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A New Farmers Market Launched in Uptown, and the Heirloom Tomatoes Are Heavenly

Forget all the politics and policies of the Dallas Farmers Market, because a new neighborhood market launched Saturday in Uptown at the Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, and it offers a wonderful breath-of-fresh-air take on the "produce dealers market" model of the downtown Dallas Farmers Market. ... More >>

Tesla is Putting a Supercharging Station Between Dallas and Austin Next Month

Tesla's bid to sell cars directly to Texas consumers, thus bypassing the state's deep-pocketed car dealers, came up short this legislative session. But that's not stopping the electric car company from edging its way into the Texas automotive market. Tesla announced Thursday that it's tripling the ... More >>

Fine Art meets Skate Decks and Gig Posters

Texas Television Troubadour Matt Caldwell Shuffles His iPod For Us.

Texas Country, or Red Dirt, or whatever one wants to call it, has become big business these days. So, it's not really shocking that a couple of television shows dedicated to artists fitting into the Lone Star-loving realm have popped up and are shedding light on the talent all over the state and int ... More >>

Cerebral Cortex, You’re Fired

Former Gamestop VP Pleads Guilty to Stealing $2 Million from Company

Chris Olivera was for several years vice president of corporate communications and public affairs for Gamestop. Part of his job was serving as a public face and spokesman for the Grapevine-based video game retailer. He did that just fine. It was the other part of his job, processing invoices from ve ... More >>

Irving Doctor Who Botched Liposuction Also Injected MMA Fighter With Banned Drugs

I wouldn't have known it by watching two over-muscled and under-clothed men pummel each other senseless, in a cage no less, but mixed martial arts has rules. Surprising, too, that one of the rules is that you can't have too much testosterone in your system. I learned these things from an article tha ... More >>

Four Heavy Local Releases You Should Grab

With the oppressive heat of summer bearing down on us, our thoughts no doubt lead down some darker corridors, as we try to occupy idle hands and restless brains. Here are a few new local releases that lean on the heavy/experimental side, which you should cop posthaste. Bludded Head, Bludded Head N ... More >>

Compilation for Late North Texas Music Writer Lee Jackson Out June 4

After the passing of Lee Jackson in March, the outpouring of emotion from friends and colleagues - in Texas and beyond - was sort of astounding. Those who had never met him felt a kinship; those who did felt the weight of that loss in the creative community. Jackson wrote about music with a passion, ... More >>

The Feds Attack Online Poker

On Black Friday, The Justice Department killed a $2.5 billion industry.

Serendipity 3's French Toast Log: Tastes Better Than Any Other Log

I recently took a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada. Maybe you've heard of it. It's called The City of Shit I Lost All My Money Again Ooh Look There's An ATM. What you might not know about Las Vegas is that it is also home to Serendipity 3, a restaurant that specializes in hangover-cure food that's as big ... More >>

Are More Mexicans Becoming Conservative?

And do teachers discriminate against students with Hispanic first names?

Verbal Sparring Between Romney and Perry Highlight GOP Debate, But Three Bachmann Quotes Prove She Needs to Go Home

If you missed last night's CNN Western Republican debate in Nevada, the clip above is the best example of why the GOP is seriously screwed no matter who they choose. The two supposed front-runners -- Mitt Romney and Rick Perry -- acted like a couple of high schoolers, barking and interrupting each ... More >>

In Dallas Federal Court, Three Strip-Club Dancers Demand Minimum Wage, Overtime

​Next time you roll into a gentleman's establishment, ask yourself one question: Is this place in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938? That's the law that established a national minimum wage and overtime pay. But the women who dance in topless and nudie joints don't make minimum wage ... More >>

Or Maybe the Dallas Independent School District's Trustees Should Just Visit Mesquite

​Earlier today we revisited the Dallas Regional Chamber's plan, blessed by Mayor Mike and Lew Blackburn, to save the Dallas Independent School District. And while Commit! is still in its vague, unformed infancy, clearly this is Very Important to a few very important people. Which is why Blackburn ... More >>

A Second Death Related to the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival in Dallas?

​More news this afternoon about the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival that took place this past weekend at Fair Park in Dallas: The Dallas Morning News and sister paper LA Weekly report that a 22-year-old named Kyle Raymond Haigis died late on Sunday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer. Hai ... More >>

What's the Deal With 500 S. Ervay? Well, Funny You Should Ask. There's a Hearing Next Week.

Photo at left courtesy the Dallas Public Library Texas/Dallas History Division500 South Ervay as it looked in 1955, and a more recent photo on the DCAD website​Speaking of vacant downtown landmarks ...Two weeks ago, a City Hall employee asked if we knew what was up with 500 South Ervay, which sits ... More >>

Mexican Macro-economics

Whitt's End: 11.26.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *If you're a TCU fan, it goes down like this: Alabama beats Auburn today at 1:30 on CBS. Arizona beats Oregon tonight at 6 on ESPN. And Nevada beats Boise State tonight at 9:15 on ESPN. Oh yeah, an ... More >>

Tequila Familia Camarena Will Have You Doing the Macarena, Even Without its Taco Truck

