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An artist’s work is deemed inappropriate and yanked from the walls of the public library. An 82-year-old woman faces jail time because she can’t afford to pay $1,900 in code enforcement fines. Hispanic activists scramble to educate parents after the city demands the names, addresses and phone numbers of every…

Trinity Showdown I love it. You hit ’em where it hurts, and based on George Rodrigue’s column, they are screaming bloody murder. A few more columns like this (“Gunfight at the Trinity,” by Jim Schutze, October 18) and we should be able to stop this bloody wound being slashed through…

A good Friend of Unfair Park just called with some sad news, at least for those of us who grew up in North Dallas: The Holiday Inn at Meadow Central — which, on some weekend nights in the 1980s, used to look like the set of a John Hughes movie…

Last night, Dallas Observer clubs editor Rich Lopez and I ventured to Reverchon Park, lured by a sign advertising $3 “haunted hay rides.” It’s right across from the Observer’s Oak Lawn offices, conveniently located smack dab in the middle of the gayborhood. So it wasn’t long before we realized that…

Tonight of all nights, you must not succumb to the show-us-your-tits costume contests being thrown in bar rooms and frat parties across the DFW. We won’t have it. Instead you have to get thine bedazzled and unrecognizable ass up the stairs of The Cavern for a Horror Remix Double Feature…

Lorlee Bartos Quite the pin-up, eh, fellas? And while we’re on the subject of local winners — and, look, you’re all winners, far as I am concerned — Friend of Unfair Park Lorlee Bartos has done won herself a spot in the National Park Service’s forthcoming National Historic Landmarks calendar,…

One has to wonder if the students are making the best use of their time at the Dallas Baptist University. Then again, God would totally want you to kick ass at Guitar Hero III. So sayeth the Lord as Conrad, a student at DBU, shreds his way through DragonForce’s “Through…

Sure, April 13-15 is a long way off, but Stephanie Hollowell’s already got the dates booked: She’s the lone Dallas resident competing in The 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest, which takes place at the Fairmont Hotel. And, yeah, it’s a big deal: The grand-prize winner will walk away with a million…

Rob Lowe’s allegedly been added to the Dallas cast. Can Ally Sheedy be far behind? They just won’t give up. It’s been months since we’ve mentioned that left-for-dead Dallas movie, which was scheduled to be shot around these parts in November till a new director and new writers were brought…

If nothing else, my 4-year-old thinks Justin Spence’s follow-up to yesterday’s unofficial Vote Yes! ad is just swell. “I like that,” says the kid. “It’s funny. Very … Halloweeny.” Then again, he also liked this Sam Coats ad, and look where that got Coats. –Robert Wilonsky Update: Today’s Wall Street…

UNT Division of Jazz Studies This photo of Marchel Ivery dates from September 2005, when Ivery performed with Stefan Karlsson, Tom Warrington and Ed Soph. Last night, local sax great Shelley Carrol was told he would need to fill in tonight for Marchel Ivery, who was scheduled to play Terilli’s…

Thanks to some e-mail server issues on our end, we missed receiving the invite to this morning’s Mayor Tom-led unveiling of a parcel of land that will connect the Katy Trail with the Trinity Strand Trail. Turns out, according to our invite, that Cienda Partners — which owns, among other…

Very, very sad news today, as Dallas has lost one of its greatest jazzers and finest people: Marchel Ivery. His wife confirms to Unfair Park that he died this morning at Presbyterian Hospital, just one day after checking in. He’d had a fever for two days and was diagnosed with…

Fred Durst, well-regarded director — no, seriously It’s been, what, a week since the last area film festival? But fear not: OutTakes Dallas kicks off this weekend at the Magnolia Theater, ready to fulfill all your lesbian and gay film festival needs. Then, on November 7, the Lone Star International…

Two weeks after Will Clarke’s autobiographical short story “How to Kill a Boy That Nobody Likes” raised a ruckus in Rhode Island, the story resurfaces. That’s because Lori Drew, mother of a 15-year-old freshman at Cumberland High School up in R.I., is still so furious over Clarke’s tale that she…

To the Friend of Unfair Park who sent us the link to the following video, thanks. And by Friend, I do not mean “Schim Jutze.” Oh, and Sam Merten at Dallas Blog has the info concerning who made the thing. Not official, looks like. But officially funny. –Robert Wilonsky…

Harwood International’s Gabriel Barbier-Mueller has a new pet. Doesn’t make a mess — how Swiss. Till this morning, I’d never heard of “Harwood, Dallas.” Didn’t know such a place existed — but, gee, sure sounds magical. Then I read this media release concerning a Friday-morning event involving the installation of…

India-based Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd. runs some 44 multiplexes — with 703 screens, you do the math — in Malaysia, Singapore and, sure, India. It also has some theaters in North America, operating as Pyramid Saimira Entertainment America, Inc., and today comes word that the exhibition titan now owns a…