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May 21, 2012
Why Does Dallas Keep Forgetting About its Cheese-Heroin Problem?
On Friday, Dallas police reported that they were investigating the apparent overdose deaths of two students from Thomas Jefferson High School in March and April: 14-year-old Jaime Morales, who was found dead at his home in Northwest Dallas, and an unnamed 17-year-old, found dead in an apartment on F ... More >>
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July 30, 2011
Farewell to Philanthropist Nancy Hamon, Who Helped Foot the Bill For Dallas's Arts Scene
When word came down earlier this evening that Nancy Hamon had died at 92, I immediately thought of the unfortunate dust-up three Julys ago, when some folks, among them Joyce Foreman and Carla Ranger, voiced their displeasure with the Dallas ISD's decision to put Hamon's name on the side of Booker ... More >>
News
July 28, 2011
In Suburban Dallas, Loosening "Cheese" Heroin's Deadly Grip
Another round of deaths have another round of North Texas parents trying to wipe out a deadly combination of heroin and cold medicine.
Blogs
July 26, 2011
For Sale: An Extraordinary Collection of Photos Taken By (And Of!) the Legendary R.C. Hickman
Photo by R.C. HickmanSammy Davis Jr. pays a Dallas radio station a visit in June 1954.In December 2007 we said farewell to R.C. Hickman, the Mineola native who became the staff photographer at the Dallas Star Post and whose astonishing body of work tells the story of black Dallas in the 1950s, ' ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
UT-Arlington Researchers Plan Study On Gas Drilling Operations' Affect on Water Quality
Last month, we mentioned a far-reaching University of Texas at Austin study of complaints about gas drilling operations that's just now getting underway. Meant to connect the dots between air, soil and water quality complaints from the Barnett to the Marcellus Shale, the nine-month project from t ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2011
Coalition Pushes For Nolan Estes's (Temporary) Return as Dallas ISD Superintendent
Nolan EstesAs Patrick noted Tuesday, the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees has narrowed down its short list of interim superintendents and hopes to name Michael Hinojosa's temporary replacement by no later than Monday. And while newly installed board president Lew Blackburn w ... More >>
Culture
May 19, 2011
At Ochre House, The Butcher Has Chops
The Bath House explores The Mystery of Miz Arnette, while Nouveau Frontiers keep reading.
News
March 3, 2011
The public school funding crisis is part of a bigger plan to suck all sense of community out of the country
The Bath House explores The Mystery of Miz Arnette, while Nouveau Frontiers keep reading.
Blogs
January 13, 2011
How Dumb Do Governor Rick Perry and the Lege Think We Are? Well, We Elected Them.
Oh, now it starts. Faced with a state budget deficit somewhere between $15 billion and $27 billion, Governor Rick Perry says the most important thing for the Legislature to do now is ban "sanctuary cities." Those are cities where the cops don't ask people about their immigration status, bec ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2011
A Little More Reading With This Week's Cover: Sweetheart Swindles, Romani Culture and "Gypsy Crime" Specialists
This week's feature in the Paper Version of Unfair Park recounts the story of Victoria Peterson, a 40-year-old woman who's been accused by a handful of old men in Dallas of pretending at romance while she slowly bilked them out of their life savings.According to court docs and police reports, she ... More >>
Music
December 16, 2010
Dharma Brings A New Initiative To Denton
This week's feature in the Paper Version of Unfair Park recounts the story of Victoria Peterson, a 40-year-old woman who's been accused by a handful of old men in Dallas of pretending at romance while she slowly bilked them out of their life savings.According to court docs and police reports, she ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2010
Dallas ISD's Board of Trustees Set to Receive Glowing Update on Teach for America in Dallas
Teach for America founder (and HPHS's own) Wendy KoppFour months back, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger directed our attention to a a study by UT-Austin Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Planning Julian Vasquez Heilig that questioned whether Highland Park High S ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
A New Dance Step at City Hall: Mayor Tom, Dave Neumann Are Doing the "Levee Slide"
Among the myriad levee slides depicted in the Corp of Engineers' 2007 report on the Trinty River leveesThe Dallas Morning News's City Hall blog today carries two items in which Dallas city council member Dave Neumann and our mayor, Tom Leppert, alternately bitch about and then sort of pooh-pooh t ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
If Nothing Else, Dallas Urban Lab's "Visionary Proposals" Will Make a Very Nice Art Exhibit
UT School of Architecture/Dallas Urban LabOver on DC9 yesterday, Pete posted the latest Smile Smile video, "Truth on Tape," which is a very naked, guest-star-laden clip shot entirely at the Rachofsky House. So, then, funny thing: When Pete passed along the clip, I went to the Rachofsky House's we ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2010
Valley View Has a New Owner. So, Now What?
