The Rangers lost again yesterday. It’s the eighth defeat in a row and 22nd out of 25 for a franchise that’s won at least 90 games in each of the past four seasons. It was the latest lowlight in series that’s been — Yu Darvish and Adrian Beltre excepted –…
District Judge Emily Tobolowsky issued an order Friday blocking, at least for now, developer Trammell Crow’s plan to build a 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club in Cityplace, just north downtown. Residents in the neighborhood near Haskell Avenue and Central Expressway won a temporary restraining order that prevents the city from issuing building…
As expected, the Dallas City Plan Commission voted this afternoon to approve the Trammell Crow backed plan for the area surrounding U.S. 75 and Haskell Avenue. The plan, for a development that’s been labeled the East Village, was presented to neighbors as being for a walkable, diverse multi-use outcropping. To…
The vast majority of the time, Glenn Beck should not be taken seriously. You shouldn’t put all of your savings in gold no matter what the North Texas radio and TV host tells you, and you probably shouldn’t take any of what he says as anything but performance art. In…
U.S. Representative Marc Veasey doesn’t have a Republican opponent in Congressional District 33, which is made up of gerrymandered swaths of Oak Cliff, Irving and Tarrant County. That doesn’t mean he’s running unopposed, just that his sole challenger happens to be Jason Reeves, a California-born Libertarian whose most recent political…
East Village Association, a group representing residents who live near the proposed East Village development, has filed a request for a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction against the city of Dallas and the Plan Commission to block a zoning change that would allow construction of a 130,000-square-foot Sam’s…
It’s not every Tuesday that you see reporters from three Dallas TV stations live tweeting a Dallas County Commissioners’ meeting, but that’s just what happened today. Why the hubbub? This meeting was a de facto public hearing on County Judge Clay Jenkins’ plan to house up to 2,000 undocumented minors…
Late last month, local media buzzed with the news that our very own Prince Fielder, the hulking, injured, $168 million albatross currently not playing first base for the Rangers, would be making an appearance in ESPN the Magazine. Naked. Because why the hell not? See also: Prince Fielder to Appear…
You don’t get to be a billionaire — or OK, now just a high multi-millionaire — by letting people skate on debts. Our favorite local college football fan, YMCA patron and wind energy enthusiast is no exception. Last summer, T. Boone Pickens sued William Franke, founder of Swift Boat Veterans…
When last Unfair Park checked in on Mark Burroughs, the then sitting Denton mayor was holding hostage a piece of artwork belonging previous owner of his Arts District luxury condo, socialite Angela Barrett. Barrett sued the Burroughs for the return of “Vertigo,” a Teresita Fernandez sculpture. Earlier this month a…
Damon McClendon has been in this spot before. For the second time in less than five years, the North Texas man was arrested for spending counterfeit U.S. currency. The first time around, in 2008 and 2009, McClendon was a participant in a ring that created non-legal tender created using an…
Community leaders in Oak Cliff’s Elmwood neighborhood are happy that an illegal casino has been crippled by the Dallas Police Department, after they spent months putting up with nuisances and threats from it and its patrons. Elmwood residents first noticed something out of the ordinary was going on at the…
Houston-area House member Steve Stockman never fails to make Unfair Park grateful it’s based in DFW rather than anywhere near the congressman’s Bayou City fiefdom. The guy has suggested arming infants, walked out of one State of the Union address and invited Ted Nugent to another. He’s also raised funds…
See update at bottom. A defamation lawsuit filed against anti-doping authorities and United States track and field star Tyson Gay is likely on the move after the United States Anti-Doping Agency asked that the case be moved from a state district court in Tarrant County court to federal court. Jon…
Ranji Charles, a Dallas man implicated in two early Sunday morning murders in southern Dallas, is in critical condition at Methodist Central Hospital, police say. Charles is alleged to have been riding in a car with two men — Corey Shannon and Elliot Byes — when the trio pulled into…
Of all the things that one thinks might derail a trainee cop’s trip through the academy, an allergy isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Mishandling a weapon or failing a drug test, sure, but not an allergy. But in a lawsuit filed in Dallas County late last week,…
The few parts of the vaunted New Cities Summit that actually dealt with Dallas left Unfair Park feeling a bit nonplussed. We were glad Dallas was selected to host the conference, of course. Anything that brings together a bunch of really smart people to discuss pressing urban issues like density,…
The Texas Department of Transportation really, like seriously this time, thinks it’s time for you to stop using your phone while you drive. They would also like all of us to stop eating, grooming and reading — although presumably not road signs — while operating our various means of conveyance…
Remember Justin Lookadoo? Unfair Park forgives you if you don’t. We’ve done our best to purge the esteemed The Dateable Rules author from our memories as well. Here’s a primer: Lookadoo is the uber-douche Richardson High School invited to give their students “faith-based” dating advice like, “Be mysterious. Dateable girls…
This afternoon, the Dallas City Council voted unanimously to kick in more than $4.4 million from sports arena tax-increment financing district funds to begin some of the more rudimentary tasks necessary to rehabilitate the dystopian pseudo-urban wasteland that is Victory Park. The money is but a small part of the…
North Texas will be heavily represented in ESPN the Magazine’s upcoming Body Issue, according to the Associated Press. In addition to some athletes you might expect — the Arizona Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald, the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Serge Ibaka and the U.S. Women’s National Team’s Megan Rapinoe — the issue’s “Bodies…
Cloyd Ray Knight III had a great run. He began to perfect a process to make phony $100 bills in 2004, operating what amounted to a small print shop out of his Arlington home. Knight began by applying a layer of acrylic paint to newspaper print paper. Then he would…
