When the budget ax falls at City Hall, the Office of Cultural Affairs is an easy target, because no matter how much economic impact the arts claim to generate, trimming grants to niche cultural groups is a lot easier than firing police and firefighters. The department is designed to cope…
Texas is totally on the verge of seceding, after 25,000 people signed a petition calling for the state’s removal from the ones that are United. We’re pretty much set on sticking it out as Texans, because the only thing worse than living out our existence in a destined-to-fail non-American country…
Right now, the land stretching south and east of The Arts District toward Deep Ellum is a sea of parking lots. We’ve known for a while now what’s supposed to go there — a humongous, six-building mixed-use development known as The Spire — but news has been scarce since developers…
The Cowboys’ victory over the Eagles yesterday means the team, even at 4-5, still has a realistic shot at the playoffs. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this was only one game against a terrible team, which does little to dispel the notion that the Cowboys are…
On the afternoon of September 6, police officers came to the door of an apartment in the 4300 block of Wyoming Street. They were following a man who lived there, who had just received a disturbing call: his one-year-old child was dead. The police were met at the door by…
Through nearly three quarters, it seemed as though this would be the final blow to a season barely halfway over. Michael Vick was knocked out of the game in the second quarter, unable to return for postgame autographs. Rookie Nick Foles then took the helm and put the Eagles in…
At 11:30 Saturday night, Mark Yeh, 19, was walking behind the Auto Zone on Park Lane, about a block from his home, when a green Ford Excursion stopped beside him. Yeh was grabbed and forced into the SUV by a handful of Hispanic men — maybe four, maybe five –…
To: Lovers of America From: The Republican National Committee RE: Emergency platform changes Dear Patriots: It seems that 47 percent was somewhat larger than we anticipated in last week’s election. Henceforth, we urge all Republicans to adopt these immediate policy changes. Our new platform on babes. Please refrain from any…
The Dallas Mavericks Dancers unveiled new uniforms — and other stuff — during Monday night’s home opener against the Portland Trailblazers, and they quickly caught the attention of the Internet, which has been busy ever since. Here at Unfair Park HQ, there was some discussion of whether the new attire…
On Sunday, the Omni will have been opened a full year. That’s long enough that the does-the-city-have-any-business-owning-a-hotel debate has died away, replaced by artists dreaming of all the cool shit they can do with those lights. The hotel has a slate of offerings Sunday to commemorate its 11/11/11 debut. An…
John Ellis Price, the man who has guided UNT-Dallas through its transformation from a tiny satellite campus into an accredited, standalone university, won’t be officially retired for another nine months. The school has been preparing for his departure for a while now, but only now has the search for a…
Jack Bewley and Jeff Finkel have spent the last several years methodically strengthening their position in the Dallas taxi market. Their company, Irving Holdings, was established with the merger of five local cab companies. In 2007, they brought Freedom, Eagle and Jet taxi companies. Earlier this year, they brought State,…
At the end of October, highly watchable Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott threatened to press charges against any “U.N. poll watchers” who might “interfere with Texas elections.” Not to be outdone, state officials in Pennsylvania and Iowa also started threatening to arrest people. Those “poll watchers” were in fact election…
Yesterday, Mark Cuban joined the rest of the universe in parsing the presidential election, putting on his media-critic hat and taking to his blog to assess the state of political coverage on cable. Turns out, Cuban loves Fox News. He watched it all the time during the election cycle, though…
John Wiley Price is not a fan of DISD superintendent Mike Miles. He made that much clear when he appeared before the yesterday’s board briefing to chide Miles on his first few months with the district. “My problem is, this district seems to be in terror, and this is no…
Last night, Ryan Ahrens showed up at the Davenport Apartments on the Dallas North Tollway to buy a Chevy pickup he’d seen advertised on Craigslist. He caught a ride there with a friend and the friend’s young child, who was buckled into a car seat in the back, and he…
I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but it’s true: the argument between the state of Texas and Planned Parenthood over the Women’s Health Program looks like it’s never, ever going to end. This case has dragged itself through state courts, federal courts, and back down to…
When Dr. Sean Morrison and a handful of researchers at UT Southwestern placed two lists side by side, it was as if the air had been pulled from the room. On one list were patients being treated for melanoma — skin cancer — and patients who had died from it…
This summer, Dallas photographer Allison V. Smith was given carte blanche to wander through the halls of nine of the 11 schools trustees voted to close earlier in the year. The result is a series of vaguely nostalgic, strangely touching photos that you’ll find after the jump. “Living in Dallas,…
Howard Marcon had just finished stowing shopping bags in his trunk following a trip to the Russell Stover store in Oklahoma City when he was stopped by a man approaching from the front of his car. The man was dressed in all black and wore a mask, and he demanded…
Yesterday I wrote about Curtis Lockey and Craig MacKenzie, who were on my mind Tuesday night as I watched the final electoral votes for Obama click into place. Lockey and MacKenzie are real estate developers suing Dallas in federal court over what they claim is massive misuse of federal de-segregation…
The product you see to the right is a marvel of modern engineering. You need only watch the promotional video to conclude as much. California Exotic’s 10-Function Silicone Love Rider™ Thruster™ is a “complete strap-on with a seven-inch long, one-and-a-half-inch wide silky-smooth silicon probe.” See also: Unfair Park’s archive of…
