I’ve known Gary Cogill a long time, and despite what Zac says, he’s a good guy, a thoughtful critic and a pretty good cook who, back when the Lakewood Theater fed the homeless at Christmas, could be found in the kitchen lending a very helping hand. I’ve also been aware…
A programming note.A few weeks ago we gave you the very advance heads-up that tonight, at the Belo Mansion, the Dallas Bar Association is hosting the “Dallas Tomorrow” forum featuring quite the bold-faced line-up: Mayor Tom Leppert, University of North Texas Chancellor Lee Jackson, Trinity Trust President and CEO Gail…
The Dallas Independent School District’s spent the summer break spending 2008 bond money renovating 79 campuses. Says Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, “When teachers, staff and students return to many of their campuses next month, they will begin to see how these improvements will positively impact the learning environment.” To celebrate this…
First, there was The Economist wondering how Texas had kicked California’s economic ass. Then, Fortune examined how “Texas powered through the global fiscal crisis.” Now it’s The Atlantic’s turn at the plate with this piece that wonders how in the heck “Texas is experiencing something like an economic boom” while…
On June 22, the Dallas Stars released the 2010-’11 schedule. Among the highlights, per the release: “Oct. 14 vs. Detroit – The home opener vs. the hated Red Wings. It doesn’t get any better than this.” Well, yes. Yes, it does. Or worse, depending upon your perspective. Because when the…
It’s been some three months since the City Plan Commission took up the Bishop Davis Land Use & Zoning Study, only to decide, against city staff’s recommendation, to put the thing under advisement pending further public comment. Said commission chair Joe Alcantar, “We want to make sure that we hear…
Spent the last hour trying to summon the strength to write this, if only because at this late date the thought of spending one more second on Tom Hicks’s attempts to sell his sports teams is just exhausting, like a string of 100-plus-degree days. But here goes, if only because…
Initially, this was to be a quick chitchat with the mayor about the proposed ban of K2 and other dope substitutes, which, as Andrea noted earlier today, is on its way to a sure slam-dunk by mid-month at the latest. But Tom Leppert hung around long enough to talk to…
Back in May, FOX higher-ups spoke glowingly of the locally shot The Good Guys, which wraps its “summer season” tonight; said the network’s entertainment president, pairing it with The Human Target starting Friday nights at 8 in late September means “we have a legitimate shot at taking the night with…
Don’t know what to tell you — certainly didn’t think we’d be into our third item about that Woodall Rodgers billboard. But Frank Librio, the city’s spokesman, has, as he promised last night, looked into how it got there; so too Morgan Lyons, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s chief talker. So,…
Forthcoming at the beginning of 2011: The Dallas Morning News’s iPad app. Only, per the press release this morning, it’ll be a New York Times-made product via its new Press Engine offshoot, which is spitting out iPad and iPhone products for smaller publications without the resources to do it themselves…
For those unfamiliar with the story of Saad Nabeel, there’s quite the extensive Wikipedia page — but long story short, he’s the Bangladeshi-born 19-year-old who, till recently, had been in the States since he was 3, when his folks came here seeking political asylum — a request repeatedly denied. And…
Not the going-to-Six-Flags kind of friend, mind you — the Dallas Cowboys QB doesn’t want to, like, hang out with you or anything. But for a few bucks he’ll, oh, I dunno, bake a virtual birthday cake and send your pal a happy-happy video via the Facebook. So note this…
In recent weeks we’ve taken sneak peeks at how pending budget cuts will more than likely gut the library system. But till Monday rolls ’round and Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm debuts her proposed FY2010-11 budget, we won’t know for sure how deep those wounds will run. Nevertheless, Friends of…
Some start-o-the-week news and notes while I roll a few fat blunts in preparation for this afternoon’s Public Safety Committee meeting …Remember when Tom Hicks said, why, sure, he expects to lose “a couple hundred million” on the sales of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars, but he’ll pocket the…
‘Bout an hour ago I heard from City Hall about the black hole no wait 2001 monolith whoops Phantom Zone gateway pardon I mean Spinal Tap album cover dang itbillboard hovering but a few feet from the Woodall Rodgers ramp spilling into northbound Stemmons. Per Frank Librio, who says this…
A few months back, Big Bucks Burnett was so, so close to setting up his Eight-Track Museum in Deep Ellum, till the deal went south and it was back to zero. But last night — meaning, at 12:10 this morning — Bucks sent word: Not only is the former 14…
It’s going to be a long, effin’ hot weekend — good for staying inside and reading council docs, now that the brain trust is back from its summer vacation. Tomorrow morning I’ll post my chat with the mayor, but for now a few highlights to consider, chief among them Park…
When we took a long, deep hit of Foghat at January Sound Studio back in April, a Friend of Unfair Park was kind to remind: Freddie King also recorded a set there in ’75 for KZEW. March 31, 1975, to be exact — about a year and a half before…
If you’re headed over to Founders Square in the next, oh, little while or, really, anywhere near the 900 block of Jackson Street downtown, you might wanna hold off: A Friend of Unfair Park who works in the building says it was just cleared due to a bomb threat. Dallas…
We warned you in early June, when the Dallas Independent School District crunched some TAKS test scores and released its list of exemplary and recognized schools well ahead of the Texas Education Agency’s official date of, well, today: Those numbers were very preliminary. As TEA spokesperson DeEtta Culbertson reminded in…
Yesterday Friend of Unfair Park John M wondered if we had any spare interns who’d be able to snap a photo of the newly installed billboard next to the Woodall Rodgers ramp that dumps into northbound Stemmons Freeway. And when I say “next to,” I mean “right on top of,”…
