Superintendent Michael Hinojosa drew a roomful of huzzahs two weeks ago when he announced that DISD was getting involved in a new effort for school reform in West Dallas. A handful of DISD trustees were among the cheering crowd, including Lew Blackburn and board president Adam Medrano, but not Carla…
Photographer Terry Falke has spent four decades exploring what makes a landscape particularly American, and his career is a document of how that definition has changed. He began shooting black and white landscapes with Ansel Adams’ California collective, the Friends of Photography in Carmel, in the early 1970s, but over…
Flying Fish6126 Luther Ln.214-696-FISHDude Factor: 8, or Don Knotts, on a scale of 1 (Kevin Costner) to 10 (Ernest Borgnine) I’d been too long on the turf, dudes, and got the hunger for a little surf. Fish Shack would have done nicely, but no way was I joining the rush-hour…
It’s been six months since Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle gathered up friends and family at police headquarters to announce he’d be leaving his post. This morning, after cramming a mile run and 15 man makers into one last CrossFit routine, the 59-year-old chief sounded more sure than ever when…
If you happened to be driving past the Fairmont Hotel before the big Sarah Palin fundraiser Friday night, and wondered why six people were out with signs complaining about “genetic secrets,” birth certificates and the Gladney Center for Adoption, well, that was the idea — particularly if you happened to…
Campania Pizza 3500 McKinney Ave, Suite 150 214-780-0605 Promised delivery time: 45-60 minutes Actual delivery time: 38 minutesScoring SummaryGoing the extra half-mile, outside the usual delivery range: 20 Still beating the promised delivery time: 20 Pizza temperature: “warmish” 11 Irregular pizza assembly (slicing, topping placement): 14 Bonus: A quality pie…
The big shakeups credited with turning around public schools in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. — which Mayor Tom Lepeprt and organizers cite as influences for a new school reform effort in West Dallas — have only succeeded in separating top students in charter schools from lower-performing students…
Hours after news began circulating on Facebook that the Dallas Police Department’s own David O. Brown would be taking over as chief next week, the city’s new top cop stepped before cameras and reporters, and about 20 gathered police officers, to give the news a more personal touch. Saying he…
Back in January, the paper version of Unfair Park featured Megan Feldman’s story on a specialized Dallas County court that’s connecting ex-prostitues with treatment and, provided they stick with their rehabilitation program, keeping them out of prison.Tuesday morning we learned about Dallas County’s plans to help ease jail overcrowding with another…
As always, where there’s Vimeo, we give you YouTube too.At this point in their careers, the Old 97’s are always on the lookout for fresh challenges. Take, for instance, the recording scheme they’ve cooked up for their next album. They recorded 2008’s Blame It On Gravity at Salim Nourallah’s Pleasantry Lane…
One of the culinary world’s most delicate, subtle foods got the Kobayashi treatment at Fish City Grill over the weekend, when their Oyster Fest included a two-minute eating contest for a free trip to New Orleans.We caught the Saturday heat at the local chain’s Henderson Avenue outpost, where four teams…
Hand-wringers who said the Cotton Bowl would sit empty now that the Cotton Bowl Classic took its wagons west to Arlington couldn’t be more wrong — why, just this morning, the stadium had to juggle its schedule because it had been double-booked.Of course, there was the big announcement we teased…
This morning’s mayor’s breakfast at City Hall featured a parade of speakers covering the need for big-picture reforms in West Dallas education, the sort of shakeups that are remaking schools in such cities as Washington, D.C., New Orleans and New York.Dallas Faith Communities Coalition board president Phil Wise announced the…
You knew the old saying. You knew better than to watch. And still, you spent a year by your TV soaking up all the tea-bagging, name-calling and spin as you watched the new health-care law being made. Maybe they were wrong this whole time–maybe you like watching the law get…
If you’re looking for the YouTube version, you’ll find it right here.Old fans of Baruch the Scribe might be surprised by what they hear in this week’s video, shot last Wednesday out at El Sibil. As frontman Judson Valdez explains, his band flat-out doesn’t do acoustic sets anymore. Why? Well,…
Bucky’s Cafe2803 US State Highway 66Caddo Mills, TexasDude Factor: 8, or R. Buckminster Fuller, on a scale of 1 (Harold von Braunhut, Sea Monkeys inventor, neo-Nazi sympathizer.) to 10 (Nikola Tesla. Inventor of the death ray.)Dude Food’s gone country the last few weeks, as Alan Jackson might say, so here’s one more spot…
The George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University won’t be breaking ground till November, but its policy arm, the Bush Institute, has already had a busy spring. Shacking up in SMU’s Collins Center, it hosted its first events last month, covering education leadership, literacy in Afghanistan and natural…
Heading west on I-30 from downtown last night, you’d have passed two stretches of stalled traffic — the first, along the access road just across the Trinity, made up of the grumbling masses in line for the Dallas Main Post Office, waiting to get their tax returns postmarked on April…
Sure as no photographer can forget his first camera, no sailor ever drifts far from the memory of his first dinghy. Years after he sailed competitively, and long after he first began taking pictures, Bob Chilton has produced an exhibition that combines his two longtime passions: a richly colored set…
Say what you will about Kenneth Copeland, but the Wise County televangelist isn’t one to over-share. Copeland, with wife Gloria, was one of six televangelists hand-picked by Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley back in November 2007, over concerns Kenneth Copeland Ministries was enjoying the privileges of its tax-exempt status a little too much. In…
It wasn’t so long ago that the arrival of Sprinkles marked a moist, frosted watershed: the $3 cupcake. Last month’s opening of Dimples in the West Village, though, has run that mark up to $5 — or more, for a more elaborate custom-decorated cupcake. (They’re opening another location at One…
MusInk 2010 drew some of the region’s finest body artists–it was hosted by Elm Street Tattoo’s Oliver Peck–and most dedicated tattoo lovers. (Cover the left half of your face with a scorpion? That’s dedication.) It was an occasion to have just the right artist do give you that full-chest safari…
