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January 11, 2012
Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston to Take the Reins at the Human Rights Initiative
There's no need to introduce Bill Holston -- attorney, KERA contributor, nature-trekker -- to longtime Friends of Unfair Park; he's one of the good ones, and has been for a long, long while. But Bill's about to disappear from these virtual pages, at least for a little while; he writes, "I promis ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
From the Comments: DISD Trustee Flores Chimes in on Teach for America's Success
Below, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores hopped in the comments to underscore something he said during yesterday's discussion concerning Teach for America. Said the trustee yesterday, TFA corps members in the district "outperform two-thirds of all our teachers in math and sc ... More >>
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October 23, 2011
Above the Trinity River, Playing and Talking and Eating and Sitting on a Bridge Meant for Cars
First there was a Better Block; then, a Better Boulevard; then, just yesterday, a Better Bridge. Of all the efforts to temporarily transform a piece of the city into something other than what it is, yesterday's brief installation atop the Cedar Crest Bridge, which connects Oak Cliff to South Dall ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Ride the Lightning to the Calatrava Bridge
Photo by Justin TerveenNo doubt you got a nasty wake-up call in the wee small hours of the morning from the storms that rumbled through; chances are there'll be some kind of a repeat this evening. But Brother Bill Holston wanted to make sure we noted that the great Justin Terveen was out and abou ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
How Banksy Forced Hal Samples to Finish Doc About Homeless Man Living Outside L.A.
Tachowa Covington and his former home in a still from Hal Samples's in-progress Something From Nothing. The whole trailer's after the jump.Over the years photographer Hal Samples has shown me bits and pieces of his in-progress documentary about Tachowa Covington, who turned an abandoned water tan ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Watch: Deep Ellum Comes Together, Remembers Adam Carter
Danny FulgencioAdam Carter was 27.If there's a good thing that's come out of the recent spate of local musician deaths -- and, yes, this is a stretch, practically inherently -- it's the positivity that's come out of Deep Ellum and the music community as a whole, as these groups have joined togeth ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Anne Rice Comes Home. To Richardson.
In 1958, per the novelist's biography, her family moved from New Orleans to Richardson, where she attended high school. After which she attended Texas Woman's University in Denton, before moving to San Francisco and then international renown as the author of, among other things, Interview With the V ... More >>
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February 19, 2011
Allen Vaught Wants to Plant Grassroots Movement That'll Save DISD's Teachers
Allen Vaught in the Green ZoneBrother Bill Holston directed our attention yesterday to the Facebook page of former state Rep. and movie star Allen Vaught, who writes of "organizing a grassroots program focusing on the legislature and DISD to not gut our schools." I called Vaught at his office at ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Dallas Area Rapid Transit's Towing Buses and Trying to "Unstick" Light Rail
Daniel RodrigueDallas Area Rapid Transit has suspended most of its light-rail service due to ice and wind. There is this update, though: "We are operating 4 trains on the Trinity Railway Express this morning instead of the usual 6. We are trying to operate trains out of Union and T&P about ev ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Harvey Lacey Wants to Rebuild the (Third) World One Bale of Recycled Plastic at a Time
From a video you'll find after the jump, Harvey Lacey and the building blocks of his building blocksFor the last few weeks, Brother Bill Holston's been on me to write about longtime Friend of Unfair Park Harvey Lacey's save-the-world project -- which, till Tuesday morning, wasn't completely clear ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
If You Were Waiting for the Casa Linda Theater to Show Movies Again, It Ain't Happening
I've yet to step foot into the Natural Grocers that recently opened in a smallish section of the old Preston Forest Whole Foods, but my wife has and says it's "a cross between Sprouts and Roy's." As in: There's very little produce, all the meats are frozen, and there are plenty o' vitamins amongs ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
Scenes from the Veterans Day Parade
Photos by Danny FulgencioOur own Danny Fulgencio was downtown this afternoon for the Veterans Day parade. He sends back these images, with more to come in a slide show shortly. In the meantime, may I also recommend this touching tribute by good friend of the show Bill Holston that appeared in thi ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Unfair Park Guest Column: Dallas Attorney On Why, and How, You Should Judge the Judges
The Friends of Unfair Park are no doubt familiar with the fine work of Bill Holston, noted human-rights attorney, KERA-FM commentator, occasional Morning News op-ed'er and Unfair Park commenter. (He's also joining Angela Hunt, Rawlins Gilliland and Shibboleth at the Dallas Rally for Sanity at Lee ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
An Observer Photographer Discovers a "Wasteland" of Trash Along White Rock Creek
Photos by Dylan HollingsworthObserver contributor Dylan Hollingsworth was out at White Rock Creek yesterday shooting his nieces Autumn Hollingsworth and Chassidy Levassuer when he came across this -- "a wasteland of debris," as he put it when we spoke this afternoon. This is the spot: Goforth Roa ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
A Map of Downtown's Treasures (With Audio)
For those who missed it: Yesterday, in the comments of the Downtown Dallas 360 update, Brother Bill Holston wondered if there was a "walking tour" brochure for those interested in touring downtown architecture. A little later in the day, Business Council for the Arts's CEO Katherine Wagner chimed ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Oh, OK. You Say You Want a Guide to Downtown's Buildings? Well, Then.
