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May 22, 2012
Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Sunday's Float Event with Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry and More
The first of three planned holiday weekend concerts on Lake Lewisville goes down this Sunday, May 27, with Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry, Wayne Hancock, Michael Donner & the Southern Renaissance, Grant Jones & the Pistol Grip Lassos and The O's. The concept of Float: You'll be able to swim, enjo ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
Go Colorblind at The Frequency of Death!
For 26 years, Pegasus Theatre has been taking the color out of stage comedy. They do it in "Living Black and White," a trade-secret method of makeup, costume and scenery that strips all the color away onstage -- except for the slip of an actor's pink tongue or a glimpse of blue eyes. Pegasus' cu ... More >>
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January 2, 2012
New Year, New Psychic Prowess
A new year is often seen as a chance for reinvention. Maybe this will be the year you move out of the friend-zone with your "pal" across the hall. Maybe this will be the year that you don't overdraft while buying a two dollar Miller High Life. Maybe this will be the year you can finally wear white c ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Dance of the Pious Penguins
A new year is often seen as a chance for reinvention. Maybe this will be the year you move out of the friend-zone with your "pal" across the hall. Maybe this will be the year that you don't overdraft while buying a two dollar Miller High Life. Maybe this will be the year you can finally wear white c ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Lewisville Basketball Coach Calls Cops to His Apartment, Winds Up Accused of Trafficking
A Fighting Farmers basketball coach is accused to farming for talent in Mexico, and then fighting the talent.Today's lesson, boys and girls, courtesy of WFAA's Craig Civale and the Lewisville police: When you appear to be running a racket that involves importing a high school basketball playe ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
"Eater X" Dominates Again at the Lewisville's Tamale Eating Championship
Behind the counter of every Taco Bell, there's a slew of people who fancy themselves champions of food, but once a year in Lewisville, the real champions arrive, ready to relieve suburban Dallas of its tamale population. Last Saturday was yet another such occasion, with a healthy roster of new T ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
At Long Last, Texas International Pop Festival In Lewisville to Receive a State Historical Marker
The scene in Lewisville during Labor Day weekend 1969Longtime 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 >>
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July 15, 2011
The Conversation: What Role Do The Suburbs Play in the Greater Dallas Music Scene?
The burbs, brah.The so-called urban sprawl has created an interesting scenario in the Dallas music scene these days. Back in the late '80s and '90s, Deep Ellum acted as a strong central location for the North Texas music community. But, over the years, as people have gotten more and more spread o ... More >>
Music
July 7, 2011
With a Little Help From Hat Tricks' Friends...
The burbs, brah.The so-called urban sprawl has created an interesting scenario in the Dallas music scene these days. Back in the late '80s and '90s, Deep Ellum acted as a strong central location for the North Texas music community. But, over the years, as people have gotten more and more spread o ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
What Ales You?
The burbs, brah.The so-called urban sprawl has created an interesting scenario in the Dallas music scene these days. Back in the late '80s and '90s, Deep Ellum acted as a strong central location for the North Texas music community. But, over the years, as people have gotten more and more spread o ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Is There a Heart-Shaped Asana?
The burbs, brah.The so-called urban sprawl has created an interesting scenario in the Dallas music scene these days. Back in the late '80s and '90s, Deep Ellum acted as a strong central location for the North Texas music community. But, over the years, as people have gotten more and more spread o ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Way to Go, Frisco, You're the 14th-Safest City In the United States of America!
We can look at CQ Press's just-released City Crime Rankings 2010-2011 two ways: from safest to most dangerous or vice-versa. But either way -- based upon the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports that include "the violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the property crimes of bu ... More >>
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November 20, 2010
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Texas International Pop Festival "Box Set"
Richard Hayner, keeper of the Texas International Pop Festival website, maintains he's still -- still -- writing a book about that Labor Day Weekend when Angus Wynne brought Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Ten Years After, Santana, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone and on and on and ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
If You've Ever Wanted to Live On -- Or In -- Lake Lewisville, Here's Your House Sub
Friend of Unfair Park Holy Sheet (got that right) forwards this most astounding real estate listing just perfect for, say, a James Bond villain: The SubHome! It's by renowned (no, seriously) sub-home designer Jonathan Owen Pearson, who spent eight years building this aquatic gem (from the looks o ... More >>
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September 27, 2010
No Mysteries, No Surprises as "Eater X" Edges Sonya Thomas for Lewisville Tamale Title
Photos by Patrick MichelsSonya "the Black Widow" Thomas puts away one of 56 tamales she ate Saturday -- good enough for second place.He set the world tamale-eating record here three years ago, downing 71 in a 12-minute bout on the steps of Lewisville City Hall, and even with a dozen fewer tamales la ... More >>
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September 27, 2010
Hash Over: Texas/OU Weekend Watch Parties, Urban Crust Wine Tasting, Espelette Chili Dinner at Cadot, and more.
