Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees…Only a few days ago, Tawnell Hobbs was noting how there seems to be very little interest in the forthcoming election for the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees, scheduled for May 8. In fact, till Tuesday, Lew Blackburn and…
I am forever trying to answer that age-old question: Why can’t Dallas do Jewish delis? (I know, I know: Fort Worth can. Houston too. Not us though. Nope.) I’ve asked around; I’ve read David Sax’s book; I’ve consulted the Talmud. But perhaps I’ve found the simple answer: People can’t get…
Guess I won’t be getting a parking ticket near the George Allen next Monday, when the city of Dallas and the Museum of American Railroad’s attorneys were scheduled to meet back in Judge Martin Hoffman’s courtroom for the injunction hearing. According to First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers, the two…
Just as I was sitting down ’round 12:30 this morning to sift through the February Downtown Dallas 360 presentation, I got a note from Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy: Yes, matter of fact, he’d done the reading and finished his report. And since among the two of us he’s the professional urban…
I’ve got a copy of Diane Ravitch’s latest tome on my bedside table — just haven’t found the time or fortitude to plow through the Houston native and former secretary of education’s “intellectual crisis” and subsequent “U-turn,” as The New York Times put it a few days ago. Because, once…
I was just over on the Dallas Film Commission’s Web site and noticed they’re looking for extras for both Code 58 and Midland — so if you’re willing to “play” a “beer drinking redneck” or … hey, look, a new band name! “Various Ethnic Travelers.”And, speaking of Midland, I see…
Mighty good thing the city’s opening up muni courts on Saturdays — because, right, it’s that most wonderful time of the year. No, not spring. Warrant Roundup on Saturday! Giddy. Up. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. From the release:The Dallas City Marshal’s Office will conduct a warrant round-up of…
I just returned from a South by Southwest screening to find in the in-box the latest batch of films from the Dallas International Film Festival, which you’ll find after the jump and we’ll get to in a second. But first thing’s first.The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International…
A couple of months ago Friend of Unfair Park PeterK espied on eBay a March 27, 1945, snapshot of sailors and their dates taken at Frank Nick’s The Nite Spot, which once stood at the intersection of Commerce and Browder Streets. This morning I found what might as well be…
Been meaning to get to this since Monday, when Patrick grabbed this photo on the way into the office, because that’s when Evolution Fuels announced it had secured the lease agreement for its first renewable-fuel station and “specialty” food mart “in the heart of the Dallas metropolis, immediately adjacent to…
It was but a few days ago we looked at the notes from the January Downtown Dallas 360 meetings, during which stakeholders pushed for “catalytic projects” (The Statler! Crozier Tech!) and streetcars stretching for three miles in every direction and upscale retail outlets peddling unicorn fur sweaters. How retro that…
We’ve already previewed today’s meeting of the Park and Rec board, but we missed one item of note: news of a public hearing scheduled for April 7 during which city officials will receive comments concerning those plans to plant Uplift Education’s 20,000-square-foot open-enrollment charter school in the Science Place II…
All that remains of Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day is Denzel Washington’s Oscar-winning performance, his baddest and best. The rest of the movie? A blustering stumble toward parody—an overwrought, operatic buddy-cop flip-flop also starring Ethan Hawke as the rookie put to the test again and again by the devil (Denzel) on…
And while we’re on the subject of yesterday’s fire, Preservation Dallas offers its condolences as well: “The fire ravaged a neighborhood landmark that will not be easily replaced. We are reminded by this loss of how historic places matter.”Such is PD’s set-up to its call for nominations for this year’s…
A couple of items down below, a Friend of Unfair Park asked if we’d highlight Angela Hunt’s post from this afternoon in which she addresses the aftermath of yesterday’s four-alarm fire that decimated Terilli’s, Mick’s, Greenville Bar & Grill and Hurricane Grill. I did speak with the District 14 rep…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sends the following item from The Smoking Gun, along with the note: “Southwest just can’t catch a break. As if you need another reason not to use one of those ratty airplane blankets, take a look at what the FBI says one guy was up…
Before its Oncor briefing, the council did have a few other things on its agenda — like, oh, approving the sale of $330 million in bonds to fund projects in the $1.35 billion 2006 bond program. And for months, council member Angela Hunt has more or less been the sole…
The Liverpool Echo this morning directs our attention to the Web site of the Spirit of Shankly, the Liverpool FC supporters’ union that has made it its mission to rid the Reds of owner Tom Hicks. As you can see here, SoS has gotten into the billboard business, erecting five…
In a speech titled “Lessons Learned, Convictions Confirmed,” delivered today to the Council of Foreign Relations at the Harold Pratt House in NYC, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president and CEO Richard Fisher outlined and expanded on the “four fundamental beliefs” he’s picked up during his career “contemplating the nature…
Maybe you missed this heads-up on Sunday: Oncor’s schlepping over to Dallas City Hall this morning at 9ish, at a few council members’ behest, to address the widespread power outage sparked by last month’s snowstorm — and the aftermath that left thousands powerless and frustrated days after the record event…
That’s from last night’s Variety. But that’s not the only place. The news is spreading: Blockbuster, which banished the phrase from its lexicon six years ago after some legal tussling, is bringing back … late fees. In fact, they’re already back: The story broke in Home Media Magazine Monday that…
A few housekeeping items with which to end your long thumbs-up, thumbs-down kinda day:There’s been no Official Word from Dallas Fire-Rescue concerning the cause of this morning’s fire on Lower Greenville, but one city official to whom I spoke this evening says all evidence points toward an electrical fire. We…