This guide to downtown may be a little out of date, but it's certainly the right price.OK, so by now we're all clear on one thing: The Business Council for the Arts' downloadable downtown tour was always intended to be focused on one thing and one thing only: public art. That, says Greg Brown, pr ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
News & Notes: Immigration Reform, César Chávez, Garland Road & Gay Jesus
Some news and notes on this light-commenting Thursday:Domingo Garcia's got himself a whole new immigration-reform MegaMarch to promote -- this one, a May 1 parade that'll start at the Santuario de Guadalupe on Ross Ave. and end at Dallas City Hall. Says Garcia on the Web site, "Our immigrant comm ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Wherein One Friend of Unfair Park Engages in a Little Local Hero Worship
Erica FelicellaBill HolstonWhen last we linked to one of Brother Bill Holston's KERA-FM essays, he was giving gratitude for the things he takes for granted in the days before Thanksgiving. This morning, the attorney and good Friend of Unfair Park is honoring his heroes, among them two familiar na ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
H to the Drizin, or: "Why Is Our Menorah So Tiny and the Christmas Tree So Big?"
For reasons still not entirely clear to me, Bill Holston was scouring the Web for instructions on how to tie tefillin when he came across the video below, in which Zvi Drizin of The Intown Chabad on Routh Street wanders the West Village for 40 days and 40 nights (no, that's not right) in search of t ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
Wherein One Friend of Unfair Park Lists All the Things for Which He's Thankful
Bill HolstonAttorney William O. Holston Jr.'s a good Friend of Unfair Park and a very good guy who does considerable pro bono work representing political and religious asylum applicants to this country, much of it through the Human Rights Initiative. I bring it up this morning because Brother Bil ... More >>
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July 23, 2009
Damn Good Joes | Mule-Headed
Bill HolstonAttorney William O. Holston Jr.'s a good Friend of Unfair Park and a very good guy who does considerable pro bono work representing political and religious asylum applicants to this country, much of it through the Human Rights Initiative. I bring it up this morning because Brother Bil ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
The Trinity River, 1908
Henry ClogensonA Friend of Unfair Park this morning was browsing the Library of Congress's archives and came across this Henry Clogenson photo of the Trinity River in 1908 -- "the flood of record," as Schutze describes it. So happens Jim has been making open records demands from the U.S. Army Corps ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
Schutze Shirts: A Contest in the Making
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>
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July 13, 2007
Where There's a Will, There's a Way to Scare Your Old Man Half to Death
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>
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March 22, 2007
Black Dallas' Powerbroker | Toadies Mayhem | Diamonds Forever | Immigration Woes | The Bearded One
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>
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September 7, 2006
Bridge to Nowhere | Play It Again, Sam
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>
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July 13, 2006
Re: Dallas is Anti-Pro Bono
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>
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July 11, 2006
Re: Dallas is Anti-Pro Bono
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>
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May 4, 2006
Out, Damned Blob! |Kindly Caron| Voice of the Heathen| Illegal, Illegal, Illegal
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>
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April 21, 2006
Re: Radio Silence
Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>

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