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January 30, 2012
Pleasant Grove's Bret Egner Needs Your Help With Medical Expenses
On Wednesday, Pleasant Grove singer-guitarist Bret Egner was involved in a bicycle accident near Red River in Austin, when he swerved to avoid two jaywalking pedestrians and hit the pavement. Sadly, the pedestrians he swerved to avoid didn't offer help. Egner went into surgery today to repair a sh ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
On Flood Control, Dallas Better Think Nationally or Be Ready to Drown Locally
Man, talk about whistling past the graveyard. At yesterday's Dallas City Council meeting, council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso asked good questions about the city's flood control plans, and City Manager Mary Suhm and her assistant, Jill Jordan, gave good answers. But it was all deck chairs ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
Between the Lines in Corps' Trinity River Enviromental Assessment: Don't Blame Us
Buried between the lines in a 246-page document released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today is a significant national story about the future of flood control in American cities. I doubt very many reporters will dig it out. I'll give you the thumbnail sketch. You may wish I had kept my ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2011
Dallas PD Needs Help Finding Driver Who Killed a Man in Cedar Springs Crosswalk Friday
The Dallas Police report says, simply, "TRAFFIC FATALITY #78." There is a time and date: 10:30 p.m. Friday. A location too: 4100 Cedar Springs. But the DPD has no further information, which is why it's asking for help as it attempts to ID whoever was driving the SUV that struck and killed a 50-ye ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Shelter for the Storms
The Dallas Police report says, simply, "TRAFFIC FATALITY #78." There is a time and date: 10:30 p.m. Friday. A location too: 4100 Cedar Springs. But the DPD has no further information, which is why it's asking for help as it attempts to ID whoever was driving the SUV that struck and killed a 50-ye ... More >>
Music
August 4, 2011
Sia, Oh Land, Ximena Sarinana
Sunday, August 7, at the Granada Theater
Blogs
June 17, 2011
It's Been Truly Inspiring to Watch D Apologize for Rah-Rah'ing Trinity Toll Road. Oh, Wait.
I'm sure at some moment in history, all of the people who had insisted the earth was flat went very quiet. After some centuries of debate, burnings at the stake and loud dinner-table arguments, the jury was in. Everybody knew it was round. The exponents of flat were suddenly extremely reticent o ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Tom Leppert on the Trinity River Toll Road, Again Slicing the Truth with a Razor Blade
I'm doing an informal poll. Is there anyone left out there who gives a rat's ass what former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert did or did not say about the safety of the Trinity River toll road project? Wait. Wait. I'm looking. I've got my binoculars on. A-ha! I do spy at least one rat's ass out there ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2011
Last Night: Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo Canlas at Dada
Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo CanlasDadaMay 24, 2011Better Than: Sitting in a bathtub at home with a dog and a baby both trying to eat each other.Pete Freedman's phoneHere We Go Magic goes unplugged. Because, you know, they had to.First, there was a crash, followed by a series of booms, and th ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2011
10 Cheap Party Spots for Fat Tuesday
You don't need an excuse to party tomorrow night because it's Fat Tuesday, the official holiday of fatty foods, booze and general debauchery. Restaurants and bars are offering some cheap food and drink deals, but unfortunately many of them are amping up their Fat Tuesday festivities with c ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Watch: The September Tornadoes Land A Direct Hit And Total Bonedome's Parked Band Van
The above fairly harrowing footage comes to us straight from the surveillance cameras mounted outside of Allan Hayslip's day job in West Dallas and focused on the warehouse's parking lot, where his Bonedome band van was parked as tornadoes ripped through the area in the early evening of September 8, ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Send us Your Earmark: Could Congress Turn off the Tap on Trinity Money?
The above fairly harrowing footage comes to us straight from the surveillance cameras mounted outside of Allan Hayslip's day job in West Dallas and focused on the warehouse's parking lot, where his Bonedome band van was parked as tornadoes ripped through the area in the early evening of September 8, ... More >>
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November 20, 2010
What Two Sentences in The WSJ Suggest About the Future of the Trinity River Project
U.S. Army Corps of EngineersFrom the Dallas Floodway Extension Project Description, this 1989 photo: "US175 blocked by water backed up into White Rock Creek. Normally, this is a busy traffic artery leading to the central business district."Wilonsky sent me an interesting Wall Street Journal artic ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
North Texas Food Bank's Text Donation Program Falters
Mobile giving, which was touted in the wake of the Haiti earthquake earlier this year as a high-tech way of invigorating philanthropy, hasn't panned out for the North Texas Food Bank. The hunger relief organization rolled out its text-to-give program this month, and has thus far collected on ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
What This Town Needs is Some Good Ward Heelers.
