Every day, the dogs of Dallas leave behind an astounding amount of shit. The city mailed out a water-quality PSA over the summer that included a rough figure, which was somewhere in the range of several hundred thousand pounds per day if memory serves. Some of that is picked up…
It wasn’t so long ago that it seemed the relationship between DISD teachers and superintendent Mike Miles had gone sour. They bristled at Miles’ reformist rhetoric, with its implication that steering the district in the right direction will require the heads of a lot of long-time educators. They didn’t like…
The video above comes to us courtesy of Right Wing Watch, which watches Glenn Beck so you don’t have to. In it, you’ll see Beck, holding back tears, advising his listeners on what they should do now that Obama has been reelected. We’ve posted a transcript of the clip after…
Let’s just cut to the chase: At least 14 months. That’s how long it will be before the first retail non-medical marijuana store in Colorado, our friendly neighbor to the northwest, might open. Not that anyone is counting. Looks like the nearest big town to Texas on an interstate in…
Everyone has their own way of coping with or celebrating the results of last night’s election. For his part, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott doesn’t appear to have made good on his threat to arrest any European election monitors (who are, by the way, due to give a news conference…
Now that our election night hangovers have been slept off, we can now cut through the chatter and attempt to forecast what last night’s election results mean to you, Dear Reader. Dallas County is really, really blue Republicans had a strong showing in local legislative races, easily fending off challenges…
Donny Sirisavath and a friend were headed west on Ross Avenue last night at 10:15 when, as they waited on their bicycles for the light at Greenville Avenue, a white Corvette pulled up on their right side. The driver was not happy, according to the ensuing police report. “Fuck you,”…
Not long after the networks started calling Ohio for Obama last night, but before Karl Rove tried to convince himself that Cleveland and Cincinnati were going to miraculously turn the state red, Mark Davis, the local conservative talk-radio host and Morning News contributor, dispatched the Tweet you see above. No…
In 2007, the Dallas Police Department and DEA were on the cusp of taking down a major drug distribution ring, or so they thought. Nine months of undercover work had yielded evidence that large quantities of meth and cocaine were being smuggled from Mexico to a house at 2737 Seevers…
Brian Jaynes has made something of a name for himself in the world of low-budget horror films. Over the past three years, the East Texas filmmaker has helmed a string of cult successes, starting with Boggy Creek, about a bloodthirsty Sasquatch. That was followed last year by Humans vs Zombies…
Here at Unfair Park, we thought long and hard about how to cover the election. Should we devote our vast resources to covering the polls, putting our fingers to the pulse of the electorate? Perhaps we could relay impressionistic dispatches as political watchers reacted to the incoming election results. Or…
Back in January, 19-year-old Jacory Stephon Walker walked into the Waxahachie Walmart and approached the counter at 1st Convenience Bank. He wanted to make a withdrawal, he told the teller, but didn’t have his account number. Instead, he gave the teller his name and social security number. It turned out…
On this Election Day, I pause to consider Representative Ralph Hall, the man from Fate, Texas. Not long after he is re-elected — and he will be re-elected — he will turn 90. Why am I so confident? Because Hall is, if nothing else, a survivor after more than 30…
Turns out or resident English guy, Gavin Cleaver, who drenches himself in barbecue sauce and smoke for us over on City of Ate, is actually like a doctor. In politics. University trained and the author of a forthcoming book on political ethics. We did not know that … both that…
The back door of Dixon Grocery, a few steps from where James Harper was shot by a Dallas police officer this summer, is damn near impenetrable. It survived an attempted break-in last night with some serious dents and three damaged padlocks but remained intact. The roof, unfortunately, was not so…
It seems like decades, or perhaps centuries, since we first started hearing about the feud between the Nasher Sculpture Center and its shiny new neighbor, Museum Tower, a high-end condo building owned by the pensioners of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. The latest development, aside from our Jim…
Right now, the only way to get your kid into pre-K at DISD is to not speak English, not have a home, or be poor enough to qualify him for free or reduced lunch. This year, 8,991 students fitting those criteria have enrolled in DISD pre-K free of charge, a…
At 7 a.m. today, a maintenance worker in the main building of JP Morgan Plaza, facing the Dallas North Tollway in Farmers Branch, was working on the seventh floor when he spotted a box. On the box was the simple message “BOMB DO NOT TOUCH.” The worker didn’t touch, instead…
When local transportation planners announced that they would ask the Internet for suggestions on what to call the new managed lanes on LBJ Express, it seemed like a bad idea. But Andy Rittler, corporate affairs director for the project, tells us we were wrong. Over the course of the six-week…
Just a few days after the 2012 MLB season kicked off in Japan, one of the elite players scheduled to become a free agent in the coming offseason took himself off the market. The Giants enticed Matt Cain to stay in San Francisco, signing him to a six-year, $127.5 million…
Today, from the annals of meaningless, social-media ephemera, we’d like to direct you to the bitchy little TwitterFight between Mark Cuban and Donald Trump. It is, we assure you, the kind of TwitterFight that can only exist between insanely wealthy, Type-A megalomaniacs. No matter how far removed some of these…
There are a lot of bad things you can say about the current state of political advertising. Campaigns ads to be loaded with unrelenting negativity and a wanton disregard for the truth, and they are often crafted with creepy specificity based on your demographics and what you buy online. They…
