They’ve stopped looking for pieces of the “fireball” down in West, where, apparently, it’s plowin’ season. And once the plows start turning up the fields, the samples, which already look like regular old rocks, are going to be difficult to spot. Furthermore, the landowners down there have gotten greedy –…
Spiatzas Pizzeria2001 N. Lamar214-999-0066 Promised delivery time: 25 minutesActual delivery time: 30 minutesThe ScoreIt’s a family-owned business: 40 Took 30 minutes instead of 25 to deliver: -5 A laid back attitude despite being the only remaining business in West End Marketplace: 50 A pizzeria with no pesto sauce: -20 No…
I’m on a tight budget — but, right, who isn’t? So when my boyfriend suggested we check out the inventory of police-confiscated property for sale at a nearby warehouse, I jumped at the opportunity.The City Store, located off Stemmons Freeway on Irving Boulevard, sells seized property, lost junk and city…
Have you been putting off that dinner party because you have nothing exciting to serve? Probably not. We realize it’s more likely that you’ve been low on funds. But perhaps it’s because you have no friends. Nonsense! We are your friends! However, if the party has been delayed because indeed…
Nearly 450 Dallas-area businesses are for sale at this very moment, priced from $12,000 to $17 million. And, it so happens, many of those those buying in are those recently laid off. So says Douglas Batts, a business broker at BizBuySell.com, which fancies itself “the Internet’s largest business for sale…
This week, state Sen. Jane Nelson, a Republican from Flower Mound, introduced legislation to combat childhood obesity by requiring more P.E. time for school-age children. S.B. 890 was one of three pieces of legislation she introduced this week “designed to improve the health of Texas’ youth,” according to her press…
Dallas County Health & Human Services’s monthly Public Health Preparedness Update is a great read full of fascinating tidbits — lots of stuff this go-round about expanded HIV testing capabilities, the flu “outbreak,” second-hand smoke and so forth. But one tiny Page 2 piece piqued our interest: The county’s trying…
Late yesterday, as the world was celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, we spoke to, um, Charles Darwin — by which we mean the pastoral counselor and life coach with a practice in Dallas. Unfair Park wasn’t the first and won’t be the last to approach Darwin about the relationship between…
Judge David Lopez has been presiding over the 256th Family District Court for more than two years, and on any given day, he grants around 15 divorces. This morning, though, he was busier than usual: On this day before Valentine’s Day, Lopez upped the number of splits to an even…
Two Dallas police officers testified they felt pushed to make at least two DWI arrests per night, but stopped short of saying the department has a quota system, according to court documents obtained by Unfair Park.”It’s not necessarily a quota,” Officer Robert Wilcox told a Dallas jury on January 13…
That billboard pictured at right is currently hovering somewhere over a Philadelphia neighborhood; cities in Arizona and Colorado already have one too. Dallas is next, courtesy the fund-raising efforts of the Metroplex Atheists. Terry McDonald, chairman of the group, tells Unfair Park there are about 200 members of the Metroplex…
“When you analyze and evaluate something, by definition you are also looking at any strengths and any weaknesses.” The recent debate about how evolution should be taught in public schools revealed two things about the Texas State Board of Education. First, it showed that the board will listen to its…
Everybody needs a hobby, and, of course, Avi Adelman’s is keeping track of Lower Greenville’s drunks. Adelman, who’s taken his obsession to YouTube in recent months, has now gone one step further: He’s published the full names of 950 folks arrested on public intoxication charges during 2008. Click here to…
