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Dwaine Caraway Says Dallas is the "Homeless Capital of the World" and Should Bus Them Out of Town

It's been a decade since the city of Dallas announced the development of a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness, a quest that, as a short stroll downtown will tell you, has fallen short of its goal. There are still plenty of people without homes. That's not to say the program, which has focused ... More >>

An Englishman Goes Walkin' in Memphis, Finds God in BBQ Ribs and Sausage

After my earlier (somewhat sarcastic) rejection of all of Memphis barbecue, I felt I should probably try somewhere that wasn't Red, Hot and Blue and aim to be remotely fair. As luck would have it, during a New Year road trip we passed through Memphis for a day (en route from Cracker Barrel in fact. ... More >>

How Texas Came Within an Atom's Breadth of Discovering the God Particle

Dallas Farmer's Market: Cut it Off at the Roots

It's time to admit the city-owned market is a failure.

Jimi Hendrix Plays Memorial Auditorium: A Recording From 1969 and A Poster from '70

​One of the best photos we've ever posted to Unfair Park was this February 16, 1968, snapshot of Angus Wynne and Jimi Hendrix taken at Love Field, shortly before Dallas experienced the man and his band at the Fair Park Music Hall. That picture, of course, accompanied an audience recording of the J ... More >>

Top Chef: Texas Starts November 2 With Two Austin Chefs, None From Dallas and ... Pee-Wee!

"Mecca lecca high mecca tiny bit more salt, please."​Finally time to see how your tax dollars were put to work by Bravo and its Magical Elves. As you'll recall, we reported back in July that Governor Rick Perry's office, that bastion of small government, spent $400,000 to promote the state's ... More >>

In Suburban Dallas, Loosening "Cheese" Heroin's Deadly Grip

Another round of deaths have another round of North Texas parents trying to wipe out a deadly combination of heroin and cold medicine.

Rais Bhuiyan Goes International In His Attempt to Save the Life of Man Who Tried to Kill Him

Rais Bhuiyan​Twice we've written about Rais Bhuiyan, who, on September 21, 2001, was working behind the counter of a Pleasant Grove Texaco station when a man with a shotgun entered the store and shot him in the face. Bhuiyan, who was 27 at the time, thought he was being robbed. He wasn't: Mark Str ... More >>

Here's the foodbitch Post That D Magazine Scrubbed From Its Web Site Last Week

​Last week, readers of D Magazine's food blog, SideDish, were introduced to a new contributor. She went by the name "foodbitch." Moniker aside, she seemed like any other after-work food blogger: sassy, smart, obsessed with food trucks. She brought some readers with her, folks who knew her from ... More >>

Biking for Mayor: Ride Along as Bike Friendly Oak Cliff Q&A's David Kunkle, Mike Rawlings

​At this late date we've heard mayoral wannabes David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings address myriad issues -- everything from DISD to LGBT. But, at last, a new wrinkle: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff has rounded up the runoff-ers for a question-and-answer session aimed at the hike-n-bike crowd wondering where ... More >>

Peace, Love and Chicken-Fried Steak Day

God Bless the Texas Legislature. No amount of political discord will prevent them from the serious work for which the people of this great state sent them to Austin. And it has nothing to do with cuts to a cash-strapped educational system. No, ma'am. Our state government has bigger things to worry a ... More >>

Motorcycle club members and weekend warriors, seeking the freedom of the road, face dangerous curves on and off Dallas streets

Hey, Whole Foods! We're Growling for Growlers Over Here.

