Avi Adelman

In the Battle Over a Lower Greenville Walmart, Avi Adelman's Bark is As Annoying as Ever

Shortly after being sued last September by a neighbor for registering melissakingston.com and using it to email anti-Walmart screeds, inveterate Lower Greenville shit-stirrer Avi Adelman did something rather unprecedented: he agreed to cut it out. The temporary injunction he signed barred him from s ... More >>

In Far North Dallas, Neighbors Are Rallying to Stop a Walmart Planned for Arapaho and Coit

When I was growing up a few blocks away from the Spanish Village shopping center in Far North Dallas it was, if never booming, at least heavily trafficked. It was the site of Chuck's Hamburgers, where we'd walk for lunch when my junior high got out early for end-of-semester exams. Border's was ther ... More >>

Judge Tells Avi Adelman He Can Depose City Council Candidate Philip Kingston

Back in September, attorney Melissa Kingston sued Lower Greenville blogger/rancorous shit-disturber Avi Adelman, memorably calling him "a self-proclaimed vigilante-style neighborhood activist who more accurately resembles a neighborhood terrorist." The whole fight began over the new Wal-Mart in th ... More >>

Avi Adelman Claims Phillip Kingston's Campaign is the Real Reason for Wife's Lawsuit

Avi Adelman, Lower Greenville's resident pot-stirrer, now claims that the lawsuit against him, filed by neighborhood organizer Melissa Kingston, is actually an effort to silence him during her husband's run for, and potential stint on, the Dallas City Council. See also: Lawsuit Calls Barking Dog Av ... More >>

Barking Dog Avi Adelman Fights Lawsuit, Says Free Speech is Being Stifled

Melissa Kingston, the Lower Greenville resident and attorney representing neighborhood groups in negotiations overnthe Greenville Avenue WalMart, didn't hold back in her lawsuit against Avi Adelman. The longtime neighborhood activist and proprietor of BarkingDogs.org is a "menace" and a "neighborhoo ... More >>

Lawsuit Calls Barking Dog Avi Adelman a "Neighborhood Terrorist" in Wal-Mart Fight

Neighborhood blogger and professional shit-disturber Avi Adelman is not happy with the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market being built at the former site of Whole Foods on Greenville Avenue, right across the street from his house. He was even less happy when the retailer put up ridiculously bright lights i ... More >>

Greenville Ave. Clubs Sue to Stay Open After Midnight. But 7-Eleven Will Turn Out Lights.

Courtesy Avi AdelmanIf you need a pack of smokes from this 7-Eleven after midnight tonight or in the near future, you're outta luck.​Once more, we return to Lowest Greenville Avenue, which tonight will see cops and code out in force to enforce the planned development district ordinance that offici ... More >>

Lower Greenville to Lose Its Blockbuster

​Avi Adelman's just posted over on Barking Dogs that Lower Greenville's losing its longtime Blockbuster on Richmond Avenue -- which probably comes as no surprise, given the state of the bankrupt downtown-based videos-n-such rentalist that could be in the hands of new owners as early as next week. ... More >>

A Barking Dog Wants to Take a Big Ol' Bite Out of That Lower Greenville Avenue Ordinance

​From the sound of Andrea's December 16 liveblog from the City Plan Commission, not to mention the myriad other sit-downs Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano have had with Lower Greenville Avenue stakeholders in recent months, the council members' Planned Development District ordinance has a lot of su ... More >>

Harried Dog: Avi Adelman Gets Sued for Libel.

Trying to Muzzle a Barking Dog: Avi Adelman Sued for Defamation Over Lost Society Postings

​Avi Adelman, the Barking Dog, has been nipping at the heels of Lost Society on Lower Greenville since at least June, when bar co-owner Brightman "Brian" Nwatu was taken into custody and put on immigration hold for evading deportation for five years. Two days later, Adelman followed up with news t ... More >>

Dallas City Council Members Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano Have A Plan To Help Rid Lowest Greenville Avenue Of Crime. If Only They Can Get Neighborhood Businesses To Cooperate.

Having a Pepper Ball on Lowest Greenville Early July 4. Was That Really Necessary, Officer?

