It was while pounding the pavement of Old Preston Hollow in search of a certain lost chicken that I noticed some train tracks running through the back yard of a an aging but stately house on Park Lane. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Preston Hollow, that isn’t…
If you want a summary of neighbors’ reasons for not allowing Dallas United Crew you can visit visit this website, which is advertised on a fair number of yard signs surrounding White Rock Lake. The boat house will destroy a beautiful, relatively pristine view of the lake, critics say. The…
San Antonio’s Alamodome wasn’t built for baseball. It didn’t have a big league baseball team when it opened in 1993, and it still doesn’t. In March, the Texas Rangers will fill that void, if only for a weekend. The club has inked a deal to bring the Rangers and the…
This morning, Deion Sanders took to 105.3 The Fan for a rare discussion of allegations that he’s been improperly recruiting athletes (e.g. a good chunk of state champion Grace Prep’s basketball team) to play at Prime Prep Academy. See also: – Deion Sanders’ Charter School and the Making of a…
A while back, Patrick Kinkade, the chair of TCU’s criminal justice department, drove a filthy Ford Explorer to several full-service car washes in Fort Worth. Each time, he left behind a large amount of loose change in plain view. Often, about a third of the time, some of the money…
Yesterday was Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s 55th birthday, and it brought with it the question of what to give a man who has selflessly devoted his life to suing the federal government. A PACER gift card to cover all those pesky filing costs? A guaranteed slot in the Republic…
As Texas awaits official word from the White House on that whole secession thing, which has 94,000 supporters and counting, some in the state aren’t sure they want to live in the Republic of Texas, Part Deux. There’s a petition for the city of Austin to remain part of the…
In 2007, Dallas County began a prostitution diversion plan in which people caught selling sex are often funneled into treatment programs rather than simply locked up. The idea — a fairly progressive one — is that prostitutes are most often victims who become trapped in a vicious circle rather than…
In spite of all the off-season turmoil, in spite of the fact that Deron Williams went to Brooklyn rather than coming home, in spite of the what-might-have-been speculation about Chris Paul and Dwight Howard in green and blue, the Dallas Mavericks still came out ahead. See also: Mark Cuban Says…
For at least part of the day yesterday, the house at 2818 Marjorie Ave. in East Oak Cliff was without running water, which the city had turned off for non-payment. At 3:30 p.m. Tavarius Spencer, a Dallas Water Utilities meter reader with several years’ experience, showed up to turn it…
The always-simmering debate over whether Jerry Jones has too much control over the Cowboys’ football operations was brought to a boil last week after former coach Jimmy Johnson traced the team’s “country club” atmosphere back to Jones. That sparked something of a back-and-forth about who was in charge in the…
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…
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…
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 –…
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,…
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…
