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Promise Peace Garden Hosts Okra Palooza to Raise Funds For New Garden

Recently Brittany Nunn with the Lakewood Advocate covered the proposed new Promise of Peace garden in a three part series (one, two and three). The garden is set to take over some space in a parking lot at the White Rock United Methodist Church (WRUMC) in the Little Forest Hills neighborhood. And, ... More >>

East Dallas' Promise of Peace Garden is Moving, and its New Neighbors Aren't Happy

The Promise of Peace Community Garden is in an awful location, shoehorned into a formerly vacant lot in a row of apartments and liquor stores just south of White Rock Lake, reachable only by a narrow sidewalk running along busy Grand Avenue. Nevertheless, the spot has served the garden's needs ever ... More >>

Protesters Planning Demonstration at George W. Bush Presidential Center Opening

The George W. Bush Presidential Center, construction of which has clogged up the eastern part of the SMU campus for years now, will be christened at a private ceremony on April 25. The former president will be there, as will wife Laura and an unspecified numbers of alumni from the Bush-Cheney admini ... More >>

Add Purpose To Your Day

Five Dallas Shows That Need to Happen, But Probably Never Will

Over the past few years, Dallas has seen an influx of house shows, the creation of an annual festival in the heart of downtown and new venues popping up left and right. Which got us thinking: how adventurous could we really get? What locations or venues are sorely in need of some live music, if by a ... More >>

"Tired of Being Ignored and Insulted," Paul Quinn Students Round Up Powerful and Familiar Faces for City Hall Protest

Photo by Danny HurleyPaul Quinn College President Michael J. Sorrell at the flow-control protest before the council's vote last month​New Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is in for the first serious grassroots challenge to his leadership -- a march on City Hall announced today by a broad-based coalition ... More >>

Coalition That Wanted Nolan Estes to Return as Interim DISD Super Now Has Name, Agenda

The Rev. Zan Holmes​Back in June, some two dozen educators, religious leaders and activists -- among them The Rev. Zan Holmes, John Fullinwider, Frederick Haynes III, Diane Ragsdale and Beverly Mitchell-Brooks -- urged the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees to appoint former DISD ... More >>

Tomorrow, the Farewell to Jerry Haynes

​Many Friends of Unfair Park have asked when Jerry Haynes's funeral will take place. It will be tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church at Northwest Highway and Inwood. Initially, Haynes's family had considered two services -- a private one for family, and a public memorial la ... More >>

Korn, Boots Electric, Pure X, and This Week's Show Announcements

​It would be a stretch to say that this week's show announcements are all that strong. There are some notable ones -- though perhaps not for the right reasons. For instance: On Sunday, November 20, the Palladium Ballroom has Korn and a handful of opening acts with names that don't mean anythi ... More >>

Time For Another John Wiley Price Rally. This One, With Politicians and a Bounce House.

Click to embiggen your invitation​Speaking of a certain Dallas County commissioner ...The Dallas chapter of the National Black United Front, which is not to be confused with the People's Front of Judea, sends word of a daylong rally scheduled for August 20 at the Pan-African Connection Bookstore n ... More >>

"Raising Hell Till Heaven Comes": At Sunday's Fund-Raising Rally For John Wiley Price

​Yesterday's "Justice for John" event at the St. Luke "Community" United Methodist Church was all kinds of things: a rally in support of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who entered to chants of "John! John! John!" before taking his seat near the back; a fund-raiser for his legal defen ... More >>

Author, Professor Michael Eric Dyson Will Speak at Sunday's "Justice For John" Rally

​On Tuesday Jim noted the rally for John Wiley Price scheduled for 4:30 p.m. this Sunday at the St. Luke "Community" United Methodist Church on East R.L. Thornton Freeway. But, moments ago, we received further details from Vincent Hall, the Dallas County commissioner's office manager, who notes vi ... More >>

Those Who Opposed Bush Presidential Center at SMU Still Opposed to Bush Presidential Center

George W. Bush Presidential CenterThe baseball Bush used to throw out the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series in New York City after September 11, 2001​They won't break ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU till November 16, around the time his book's released. But beginnin ... More >>

A Few of Dallas's Most Beautiful and Historic Churches Could Really Use New Owners

That church-turned-home on East Side Avenue keeps getting less and less expensive.​I was looking for something entirely unrelated on LoopNet this afternoon when I came across this: The family trying to sell the former St. John's United Methodist Church on East Side Avenue has come off its asking p ... More >>

During Friday's Rally for Flotilla Casualties, A Reflection of Gaza Down at Dealey Plaza

Patrick MichelsA pro-Palestine rally at Dealey Plaza on Friday afternoon ended with a march to Memorial Park, a show of solidarity with activists trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. You'll find more photos in our slide show. The long war over Gaza played out in miniature down at Dealey Plaza ... More >>

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Dear Autograph

Memorial Services Set For Tomorrow For Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball

Bill Holston, good Friend of Unfair Park, asks us this morning to make mention of tomorrow's memorial service for the Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball, whose battle with cancer was documented in The Dallas Morning News only a few days before her death on Tuesday. In both pieces, the 50-year-old Baskin-Ball ... More >>

Cynthia Dunbar, Meet Michael Piazza. Michael Piazza, Meet Cynthia Dunbar.

I have been worried about why George W. Bush wants to move back to Dallas. What does it say about us that he feels welcome here? Obviously he has chosen an address that may be outside the Park Cities proper but is still solidly within "The Bubble."He will be living in what may well be the only pla ... More >>

He So Married: Notes from Luther Campbell's Dallas Nuptials

In Dallas, a Meeting of Methodists, With SMU and Bush Library on the Agenda

Whatever Happened to That Presidential Library Disclosure Bill, Anyhows?

Yet Again, a Last-Ditch Effort to Keep Bush Think Tank Off SMU Campus

Double Chuck

He's Osgood as he wants to be

Protests Are a Gas, Gas, Gas

View from the Top

Local choirs unite for peace

A Little Funk and Folk With Your "Bush Lied" Chants This Afternoon

Couldn't SMU Just Retire His Jersey?

Dream, Weaver: How One SMU Grad's Doing His Damnedest to Stop the Bush Policy Center

Methodists Against the SMU Bush Library Aren't Giving Up Just Yet

Blues Legends, Recorded Live in Dallas, Are Up for a Grammy Award

Beating Around the Bush Library at SMU

Erin Go Fiesta

Give Peace A Chance

See art, not war, at the Ice House

The Gospel of Clear Skin

Djore sings at St. Luke

Call to Arms

Paul Rusesabagina gives us a wake-up call

Mansions of the O.C.

Peep Show

Voyeurism, with appetizers, during Around the Table home tour

One Love

Religions unite in prayer

Letters

Down to the Grounds, Hate Kills, Deseg or Reseg?

Lee's Library

A senior citizen takes on City Hall the old-fashioned way-- she charms it

Secular, But Equal

Third Eye's Kwanzaa

His honor

Former Dallas Mayor Wallace Savage brought a conscience to unprincipled politics

Helping themselves

Ministers hope to do something Dallas developers won't -- build homes in South Oak Cliff

The facilitator

Albertson's new spin doctor is here for you (like it or not)

Holiday Highlights

Events for the week

Events for the week

Events for the week

A strange goodbye

Odd sights--and musings--at Mickey Mantle's funeral