The missus and I just concluded a morning tour of the Northwest Dallas polling places, and so far, no drama — or voters, for that matter. At 9:32, we were Nos. 53 and 54 at Leonides Cigarroa Elementary School on Webb Chapel Road and Walnut Hill Lane (our third polling…
I have nothing but ambiguity, confusion and darkness to offer you, Friends of Unfair Park, on the eve of tomorrow’s mayoral election. There are no certainties, only wild cards. Here are just a few:…
Fair to Midland’s album Fables from a Mayfly will be out next month; so all you looking to get yer art-prog-metal on, be on the lookout for these locals, who’ve been blessed by and then some by System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, whose Universal Records imprint is releasing the…
…we will be live-blogging the election, beginning, most likely, in the late morning, between voting and going to Home Depot to buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Matt Pulle will be at county election HQ around 7 p.m., when early results start coming in; Jim Schutze…
Tomorrow, you’ll have an opportunity to help out a lot of poor, needy folk by exercising your democratic rights as an American. No, I’m not talking about supporting those poor, needy mayoral candidates. I’m talking about exercising your democratic right to laugh your ass off on behalf of some orphans…
Yesterday Dallas police arrested a former employee of Bryan’s House — the local care center for kids affected by HIV/AIDS — on charges that she caused significant injuries to a 5-month-old boy sometime in March. After the injuries were discovered, through a routine X-ray, CPS officials removed 18 foster children…
Bill Blaydes, heretofore known as Mr. Excitement On Wednesday, Danielle McClelland, assistant director of the city’s Public Information Office, posted to the Interwebs a video celebrating all that’s swellerificamazing about this fine city. And, so far, 34 people have seen the danged thing on the YouTubes; guess the peeps don’t…
On Monday, a book that’s sure to be great bedtime reading for statisticians everywhere clunked into bookstores. Weighing in at 864 pages and 3.3 pounds, it’s the 2007 edition of Cities Ranked & Rated: More than 400 Metropolitan Areas Evaluated in the U.S. and Canada by Burt Sperling and Peter…
So, Jennifer Gale, who probably had to get a ride, showed to the final mayoral forum, but Don Hill, Ed Oakley and Max Wells couldn’t be bothered. That’s nice. More than two months ago, I attended a mayoral forum hosted by the Dallas Police Association and left thoroughly confused about…
And wouldn’t you just know it. If you want a glimmer of the actual truth about our fair city, all you have to do is read an actual newspaper: today’s New York Times. In the National Report, correspondent Ralph Blumenthal has a very nicely put together story about Laura Miller…
The first European. The first Dallas Maverick. The first — ahem — in 25 years not to get his team out of the first friggin’ round of the playoffs. As expected, Dirk Nowitzki will be named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player next Tuesday at a press conference at the American…
Angela Hunt just sent to Mayor Laura Miller, Harlan Crow, Ron Kirk and other “blocker”-backers a missive in which she demands they get their mercenaries to back the eff up come Saturday, when Hunt’s Trinity Vote volunteers will be out gathering signatures for her anti-Trinity toll road petitions that call…
Patrick Langlinais Marc Cassel — he of frosty goatees and wink, winks, but seldom the nudge, nudge He goes by the name Gregory C. Bussey — it’s sewn into his chef’s whites. But this is a deep cover name. Bussey is a covert operative at Stephan Pyles, doing whips and…
Pastor Sherman Allen of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ has been suspended from his pastoral duties. And not a moment too soon? The Church of God in Christ has suspended Fort Worth Pastor Sherman Allen “from all national and local pastoral roles and activities” within the denomination. The…
When Tiger Woods was 4 years old, so the story goes, his dad would drop him off at a golf course at 9 a.m. on a Saturday and pick him up at 5 p.m., “pockets bulging with money he had won from disbelievers 10 and 20 years older.” I would…
Looking…looking … searching … probing … A-ha! Found one — that pebble of positivity amidst the rubble that is Dallas sports these days. Granted, it’s a s-t-r-e-t-c-h. But in the carnage left by the Stars, Mavs and Rangers, I give you Michael Johnson. You remember Dallas’ golden boy, right? Born…
After the jump, we’re posting a phony “Sink the Petition! Save the Trinity!” campaign poster making the local Interwebs rounds this a.m. And, far as we know, Jim Schutze has nothing to do with it. Far as we know. –Robert Wilonsky…
The United Black Clergy, which bills itself as “a coalition of religious leaders, along with Southern Dallas business and civic leaders,” wants mayoral and city council candidates to know something: Their vote is not for sale. They will say as much at 1:30 this afternoon at St. Paul Missionary Baptist…
And you thought University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center docs were only into medicine. A study that appears in the latest issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association, which is required reading at Unfair Park, suggests otherwise: Three researchers there have discovered that you don’t need medication to…
The Dallas-based company to which Willie Nelson’s hooked up the bus and a whole lot more is having financial…um…issues. Things looked good for Dallas-based Earth Biofuels last summer: Willie Nelson and Morgan Freeman were on the board of directors, Julia Roberts signed on as pretty spokeswoman (she even went on…
I’ve been duped. Pickpocketed. Gutted. Turns out there isn’t a Santa Claus. The CueCat didn’t revolutionize the Internet. I’ve yet to sprout even one hair from my palm. And, worst of all, the Dallas Mavericks haven’t changed their culture. Despite tweaking coaches and role players and logos and arenas and…
The spring light dims across a Northwest Dallas backyard. The soft glow from a cluster of white candles circling a young oak tree illuminates the freshly tended lawn. Dangling strings of iridescent paper and shimmering white Christmas lights give the yard a heavenly glow. A gray-haired man in Wrangler jeans…
