Dallas Area Rapid Transit Daniel Perez At a time when the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board is already upside down and up for grabs, another Dallas member of the DART board departs. Attorney Daniel Perez has informed the city council that health concerns (a heart attack last October) are making…
Marc Baptiste My short feature on Erykah Badu runs in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park — turns out, wasn’t an easy road to New Amerykah, which sees release next week. Not enough room on that page to get into everything Badu and I discussed over the course of…
Out in Grand Prairie, Lockheed Martin Corporation is testing the weapon of the future: the Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment (or MULE, fer shorts). And it is … ? “Roughly the size of a Humvee,” says the March issue of Popular Mechanics, “it has a trick worthy of monster truck rallies…
Sherman Allen sure is … um … interesting. The rumors floated around for years in the local Pentecostal church scene (and, on Unfair Park, for that matter). But Your Bible Girl’s got the inside story: Pastor Sherman Allen’s strange affinities for crystal balls, voodoo and butt-whuppings. In this week’s cover…
All I really wanted out of yesterday’s Obama rally coverage was this. And I found it. Thanks, Supafly2380. You too, No. 22. –Robert Wilonsky Update: Mike Fisher has the behind-the-scenes with Emmitt talking about precisely how he came to introduce Obama on Wednesday…
One final look at the proposed development on Henderson Ave., shot down by a select few On Monday, Marc Andres sent word that he and brother Roger had given up trying to turn the old Carnival on Henderson Avenue into a live-shop-dine development — too many headaches, courtesy a few…
One game, and already Richie’s proclaiming Kidd and empty jersey — one you can buy right here, matter o’ fact! Don’t worry, maybe one of the Mavericks will exercise an obscure trade veto, and we can nix this whole Jason Kidd deal before it’s too late. Oh, shit. Wait. We’re…
Army Specialist Christopher West of Arlington Army Specialist Christopher West, a 26-year-old combat medic born in Dallas and raised in Arlington, was supposed to be back in the U.S. this very month; he was due a year’s worth of non-combat duty following his first tour in Iraq, and he planned…
Did you wake up this morning and go, “Man, enough about convention center hotels and Barack Obama and Trinity Parkway cost overruns — how the hell are Tony and Jessica doing, anyway?” ‘Cause if you did, it’s your lucky day: They’re getting engaged. OK, fine. So that’s stretching it by…
Hear that? It’s audible. But so quiet and muffled, almost tranquil. Is it the refurbished Mercantile Tower clock, silently ticking high above downtown? Two moths texting in a cotton field? Charlie Chaplin espousing the virtues of Roger Clemens? Nope. Just another winter hot streak by your Dallas Stars. Admittedly stripped…
Priorities, priorities: Man, Buzz needs a vacation. Here we are about to tell you that the Collin County District Attorney’s Office is preparing to start requiring all persons accepting felony plea bargains to provide DNA samples, and our lefty knee isn’t even twitching, let alone jerking. We must be tired…
Die, peyote, die! I would like to express my support for the ranchers to continue to fence their land and destroy the peyote plant (“The Flesh of God,” by Russell Cobb, February 14). The main threat to true Native American culture is this evil thing. The only people that should…
Several women alleged he subjected them to “disciplinary” paddlings and sexual abuse during counseling sessions, sometimes as minors.
Contrary to what the national media had you believing, the Democratic presidential primary did not end on Super Tuesday, and Texas is now in play. You figure it’s time to get involved. After all, you’re a Dallas County Democrat. For the first time in a generation, you are relevant. It’s…
Brian Harkin Twenty bucks this photo winds up on this Web site before the end of the week. A few end-of-the-day options for your viewing pleasure (or not, if you happen to be killing time till the Huckabee-in in Plano): You can view Noah Bailey and art director Alex Flores’…
Noah W. Bailey Noah snapped this photo at 9 this morning — about the time he’d usually be waking up. For most of my 27 years, Democratic rallies in Dallas have been — how should I put this? — rather intimate affairs, with maybe a few hundred people even at…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking today at Reunion Arena Anyone who questions Barack Obama’s mounting momentum should have been at Reunion Arena this afternoon. Thousands of people waited in line for hours, only to be turned away. And when the fire marshals cut off the line and denied them entrance…
Ngan Wedemeier/University of Texas at Dallas The former First Daughter spoke this morning to a sweaty Student Union full of hundreds of University of Texas at Dallas students. Chelsea Clinton touring the area today on a college-campus trek aimed at getting The Kids to vote for her mother — you…
With the initial sticker shock having subsided and a waiting list already topping 10,000, the Dallas Cowboys are openly happy with ticket sales at their new $1-billion palace in Arlington. But, privately, they’re even more thrilled at the demand for exclusive, elitist suites. A team source tells me this morning…
Alexander Flores Some of the folks waiting in line for the Obama rally this morning A few notes from the Obama rally, courtesy Noah Bailey. At 11:53 a.m, speakers (among them Friendship-West Baptist Church’s Frederick Haynes) were warming up the crowd, but Reunion’s not full — not by a long…
Over the last couple of months, word has dribbled out that former Dallas Housing Authority president and CEO Alphonso Jackson, now the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary, is under heavy government scrutiny for allegedly bad behavior in New Orleans, Philadelphia and even the Virgin Islands. Which, reports The…
Avery Johnson, picking up his Coach of the Year award two years ago Evan Smith, the camera-shy editor of Texas Monthly, interviewed Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson for the mag’s forthcoming April issue. Evan kindly provides a sneak peak over at the Monthly’s Delay of Game sports blog, with…
