While filmmaker Ivana Corsale was growing up in Sicily, the Camorra crime network was slowly transforming a region just north of her home, known as the Campania felix, into a toxic wasteland with decades of illicit dumping.The environmental degradation of the land the Romans named the “happy country” is the…
Backed by a new group of law-enforcing backers calling themselves “Crime Fighters for Kunkle,” former Dallas police chief and mayoral hopeful David Kunkle took a minute this morning to cast himself as a force for sunshine and justice at City Hall. Introduced by David Dean, chairman of board of the…
We’ve all been there: Dressed in your black-tie best, small forks lightly clanging on miniature plates, light conversation about politics or art, and suddenly…cheese. There, on the waiter’s tray between you and the sophisticate you’ve been struggling to impress all night, and not a label in sight. Parrano or robusto?…
Pamela Weatherby, a 45-year-old Big Spring woman — and, according to a federal suit filed Monday in Dallas, an “unstable insulin dependent diabetic” — was serving a one-year sentence for drug possession at Dawson State Jail when she died last July. Now her parents and two sons say Weatherby would…
Those lightweights at Dallas City Hall didn’t go full-frat with, say, a blue-painted bare chest workday to support the Mavericks before tonight’s big game. But with a few gallon jugs of pond water-tint technology, the city’s taking care of business today atop a shimmering pool of deep Mavs blue.At 10…
A week ago today, as you may recall, the University of Texas at Austin’s Energy Institute announced they’d be joining the growing ranks of universities with major studies of hydraulic fracturing, with a $300,000, nine-month project of their own. Today, thanks to the Texas Tribune and KUT News, you can…
If you’ve been evicted without a heads-up in the last two years or so, Dallas County would like to apologize. This morning, County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners John Wiley Price and Maureen Dickey did so in person at the County Administration Building, where they announced the findings of a…
In these final days of the 82nd Texas Legislature, lawmakers in Austin are throwing support behind Eastlake Rep. Jim Keffer’s bill that’d require drillers to report the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing at each of their drill sites. The bill got an overwhelming nod from the House yesterday (and just…
As Alice related earlier this afternoon, there was a serious crowd out in Frisco for this morning’s In-N-Out Burger grand opening. Covered in In-N-Out gear, giving friends a play-by-play while they stood around in line, they all had pretty much the same question for anyone on their way out the…
There’s really no bad time to check back in on construction at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science — but especially on a day like today, when some serious money has just changed hands. In a ceremony high atop the next-door Park Seventeen building, the museum announced Texas Instruments…
If you’d been in one particular basement in Arlington a little more than an hour ago, you would’ve stood square in the middle of a fairly strange scene: Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa standing around, cheerful and well-dressed in a light gray suit, a few feet from American League MVP…
A year ago today, Mattito’s in Uptown burst onto the local competitive eating scene with its first ever Bob Armstrong queso eating contest — a five-minute race to down as much of the famous mix of cheese, ground beef, guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo as possible.Last year, Teresa…
At a campaign forum in far western Oak Cliff’s Mountain Creek neighborhood last night, David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings each said that if elected mayor, they’d push for a moratorium on gas drilling.”As I try to better understand the impact of the gas drilling issue, I believe that I’m becoming…
Harmony Public Schools, Texas’ largest chain of charter schools, packed all but the uppermost tier of the Winspear last night for a celebration of its 10th anniversary. The 33-school chain is built on a math, science and engineering curriculum — a popular talking point among a series of lawmakers who,…
Not sure if there’s more fun to be had this election season than at the North Texas GLBT Chamber’s mayoral forum tonight, moderated by both Robert and Schutze — but tomorrow night in far western Oak Cliff sure might come close. That’s where all four candidates for mayor, plus District…
Once news began circulating that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a gunfight at his safe-house outside Islamabad, it wasn’t long before America’s cultural taste-makers got to work. News anchors got their makeup on. Pundits nuanced. Poets cried. But, like they did almost 10 years ago, in the deepest…
In the grand tradition of the pie- and taco-photo-tours we’ve taken around Dallas, today we draw your attention to our latest visual gutbuster: The Greatest Mac ‘n’ Cheese in Dallas. Over the past few weeks, we gathered up your suggestions over Twitter and dispatched photographer Sara Kerens to take a…
Natural gas activist and blogger Sharon Wilson was among the environmentalists out at Earth Day last weekend — not far from the EPA’s six-foot cardboard Al Armendariz — and she was passing out copies of a new report she’d helped produce on gas drilling in the Barnett Shale. Produced by…
On the way through Expo Park this morning, I just happened to catch a glimpse of a few big trucks, some folks in sweatshirts and two cops all surrounding a bright red sports car in an alley — and while my instinct was still to search the crowd for Bradley…
This week, the Paper Version of Unfair Park features a longer look at a guy who’s already turned up here a few times over the past few months: Denton lawyer and Internet porn pirate hunter Evan Stone. (Not that Evan Stone, though he is a Dallas native.) The story details…
About a hundred women and men rallied up at the JFK Memorial Plaza over the weekend for Dallas’s very own SlutWalk, a stroll through downtown to fight the popular notion that it’s fair to blame a woman for anything from cat-calls to sexual assault based on how she’s dressed. In…
If you were out downtown this morning, you might’ve spotted that crowd in the photo above, marching down Main carrying a cross and signs. Every now and then, they stopped to catch attention from construction workers and dog-walkers, and to preach about something they said has been missing from any…
