Curled into a C-shape on a metal exam table at City Vet in Oak Lawn today, the tired puppy rested soundly, his brown and white coat patched with scabs from the burns he suffered at the hands of people who have not yet been arrested. For the moment, he was…
God bless the ESPN video librarian who dug up all this footage. The sprinkler is cool, but the immediate throw-back is even better…
Yesterday, Frontburner broke a bit of news: Mike Precker, who famously went from being a veteran Dallas Morning News reporter to the day manager and PR guy for uber-classy strip club The Lodge, has been fired. Precker spent five years working at the club after taking the buyout from the…
It was back in January when we first introduced you to young Anthony Blue, a 19-year-old man trying to make a go in the bank-robbing field. He was off to a decent start, actually: In June of last year, he had walked into a Garland bank and slipped the teller…
We asked Seattle-based sports blogger and A.L. West obsessive Brian Elsner to review Yu Darvish’s Major League debut from a division foe’s perspective. These are his thoughts. 1. Darvish Needs to Rely on All Those Other Pitches Everyone raves about the number of pitches Darvish can throw; I’ve heard that…
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…
Back in November, we wrote about Southlake, the well-heeled ‘burb at whose city limits sign the fracking boom was knocking. In many ways, Southlake was emblematic of the difficulties gas producers faced as they followed the shale formation — a mile underground — out of the pastures and into densely…
Presumably, anyway, after news broke this morning that her business partner, former basketball star Lamar Odom, has “parted ways” with the Mavericks, which is an elaborate way of saying he got his ass fired for being inexplicably sad all the time. Funny: They came because of Odom, but you could…
By 7:15 on Thursday night, women were already crying. By 7:30, a few were speaking in tongues, their arms raised heavenward, or kneeling in the chilly concrete aisles of the Dallas Convention Center’s Area Hall C. Onstage, a muscular, clean-cut guy with sandy hair and a black V-neck T-shirt strummed…
A week after a whistle-blowing teacher was suspended without explanation, parents at Botello Elementary in Oak Cliff say they are fed up with the lack of information about what they call the “illegal presence of firearms and drugs in school.” (See correction at bottom.) In a letter to district officials…
Movie theaters of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, do you never cease toying with the affections of local atheists? First it was Movie Tavern that backed out of showing the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason’s ad proclaiming their families are “Great Without Religion.” Now it’s the Angelika, which said just two…
So often we think of undocumented immigrants as young, rootless men scaling border fences with plastic bags and gallon jugs of water slung over their shoulders. Truth is, people come here, set down roots and have kids. And when they get picked up by authorities, whether for a felony or…
Oh, it’s a Good Friday alright. Maybe the best Friday, if you happen to have a job that allows you escape the cubical farm and head to the nearest TV-and-frosty-beer-equipped bar with your fellow farmers. (For bar suggestions, mosey here.) Going to the game? Well, then, it’s an Even Better…
It happened in Coppell. You can probably guess when. Video is unsafe for work, presuming your boss isn’t big on F-bombs…
The number of convicts being freed after serving prison time for crimes they didn’t commit keeps mounting in Dallas County, with Friday bringing a rare triple exoneration for three men wrongly accused of robbery. On November 17, 1994, five teenagers roamed the parking lot near the Eckerd drugstore at the…
There aren’t many special teams coaches whose names or faces we recognize. But Joe Avezzano, who choreographed the Cowboys’ kicking and return games from 1990 to 2002, was a memorable face and name. And now he’s gone: Dead at 68, several outlets are reporting, after suffering a heart attack on…
For the past few days, several corners of the Internet have been all a-flutter over a recent piece on Forbes.com by a man named Ryan Holiday, who describes himself as a “strategist for big authors and big brands.” Holiday apparently had tried to arrange a donation of $500,000 from one…
The backdrop, the pageantry, the Fried Everything: There are plenty of reasons the folks at Texas and Oklahoma wouldn’t mind keeping the schools’ annual rivalry at the Cotton Bowl. But these are college football guys we’re talking about, so you can’t underestimate the Big R. The schools split $10 million…
Colby Vokey emerges from behind his wooden desk and crouches into a shallow squat, his broad shoulders eating up the space in front of the panoramic windows that overlook downtown Dallas. He bends at the knees and stretches his hands behind him, his crisp, dark suit crumpling unnaturally. “The purpose…
If the sunny weather is inspiring you to pick up a juicy beach read, we’ve got the goods. They came neatly packaged in an eight-page complaint filed in Dallas County District Court by socialite and Pamela Martin Duarte, star of Big Rich Texas, Style Network’s homage to Lone Star State…
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, the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason really wanted to run some ads about atheism . They put up some billboards along Interstate 30, but a planned advertisement at the Arlington location of Movie Tavern was rejected at the last minute. American Atheists president Dave Silverman was pretty steamed…
