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Dallas ISD Magnets Are Once Again Among the Washington Post's List of Top Public Schools

It's tradition by now. Every year, Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews crunches the numbers and comes up with a list of the country's top public schools, and every year Dallas ISD's cohabitating School of Science and Engineering and TAG Magnet are near the top. This year is no different. Mathews ... More >>

DISD Trustees Are Ready to Fight for Principals

Too bad they won’t do that for the students

Opa! Das Bier! Five Things To Do This Week, Which Pretty Much All Involve Beer and Meat

This weekend is the 56th annual Greek Food Festival of Dallas at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church at the southwest corner of Hillcrest and Alpha Road. They're kicking things off Friday with a happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m., along with a chance to win a trip for two to Greece (throw my name in the ... More >>

East Hampton Sandwich Company in Snider Plaza is Now Open, As Are the Lobster Crates

See Also: The Lobster Roll Smack Down The East Hampton Sandwich Company opened Wednesday in Snider Plaza (Lovers and Hillcrest). Owner Hunter Pond recently ditched law school to test his hand in the local restaurant business (he makes no bones about it - he emphatically hated law school). When Po ... More >>

One Night, Four Dive Bars

Recently, I've been thinking a lot about dive bars, that sub-sect of watering hole fiercely guarded by established regulars. The type of place where the bartender and waitress know 90% of their customer's names and take the time to invest in conversation past the precursory friendly pre-drink banter ... More >>

Sundown Rises, Lumi Goes Dark and More Openings and Closings from a Busy January

January proved to be a busy month in the Dallas food scene. The highly anticipated Sundown at Granada opened its doors, along with a handful of other eateries. Read on for the full opening and closing slate, and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section be ... More >>

Mimi's Pizza is Open in Preston Hollow

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 food option: Mimi's "New York-style" pizza. The small storefront near El Fenix and Mooyah Burger, a spin-off of the Joe's Pizza and Pasta chain, has been un ... More >>

Per State's Latest List, Students at 43 Dallas ISD Campuses Can Transfer Elsewhere

​I see here that on Thursday the Texas Education Agency quietly sent to superintendents its list of Public Education Grant-designated schools -- otherwise known as the lowest of the low-performing campuses in the state. Forty-three Dallas ISD campuses make the list, from A. Maceo Smith to Woodrow ... More >>

Two Years Ago She Was DISD's Top Principal. Now, Cynthia Goodsell's Job Is Gone.

Cynthia Goodsell​Yesterday, in the comments below, we discovered that the Dallas ISD had summoned some of its principals and executive directors to 3700 Ross for what was described as an "emergency meeting." Last night, I found out why from a Friend of Unfair Park doing some volunteer work for the ... More >>

Dallas ISD Offers Detailed Look at Plans to Improve Its Academically Unacceptable Schools

​Speaking of Dallas ISD public hearings ...A few weeks back, in advance of a series of town halls, we sneak-peaked the district's vague suggestions offered to improve its 33 academically unacceptable campuses. But on the board's meetings-and-agenda website, you'll find the so-called School Improve ... More >>

Mimi's Pizzeria, a "New York-Style" Pizza Shop, Coming to Preston Hollow

​Subs, Mexican, burgers, Slurpees -- the strip mall at Northwest Highway and Hillcrest has most of the major food groups covered. It will get that elusive fifth major food group, cheap pizza, in a couple of months. Mimi Ahmedi's family owns the Joe's Pizza and Pasta chain. He's branching out, ... More >>

DISD's Teach Around: District Has a Lot of Vacancies and Not a Lot of Time to Fill Them

Via.​Last we checked there were around 800 teachers vying for 700 vacancies scattered throughout the Dallas Independent School District. Which, sure, sounds a little odd, given that only a few months ago the district was considering thousands of layoffs due to the state's decision to gut public ed ... More >>

Speaking of Traffic: LBJ's Going To Get Worse Tomorrow Night as HOV Lanes Get Adiosed

Via.​The tail end of the Mavs parade left the Dallas Convention Center moments ago; more to come from that traffic jam shortly. But till then, this just in from the folks overseeing the LBJ Freeway redo: The second -- and final -- wave of HOV lane closures is set to begin tomorrow night. Specifica ... More >>

In-N-Out vs. Burger House. Or, Why Owning a Small Business Must Really Suck Sometimes.

