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Sherman

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Zebra Mussel Threat to Texas Lakes is Misunderestimated

    ​Three weeks ago I wrote a column for the paper about a plan to pump drinking water from Lake Texoma even though the lake is contaminated by zebra mussels, an invasive species that can annihilate other animal life in a lake and promote blooms of toxic algae. We here in Texas seriously do not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    What Happens to the World's Unused Pumpkins?

    Dallas Arboretum​Sunday evening, just hours until Halloween, there were still hundreds of un-sold pumpkins at a local farmers market. It raised the question -- what happens to all the left-behind gourds? Do the extras go to the pie factory? Or are they all just tossed in the dump? Turns out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    A Breath of Fresh Air: Plano East Senior Named One of America's Great Young Inventors

    Param Jaggi​Spend this morning learning how to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen -- by filtering it through algae, duh. Thanks, Param Jaggi! No, seriously. Thanks. The Plano East Senior High School senior's a genius. Says so right here, in the latest issue of Popular Science, in which he was name ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    What's In A Name? Here Are 13 Acts Named After People Not Even In The Band.

    No one in Noah and The Whale is actually named Noah, turns out.​Tonight at Dada, the English indie folk outfit known as Noah and the Whale will perform. Good band, interesting name -- especially since, we just realized, there isn't actually a dude named Noah in the group after all. Not even a guy ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2011

    Earn Your Weekend Wings

    No one in Noah and The Whale is actually named Noah, turns out.​Tonight at Dada, the English indie folk outfit known as Noah and the Whale will perform. Good band, interesting name -- especially since, we just realized, there isn't actually a dude named Noah in the group after all. Not even a guy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    DART, East Texas Transit Officials Sign Letter They Hope Leads to Light-Rail Love Affair

    DART chair Bill Velasco, left, and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority's Jeff Austin III look at the line that could one day connect their parts of the great state.​Ever wished you could take Dallas Area Rapid Transit to ... oh ... let's say Tyler? Or Canton? Or Shreveport, even? Because ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Truck Thefts from Texas Soda Distributors Make Dallas a Hub for Hot Dr Pepper

    Thieves drove off with two fully loaded trucks from this Wichita Falls Dr Pepper bottling plant last month, before abandoning the empty trucks near Dallas -- the third such theft recently.​A trio of truck thefts from Dr Pepper distributors around Texas in the last few months have all ended the sam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Once More, Scott Sams Shown the Door

    ​Seems like only yesterdayfour years ago that ex-WFAA-er Scott Sams was rescued from exile in Sherman (following this incident) and returned to the comforting embrace of Dallas, courtesy KTVT-Channel 11. Ed Bark told D at the time that despite Sam's bad rep when he left town, it was a smart move f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    When Investors Demanded Their Money, Eric Brauss Disappeared. Now: The Indictment!

    How can authorities not find this guy?​We were first introduced to Eric Brauss in December 2009, when a good Friend of Unfair Park tipped us off that the money man behind, oh, the Dallas Design Center, Denton Towne Crossing, Lake Highlands Plaza and other local developments had done disappeared. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2011

    For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of Arizona Dranes

    ​I've considered retiring this weekly feature many times in recent weeks; we're about out of the good stuff, I fear -- unless you're just dying for a ladies-choice between Linda Ronstadt at Reunion in '82 or Courtney Love and Hole at Deep Ellum Live in '94, which I'd briefly considered last night. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    What It Was Like: Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp 2010

    ​Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp is a chance for musicians to get a crash course in playing in a rock band. Whether your drumming skills are on par with Meg White's or somebody who can play "Pride & Joy" note-for-note in a dark corner of a Guitar Center, the intent of the camp is to become a better ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Picture Show: Blues Traveler at Gilley's

    Evan ClintonJohn Popper and his sidekick: Harmonica.​Wednesday night (June 30) at Gilley's, Tinker, Sherman and Blues Traveler played a pre-Independence Day set. John Popper's harmonica was also there, and performed vigorously during the "Run Around" solo.See more of Blues Traveler's night in Dall ... More >>

  • News

    December 3, 2009

    Soldiers of Misfortune: Months Before An Army Psychiatrist Went on a Rampage at Fort Hood, A Texas Army Sergeant Allegedly Murdered Five Troops By Non-hostile Fire in Iraq.

