If nothing else, the paper version of Unfair Park has a most devoted reader in one George Rodrigue, the Dallas Morning News managing editor who, yet again, tears himself from the ads in the back of the Dallas Observer just long enough to read Schutze. As Jim’s out of the…
Those Friends of Unfair Park wondering who those folks are picketing the Dallas Arboretum and snarling traffic this morning, wonder no more: They’re reps from the Communication Workers of America, who yesterday vowed to bring “hundreds of CWA members from all over District 6, and some from even further away,”…
So, odd coincidence. Was reading this morning about the governor making it a bit easier for out-of-state filmmakers to shoot in Texas when it occurred to me that Big D — the Warner Bros. Television-produced would-be sitcom for CBS that’s set in Dallas — might ougtha be shooting its pilot…
More than a few Woodrow Wilson High School Wildcats have sent reminders in recent days that Saturday marks the landmark’s 80th birthday: The day starts with a 10 a.m. parade from the Lakewood Shopping Plaza to the city-designated landmark and ends with a battle-of-the-bands shindig at Eddie Dean’s. And somewhere…
What you see above is the North Central Texas Council of Governments’ map charting the number of new residents added to the area’s 16 counties’ “Top Ten Cities” over the past decade. This year alone, Fort Worth topped Dallas by adding 17,400 new residents, as opposed to the 6,000 newcomers…
Richie’s just returned from Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome out in some place called “Arlington,” and he brings news: Your Dallas Cowboys have a new radio home. (Which, sure, is very old news to anyone who reads Sportatorium, as Richie will remind you.) He’s got all the details, but this note seemed…
The duo behind the bestselling weight-loss how-to Skinny Bitch are back with a follow-up: Skinny Bastard, due to hit stores Monday. And it features among its famous faces several vegan athletes, including them a certain hobbled Dallas Maverick who’s been sidelined during the playoffs. Alas, The New York Times has…
Smokey Joe Barton’s Wednesday afternoon tweet from a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing has been making the rounds, as the Arlington congressman does seem awful proud of hisself for stickin’ it to Secretary of Energy Steve Chu — the same dude who won the Nobel Prize in Physics…
Had a few civil, private, agree-to-disagree exchanges with some R.I.P. Dallas members yesterday, prompted by this item and most definitely this one. So, without further comment, here’s the pro-hotel group’s first online spot, which I found this morning and which is a far sunnier offering than those signs. (Though the…
Ever since early February, The Dallas City Council has considered extending the Juvenile Curfew Ordinance — which keeps 17-and-unders off the streets from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 12:01 a.m. till 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday — to include the hours when, ya know, the 17-and-unders…
So, apparently, the citizenry of Dallas had best get acquainted with United League Baseball, which, if I read my Dallas Morning News right this morning, will throw out the first pitch on the banks of the Trinity River this time next year. So, let’s see: Just last month in Dallas…
As the University of North Texas Law College — or UNT at Dallas College of Law, whatever it’s going to be called — inches closer toward becoming a reality in the old Municipal Building downtown, its supporters are working overtime to get the entire state Legislature behind the idea. Which…
View Larger MapFellow Northwest Dallas resident Sharon Boyd directs our attention today to some heretofore unreported news involving a significant piece of the neighborhood: On Monday, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage will conduct hearings concerning several bars located at 2900 Walnut Hill Lane, otherwise known as the patch of land where…
On Monday, we noted that the Royal Lane-based Institute for Creation Research filed a mammoth lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which it alleges that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board violated its constitutional rights when denying its application to offer master’s degrees in science last year. Today, the ICR…
Moments ago, Luis de la Garza — host of something called Televisión ConSentido and former auto auctioneer — posted to YouTube his interview with the mayor about the convention center hotel. And by interview, I mean “informercial” in which the mayor sells the hotel to the Hispanic community, “which will…
This morning, Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger posted to her blog a letter from a district teacher who’s terrified that the DISD’s going to use the Classroom Effectiveness Index to clean house. This teacher must be among the some 700 who Tawnell Hobbs writes received letters from…
Now that the Germans have claimed Victory — Victory Park, that is — we’ve got a swell idea to help Ross Perot Jr. raise some quick cash: some kick-ass tees and stickers. Here, courtesy the Hardest Working Art Director in Alt-Weeklies, Alexander Flores, is our first offering — and it’s…
By now, perhaps, you’re aware that the Dallas Independent School District is using Lone Star Auctions to dispose of about 72 items former district secretary Gloria Orapello bought with her DISD-issued credit card. She was sentenced to a year in the joint and was court-ordered to pay back $100,000, though…
Heard a little more from the R.I.P. Dallas folks last night — via a Richards Group press release, how awfully “grassroots” and so very “viral,” the buzzwords used in the pitch to Unfair Park. (As in: “We also have some great stats to share about the viral component of this…
Morning-show hosts, beware: Lucy Rose does not take a prank call lying down. (Well, she might — I wasn’t there when she answered the phone … hi-yo!) But, seriously. Yesterday, Rose had her attorney go down to the federal courthouse in Fort Worth and file this 11-page suit against one…
As we mentioned earlier, the Enough is Enough folks — pro-convention center hotel, anti-“negativity and distortions associated with the May 9th election” — had their coming-out party this morning at the Stoneleigh Hotel, where they debuted their Web site and TV spot. We’ll have more from the party later today…
Thanks to Google’s new News Timeline — seen here with a simple Dallas-by-the-decades search — consider the day lost. Thanks, Google!…
