You’ve probably heard about the nine researchers with real Ph.D.s who are on a mission to prove that the Bible’s version of how the Earth formed is real, using scientific evidence. Sure, many pastors have argued for years that the creation story in Genesis shouldn’t be taken literally and that…
When questions arise about how investigators handled a suspicious death case, or when they appear to have possibly caused the death themselves, they usually don’t comment about what happened because the investigation is ongoing and it will take a very long time to solve. It’s a logical enough explanation in…
After two years of scrutiny, controversy and corruption, the Texas Education Agency last month finally announced that it would revoke the charter of Prime Prep Academy, the publicly funded charter school founded and led by Deion Sanders. With the school plotting its appeal, the hits have only continued, in the…
When British artist Mishka Henner was looking through satellite photographs of the Texas landscape, he kept finding huge, brown pools of water. The pools, as he discovered, were the toilets of the beef industry, waste lagoons where all the feces and urine of factory farmed cows is funneled. Texas cow…
Ever since a doctor from Fort Worth became one of two Americans recently infected with the Ebola virus on a mercy trip in Liberia, the Western public has developed a renewed interest in the rare disease, often described as incurable. For researchers like University of Texas virologist Dr. Thomas Geisbert,…
What kind of rich people would be more fun to have living along the Katy Trail — family-oriented rich people who prefer short buildings, or fast-paced rich people in high-rises? The current property on 4719 Cole Ave. is not habitable for any type of rich people. The Saltillo apartments building…
If the point of a plastic bag fee is get people to stop using plastic bags, then it may not make sense to give the bags away to people who can’t afford the fee, though the Texas Department of State Health Services says poor people on federal aid shouldn’t have…
Freight trains that everyone says are way too old to still be working keep carrying more and more gallons of volatile crude oil through busy cities. What could possibly go wrong? Explosions. And do Unfair Park readers live in the path of these potential explosion sites? Probably. Dallas, like most…
Mood Indigo is bitter candy, a heartbreaker that uses sugar as a trap. The director, Michel Gondry, has a brilliant, contradictory brain. He’s a swoony pessimist, a big-dreaming romantic who believes in love at first sight but never lets his films end with a kiss. Instead, his idea of a…
It’s perfectly legal to film people who don’t want to be filmed as long as it’s all happening in public. If you’re trying to provoke an asshole into kicking your ass without breaking the law yourself, getting a camera and the courage to overzealously use it may just be your…
We know the real estate industry is doing well in North Texas because we keep getting stuck in traffic at huge construction sites. If you have an idea for a weird new thing you’d like to be built in Dallas, local Realtors are a good, powerful group to get on…
In 2011, there were 44 abortion clinics in Texas. By September, providers expect that number to drop to somewhere around six. While big-name health organizations like Planned Parenthood are trying to open new clinics that comply with strict state laws or challenge lawmakers in court, a scrappy protest group Stop…
The man from California who called himself Old School seemed like a legitimate customer because he actually smoked the crack he purchased. That was Earnest Jones’ test to make sure he wasn’t selling to an informant. “He made quite a few buys from me,” says Jones, who was a street…
How many Walmarts does a city need to thrive? People living in the hip circle of neighborhoods surrounding downtown Dallas say we have enough Walmarts, Walmart-affiliated stores and other big boxes to sustain us and it’s time to consider some development that isn’t a giant box and acres of ashphalt…
The Texas Education Agency is still investigating the Deion Sanders-founded and publicly funded Prime Prep charter school, after officials announced plans to revoke the school’s charter for mishandling funds intended for the school lunch program. Prime Prep is appealing and hopes to stay open. But school lunch funds are just…
Many homeowners on Swiss Avenue have been victims of patio furniture theft this summer. Exactly how many items of furniture were stolen, who the criminals are and who complained about it remain a mystery. There are no reports. We just know there were patio furniture thefts because people are saying…
State regulators have revoked the charter of Prime Prep Academy, Deion Sanders’ troubled DFW charter school, over problems with its school-lunch program. Barring a successful hail mary from the school, Sanders’ days as a wannabe public educator are over, and it was byzantine federal grant rules that did him in…
After listening to testimony from hundreds of speakers stretching past 2 a.m. this morning, the Denton City Council ultimately voted not to ban fracking, instead sending a petition asking for a ban to voters. But while most on City Council were hesitant about passing an all-out ban — it was…
The initiative to ban fracking in Denton started out as many seemingly hopeless political campaigns often do, just a petition by angry homeowners fighting a well-funded industry that had already trampled the Denton City Council in court and follow-up negotiations. But now that little petition has nearly 2,000 signatures, more…
Future Texas Governor Greg Abbott hates nothing more than he hates abortions, Planned Parenthood and other women’s-health-related things, leading the Texas Democratic Party to describe him as “public enemy number one for women in Texas.” But now, in a major national fight pitting women’s health advocates against a corporate giant,…
Terrorists like acetone peroxide because it’s the rare explosive that doesn’t contain nitrogen, the key ingredients bomb detectors search for. It’s also cheap, easy to make at home and so unstable that sometimes people accidentally blow themselves up when they’re still putting their bombs together. As a British newspaper reported…
If you think Texas’ highways are too beautiful to sully with cheap, unpermitted signs, you’re not alone. Under the Highway Beautification Transportation Code, the Texas Department of Transportation has some very strict, un-Texas-like regulations dictating the types of signs people can display. First, for what is allowed: businesses along highways…
