Hurricane Katrina

Arlington Pastor Hates Gays and Mormons

First Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress gets most of the press for his outspoken views on homosexuality and Mormonism, but over at the Dallas Voice, John Wright highlights the, um, retrograde views of another prominent local preacher, Dwight McKissic of Arlington's Cornerstone Baptist Church. McKissic ... More >>

Between the Lines in Corps' Trinity River Enviromental Assessment: Don't Blame Us

​Buried between the lines in a 246-page document released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today is a significant national story about the future of flood control in American cities. I doubt very many reporters will dig it out. I'll give you the thumbnail sketch. You may wish I had kept my ... More >>

Q & A: Tab Benoit: "There Are Other Things That I Pay Attention to Besides Just Playing the Guitar."

Guitarist/singer-songwriter Tab Benoit is Cajun to the bone. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but raised in the small town of Houma, Benoit was brought up on a steady diet of Hank Williams, George Jones, B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. It's no wonder that Benoit's songs echo the influences of classic ... More >>

Before We Fight the Power, First Let's Take on the Anti-Government Idiots

​I have a column in the paper this week about the Trinity River levees, and I had a please-respect-my-lawn thing here yesterday about plastic bottles and White Rock Creek. Even I didn't get the connection between the two before the comments started rolling in from the idiot, free-market, libe ... More >>

Drowning in Lies About the Levees

Corps of Engineers documents contradict city's claims that everything's hunky-dory with plans to fix Trinity levees.

Insuring the Insurers: What Something Called "Faktor K" Could Mean for Big D

​Writer and radio journalist Julia Barton, a regular reader of Unfair Park, tipped me today to a really fascinating piece published September 1 by BusinessWeek, called "The God Clause and the Reinsurance Industry." It's about an arcane industry located in cities far from Dallas, but Barton spied t ... More >>

Documentary About New Orleans' Killer Floods Draws Uneasy Parallels to Dallas.

Dallas Interfaith Holds the Mother of All Church Potlucks

​According to Dallas Area Interfaith's website, the nonprofit's lobbied for more police officers, organized immigration reform marches and helped house evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. But the network of more than 60 faith institutions -- many of which hold regular socials and suppers -- has n ... More >>

Wired into New Orleans

David Simon’s new HBO series uses fiction to honor The Crescent City’s surreal, heart-breaking reality

Fido Vs. The Flood

Naughty Aughties

Wednesday's Unverified Fact About New Orleans

​The 'Boys travel to the French Quarter's suburbs on Saturday night. Another "fact" about the "who dat" town...While preparing the frying pan after a successful day of fishing in Katrina's floodwaters, George W. Bush cut open a fish and found old rings inscribed "Most Valuable Saint."**Source: An ... More >>

Why the Trinity River Project Could Be a Windfall for the Lawyer Who Sues the Army Corps of Engineers

What Does Judge's Ruling Against Corps in New Orleans Mean For the Trinity Project?

​I am still trying to absorb the 189-page ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Stanwood J. Duval yesterday in the Corps of Engineers Katrina lawsuit in New Orleans, but an early read of it produces this clear and overwhelming impression: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just took one big and bad as ... More >>

The Easy Answer to the Trinity River's Levee Problems? Just Blame Katrina.

Sam MertenKevin Craig of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wasn't given a chance to speak when Mayor Leppert and other politicos announced a two-year, $29 million levee study.After Mayor Tom Leppert announced the need to pony up $29 million to study Dallas's levees resulting from "unacceptable" ratings ... More >>

Getting to No | Eat Less Live Longer

Corps Values: Tom Leppert and Mary Suhm Aren't In D.C. To Talk About Flood Control

An illustration from the Trinity Parkway Design Criteria ManualYou know what I love? When people live up to their own stereotypes.My column this week in the paper version of Unfair Park is about signs that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may have grown a backbone in the matter of resisting politica ... More >>

Prediction for 2009: Trinity Toll Road Finally Crashes and Burns for Good

Here's hoping that the next year brings us a big, stinking failure on the Trinity

Kids' Katrina Documentary to Open the Texas Black Film Festival This Week

Put Out

If Dallas doesn't give the boys their road, they want the jewelry back

You Can't Go Home Again

Fear and Self-Loathing at The News

Singing Samaritan

A Flood of Questions

When the Levee Breaks|God's Gyroplane|White Mavs Can't Jump

The Blame Game

Go With Your Gut

Do you really see a freeway somewhere out in that flood?

Moving Pictures

AFI offers the usual slew of sympathetic losers, but a good measure of Zooey

Hunt for Truth

Council member Angela Hunt rips open the Trinity project

No Room at the Inn (Well, Apartment Complex, But, You Know)

A True Horror Classic

Washed Away

Hear the true tales of Katrina

More Bad Medicine

When Evacuees Become Residents, Part 3

When Evacuees Become Residents, Part 2

Millions for Thousands

When Evacuees Become Residents

Bad Medicine

Here She Comes to Save the Day

Why Houston Hates Dallas

Help Wanted

Katrina: Bad for People, Good for Business

Fully Preserved

This jazz band retains the spirit of New Orleans

Laissez les bon temps rouler

Buzz looks for love in all the wrong places

Long Road Home

Hot Links

Hit the mini-greens downtown

Back From the Dead

Rigor Mortis were once "Condemned to Hell"--and irrelevance--but the Dallas metal legends have risen

Deep Easy

N'awlins reborn in Deep Ellum

Edge of Relief

Clear Channel wins our good graces (for once) by spearheading local hurricane relief efforts

Dang, some good news

Generosity warms Buzz's cold heart