Texas was not just outplayed yesterday in the Big 12 Men’s Basketball Tournament final. It was out-fanned. Looked to me like burnt orange outnumbered by about two-to-one the grape or periwinkle or whatever color Kansas claims, but the KU fans absolutely shook the American Airlines Center with their ardor. Texas…
Five staples in the head of a Dallas Observer employee. Wound courtesy of a drunk asshole at the Toadies’ reunion concert. The crowd at Saturday’s Greenville Ave. St. Patrick’s Day Parade concert bided its time. As long lines filed into the blocked-off Yale Boulevard party zone, Dallas’ Baboon unleashed some…
Popular link-collecting Web site Fark.com allows users to make fun of news stories in their barely moderated comments section–the exact opposite of the no-comments, autocratic regime we run here at Unfair Park. It’s rare when we make their list, and this week, Jesse Hyde’s Little Boy Blue makes the cut…
Publicists exist to give journalists free stuff. (Alternatively, they also coordinate attempts to prevent us from trying to get the information we really need vs. what they want to tell us.) They may also make a mean meat loaf or run a four-minute mile, but in the grand scheme of…
Remember way back when there were only two sports in Dallas: football and off-season football? Don’t look now, helmet head, but Dallas is suddenly imitating a pretty decent Mecca of basketball. The rise of roundball permeates all levels. Last weekend in Austin, Dallas-area high schools swept the three biggest classes…
Sarah Wamsley ran sobbing out of a Tarrant County courtroom yesterday afternoon as her 21-year-old brother, Andrew Wamsley, was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of both his parents for their $1.65 million estate in December 2003. Prosecuting attorney Mike Parrish had sought the death penalty, because he…
The SXSW wheel is turning, and the first rag to get officially caught in the gears is the Austin Chronicle, whose picks for day one of the music festival went online today. Good news: Dallas has a considerable presence on the hometown city’s recommendation sheet, thanks to Midlake, Baboon and…
According to the folks who put on the annual South by Southwest Film and Music Festival in Austin, attendence is up some 40 percent this year–which, by my estimate, would put the number of registrants close to 1.2 million. Granted, that’s a rough estimate, and I did get into journalism…
Rose Renfro is not Hispanic, but she plays one on on election day. Yesterday The Dallas Morning News’ Jim O’Neill reported how Renfro, a candidate for Dallas county commissioner, exploited a little-known Texas election code that allows you to include your nickname on the ballot. Running in a district that…
You saw the picture here on Monday. Now you get the details. Seems 65-year-old former Mavs coach Don Nelson is having a life the rest of us only dream about. That is, assuming you fantasize about getting drunk with Owen Wilson, acting in shows directed by George Clooney, sitting in…
A couple of weeks ago, The Dallas Morning News had a three-sentence item announcing that Los Angeles-based American Realty Advisors had bought the Quadrangle office-retail-and-restaurant center from Dallas developer Champion Partners, which has only owned the complex for three years. At the time, ARA had made no formal announcement; that…
The first trace of SXSW spillover in the metroplex hits Rubber Gloves this evening, but Dallasites who don’t want to drive to Denton on a school night are in luck thanks to Good Records. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone play their extremely campus-friendly electro-pop at the store’s new Lower Greenville…
The New York Times drama critic Honor Moore loves the new production of Fabrice Rozie’s Transatlantic Liaisons, which opened last week at the 99-seat Harold Clurman Theater on Broadway. The play is about the real-life love affair between writers Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren. The two actors in it,…
I have been bouncing around courtrooms in the George Allen Courts Building (the white structure at 600 Commerce) the last couple of days. Each judge has his or her own rules for cell phones and pagers posted on the courtroom doors. Some say, “No cell phone or pager use.” Some…
In case you missed this story in The Dallas Morning News yesterday, about the apparently unrelated murders of two gay men within the past week in Lake Highlands and in the Love Field area, here’s a version from a Web site that offers some grim statistics. –Robert Wilonsky…
Be Blunt about it: This is probably not how Ticketmaster intended to promote James Blunt’s upcoming local show I’m not saying I got really freaking excited when the Ticketmaster newsletter arrived this morning announcing that James Blunt will perform May 8 at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie. I’m not…
Not that we never really worried, but the National Football League we know and love was kept intact last night. Facing a do-or-drastically-alter deadline, league owners meeting at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport voted to accept a collective bargaining agreement proposal from the players’ union. I could tell you that the…
Air Cargo World, billed as the authoritative voice of the international air freight industry, named Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as the world’s most excellent cargo airport in its second Air Cargo Excellence Survey based on a worldwide query of air cargo users. Fraport Frankfort got the second highest overall score,…
When Lindsey Lanzisero called her husband at work last week, he thought he was finally about to be a father. With his wife due to deliver their first baby within the week, restaurant manager Peter Lanzisero rushed across the Galleria’s Grand Luxe Cafe to the phone, sure that tonight was…
The Unity Church of Dallas sits on a wooded street not far from downtown, nestled beneath the shade of several large trees. In its 32 years, the brown brick building has been a refuge for those dissatisfied with mainstream religion. Put simply, it is a place where people go for…
The tuxedos were suave. The carpet was royally red. Joan Rivers’ fashion fangs were bloodthirsty. And the cleavage deliciously breached its levees. Yet something was missing from Sunday’s 78th Academy Awards. Ahem, where was sports? Sure, host Jon Stewart played soccer at William & Mary University, and a boxing flick…
Days after the release of a scalding report from the Texas Legislature on corruption and misfeasance at Dallas City Hall, one of its main authors, an Austin Republican, was wondering if the reporters’ are awake up in Dallas. “The Dallas Morning News put it on page one, but they sure…
