Last night, just as the sun sneaked behind the horizon, Stephen Masker was at the Cityplace trolley turntable in Uptown with a friend, doing what he’s usually doing: shooting photos. Masker, 23, graduated from UNT last year, and has been busy building a little freelance career, shooting photos for the…
At his odd press conference defending the $185,000 salary of his communications chief, new Dallas ISD supe Mike Miles mentioned that he’s never had coffee with Jennifer Sprague. It sounded unlikely, but you knew what Miles meant: They don’t hang out. They’re not bros. But it was only a matter…
As I settled into my seat at the Winspear on Saturday night, I found myself in conversation with a young woman next to me. She mentioned that her parents had bought a block of tickets but couldn’t find anyone to use them. Strange, I said: Cosby’s a legend. Then again,…
So, Dallas, Buzz Bissnger regrets what he said about you, and your schools, and your freeways, and your collective IQ, and more or less everything else that defines you as a city. Not what he said about that lousy book review. No take-backs on that. But everything else? Yeah, he’s…
Tiger Woods has given much to the world: million-dollar tournament purses, galleries that rival the pit of a Journey concert and a new standard for male horndogishness. But perhaps no gift deserves our gratitude like TopGolf, that non-golfing-golfer’s paradise and a byproduct of the sport’s Tiger-induced populism. The gift is…
Big front-pager in today’s Morning News about how Mike Miles, Dallas ISD’s new superintendent, will pay his new communications chief, Jennifer Sprague, $185,000 a year. The general consensus among those interviewed for the story: Holy hell that’s a lot of money for that job. Which makes sense because, well, holy…
There were some cries yesterday to ignore the sweaty, out of breath one-man show performed by Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger. Yeah, ignoring him would be cool. Nothing more fun than denying someone the attention they so badly crave. But this was a train wreck you couldn’t look away…
Friday Night Lights author and noted Twitter imploder Buzz Bissinger has a new book out called Father’s Day, about a road trip he took with his developmentally disabled son. The Morning News trashed it, and apparently Bissinger’s book-tour stop in Dallas left him less than impressed. Together, those two facts…
Around this time last year, the Internet had a collective chuckle when the Dallas Country Club sued the Dallas County Appraisal District, hoping to lower its annual property tax bill. The county appraisers had valued the club’s 118-acre property in the heart of the Park Cities at around $15 million,…
Teach for America, the teacher pipeline founded by Highland Parker Wendy Kopp, is often tossed into the bucket with the rest of the tools in the reform movement’s toolbox, from charter schools to performance-based pay and the like. For that, and for its place outside the labor movement, it’s often…
Word came early Saturday afternoon that the Dallas Police Department had identified veteran shit disturber Dominique Trevun Thornton as one of the suspects in a string of armed robberies along the Katy Trail. And it wasn’t 24 hours later before they announced that 23-year-old Thornton was in custody — reportedly…
Update: We wussed out and used a random-number generator to choose a winner from the most creative responses. Your winner? Sarah: My boss is crazy. My husband is crazy. My home is regularly festooned with dog diarrhea. I recently broke my iPhone and my pinkie toe. Unrelated, I fell down…
That contest was the humor-writing division of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual awards, which were given out earlier this month, apparently in secret. She lost to this woman. I’m sure Alice will gladly accept your praise in the comments. Or she’ll call you a shithead. One or the…
Oh. Right. That. After all the candidate forums and the radio debates and the mayor-izen endorsements, it turned out that the roughly 117 people who care about the politics of Dallas Independent School District were just extras in the occasional stage play put on by the North Dallas elite, who…
Last night brought the Observer’s annual celebration of station-to-station face-stuffing, a tasting event and cooking competition that packed downtown’s sleek Fashion Industry Gallery and packed on a few pounds as well. The highlight of the night, not counting the three Tiff’s Treats I stuffed in my pocket on the way…
“The Josh Hamilton relapse: What does it mean?” one headline blared, after Hamilton got drunk at a Dallas bar earlier this year. “Hamilton’s slip could cost him millions,” another professed. And we all thought: Sure, that makes sense. A couple teams get scared off, demand drops, price drops. But there’s…
That’s right: Tonight, during an open house and public meeting at the Dallas Convention Center, you can crop-dust NTTA with all your brilliant ideas to save the Trinity River flood plains from the dreaded pavement monster, only to see your suggestions treated like the things my wife leaves at the…
Late on Friday, we passed along a letter from the Dallas Arboretum celebrating an agreement with White Rock Lake neighbors that allows the city to turn the grasslands of Winfrey Point into a temporary parking lot. It was a strange missive to begin with — a botanical garden celebrating its…
Longtime NBC 5 anchor Jane McGarry got popped for DUI over the weekend. She was stopped early Sunday morning in a 2007 Porsche, WFAA reported, after failing to use her signal on the tollway. She refused to take a breathalyzer and was booked into Dallas County jail, where they apparently…
After an agreement was reached earlier to let the city mow the wild grass at Winfrey Point, both City Hall and the Arboretum have come out firing PR-wise, trying to turn the tide of support for keeping cars off of the “prairie.” Below you’ll find releases sent by both City…
While Jim’s wife hosed out the dog house over his Arboretum screed this morning, lawyers for the Arboretum and the city were in court trying to get a judge to let them turn Winfrey Point into a temporary parking lot, to prepare for the crush of visitors for this weekend’s…
After soliciting a week’s worth of feedback from the luminaries on Facebook, Mayor Mike Rawlings, heretofore uncommitted on the controversial Trinity Toll Road, will hold a press conference at City Hall tomorrow “to deliver significant development” and also to “give his perspective on the Trinity River Corridor Project including the…
