Hard to believe that only three years have passed since Fort Worth police and agents with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents conducted their infamous raid on that city’s Rainbow Lounge. Today, it hardly seems conceivable that the cops would bust in and bust heads in a dubious crackdown on…
Man, you just can’t trust a blue-blood. One minute they’re, like, friendly, you know, hanging out in Seville and all, “Hey, Figgy ol’ pal, could you help me win this girl, buddy o’ mine?” Before you know it, the fat lady sings, the curtain rings down on the Barber of…
“It gets better,” the national YouTube video campaign assures gay and lesbian teenagers who confront homophobia. Sometimes, though, before things get better, life can get a lot harder. Out in the Silence, a documentary by filmmaker Joe Wilson tracks the struggles of a small-town gay teen tormented by classmates and…
Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Things that fly low and fast. Things that fly slow and glow. Things that fly and dance and twist. We’re talking air show, people AIR SHOW! OK, gotta calm down now, but really, who cannot love an air show? Besides, that is, a certain spouse who…
As we told you recently, the Texas Public Utility Commission is looking at raising the maximum amount that electricity generators can charge for power during times of high demand, when prices typically spike. Right now, the cap — the state’s gesture to keep us from getting gouged every July –…
Hah, did you know? When black women get angry, they get their heads bobbing up and down. White women, meanwhile, are like superheroes, whose uptight, controlled rage keeps the world moving. Yes, indeedy, the differences between white and black folk, as revealed circa 1995, are miiiighty hilarious, as comedian Tommy…
An Iraq War veteran is brought home from combat to take part in a morale-boosting tour, with a stop at the bizarre, full-fledged extravaganza/political theater at a Cowboys half-time show. A brilliant high school teacher succumbs to temptation and existential confusion in 2002 Paris. Duty, violence and morality twist and…
Ah, the Trinity River corridor, that swath of green that anchors urban Dallas to Mother Nature. How we cherish it. Unless, that is, someone — Mayor Mike Rawlings, for example — wants to build a toll road through its heart … Or maybe dump a few hundred gallons of pig…
Ah, food. It used to be so simple. Time was, if you had an adequate amount, it tasted OK and it didn’t make you sick, you could count yourself one of Earth’s fortunate children. It was like sex that way. Now, eating is like, well, sex. You can be damn…
Let’s check out this here event. Hmm, it’s at La Grange — alcohol-drenched shaved ice, the pinnacle of modern technology. Check. It’s put together by Dr. Sketchy, and we practically have a Ph.D. in sketchy ourselves. Check. It’s a figure-drawing session, so we can be all artsy. Check. It features…
So much happening on the education front these days. Earlier this week, Mayor Mike Rawlings broke with tradition and endorsed candidates for Dallas Independent School District’s board. Not in his capacity as mayor, of course. That would be against the city’s ethics rules. No, this was just good ol’ Mike…
When Texas Public Utility tentatively voted to increase the ceiling on the wholesale price of electricity by 50 percent by August 1, public reaction was swift. It sounded like this: chirp … cheep … when you wish … chirp … cheep … upon a star. Which was surprising. Stereotypically, you’d…
Look, we’re sorry. We wanted badly to just ignore the earth-shattering news. Unfortunately, though, Schutze is off in Arkansas ingesting giardia all week, and not everyone reads The Dallas Morning News (cheap bastards), so it’s up to those left behind to let everyone in on it. Ready? Here it is:…
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The City Hall staffers who last year tried to toss road blocks in the path of a City Council plan to stripe 840 miles of bike lanes in Dallas — that’s 840 miles more than what the city has now — might be pleasantly surprised by part of what Gil…
Texas public schools are barely squeaking by, The New York Times reported this morning in a heart-rending story about state budget cuts. Things have gotten so dire that the Times led its story with the horrifying tale of a youth in Hutto, northeast of Austin, who must now walk a…
Dallas photographer Danny Fulgencio rolled out early this morning to capture images from the aftermath of the tornado in Forney. “I started shooting at around 7 a.m., just after the curfew lifted,” he tells Unfair Park. “These shots document the swath of destruction from yesterday’s tornado which struck the Diamond…
Last week, in response to a post Brantley Hargrove wrote about power giant Energy Future Holdings’ slow death waltz with potential bankruptcy, a commenter gently smacked him for ignoring some Major News related to power plants, smokestacks, etc. “And in other [news] this kid refuses to cover. The 5th Circuit…
Before I get to the lame joke that’s required by my job description, here’s something really cool: Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech have designed and built a robotic jellyfish powered by dissolved gasses. No, really, they have. They have video of it swimming in…
Well, crap. Look, I’m generally pro-government. You know, down with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who said, “I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.” And like any good leftie hippie-type, I just love kitschy Main Street shops that I’d definitely ride my bike to if it weren’t…
To his credit, Joe Crafton didn’t sigh, or mutter, or hang up the phone when Unfair Park hit him with The Big Dumb Question. Instead, the chairman and co-founder of Park Cities Quail — a group of well-heeled quail hunters who recently announced success in their campaign to raise money…
So Kevin Dixon, principal of West Middle School in DeSoto ISD, is apologizing for emailing “a video of dancing chimpanzees to his staff last week that a school board trustee found racist,” the Morning News’ Matthew Haag writes in today’s Metro section. For some reason, the News didn’t see fit…
