Friday Night Lights author and noted Twitter imploder Buzz Bissinger has a new book out called Father’s Day, about a road trip he took with his developmentally disabled son. The Morning News trashed it, and apparently Bissinger’s book-tour stop in Dallas left him less than impressed. Together, those two facts…
Republican candidates in Texas are historically bad at courting Hispanic voters, so it’s no wonder senate candidate Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst welcomes a novel approach: a debate in Spanish with his run-off challenger, the Tea Party sweetheart Ted Cruz. We hope this happens. We hope it happens with the same…
Please. Put away your hose, uproot your automatic sprinkler system, and watch sadly as your patch of St. Augustine scorches and shrivels until it’s a dusty brown wasteland, because it’s better than the alternative. Dallas Water Utilities and the Tarrant Regional Water District announced this morning that they are bringing…
Most Tuesdays when the Dallas County Commissioners Court ends, reporters throng the dais to pepper the commissioners with questions. The question that was on the tip of everyone’s tongue this morning was “Hey John Wiley Price. Did you really embezzle and launder all that money like the FBI guy said?”…
Two years ago, when George Clayton announced that he was seeking to represent Dallas and Collin countie on the State Board of Education, the first question was, “Who?” It soon became clear that Clayton was, on the surface at least, a mild-mannered administrator at North Dallas High School who believes…
Eccie is based in Texas; it’s a sprawling, ad- and emoticon-studded series of message boards for prostitutes and their clients.
At exactly noon on Monday, 16-year-old Bria Bradshaw and her mother Charmaine walked into Tommy Pak’s Kwik Stop in South Dallas, then stopped short. There was a horde of men and women in the convenience store, black and Korean, and most were in suits. There were video cameras set up…
The list of projects in Dallas that could, maybe, get a chunk of the paltry $7.6-million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits allotted for the Dallas-Denton-Collin-Grayson-Tarrant County region was whittled down to four a while back, and city staff told the City Council’s Housing Committee today how they would distribute…
Filmmaker Bentley Brown was born in Dallas, but he moved to Chad with his family when he was eleven. It was in high school there that he began making short films with friends. Brown returned to the States for college at Emory and, for a time, suppressed his post-grad predisposition…
Because their attack on JC Penney for its (obviously homosexual) relationship with Ellen DeGeneres only brought the Plano-based clothing retailer to its knees, the anti-gay, pro-crazy group One Million Moms is back to deliver the finishing blow. The department store chain sent out a subversive little catalog last week for…
Update at 2:36 p.m.:Police have posted a more detailed account of the shooting on their Facebook page: On June 2, 2012 John Robert Husband, 02/12/1991, was observed by Dallas Police Officer Leland Limbaugh #10051 driving into the Spring Ridge Apartments at 3600 Folklore Trail without signaling his intent to turn…
The ability of a leukemic cell to remain in an immature state, capable of relentlessly propagating, has remained one of the vexing obstacles to the effective treatment of leukemia, particularly acute myeloid leukemia. Rather than maturing, or differentiating, inside the blood-cell forming kitchen of the bone marrow, they grow and…
There are probably many reasons Victory Park hasn’t lived up to expectations, declining in value by an average of 11 percent ($169 million) each year since 2008, according to city figures. You might subscribe to the notion that the project was flawed from the get-go, that it is “all the…
When the 3-year-old and I took the DART train to free day at the Nasher on Saturday, little did I know we were on the cusp of history. Ridiculously early this morning, some 36 hours after we stepped off the train, DART accosted feted one Don Johnson as the 15-year-old…
Neighbors have pretty much given up on saving the vaguely octagonal white-and-blue building at the corner of Zang and Beckley that housed a long-departed Humble service station. Developers Jay Song and John Chong plan to demolish the 1929 structure to make way for a convenience store. It’s going to happen…
Fort Worth Senator Wendy Davis announced this week that she’ll be teaming up with the Texas Department of Public Safety to remind state law enforcement agencies, once again, that a new law requires them to report how many untested rape kits they have in evidence. At the same time, she…
Update on June 4 at 1:45 p.m.: If this post had you wondering, “This James Dondero sounds like a badass, but what kind of music does he like?” Daniel Hopkins will satisfy your curiosity at DC9 at Night. Short answer: Steve Winwood. Original post: To catch you up in case…
In case the threat of diabetes, heart disease, morbid obesity and an early (and very large) grave isn’t enough to make you eat healthier, maybe this will help: Fatty foods are also high in flame retardants. A research team led by Dr. Arnold Schecter of the University of Texas School…
Here at Unfair Park, we’re suckers for “people trying to take shit from Asians” stories. The latest installment takes place in Carrollton, Texas, where the town’s seven hotels are each owned by Asians, and where the city is coming down on them. Hard. Some are more rundown than others, but…
Just when you thought the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge had been thoroughly feted, the Trinity Trust sends word that the celebration’s not quite over yet. On June 13, WFAA will premiere Bridging the Trinity For the Love of the City, a half-hour homage by local filmmaker Judy Kelly. From Trinity…
Voters up in Parker County must not have thought much of district Judge Trey Loftin’s campaign mailers bragging about how his “decision regarding deceptive actions by environmental extremists made the EPA reevaluate its national policy.” That’s pretty grandiose, and it sounded like he was referring to the case of Steve…
The FBI dropped a bombshell in federal court today with an affidavit by Special Agent Donald Sherman as to why, exactly, law enforcement felt the need to seize more than $400,000 in cash (thick stacks of $100 bills) and other assets from Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price last year…
