Denton County

For Now, UNT's Willis Library Accepting Food Donations in Lieu of Some Overdue Book Fines

I'm writing a monstrous, toothless, heavy-breathing, drooling, hairy beast of a paper this year. And by "this year," I of course mean "for the rest of my life." It's called a thesis; I call it the reason Pfizer is having a good year. In order to bestow upon the research community a contribution that ... More >>

Denton Musician Richard Haskins Attempted to Rob a Bank. He Was Also My Friend.

On December 7, in the diminishing dusk light of the parking lot across the street from Wells Fargo on University Drive in Denton, Richard Haskins sat alone in a red, 1984 four-door Mercedes. Wearing a black Misfits t-shirt, khaki cargo shorts and a pair of low-top black Converse, he looked at the ba ... More >>

Here's a Photo From When Central Expressway Was a Muddy Ditch

Say what you will about the highway-building mania of the mid-20th century. It led to an unsustainable car-dependent culture, choked off the city center and divided or destroyed neighborhoods. I seriously doubt, for example, that the shacks above were inhabited by well-heeled white people. But these ... More >>

Denton County DA Fires Four After Deputy Wins Racial Discrimination

In April 2009, assistant Denton County District Attorney Cary Piel walked into the office of his colleague, assistant DA Nadiya Williams-Boldware, to discuss a case he was preparing for trial. He had just watched video of the crime that showed a black woman drive drunkenly through a cemetery, then f ... More >>

Quite the Price Drop As $46-Mil Denton County Manse Hits Auction Block at $10.3 Mil Reserved

​We virtually toured the splendor that is the 48,000-square-foot Champ d'Or up in Denton County in August 2010, when the asking price was, oh, $70 million, give or take -- not quite The Nice Price. But it didn't sell -- shocking -- not even when the price tag dropped to half that, which is why Con ... More >>

Randy Travis Takes a Pretty Decent Mugshot

Denton County Sheriff's Department​An old Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to, of all things, TMZ, which says Randy Travis was "arrested in Dallas this morning" for drinkin' some wine in front of the First Baptist Church in Sanger ... which is in Denton County. But, sure enough, there i ... More >>

Man With The $16 House Faces Eviction, But Says, "It's Not Over Till It's Over"

Surely you recall for the tale of The Man With the $16 House, a September cover story about Kenneth Robinson, who occupied a $340,000 Flower Mound home for the cost of filing paperwork with Denton County. Now, Robinson faces eviction from the place that's been his home since June, according to WFAA ... More >>

Will Seth Winder Ever Stand Trial (Again) For Allegedly Killing, Dismembering Dallas Man?

Denton County Judge Bruce McFarling declared a mistrial Friday when it was found that Seth Winder of The Colony -- who is accused of allegedly murdering and dismembering his lover in the man's Far North Dallas apartment -- hadn't been taking and/or receiving his meds. In fact, defense attorney Derek ... More >>

Breaking: Mistrial Just Declared in Trial of Colony Man Accused of Murdering His Lover

Richard Hernandez​His family, defense attorneys -- even the bailiffs and the transport drivers -- noticed something was different about Seth Winder, who is standing trial in a Denton County court for allegedly murdering his 38-year-old lover Richard Hernandez in 2008, dismembering his body and ... More >>

More Trouble in Denton County Proper: Here We Go Magic, Eleanor Friedberger Shows Canceled

Here We Go Magic won't be performing in Denton this weekend.​It looks like the trouble with Matthew Gray's Denton County Proper that we mentioned just days ago was only the beginning. It seems that Gray, the lead singer of the critically acclaimed Denton band, Matthew And The Arrogant Sea, and the ... More >>

Denton County Problems: NYE Show with Health, John Maus is 86'd as Accusations Fly

Denton! Denton! USA!​That exciting triple-bill we announced back in September featuring Health, John Maus and Quintron & Miss Pussycat and slated to come to Denton's The Warehouse on New Year's Eve will now be a decidedly less exciting affair. Mostly because it won't be happening. The show, pr ... More >>

At Long Last, Texas International Pop Festival In Lewisville to Receive a State Historical Marker

The scene in Lewisville during Labor Day weekend 1969​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park are by now well aware of my lifetime obsession with the Texas International Pop Festival, held during Labor Day weekend in 1969 in a Lewisville field. The roster, put together by, among others, Angus Wynne, was l ... More >>

Health and John Maus to Share New Year's Eve Bill at New Denton Space The Warehouse

Speaking of interesting show announcements, New Year's Eve just got even more exciting: Almost two weeks after the folks behind Lights All Night announced the beyond-insane bill for their sure-to-be-extravagant two-night affair at the Dallas Convention Center on December 30 and December 31, the Dent ... More >>

