Little strapped for cash? Got knee pain? Migranes? Or maybe vaginal atrophy? Or a spastic colon? Meth addiction? Hypoactive sex drive? Well, do I have the solution for you! It's called Research Across America, a clinical-study biz with offices in Dallas (and El Paso, Manhattan and Reading, Penn.), and if...
Avi Adelman, Lower Greenville's party-pooper, shot us (and probably everybody else in town) an e-mail last night informing us (and you and you and you) that Dallas police Chief David Kunkle dismissed the ticket Adelman was given by a cop on Saturday night. Adelman got the ticket, oddly enough, when...
In Nicole Holofcener's first feature, 1996's Walking and Talking, the writer-director warmly portrayed an adult female friendship, nudging at emotional issues without resorting to shtick or melodrama. Five years later, Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing attempted to do the same for a family of women but with wildly different results: Virtually...
With the MySpace revolution under way, an MP3 can land a record deal, but touring remains rock's baptism by fire. It can make you an alcoholic, wreck your voice, dull your talent and, in the grip of extreme boredom, inspire some pretty odd schemes. For a solid year after 2004's...
When Indian musicians Sushmit Sen, Asheem Chakravarthy, Amit Kilam and Rahul Ram come together onstage, the result, according to a Wikipedia profile, is "Indo-rock fusion with jazz-spiced rhythms that integrates sufism, shlokas, environmentalism, mythology and revolution." We like it because it has a beat you can dance to. Catch their...
"Don't be nervous!" The makeup girl smiles as she attempts to brush a wad of Cowboys cheerleader pink across my lips, but suddenly my knees are shaking so much that I can't even keep my face still. Thing is, I totally had the situation under control, like, two seconds ago...
I've always known Dallasites will let their dogs crap anywhere and not do a damned thing about cleaning that shit up, but now I have proof: The makers of HEARTGARD, the doggie heartworm preventative, published a list today outting the worst cities in America when it comes to poop-scooping. Houston...
The West End Marketplace was a happening place. A long time ago. It closes July 1. Moments ago, Bill Nabors at Ecom Real Estate Management confirmed something Unfair Park learned only this afternoon: Come July 1, the Shops at West End Marketplace will be no more. Though there has been...
Pleasant Grove (Dallas, Austin): Two months ago, the guys at dconstruction.org sat me down to chat about local music, and the resulting episode was mostly optimistic. I brought a lot of great, promising music to the show from WoSF performers such as Baboon and the Theater Fire, and there wasn't...
One of the Friends of Unfair Park has this to say about Doyle Davidson's bizarre theology and some stuff I've written in the past about Pentecostals: Funny, this is the opposite side of the Charismatic movement that you wrote about in one of your earlier blog entries. While I thought...
Q Cinema's Annual Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival is a precocious little 8-year-old. Born in 1999, the slapdash weekend of gay-friendly screenings has steadily matured into a full-fledged cinema schmooze event, complete with nightly after-parties and live entertainment. Previous years have seen some hit-or-miss moments, more than likely a...
The amateur detectives plopped onto couches, waiting to see their handiwork on national television. Nervous? A bit. Excited? Oh, yeah. For months they'd been sleuthing. Diving in dumpsters, following trails of documents, going undercover, telling lies if necessary, all in the service of God. And of their leader, a tall...
Phil Busch is a giant of a man, with a withering glare that he uses liberally whenever the conversation turns to televangelist Pat Robertson. "Me and Robertson are coming in a head-on crash," the 6-foot-4-inch, 42-year-old Addison bodybuilder declares. Fortunately for 76-year-old Robertson, the collision is metaphorical, a legal clash...
Ron Price is fond of speaking in clichés, using phrases like "that dog won't hunt" as if he were punctuating a closing argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. So it's fitting that when trying to describe the plight of the veteran school board member whose political future has dimmed over...
It was almost 20 years ago when a young Edie Brickell and New Bohemians got its first bewildering taste of success. "What I Am," the lead single from Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, resonated almost immediately with an audience bored with repetitive synthesizers and formulaic radio. That track, fueled by...
I do not recall precisely how I landed on Scott Henson's dizzyingly thorough crime-and-punishment-in-Texas blog Grits for Breakfast yesterday; my days are full of random U-turns taken into the furthest corners of the blogdom. But I was happy to find it, not only for its cogent arguments regarding everything from...
In the first political tussle since her election, Sheriff Lupe Valdez appeared before a skeptical Dallas County Commissioners Court on Tuesday to talk about skyrocketing overtime costs in her department that brought jailers $15,000 to $35,000 in extra pay over the last six months. For the fiscal year, which ends...
When his girlfriend said she wanted to go to the Minyard's grocery store on Live Oak Street, Entre Karage looked up from the game of blackjack he was playing and nodded. The store was only a block away. "But go right home after that," he told Nary Na. A pretty,...
Last week I brought you breaking news about Maple Terrace, the boho-turned-yuppie-sellout apartment building at Maple Avenue and Wolf Street. A bunch of old tenants moved out in 2001 when the building changed hands and plans were laid for luxury condos, but a few decided to give the place a...
With ice caps melting, sea levels rising and Poseidon sinking fast, this is no environment for any disaster movie--particularly a real one--to take our interest for granted. Thus An Inconvenient Truth, named for the superbad news of global climate change, isn't just another lefty doc for the art-house set, but...
Kids these days are pretty lame, a fact made evident when you go to YouTube and type "Dallas" into the search engine. The results include a kid named Dallas twitching his head and some dumb girls descending into a local parking garage, among other brilliant pieces of cinema. A refreshing...
Rumor has it that the major label bigshot who took aside the boys of Irving and told them to choose a "frontman" ended up in critical condition at Cedars Sinai hospital's emergency wedgie clinic. This is a quintet that doesn't work without splitting the spotlight, which is probably why they're...
