A sobering stat: The National Human Trafficking Resource Center receives more calls from Texas than any other state, and 15 percent of those calls come from Dallas-Fort Worth, according to Sara Taylor with DFWTraffick, a local organization dedicated to combating sexual exploitation in the area. I heard from Taylor after…
I lost my Air Sex virginity a long time ago in New York City, and the experience was so pleasurable I just can’t stop coming back for more. I had a fab time judging the Air Sex Championships at Trees that were held back in August, and couldn’t have been…
Feliz morning, Unfair Amigos! I rolled into City Hall a few minutes ago and found myself standing amid many trendily slacks-ed, bottle-rim bespectacled folks up here in the sixth-floor council chambers. Those New Urbanists, they are a good-looking, if easily spotted, bunch. We’re here for the 21st Century City Conference…
Back in August, I drove out east to Jefferson to get a lesson in paranormal investigation at the Pride House, Texas’ first bed and breakfast and noted haunt spot favored by Southern Paranormal Investigations and Upshur Paranormal. I’m not sure if the house is inhabited by ghosts, but I do…
Bet if you knew that when you had kids you’d be sentenced to years of shelling out wads of cash to see dim-witted 3-D films created for the sole purpose of parental wallet-shredding (we are looking at you, Mastermind), you’d have gotten that puppy, right? And maybe built that wet…
Bet if you knew that when you had kids you’d be sentenced to years of shelling out wads of cash to see dim-witted 3-D films created for the sole purpose of parental wallet-shredding (we are looking at you, Mastermind), you’d have gotten that puppy, right? And maybe built that wet…
In a federal lawsuit filed last month in the Northern District Court of Texas, a Euless man and 10-year employee of Whataburger claims he was wrongfully terminated for marrying an African-American woman. Court documents say Michael Young was warned that Whataburger management was “old school” and that his relationship could…
I stopped by Dallas Animal Services over on Westmoreland Road this afternoon to check out the facilities in anticipation of the long-awaited and long-delayed Humane Society of the United States report about practices and conditions at the shelter. You may have heard of some of the problems as of late,…
Woke up Saturday morning with my head on fire after spending Friday evening trying to beer-away a truly horrible week. I wanted bar food. I needed a Bloody Mary. And possibly a wheelchair. After much discussion with the Man O’ The Hour, who gamely joined me in the Friday Night…
Middle o’ the day to you, Unfair Friends. I’m here at good old 6ES inside City Hall, liveblogging today’s Quality of Life Committee meeting, featuring Pauline Medrano, who has lost her voice and who is being spoken for by Vonciel Jones Hill. Joining us are David Neumann and Sheffie Kadane,…
The flirtatious waiter drops off the first round of Bloody Marys at the table of Mesquite High School alums, Class of ’77, gathered at the Buffalo Wild Wings over by Town East Mall for a girls night out. The Cowboys game against the Miami Dolphins is about to begin, but…
Victims of unsolved sexual assaults committed prior to 1996 will now need to contact the Dallas Police Department should they wish for DNA analysis to be conducted in hopes of identifying their attackers. In a press release sent out today in advance of an afternoon press conference with Deputy Chief…
Craig Watkins and Co. would like to remind you, as polls open in the thus-far highly contentious Dallas County District Attorney race, that Craig Watkins is committed to “protecting Dallas women.” With more than 1,000 rape kits backlogged — even Detective Olivia Benson is pissed about that — and sexual…
Dear Dean Fearing,Let me begin by saying how much I enjoyed the brunch I ate at your restaurant, Fearing’s, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday in Uptown. I had high expectations for a chef of your caliber. You are the Mansion on Turtle Creek guy, after all. You are known far…
Yesterday, I rode shotgun in Dwaine Caraway’s Beamer while he balled it up as only Dwaine Caraway can do, chatting with reporters, fist-bumping constituents and checking in on campaign workers encouraging voters to vote against the beer-and-wine proposition. It was an effort to counter the naysayers (though that’s probably a…
Someone, anyone, ‘splain me the mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a monkey riding a pig that is Fort Worth’s Sundance Square. It’s a tourist trap that feels authentic. It’s easy to park in and around. Locals seem to consider it a perfectly acceptable, if not downright fun, entertainment…
A little part of me dies inside every time another Lingerie Football League slide show graces the virtual pages of our paper product, but I understand that the unabashed ogling of scantily clad women is now, more than ever, what makes the legitimate news world go round (see Post, Huffington…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Dallas is no longer the city of J.R. Ewing. Mayor Tom Leppert said as much during the topping-off ceremony at the convention center hotel, and his message was reiterated today at the House of Blues during the Dallas Convention and Visitor’s Bureau annual meeting. Dallas CVB CEO…
It took Adalid Arteaga nearly two months to travel, on foot and by train, the 1,100 miles from Honduras to Nuevo Laredo last fall. Exhausted from the journey, Arteaga, at 43, was hardly the spry twentysomething he’d been the last time he’d illegally crossed into the United States. Crouching out…
It’s not that stand-up comics aren’t a bunch of go-getters. It’s rough work hitting up open mikes and going on the road for weeks before returning to ungainful employment. But comic Jose Sarduy isn’t another joke-cracking pizza delivery engineer–he’s an Air Force officer who worked on bits when he wasn’t…
Good morning, Friends o’ The Unfair Park. I’m poised alongside a couple of very handsome Dallas Morning News writers at an inadequately small Ikea work table somewhere high up in the Wyly Theatre in the Arts District — it’s that big building that looks like it’s made of bass guitar…
Walking into the crisp, white linen-and-dark wood decor of Rockwall’s Restaurant Ava on Sunday morning was a welcome change from my weekend of fireside beer-swilling in East Texas. It’s not that campfire kebabs and Jiffy Pop don’t make for a great meal, but it’s nice to go from one extreme…
