Email AuthorJoe Tone
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Champ d'Or, This Totally Unpretentious $45 Million Denton Estate, Could Sell for $10 Million
March 12, 2012 in Unfair Park
The White House has half as many bowling lanes than this place.The wife and I are house-hunting, looking for something modest and sensible: good school district, open floor plan, lots...
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Scott Cannon III, Duncanville Councilman, Arrested for Exposing Himself at the King Spa
March 10, 2012 in Unfair Park
Scott Cannon III. In clothes!Update: Cannon has resigned. More after the original story. Original item: The folks from the Dallas Police vice squad had an interesting Thursday, going undercover at the...
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American Airlines Flight Sent Back to Gate After Flight Attendant Rants Over PA About Crashing
March 09, 2012 in Unfair Park
A photo from a passenger on the flight, taken around 9:15.Update: 3:06 p.m.: CNN has a video wherein you can hear the disruption. It's embedded below. Update, 12:30 p.m.: The...
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In Dallas ISD, Algebra for (Almost) Everyone on the Bridge Over the Opportunity Gap
March 07, 2012 in Unfair Park
While black students are suspended, the nation's white students are forced to write sentences on really large iPads.Make no mistake: The achievement gap is still a seemingly uncrossable gorge, and...
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About That Exit Music
March 06, 2012 in Unfair Park
Wilonsky's fans are already trying to find their way past the Morning News paywall.This definitely is navel-gazing, but screw it. This deserves it. You guys deserve it. Plus, it will...
Robert Wilonsky is Leaving the Observer for Something Called The Dallas Morning News
February 20, 2012 in Unfair Park
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Mark Cuban Saved the Greenville St. Patrick's Day Parade: "I Didn't Want to See it Go Away"
February 15, 2012 in Unfair Park
Mike MezeulIf he would be the grand marshal, they'd make him it for life. Tell that quivering liver of yours to relax: The Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade marches...
The Porch's Chicken Salad is Pretty Much a Pre-Sauced 20-Piece Nugget Meal Over Lettuce
February 10, 2012 in City of Ate
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The Race Is On to Save the 2012 Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade
February 06, 2012 in Unfair Park
Photo by Roderick PullumDo it for this lady. If you feel so inclined.About 34 seconds after we reported Friday evening that the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day parade was on...
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Organizers Say the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade May Not Happen This Year
February 03, 2012 in Unfair Park
Roderick PullumLast year's parade drew more than 100,000 people to Greenville.So here's some potentially lousy news: The Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade, that beloved march of green-tinted debauchery that's...
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Liberty Burger is Open and Slammed in North Dallas, and is Already Talking About Expansion
January 30, 2012 in City of Ate
The Liberty BurgerThe wife and I were doing some house-hunting on Saturday morning and, after an unsuccessful showing, our realtor asked whether we wanted to try a new burger place....
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The Observer is Looking for an Art Director
January 26, 2012 in The Mixmaster
This is the job posting. Tell your friends. But only the good ones. The Dallas Observer has an immediate opening for an experienced editorial art director. The art director is responsible...
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In Deion Sanders's Quest for a Charter School, the Whistleblower Turns it Up to 11
January 26, 2012 in Unfair Park
Lawrence Smith has what you might call a bit of a beef with Cowboys great Deion Sanders. And he just took that beef -- what's that phrase? Ah yes. Priiiime...
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DISD's Department of Uselessness
January 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
Via.An effective HR team would make sure teachers have the proper equipment to do their jobs, starting with straws.In the ever-lasting debate over whether and how and how well our...
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Feds Think Texas's Voter ID Law May Be Racist, So the State Sues to Implement It Right Away
January 23, 2012 in Unfair Park
Greg Abbott to feds: Oh hell no.Given Texas's dicey history with electoral rights, the Obama Administration has expressed concern in recent months about the state's new Voter ID law, which...
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The Librarians of America Just About Destroyed Wild Salsa on Saturday Night
January 23, 2012 in City of Ate
Sara KerensThe space, in quieter times; the tacos, in less eaten ones.We arrived at Wild Salsa a few minutes before our reservation on Saturday night, but the door wasn't even...
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Rick Perry Thinks He's Just Like Rocky Balboa, and Not Because They're Both Brain Injured
January 12, 2012 in Unfair Park
If you gave me 100 tries to guess how Rick Perry is similar to Rocky and Babe Ruth, I don't think I'd come up with "Champion." But there it is,...
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Mimi's Pizza is Open in Preston Hollow
January 06, 2012 in City of Ate
Photo by me"Soon" apparently meant January 2.As of January 2, the strip mall at Northwest Highway and Hillcrest, on the northern edge of Preston Hollow, has another has another fast-casual...
