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March 28, 2012
Class Wafare? Fine, Let's Get This Party Started.
The Republican presidential candidates all agree on one thing -- the same mantra between all their lines. They all want us to believe that the extreme polarity of rich and poor in this country is an expression of natural law. The super-rich just have to get super-richer. Everybody else, sadly, must ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2012
It's True, Dogs and Their Owners Do Become Alike. Mine Bites.
Not much sleep last night. Wide awake at 4 a.m., hiding beneath the sheets. A pretty sad state of affairs when a fellow of my years has to hide under his own bedding to avoid being bitten in the face by a dog. But there you have it. Rescue dogs. Two of them. It's how my wife and I handle things. I ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2011
Won't You Be My Neighbor, Goodfriend?
Sara KerensWhen is a burger joint more than a burger joint? When it's a damn good bar, too. While burger restaurants have been popping up around town like meth labs in East Texas, many aren't the type of place you can put in a solid session on a bar stool. Not so at Goodfriend, the new beer ... More >>
News
November 17, 2011
Postcard from Texas Meth Country
In one East Texas town, a new brand of meth lab has business -- and the occasional house -- booming.
Blogs
October 31, 2011
In the Midst of Historic Drought, Council to Look at Dallas's Long-Range Water Supply Plan
The plan to siphon off the water from Lake Palestine, which is just southwest of Tyler, has been around for close to four decades; in '72 Dallas acquired the contractual rights to the lake, at a rate of 102 million of gallons of per day. In 2007, the city council was reminded: Dallas had "The Lak ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Looking for Good Texas Peach Amid the Drought? Try a Pizzeria.
Lauren Drewes DanielsReplacement peaches. A few summers back when I was a punk-ass kid, a few friends and I were driving from Germany to Switzerland. The trip itself was an utter fiasco, but one highlight was stopping at a store and finding some peaches for sale. True to our arrogant form, ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
Dithering Inside an Addison Dealmaking Expo For Oilmen, Where It's a Shale of a Good Time
Haven't you heard? There's gas in them thar shale formations. And if the parking lot outside of the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison was any indication this morning, a goodly number of the players are in town, looking to make fat deals. You could tell because parking was spilling out into th ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2011
DART, East Texas Transit Officials Sign Letter They Hope Leads to Light-Rail Love Affair
DART chair Bill Velasco, left, and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority's Jeff Austin III look at the line that could one day connect their parts of the great state.Ever wished you could take Dallas Area Rapid Transit to ... oh ... let's say Tyler? Or Canton? Or Shreveport, even? Because ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
New Study From Gas Drilling Activists Gathers Decade of Industrial Woes in the Barnett Shale
Natural gas activist and blogger Sharon Wilson was among the environmentalists out at Earth Day last weekend -- not far from the EPA's six-foot cardboard Al Armendariz -- and she was passing out copies of a new report she'd helped produce on gas drilling in the Barnett Shale. Produced by the Fort ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Dude Food Has Beer For Breakfast
Noah W. BaileyBeats your hippie bowl of Kashi, huh?Barbec's8949 Garland Road214-321-5597Dude Factor: 10, or The Hangover, on a scale of 1 (Very Bad Things) to 10. A good friend of mine describes Barbec's as "where East Dallas meets East Texas." Walk in any morning and you'll see what he mea ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Restaurant Ava's Southern Brunch Done Way, Way Right
Walking into the crisp, white linen-and-dark wood decor of Rockwall's Restaurant Ava on Sunday morning was a welcome change from my weekend of fireside beer-swilling in East Texas. It's not that campfire kebabs and Jiffy Pop don't make for a great meal, but it's nice to go from one extreme to the ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Drip By Last Drop, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Goes With the Flow
Ron Jackson/Texas FreewayThe Neches River BridgeIn April 2009, I wrote about the court battle between the city of Dallas and people in East Texas over a proposed dam and reservoir on the Neches River. The East Texas people won that one, successfully persuading a judge to kill the planned reservoi ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Craft's Jeff Harris: A Chef you Can Bank On
Photos by Robert BostickCraft's Jeff Harris(This is the first part of a three-part look at Jeff Harris, executive chef at Craft. Tune in tomorrow for a Q&A with Harris and Friday as he demonstrates how to prepare one of the restaurant's dishes.) Jeff Harris was raised in a small town in East ... More >>
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August 22, 2010
Paranormal Investigators Descend Upon Jefferson In Search Of Answers
Members of the Upshur Paranormal Society and Southern Paranormal Investigators in their command room last night at the Pride House."I got a hit on the K2!"Heard a fair bit of that last night at the Pride House Bed and Breakfast out in Jefferson. Get a big enough hit on your K2, and you might feel ... More >>
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July 6, 2010
An Uncertain Victory at Bread Winner's Holiday Brunch
http://www.flickr.com/photos/breadwinnerscafe/Oh, delicious Breadwinners pile of upscale, Uptown foodie goodness.Having gotten most of my holiday-related drinking done at an East Texas lake between Friday night and Sunday afternoon, I awoke Monday morning refreshed and ready to eat something that ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Georgia's Farmers Market: Worth the Drive to Collagen Country
Georgia's Farmers Market 916 E. 15th St., Plano 972-516-4765 Try: East Texas peaches Don't try: apple cobbler in a jar When I heard there was a farmers market in Plano, I was like, "Oh, you mean Sprouts?" And Plano looked at me all shocked (because her botox-ed face is stuck that way) and ... More >>
