Courtesy the Dallas Police Department I see Sam’s Friday-afternoon breakdown of the local network affiliates’ decision to air Dallas police dashboard-cam footage is the subject of an ethics posting on The Poyner Institute’s site today. There, Kelly McBride hails Mr. Merten’s dissection of the issue — which was, should Channels…
Chili’s Chicken Crispers® are still delicious, unless yer a purple PETA eatah! If you happen to be taking in an early screening of High School Music 3 tomorrow at the Cinemark 17 on Webb Chapel Road, be warned: The theater’s also the site of Brinker International’s annual shareholders meeting, which…
GlennSacks.com When The Dallas Morning News ran its story last Thursday about The Family Place’s “provocative new campaign” on Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses, the agency, which assists victims of domestic abuse, said it had received few complaints. The ads, depicted above, began running on October 1, and DART spokesman…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Yesterday, shortly before the Dallas Independent School District officially announced it’s rehiring 57 of the teachers laid off two weeks ago, school board trustee Carla Ranger yet again laid into the district and its leadership. As in: “It is hard to do the right…
From Sunday’s Meet the Press, the battlegrounds? This morning, CNN’s Roland Martin takes a look at Dallas County and, sorta-kinda Harris County, and comes up with this conclusion: “Democrats may soon make Texas a competitive two-party state.” Martin’s analysis, I think it’s called, comes a mere three days after the…
Sierra Club From the Environmental Protection Agency today, a breath of fresh air.–Robert Wilonsky As the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s economy has grown to one of the nation’s most vibrant, its citizens have also enjoyed improvements in air quality. This summer saw the lowest levels of ozone in three decades, thanks…
Patrick Michels From the Tom Leppert-Terrell Owens press conference, about which Patrick just posted. Somebody’s very, very excited about Friday. Still, trick or treat? –Robert Wilonsky…
On Friday, I came across a black-and-white version of the illustration you see above and contacted the artist, Wimberley-based Susan Rudat, to see if I could share it on Unfair Park. She went one better, offering this Technicolor version in its place. Rudat, whose pen-and-ink sketches were featured on Boing…
Jody Dean, whose beard misses him No doubt, you’re very familiar with most of the details contained within Skip Hollandsworth’s latest “Letter from Dallas” in the new Texas Monthly, in which he hashes over the plight of Jenny the Elephant. But Skip does serve up one rather hilarious anecdote, courtesy…
Oh, yeah, because on November 22, Dallas will be filled with conspiracy theorists using the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination to peddle their thick tomes filled with Last Words and Conclusive Research that proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that JFK was gunned down by Fidel Castro, Oliver…
Seems like only last Christmas Eve we were tallying the box office for Jessica Simpson’s movie Blonde Ambition, only to realize that it took in the amount of pocket change found in Mark Cuban’s couch — about $400, rounding up to be nice. And, for about 29 seconds thereafter, we…
Newsweek this week follows in the footsteps of U.S. News & World Report and suggests the last sure bet in this crap economy is sin. Or vice, as Newsweek puts it — specifically, the Dallas-based Vice Fund, which proudly “invests in companies, both domestic and foreign, engaged in the aerospace…
A Dallas family makes the cover of the new Fortune: Lindsay and Zach Mayer, among those singled out as the “high earners, not rich yet” — or HENRYs, get it? — who would vehemently dispute the notion that just because you make more than $250,000, you’re wealthy and ought to…
This morning, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and DowntownDallas’s John Crawford are hosting an Executive Marketing Task Force meeting at the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau, where, among other items on the agenda, they’ll case-study that damned DSpot ad campaign created in early ’07 to sell Dallas to Dallasites…
To be fair, Renee Wiggins has more of a Rachel Green thing going on in these photos. Here, though, more Sheryl Crow, maybe? On her MySpace page, Dallas actress Renee Wiggins offers copious sneak peeks at next week’s run of Family Feud, which, apparently, is still on the air. Wiggins…
We’re always interested when a former Miss America makes an appearance at Dallas City Hall. Expect another installment in The Many Faces of Mayor Tom tomorrow, as we head down to City Hall for a morning press conference. And we’re expecting this one to be plenty packed, as Leppert will…
Brian Harkin Jim Trulock, co-owner of Duncanville’s Cherry Pit No doubt you’ve read Mike Fisher’s September 17 cover story about the Cherry Pit; more than a month after publication, the swinging tale out of Duncanville remains a big hit. If you somehow missed it, well, you might wanna bone up…
Eli Luna Took the boy up to Plano on Saturday for the Star Wars con, where organizers figured more than 2,000 folks showed up to fete the franchise, sneak a peek at a Firefly and listen to a feisty Bruce Campbell patiently negotiate his way through a mind field of…
Adrian Noe Adrain Noe worked on the campaigns of Pete Schulte, Harriet Miller and Sam Coats, among other locals. Folks really liked him too; says Miller, who ran against State Rep. Tony Goolsby in ’06, he appeared to be “very capable and trustworthy.” Till, that is, Miller discovered Noe “had…
Just in case, so you at least know what Brooks Bollinger looks like Ed Werder brings word from his super-secret sources deep within Valley Ranch — Wade Phillips, prolly — that the Cowboys coach is looking for someone, anyone, other than Brad Johnson to throw the ball against the New…
Joyce Foreman Former Dallas Area Rapid Transit board member Joyce Foreman this morning weighs in on the death of former city council member James Fantroy, who died yesterday after a prolonged battle with kidney cancer. Among her thoughts on the subject: “He was the epitome of a public servant that…
Bishop Kevin Farrell A self-proclaimed Catholic for Change directs our attention this morning to the second joint statement from Bishops Kevin Farrell and Kevin Vann, who, as you’ll no doubt recall, told their congregants on October 8 that “to vote for a candidate who supports the intrinsic evil of abortion…
