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Nobody's Calling the Trinity Golf Course "TERRIBLE," DMN, They're Just Calling B.S.

Eric has a pretty nice rundown of today's big announcement, and I'm sure Schutze will chime in at some point, when he's done looking into the combination polo-field/squash complex expected to be announced for southern Dallas next week. In the meantime, Sharon Grigsby, editorial page editor for the ... More >>

Patent Trolls and the War on Innovation

On the front line of the costliest battle in the high-tech world.

Studio Movie Grill at Spring Valley Opens this Weekend with Dollar MOVIES!

The new Studio Movie Grill at Spring Valley opens this Friday with $1 movie tickets all weekend, October 12 - 14. And, if you bring a canned food for the North Texas Food Bank, you'll get in free - it's the "Cans Film Festival." This new SMG theatre at 13933 N. Central Expressway (at Spring Valley ... More >>

My Oh Yes

"Big D" both song and city, is earning big laughs at Lyric and the Wyly.

On Its 85th Anniversary, Local Big Brothers Big Sisters Reunited With a Historic Piece of Paper

Click to expand the historic document.​Out of nowhere, moments ago, I got an email from Dan Stuchal, on the executive team at the local Big Brothers Big Sisters. He's a Friend of Unfair Park, he explained, and well aware of my affection for historic relics. He said he had something at which I migh ... More >>

What's Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett Most Concerned About? Let's Find Out.

​Late yesterday I got a call back from Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett, for whom I'd left a message about Irving and the North Texas Municipal Water District's need to buy water from the city. We set up a time to chat this morning, and just got through visiting for a little while abou ... More >>

Big Hair. Big Boots. Big D. This is Reality?

Dallas is hot, hot, hot on reality television. Or at least someplace sort of like Dallas.

Love In

Dallas, You Ignorant Slut: OKCupid Says We're America's Sixth-Most Promiscuous City

Via.​That there is the photo CBS News used to illustrate Dallas's promiscuity, which made me think that it was all our our honky-tonkin' that makes us America's sixth-sluttiest city. But in the description alongside that photo, CBS notes our high concentration of Fortune 500 companies, which m ... More >>

Alone, Together: David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings Square Off in Mayoral Debate

Photos by Patrick MichelsMike Rawlings introduces himself to the Dallas business community.​After Mike Rawlings wrapped Ron Natinsky's endorsement this morning at the Adolphus, he joined fellow Dallas mayoral hopeful David Kunkle for lunch with the Dallas Regional Chamber and paying guests from Te ... More >>

Perot Museum Announces New Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall

Photos by Patrick MichelsWith help from Perot Museum educator Jason Treadway, Peak Prep students hoist their metaphor high.There's really no bad time to check back in on construction at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science -- but especially on a day like today, when some serious money has just cha ... More >>

Dallas' Next Mayor Will Face Tough Budget Choices. Too Bad The Candidates Won't Talk About Them.

Welcome To The Dull House

Five Women Sue TI, Claim Exposure to Chemicals Led to Their Childrens' Birth Defects

​Courthouse News has the suit, filed in Delaware Superior Court last week: Five women who worked in Texas Instruments' Dallas and Santa Cruz, California, facilities allege that exposure to "hazardous chemicals and substances" used to manufacture semiconductors resulted in their children suffering ... More >>

The DARPA Initiative: SMU, DOD Partner Again, This Time on Prosthetics That Feel

​SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership -- a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that'll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in ... More >>

With NASA's Future Uncertain, Dallas Rocketeers at Armadillo Aerospace Compete In The Race To Privatize The Final Frontier

Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Server Farm No More: The DFW's a Data Center!