    Evan ClintonJohn Popper and his sidekick: Harmonica.​Wednesday night (June 30) at Gilley's, Tinker, Sherman and Blues Traveler played a pre-Independence Day set. John Popper's harmonica was also there, and performed vigorously during the "Run Around" solo.See more of Blues Traveler's night in Dall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Congratulations, City of Sherman: You're Having The Best Week Ever.

    Bustling, ain't it.​A cursory Wikipedia search tells me that the City of Sherman has at least a little musical history--well more than I was a aware, at least--as the hometowns of Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame saxophone player Buddy Tate and country music icon Buck Owens.But, the Owens-hosted Hee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Fox News Will Stop Down For Any Police Chase, Even the Really Slow, Long Ones

    No Shep Smith to narrate this time 'round, shame, but Fox News was still plenty giddy over the two-hour, at-the-speed-limit chase that started near Sherman and ended close to Corsicana after some dude drove off without paying for gas. We were watching it for a while -- as the procession crawled down ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    In The District

    No Shep Smith to narrate this time 'round, shame, but Fox News was still plenty giddy over the two-hour, at-the-speed-limit chase that started near Sherman and ended close to Corsicana after some dude drove off without paying for gas. We were watching it for a while -- as the procession crawled down ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Bowling For Soup Gets The Web Soup Treatment

    Apparently, every week on the new Web Soup show on G4, host Chris Hardwick shows his viewers a clip called "Things You Can't Unsee" and follows it up with another, cutesy animal clip called the "Palate Cleanser." Well, we're a little late to the game on this one, but it appears as if the above clip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    If Every Picture Tells a Story ...

    So, like I was saying, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK -- who scours the eBay for rare photos of Dallas, my kind of guy -- sent me this homegrown picture earlier this week, and while not as attention-getting as a downtown Dallas fire, it is intriguing. Looks very, I dunno, Our Gang. Except those boys i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    Frisco's Erin Brockovich Update = Defeated

    Got a call over the weekend from Charmane Jackson, who lost her legal fight against golf manufacturing giant U.S. Kids Friday in Sherman. After a week of testimony the jury deliberated only 90 minutes before failing to find U.S. Kids responsible for the death of 12-year-old Chandler Jackson. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    Frisco's Erin Brockovich Takes on the Kids Golf Industry

    Maybe Hopefully you remember Chandler Jackson. Quick refresher: Gifted 12-year-old Frisco boy tragically killed in a 2005 freak accident by a broken golf club in tiny-town Kentucky. After almost four years of misery and mystery, Chandler's parents - Rick and Charmane - may this week g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Report: Investigators Burned Plano Gun Shop Owner When They Shouted, "Arson!"

    A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this Texas Observer (no relation) cover story concerning the plight of Curtis Severns, a Sherman man accused by fire investigators of torching his own Plano gun shop -- even though there are plenty of arson experts who've said that's awfully unlikely. Severns i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    In Order to Get Her Life "Back to Normal," Bachelor Not-Winner Goes to Ellen

    ABC-TVMelissa Rycroft, I thinkI enjoy television as much as the next 5-year-old, but somehow I've managed to miss every single second of The Bachelor -- Ellen too, except when DISD rising star Dalton Sherman got his free computer back in September. Alas, the two titans of TV dip chocolate into peanu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    So, Bennigan's Lives? Steak & Ale Too? Good Luck With All That.

    ABC-TVMelissa Rycroft, I thinkI enjoy television as much as the next 5-year-old, but somehow I've managed to miss every single second of The Bachelor -- Ellen too, except when DISD rising star Dalton Sherman got his free computer back in September. Alas, the two titans of TV dip chocolate into peanu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    Mall? Rats.

    ABC-TVMelissa Rycroft, I thinkI enjoy television as much as the next 5-year-old, but somehow I've managed to miss every single second of The Bachelor -- Ellen too, except when DISD rising star Dalton Sherman got his free computer back in September. Alas, the two titans of TV dip chocolate into peanu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2008

    "Fair Park's Universe of Attractions!" And: "A World Within a World!"

