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Eddie Sotelo’s million radio listeners will now get an earful about how they need a mouthful of Pizza Patron. Genius. Eduardo “Eddie” ‘Piolín” Sotelo is perhaps the most popular and influential radio-show host in the U.S. and A. (for now, anyway). Last year, through his nationally syndicated radio show (which…

Down in Austin — Central East Austin, to be specific — they’re wrestling with how to keep giant McMansions from over-running a neighborhood filled with small lots and smaller houses, which doesn’t sound familiar at all. Yesterday the Austin American-Statesman profiled a neighborhood group trying to further tighten existing regulations…

Seem to recall it wasn’t so long ago that Dallas-based virtual advertising agency imc2 was recognized as a top-10 “digital agency” by Advertising Age. In May, the Dallas Business Journal ranked it as a pretty swell place to work, and only last week Adweek wrote a nice profile of the…

C’mon, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee. Can’t you just hug it out? Far as I know, all the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else’s name. But that’s just not good enough for Dallas’ William J. Murphy III, who happens to be…

This wine tastes very … Northwest Dallas, with a hint of pepper. “This is one of the most unique and unusual holiday gifts opportunities ever available to Dallasites.” Hey, I’m all for that — especially if it’ll get you drunk. And, yeah, as it turns out there are some 300…

John Brown, lookin’ for oil in all the wrong places? Israel ain’t much of an oil-producing country — “only a couple thousand barrels of oil a day,” according to Slate last year. Which isn’t stopping Dallas-based Zion Oil and Gas, HQ’d on Abrams Road, from digging into some Holy Land…

ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” + Neiman Marcus 100th anniversary shindig in downtown + free alcohol + rented tuxedos + white people “dancing” = exactly what you’d expect. I expect this was posted to the Interwebs yesterday as part of some kind of extortion scheme? Also, a version for those who prefer…

Ponder’s just a few miles southwest of Denton; ’bout 430 folks live there, give or take. HQ’d there is a private school by the name of Freedom Christian Academy, where, my guess is, they don’t teach bar mitzvah classes. Probably a safe bet to say the phone doesn’t ring off…

In keeping with today’s hot-or-not theme, by which I mean this item about Benny Hinn-some and then some, I just browsed myself straight into Us magazine’s “story” from yesterday about Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson’s dry-hump party-party in L.A. a few days back. (As in: “They were on top of…

Abacus’ Chef de Cuisine Tré Wilcox, booted way too early from Top Chef back in August, has nonetheless been regularly providing the Bravo site with recipes for its “Football Foodies” page — like this week’s recipe for Beer Braised Sirloin Chili. Sounds good — good and complicated. Wilcox will also…

Grammy nominations were announced today, and though there aren’t just a whole lot of locals on the list — LeAnn Rimes (who barely counts these days), Brave Combo (best polka album, whadya think?) and the Combo’s Bubba Hernandez and Alex Meixner — there is one album recorded in Dallas up…

The Dallas Theological Seminary this fall starting offering courses in Chinese, though only online — for now. Says the DTS here, it wants to offer its “language-based theological education to Chinese-speaking people,” since, ya know, they do speak the “most spoken” language in the world. Which makes sense, strictly speaking…

I have so thoroughly enjoyed the barrage of mail and comments received about my $30,000 millionaire expose in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park. Even (or especially) the part when a guy wrote in calling me a “jaded, man-hating cunt.” I just wish he hadn’t held back, you know?…

We now know the perfect way to describe Benny Hinn’s hairstyle, thanks to 23/6.com. Grapevine’s Benny Hinn today tells Sen. Charles Grassley, via the Associated Press, to go take a flyin’ leap. Which would be fine, except Grassley’s the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee who wants Hinn and…

Ninjatune This ridiculously small version of Justin Terveen’s photo doesn’t do it justice. A larger photo is available here. Per a Friend of Unfair Park, this morning I checked out the forum on DallasMetropolis.com, where, in mid-November, Justin Terveen mentioned that a photograph of his had “been selected by the…