The furry fellow you see at right is Bill, my across-the-street neighbor’s 12-year-old cat who, sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning, was chopped in half, his front quarters deposited in another neighbor’s front lawn. In a next-door neighbor’s front yard was the back half of a second cat, this…

How timely. Hours ago, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins rebuked The Dallas Morning News for saying he was “sitting on the sidelines” rather than investigating Dallas County Constables Derick Evans and Jaime Cortes’s “too-cozy” relationship with Dowdy Ferry Auto Service. Then, just moments ago, this invite to a 1:30…

We’ve said it before: Sooner or later, we’ll own a 7-Eleven location or just work at one. The Dallas-based convenience-store chain’s been making a concerted effort to expand since last summer, and it’s been reaching out to potential franchisees, including the wanna-be boss looking to take over an existing location…

For the last four years, the Texas Department of Transportation and the North Central Texas Council of Governments have been restricting big rigs from driving in the left lane along small sections of I-20 and I-30. And they’re delighted with the results of the pilot program: Dan Kessler, NTCOG assistant…

Is what you see above the future of Dallas? Don’t know. Hard to say. But, as we’ve said often in recent months, John Greenan (executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation) and Brent Brown (founder of bcWORKSHOP) are determined to turn a parking lot behind Dallas City Hall into…

If you’ve got the time this morning, you should check out the live feed of the city council’s budget workshop, where, at the moment, the topic of discussion is the Park and Recreation cuts. Earlier, council member Ann Margolin told City Manager Mary Suhm she’s concerned about the trims to…

Couple of weeks back we had a very brief chat with Kent Robertson, manager of Dallas Animal Services and star of the city’s “Pet of the Week” videos, about the recent rise in animal adoptions — more than 40 a week in recent weeks. Courtesy a briefing doc prepare for…

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, via this New York Times story about today’s cash-for-clunkers deadline, I’m the proud owner of one of the most popular trade-ins: a Jeep Cherokee, which is starting to drive like today’s its expiration date as well. So, how’d it go for locals? The…

For those Friends of Unfair Park who haven’t read through the entire FY2009-2010 proposed city of Dallas budget, the city council’s biting off tiny pieces during regularly scheduled briefings in advance of the September 23 pass-by date. There’s yet another budget workshop tomorrow morning at Dallas City Hall, during which…

Just as I was getting ready to post photos from last night’s Star Wars art shindig at The Soda Gallery, a Friend of Unfair Park sent word this morning: The Star Wars: In Concert tour is scheduled to land at the Death Star itself — Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome — on…

What you’ll find below is the first episode of what we hope will become a weekly series starring Jim Schutze and former Dallas City Council member Sandra Crenshaw, who’ve been spending way too much time together in an auxiliary courtroom at the Earle Cabell during the Dallas City Hall federal…

Been spending quite a bit of time in Oak Cliff of late, and if you need me ’round 6 tomorrow eve, no doubt I’ll be accompanying the 6-year-old who lives in my house to The Soda Gallery for the Star Wars Fan Appreciation Art Show — otherwise known as “These…

The Los Angeles Times has sniffed out an article published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, in which researchers from Baylor University Medical Center on Gaston Ave. and Japan write about a new test that diagnoses various gastrointestinal cancers by analyzing DNA fragments in feces. All you…

Much thanks to Kevin in the comments down below for spotting this gem amongst Angela Hunt’s photos from her trip to Long Beach. Michael who? Tom wha?…

Speaking of the city and technological advancements involving one’s talking box …This morning on her ever-active Web site, Angela Hunt wonders why in the heck Dallas doesn’t have an iPhone app that lets residents “snap photos of nuisances and code violations and send them off to city hall (geo-tagged, no…

This week, the city of Dallas is pushing — hard — its Reverse 911 Emergency Notification System, which thus far has been used twice to notify folks of, um, an emergency (the most recent event necessitating the calls was the June 11 flooding near the Trinity River in West Dallas)…

Last night the Old 97’s officially welcomed Dallas’s second attempt at a Hard Rock Cafe  to what I believe is called Victory Park. So too did a host of other dignitaries, among them Dancing With the Stars star Michael Irvin, a former football player of some renown who kindly offered…