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A Peek Inside the Ugly Convention Center Hotel Bidding Process

By Sam Merten
Ray Garfield As mentioned earlier this morning, the city council’s Economic Development Committee will name the convention center hotel developer today -- behind closed doors in executive session, the Dallas way. And, yes, odds are it'll be Woodbine Development emerging from those closed doors as Your Convention Center Hotel Developer,...
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The Dirt Doctor

By Jim Schutze
The announcer is a little girl. In the clear airspace of Sunday morning radio, her voice is sweet, but the message is heavy. As if introducing story time for the kiddies, she tells listeners, "This is the show that exposes the chemical pushers, the environmental thugs and the certified organophobes."...
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Reviewing Melodica’s Performances

By Pete Freedman
60 or so bands played the Melodica Festival this weekend, and it would have been literally impossible to catch each and every performance during the three-night fest. Still, we ran ourselves ragged trying. The result: About 12 acts caught in full, another handful of performances seen mostly in full, and...
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Laura Miller Ain’t No One’s Publicist

By Robert Wilonsky
For someone not doing PR, as she claims in a missive Unfair Park and FrontBurner received this a.m., former Dallas mayor Laura Miller is doing a pretty good job of, ya know, PR. But, no, insists the anti-coal Miller -- she ain't handling public relations for Washington State-based Summit Energy,...
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What God Says About Dirty Old Men

By Julie Lyons
Bible Girl was all ready to wax indignant about the prospect of children being ripped from their mothers, and then I read about the bed. Which is to say: the bed in the temple in Eldorado, where dirty old men got their freak on with underage virgins. Yep, right about...
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Finally, a Weekend Travel Tip

By Robert Wilonsky
Kaitlin Ingram If you have no plans this weekend, let me suggest something we did last weekend. Because a few of us here at Unfair Park headed down to Cedar Hill State Park last Friday for a camp out near Joe Pool Reservoir, hoping to enjoy the final few days...
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Playing Good “D” in Dallas County

By Robert Wilonsky
Once more, I'd like to comment the fine folks of the Fightin' 1117 for running such an orderly precinct convention. One of the few, turns out. Our Boy Merten spoke with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins for a piece running in next week's paper version of Unfair Park --...
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Junior Circuit

By Pete Freedman
In a bizarro world, in the Dallas of an alternate, and perhaps better, universe, The Lash Outs' "The Kids Don't Wanna Dance" is the city's breakout hit of the summer. A bouncy track that's catchy enough to latch on in its own right and through its own merit, the song...
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The Hunchback of PDNB

By Jennifer Elaine-Davis
Igor Malijevsky is a jack of all trades. And not one of those "master of none" types, either. He's a true Renaissance man; a recognized artist, photographer, writer, poet, theoretical physicist and philosopher. Being good at so many different things gives you options when you get fed up with one,...
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Centro-matic’s Will Johnson is a Study in Opposites

By Jesse Hughey
Will Johnson's been thinking a lot about duality. That might seem obvious for a couple of reasons. Johnson's two primary musical projects, Centro-matic and South San Gabriel, are about to release a split double album that even has the word "dual" in its title. Each of his bands represents an...
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Pitch Perfect

By Sam Merten
Derek Nicholson throws on a pair of black gym shorts, tucks in a red T-shirt, grabs his iPod and goes for a walk around the ballpark. It's 103 degrees, and the sun is beating down on QuikTrip Park. With three hours left before game time, nothing takes him out of...
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Ozzfest 2008 is One Show Only…In Frisco

By Pete Freedman
Last week, when the official word finally came out of Osbourne camp that this year's Ozzfest would be a one-day, one-off festival to be held in, of all places, here—or, near here, rather—in Frisco, no one was all that surprised. Anyone who, in the weeks leading up to the announcement,...
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Have a Shot of Cuervo on Him

By Robert Wilonsky
It’s a great day to be a Dallas sports fan. And an even better day to be Randy Galloway. In light of Thursday night’s cumulative success, the media icon can do lots of talkin’ as he celebrates his 5,000th radio show on ESPN 103.3 FM starting at 2. He can...
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Never Have Kids

By Patrick Williams
Never have kids: It should probably be a warning for anyone wanting to enter the field of family and divorce law that the story told to prove King Solomon's wisdom involved a family dispute. You gotta be super-wise to wade into those mares' nests. Solomon had a tricky dispute over...
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SMU Insists It’s Not Hiding Sexual Assault Statistics

By Robert Wilonsky
Yesterday we linked to the Daily Campus story concerning the increase in sexual assaults on the SMU campus in 2006 -- and how school officials did nothing to notify students, parents and faculty members that 13 women had been raped on campus during the school year. Well, late yesterday we...