Perhaps you saw: Valley View Center has a new owner now, Miami-based LNR Property Corporation -- well, actually, its subsidiary LNR Partners, the very same company trying to sell off the former First National on Elm Street downtown, amongst other local real estate. Dallas County deed records show ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
As Dallas County ME Rules on Deaths of Coppell Mayor and Daughter, a Memorial of Flowers and Photos Builds on Doorstep
Photos by Andrea GrimesFlowers and notes from friends and neighbors have been dropped off on the Peters's doorstep.Earlier today I drove up to the home of the deceased mayor of Coppell, Jayne Peters, and her daughter, Corinne, who were found dead in their home last night after Mayor Peters failed ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2010
DISD Trustee Carla Ranger Directs Our Attention to a New Study Critical of Teach for America
Teach for America founder Wendy KoppIn May 2009, Highland Park High School grad Wendy Kopp's Teach for America -- which gives recent college grads a five-week crash course in teaching before dropping them in low-income urban and rural schools -- sent close to 100 rookies to Dallas. DISD Superinte ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2010
For One Cedar Park Grad Blogging For The NY Times, UT-Dallas Ain't a Bad Fall Back
Temoc welcomes you, Brett Ferdinand of Cedar ParkSince March, Brett Ferdinand -- till days ago, a senior at Cedar Park High School outside of Austin -- has been among six students blogging for The New York Times about their efforts to get into college. Most of the stories aren't especially extrao ... More >>
Music
March 4, 2010
Three New Venues Offer Up Plenty of Options
Temoc welcomes you, Brett Ferdinand of Cedar ParkSince March, Brett Ferdinand -- till days ago, a senior at Cedar Park High School outside of Austin -- has been among six students blogging for The New York Times about their efforts to get into college. Most of the stories aren't especially extrao ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2009
Craig Watkins Believes Today's Exonerations Could Be "Biggest" Yet for Dallas County
Brian HarkinDallas County District Attorney Craig WatkinsOn Friday, 54-year-old Claude Alvin Simmons Jr. and 39-year-old Christopher Shun Scott will be free men for the first time since being wrongly sent to prison in October 1997 for the robbery and murder of Alfonso Aguilar. Two other men will ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2009
If All Goes According to Plan (Commission), Deep Ellum Will Be Bursting With New Joints
LaGrange is but one of a handful of new joints slated to open on Elm Street before year's end.While perusing the City Plan Commission agenda for Thursday I stumbled across some further good new for Deep Ellum: Two more joints are inching closer to opening on Elm Street, both right across the stre ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2009
Brent Brown, Head of City Hall's New CityDesign Studio, On Redesigning Dallas
Brandon ThibodeauxBrent Brown, Mary Suhm's choice to head up the Dallas CityDesign StudioEven after having mentioned the Dallas CityDesign Studio -- which the Trinity Trust is paying for, thanks to Rusty and Deedie Rose's $5 million donation -- a few times, we still didn't know what the what it's ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2008
A New Web Exhibition Celebrates the Dallas Built by Herbert Miller Greene
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
News
May 8, 2008
DISD Doesn't Deserve to Win Its Bond Election Because of Its Fiscal Incompetence
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2008
Apparently, Some People Still Need to Be Sold on Diversity
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2008
DART: Conflict? What Conflict?
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2008
Who Is a Dallasite on Jeopardy?
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2007
Son to Schutze: In Your Facebook, Dad
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2007
Selling forwardDallas! in Austin
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
News
October 18, 2007
Gone Too Soon|Checkmate|City Hall Corruption|Devil in the Details
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
September 4, 2007
Fattening Up (Bank Accounts) With The Colonel
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2007
SMU and the Bush Library: Doin' It for Dr. Farmer
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2007
Get on the Bus
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2007
Isenberg, Back from China, Now Taking on "Child Prisons"
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2007
One More Bit of Dallas' History About to Bite the Dust
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
News
August 24, 2006
On Top of Her Game | Tickin' T.O. | Stomp | True Morality | Oily Ole | God's Big Tent
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
Calendar
January 27, 2005
This Week's Day-By-Day Picks
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>
News
December 2, 2004
Greener Pastures
Wanna move to Canada? Write an essay about it.
News
July 15, 2004
Riding Coattails
Plus: The Snub; A Dog�s Life
News
April 29, 2004
Right Thinking
Young conservatives put their professors on notice--they're being watched
Calendar
October 30, 2003
See Saw
Tobe Hooper hosts his own massacre
Music
July 25, 2002
Home Coming
The Dixie Chicks' new album won't be out for another month, but we'll tell you why it's worth waiting for
News
April 19, 2001
Mean Green
What do you get when you cross the Zapatistas with Dr. Dolittle? The Animal Liberation Front
Calendar
May 6, 1999
Night & Day
May 6 - 12, 1999
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April 15, 1999
Night & Day
April 15-21, 1999
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April 9, 1998
Night & Day
April 9 - 15, 1998
Film
August 31, 1995
Lone Star Rising
How obscure Texas actor Matthew McConaughey won the lead in Grisham's next big Hollywood thriller, A Time to Kill
Calendar
April 13, 1995
Events for the week
How obscure Texas actor Matthew McConaughey won the lead in Grisham's next big Hollywood thriller, A Time to Kill
News
January 12, 1995
Fast Times at UTA
Ryan Amacher says he's leading the University of Texas at Arlington into a glorious future. But his critics fear his passion for pomp and party will run it into the ground.
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