This is a growler. Notice that it's empty. That's a hint.​Dear Park Lane Whole Foods Market: It's the Christmas season, a time when all good boys are brimful of dreams for presents. Seeing as I have been good this year -- as far as you know, anyway -- I'm hoping you will grant me one heartfe ... More >>

Growler Program Confusion: Whole Foods Wants It, Gordon Biersch Has It and the TABC Is Playing the Waiting Game

​A local specialty market is one bag of feed away from a cash cow. Unfortunately, it doesn't know which end to feed. The wine bar at the Park Lane Whole Foods Market, the Dallas flagship store, has been a boon to the location's bottom line. Beginning at about 3 p.m. on weekdays, the bar, with ... More >>

Liveblogging the 21st Century City Conference

Andrea Grimes​Feliz morning, Unfair Amigos! I rolled into City Hall a few minutes ago and found myself standing amid many trendily slacks-ed, bottle-rim bespectacled folks up here in the sixth-floor council chambers. Those New Urbanists, they are a good-looking, if easily spotted, bunch. We're her ... More >>

At Long Last, Big Bucks Burnett Finds a Home for His Eight Track Museum -- in Deep Ellum

Peter Salisbury​Moments ago -- and that is no exaggeration -- James "Big Bucks" Burnett finally signed the lease that will allow him to set up the Eight Track Museum that's been in the works ever since the October 2009 exhibition at the Barry Whistler Gallery. As proof, Bucks sends this lease-sign ... More >>

At 16, Ben Gold Was A Video Arcade Legend. But Only Now, 27 Years Later, Is He Being Recognized For It.

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Salt: Angelina Jolie Kicks Ass Where Tom Cruise Couldn't.

Local Musicians Tell Us Why They're So Excited About The State of the Scene.

In the Mood for Some Deep-Fried Pig's Leg and Knuckle? We've Got Just the Place

​When my friend, Rona, moved to Dallas, she asked me where she could find her native Filipino food. I had no idea. In my defense, when I asked my Manila-born boyfriend the same question, he didn't know of any restaurants in Dallas that served Filipino food either. Figuring as how I am surrounde ... More >>

Yeasayer? Or Mehsayer?

North by Unrest: Chris Flemmons Wants To Put Denton Music on the Map With NX35-If it Doesn't Kill Him First

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2009: Dorrough Paints A Gem With "Ice Cream Paint Job" at No. 7

[Editor's Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 7 on the list--and, please, feel free to click after the jump for a free download of the track. Lastl ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: When 'The Summer of Love' Meant Sex In a Club

"Are you one of the beautiful people? Is my name on the list? I want to be with the beautiful people... I wanna feel like I'm missed..." Eels - "Guest List" I went to high school with a kid named Greg Holman. His father was a painter named George, who lived in the old Expo Park space that l ... More >>

Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada

Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

Guantanamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

Move Over, Ex-President Bush. Kent Rathbun's Moving a "Blue Plate Kitchen" Into Preston Center.

Earlier today, Unfair Park learned that chef Kent Rathbun would be opening a new restaurant in Preston Center, next door to Shannon Wynne's Flying Fish in the space formerly occupied by Carrabba's, among others. I called Rathbun's publicist Ariana Hajibashi-Martin to confirm, and she was very noncom ... More >>

Review: Spiral Diner & Bakery

Spiral Diner & Bakery lets you avoid sins of the flesh

Street Kings is a Shallow Look at Dirty Police

Live to Ride

A motorcycle accident cost Bill Rucker his leg, but that won't stop him from building-and riding-bikes

Suicide Is Painless

How I learned to stop worrying and love naked women

A Shot in the Dark

Plus: Tourist Trap

Crusaders

In another holy war, the battle plan is to turn Muslims into Bible believers

New York, New York

You sure you wanna be a part of it?

Regarding Henry

The DMA's Henry Moore show leaves no multi-ton stone unturned

Jesus' Favorite Singer

Fifty years after leaving the Soul Stirrers, Rebert Harris has been called home

Edifice complex

Michael Piazza wants his proposed $20 million cathedral to send a message to the world -- gays can go to heaven too

Killer rock stars

Sleater-Kinney are too good to admit to being rock's best, last hope

Night & Day

April 16 - 22, 1998

Zen in the den

Is a closed toilet the path to spiritual harmony? Dallas’ feng shui followers think so.

Roadshows

Holding food court

Lunch at Neiman's is still fashionably good, but Nordstrom just serves off-the-rack

USA Film Festival

'Tell Mama Why You Cry' (Part I)

Sam Krasniqi was acquitted of sexual abuse. So why won't the state let two children have their parents -or their religion?