Just a quick reminder for those in need of Saturday-morning plans: Tomorrow at 9:30 is the West Dallas “dreaming session” at the St. Mary of Carmel Community Center on Vilbig Road. Actually, since last we discussed this date, the event — featuring “the man who built Vancouver” and currently serves…
Much thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who sent word — or is that The Word? — of a confab being thrown by the Institute for Creation Research over on Royal Lane. Sounds like quite the shindiggity planned for mid-November at First Baptist: the “Demand the Evidence” conference, during…
At last, another council member with a blog: Ann Margolin, who’s penned a little sumpin-sumpin about the budget by way of an invite to one her town hall meetings. Specifically, Margolin writes, she’s opposed to the increase in water and stormwater fees as proposed by City Manager Mary Suhm. The…
As I was leaving the house this morning, I was greeted by Senior Corporal Kimberly Crawford, a detective in the Northwest Operations Division and the lead investigator in the neighborhood cat killings. Crawford’s out canvassing the area and questioning antsy neighbors, who’ve taken to patrolling the alleys late at night…
So agreed the respective parties and ordered the federal judge in Georgia who’s handling the college’s lawsuit against the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which stripped the 137-year-old Paul Quinn College of its membership back in June. However, the school remains on double-secret probation pending the outcome of case…
Permit me to make this one fall-TV recommendation after watching the first three episodes: Glee, which begins airing on FOX September 9 after a summer sneak peek welcomed with well-deserved raves. In short: It’s Freaks and Geeks dolled up as a High School Musical co-starring Jane Lynch, who makes everything…
Heritage Auction Gallery had hoped to keep The Hat under its hat a little while longer — the press release was going out tomorrow, matter of fact. But word got out (someone espied the item already posted on the auction house’s Web site), which is why Heritage’s Noah Fleisher is…
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission just sent along a press release in which it acknowledges that the agency’s general counsel and Office of Professional Responsibility (otherwise known as Internal Affairs) are investigating Administrator Alan Steen. For what? For comments he made to the media during the days and weeks after…
When last we visited the Mercantile Continental Building, the Landmark Commission was on its way to designating it a historic landmark against the wishes of its owners, Forest City, the company responsible for the Merc redo and the next-door Element. Forest City had hoped to give the Continental an extreme…
Just got back to my desk to find a copy of the highly critical Adult Basic Education Department Audit about which we wrote yesterday. So, as always, the full document follows after the jump. And while there are a whole mess of figures to sort through, per the auditor’s concerns…
It took long enough, but the Dallas City Council finally got around to the parking-lot booting ordinance — and it passed council almost unanimously. There was but one “nay” vote: newcomer Ann Margolin, who said, well, “I understand there has been a lot of work to get this done, but…
Waaaay back in May ’07 I wrote about the late, great John Peel — the Liverpudlian who made a stopover in Dallas in the early 1960s before becoming “The Most Important DJ in Rock History,” per the subtitle of the book by and about the great man behind, natch, The…
You probably had no idea that since May 30, the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs has been holding town hall meetings to discuss the Asian American Cultural Center. Then again, you probably didn’t know the city was hoping to build an Asian American Cultural Center. You’re forgiven: It was but…
A little more than one month after a report by Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General accused epidemiologist and longtime Gulf War Syndrome researcher Robert Haley and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of wasting millions and failing to live up to the terms of a five-year, $75-million…
Early this morning, Lt. Kimberly Stratman, who works in the Dallas Police Department’s Family Violence Squad, called with the breaking news: The DPD has decided to take over the investigation of the cat killings in Northwest Dallas — which, from tales shared and found, sounds far more widespread than the…
As expected, Paul Quinn College is making good on its threat to take the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools all the way to federal court for tossing its accreditation. Two days after the SACS denied Paul Quinn’s appeal, the 137-year-old school sued the association in Atlanta federal court, claiming…
Earlier this month, Harvard economic pro Ed Glaeser wrote a series of pieces for The New York Times’s Economix blog in which he argued that a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston wouldn’t be economically viable. (Keep in mind, this was all hypothetical, since the Obama administration’s “Vision of…
Two weeks ago, at the last minute Mayor Tom Leppert — or was it City Secretary Deborah Watkins … or Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway? — added to the Dallas City Council’s agenda several controversial rules changes that were tabled the night before they were to be discussed. One of…
We end the day where we began the day, if only because we’ve finally spoken with Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander concerning the critical internal audit of the Adult Basic Education Program, funded last year with $3.7 million in grant money. We were expecting to post the audit…
Maybe you recall the story of Thomas Hannon, who was arrested by Dallas police officers in August 2007 on charges of possessing drugs and a weapon at a LBJ Freeway hotel. Hannon, of course, was guilty of no such thing: A videotape that surfaced just as he was set for…
Christopher Moore, the prof quoted in today’s paper about the physics of punting as it relates, to, oh, I dunno, low-hanging video screens in overwrought football domes, offers plenty more info on his blog concerning hang time and kicking angles; rrrrrrriveting stuff. But, for a moment, back to the Dallas…
So, yeah, one of the Jonas brothers was at the W Hotel in Victory Park yesterday guest-judging American Idol’s Dallas final auditions. Can’t recall which one — Joe, maybe? Nick? Gummo? Tito? Doesn’t matter. But this, er, news (?) has me significantly more interested: Reports E!, Neil Patrick Harris “is…