​Tequila is more than the Mexican Jägermeister, and Monday night's media tasting event of Tequila Familia Camarena proved that. Six writers and/or bloggers from various local media outlets were invited to partake of the mixing and tasting of four tequila-based cocktails at Hotel ZaZa. The ebullie ... More >>

Hey, In-N-Out, Maybe You Should Change
Your Name to Godot Burgers

In-N-Outs journey to DFW: Slow as the second coming and just about as overhyped. Now you know why.​Is this really what you call fast food? The MGHerring Group yesterday announced In-N-Out Burger will open a location at The Village at Allen in mid-2011, bringing the count of confirmed future o ... More >>

Hinojosa "Humbled and Honored" to Be Finalist for Clark County Superintendent's Gig

Patrick MichelsPatrick took this photo this morning at the Jubilee Park event. I knew it would come in handy.​A few minutes ago, the Clark County School District announced: Sure enough, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's a finalist for the superintendent's job the ... More >>

DISD Superintendent Hinojosa Comments -- Kinda -- on Reports That He's Moving to Vegas

​I was on the phone with a Dallas Independent School Board trustee just seconds ago -- a trustee, mind you, who had not heard there were reports and a yeah-sure-maybe? that DISD Superintendent Michael Hinjosa's outta here, possibly as early as tomorrow, to take the Las Vegas gig -- when the follow ... More >>

Goya Foods Recalls Frozen Mamey Packages Linked to Salmonella Typhi

​Secaucus, New Jersey-based Goya Foods Inc., the dominant Latin American foods company, has recalled all its 14-ounce packages of frozen mamey pulp. The product is used to make milkshakes and smoothies. The packages were distributed in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, ... More >>

On the Road Again

Mmm, Dallas

An Innovative Court Offers New Tricks to Turn Ex-Prostitutes into Real Working Girls

Yes, But What If Texas Were Healthy?

​Yes, indeed -- when it comes to health care, says the Commonwealth Fund, Texas ranks ahead of only Nevada, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi. The full study's here for those looking for context, but for Texans all the bad news is right here -- five pages full of charts documenting all ... More >>

Many Mexicans Coming to Dallas Aren't Coming from Mexico, But the Rest of the U.S.

Patrick MichelsEnrique Hubbard Urrea, consul general for the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, during his visit to Unfair Park HQ in MarchDuring the course of reporting a separate story for the paper version of Unfair Park, I met with Mexican Consul General Enrique Hubbard Urrea in his brand-new digs th ... More >>

You Want Dim Sum of This? Plano's About to Get Texas's First 99 Ranch Market.

Far as I can tell, there are no 99 Ranch Market groceries in Texas -- most are way out west, in California, Washington and Nevada (with the stray site in Atlanta). To the relatively short list, add Plano: GlobeSt.com reports this morning that the 25-year-old Asian grocery store chain will take over ... More >>

In-N-Out Ain't Coming to Dallas -- Not Yet, Anyway. But the Chain is "Evaluating" Sites.

It happened yet again. Late last week, a Friend of Unfair Park in the retail real-estate business heard that California-based In-N-Out Burger was "finally coming to Dallas." It was 'round this time last year that D's Nancy Nichols heard the same thing via a commenter on SideDish. Wasn't the first ti ... More >>

The Wrath of Kahn: Another Lawsuit Over Dallas Man's Attempt to Buy Chicken Ranch

Back in June 2007, a Dallas man named Bruce Kahn agreed to buy perhaps the most famous brothel in the world -- the Chicken Ranch, 'bout 60 miles outside of Las Vegas -- for a reported $15.2 million. But Nye County, Nevada, officials denied his application -- said he didn't live in Nevada and wasn't ... More >>

Cocaine Blues: Sorry, Texas, But You Will No Longer Be Able to Buy This Stimulating Drink.

Out of the Dallas County's 44th Judicial District Court comes this swig o' news, courtesy the Texas Attorney General's Office: Never again will you find Cocaine on your local soft-drink shelves. Greg Abbott and his staff, including Dallas-based ADA Joyce Iliya of the Consumer Protection and Public H ... More >>

Skunk in the Trunk

See some far-out art in Mesquite

Weekend Roundup: The Derek Trucks Band, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Cut Copy, Matt and Kim and White Tie Affair

Ready to take your weekly trip into the rockin' world of this past weekend's music? Bust out those headphones and let's do it! Remember, all videos come courtesy of your friends and mine, those camera-wielding folks at the front of the club. They press on, despite tired arms, so that you can I can e ... More >>

Fair from Over

Dazed and Confused

Cups and Saucers

NASCAR: A Yankee Pastime

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Sad Tail

Bradley's is one turf that doesn't surf

Yuck? No, yuk.

Identity looks scary, plays funny and might be genius for it

TV or not DVD

Sports Night was great, so it's just playing on your DVD

Damaged Goods

Waking Up in Reno is not that bad, but it's not that good, either

Zzzzz

Order the coffee black; you'll need it at the dull Z'Tejas Southwestern Grill

TV dinners

Swarna Palace plies good food and great tube

Get me outta here

Desert Blue offers up a sweet picture of mordant teens bursting to bust loose

Squeeze player

With his mob connections and starlet phone numbers, Dick Contino was the coolest accordionist in 1950s L.A. -- which is why he's James Ellroy's buddy

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