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A treat for the weekend readers of Unfair Park: the latest video from Los Bros Kadane’s The New Year. Only, yes, it’s for an old New Year song: “The End’s Not Near,” off 2004’s The End is Near — or, ya know, that song for which an episode of The…

Angela Hunt The blog’s acting up this a.m., refusing to post comments to some items. So I thought it best not to let this one linger in the ether: It’s a response from council member Angela Hunt, who has a few words for Friend of Unfair Park Alfredo. Yesterday, in…

Nicke Mitchell Mike Haskins’ photo of the Nervebreakers has found its way to an enormous collection of Dallas music memorabilia. I am posting this at the end of the day because, well, you’ll need to clear your weekend to properly enjoy the mounds of photos, fliers, advertisements, magazine covers and…

Safe as a baby. ‘Till July? Never said it was imminent. Called them “contingency plans” in the headline, in fact. But after reading the comments of Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels and president Nolan Ryan in response to my post yesterday about manager Ron Washington, aren’t we more sure…

Sheffie Kadane When we broke the news Wednesday about Angela Hunt’s memo to Mayor Tom Leppert, she was still in the process of gathering signatures — despite having the five needed to force a council briefing on the Dallas County Appraisal District’s new commercial valuations. She ended up with most…

Because, notes the Friend of Unfair Park who sent this along, we’ve got lots of available land, falling unemployment rates and, dang it, because you’re smart and beautiful. And, look, if Forbes said it, it must be true: Dallas-Fort Worth, we’re officially “Recession-Proof”! –Robert Wilonsky…

Yesterday we took a peek at Entertainment Weekly’s new issue, featuring Oliver Stone’s W — timely too, considering that just down the road tomorrow, George’s lil’ Jenna is gettin’ hitched with din-din courtesy Eddie Deen and the bridesmaids’ gowns by Dallas-born Lela Rose. Well, after we went rollin’ with Brolin,…

Courtesy Uncle Sloppy As Pete points out over on DC9, some of us ’round these parts got a classified-ad missive yesterday from one John Freeman — you know, the Dutch Treat behind the shuttered Sloppyworld. Well, Uncle Sloppy is headed to NYC to work on a rock opera with one…

Wanna job? Okay, then how ’bout a casket? The new Minor League Baseball team that has hired Pete Incaviglia as manager, will next month give away a free funeral, and is probably considering Star Jones vs. Barbara Wah-Wah in a 7th-inning stretch Octagon wants you to be part of the…

This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who tries get around the city by bicycle, but, yup, Dallas sucks for you. That’s according to the June issue of, d’uh, Bicycling, which ranks the best and worst cities for cyclists. Says the list, which ain’t up yet, Dallas joins…

Matthew Tully Some people have the best gossip sessions under a cape, getting snips, foils and whatever else done to their heads by their stylists. Today, however, we get the dish on two Dallas ‘do-ers from Bravo as the network pimps the second season of Shear Genius (think Top Chef…

Chris Elliott Scanning Variety this a.m., I stumbled across this note from the Film Production Chart: Come Monday, writer-director David Jackson Willis is set to start shooting Renaissance Girl in and around Dallas. Which is interesting for several reasons, chief among ’em the plot more or less suggests at least…

Kids rule: Buzz was wondering when the Liberty Legal Institute, that Dallas-based network of lawyers who labor on behalf of religious freedom and parental rights, would weigh in on Texas authorities’ raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound in West Texas. How could Liberty…

Farmers Branch’s May 10 election poses a pivotal question: Will the suburb known nationwide for its efforts to expel illegal immigrants push forward on the same path, or will its some 26,000 residents chart a new course? Mayor Pro Tem Tim O’Hare was the driving force behind Ordinance 2903, which…

“Tarnished Star,” by Richie Whitt, May 1 I liked the article. However, you’re both on and off the mark! I was born and raised in “D-town.” Every Sunday I watch the Cowboys and scrutinize the team’s every move with honesty and open-mindedness. No doubt Pacman’s arrival in Dallas is almost…