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April 23, 2009
Get lost with Jim Schutze while canoeing the Neches River and find the wildlife refuge Dallas wants to dam to secure its water supply
Georgia's Farmers Market 916 E. 15th St., Plano 972-516-4765 Try: East Texas peaches Don't try: apple cobbler in a jar When I heard there was a farmers market in Plano, I was like, "Oh, you mean Sprouts?" And Plano looked at me all shocked (because her botox-ed face is stuck that way) and ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2009
Watch Your Step, East Texas
Winona's about an hour and a half east of Dallas on a good day -- just out I-20, little north of Tyler. Out thataways you'll find what remains of Camp Fannin, so named for James Walker Fannin and, from 1943 till '46, an Army infantry training center. Ever since then, it's been privately owned land - ... More >>
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February 3, 2009
Texas Rangers Swear the New FM Broadcast Won't Leave Outlying Areas Without Their Ball
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked why the Rangers would broadcast a majority of their games on The Fan, when KRLD-AM has such a mammoth signal, especially at night. Which is why I called John Blake, the team's recently returned exec vice president of communications, to discuss the decision b ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2009
At 94, Trammell Crow Has Died
Anne Raymond at Crow Holdings tells Unfair Park this morning that Trammell Crow died last night in his sleep at the age of 94. She says the real estate developer -- a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School who wound up owning and developing much of his native Dallas -- had not been ill and that he " ... More >>
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January 7, 2009
As Attorneys Argue Over Neches River's Future, Some Suggested Reading About Its Storied Past
In our editorial meeting this morning, Schutze offered a book report concerning his holiday reading: Paddling the Wild Neches by Richard Donovan, which was published by the Texas A&M University Press in May 2006. Says Jim about the book documenting one man's canoe trip through East Texas, it's e ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2009
Some Appealing Morning Items
See what I did there? "Appealing"? As in, the City of Dallas, still trying to get its hands on the Neches River water, is sending attorneys to New Orleans this week -- luckies. Specifically, the barristers will be setting up shop in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (there ya go), where, at 9 a.m, ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2008
The Mess With Texas
See what I did there? "Appealing"? As in, the City of Dallas, still trying to get its hands on the Neches River water, is sending attorneys to New Orleans this week -- luckies. Specifically, the barristers will be setting up shop in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (there ya go), where, at 9 a.m, ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2007
That's Nacho River. Get It? C'mon, People.
See what I did there? "Appealing"? As in, the City of Dallas, still trying to get its hands on the Neches River water, is sending attorneys to New Orleans this week -- luckies. Specifically, the barristers will be setting up shop in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (there ya go), where, at 9 a.m, ... More >>
Calendar
January 11, 2007
Strange Fruit
See the faces of Winona at the MAC
Calendar
December 28, 2006
Scoring Texas
The Gourds are back in town
Blogs
December 21, 2006
Bible Girl: The Merry Christmas Edition
The Gourds are back in town
Music
November 9, 2006
Dierks Bentley/Miranda Lambert
Friday, November 10, at American Airlines Center
Blogs
April 28, 2006
Running Scared
Friday, November 10, at American Airlines Center
Music
April 13, 2006
Lee Ann Womack
Saturday, April 15, at Lone Star Park
Music
February 16, 2006
The Gourds
Heavy Ornamentals (Eleven Thirty)
Calendar
February 2, 2006
Tinseltown Treasures
Tyler's reels get special screenings
Music
July 28, 2005
Susan Gibson, Adam Carroll
Friday, July 29, at The Horseman Club
Music
January 27, 2005
Maltoro, Spitfire Tumbleweeds
Friday, January 21, at Double Wide
Calendar
February 5, 2004
Type Cast
Texas authors talk about their state and the arts
Calendar
January 8, 2004
Horsin' Around
A Fort Worth museum is offering tickets to ride
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Best Place to See Old-School High School Football
Seagoville High School, Seagoville Stadium
News
February 21, 2002
"Today, a Generation Died."
Revisiting the story of the 1937 New London gas explosion--the worst tragedy involving schoolchildren in American history
News
December 27, 2001
Down by the Old Mill
A band of East Texas environmentalists takes on a polluting paper plant and proves that might doesn't always make right, even in a company town
News
June 14, 2001
Poe Boy
East Texas author Joe Lansdale rises to the top of a bloody literary heap
News
February 8, 2001
Letters to the Editor
From the week of February 8
Calendar
November 30, 2000
Webb Sights
Make a new holiday tradition
Best of Dallas
September 21, 2000
Best neighborhood
Little Forest Hills
Best of Dallas
September 21, 2000
Best produce (tie)
Farmers Market & Groceryworks.com
News
April 20, 2000
Belly up
Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So des the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.
News
November 19, 1998
The biggest pump wins
Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumping water nearby. Under the state's "rule of capture," he has no right to complain.
Music
November 21, 1996
Out Here
Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumping water nearby. Under the state's "rule of capture," he has no right to complain.
News
August 1, 1996
Trail of Tears
Ruth Smith set out to enshrine a Cherokee battleground and started a war of her own
News
February 22, 1996
Bo? Hell no!
Chicken king Bo Pilgrim wants to bring a new plant and new jobs to East Texas. But East Texans say they want no more of his filthy business.
Dining
April 27, 1995
Hot Dish
Chicken king Bo Pilgrim wants to bring a new plant and new jobs to East Texas. But East Texans say they want no more of his filthy business.
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