Back to the Dallas Independent School District trustees’ to-do list for Thursday …Like I said, lots of interesting stuff there, beginning at the top of the briefing agenda: “Discussion of 2010-2011 Repurposing Plans for Academically Unacceptable (AU4) Schools.” That AU4 refers to schools that have been on the academically unacceptable…
A good Friend of Unfair Park sends along a video presently making the rounds in which Red Oak’s own Cindy Jacobs, self-proclaimed “respected prophet,” says there’s a very good explanation for why those 5,000 birds died in Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. And, no, it had nothing to do with…
First thing this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to a chat, with photos, currently taking place over at the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum, where posters are trying to decide of this new venue in the old Boardroom spot: permanent or temporary? One DFWUF’er said wrote…
Back in August, Doug Adams rather hastily existed his position as president and CEO of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. At the time, the DSO announced that chief operating officer Paul Stewart would assume the position of president. But no one was named CEO, a position that remains vacant for now…
Don’t get defensive. That’s just what Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, says in the seventh-annual report America’s Most Literate Cities 2010 released today. Yet again, when ranking the 75 top-population cities in the U.S., Miller looked at six “key indicators of literacy,” including the newspaper…
Lots of interesting items to be found on the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ briefing agenda for Thursday, and we’ll get to ’em in short order — which is to say, in the order the phone calls are returned on the myriad subjects of interest. But let’s begin…
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is slowly but surely doling out those permits to retailers who want to sell beer and wine in the previously dry parts of Dallas (though none have been issued in the last few days). The lawsuit filed by the parties opposed to the citywide off-premise…
The two boys you see at top are Morris and Louis Shuman in a photo taken on a downtown Dallas street corner in October 1913. Morris is on the left; he was 12 at the time. Louis, his brother, was 7. Maybe you recognize it: It first appeared on Unfair…
On the other side is a memo City Manager Mary Suhm sent to the city council and Mayor Tom late last week in which she extends an invite to Thursday’s “public discussion” of the Dallas CityDesign Studio’s West Dallas extreme makeover. Brent Brown and Larry Beasley, funded by the Trinity…
When I spoke with Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney Wednesday morning about the paper’s forthcoming “‘Subscriber Content’ initiative,” the very first thing he said was that he couldn’t believe someone hadn’t leaked his memo sent to the staff, which he then proceeded to summarize. This morning, the…
Dunno why Mayor Mike Moncrief and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board are so stimulated to keep that new Rick’s Cabaret from getting its TABC on; don’t they know that girls, girls, girls getting that cherry pie hot in herre all night long is good for the coffers? Says so…
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for most o’ North Texas from late tonight till Sunday evening, but cautions: Sure, it may snow. Could be anywhere from three to five inches, matter of fact. Or not: “This is a very fluid situation and many factors may…
Got a press release this afternoon offering further info about that Prince pre-Super Bowl show on the old Reunion Arena site: Erykah Badu’s been added as the opener. Which is nice and all, but tickets — which go on sale tomorrow morning — still start at $1,500, which is only,…
I certainly hope this doesn’t become a daily occurrence; no doubt you feel the same way. But there has been a development today in the city’s case against Robert Groden, the JFK conspiracy theorist who’s been selling his materials in Dealey Plaza for almost two decades and now finds himself…
An old friend of mine who has better things to do, like get his kid ready for a bar mitzvah tomorrow morning, just called to ask: Why are there Dallas police cars parked on every North Dallas Tollway overpass? He got on at Northwest Highway heading north to Plano, and…
Two different announcements have landed in the in-box in the last 24 minutes alerting our attention to the fact the American Institute of Architects has given the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre one of its prestigious Honor Awards for Architecture, along with these other estimable edifices. One release says the…
A press release announcing the month’s-end Sci-Fi Expo at the Plano Center just hit the in-box containing the full list of ladies scheduled to attend the event, themed this time ’round as “Women of Sci-Fi.” Among those scheduled to appear: Morena Baccarin, star of V but who I’ve seen more…
Speaking of the great state o’ Texas’s $25-billion budget shortfall …Clearly, there are many Get Him to the Greek fans amongst the Friends of Unfair Park who’ve spent the better part of the morning filling the in-box with a copy of actor and Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman’s piece in today’s…
No doubt you’ve heard about, or read about, the fuel-tanker spill that closed down I-30 west of downtown early this morning. So happens good, good friend of the show Jeff Liles, who was on his way back to Oak Cliff after the Frankie Campagna memorial show at Club Dada at…
No doubt this will displease Shotgun Schutze, the noted model rocketeer and crop-duster who has crazy-big plans for Super Bowl Sunday. But via RotorNews we get a look at the Federal Aviation Administration’s just-issued temporary flight restrictions issued for Dallas-Fort Worth during that weekend. Among the myriad do’s and don’t:The…
At this very moment the Television Critics Association is holding its biannual press tour in Pasadena, during which the stars of series debuting and returning parade across a stage to tell writers how great those series are. Yesterday, during the press-the-flesh, Variety’s Stuart Levine grabbed TNT and TBS programming chief…
Cornell Companies, the private operator of correctional facilities ‘cross the country, has a motto: “People Changing People.” A lawsuit filed this week in Dallas County District Court proposes an alteration: “People Filming People.” At least, so suggest 36 former inmates of the Dallas County Judicial Treatment Center in Wilmer, a…
