The Dixie Chicks doc did OK in Dallas, but it’s unlikely to be a hit by any estimation. It got great reviews, locally and nationally; a “riveting documentary,” wrote David Ansen in Newsweek, while USA Today called it “a compelling and rousing film.” Both The Dallas Morning News and the…
Megan Feldman Elizabeth Villafranca, who owns the Mexican restaurant Cuquitas in Farmers Branch with her husband, was among those protesting the anti-immigrant measures passed yesterday by the city council. While protestors chanted and waved American flags outside, the Farmers Branch city council on Monday night unanimously passed a series of…
Looks like Dallas-based band The Hourly Radio is reaching a new demographic. This kid’s rendition of HR’s successful single “Crime Does Pay,” posted anonymously (or semi-anonymously–it’s attributed only to “Erin”) to MySpace, has us slightly creeped out, but also giggling at the subtextual commentary on the median age of HR’s…
Lone Star Funds’ CEO John Grayken says his people ain’t flying to Korea unless they can come back to Dallas, which is unlikely to happen–arrest warrants being what they are and all. Almost from day one, Unfair Park’s been following the doings–and undoings–of Lone Star Funds in South Korea; here’s…
We mentioned it last month, and the Los Angeles Times repeats it once more today: If you get your local news from Telemundo, well, chances are it ain’t really local. Nope–it’ll come straight outta Fort Worth. That’s because NBC Universal, Telemundo’s parent company, is cutting $750 million from its budget,…
Glenna got a heapin’, steamin’ dose of Nancy Grace Friday night. Yecch. In short: What’s “a fact”? Horror, sheer horror. Three minutes into my appearance on CNN Headline News Friday night, and I was ready to leap through the television monitor and rip out through Nancy Grace’s flared nostrils the…
Who’s the second-best QB in the NFL. Guess. And it’s not Drew Bledsoe, whoever he is. Two names I just know you didn’t expect to see atop the charts: Borat and Romo. But, alas, here they sit. The reporter from Kazakhstan is still the No. 1 movie in the U.S…
Laure-wife-of-Larry David doesn’t like TXU. She’s warmed to the mayor, though–just not global-warmed, heh. We already know what Laurie David thinks of Dallas. In April, the eco-activist–and wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm’s irritainer Larry David–penned a piece for The Huffington Post in which she took a swipe at the city…
The Rangers want this man on their team next year. So do half a dozen other MLB teams. So, bye-bye, Daisuke. It woulda been swell. Some random sports notes before Richie wakes up: The Newberg Report’s Mike Hindman sends word this a.m. that “the Seibu Lions will hold a board…
Maybe–oh, please, God, please, please, prettyplease–this’ll be the last item we ever run about the big-screen adaptation of the movie Dallas. I know–you figured the thing was already on Cinemax; that’s how long we’ve been discussing this would-be disaster. Really gonna hate to see it go adios, mofo. But that’s…
Guess if you live in Houston, there’s always hope you’ll be like Dallas; what else ya got, right? At least, that’s what some Democrats are figuring: They’re looking to their neighbor in the north–at least, the Houston Chronicle is–and figuring that last week’s lean to the left might some day…
We don’t really watch Nancy Grace, unless one of our own’s on the show. Tonight is such a night. Yessssss. Great news! Tonight at 7 on CNN Headline News we finally get the answer to the age-old question: Who’s crazier, Nancy Grace or Lisa Diaz? Guess we gotta go with…
A Friend of Unfair Park read our earlier item about Craig Watkins’ Web site comments and sent a missive directing us to his comments in the League of Women Voters’ campaign insert that appeared, among other places, in the paper version of Unfair Park. Whyohwhy don’t we actually pay attention…
Normally around the holidays, an album title like, oh, Kill My Distant Relatives That Are Overstaying Their Welcome and Jacking With the Cat Because My Holiday Spirit Has Been Robbed of Me would be most appropriate. But we haven’t even gotten to Thanksgiving yet, so we’ll take a deep breath…
The judge who presided over Emily Dowdy’s three trials was voted off the bench this week, giving Dowdy’s family hope for a new trial. Here’s some election news from our neighbor to the north; no, not Canada. Oklahoma County Judge Susan Caswell, the pro-prosecution jurist who has presided over three…
Mark Graham A month before the election, Craig Watkins took off his law firm’s Web site a page proclaiming his desire to defend his clients “by any means necessary.” Man, I really wish I hadn’t thrown away all that campaign junk mail that filled my mailbox in the past few…
The Foxymorons will have a song on ABC’s Men in Trees tonight. C’mon, be happy for ’em. You would be if they were Rhett Miller. I’ve seen all of 42 minutes’ worth of The Tonight Show since Jay Leno took over, and I won’t be watching tonight. Sorry. Guy’s not…
C’mon, does this look like the face of a guy who would assault anyone? A Tarrant County jury sure didn’t think so yesterday when it acquited Paris, Texas star Hunter Carson. I see this morning that a Tarrant County jury acquited the host and director of the TV show Cheaters…
Richie would rather watch these guys Sunday and not Your Dallas Cowboys. At least these guys are supposed to keep their hands off the ball, eh, Terrell? Last night I was lucky enough to rub elbows with Cowboys named Rayfield Wright and Tony Romo at a fancy-schmancy shindig up at…
Well, lookie where Terrell Bolton has surfaced. Seems the former Dallas police chief’s up for a gig in DeKalb County, Georgia; if nothing else, he’s on the list of finalists for the top cop spot, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But this is probably not how you want to be described…
I see my boy Jeff Liles is posting some unused footage from his documentary about Bill’s Records and Tapes, The Last Record Store, on YouTube. Mighty nice of the guy. Here’s some of it: a snippet during which my boyhood hero George Gimarc, Idol Records’ Erv Karwelis, Hydronic Sound System’s…
Mike Jones blew Ted Haggard’s cover. Patty Calhoun, editor of Denver’s Westword–one of the Dallas Observer’s sister papers–suggests in her column this week that Ted Haggard was deeper into the gay lifestyle than his statements might have led you to believe. Mike Jones–the male prostitute who blew Haggard’s cover last…
