Euless

The Feds are Suing a Euless Apartment Complex for Refusing to House 'Curry People'

By most measures, the Stone Bridge at Bear Creek in Euless is a typical mid-priced suburban apartment complex. There's covered parking and a couple of swimming pools. What little green space there is is well-manicured. The building facades are done in a bland but tasteful red brick. To spot the dif ... More >>

The North Texas Tea Party Says Voting Machines Are Stealing Republican Votes

There's been a lot of talk this election season about the specter of voter fraud, the idea that the polls will be flooded by illegal immigrants, household pets and dead people (all left-leaning constituencies), thereby cheapening real Americans' votes. There has been relatively little concern expres ... More >>

If You Illegally Downloaded the Girl-on-Girl Porn Flick 'Mommy and Me 2,' (You Know Who You Are), the Production Company is Coming For You

You know Combat Zone Corp. as the illustrious production company that brought you such unforgettable cinematic experiences as Bareback Mount Him, These Feet Were Made For Fucking and Chow My Puntang" All of them are motion pictures of the first order, I assure you, but all is not well in the company ... More >>

This Week's Best Food Deals, Starring Luxury, Nostalgia and a Lot of Tiny Cupcakes

Foodbitch's inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week's foodfull best. TravelZoo: $79 for dinner for two at The Crescent Club I've been to The Crescent Club for a charity event, and let me just say it's a seriously fine dining expe ... More >>

The Patty Shack Takes It Slow But is Worth the Wait

​In a fuzzy confusion of city limit lines, Patty Shack Burgers sits at 510 East Avenue K, just off Hwy 360 in either Euless, Grand Prairie or Arlington. It depends on which site you look at. Tucked away in an obscure strip of stores behind an old restaurant, it's not a place one stumbles upon, ... More >>

NFL Films, Snickers Get Leon Lett to Seek "Redemption" For '93 Thanksgiving Eff-Up

​No doubt you recall where you were at the exact moment Leon Lett cost the Dallas Cowboys a Thanksgiving Day victory over the Miami Dolphins in 1993. Me? I was icebound in Farmersville, cooped up with out-of-town family convinced it would be just fine to drive up to Collin County during a sleetsto ... More >>

Party Like It's 1979 as Robison, Pastors Help Their "Prayer Partner" Perry Run for President

The in-box is filled this morning with more news concerning Rick Perry's "day of prayer and fasting" in Houston next month -- you know, The Response. Let's begin with this: Several Friends of Unfair Park have forward a piece I first saw this morning on Startlegram great Bud Kennedy's Facebook feed: ... More >>

It's a diary of a mad year as Buzz recalls a P.O.'d 2010.

State Department Thinks Ex-Mustang, Cowboys Cheerleader Sarah Shahi Is Worth a Profile

​I was watching Ocean's Thirteen on USA last night -- couldn't sleep, thought that would do it, didn't, don't judge -- and was inundated with promos for a new series called Fairly Legal, about a mediator at an IKEA store who likes to strip down to her underwear, though I could have that wrong. I t ... More >>

A Look at the Latest Proposed Legislation Calling for Statewide Sobriety Checkpoints

National Lampoon​As The American Independent reminds this morning, there have been myriad bills proposed in the Texas Legislature in recent years that would allow for the creation of so-called sobriety checkpoints. And last year's S.B. 298 -- submitted by state Sen. John Corona and co-authored by, ... More >>

Lettuce Wrap Up: Puck Wolfgang! and Frozen Ghost Vodka

The Fair's left us...​As the State Fair roller coaster eases back into the station, the setting sun is casting a clichéd orange glow and Dallas bloggers are beginning to reminisce about what they wish they'd seen. Five Sixty initially wanted to see a gaggle of veterans in pressed khakis and past ... More >>

If Nothing Else, We Learn That In a Fight Over a Goat Sacrifice, the Goat Always Loses

Brandon ThibodeauxJose Merced​The sleepy suburb of Euless seems an odd spot for a battle over goat sacrifice. Perhaps that's what first attracted us to the story of Jose Merced, a commercial flight attendant who also happens to be a high priest in the Afro-Cuban religion called Santería, in which ... More >>

Inside a Santeria Feast Day

Kimberly ThorpeA suburban Dallas Santeria feast ceremony​Santeria is a religion practiced by one to five million people in the United States; still, because of its clandestine nature, estimates of practitioners of the Afro-Cuban religion vary widely. Some Euless residents were shocked to learn tha ... More >>

A court case forced a Santeria priest to reveal some of his religion’s secrets. Its ritual of animal sacrifice, he revealed on his own.

Don't Forget to Watch Our Video of U.S.A. Memory Champ Ron White in Action

The paper version of Unfair Park this week features the story of Ron White, the 2009 U.S.A. Memory Champion, who lives in Euless.To help document his quest to prove that everyone -- even a college dropout -- can not only accomplish daunting mental feats but literally do anything they put their mind ... More >>

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

Holidays are a great time to wind up behind bars

MTV, Now Officially the Worst Network in the History of Television

In late October, a woman named Kandice Hutchison was killed in a car crash on W. Airport Freeway in Euless, when her 2004 Nissan 350Z hit a center median, flipped onto the concrete barrier "and slid along the top of it until the car slammed into a bridge support and caught on fire," reported yesterd ... More >>

Podesta's Peeps Suggest Ways to Fix Dallas's "Dangerous Chemical Facilities"

The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>

Like an Episode of Dragnet

The Times, Trinity High and Tonga

McKinney: Now, The 14th-Best Small City in the Whole U.S.A. in Which to Live

Duck For Cover

Wrestling With Bad News: WCCW's Legendary Gary Hart Died Yesterday

You Betcha: Week 14

NPR Has the Bump Keys to Your Heart

All the Right Moves

Save the bump and grind for strippers. Let's do some dancing.

Black Good Friday

Hell's in Lakewood

The Creepy Crawlies | Getting Some | A Holler for Harwood

Unholy Hip-hop | Gay Cowboys | Tears for Katrina | Suckered

Bubble-icious

Plus: A Better Jukebox

A Better Jukebox

Feeling like only one local band of the week is paltry? Try four instead.

Hot Air

Thanks for the Mammary

Plano group wants FCC to get a handle on breasts

Come Together

Local bands unite!

Real World

Kids look back in danger

Best Public Golf Course

Texas Star

Toxic Filmmaking

Troma's bossman to take over town; hide your children

Letters

Letters from the issue of April 10, 2003

Best barbecue restaurant

North Main Bar-B-Q

Suze cruze

He finally did it

Power play

Coaches and parents in the area's elite youth hockey league say the Dallas Stars are trying to ice anyone who threatens their control of the kid hockey business

Cola kids

Public school students become a captive audience for corporate advertisers

Hash Over

Nostalgic picnic

Hash Over

Dallas Confidential

The Texas Troubadour's Fatal Rendezvous and other amazing stories from the police department's cold case squad

Gone are the days

Dead on top of your toilet

Buzz

Letters