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Big Tex Fire Dispatchers: "We've Got a Rather Tall Cowboy, All His Clothes Burned Off"
October 19, 2012 in Unfair Park
Even the dispatchers couldn't help but have a little fun at Big Tex's expense this morning. (Via Texas Storm Chasers and Wilonsky's Twitter feed.) See also: - "Big Tex is Gone. There's...
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The Body of Coppell Star Jacob Logan Was Found in Possum Kingdom Lake Last Night
October 19, 2012 in Unfair Park
Late last night, divers searching Possum Kingdom Lake found the body of missing teenager Jacob Logan, who disappeared Sunday after diving into the lake with friends, the AP reported. His...
Alan King, Dallas ISD Chief of Staff and Former Interim Superintendant, Resigns
October 18, 2012 in Unfair Park
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A Man Fought Back at Sherlock's Last Night, and Got Shot and Killed When He Did
October 18, 2012 in Unfair Park
Sherlock'sLast night, a group of people were standing outside Sherlock's, a bar and restaurant in North Dallas, when a man approached. He carried a pistol and, according to police, he...
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Dallas Teachers Are Mad They Won't Get Paid Extra for Parent Conferences. Should They?
October 17, 2012 in Unfair Park
New DISD supe Mike MilesDallas ISD's teachers are feeling beaten down, their union rep told me this morning: "Physically, emotionally and financially." The latest blow, she said: no longer getting...
Louis C.K. Dallas Week: When You've Run Out of Louis, Turn to the Opie and Anthony Show
October 16, 2012 in The Mixmaster
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In John Wiley Price Case, Dapheny Fain Makes it Clear: I Saw Nothing, I Know Nothing
October 16, 2012 in Unfair Park
The feds raided cash and jewelry from Price's house in December.We heard last week from John Wiley Price, who responded defiantly in the feds' ongoing effort to squeeze him on...
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Pablo Mora, UTA Psych Prof, is Missing, His Car Abandoned at Ray Roberts State Park
October 16, 2012 in Unfair Park
via UT ArlingtonPablo Mora, 41, went missing on September 30.The Dallas police are looking for a UT Arlington professor who disappeared two weeks ago and hasn't been seen since. Pablo Mora,...
Louis C.K. Dallas Week: To Get Started, Here's Louis Talking About George Carlin
October 15, 2012 in The Mixmaster
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George P. Bush's "Future in Texas is Unlimited." And George W.? He's Taken Up Painting.
October 15, 2012 in Unfair Park
George P. Bush would make a nice portrait, don't you think?The latest New York magazine goes all-in on the Bush family, assessing the political hopes of Jeb before finally deciding...
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Ravens Cornerback Tells Dez Bryant to "Be a Man," Echoing Every Cowboys Fan Ever
October 15, 2012 in Unfair Park
DallasCowboys.comBryant, post-drop, pre-bitching.Toward the end of yesterday's Cowboys game, there was a two-play sequence that more or less captured the career of receiver Dez Bryant. After Bryant hauled in a...
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Avi Adelman Claims Phillip Kingston's Campaign is the Real Reason for Wife's Lawsuit
October 15, 2012 in Unfair Park
Avi AdelmanAvi Adelman, Lower Greenville's resident pot-stirrer, now claims that the lawsuit against him, filed by neighborhood organizer Melissa Kingston, is actually an effort to silence him during her husband's...
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Ron Washington Goes Off Rangers' Script, Admits Running Team "Into the Ground"
October 09, 2012 in Unfair Park
The Rangers just wrapped up their 2012 post-mortem press conference. It was by and large quite boring, probably by design. You can imagine the team's PR gurus urging the team...
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Louie Season 4 Won't Air Until 2014; Ratings for Last Minute of Wilfred to Plummet
October 09, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Ignore the date. Otherwise this post will be very confusing. It's all Louis CK all the time at Mixmaster HQ, with comedy's leading schlub set to hit Dallas next weekend....
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Barneys is Leaving NorthPark; Husbands Across the Metroplex Rejoice
October 08, 2012 in The Mixmaster
I don't suppose there'll be a closeout sale?There is no sight more troubling than that of one's wife making the turn into NorthPark's Archipelago of Shit You Can't Afford....
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Tig Notaro, Louis C.K., and the Best Email We Got All Week
October 06, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Tig Notaro did one of Louis CK's favorite sets ever.My kid was being a handful last night -- or, as Louis CK would put it, an asshole. He was being...
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Rangers-Orioles at the Ballpark: Still Plenty of Seats from which to Boo Josh Hamilton
October 04, 2012 in Unfair Park
Rangers fans seem like a relatively forgiving bunch, but yesterday's series of events -- the dropped fly above, followed by Josh Hamilton appearing bemused and totally bored by his clumsy,...
Good Well Hunting: Introducing Promised Land, the Fracking Flick by Gus Van Sant and Matt Damon
September 25, 2012 in The Mixmaster
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The Dallas Observer Has New Owners; Village Voice Media, Backpage Split
September 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
The new company's new logo.The longtime owners of the Dallas Observer have sold the paper and its 12 Village Voice Media sister publications to a group of VVM executives, creating...
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Dallas' Best Radio Station: Our Editor Debates The Ticket vs. KXT
September 20, 2012 in DC9 At Night
Dylan HollingsworthSarah Jaffe, thinking about stabbing Joe Tone in the legIn conjunction with our annual Best of Dallas issue, which hits the streets and the interstreets today, we held debates...
Debating Dallas' Best Radio Station: 1310 The Ticket vs. 91.7 KXT
September 19, 2012 in The Mixmaster
SNL's Puppet Sketch Will (Or Should) Restore Your Faith in the Show Post-Wiig
September 18, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Work for the Dallas Observer
September 11, 2012 in Unfair Park
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Watch Deion Sanders' Entire Football Team Halt Traffic to Confront a WFAA Camerman
August 30, 2012 in Unfair Park
WFAA's Brett Shipp went out to the football practice yesterday of Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders. What happened was dangerous, awkward, embarrassing, and...
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The Cowboys' Dez Bryant Rules Are Strict, Necessary, and Bound to Be Broken
August 27, 2012 in Unfair Park
Somewhere deep in your blackened heart you're rooting for Dez Bryant. Like a lot of his colleagues, his childhood was packed with a miniseries' worth of drama and heartbreak, in...