Avi Adelman​I spent Saturday night -- and the wee small hours of Sunday morning -- riding shotgun with a certain Barking Dog as he kept watch over his favorite "scumbars," he likes to call them. And I got a little more than I'd bargained for: a nose and throat fill of pepper courtesy the Dallas Po ... More >>

Early This Morning, A Man Was Shot to Death in the Char Bar Parking Lot on Lower Greenville

Avi AdelmanTaken in the Char Bar parking lot at around 3:45 this morning​According to various reports from the Dallas Police Department and the Lower Greenville Self-Appointed Civilian Police Department Comprised Mainly of Avi Adelman, a man was shot and killed after an altercation early this morn ... More >>

"The Future Is Hard to Determine" and Other Things Learned on Lower Greenville Last Night

Daniel RodrigueLGNA's crime watch coordinator Darren Dattalo, seated at left, visits with other Lower Greenville residents last night​Minutes after the Dallas Independent School District adjourned the town hall meeting over at O.M. Roberts, I headed the two miles north to my neck of the woods for ... More >>

Avi Exposes Another Troublemaker on Greenville -- Himself

DPD Will Begin Shooting Its Own Short Films Along Lower Greenville and in Downtown

The Martin Scorsese of Lower Greenville may be out of a gig soon: This morning, Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Golbeck, commander of the patrol division, tells Unfair Park that for the past month, he's been considering taking camera crews to document the late-night and early-morning doi ... More >>

On Lower Greenville, the Activist Becomes the Accused as Adelman Gets Assault Citation

Mark GrahamAvi AdelmanAvi Adelman was out early Sunday morning (2:35 Sunday morning, to be precise) doing what he normally does in the wee small hours of the weekend: videotaping the goings-on on Lower Greenville Avenue. Only this time, he came away with something extra: a ticket accusing him of mis ... More >>

How Do You Make a City Walkable? By Making Lower Greenville No-Parkable, Maybe?

Courtesy Avi AdelmanLast week, our favorite Barking Dog pointed out the latest Resident Parking Only zone in the Lower Greenville area -- the seventh such RPO zone to take effect in the last year, Avi notes. To that list, add an eighth: Avi sent Unfair Park an e-mail last night in which he says that ... More >>

Food For Thought 3.16.09

"It's a for-profit business, not a community event. It's a bar mitzvah out of control." (Neighborhood activist/curmudgeon Avi Adelman complaining before Saturday's St. Patrick's Day parade down Greenville Avenue. Not sure what part of "saint" he misunderstood...although he is right, the party can g ... More >>

Avi, Don't You Know Nothing Good Happens After Two in the Morning?

Some days I worry about Avi Adelman's safety. This video, shot at 2:30 a.m. yesterday on the mean streets of Lower Greenville (ya think?), shows why. NSFW, as always. Incidentally, there's some exciting cop-on-drunk action in this video Avi also shot over the weekend. Side note: Avi, why have you ne ... More >>

You Can't Really Kill a Tow Company

On December 4, moments after the Permit License and Appeals Board upheld the city's decision to revoke Lone Star Auto Service's towing permit, Friend of Unfair Park "LoveULongTime" cautioned those cheering the company's (at least temporary) demise: "You guys are funny. They will just get their lawye ... More >>

On Lower Greenville, How Not to Help a Pal While He's Getting Arrested

The Whiz, or: That Lower Greenville Pee-Pee Video Never, Ever Gets Old

Meat Avi Adelman

No, No, I Said, "Matzo Balls."

The Scorsese of Lower Greenville

Park City

Wanna go see a show around town? Fine, but you'll get a ticket in Deep Ellum. Maybe towed on Lower Greenville...

Marking Their Territory, With a Barking Dog Behind the Camera

Avi Adelman Makes Crime Pay

Life is a Carnival, Except When Not

Thanks for the Support

The Boys in Blue Blues

Avi'ng a Nice Day

Flagrant Fouls

Copping an Attitude

Much Ado

Building mysteries--for those who care

Best Euro-Style Neighborhood Hang

Nodding Dog Coffee Co.

Dog Bites Belo

How many lawyers does it take to make a media company a punch line?

Fellow Travelers

What's to become of the Internet gadflies?

Mommie Dearest

Potholes, motherhood and high fashion mingle in Miller's populist campaign kickoff

Buzz

Peace of the action

Letters

Muzzle the Barking Dog, Glass Houses Dept., Highway From Hell, Bitter Holiday

Being Avi Adelman

One man fights bars on Lower Greenville, while others urge compromise

Buzz

Schoonerville Trolley; Silence is golden

Letters

Judging Joe Kendall; Elian's kidnapping; Clearing the air; Chaos on Lower Greenville

Hash Over

Rope twister; Mixed hash; List watch

Hash Over

Anzu plunge; Mixed hash

Hash Over

Hot spot goes to pot; Mixed hash

Hash Over

Buck naked saint