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Dallas PD Honors Its Fallen on Facebook with Reminders of the City's Dangerous Past

Yesterday, the Dallas Police Department has blanketed its Facebook page with a portrait and brief biography of every officer killed in the line of duty over the past 121 years. The procession of 80 mostly young faces is a somber reminder of how dangerous a job policing is. A handful of the names ar ... More >>

From West to Boston to China: Terrible Things Happen. You Have Two Weeks to Get Over It.

Just so people won't get caught unaware, I want to point out that the town of West has until a week from tomorrow to grieve. That will be two weeks from the time of the industrial accident that blew up their town, took the lives of loved ones and left behind a legacy of bloody suffering and agonizin ... More >>

Your Stool-Stealing, Machete-Wielding St. Paddy's Day Weekend Crime Roundup

This crowd during this weekend's St. Patrick's Day festivities was relatively well-behaved, as far as these things go. Sure, there were three dozen public intoxication arrests and one DWI, but by far the most common offense was a simple parking violation, of which police issued 243. Not a bad outcom ... More >>

Colorado Shooting Shows Again How the NRA Plays us for Patsies

You're kidding me, right? We just sit here like patsies and let the gun nuts tell us we're not allowed to protect ourselves from the next James Holmes? We know there will be a next one, because we know there was a Jared Lee Loughner,  a George "Jo Jo" Pierre Hennard, a Mark David Chapman, a John W ... More >>

Robert Groden: The Plaza Man

In this week's Dallas Observer, we profile 30 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here On November 22, 1963, the day President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza, R ... More >>

We're About to Find Out How Much Someone Will Pay for JFK's Ride Back to Love Field

​This is the week Barrett-Jackson auctions off the 1964 Cadillac Hearse that transported President John Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field. Me, I've got my eye on this sweet '75 Pacer. But the rest of the car world -- or, at least, the 1,200, give or take, who make up the Profes ... More >>

This Year's Unfair Park Auction: The Ultimate GIft Package From the Texas Theatre

Photo by Barak Epstein​We began this holiday tradition three years ago: auctioning off a hard-to-get-hold-of local trinket, with every last cent made going toward the North Texas Food Bank. This year's offering is a particularly special one -- a collection of offerings from the Texas Theatre, grac ... More >>

On Nov. 22, "JFK Day" at the Texas Theatre, Starring Van Heflin and Naughty Dallas

​What you see above is the ad for the Texas Theatre that appeared in the newspaper on November 22, 1963. But for some, that photo taken of the marquee on that day is burned on the brain; no need to consult the listings to know War is Hell and Cry of Battle were playing when police arrested Lee Har ... More >>

From the '36 Centennial Expo to the JFK Assassination to the SMU Death Penalty, Hundreds of Short Moments and Memories

​Below, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK was wondering in the comments what newsreel footage of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition looked like. So he set off in search of some. And what he came back with last night was an extraordinary find -- a 42-clip collection consisting not only of short glimps ... More >>

Harry Shearer Swings By the Texas Theatre

​If you'd driven by the Texas Theatre oh, 'bout an hour ago, you'd have seen this scene -- the great Harry Shearer standing out on W. Jefferson, bracketed by Jason Reimer on the left and Barak Epstein. Random, right? Not really: Shearer was at The Thin Line Film Fest in Denton last night for a rar ... More >>

Even for Ex-Cowboys who barely played a down on Super Bowl Sundays, the memories don't fade

Hungry on DART's Green Line? Here's a Big Honkin' List That Might Help

​It took four years and $1.8 million to complete the longest light-rail construction project in U.S. history -- says DART -- but a little more than one month since DART's Green Line opened, it's been for all intents and purposes a success. While the full line was officially opened on December ... More >>

Past, Present and Future to Officially Collide at Tonight's Texas Theatre Ribbon-Cutting

​If you need me this evening I'll be at the Texas Theatre for the ribbon-cutting ceremony that officially marks the re-opening of the Oak Cliff landmark. Scissors come out at 5, and it should be an intriguing shindig: Not only will Mayor Tom Leppert and council member Delia Jasso be there, but als ... More >>

FC Dallas is the latest proof that the metroplex can host everything without winning anything.

The other six MasterMinds Awards finalists are so good, the tough part was picking only three winners.

Dallas Observer Names Nine Dallas Artists as Finalists in Its First Annual Masterminds Award

The Problem With... "In My Head" by Jason Derülo

Folks, do you ever have the urge to read other people's minds? To find out what is going down in someone's head like the major motion picture What Women Want? Well, one pop star, Jason Derülo, saves us the trouble and lays his thoughts out in a song. Like most of our thoughts before they reach our ... More >>

Tortured by His Bat for a Decade, Texas Finally Signs Rangers-Killer Vladimir Guerrero

To Hell With The Recession -This Year Gave Dallas Audiences The Best Productions Of The Decade

New Ghosts, New Scrooge Boost DTC's Final Carol At Kalita; Plan Nine's Perfect Fun For Humbugs

The Perfect Halloween Costume: Jack Ruby's Hat and Shackles, Now Up for Auction

​Heritage Auction Gallery had hoped to keep The Hat under its hat a little while longer -- the press release was going out tomorrow, matter of fact. But word got out (someone espied the item already posted on the auction house's Web site), which is why Heritage's Noah Fleisher is out spreading the ... More >>

In Which We Don't Interview Kevin Costner

Craig Watkins: No, Steve Blow, You're an Embarrassment

Todd Haynes Offers His Bob Dylan

He knows it might not be your Bob Dylan

New Conspiracy Theory: JFK Was Not Shot in Dallas

Making a Killin' Off Kennedy

Undercover Brothers

Sniper's Perch a Real Dutch Treat

Clear as Glass

The latest mystery in the JFK legacy is...a window?

A Killing off Kennedy

View Finder

Visit the OC that wasn't canceled

How Dallas Helped and Hurt Dallas

Shoot the Piano

JFK Sat Here!

Pirates of Conspiracy

The artists of Oh6 turn assassination into comic revelry

"Our Hero"

Friends mourn the loss of Dallas' Mayhem

Best Passport to 1956

Norma's Café

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Letters

Drug-free in '03!

And 149 other things I swear I'll do next year

Loaded Gunmen

The funniest thing on Fox

Oswald's folly

The city wants us to spend millions for a buddy-buddy deal at the Texas Theater

Z.Z. Top

Presidential suite

Talk the talk

Night & Day

October 22 - 28, 1998

Night & Day

August 6 - 12, 1998

The haunting

To the grief of his children and his wife's family, Walker Railey is resurrecting his story

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX