Tornadoes

Cane Rosso Donating Tonight's Sales To Red Cross For Oklahoma

If you happen to like pizza, which is pretty much everyone, and you like helping people, which should be everyone, then Cane Rosso is probably the restaurant you want to visit tonight. Jay Jerrier sent out an email earlier today announcing 100 percent of this evening's sales at the Deep Ellum locati ... More >>

Nearly a Dozen Tornadoes Swept Through North Texas Last Night

As day breaks in North Texas, residents are surveying the devastation wreaked by last night's storms. Dallas escaped the worst of it. The tornado sirens by our place just south of White Rock got going around 9 p.m. and kept on for a half hour, but we saw nothing but rain, heard nothing but thunder. ... More >>

Balls Be Droppin'

Lubbock County Judge: Complete Economic Collapse, Probably Not Civil War, if Obama Wins

Lubbock County Judge Tom Head raised some eyebrows yesterday after he told a local TV station that the tax hike he was pushing for? Oh, it's just so the county can be prepared for when Obama, upon reelection, orders UN tanks into town and sparks a second civil war. In a rambling interview with the ... More >>

Be Cool with the Uptown Gang

Thanks, Nanny State, for Looking Out for My Ass

I'd like to say a quick thank you to the Nanny State, before the moment passes and I forget all about spending a good deal of Tuesday cowering in a downstairs bathroom preparing to find out what my everlasting reward will be. Hey, thanks, Nanny State. Couldn't have made it without you, even though ... More >>

For the So-Cal Taco Truck, Feeding Tornado Victims Was a Lot Harder Than Expected

Tuesday evening, after tornadoes struck the metroplex, Scott Wooley, owner of the So-Cal Taco food truck, immediately started devising a plan to help the victims and relief workers. It's all part of his gratuitous spirit, which is partly a result of his fight with cancer several years ago. He's free ... More >>

Images from Forney Suggest How Much Worse Tuesday's Storms Might Have Been

Dallas photographer Danny Fulgencio rolled out early this morning to capture images from the aftermath of the tornado in Forney. "I started shooting at around 7 a.m., just after the curfew lifted," he tells Unfair Park. "These shots document the swath of destruction from yesterday's tornado which ... More >>

It's Only a Matter of Time Before Our Fancy New Bridge Gets Disemboweled by a Tornado

In the meantime, take cover, marvel at Mother Nature's latest moves in the videos below, and be on the look out for a Justin Terveen-shaped man flying past your office window, click-click-clicking away. Also, if you want to stay up to date, KXT is covering it blow by blow, including on-the-ground u ... More >>

Shelter for the Storms

There's No Place Like a CGI-ed Kansas

Dallas' Southern Recipes Sends Truckloads of Pork Rinds to Alabama Tornado Victims

​Dallas-based Southern Recipe, the world's largest manufacturer of pork rinds, has donated $10,000 of their pork rinds to The Today Show's Lend a Hand Tour benefiting tornado victims in Birmingham, Alabama. We're not sure if the first thought on the Alabamans' minds was, "What I wouldn't give ... More >>

National Weather Service Has Upped the Number of Tornadoes in the Area Last Week

Courtesy the National Weather Service​'Round this very moment exactly one week ago today we were all preparing to duck and cover beneath Kirstie Alley as hailstones the size of calf fries began forming in the skies above North Texas. Turns out, the weather was even worse than we thought the mornin ... More >>

Last Night: Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo Canlas at Dada

Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo CanlasDadaMay 24, 2011Better Than: Sitting in a bathtub at home with a dog and a baby both trying to eat each other.Pete Freedman's phoneHere We Go Magic goes unplugged. Because, you know, they had to.​First, there was a crash, followed by a series of booms, and th ... More >>

Yet Another Reminder of the Tornado of 1957

Courtesy the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Photo Library​From time to time over the years we've revisited the tornado of 1957, which, at the time, was easily the best-documented twister in history. There's even a whole website devoted to the F3 that killed 10 and "carved a sixt ... More >>

Sit Inside the Eye

Watch: The September Tornadoes Land A Direct Hit And Total Bonedome's Parked Band Van

The above fairly harrowing footage comes to us straight from the surveillance cameras mounted outside of Allan Hayslip's day job in West Dallas and focused on the warehouse's parking lot, where his Bonedome band van was parked as tornadoes ripped through the area in the early evening of September 8, ... More >>

Keep Your Eye On The Sky

Baby Cardinals

Bryan Floodway

Web MayfieldWe're under a tornado watch till 11 p.m., and Oncor's still working to get power to some 80,000 homes still in the hot, sticky dark. So, fittingly, we'll end this long, wet week with an image provided by Web Mayfield, taken yesterday on Bryan Parkway just east of Beacon Street. "Limbs, g ... More >>

Food For Thought 6.11.09

Apologies for the delays. The weather forecasts for yesterday evening called for a 30 percent chance of rain, so I spent part of my time in a tunnel at Pizza Hut Park and potential funnel clouds developed. Good thing they didn't say 40 percent--we'd have an F-5 tornado ripping through downtown.Anywa ... More >>

Wanna See Dallas Destroyed By an F5 Tornado? Then You're in Luck Tomorrow.

Back in April, Tom Korosec wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a story that asked, Just how prepared is Dallas for an F5 tornado? Short answer: Not very. But only because "it would be too big for a simple quick response," wrote city of Dallas emergency management director Kenny Shaw in the co ... More >>

A Killer F5 Tornado Rips Through Dallas County -- How Ready Are We for this Nightmare Scenario?

Now, Where's My Kite?

Best Press Release Ever

Cut Chemist

The Audience's Listening (Warner Bros.)

The Texas Tornadoes

Man Man

Monday, November 21, at the Cavern

Shawn Sahm, Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers

Friday, August 19th, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Up in the Air

Fort Worth's landmark Reata restaurant is back and waiting on a deal to save its home

Hash Over

Elementary Watson; Mixed hash

Hash Over

Rope twister; Mixed hash; List watch

Luscious Jackson
Ben Lee

Letters

And your little dog, too

Putting the audience in harm's way gives Twister its punch

Storm warning

When a tornado ripped through Lancaster, it also laid bare the city's racial wounds