​A few days ago, Stream Data Centers announced it was in the process of building out a 20,000-square foot server farm in Richardson, in the Telecom Corridor -- not necessarily the sexiest press release in the world. (Though there is the part about the building's being able to "withstand 125 mph wi ... More >>

Poster Of The Week: Speak Easy At The Lounge On Elm Street Tonight

  Vigilante Music Group has assembled an intriguing lineup for tonight's Speakeasy at The Lounge On Elm Street. Dallas' Original Soul is a rapper for grownups, with thoughtful, positive rhymes over beats that seem equally influenced by chilled-out soul, smooth jazz and organic hip-hop; anyone w ... More >>

TI's the Latest in Line to the Courthouse Over $524 Million in Auction Rate Securities

Shortly before the bond market went straight to hell, boys, Texas Instruments snapped up $524 million worth of auction rate securities from Citigroup, BNY Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley. TI says, yeah, it knew maybe -- pardon, "possibly" -- that there was some "fail" potential, but, still, it wa ... More >>

Southwest Airlines Ties FedEx as Seventh Most-Admired Company in ... the World!

Courtesy Southwest AirlinesFortune just posted its list of the World's Most Admired Companies -- at least, admired by the other bidness folks surveyed by the magazine. Five Dallas-based companies made the list of 363, and they are, in alphabetical order: AT&T, Brinker International, Centex, Sout ... More >>

In Case of a Public Health Emergency, Dallas County Would Prefer If You Didn't Panic

Dallas County Health & Human Services's monthly Public Health Preparedness Update is a great read full of fascinating tidbits -- lots of stuff this go-round about expanded HIV testing capabilities, the flu "outbreak," second-hand smoke and so forth. But one tiny Page 2 piece piqued our interest: ... More >>

Dallas Animation Studio Tapped to Tick Off 1000 Ways to Die for Spike TV

Liquid Logixx, a 3D computer animation studio on South Lamar, counts among its clients American Airlines, PepsiCo, IBM, Texas Instruments and the American Heart Association. It's the studio's work for the latter than has resulted in the latest addition to its roster, Spike TV -- specifically, the sh ... More >>

Fifty Years Ago Today in Dallas, Jack Kilby Changed Everything

Artistic Invention

Kilby was a 'chip off the ol' easel

Texas Instruments Is Now in the Immigration Reform Business, Kinda

Last Night: Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at Granada Theater

Did a Dallas Woman Just Re-Invent the Paper-Clip Dispenser?

Ghost of Dallas Goals Past

The Man Who Helped T.I. Save Energy, Water...and A Lot of Money

A Broad Gap for DISD to Clear

Little Steps

Lunatics Running the TI Asylum

You Can Ring My Bell

Duncan the Question

Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

Sam Gross does, but despite his claims to the contrary, he's only about a billion or so short of his goal.

Ain't Got That Swing

Noodleswing Thai Cafe aims for the fence--and misses

Avast, Ye Pirates

Get yourself--and Congress--ready for the next wave of absurd anti-file-sharing tactics

"Nice Kid, But..."

To get into the right college, sometimes you have to be better than perfect

String Along

Violinist Gil Shaham performs

Bearing Witness

Dallas civil servant Dale Long was there the day a bomb changed the civil rights landscape forever

Judge Not

Keliher jumps in the boat and takes away some of the fun

You Scratch My Back

Massage therapists feel their way around corporate America

Planting SEEDs of hope

An innovative math program recalculates which students will succeed and which will fail at DISD

Make 'em pay

Dallas activists fight
for a living wage from city contractors

Invasion of the bodyshoppers

A shortage of American engineers and programmers spells boom times for brokers who peddle skilled foreign workers at bargain prices. Is it exploitation, or just good business?

Peep-hole power

It's a scary world out there, but someone's gotta keep it under control. Jim Schutze uncovers the secret agony of the Dallas Citizens Council.

Baby, it's them

Bad teachers make bad students, according to DISD's own statistics; just don't ask to see them

Damage control

A deadly accident in a pit at Texas Instruments sent lawyers and flacks scurrying, but the company's response may put it deeper in the hole

Buzz

True crime story

Forget the usual tales of rape and pillage--consider the sins of corporate America