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Lt. Andy Harvey, who handles media relations for the Dallas Police Department, sends along this photo — which, yup, is a casket full of marijuana. Seems like the perfect adios for the weed and week that was. He also sends along this description for those Friends of Unfair Park still…

If you were wondering just how serious the city is about renaming that stretch of Young Street after César Chávez, well, looks pretty serious.Happened upon this sign earlier today whilst downtown, outside the Maceo Smith Federal Building at Young and Griffin Streets, and as you can see, the city won’t…

President Michael Sorrell of Paul Quinn College earlier this afternoon addressed a room full of anxious students, alumni and curious reporters regarding news that Paul Quinn College has lost its accreditation. The news broke yesterday after Sorrell received a phone call from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools “to…

View Larger MapAs expected, the City Plan Commission’s Thursday-afternoon meeting did indeed get just a little contentious when it came time to discuss the specific use permit application for the former Beagle on Lower Greenville Avenue. In fact, it ate up almost half of the 80-minute meeting — and, in…

It was standing room only last night as approximately 200 folks battled the heat at White Rock Lake’s Winfrey Point for the final of four community budget forums, where several city staffers were on hand to get input on how best to address the city’s $190 million budget shortfall. City…

The parking lots in front of the Cowboys Stadium were full up by 6 this morning, as people flocked towards the stadium, registrations in hand to try out for the next season of American Idol.Some were dressed in flamboyant, eye-opening ensembles; others, in nightclub and house-party attire. Idol camera crews…

Rosa Parks Plaza at DART’s West End Station is still a noisy dust-covered construction site, but with help from sculptor Erik Blome, the corner at least has its centerpiece installed: a bronze statue of Parks on a bus seat, planted on a granite hill.The city had planned to open the…

The Star-Telegram has rounded up a few folks who attended The Jacksons’ three-night stopover at Texas Stadium in 1984, to which I referred yesterday. Contained therein is a story that I will spend the better part of today and the next who-knows-how-long fleshing out, if only because I’ve finally found…

“Mystery Meat,” by Robb Walsh, June 18 No Cow blood for Oil! Truly amazing energy resources are required to raise, process and deliver beef. Read up for yourself so you understand the story behind this story. The systems necessary for our current meaty lifestyle contribute substantially to making American energy…

Puttin’ on the Ritz: Buzz returned from Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt’s post-inauguration luncheon held at the Stoneleigh Hotel last Monday, for which Buzz showed up late wearing a fishing shirt, and Buzz felt like crawling into a hole and dying. Wow. Talk about fancy-schmancy. Buzz has missed a…

Nyjai Hill is dressed like a debutante, but she isn’t in the mood to act like one. Wearing a white dress, a tiara and gloves that reach her elbows, she can no longer ignore the pain in her feet as she balances on teetering heels. When she spots her mother…

We’ll have more tomorrow from this evening’s final community budget forum held at White Rock Lake’s Winfrey Point, but when the dust cleared after residents were given sets of 10 green and red dots to assign one each to items in the budget they hoped to keep (green) and ditch…

We’re already breaking our promise, but because we’re strangely obsessed with the city’s struggle to get a car booting ordinance on the books, Unfair Park probed Angela Hunt regarding the city council’s decision to bring the issue back to the Transportation and Environment Committee in August. To catch everyone up,…

The central question posed in this week’s cover story is this: Can teaching rebellious young girls how to become old-school “ladies” save them from a cycle of teen pregnancy and poverty?Teen pregnancy is a riddle in Texas, a state that has the second-highest teen birthrate in the country behind California…

Estela Hernandez in the city’s Public Information Office broke our hearts with the following e-mail that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box. Read it for yourself.Re: Reunion Arena Demolition Scheduled implosion of upper concrete seating decks demolition-CanceledSTATEMENT: Upon further review of the arena structure, A&R Demolition has found an…