Oates, Here We Go Magic To Play Upcoming, Three-Day United Way Benefit in Denton

Juan PatinoJohn Oates​I just spent way too much time scouring the Internet for a clip of the classic 1999 Saturday Night Live send-up of Behind The Music where Chris Kattan, playing John Oates, riffs on the fact that, yes, it was very much his idea to add in the handclap parts to Hall & Oates' ... More >>

Puppy-Dog Grins, Chest-High Water and a New Perspective at This Weekend's Jailbreak Race

Photos by Man O'The HourHordes this size and larger took off to run the Jailbreak every half hour for two long days this weekend.​The thing that people like me -- people who hate running -- say about running is that they don't do it unless they're being chased. But I'm not even sure that being cha ... More >>

For $70 Million, Damn Right I'd Better Get My Own Bowling Alley, "a Theatre Reminiscent of Old New York" and a Two-Story Closet

​I've heard plenty about Champ d'Or over the years -- you know, that "mixed-use estate" perched on 256 "developable acres" out in Hickory Creek (that's Denton County). But I've only seen one or two exterior photos of the joint, currently on the market for $69.9 million -- a steal, man. Thankfully, ... More >>

Carrollton-Based Christian P.R. Firm Sues Carrie Prejean in Denton County Court

​Dunno how we missed this one, but on Friday, Courthouse News posted a lawsuit filed in Denton County District Court on March 18, in which A. Larry Ross Communications alleges that the Miss USA 2009 first runner-up didn't pay up after the P.R. firm guided her through that rough patch following her ... More >>

Sean Salisbury Update: Game On!

​Say what you will about former ESPN analyst and 105.3 The Fan host Sean Salisbury - and Deadspin says a lot - the guy has followed through on his promise to take on a blogdom giant in an attempt to clear his name and clean his reputation. According to the Frisco Enterprise, Salisbury - who d ... More >>

In the USA Today Today, a Tale of Two Cities: Oak Point and Farmers Branch

Illustration by Craig LaRotondaThis morning's USA Today visits cities "revisiting immigration laws" for various reasons: exorbitant legal bills, the high price of implementation measures and "the barrage of publicity and accusations of racism that come with such laws." Up in Denton County, Oak Point ... More >>

License to Drive? Not So Fast, Even If You're a Legal Immigrant With a Valid Work Visa.

A lawsuit filed in Austin on Wednesday has found its way to the Courthouse News Service: Miguel Salazar and Edgar Soria, both of whom live in Dallas County, and Avila Trejo, currently a resident of Denton County, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety because it refuses to issue them a driv ... More >>

A Bad Memory and Lead Foot Leads to a Night in Jail

Holidays are a great time to wind up behind bars

Good Lord, If We Sued Every Time Someone Called Us That ...

Denton Director on the Tragic Mystery Behind "Goatman's Bridge"

Good Friday: Bleach Boys, Eleven Hundred Springs, Shiny Around the Edges

No Getting Freaky at Argyle High School

Ghost Mice, The Dauntless Elite, Off Shore Radio, Can Kickers, Denton County Revelators

Friday, November 9, at 1919 Hemphill, Fort Worth

Up in Denton County, Another Fight Over a Road Project

More on Hate Crime Trial in Denton

Gay Friendly Denton?

Denton, Perhaps Not So "Gay-Friendly"?

Borat Goes to "Denton"

Hot Air

Best Makeover

Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

Neener, Neener, Neener

Texas Supreme Court sides with satire and the Dallas Observer

Fools

Denton's new zoo is right next to some ocean-front property in Arizona

Letters

Letters from the issue of April 3

Greasing the Wheels

How Texas Motor Speedway got Denton County to pay for a freeway exit to nowhere—except, that is, to the speedway

Best Wine/Liquor Store

Goody Goody Liquor

Get Offa Our Cloud

The DMN dips its toes in the waters of "private pleasures" advertising

Inhale With Hale

Itinerant pro-pot candidate Steven Hale is down again, but not out

Road Warrior

Texas Motor Speedway needed property to build a road. Someone forgot to tell the landowner.

Road Rage

Homeowners in a Denton County neighborhood wage battle against "taxation without representation"

Best sports venue

SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium

The Untouchable

Complaints of racism, dirty politics, and other fishy business simply roll off Denton County's Teflon sheriff, Weldon Lucas

A clockwork Buzz

1999, the year Bill Rojas brought panic and paranoia to DISD. But was there any other good news? Buzz takes a look back.

Horror story

Thirteen-year-old Chris Beamon ended up in jail because of a homework assignment. Now the adults who put him there are trying to get their stories straight.

Buzz

Get a grip

Stop the madness

Ponder officials jail second student; first-grader's report on Where the Wild Things Are deemed too violent

Voted out

Denton Republicans oust former Dallas election manager

Unruly student

TWU student fights to keep regents meetings open