Woodrow Wilson

Mike Miles versus The World

In Dallas ISD, a fight over principals, race and a slice of the pie.

DISD Trustees Are Ready to Fight for Principals

Too bad they won’t do that for the students

Score One for Mike Miles

DISD's new super claimed he was targeted by a board witch hunt. He's right.

The Favorite Foods of All 44 Presidents

​After an exhaustive search of public records and historical documents at the Library of Congress (read: drunken Google search), we are ready to honor President's Day with a comprehensive list of the foods enjoyed by our fearless leaders of the past. Throughout this process one question continued ... More >>

Barack Obama and Our Most Athletic Presidents

​Wasn't exactly Cortland Finnegan vs. Andre Johnson, but The Prez got into a scuffle last Friday. On the basketball court. With an elbow. Barack Obama received 12 stitches to a cut on his lower lip after an errant elbow during a pick-up game by Rey Decerega, the Director of Programs for ... More >>

Ready or Not, Here It Comes

Veterans Day, Meet Texas High School Football Veterans Week

​On Veterans Day we stop -- if only for a minute -- to thank all those who have served in our military and fought to provide us the freedom to do things like vote, drink beer, sleep in if we want and, of course, blog insanely and/or sharply and anonymously criticize those who blog.. ... More >>

Go Greenville

Days After Cheering TEA Ratings, DISD Misses Feds' Adequate Yearly Progress Standards

​One week ago today the Texas Education Agency sent word: With significant help from the state, the Dallas Independent School District racked up 63 exemplary schools, while several high schools long on the academically unacceptable list finally get a reprieve. Not all was well, as dropout and comp ... More >>

Newsweek's Wild About Woodrow. And DISD Still Has the Nation's Top High School.

​The latest Newsweek ranking of Best High Schools in the U.S. of A. is out, and, yet again, The School for the Talented and Gifted at the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center is at the very tippy-top. And it's joined by eight other Dallas schools -- though one's Highland Park, and the other's La ... More >>

Burton Gilliam, A Proud Woodrow Wildcat

​Friend of Unfair Park Kyle Rains was kind enough to send us this photo he took of the great Burton Gilliam last night at the Woodrow Wilson High School Senior Dinner, which was held at the Lakewood Theater. The co-star of, among others, Blazing Saddles, Back to the Future III, Paper Moon and Flet ... More >>

If Dallas Is Starting to Feel Like One Big TV-Show Set, There's a Good Reason

Woodrow principal Ruth Allen Vail and Jesse Metcalfe​Today's the day FOX's Midland starts shooting in and around Dallas, with (500) Days of Summer's Marc Webb directing, Up in the Air and Juno's Eric Steelberg shooting, Jon Voight and David Keith co-starring and In Good Company's Paul Weitz exec p ... More >>

Not That You're Interested, But They're Shooting a Big Ol' TV Pilot By Woodrow

One of these people is Jesse Metcalfe. One is not.​A good Friend of Unfair Park wonders:My daughter just texted me. She said they're filming something at Woodrow Wilson today, and she got an actor named Jesse Metcalfe to take a picture with her. You're the Movie Man ... what's going on up there? A ... More >>

Great Sergios Throughout History: Mendes, Leone and, Now, UT's Kindle

Sergio Kindle​TCU-Boise State -- so far, quite the sloppy, defensive time-kill till Thursday night's Big Game. Speaking of which, here's a warm-up from tomorrow's New York Times: a profile of University of Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle, who grew up in South Oak Cliff and shoulda gone to SOC but i ... More >>

While Glee's Off For Two Weeks, a True-Life, Tigertoned Alternative at Woodrow Wilson

​Here's proof, as if we needed it, that Woodrow Wilosn is the one high school in Dallas capable of producing high-achieving graduates not afraid to appear in international situations wearing odd pants. We offer this photo of Woodrow Wilson High School Over-and-Over Achiever Thomas Simpson and the ... More >>

If You're President of an Active DISD High School Alumni Group, a Moment of Your Time

About a year ago, Rich Williams became president of the Thomas Jefferson High School Alumni Association, at which time he tried to corral his counterparts 'round town for a little brainstorming session. The reason being, Williams says, the TJ group had started strong some five years back but began t ... More >>

ZZ Top's Got Some Stories To Tell. On VH1, No Less.

Late in March, the Dallas natives (what up, Woodrow Wilson?) and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers in ZZ Top went up to Chicago and taped an episode of VH1's Storytellers to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary. Later this month, on Saturday, June 27, at 9 p.m., the channel will premiere the show. In th ... More >>

Teacher-Turned-Author Questions How Dallas Landed Two Schools at Top of Newsweek List

Newsweek has yet again released its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in the U.S. -- and Dallas, with six on the list, has dropped one from the '08 scorecard: poor ol' Hillcrest High School, which last year came in at No. 547, dang. The School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell T ... More >>

American Blues: Dallas-Born Rocky Hill, Dusty's Older Brother, Died on Friday

Rocky HillA longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill -- Dusty's big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as "The Anti-Clapton" -- died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I've found online ... More >>

American Blues: Dallas-Born Rocky Hill, Dusty's Older Brother, Died on Friday

Rocky HillA longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill -- Dusty's big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as "The Anti-Clapton" -- died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I've found onlin ... More >>

DISD In the Hole

Teachers get axed and parents fret as Dallas' school leaders scramble to cover a budget hole

I Bought Mr. Peppermint's Yearbook

Do You Wanna Go Shout "Hi!" to Woodrow Grad Steve Miller For Free?

History Lessons: A Sneak Preview of Tonight's Landmark Committee Meeting

Go, Longhorns! (W.T. White Longhorns, That Is.)

Pimp C, Free at Last

Remembering a Down South legend

Sorry, Rest of Dallas, Your Name is Not on the Guest List

Where There's a Will, There's a Way to Scare Your Old Man Half to Death

The Wright Man

This T.O., We Like

Think Tha New Law About Hispanics is Stupid?

Gypsy Blood

David Cunniff Lives in Pain. Skinhead Jesse Chaddock lives in a Texas Prison. Who got the raw deal?

2005 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Case Solved: Killer musicians captured, thanks to your tips

"Nice Kid, But..."

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

The End of Youth

Kids at a Dallas high school talk about their war

Case Closed

How Dallas police detective Shari Degan solved the grisly murder that rocked Dallas--in 1913

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

Buzz

Inquiring minds; Leave 'em snarling

Public defenders

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

No place like home

Thousands of Texans say they can do a better job teaching their children at home. But some local truant officers claim parents are using a massive loophole in Texas law to skip school altogether.

Roasting Chesnutt

No one loves Vic Chesnutt like Vic Chesnutt

Out There

Letters

Chic Lalique

Fake the money and run

Steve Miller learned everything he knows about music while living in Dallas--but has he forgotten it all?

Paint it Black

Haunted by his mother's suicide, Dallas-born artist barron Storey has won fame drawing the darkness

Attack of the Killer Gadflies (Part I)

You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

Trio of one

Shabazz 3 prepares to take Dallas' best hip-hop above ground