If someone rolled into Unfair Park HQ and pointed an assault rifle at me while they stole my $800 and seven packs of Newports, I’d probably piss my pants and then go become a monk or a farmer, or maybe a farmer-monk. The owner of McGriff’s Beer & Wine are…
Three weeks after the FBI raided the Dallas apartment of Barrett Brown, an affiliate of the hacker group Anonymous, the other shoe has finally dropped. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed an indictment today, charging Brown with Internet threats, conspiracy to make publicly available restricted personal information of a federal employee…
One of the things Obama took pains to highlight during last night’s debate was just how aggressively his administration has gone after Medicare fraudsters. Remember Jacques Roy, the Rockwall physician accused of masterminding a scheme to bilk the government of $375 million? Probably not, since the drubbing Obama received in…
“On the inside, I’m a wreck,” Don Nedler confided. He’s a baldish, blue-eyed guy in his mid-50s, and from the outside he looked pretty calm. “I didn’t sleep last night,” he added. “I woke up at 5 a.m. My dogs were looking at me like I was crazy.” Although he’s…
You might not expect the granddaughter of H.L. Hunt, the oil magnate who inspired Larry Hagman’s character on Dallas, to be particularly fond of public radio. But as it turns out, Lyda Hill is very fond indeed of her local NPR affiliate, KERA. The station announced today that Hill’s foundation…
Last week, the city’s Park and Recreation Board made City Council member Dwaine Caraway very unhappy when they announced their plans to go about searching for someone to replace outgoing department director Paul Dyer. The seven-member committee won’t be hiring a national search firm, instead looking at the Park Department…
If you happened to pass near the intersection of Turtle Creek and Cedar Springs this morning, you may have wondered why there were a gajillion fire trucks idling around. The answer, to sum it up in three words, is: naked homeless guy. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said a passerby…
The four, soon-to-be five miles of new bike lanes downtown got the front-page treatment this morning in the Morning News (paywall), and deservedly so. Sure, they’re not bike-only lanes, and it’s taken the city a lot longer than it should of to paint stripes and little bicycle-man icons on the…
On September 12, two men entered a Chase Bank on Jupiter Road in Richardson a few minutes apart. The first was tall, about 6-foot-4, and wearing a black doo-rag, later identified as Michael Pringle. He asked for a deposit slip from the teller and then left, pausing on his way…
Rangers fans seem like a relatively forgiving bunch, but yesterday’s series of events — the dropped fly above, followed by Josh Hamilton appearing bemused and totally bored by his clumsy, possibly game-killing error — seems to have sent the fan base into a proper rage. And they’ll be able to…
For a long time, a central part of Dallas’ self-concept was the idea that this city had no natural features. At all. The idea was always dead wrong. In fact, because large tracts of land had been neglected and ignored by developers from the city’s earliest days, Dallas always had…
Last year, sportswriter King Kaufman stepped up to the lectern at a symposium held on the Google campus. In a 14-year haul at Salon.com, Kaufman earned a reputation as one of the best and most cerebral sports journalists on the Internet. But his subject that day was his new job,…
In July of 2006, Dr. Barry Fenton began treating a woman for depression and anxiety at the office of the Uptown practice of Live Oak Counseling Center. It was 16 months later that the relationship moved outside of his office, not to mention the bounds of the typical relationship between…
The good news: Meaningful day-time baseball. The bad news: It comes about a week too soon. The Rangers have one more crack at Oakland’s swinging (and walking) A’s this afternoon. It’s win-and-they’re-in, lose-and-they’re-kind-of-in. Since workplace productivity will be in the tank anyway, we figured we’d provide a place to bitch…
Yesterday, a bit after 3 o’clock, police were dispatched to NorthPark Center where employees reported receiving a threatening phone call. Threatening how, the police report didn’t say. One had to assume that some crafty 17-year-old had phoned to say he would be in the mall after the 6 p.m. curfew…
The weather on July 7 quickly turned windy, almost violently so. The sudden gusts, which reached 40 miles per hour, capsized a surfboarding 55-year-old into the waters of White Rock Lake, where he drowned. Even more dramatic was the scene a dozen miles to the north, when a construction crane…
Farmers Branch Latinos have a better chance today at seeing a little color introduced into the all-white tableau of elected city government. Under orders from a federal judge, who determined that the town’s at-large-style districts robbed Latinos of representation, the city council approved single-member voting districts at its meeting Tuesday…
The Church of the IV Majesties imploded two years ago in a very public way. The self-described Satanic church had been planning a staged exorcism at the Oklahoma City Civic Center. Then, a month before the event, the church’s co-founders had a falling out. One of the founders, James Hale,…
Last night’s Senate debate between Ted Cruz and Paul Sadler got surprisingly heated, with the two men snapping at each other about illegal immigration, healthcare, where Barack Obama was born and whether Ted Cruz is, in fact, a troll. Meanwhile, John Jay Myers, the Libertarian Senate candidate who did not…
This spring, Dallas County Community College District’s audit department began looking into the use of gas credit cards. Specifically, they were curious about record-keeping, the policies and procedures that are in place, and, um, where exactly they all were. According to a report presented to the DCCCD’s board on Tuesday,…
Oh, Mark Cuban. Your Dallas Mavericks brought us an NBA championship. You have the best investment-themed reality show on television. You have billions of dollars. But that’s not why we respect you; we respect you because you’re not afraid to do ridiculous things, like be videotaped clutching a Bud Light…
The ACLU of Texas released its annual compendium of books that school districts have pulled from their shelves for being too coarse, profane, sexual, or otherwise too interesting for our precious children, despite every Mom in America having a copy of 50 Shades of Gray by her nightstand. There’s good…
