Shortly after noon at City Hall, the Dallas city council’s Quality of Life and Government Services Committee will discuss Proposed Ordinances for Animal Control. Among the suggestions to be considered: new guidelines for dealing with “dangerous dogs” and mandatory spaying and neutering for all dogs and cats within the city…
On April 2, 1978, the cultural tsunami that was the TV show Dallas debuted with an episode titled “Digger’s Daughter” — and, of course, the hard-drinking, hard-fighting and hard-effin’ Ewings may be far more responsible for the fall of communism than the Afghani fighters who beat the Russians courtesy some…
After last night’s dichotomous performances by the Mavs and Stars, it appears we’ll be having our spring over ice, thanks. Because while Dallas’ hockey team was dismantling the San Jose Sharks to take a 2-0 series lead, its basketball team put forth one of the most disturbingly ineffective efforts in…
The scene at Keller’s today. And I swear Tommy Lee and Ludacris are somewhere in this photo. Hell of a thing, getting caught up in a celebreality-show shoot while just trying to grab a burger and beer at 2 p.m. on a Saturday. Shoulda known something was up when the…
It’s less than a month into the baseball season, and the Texas Rangers have already hit rock bottom. Texas is tied with the Washington Nationals for the worst record in the bigs at 7-19, and team president Nolan Ryan is scheduled to meet this weekend with a different Washington (Ron)…
There’s very little to say about this lengthy clip from today’s episode of The Michael Irvin Show on ESPN-FM 103.3, during which Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard addressed this article that appeared over the weekend. Because, really, it’s no biggie. So, sure, the Mav went on the air and admitted…
Something tells me Mrs. Mike Modano ain’t gonna make too many friends amongst San Jose Sharks fans with comments like this one, posted today to her official NHL blog: “The San Jose arena is one of the loudest and most violent crowds that I’ve ever seen in person. It worries…
Two blocks behind Unfair Park HQ, at the intersections of Brown and Reagan streets, sits an empty lot worth $613,200. For more than a year, there’s been a billboard planted in the ground promising the Homes of Audubon Place — which, when completed, will feature 10 town homes, running between…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger As mentioned below, at last night’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees, Carla Ranger delivered a speech in which she questioned the ethics of board president Jack Lowe, whose company, it was revealed last weekend, has received some $10 million…
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints now has a Web site documenting children being taken from their mothers. For some reason The Dallas Morning News doesn’t want to look in to the phone call that sparked the April 3 raid on the polygamist compound in Eldorado. As…
Prepare for the most overrated, underwhelming non-event in all of sports. No, not another ho-hum Rangers’ loss. It’s the NFL Draft, also known as the most overdone entity this side of Mel Kiper’s hair helmet. It’s a day when dork draftniks like Kiper and Gil Brandt and Norm Hitzges and…
Texas Department of Transportation See, this just-snapped traffic photo shows why you should commute to work at, like, 10 in the morning. Because 8’s just too early. Forbes has some astonishing news for Dallas commuters: Your drive to work s-s-s-s-s-sucks. Thanks, holmes. Specifically, ours is the fifth-worst commute amongst the…
Yesterday we linked to the Daily Campus story concerning the increase in sexual assaults on the SMU campus in 2006 — and how school officials did nothing to notify students, parents and faculty members that 13 women had been raped on campus during the school year. Well, late yesterday we…
Outside the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees meeting last night, more than a dozen protesters carried signs decrying the $1.35-billion bond proposal and DISD leadership. “F! The sign speaks for itself,” said Pete Peterson, pictured above. “The audit doesn’t look good for the district, and that doesn’t look…
“Dallas Has a Real-Life Dr. Gregory House in Dr. Richard Buch,” by Glenna Whitley, April 10 Dr. Personality I’m 29 years old, working as a chef and bartender, loving life and experiencing all the fabulousness of being a single professional in Dallas. I am able to say this, in large…
The supportive mid-season shirt: “Avery’s Team.” The distressed post-season edict: “Avery’s Time.” It’s time. Time for Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson to deliver. Time for his precious system and his hand-picked players to win a championship, a series or, at this point, a couple of playoff road games. Time…
Logo jam: At last…at last we can see some real progress in the Trinity River Project, that ambitious $800 kabillion—give or take a few kabillion—plan, approved in 1937, to turn the Trinity near downtown from a muddy, levee-lined ditch into a muddy, levee-lined ditch bordered by a toll road. So…
Chris Epp walked onto Stevens Park Golf Course in West Oak Cliff nearly a year ago for a day of golf with his co-workers. Although their visit was for pleasure, Epp couldn’t help but notice a business opportunity lurking ahead. “On the first hole, I looked up, and there was…
Sick of political blogs? Too bad! The 2008 campaign is unavoidable; if you know what superdelegates are, or who said “God damn America,” you’re already a victim. Thanks to the curse of modern technology, you’ll be hearing what top Internet buffoons are saying about the candidates—whether you want to or…
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bobby … Patterson at the Dallas Observer Music Awards last year, with Shibboleth as his backing band This is a very special treat, exclusively for the Friends of Unfair Park: A few days ago, Shibboleth’s Don Cento shot me a few demos Shibboleth and some Very…
I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that for the second time this week the Rangers got tattooed before you took your afternoon smoke break. Today it was a tidy 8-2 ditty in Detroit, during which Rangers pitchers surrendered five walks and five homers and Rangers hitters produced 10 strikeouts…
In case you were looking for him — and we weren’t, maybe that was BeloWatch — Burl Osborne has resurfaced. You ‘member him — former publisher and editor of The Dallas Morning News? Turns out, he’s now chairing the “editorial oversight board” of something called CleanSkies.tv, which right now appears…