​At the precise moment that I shot the above photo on Wednesday, a good 300 people were probably lined up at a fast-food burger chain up in Frisco. Maybe you heard about that? I'm guessing you did, judging from the Most Popular Stories widget at the top right of this page. It was shot at the ... More >>

Stoney Burns, Co-Founder of Underground Paper Dallas Notes and Buddy, Has Died

Stoney Burns as seen in Mickey Grant's documentary about the so-called Lee Park Massacre of 1970​Angus Wynne just called with the sad news: Stoney Burns -- who, in 1967 co-founded The Dallas Notes and then The Iconoclast and would go on to publish Buddy Magazine -- died early this morning at Baylo ... More >>

Right Now, Only Two Dallas Blockbusters to Survive. Everyone Else In "Wait and See" Mode.

The longstanding Preston Royal Shopping Center Blockbuster, which may be about to go the way of Betamax​In the wake of news that Dish Network's looking to keep only a few hundred of Blockbuster's brick-and-mortar locations once the deal's sealed Thursday, several Friends of Unfair Park living in N ... More >>

One Last Cup of Coffee at the Metro

Photos by Dylan HollingsworthShortly after 2 p.m. yesterday, Wayne Adams locked the door to the Metro Diner for the first time since 1997 -- and for the final time.​When we got to the Metro Diner yesterday, a little after noon, the Gaston Ave. greasy spoon was packed. TV crews were in the back, in ... More >>

Come Summer, You May Want to Start Avoiding LBJ Freeway. Like You Don't Already.

Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent weeks: When should they begin avoiding LBJ Freeway, which, of course, is about to become the "LBJ Express"? (To which I replied: What, you don't already avoid LBJ Freeway? I know, right? Hilarious!) One Friend asked in particular because he espied ... More >>

Because It's Never Too Early to Run for Mayor ...

Jim Moore and Jim Foster at the Alamo​This is what the Google Machine tells me about Dallas defense attorney Jim Moore: He's a namesake in the Oak Lawn firm of Moore, Grant & Barrett. He's a Hillcrest and SMU graduate (just like my father, hmmm). He is indeed eligible to practice law in the st ... More >>

Dallas ISD Scores With 63 Exemplary Schools. But Completion Rates Take Their Toll.

​We warned you in early June, when the Dallas Independent School District crunched some TAKS test scores and released its list of exemplary and recognized schools well ahead of the Texas Education Agency's official date of, well, today: Those numbers were very preliminary. As TEA spokesperson DeEt ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 9: DJ Merritt

​Twenty-something years ago, Merritt was just your average high school kid, hanging out and throwing keggers. But, one Saturday afternoon, on his way to help set up a party, Merritt witnessed a series of life-changing events which transformed him into DJ Merritt--pretty much over night. Now, with ... More >>

SMU Cornerback Derrius Bell, After A Series Of Concussions, Makes The Heads-up Decision To Quit Football

While DISD Waits for Word From TEA, Board Considers Contingency Plans For Four Schools

​On Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees will have their "second reading" of contingency plans for four high schools at risk of being labeled academically unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency for a fifth straight year. The at-risk campuses are Kimball, Pinksto ... More >>

Veggie Girl: Olivella's

The question is not how Olivella's does the simple Italian thing so well, but why more restaurants don't. Is it so difficult, really, to buy fresh, healthy ingredients, and then to keep the food simple enough to let their flavors come through? Apparently so, or more places would do it. Olivella ... More >>

Hey DISD Trustees! Do the Math on Magnet Schools.

Magnets just aren’t the budget-busters trustees are pretending they are.

Wherein the DO and the DISD Have a Math-Off Concerning Per-Pupil Expenditures

On Tuesday of this week Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander responded to questions I had asked him last week for my column this week about per-pupil expenditures at high school campuses. Unfortunately, his response by e-mail reached me several days after my deadline had passed ... More >>

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Civics Lesson

After a few changes, there are more reasons to become a citizen

Trock 'N Roll

Ballet that's tutu funny

Tear Jerker

The world according to John Irving

Off the Mark

As with the Shawn Bradley contract, Mark Cuban got screwed in this deal

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Picks for the week of February 13-19

Hockey Pucks

That's what the American Airlines Center is serving, and the Burger House is flipping

Separate and Unequal

In a school district that still sees the city in terms of black and white, Hispanics say their children are robbed of a fair share

Public defenders

A surprising number of parents are shunning the 'burbs, pulling their kids out of private schools, and embracing DISD

Raising the roof

Dallas' PTAs send a message to school administrators -- listen to us

Trojan pony

SMU engages in a stealth campaign to buy out owners of condos in an area it covets

Dallas the Greek

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Treed off

The city's tree ordinance has more holes than the ozone layer

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Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

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Hot Dish

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Super fry

Babe's chicken is as good as you'll get 'round these parts