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Dear, Sweet Francis

By Jennifer Elaine-Davis
Last spring, a friend invited me to a screening of a documentary about legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, the man behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. I expected Coppola—who was present for the screening—to be a larger-than-life figure, so when they introduced him, we were shocked that the man sitting...
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The Man Who Would Be King

By Jesse Hyde
On a Sunday morning not long ago, in a part of the city mostly ignored and forgotten, they gathered to honor him. The cars started streaming down Wheatland Road at daybreak, forming a long line of lights glowing in the early morning mist. The news trucks, rarely seen in this...
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Nick Badovinus Does His Own Thing

By Mark Stuertz
This much is obvious: Nick Badovinus wasn't long for the Consilient Restaurants world. As founder Tristan Simon expanded his little Henderson Avenue fiefdom (Fireside Pies, Hibiscus, Cuba Libre, The Porch) into the exurbs, Badovinus' role as dining room personality was diluted. He was governed more by economies of scale and...
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Dallasites Love Their Jobs!

By Robert Wilonsky
Turns out that as the year ended, Dallasites were pretty happy with our lots lot in life -- at least compared to the rest of the country. The Hudson Employment Index, which measures workers' confidence and contentment, was released this morning, and the year-end wrap-up reveals that on average, only...
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Dallas to Lose $4 Billion in 2008? Man, That Sounds Bad.

By Robert Wilonsky
The U.S. Conference of Mayors today released a 17-page report titled The Mortgage Crisis: Economic and Fiscal Implications for Metro Areas, and it makes some fairly dire predications for the coming year -- among them, that the growing number of home foreclosures will "result in 524,000 fewer jobs being created...
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Doll Parts

By Noah W. Bailey
It boggles my mind that Britney Spears was the most Googled celebrity of 2007, but then again, it could have just been Perez Hilton and that Chris Crocker dude hitting "refresh" for 12 months straight (at least that's what we're hoping). Artist Matthew Bourbon is similarly perplexed by the modern...
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You Could Use Some Baseball? Yeah, So Could You.

By Robert Wilonsky
Maybe we should just use this season to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this storied Rangers team. Maybe it’s just me, but shouldn’t Your Texas Rangers at least be faking like they give a damn about the upcoming season? Using last year’s “You Could Use Some Baseball” slogan again this...
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Last Night: Foo Fighters at American Airlines Center

By Chelsea Mueller
The enigmatic Dave Grohl. (Matt Mueller)Foo Fighters January 23, 2008 American Airlines Center Better Than: According to Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl, it was better than their last Dallas gig. “I think this may be the biggest show we've had here,” he said. “I think the last one was with...
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Last Night: Wakarusa Winter Classic at Club Dada

By Krissi Reeves
Wakarusa Winter Classic featuring Spoonfed Tribe, Snarky Puppy, Catfish Whiskey and others February 8, 2008 Club Dada Better Than: A 15-hour Young Life ski trip sing-along in the back of a mildewed church van. Download: See 20 photos from last night's show in our slideshow. Yeah, we get the jam...
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Oh, Cliff!

By Robert Wilonsky
Yes, yes, the sale price of existing single-family homes is dropping all over the place -- in Dallas, even, for the first time ever. But this morning Investor's Business Daily finds the one place in the DFW where land is going, going and dang near gone: Oak Cliff. As in:...
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The Picture of Henry Wade? What Picture of Henry Wade?

By Robert Wilonsky
A Friend of Unfair Park points our attention this morning to this Texas Lawyer profile of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins -- the "Impact Player of the Year," which I thought was going to Tony Romo, but, anyway. The terrific piece, penned by our old pal Mark Donald, contains...
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Wah! Wah! Wah!|Living in the Past|Corrections for 1/17/08

Wah! Wah! Wah! I too am totally disgusted with the showing last Sunday by our beloved Cowboys ("Giant Disgust," by Richie Whitt, January 17). I feel the season was a total waste. So after consecutive NFL seasons ending in disappointment and with the Mavericks' record-breaking collapse in last year's first-round...
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Q&A: Denton’s Fishboy Knows Where to Get Good Tacos

By Chelsea Mueller
The quirky men of Fishboy.Fishboy has piqued our interest with its loopy tunes and out-there lyrics ever since the band's Little D CD release in 2005. Almost a multimedia experience as opposed to rock band, the four Denton dudes pull off everything from music to comics to videos and a...
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Richard Lloyd

By Darryl Smyers
Minus the terrible cover art and the aberrant jock rock boogie of the opening track, "Monkey," the remainder of Richard Lloyd's most recent solo outing falls comfortably within his angular and ordered realm. Since his heyday playing second fiddle to Tom Verlaine in Television, Lloyd has released several efforts that...
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The Quarterback’s Girlfriend

By Robert Wilonsky
You remember Cowboys-Eagles, December 2006, right? No? Here's your complete recap, most notably: Tony Romo goes 14 for 29, adding up to 142 yards, one touchdown and two picks. And one singing girlfriend, sitting in a Texas Stadium box. Which was bad, but not as bad as 13 for 36,...
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Luna Observation

By Geoff Johnston
Luna, formed in the early 1990s in part from the fallout of indie/college rock luminaries The Feelies and Galaxie 500, was perhaps one of the quietest acts of that decade's alternative rock explosion. Sleepy reverb and melancholy melodies propelled the band through a heyday aligned with that of MTV's 120...
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Last Night: Dove Hunter at Club Dada

By Chelsea Mueller
Dove Hunter January 5, 2008 Club Dada Better Than: Watching X-Files reruns with your cat. (Trust me, I engaged in both last night.) Although they’ve got no tangible proof of their “special talents” other than a few band T-shirts for sale in a Rubbermaid tub and a four-song unmastered demo...
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Persepolis Comics Become Streamlined Film

By Nick Pinkerton
Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation—though it moves fluidly enough, and its drawings have a handcrafted charm forgotten in the era of the cross-promoted-to-saturation CGI-'toon juggernauts—but because it translates a sensitive, introspective, true-to-life, "adult" comic story into moving pictures. While Robert Crumb only...
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Getting in Deep Over SUPs, Again

By Robert Wilonsky
No, this is not a day of "silent protest," as one Friend of Unfair Park asks below. Far from it -- thought it'd be nice just to let folks talk about the election results, without pointing out, oh, that Southwest Airlines is working hard to get your business or that...
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Steve Orsini Has SMU Buying Into Big-Time Sports

By Richie Whitt
How's this for a daunting job description? • Lure successful, high-profile head coaches to a small, private university that has minimized sports for 20 years. • Nurture revenues and raise funds all by your lonesome, while simultaneously trimming fat from a $7 million operating deficit. • Reincarnate a moribund athletic...
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Obama and the Hand of God

By Julie Lyons
Brian Harkin Barack Obama at Reunion Arena, February 20 It’s a beautiful thing, this vision of black and white together. A couple of burly white guys let my black friends cut in line. Children of different hues swapped electronic gadgets and hung on their mommies, and the conversation ranged free...