    ABC-TVMelissa Rycroft, I thinkI enjoy television as much as the next 5-year-old, but somehow I've managed to miss every single second of The Bachelor -- Ellen too, except when DISD rising star Dalton Sherman got his free computer back in September. Alas, the two titans of TV dip chocolate into peanu ... More >>

  • News

    April 17, 2008

    Fighting for the Fiefdom|Truth Shall Get You Votes|Lotta Love for Little D

    ABC-TVMelissa Rycroft, I thinkI enjoy television as much as the next 5-year-old, but somehow I've managed to miss every single second of The Bachelor -- Ellen too, except when DISD rising star Dalton Sherman got his free computer back in September. Alas, the two titans of TV dip chocolate into peanu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2007

    Good Friday: Bleach Boys, Eleven Hundred Springs, Shiny Around the Edges

    ABC-TVMelissa Rycroft, I thinkI enjoy television as much as the next 5-year-old, but somehow I've managed to miss every single second of The Bachelor -- Ellen too, except when DISD rising star Dalton Sherman got his free computer back in September. Alas, the two titans of TV dip chocolate into peanu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2007

    Jason Terry's Personal Chef Put a Little Extra On His Own Plate

    ABC-TVMelissa Rycroft, I thinkI enjoy television as much as the next 5-year-old, but somehow I've managed to miss every single second of The Bachelor -- Ellen too, except when DISD rising star Dalton Sherman got his free computer back in September. Alas, the two titans of TV dip chocolate into peanu ... More >>

  • Music

    February 15, 2007

    Gear Hound

    Shake Rag's John Gasperik puts the "garage" in garage band

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2007

    Hard Rock Still Rockin'. For Now.

    Shake Rag's John Gasperik puts the "garage" in garage band

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2006

    Tia's Tex-Nixed

    Shake Rag's John Gasperik puts the "garage" in garage band

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2006

    Maybe PISD Does Love God After All. Or Maybe It Hates Lawsuits.

    Shake Rag's John Gasperik puts the "garage" in garage band

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2006

    Apparently, Plano ISD Doesn't Like God

    Shake Rag's John Gasperik puts the "garage" in garage band

  • Music

    February 9, 2006

    Odds & Ends

    A local band gets its big break on MTV. Excuse us while we yawn.

  • Film

    January 12, 2006

    The Nude Bomb

    Mrs. Henderson shakes up war-torn Britain with an assault of the flesh

  • Film

    December 22, 2005

    The Nude Bomb

    Mrs. Henderson shakes up war-torn Britain with an assault of the flesh

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2005

    Girl Talk

    Mrs. Henderson shakes up war-torn Britain with an assault of the flesh

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Table Dance

    Plus: The Benefactor...of pure comedy

  • Music

    September 13, 2001

    Lift To Experience

    The Texas-Jerusalem Experience (Bella Union)

  • Film

    July 27, 2000

    Waist of space

    Is Nutty Professor II any good? Yeah, fat chance.

  • News

    July 27, 2000

    Buzz

    Very personal injury; Parrot squawk

  • News

    January 27, 2000

    No class

    New York-based Edison Schools flunked out with trying to privatize Sherman's public schools. Why should things be any different in Dallas?

  • News

    November 18, 1999

    Da thug

    Rojas proves he'll slap around board members to get what he wants -- an Edison deal

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    Getting Madden

    A McKinney family sues Fox for sacking a young quarterback's dream

  • Music

    April 24, 1997

    Holmes style

    NY's Holmes Brothers are the Magi of soul

  • News

    February 6, 1997

    Buzz

    NY's Holmes Brothers are the Magi of soul

  • News

    January 30, 1997

    Letters

    NY's Holmes Brothers are the Magi of soul

  • News

    September 12, 1996

    Letters

    NY's Holmes Brothers are the Magi of soul

  • Film

    July 4, 1996

    Eddie better

    Murphy shows acting muscle, but The Nutty Professor weighs him down

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