All right, folks, it's that time of the year again for die-hard college football fans to take over Fair Park with their crimson red or burnt orange-painted bodies. Yes, it's Texas/OU weekend. We're sure there's about gazillion watch parties from which fans can choose to watch the Red River Shoot ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
A View From The Judges Table: Night One of the Shiner Rising Star Semi-Finals
Shiner Rising Star Competition: Semi-Finals, Night One.Hat Tricks, LewisvilleSeptember 23, 2010After eight weeks worth of first-round performances, and then last week's wild-card round, the semi-finals of the annual Shiner Rising Star contest, hosted by KHYI-95.3 FM The Range and Shiner Bock Beer ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
This Saturday, Competitive Eating's Top Ranks Tackle Lewsville's Hot Tamales
Patrick Michels"Nasty" Nate Biller, Texas' top-ranked eater, will try and keep the tamale title in-state this weekend.If you're planning on packing on a few extra pounds of fat and grease this weekend, odds are you're headed to the state fair. But up in Lewisville Saturday afternoon, a chosen few ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
Flapjack Flap: Mimi's Cafe vs. The Original Pancake House
Mimi's Cafe PancakesIn one of those slow motion, cinematic moments that history brings us, a pancake went flying through the air as Napoleon (the impish emperor of France not the nunchuck wielding dweeb from the 2004 indie film, Napoleon Dynamite) attempted an intervention between his sausage ... More >>
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January 11, 2010
Dallas MasterChef Hopefuls Queue Up for A Shot at Reality Stardom
Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>
Culture
October 29, 2009
A Triple Order of Frank 'N' Furters Makes for a Rocky Horror Halloween on Area Stages.
Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
Power House
Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>
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July 23, 2009
Razzle Dazzle
Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2009
George W. Bush Sure Has a Lot of Stuff
Two days after The New York Times singled out Saddam Hussein's unloaded spider-hole pistol (band name alert) among the possible trophies to be displayed in George W. Bush's SMU library, and a week after Pulle's piece on the joint, comes this Associated Press report about the contents of the Lewisvil ... More >>
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February 23, 2009
Place, Show, Win
Bartenders will tell you that floor space in any of the city's up-market lounges is tantamount to real estate.Well, they might not say "tantamount" and "real estate," but they recognize the value of a prime bar spot, high-visibility table, dark corner or bit of ground in between--value that wavers a ... More >>
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January 31, 2009
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 >>
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January 29, 2009
Haggis: Did It Gag Us?
Patrick MichelsAs per tradition, haggis is best plated on paper, beside a bottle of Belhaven.We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company's 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don't have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? ... More >>
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December 23, 2008
Gig Alert: Blessed By A Curse At Club Dada
Ah, the joys of an unfinished basement. (Kevin Reynolds Diomampo)What could be a better pre-Christmas gift than hearing a little Christian/hardcore/death metal? Hailing from Lewisville, the five chipper young fellows who ply their craft under the moniker Blessed by a Curse will bring their bra ... More >>
News
August 7, 2008
All He Can Be
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
Blogs
April 4, 2008
Hear Odis' 'Breakin' Me Down'
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
Blogs
March 25, 2008
Lewisville Think Tank Unhappy Hillary Clinton Won't RSVP, Dang It
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
Blogs
January 4, 2008
Pantera Producer Far Beyond Furious After House Burglarized
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
Blogs
November 15, 2007
NPR Has the Bump Keys to Your Heart
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
Blogs
October 23, 2007
Special Olympics' "Renegade" Coach
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
Blogs
September 28, 2007
Up in Denton County, Another Fight Over a Road Project
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
Blogs
September 25, 2007
Rent Control
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
News
September 13, 2007
Off the Short Bus
Steve Fleming fought to make his Special Olympians equal, and that got him torched
Blogs
June 28, 2007
Wait -- Schutze Asks For Calm?
Steve Fleming fought to make his Special Olympians equal, and that got him torched
Blogs
May 24, 2007
Don't Mound If You Do
Steve Fleming fought to make his Special Olympians equal, and that got him torched
Blogs
January 9, 2007
Trees, or Just Blowin' in the Wind?
Steve Fleming fought to make his Special Olympians equal, and that got him torched
Calendar
December 2, 2004
Gym Dandy
Go back to PE with Dodgeball--Round Two
Best of Dallas
October 14, 2004
Best Reason to Book It to Denton
Recycled Books Records CDs
Calendar
September 2, 2004
Wild West
Lewisville's dashing dogs and fighting cowboys
Calendar
August 19, 2004
Hot Stuff
Highland Village is full of hot air
Calendar
December 4, 2003
Take a Jump at the Lakers
Kobe Bryant does his dunk and cover
Best of Dallas
September 25, 2003
Best Men's Shoe Store
DSW Shoe Warehouse
Dining
January 16, 2003
Beer Bust
It's better to come to BJ's with a thirst than an appetite
Dining
August 23, 2001
The Hole in the Doughnut
Carrollton missed the boom, but still hopes to attract restaurant business
Music
July 6, 2000
Out Here
Tastes Like Love Records Summer '00 Sampler
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November 20, 1997
Holiday Highlights
Tastes Like Love Records Summer '00 Sampler
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