To this day, people still post comments to the September 4, 2007, Unfair Park item concerning the smoking-cessation drug Chantix and its troubling effect on users. Andrea Grimes wrote the piece because Sorta’s Carter Albrecht and his girlfriend had begun using the Pfizer-made medicine shortly before Albrecht was killed on…
At last, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has issued an official statement concerning Saturday night’s raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, which left Chad Gibson hospitalized and a community outraged. Carolyn Beck, the spokesperson for the agency, just sent Unfair Park the document, in which TABC Administrator Alan…
I grew up with Michael Jackson. Had his Off the Wall album cover tacked – that’s right, tacked – to my bedroom wall. As a senior member of the 1982 Duncanville Panthers’ basketball team – district 9-5A champs, look it up – I picked “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” as…
A cluster of local educators and politicos — among them Mayor Tom Leppert, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, SMU President Gerald Turner and DISD trustee Edwin Flores — gathered in the stately atrium of SMU’s Owen Arts Center yesterday afternoon to kick off the inaugural Dallas Hispanic Youth…
View Larger MapChris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, told us a few weeks back that the city was close to working out deals with a few of those vacant buildings the mayor was none too happy about last October, when he gathered city officials — including City Attorney…
Whilst we’re on the subject of universities and technology, there’s this intriguing addendum to yesterday’s tale concerning the arrest of Carrell Clinic security guard Jesse William McGraw, who federal authorities say was planning a major hack attack on July 4 … or, as McGraw allegedly referred to it, “Devil’s Day.”…
Wired’s Danger Room blog this morning visits the SMU campus, where Electrical Engineering Associate Professor Marc Christensen is helping the military create a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res image. Notes David Hambling, “troops and unmanned aircraft could be the first to benefit” from the…
To close out a month in which ESPN blowhard Chris Berman somehow received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, guess who’s mad at sports announcers? Would you believe … a sports announcer? I love me some Steve Dennis. I mean, other than the times he puts on…
Welcome to “Watch Your Car Month” — and, no, we’re not referring to this. Not exactly. But this morning at 10 at the Dallas Police Department Auto Pound on Vilbig Street, officials from several local auto-theft task forces will gather ’round stripped and recovered cars — and a working one…
Meant to get to this yesterday, when Dallas City Hall first sent word, but was otherwise distracted — the whole point, perhaps, of this city-sponsored Trinity River photo contest for which we’d like to submit several entries. It kicked off yesterday and runs through September 30, during which time you…
So, the Mavs made a big deal yet? Well, GM Donnie Nelson promised a “very active summer,” so let’s hop to it. Actually, though NBA free agency is just hatching, Dallas may be already making progress. That is, if you consider re-signing Jason Kidd progress. Kidd may not be the…
In the cozy auditorium of the Lakewood library last night, some 30 members of the Abrams-Brookside Neighborhood Association met to put the final touches on their proposal to make the neighborhood a conservation district. Neil Emmons, the Dallas City Plan Commissioner for District 14, which includes much of East Dallas,…
Apologies for taking a few days too long to post our slide show from the Deep Ellum Mural Project kick-off, held Saturday night at Kettle Art in Deep Ellum, but better to post now than to … um … not post. Gloria Lovario captured this terrific two-fer from Cathey Miller,…
This morning, in the reflection of Dallas’s Fountain Place building, a small group of environmental activists gathered as previously announced to oppose the nomination of former Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission head John Hall as the new regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency. Some were outraged at Hall’s past…
Actually, once you read the piece — which appears in the issue hitting newsstands this week but which you can read right now — it seems rather unlikely that the Prairie Home Companionist actually came to Dallas for the State Fair, as his is more of an essay about the…
We’ve got a handful of photo sets up from the weekend that, even if they’re not quite sports shots, are at least sports-related. Well, close enough they’re worth a mention here in the Sportatorium.First off, got to point out Mark Graham’s batch of photos from the big deal at Russ…
For weeks, the Dallas Tea Party has been calling out Janeane Garofalo in the hopes of getting the star of Wet Hot American Summer and The Truth About Cats & Dogs and noted Tea Party-crasher to attend Saturday’s America’s Tea Party at Southfork Ranch. Alas, it hasn’t worked — Garofalo…
Friend of the show Justin Cozart likes to show off his estimable collection of faded photos of late, great Dallas landmarks, always a welcome respite from the day’s breaking news. But over the weekend he posted pictures of a particularly personal nature: exteriors and interiors from his family’s businesses, among…
One day after sending word that the “Little Hacker” got 135 months in prison for “swatting,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office says today it has arrested an Arlington man federal authorities allege is the leader of the hacker group called “Electronik Tribulation Army.” (As in …?) According to the press release,…
I admit, I’m rarely on a boat mutha effer! But I did happen to be close to this exact spot on Lewisville Lake over Memorial Day weekend. And unless I’m a dry-dock dork, this looks like one of those trick ’em-dick ’em photos where you try to find all the things out…
Well, looks like the frequent mentions of former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller in the federal Dallas City Hall corruption trial ain’t just Dixie. The defense clearly plans to argue that the FBI should have gone after Miller, because she took a ton of money from developer Brian Potashnik, who’s agreed…
The Texas Rangers’ offensive woes are almost laughable now as the team last night fell two and a half games back of the Angels, losing 5-2 to Los Angeles after taking a 2-0 lead in the third inning on solo homers by David Murphy and Marlon Byrd. That’s a total…
