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Plans to replace the historic Dreyfuss Club at White Rock Lake, which burned to the ground last fall, are ongoing, but what caused the fire that destroyed the vintage city building remains “undetermined,” according to a Dallas Fire-Rescue report obtained by the Dallas Observer. Arson cannot be ruled out. “Everything…

Clear as glass?: Last week, Aubrey Mayhew, an 80-year-old former music producer in Nashville, received a call from one of his sons, who had some disturbing news. Mick Mayhew told his daddy that the so-called “sniper’s perch” from the old Texas School Book Depository, from which Lee Harvey Oswald killed…

Ram Charan has a Dallas office, but he’s too busy traveling the business world to actually step foot in it. Till I saw this Newsweek story, I’d didn’t know much about Ram Charan, which the mag refers to as “The CEO Whisperer” and the “Corporate Confidant.” Turns out, he’s only…

Rafael Anchi�a is trying to kick out immigration legislation, but not immigrants. Because nothing gets the Friend of Unfair Park more riled up than the words “immigration legislation” (or “Avi Adelman,” geez), we thought it’d be a good idea to mention the press release we just received from the office…

Last week, New York-based Environmental Defense launched in Dallas and Waco television ads aimed at combatting TXU’s proposal to build at least 11 new coal-fired power plants in the state, which you surely know all about at this point. ED has also launched a “Stop TXU” Web site, which contains…

We’ll be honest: We will never forgive our former publisher, who beat a Quick retreat, for moving us out of our longtime downtown Dallas digs for an Uptown address. We loved being downtown, in the old KLIF building at Commerce and Central. So what if that meant occasionally having to…

On Friday at 11:43 a.m. Central Standard Time, someone will be the new owner of the sniper’s perch from the Texas School Book Depository from which Lee Harvey Oswald (allegedly, whatever) shot and killed President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. At least, that is how a window and…

Matt Kadane, left, and Bubba Kadane have a very special connection with The O.C….Oh, what’s that you say? My bad. Me, not so much a fan of The O.C., which apparently has but two episodes left before it walks into the Pacific and drowns itself. So, turns out I missed…

The mayor e-mailed Unfair Park last night with an offer to spend Tuesday night with her. At last! Oh, and you are invited as well, when Mayor Laura Miller and the Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition drive down to Waco the evening before the TXU coal-plant permit hearings begin in…

Charlie Steffens Tony Romo goes to Metal Skool at the Key Club in Hollywood. Uh, we stopped believing, Tony, but we’re glad you’re having fun anyway. We’re going back to watch the video again…

Scrap Iron, featured here in a clip from Hal Samples’ doc-in-progress, performs tonight at the Granada. When’s the last time your only wish came true? Toward the end of November, we posted a clip from local photog Hal Samples’ doc-in-progress Dreamtown, about the homeless in Dallas. In that clip, Samples…

Charlie Steffens If this picture were at all legible, you’d be able to make out Mr. Belding, Metal Skool lead singer Michael Starr and Tony Romo. An e-mail just arrived in my inbox from the publicist at the Key Club in Los Angeles — which has no relation to the…

A couple of things. First, the House of Blues sent out a notice today that at the end of February, us press types are invited to come down to tour the joint, which will open in May in the White Swan Building in the West End…pardon, Victory Park, my bad…

Katherine Heigl stars in Zyzzyx Road, which drove off into a ditch when it played Highland Park last year. The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly contains the fascinating tale of a thriller called Zyzzyx Road, which I know you’ve never heard of — despite the fact it counts among its…

Fortune writer Julie Schlosser writes this week about getting spammed via her cell phone, courtesy an unidentified e-mailer who offered her the promise of big riches: “Castleguard Energy (OTC: MOAT) strikes BLACK GOLD in Wyoming. Watch the share price double, triple, more? Exxon, watch out!” Turns out, Castleguard’s a publicly…

In case you missed it, on Sunday some thousand folks gathered at the state capitol building to protest TXU’s plans to build at least 11 new coal-fired plants in the state. And, in case you missed it, Laurie “Wife of Larry” David and Sheryl Crow are embarking on a two-week…

Really, is this any way to repay an old friend? Today, it says here, former Dallas City Plan Commissioner and former Dallas Observer cover story subject Ralph Isenberg — you remember, the dude who married the Chinese masseuse who, in 2001, pleaded no contest to a prostitution charge — is…