Seriously, how I do love the Friends of Unfair Park. On January 29, I mentioned how Rolling Stone’s David Fricke had teased the magazine’s readers with the mention of a Jeff Beck Band bootleg made from a show at LuAnn’s on Greenville Ave. in 1968. Fricke had said it was…
I just got an e-mail from a Friend of Unfair Park concerning his getting popped by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for — get this — smoking at Gezellig on Lower Greenville Avenue. This is what he has to say, and after the jump, TABC’s repsonse. This past Saturday night…
Theater Fire has covered an Elliott Smith song for a doc-in-progress called Future Butterflies. This morning, while doing our semi-regular GooTube search for locally related postings, we found a brand-new Theater Fire song, which the band performed at the Granada Theater on Friday night. It’s the rare homemade, shot-by-an-audience-member video…
How do you like this description of Deep Ellum? “One can view Deep Ellum as a palimpsest; a layering of stories and histories; a place that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible. Within the last two decades, the vibrant street-life…
My old pal and collegiate colleague at The Daily Texan, Katy, Texas’ own Rob Walker, yesterday devoted his Consumed column in The New York Times Magazine to Pizza Patr�n. After the breathless debate a few weeks back concerning the locally based chain’s decision to accept pesos from its customers, Rob…
Seriously, we could not be more delighted for the Dixie Chicks, who we can say we knew back when. (Joey Tomato’s, anyone?) Five Grammies last night, including the Holy Trinity for Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year — which no one predicted, of…
CBS News A scene from Norah Jones’ forthcoming appearance on 60 Minutes this Sunday We leave you this week by pointing you to a couple of musical notes. One, you might wanna go here, say, or here to grab a couple songs from the new Apples in Stereo release, New…
It didn’t take long for the ol’ Clinton charm to hypnotize the crowd at the former Prez’s speaking engagement last night at the Nokia Theater at Grand Prairie. After a sustained standing ovation, the first thing out of his mouth was, “Thank you. This must be about 90 percent of…
Exactly a week ago, we mentioned a fundraiser taking place tomorrow night at the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie featuring Willie Nelson and Jessica Simpson performing gospel songs with the Fort Worth Symphony, a performance by the Dallas Black Dance Theater and an emcee duties provided by Kinky Friedman, with…
Damn you, MediaCart. Not kidding. Till, like, an hour ago, I’d never even heard of the Plano-based company. Then I read this story from Advertising Age, in which it says MediaCart has cracked the apparently unsolvable riddle about how to put advertisements into your grocery shopping cart — quite literally,…
Tracy Evers, executive director of the Greater Dallas Restaurant Association for the last decade or so, sends word she’ll be stepping down in June. Or stepping out. Of Dallas. Seems her husband Brad Evers, 24-year chef with ClubCorp., has assumed an executive chef post at an undisclosed country club in…
Josh Howard’s an All-Star, finally. But don’t think he’s thrilled about how he got to Las Vegas. I’ll provide much — and I mean much — more on this in next week’s paper version of Unfair Park, but the NBA just named Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard to the All-Star…
On the drive to work this morning, I noticed a house for sale — and not just any ol’ house, but the nice pink one sitting at 8915 Douglas Avenue, which any longtime local can tell you used to be the manse of one Mary Kay Ash. Here’s the description…
John Sparks, KTVT-Channel 11’s exec producer in charge of investigations and political coverage, alerts us to a Robert Riggs report getting national play via the CBS News mothership. It involves “the theft of the century,” or close to it: the pilfering of millions of dollars’ worth of oil in Iraq,…
Rod Dreher is no friend of the local Muslim community. He explains why. Should make plenty of new friends. It’s because he’s the “new face of hate,” duh. That what The Dallas Morning News’er and Crunchy Con writes in the winter issue of City Journal, the urban-affairs quarterly published by…
Because nothing says “clean tushie” like aqua chenille… Yes, your baby is very cute. You have dressed him/her in a very adorable/fun onesie/twosie with matching hat/shoes. You splurged/saved by buying this adorable/fun outfit at Baby Chanel/Costco, and I think that’s stupid/cool. I’m so glad you and your husband/baby daddy/sperm donor…
Brian Harkin Corporal Phillip Leal, 23, did a tour in Iraq and works as a recruiter in Farmers Branch and Carrollton. The cover story of this week’s Dallas Observer focuses on the military’s recruiting of Hispanics, who are the fastest-growing military-aged group of people in the country and, according to…
Wade Phillips, kneeling, with a proud papa named Bum. Speaking of, wonder what Bill Parcells is gonna do now. I have the new Dallas Cowboys head coach’s cell phone number. He knows Terrell Owens’ name. And when he strode into the main meeting room at Valley Ranch for Thursday’s press…
Last week we outed Celso Martinez. Now, as evidenced by Channel 11’s report and a DMN piece, he’s become quite the media sensation — like Carrot Top. Really, we’d be done with Celso Martinez by now were it not for his recurring issues with the truth. On Tuesday, four days…
So, like, Anna Nicole Smith just died. That’s weird. I know there’s a Dallas connection that merits this mention. Now, where is it? Where is it? Oh, here it is. –Robert Wilonsky…
You may remember his kitchen toil at Larry North’s NorthSouth, or maybe PoPoLos. (Lime? Lime? Didn’t he do Lime?) Or perhaps you’ll recall his turn-around menu work at Cuba Libre and Sipango. Whatever you remember him for, it probably isn’t as sales manager for Sysco Foodservices. Anyway, chef Marc Haines…
Barry Annino, president of the Deep Ellum Foundation and a longtime player in the neighborhood, just posted a comment to last week’s item concerning Deep Ellum’s impending facelift, in which Annino’s quoted as saying, “Deep Ellum as everyone knew it is over.” But I felt his remarks ought to be…
