Critics of Uber say that without the heavy hand of city regulation, the app-based limo dispatching company won’t serve residents in poor neighborhoods. Critics of Yellow Cab complain that’s pretty much how things often work now. For our look at living car-free in Big D, Amy Silverstein pitted Yellow Cab…
For all the complaints about taxi service in Dallas — drivers often refuse to take credit cards, they dislike short hauls and sometimes they’re slow to arrive — making a living driving a cab in Dallas can be an iffy proposition. For our look at living car-free in Dallas, Amy…
If there’s any North Texas suburb known for having a healthy amount of pedestrian activity — Wait, is there? — it’s definitely not Frisco. Frisco is better suited for people in cars. But while the city’s sidewalks tend to be empty, it appears that the city is dealing with another,…
Investigators had their eye on the group of skinny horses roaming a property outside Greenville since January. That’s the when the Hunt County Constable’s Office and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals say they met with the owner of the horses to discuss their living conditions. Apparently,…
Shortly after a Dallas Police Department officer shot an unarmed teen last summer, there was a fairly simple explanation. The officers “responded to a burglary in progress,” police said. They found 19-year-old Gerardo Pinedo Jr. inside the house and ordered him to come outside and lie on the ground. He…
The way that Azleway Charter School Superintendent Steve Lenz describes it, his students wouldn’t last long at a regular old public school. Even the ones that aren’t hospitalized or in special ed are often several grades behind where they should be. They also tend to move a lot. “Some of…
It turns out that Arlington, of all places, is home to a sustainable garden/hippie residence called the Garden of Eden. Naturally, Arlington does not approve. Suspecting that the hippies were growing weed, officials first sent a manned aircraft over the Garden of Eden last year. Undercover officers paid a visit…
Dallas has lots of awesome places to shop, and also some cool neighborhoods that aren’t malls. But it’s easy to confuse the two. Most recently, in a piece celebrating Dallas’ transition toward walkable neighborhoods, the DMN pointed to the West Village as a place “often cited as Dallas’ most promising…
It might seem like an obvious point: no, you can’t just start a massive industrial operation right next to a middle-class residential neighborhood. Most homeowners aren’t cool with that. But Dallas-based EagleRidge Energy has boldly gone ahead and extracted oil on sites next to a few Denton residential communities anyway,…
In October, the Duncanville Police Department responded to what they vaguely described as a “major disturbance.” After they arrived, a 28-year-old man named Clinton Peterson somehow ended up getting shot to death. The police department admitted this much in a press release published shortly after the shooting. But cops provided…
If you’ve ever felt the urge to buy a single pair of fancy underpants for $16 from a bunch of bros with cool Facebook pictures, then you may have heard of Jonathan Shokrian. In the tech and fashion press, he’s known as the CEO of a very hip underwear website…
When a few Dallas cops arrested a woman hanging out in the 4300 block of Colonial Avenue last year, it seemed obvious they weren’t catching a criminal who had a ton of money. Officers Charles Moreland and Clayton Edwards were working undercover on March 28 when they came across Amber…
It’s not easy to call the cops on your boyfriend when he’s a powerful judge, but in the beginning, it seemed that the law was on Maggie Strother’s side. Dallas Police Department officers visited the Uptown condo of state District Judge Carlos Cortez on December 28. There, Strother showed them…
At least six people were injured by blocks of ice and snow sliding off the roof of Cowboys Stadium during Super Bowl Week in 2011. But in the aftermath, Arlington officials suggested that the guy who suffered the worst injuries had only himself to blame. In emails released by the…
Women are taught by fashion magazines and reality shows to have a deep respect for the designers who make their clothes. But no one warns women that this respect doesn’t go both ways. Spend enough time shopping, and it becomes clear that the fashion industry is made of creepy old…
Just a few days after the Weather Channel published a damning, in-depth report documenting how natural gas drilling is wreaking havoc on Texas’ air quality, a group of wealthy property owners outside Dallas are dealing with another dark side of the energy boom: a really ugly water tower. Residents of…
If Hayes Carll wants more in life than to play music for good people and write clever one-liners, he showed no signs of it last night at the Double Wide. Maybe it’s an act, but he does a good job of faking it. Here are some of the most Hayes…
Last fall, Eagleridge Energy won some permits to frack right next to a few Denton neighborhoods, despite a new city ordinance that was supposed to keep the company farther away. The city said sorry, it was powerless to stop Eagleridge, because the company had found an extremely clever loophole. So…
The people of Fort Worth have been doing a good job of using their water sparingly, and that has the Fort Worth Water Department very, very worried. Recent news reports claim that Fort Worth has been bleeding cash because of its noble water conservation efforts. The city lost $11 million…
Few people on the Dallas City Council seemed to be aware that the city owns over 21,000 square feet of land in Kaufman County until Wednesday, the day the land was up for sale. “I do not even know why we own that property, frankly,” councilman Philip Kingston tells Unfair…
When Lyft rolled into Dallas last fall, it was a popular cab alternative for city-dwellers who couldn’t afford Uber’s “surge pricing” and who also didn’t need to travel very far. But that’s about to change. Starting tomorrow afternoon, Lyft’s service area in Dallas will expand to a much bigger grid…
We know that a Wendy Davis-governed Texas would probably be more into preserving natural resources than a Texas ruled by Greg Abbott, who has sued the EPA a modest 17 times. But in a state famous for its lax environmental regulations, how much tougher would Davis be? Local environmental issues,…
