The Euless neighborhood is mostly quiet, a sleepy suburb of pleasant ranch-style homes, winding creeks and mossy oaks that looks as if it could have been plucked from any American city. Except, of course, for the ancient gods that populate the home and religion of one of the area’s most…
Reggae artist Buju Banton didn’t realize “faggot” had become a bad word. At least, that’s the story according to friends and colleagues of the artist, who stood in front of Trincity/Palm Beach Club last night, watching the protesters rally across the street. As we mentioned yesterday, protesters affiliated with various…
It doesn’t sound like a buzzword or a catch phrase — at least, not like “Obamacare” or “Socialism.” But heading into the next election season, keep an eye out for it: “educated voter.” That was the phrase being bandied about Saturday, when Unfair Park headed to Lakewood Theater for the…
Reggae music is all about the good vibes. Unless you’re Buju Banton. In his case, the vibes being sent his way by the LGBT community? They’re quite bad. The reggae star has been inciting the ire of the gay community for decades–ever since the release of “Boom Bye Bye,” which…
… P.M. Summer has the perfect shirt for you.That’s it at right — “just in time for Xmas 2009,” he notes on his blog today, though they are by special-order only. Summer, who was Dallas’s bike coordinator, is among those who don’t think Dallas needs cyclist-only lanes — hence, perhaps,…
Last time we checked, there wasn’t much to laugh about when it came to the state of public education in Dallas. But leave it to Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa to at least try to insert some humor, even at his own expense. This morning Hinojosa gave the…
On Wednesday, we mentioned the city’s plans to make Dallas more bike-friendly by creating separate cyclist-only lanes. And, as usually happens when the subject comes up, the conversation turned a little, well, contentious. And so we headed to the Texas Theatre last night for a movie screening to find out…
This morning, Angela Hunt made a discovery: Dallas City Hall has no bicycle rack. “It’s nuts!” said Hunt, who was standing with other bikers on a chilly morning in the plaza. “We’re going to get us some bike racks for City Hall if I have to buy them myself.” More…
So, you’re busy reading this blog at your desk (or on your phone … at a stop light … or in the HOV lane). At the same time you’re replying to an e-mail, checking your voice mail, answering a coworker’s question and doing whatever it is you do to make…
Now that the air has been cleared regarding Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s poorly spelled add-on agenda item to “undo” the $28,000 raise set aside for Chief Academic Officer Robin Ryan, we can move on to what happened at today’s Dallas Regional Chamber meeting: “A Look Back and…
A Dallas Regional Chamber meeting featuring Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has been on our agenda now for some time. Still, we couldn’t help but use the opportunity to ask Hinojosa in person about this morning’s story by Tawnell Hobbs, who reported that Hinojosa may face reprimand after…
Oak Cliff native Andrew Bell has worked for the past two decades exclusively in fine dining, but two weeks ago he opened a casual barbecue joint in downtown, Dr. Bell’s BBQ. “I was looking anywhere there was cheap rent because I was looking to serve inexpensive food,” said Bell, sitting…
After presenting the city council’s Public Safety Committee with the latest crime statistics showing nearly an 11 percent decrease in overall crime from last year, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle this morning addressed the elephant in the room: the police department’s methodology of reporting crimes. Earlier this month, The Dallas…
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that at least one component of the Trinity River Corridor Project is close to being good to go — and, yup, that’s the Standing Wave whitewater-maker about which we wrote yesterday. As we learned today at the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project committee…
Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Terra Watson spent the last 12 years designing and manufacturing pro-team dance and cheerleader uniforms — including her former teammates’ Christmas presents to Cowboys fans, which are still on Santa’s to-do list. But business isn’t boom-boom-booming the way it used to; one client, the Dallas Desperados,…
Mayor Tom Leppert has run quite the lengthy victory lap this week: He took a ride on the Green Line; got off at the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park ground-making; then hustled on over to the convention center hotel groundbreaking. Which brings us to today’s stop: Leppert attended the unveiling of the…
Speaking of Mayor Tom Leppert and his sales pitching …Today at the Dallas Regional Chamber luncheon at the downtown Sheraton, the mayor gave his State of the City address, which more or less consisted of a show-and-tell: He told the audience — businessmen and elected officials, mostly — how he’s…
Mayor Tom Leppert and other city officials got their first ride on the much-anticipated Dallas Area Rapid Transit Green Line this morning. The first four stops on the $1.8 billion, 20-station, 28-mile line will officially open Monday — following tomorrow’s Super Saturday spectacular at the MLK Jr., Fair Park, Baylor…
As the Friends of Unfair Park can probably guess, there were two good reasons why we suffered through nearly four hours of a Dallas Independent School District board of trustees briefing today. The first: the fate of W. H. Adamson High School, whose historic main building district officials want to…
Since it’s been a couple of weeks since the Daytime Juvenile Curfew went into effect, we thought it might be a good time to find out how many kiddos the Dallas Police Department’s done rounded up for skipping school. But as it happens, that’s easier requested than done: We called…
Back in March we told you the story of Frank Farias, the airman arrested for murder after running over a man outside a Lower Greenville nightclub in January. There’s an update: The 23-year-old is awaiting his first hearing in front of a military panel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he’s…
