Sherman

Listen: North Texas Collective Chapter 11 has a Beautiful Hit with "Whiskey and You"

When speaking of North Texas country music collective Chapter 11, we're not using the term "collective" lightly. The project, dreamed-up by Sherman-based producer and engineer Dustin Hendricks, who's worked with such greats as Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and even metal giants Hellyeah, isn't a ... More >>

Texas AG Announces "Choose Life Advisory Committee" to Distribute Money Raised by Those Anti-Abortion License Plates

In May of 2011, in the midst of various other anti-abortion measures, Texas lawmakers approved SB 257, authored by Representative Larry Phillips, a Republican from Sherman, and Senator John Carona, a Republican from Dallas. The bill allowed for the sale of state-issued specialty "Choose Life" licens ... More >>

Wal-Mart Wins Texas Lawsuit Over Gender Discrimination

Nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a class action lawsuit filed by some 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees who say they hit a corporate glass ceiling, the plaintiffs hit a brick wall in Texas. Because the court ruled the women of Wal-Mart could not sue as a class, a num ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 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 >>

Earn Your Weekend Wings

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

In The District

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Mall? Rats.

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

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

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

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

Gear Hound

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

Hard Rock Still Rockin'. For Now.

Tia's Tex-Nixed

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

Apparently, Plano ISD Doesn't Like God

Odds & Ends

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

The Nude Bomb

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

The Nude Bomb

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

Girl Talk

Table Dance

Plus: The Benefactor...of pure comedy

Lift To Experience

The Texas-Jerusalem Experience (Bella Union)

Waist of space

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

Buzz

Very personal injury; Parrot squawk

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?

Da thug

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

Getting Madden

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

Holmes style

NY's Holmes Brothers are the Magi of soul

Buzz

Letters

Letters

Eddie better

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