Several Friends of Unfair Park have been asking, repeatedly: When will Dallas Police arrest the 19-year-old woman who, on January 7, hit 17-year-old Riley Rawlins as he crossed Royal Lane, near Audelia Road, to meet some friends at the Sonic there. It’s a question that’s been repeated again and again…
Speaking of Uplift Education and its planned expansion into Deep Ellum …There’s an intriguing item that just appeared on the Dallas City Council’s consent addendum for next week’s meeting, posted here. According to the doc, the city wants to create a nonprofit called the City of Dallas Education Finance Corporation…
“Here they go again,” Reverend Kyev Tatum said. He laughed, but stopped abruptly. He was talking, of course, about the atheists. When we last caught up with the Dallas-Forth Worth Coalition of Reason, our local band of atheists, freethinkers and humanists, they were trying fruitlessly to get The Dallas Morning…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Why nothing about Josh Hamilton’s alleged “relapse”? Well, because for now, we don’t know much, just that the recovering (and re-recovering) addict may have had something alcoholic (not sure what or how much) at Sherlock’s (no shit) on Monday and that Ian Kinsler…
Schutze broke the story a while back about a group of black people in South Dallas picketing the Diamond Shamrock gas station on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. People in the neighborhood claimed the station’s Korean owner had called black customers “broke-ass niggers,” imposed a $10 minimum on debit card…
Amidst all the ruckus, resignations and double-talking over Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s politically charged move to pull its breast-cancer screening funding from Planned Parenthood, you should also be aware: Dallas-based Komen’s actually the subject of a documentary that opens in Canada today that takes a very dim view…
One week ago tonight I was at Thomas C. Marsh Middle School for my son’s elementary-school talent show; those kids play the big room. We’re in the Matadors’ feeder pattern, and plenty of neighbors and friends send their kids to Marsh, which has made significant strides in recent years –…
A Perot Museum of Nature & Science curator wound us through the fourth floor of the partially completed space, calling upon visitors to imagine the 80-foot-long dinosaur that would soon occupy where he was standing. Next to that prehistoric giant will be the 25-foot Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, that horned dino named…
Below is a missive just dispatched to Unfair Park: Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores’s “Open Letter of Apology” — to Central Elementary fourth-grade bilingual teacher Joseph Drake, who was put on leave after he sent Flores a fist-shaking letter concerning 45 minutes added to teachers’ workdays, and to…
I don’t recall Dallas PD ever sending out a series of videos, but below is a brief trilogy dispatched by Senior Corporal Kevin Janse moments ago. Says DPD, the man seen in the first video is merely posing as a student at West Coast University’s Dallas campus on Stemmons. He…
Spent a few hours today with Phil Romano, Stuart Fitts and Larry “Butch” MacGregor at their Singleton Boulevard HQ at the foot of the Calatrava bridge. It’s the brick building painted red — one of three on that side of the bridge now decorated with Shepard Fairey’s handiwork. When I…
The city of Dallas wants Municipal Judge Phyllis Lister Brown to leave her job as soon as possible, as evidenced by the city attorney’s latest petition, which says the temporary restraining order allowing her to keep working is “void.” Judge Brown, a municipal judge for 17 years, announced her candidacy…
I’ve driven past this house countless times; it’s not far from the office, after all, more or less just behind Maple and Motor on Maple Springs Boulevard. But till I saw the agenda for Monday’s meeting of the Landmark Commission, I had no idea that it was designed by one…
A few moments ago, Jason Roberts tweeted: “Exploring a run for Congress. With redistricting up in the air, it’s going to be an incredibly short campaign for the primary.” As long as we’ve been covering his doings, I’ve never known the Better Block-er to be … silly, let’s say. Nevertheless,…
As you know by now, locally based Susan G. Komen for the Cure has cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood, meaning it’ll no longer help pay for mammograms for women who can’t afford them; why, there’s Nancy Brinker herself above, attempting to explain Komen’s “new granting strategies” concerning its…
With the release of its latest map this morning, the U.S. Drought Monitor made it official: A few weeks’ worth of heavy rain have officially removed Dallas-Fort Worth from the historic drought that has most of the state bone-dry. (Watch the 12-week animation here.) And per the AP’s breaking-news sounder:…
When The Ambrose and DART’s Baylor University Medical Center Station on the Green Line finally, formally married three short years ago, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hailed it as the “consummate example of the new transit-oriented lifestyle.” After all, the complex at Indiana and Malcolm X consisted of 325 apartments and…
Urbandale is a surprise, a tidy, easily missed neighborhood bordering Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas. There are liquor stores and tattered strip malls not far away, but here it feels lush, secluded. Trees with trailing limbs line a curving road. The houses, brightly colored and neatly fenced, sit on gentle…
Indianapolis is bracing for war. It’s Super Bowl week, after all. Time for the Annual Invasion of the Hookers, which promises to be as harrowing as the Ottoman Empire’s advance on Crete in 1647, though with considerably more nudity. Yes, one of America’s great urban legends is again being trotted…
Speaking of Walmart (told you) …In the end, turns out, I didn’t need Mitchell Rasansky to tell me what everyone already knew — or guessed, anyhow. Because, as I discovered this morning, the permits were filed with the city two months ago and approved December 29. So, yes, brace yourself,…
Rasmiya AlGhrawi greets guests with big hugs and a series of kisses from cheek to cheek and back again. She’s a mother and grandmother to both her own family and to anyone who walks through her door and sinks into her comfy couches. She’s also a refugee, having fled from…
The denizens of tony Southlake successfully defeated the fracking juggernaut, turning industry leaders like Chesapeake back at the city limit sign. Or maybe it was the low natural gas prices that did it. Tough to say, really. But what can they do when a derrick goes up a stone’s throw…