Mobile giving, which was touted in the wake of the Haiti earthquake earlier this year as a high-tech way of invigorating philanthropy, hasn't panned out for the North Texas Food Bank. The hunger relief organization rolled out its text-to-give program this month, and has thus far collected on ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Ernie and Elisa Santos, R.I.P.
I was supposed to meet Ernie Santos Saturday morning at Twin Peaks in McKinney. I'm digging into an Observer cover story on metroplex motorcycle clubs/gangs and he, being a member of the Dirty Bastards, invited me to a sort of meet 'n greet with his crew. Seems one of their members was rece ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
J.R. and SMU Reach for the Sun
Not together, mind you -- this isn't a joint project between Ewing Oil and the Hilltop. But both Larry Hagman, now positioning himself as the Anti-Palin, and Southern Methodist are making a singular push for solar power -- the former Dallas star in a highly publicized ad for a German photovoltaic ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Took A Meat-axe To Federal Law To Get The Mayor His Toll Road. But Did She Even Think About The Consequences?
Not together, mind you -- this isn't a joint project between Ewing Oil and the Hilltop. But both Larry Hagman, now positioning himself as the Anti-Palin, and Southern Methodist are making a singular push for solar power -- the former Dallas star in a highly publicized ad for a German photovoltaic ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
Local Restaurants Help the Gulf Coast; Mextopia Holds Its Grand Opening This Weekend; Scardello Hosts Top Flight Wines; And More.
Blythe BeckA few Dallas restaurants are gearing up to help out with Gulf oil spill. Executive chef Blythe Beck at Central 214 starts a new fundraiser today called "We Cook While They Clean." The restaurant will donate $1 from every purchase of the chicken-fried Kobe steak dish to the Gulf R ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Keep Your Eye On The Sky
Blythe BeckA few Dallas restaurants are gearing up to help out with Gulf oil spill. Executive chef Blythe Beck at Central 214 starts a new fundraiser today called "We Cook While They Clean." The restaurant will donate $1 from every purchase of the chicken-fried Kobe steak dish to the Gulf R ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
Wanna See Dallas Destroyed By an F5 Tornado? Then You're in Luck Tomorrow.
Back in April, Tom Korosec wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a story that asked, Just how prepared is Dallas for an F5 tornado? Short answer: Not very. But only because "it would be too big for a simple quick response," wrote city of Dallas emergency management director Kenny Shaw in the co ... More >>
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May 18, 2009
Food For Thought 5.18.09
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
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February 26, 2009
Getting to No | Eat Less Live Longer
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
Is the Army Corps of Engineers Having Second Thoughts About the Trinity River Project?
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2008
Family of Fort Worth Officer Killed in Explosion Sues Ford Motor Co.
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
Blogs
September 25, 2008
Courtesy Hurricane Ike, Now You Seafood, Now You Don't
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2008
Looks Like It's Not, Um, 3 Doors Down's Time? (Sorry, That Was Too Easy)
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
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August 28, 2008
Courtesy Gustav, Dallas Might Feel a Little More Crowded This Weekend
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2008
Clinton Headed Back to Dallas, To Be With Family of DPD Officer
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2008
Spike Lee's School Daze at UTA
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
Blogs
August 28, 2007
You Can't Go Home Again
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
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August 23, 2007
Singing Samaritan
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2007
The Blame Game
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>
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February 8, 2007
Bayou Blues
Katrina hits the big(gest) screen
Blogs
January 4, 2007
Schutze Defends Kunkle, and That's No Crime
Katrina hits the big(gest) screen
Home Entertainment
January 4, 2007
Weird and Wonderful
Katrina hits the big(gest) screen
Home Entertainment
December 21, 2006
A True Horror Classic
Katrina hits the big(gest) screen
News
September 7, 2006
The Rip
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
August 22, 2006
When Evacuees Become Residents, Part 3
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
July 25, 2006
Who'll Pay the Rent?
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
June 5, 2006
Here She Comes to Save the Day
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
May 15, 2006
Katrina: Bad for People, Good for Business
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
March 1, 2006
You Can Run...
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Calendar
January 26, 2006
Hot Links
Hit the mini-greens downtown
Music
November 24, 2005
Big Not-Easy
Thought the RIAA was bad when they sued downloaders? You ain't heard nothin'.
Music
September 8, 2005
Edge of Relief
Clear Channel wins our good graces (for once) by spearheading local hurricane relief efforts
Music
August 18, 2005
Shawn Sahm, Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers
Friday, August 19th, at Sons of Hermann Hall
News
May 19, 2005
Much Ado
Building mysteries--for those who care
News
November 2, 2000
Marked Man
Dallas police say Herbert Lee Madison caused the death of an exemplary officer. But an eyewitness who saw the entire incident unfold says Madison is no cop killer.
News
July 23, 1998
Getting dumped
Despite shoddy science, bad economics, and catastrophic health risks, a West Texas border community may become the nation's nuclear dumping ground
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