There’s no shortage of names being tossed out there as would-be replacements for Kay Bailey Hutchison, who yesterday announced she won’t run for re-election to the U.S. Senate. Top o’ the list, of course, is Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, who made his intentions clear Thursday afternoon on his blog: “I…
Back in April we learned that New York’s Public Theater and the Dallas Theater Center would team up to present Michael John LaChuisa and Sybille Pearson’s potentially very-big-deal musical-theater adaptation of Giant, which, befitting so mammoth a novel, ran around four hours during its ’09 debut at the Signature Theater…
A little while ago I came across the video you’ll find after the jump, in which a man can be seen breaking into Observer staff favorite Sal’s Pizza on Wycliff Sunday morning. Police report says the man, driving an ’02 Ford Expedition, popped the deadbolt and got off with $200…
No doubt City Hall will send out a release sooner or later, or post it to the City Secretary’s open-meetings page, but we like to plan ahead. So, in case you missed the notice — buried in tiny type at the bottom of Page 4B in the morning paper, right…
No, no, it has nothing to do with whether or not Tom Leppert’s going to run for her Senate seat following today’s bit o’ breaking news. Sorry. That announcement’s still a few weeks off — after the Super Bowl, that’s my guess. Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, sends…
Here’s the full statement just sent out by Courtney Sanders in the senator’s D.C. office, which speaks — at length — for itself: Announcement by U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison To my fellow Texans: For the past 17 years, it has been my greatest honor to serve the people of…
Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard’s Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper’s yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital — two heretofore “sacred cows” in Dallas. Wrote Beelman, both institutions received nothing…
This morning, the D.C.-based Food Research and Action Center released a report — School Breakfast in America’s Big Cities 2011 — that takes a look at the free-breakfast programs in 29 of the nation’s largest school districts, including the Dallas Independent School District. Says the study, during the ’09-’10 school…
On April 23, ESPNDallas ran a piece in which Mark Cuban announced he’d become an investor in the start-up United Football League, co-founded by Bill Hambrecht — the man who took Apple and Google, among others, public. Said the Dallas Mavericks’ owner at the time, he didn’t want to invest…
First I’d ever heard of tinnitus was when Who guitarist Pete Townshend announced the ringing in his ears had gotten so bad he might have to hang up his Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster for good. Then I became a music critic, stood too close to too many stages and speakers…
Danny Balis just called with the heads-up: In the last two days, two local bars have been robbed at gunpoint. Danny wondered if perhaps they were related.According to Dallas Police reports, the first stick-em-up occurred around 1 a.m. Tuesday at the Dallasite on Bryan Street, across the street from Jimmy’s…
What you see at left is but a bit of a photo currently up for grabs on eBay at the low, low price (for now) of $39. It was taken in 1890 at the intersection of McKinney and Harwood, and the photo IDs the manse only as “Maroney’s House,” per…
On the other side is a lengthy missive we just received from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in which Craig Watkins outlines his to-do list for the new Legislative session. But you can probably guess what’s top-of-the-pops with a D.A. seeking criminal system reforms: eyewitness identification reform, especially following…
There was a piece in this morning’s New York Times about how Austin’s now the top destination for the young American, all right. So notes Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, who adds Dallas to the list of Top Five destinations for the highly coveted 25-to-34-year-old. Only a few years ago,…
This morning, the folks at NBC-Channel 5 forwarded a link to their subsidiary site’s story about changes at NorthPark Center involving H&M, which is presently occupying the old Express spot till its move to more permanent digs in the mall in October. Says the piece, a store manager in the…
I thought about stopping off for an adult beverage at the downtown Aloft bar, W XYZ, the other night after a meeting at City Hall, but passed — maybe later. Like, oh, I dunno — Super Bowl week, maybe. Says the announcement that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box,…
Verizon announced yesterday that beginning next month, it too will offer service via the iPhone — thus ending iPhone users’ long national nightmare known as AT&T exclusivity. Jon Stewart’s so excited by the news he used some seven minutes at the top of last night’s Daily Show to celebrate the…
At the very bottom of today’s city council agenda you’ll find a topic first introduced back in August, when the city was looking for every possible penny during the latest budget squeeze — a proposal to increase fees for zoning, development and building permit applications. Last summer, preservationists in particular…
I just had the pleasure of re-reading Jimmy Fowler’s 1997 feature on Gretchen and Julia Dyer, who, long, long ago, took their movie Late Bloomers to Sundance, where it garnered raves and, finally, national distribution. I was reminded of it after reading a piece in Variety about The Playroom, which…
After a Friend of Unfair Park directed my attention to the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum chitchat about Nike’s Victory set-up, I spent a little more time cruising around the forum — always good for a revelation or 12. There, I discovered a rendering of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park…
No doubt you’re well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, likely after leaving a Maple Avenue club, where he was visiting…
Take a moment and peruse the apps listed at CivicApps, a competition launched by the city of Portland last year for which cash prizes were handed out in such categories as Most Useful, Best Use of Data and Most Original. Portland’s hardly the only city using apps to make city…
