its construction of suspense and character, and horrifically topical in its depiction of…

Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise—Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, to name a few—and overrun with prequels and sequels (Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw…), our three critics each pick three favorites of the ’00s. Who’s ready for There Will Be…

On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while down by the city’s busy waterfront, the players of South Africa’s national rugby union team—the Springboks—go for a training run. On this particular morning, there’s…

In Preston Royal Shopping Center, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a bright and fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday night in December, is populated by a handful of customers—high-schoolers grabbing a game, a middle-aged mom checking to see if Julie & Julia’s out yet…

Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. “If we were in a small town, you’d call me a ‘townie.’ I’d be the guy who’s always lived within a mile of the house he grew up in,” the…

Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children’s movie Surf’s Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his lines from The Big Lebowski. They probably didn’t need to work that hard: An avid surfer, Bridges has…

Brand control: Self-restraint has never been high on Buzz’s list of virtues, as anyone who has ever seen our nicotine-stained fingers and fat gut can attest. Still, we appreciate virtue in others when we (very rarely) see it, so we kind of admire Eric Johnson, the lawyer running in the…

As previously announced here on Unfair Park, last night Dallas joined the ranks of cities around the world hosting an Unsilent Night, the holiday performance piece during which a crowd wanders through downtown blasting a pre-recorded soundtrack in unison through boomboxes and speakers. In fact, local artist Gary Brown said…

Members of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders were in Korea last night — the United States Army Garrison Humphreys, to be precise — bringing some ho-ho-ho to more than 300 troops, civilians and their kinfolk stationed there. Check out the Official Slide Show for some US-oh! Hit it, Bert Convy! Suggestion…

On Tuesday, the Egyptian foreign ministry warned activists planning to march across its border into Gaza to mark the anniversary of last year’s conflict that they’ll be “dealt with by the law.” But that isn’t stopping Roger Kallenberg and five other North Texans from making the trip. The hardship facing…