Everyone’s getting a big giggle out of 143-year-old New York Post Page Six columnist Cindy Adams’ reference today to Preston Hollow as “a town outside Dallas” known for its “horse stables, lake views, mountain views, golf club views.” Notes a Post comment, “Cindy Adams has perhaps sampled the manure addiction”;…
Dallas is far from the best city in the U.S. when it comes to sustainability (that’d be Portland), and it’s far from the worst (Mesa, Arizona, ranks 50th out of 50). Once again we’re right in the middle on SustainLane’s “complete report card on urban sustainability in America,” perched at…
Appearing on Dancing With the Stars was not a suggestion. Mavs owner Mark Cuban was in NYC yesterday, speaking on a panel titled “The Future of Media” held in conjunction with Advertising Week. Among his fellow panelists were Randy Falco, CEO of AOL; Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff; and Ken…
Jennifer Colli Jennifer Colli’s mighty impressive bio is still up on the SMU women’s basketball page, but the 5-foot-10 guard from Flower Mound is no longer on the team — which is why she has sued the school in U.S. District Court in Dallas. She claims the school illegally yanked…
Dallas Independent School District supporters, take note: Today at noon, superintendent Michael Hinojosa will deliver his annual State of the District speech to the Dallas Regional Chamber, which no doubt knows the state of the district — broke and broken. You’ll find Hinojosa at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel on N…
On Saturday, “FloMoDad” posted to the YouTubes the video below, in which a banana chases a gorilla across the football field during Flower Mound’s homecoming game Friday night. But, you’ll see some cops initially didn’t find Curtis Patton and Sean Kight’s senior prank terribly funny, as one of the guys…
Richard Chamberlain, whose name is somewhere in the moniker of his steak house on Belt Line Road, got to play “Chef on a Shoestring” over the weekend on one of CBS’s morning shows. But did he stick to his $40 budget? –Robert Wilonsky…
For those trapped on southbound Stemmons Freeway yesterday around 5 p.m., this was the reason for the snarl. The missus took this photo as we exited eastbound I-30 onto Stemmons. –Robert Wilonsky…
By now you’ve surely noticed that Friday’s stock market gains have been adiosed by today’s 372-point drop in the Dow Jones, courtesy frayed nerves over the bailout plan and oil rising by some $16 a barrel. Close to home, some local players suffered major stock plunges — Brinker International chief…
Dianna Wray Two months after Big Tex’s well-documented wardrobe change, the big guy arrived back at Fair Park this morning, three days before the opening of the State Fair of Texas. He’s been “gently aged” — meaning, Tex now has a few more laugh lines — and touched up elsewhere,…
Harry Wilonsky I handed the boy the camera yesterday as he looked for something to do during the Texas Rangers’ 81st loss of yet another interminable season. (On the plus side, it was Fan Appreciation Day.) Whilst scrolling through his photos, I came across this nice one of Nolan Ryan…
Ghassan Elashi With federal prosecutors making a second run at Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development officials, after their first attempt last year ended up in a more-or-less mistrial, the daughter of one of the defendants today writes about Part II for The Huffington Post. Noor Elashi’s a…
In addition to LBJ tollway talk today, the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee will also discuss — if I read this right — building a 3,400-foot-long “people mover” connecting the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Denton Drive station to Love Field Airport. At a cost of — again, if I read…
Flickr photo: flygraphix As always, you’ll find on Flickr plenty of photos from the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade yesterday, which snaked its way down Cedar Springs Road from Douglas Avenue to Lee Park. This just happens to be a personal favorite. If nothing else, seems much more thought-out than…
LBJ Freeway, which wasn’t built in the 1960s with the expectation it would carry nearly 300,000 cars a day, is a mess: It’s infrastructure is aging, it’s congested most of the time, and it gets a little bit worse every day. That’s from the city council Transportation and Environment Committee’s…
DISD trustee Ron Price Moments ago, near the end of the nearly three-hour-long DISD board meeting — before the board went behind closed doors to talk about the superintendent in front of his face — trustee Ron Price said, “This is a critical moment in Dallas Independent School District’s history.”…
Schutze is at 3700 Ross Avenue, and he’ll provide a wrap-up from the board meeting during which the trustees and superintendent Michael Hinojosa will likely declare a state of financial emergency following last week’s $64-million budget shortfall revelation. That said, Allen Gwinn’s very, very good at this kind of thing…
I’m not going to link to the AbortionNO.org site, because, frankly, it’s too graphic — there’s even a warning on the site, which proudly claims it’s “graphically exposing the injustice of abortion.” And, look out, it’s graphically exposing it all over town today: Patrick “Buzz” Williams and I were just…
What you see above is an artist’s rendering of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant in Glen Rose, should Luminant be allowed to expand the plant from two units to four. Notes Luminant in its media release, sent in advance of an applicaton filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: “These…
The “B” in The Ticket’s BaD Radio show Deadspin’s been decidedly Dallas-centric in recent days, but never more so than moments ago, when it posted a photo of KTCK-AM’s Bob Sturm, who kinda says that, yeah, ESPN’s ripping off his 7-year-old concept that involves power-ranking NFL franchises throughout the league’s…
Residents of Greenway Parks, beware! Not only do you live in the nation’s most overpriced zip code — which we’ve known since July — but you’re also now infected with the West Nile. At least, someone in the neighborhood is. So says the city in advance of a mosquito spray-down…
After all the brouhaha over the Dallas Independent School District’s revised grading policy, the kid’s had plenty of honest-to-God homework since starring kindergarten earlier this month — very surprising and very welcome. Nonetheless, CNN yesterday revisited the controversy. And this morning, Kent Fischer grades the (mostly absentee) committee that came…
