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…
Lower down on this blog, you’ll find Observer staffers having a little fun at the expense of all those people — 97,463* as Buzz writes this — who signed a petition on a White House website calling for the federal government to allow Texas to “peacefully” secede from the union…
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…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: There’s still some very stale, deeply discounted Halloween candy kicking around the aisles at CVS, Christmas music has suddenly overtaken your dentist’s office, and Texas legislators have begun pre-filing bills for the upcoming legislative session. The session doesn’t kick off until January,…
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…
That guy you see up there is J.C. Drake, the police chief at North Lake College in Irving. Chief Drake is real worried about all the school shootings, so he decided to do something about it. He decided to offer a course, apparently to students and also staff, in how…
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…
Texas is totally on the verge of seceding, after 25,000 people signed a petition calling for the state’s removal from the ones that are United. We’re pretty much set on sticking it out as Texans, because the only thing worse than living out our existence in a destined-to-fail non-American country…
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…
On the afternoon of September 6, police officers came to the door of an apartment in the 4300 block of Wyoming Street. They were following a man who lived there, who had just received a disturbing call: his one-year-old child was dead. The police were met at the door by…
Through nearly three quarters, it seemed as though this would be the final blow to a season barely halfway over. Michael Vick was knocked out of the game in the second quarter, unable to return for postgame autographs. Rookie Nick Foles then took the helm and put the Eagles in…
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 –…
To: Lovers of America From: The Republican National Committee RE: Emergency platform changes Dear Patriots: It seems that 47 percent was somewhat larger than we anticipated in last week’s election. Henceforth, we urge all Republicans to adopt these immediate policy changes. Our new platform on babes. Please refrain from any…
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…
