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Houses That Go Oink Decrepit and lovin’ it: Just wanted Jim Schutze to know that his article about East Dallas (“Goodbye, Groovy East Dallas,” January 25) brought tears to my eyes and laughter to my throat. I miss the bones on the porch, the “salons” at Colin Jefferson’s (met Laura…

Deep Ellum looked like this once. Then it turned into something else. And now, it turns again. “West Village.” That is how people are beginning to describe the Deep Ellum of the near-future, once the DART station goes in on Good-Latimer Expressway and once all the boho and tattooed riff-raff’s…

Today, Mr. Peppermint turns 80 years old — or “80 effin’ years,” as Jerry Haynes put it when Unfair Park called to wish him “Happy Effin’ Birthday.” This marks a somewhat major milestone in the lives of those of weaned on Muffin the Bear, Mr. Wiggly Worm, Captain Candy and…

Here’s a wacky item from the February 12 issue of Forbes, concerning Gary Kornman, who, as you may recall from earlier posts, is a Dallas attorney awaiting trial in federal court here after pleading not guilty to criminal charges of securities fraud and lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission…

On Friday, the Gypsy Tea Room’s bankruptcy case, which had been sitting in U.S. District Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale’s courtroom since October 2005, was dismissed after all parties agreed to make it go away. What does that mean, precisely? Well, says one attorney representing a creditor owed money, “the debtor…

The guy at the far left of this pic is local comic Joey Oglesby, who looks and sounds a great deal like Rev. Donnie Davies. We done here yet? After the jump, a message to the Friends of Unfair Park from the Rev. Donnie Davies — you know, the “God…

Several Friends of Unfair Park have shot us e-mails wondering precisely when Bill Wisener’s opening his new joint on the Southside of Lamar, as his Spring Valley Road location’s going adios tomorrow. Well, Bill tells us it’ll pretty much be open this week — kind of, sort of. See, it’s…

This is Donnie Davies, who doesn’t like gay people. Or this is Joey Oglesby, who probably does. C’mon. He’s an actor. The problem with satirizing idiots is that even your wildest jokes come so close to reality that some people have trouble seeing the difference. Trust us on this. We…

I just got waxed by a little Romanian lady, and it was hot. Literally. Eyebrow-waxer to the stars (Jennifer Grey is a star, right?) Eliza Petrescu launched the Dallas outpost of her 5th Avenue brow-a-palooza, Eliza’s Eyes, at Hotel Palomar’s Exhale Spa yesterday. I took the opportunity to avail myself…

Spent some time late last week speaking to N9NE Group founder Michael Morton (son of Arnie Morton, founder of Morton’s The Steakhouse). We spoke of stainless steel, million-dollar kitchens and the Dallas efficacy of a N9NE Steakhouse in Victory Park, where cheap steak loots you 43 bucks and a cold-water…

No, this still isn’t Jim Schutze. And God knows it ain’t Rod Dreher. Yesterday it was “Schutzesque”; today, it’s “Schutzism.” Seriously, who ya gotta screw around here to get your name turned into an adjective? Anyway, I see the Crunchy Con himself has taken Jim to task for his cover…

Amory Lovins is gonna change the world, probably before he changes a lightbulb. Melting ice caps, starving polar bears and costal towns in eminent danger of submersion — all of these depressing scenarios are at least in part the results of the stubborn belief that energy efficiency is inevitably and…

On Friday, Dallas’ Only Daily ran a piece about the new City Performance Hall — known to some as “The Third Hall,” since it ain’t as fancy as its Dallas Center for the Performing Arts siblings, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House and the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre…

Ben Harper and Bill Wisener share a moment, as mutual fans and as old friends. Bill Wisener has been contemplating moving his legendary record store for years — since at least the fall of 2005, when I spent a day with Bill talking about how difficult it was going to…