At some point, the vacant triangle of land running along the west side of Central Expressway just north of Lemmon — the plot where the McKinney Avenue Trolley recently laid down its new turntable — will house tall buildings, mostly offices, 30 and 40 stories high.That’s the idea at least,…
The brief but magisterial career of Josh Hamilton’s magic baseball bat came to a tragic end when the slugger cracked it during his final plate appearance against the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.Hamilton used the bat to pound four home runs into the stands of Camden Yards in Baltimore during…
Question: Is Jim Schutze a prophet, or does does the city just go to him for its marching orders? Just a few short hours ago, he was grousing about the piddling response by the Dallas Police Department to a string of armed robberies on the Katy Trail.Immediately DPD officers, who…
Congressman Ralph Hall, the near-nonagenarian, oldest serving member of Congress, who was elected to things five years after World War II ended, just turned 89 years old. What do you give the man who has everything — a powerful committee chair; a devilish sense of humor (he loves Mormons!); and…
Oh. Right. That. After all the candidate forums and the radio debates and the mayor-izen endorsements, it turned out that the roughly 117 people who care about the politics of Dallas Independent School District were just extras in the occasional stage play put on by the North Dallas elite, who…
NorthPark mall can suck my ass w/ this 6 o’clock curfew bullshit!!#wtfisthis— ♥0V0♥X’0♥ (@_OptimisticSwag) May 10, 2012 Last week NorthPark Center, the fanciest mall outside of Vegas, announced it would institute a new curfew for teenagers: If you’re 17 and younger, no food court-ing or Forever 21-ing without a parent…
If you build it dump $82 million into it, they will come. Mayor Mike Rawlings sends word today that it’s a lock: The annual, traffic-snarling blood feud between the University of Texas and Oklahoma University known as the Red River Shootout will be played in the Cotton Bowl at least…
If you are one of the 18 million or so Texans who have health insurance, you may find something unusual in your mailbox this summer: an envelope from your insurance company stuffed with cash or, more likely, a check. That’s when the provision of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)…
Last summer — the state’s hottest and driest on record — brought Texas ranchers to their knees. Rains have revived parts of the state, especially the east. But 50 miles west of Fort Worth and further, the drought varies from severe to exceptional. So, what’s in store for us this…
Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders, recently accepted more than 1,100 students for its inaugural school year, and hundreds of those students are slated to attend its campus in Oak Cliff. The question is whether that campus will even be available to the school…
While his vision might not be as far-reaching as Deltron’s, incoming DISD chief Mike Miles outlined his vision for the future Thursday in “Destination 2020,” his first presentation to the board. The main job of the district, Miles said, is to “prepare students for college or for a Year 2020…
This week’s feature tells the story of Debbie Jones, a Richardson woman who was raped and robbed at knifepoint in 1985, when she was 19. Soon after the crime, Jones picked Thomas McGowan out of a photo lineup. He was convicted of burglary and sexual assault and sentenced to two…
Stephen Benavides, the Occupy Dallas protester arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer during a scuffle at the November Bank of America protest, has signed a plea deal that reduces the felony to a misdemeanor resisting-arrest charge and keeps him out of jail. Benavides pleaded no contest to the…
In two days, DISD school board trustee elections will be upon us, and we of Unfair Park are way more stoked than we have any right to be. Obviously, we’re particularly excited about the District 9 race between the incumbent Bernadette Nutall and her 20-year-old challenger, Damarcus Offord. You can…
Nothing says Dallas quite an unbroken line of cars inching down a four-lane freeway from far-flung suburbs, wrapping themselves and the rest of the city in a shroud of exhaust. We live for this stuff. Why else would Dallasites spend 58 hours per year in traffic? Apparently, though, our love…
When Debbie Jones saw her mother, she knew the news was bad. For weeks, Jones had been waiting to hear from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office about the results of a DNA test. Now, on a sunny April morning in 2008, one of the DA’s investigators, Jim Hammond, had…
Dallas black activist the Reverend Ronald Wright went home last Friday expecting to be greeted happily by his 2-year-old German shepherd Sadie. When he opened the door, the house was silent. He immediately knew something was wrong. When he went to the backyard, he saw his dog lying on the…
Aftermath Inc. refers to itself as a “biohazard restoration company”, more commonly known as crime-scene cleanup: The company’s employees go in after murders, suicides, injuries, hoarding cases and other seriously unpleasant situations. But now three of their Texas employees are being sued in Dallas County district court, where five families…
The Nasher Sculpture Center and the developers of the Museum Tower project are continuing to hammer out their white light, white heat debacle behind closed doors. They recently hired a mediator in lawyer Tom Luce, who promptly asked both sides to quit talking to the media already. Above, however, you…
Having a wife, an almost-3-year-old and another on the way (child, not wife), I’ve shackled myself to a life of uneventful domesticity, at least for the next 18 years. It’s a comfortable setup, but one that can induce restlessness, so when fate put me in Dallas a full week before…
Update 12:45 p.m.: City spokesman Frank Librio sends word that, on second thought, there is plenty of parking available for the Chihuly exhibit at the Arboretum and no need to mow Winfrey Point. Attendance numbers for the current exhibit at the Dallas Arboretum appear to be within the facility’s ability…
Is it any wonder that Prime Prep Academy, the charter school hyped by Deion Sanders, is accepting triple the number of students that most charter schools accept in their first year? Everything about the place has been propped up with hopeful grandeur. Sanders, the school’s co-founder and spokesperson (though he…
