Southwest Airlines posted a cheeky little game on their Facebook page: Check out these seemingly identical photos of our stewardesses from the ‘first hostess class’ in 1971 and find the 10 differences (it’s sort of fun). Our first thought: Southwest hired go-go dancers as stewardesses? (check out the one woman’s…
Turns out, the people of Dallas don’t care much for voting — Dallas County ranked fourth in the state (out of 254 counties) for the fewest ballots cast among voting-age people. Even Harris County had a slightly better turnout, which unfortunately means the Asshole of the Universe, has us beat…
For the past three and a half years, Benny Barrett taught Latin at a Catholic high school in Waco. Now he’s living on the streets and in homeless shelters in downtown Dallas. Except, that is, when he needs a break. “My job was killing me,” Barrett says, sitting at a…
If you need wheels to leave town for the weekend or if your windshield looks like a spider web after this week’s hailstorm, don’t wait until the last minute to get a car. You will be turned down by several rental companies, and you will be among a few lucky…
Three additional suspects were indicted yesterday for allegedly dousing a puppy in flammable liquid and lighting it on fire at a Pleasant Grove apartment complex in early April. The puppy, named Justice by people who rescued it, ultimately died from the burns that covered most of its body. Darius Ewing,…
Texas has become the top destination for refugee resettlement, with Dallas the second largest hub, according to recent statistics. It became the main destination for resettlement as of last year, rising from number five in 2001. In an article earlier this week, the Houston Chronicle reported that Texas’ rise in…
Meet the average modern Texas prisoner, released in 2009. He spent 2.8 years behind bars — 32 percent more time than his average prisoner predecessor released in 1990. If he was busted for a violent crime, he spent 5.3 years locked up, a 44 percent increase from his predecessor in…
The other day, Unfair Park chatted with filmmaker Bentley Brown about his film Faisal Goes West, the tale of a Sudanese family moving to America and settling in Dallas’ Vickery Meadow neighborhood. Brown mentioned his friend who convinced him to film in Dallas (and acted as script supervisor) started Refugee…
Republican candidates in Texas are historically bad at courting Hispanic voters, so it’s no wonder senate candidate Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst welcomes a novel approach: a debate in Spanish with his run-off challenger, the Tea Party sweetheart Ted Cruz. We hope this happens. We hope it happens with the same…
Filmmaker Bentley Brown was born in Dallas, but he moved to Chad with his family when he was eleven. It was in high school there that he began making short films with friends. Brown returned to the States for college at Emory and, for a time, suppressed his post-grad predisposition…
Join Unfair Park once again as we delve into the deep and thorny question: Where exactly can the fracking company Trinity East drill for natural gas in the city of Dallas? Today’s episode: The Corps of the Matter. A story this week in the Morning News pointed out that the…
If Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins has a direct foil in the state of Texas, it’s soon-to-be-former Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley. Watkins, actively pursuing innocence claims and making Dallas the leading county for exonerations in Texas, is an outlier, albeit one who is gaining supporters around the country…
Elliot Monteverde-Torres, the third-grade math teacher at Felix G. Botello Elementary School in Oak Cliff, hasn’t seen the district’s report regarding his complaint against the school’s principal, but he knows it isn’t favorable for him. Like us, he heard that the district had finished the report, which it was required…
It was unusual when Jakadrien Turner’s grades in high school began to falter after the death of her grandfather nearly two years ago. She was typically a good student and didn’t look for trouble. But after her grandfather’s death, she began acting out, according to legal documents, and in this…
As most people who follow the news know by now, since Craig Watkins became Dallas County district attorney in 2007, 33 local men have been exonerated of crimes they didn’t commit. But what does this number mean in the context of the rest of the nation, and what are the…
What is the single most embarrassing thing that could happen to a college? Accidentally writing ‘pubic’ in the school’s title in the graduation program, of course. Hands down. No, not down there, gosh. And with the tagline ‘Unlimited Possibilities’ … you just cannot make this stuff up. To the graduates…
Rick Halperin, head of SMU’s human rights program, has been saying for years what became nationally recognized this week: “Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man,” to borrow a headline from the Atlantic. Halperin has spent his career doing the academic equivalent of banging his head against the wall…
Michelle Flores finished her bartending shift at a Dallas nightclub and was driving home to Fort Worth late Sunday night when someone pulled alongside her car, mouthing ‘Your tire, your tire … pull over.’ The 35-year-old mother of three would have normally ignored such a warning, but this time pulled…
It was Dallas city council member Tennell Atkins who, during yesterday’s discussion of the city’s still-far-off gas-drilling regulations, posed the million-dollar question. “Do you think that it’s safe to drill in the city of Dallas?” he asked task force chair Lois Finkelman. Finkelman was noncommittal. That left others to speak…
If you’re high right now, you may want to tune in. Try not to giggle. A University Texas at Dallas professor was awarded nearly $2 million dollars to study marijuana addiction for the next five years. We’re talking pot, the addiction suffered in silence — or in inappropriate laughter at…
Four years have passed since Trinity East signed on as the largest gas lease-holder with the city of Dallas, and the company still doesn’t know when it will be allowed to drill its first well — if ever. As the company’s name suggests, Trinity East wants to drill for natural…
Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders, recently accepted more than 1,100 students for its inaugural school year, and hundreds of those students are slated to attend its campus in Oak Cliff. The question is whether that campus will even be available to the school…
