In a April 2004 review of the Dallas Convention Center, the City Auditor’s Office determined that the Department of Convention and Event Services wasn’t using software — called Convention Center Resource Information and Control System — purchased in 2001 that was intended to “enhance event scheduling and processing” at the…
Apologies for the delay this a.m., but there was a good reason: The boy’s first day as a Dallas Independent School District student. Heck of a moment: He was cool, calm, excited but not nervous. His father, slapped in the face by the familiar smell of DISD hallways on the…
Harold Simmons, a vision in white Lots of Harold Simmons mentions in the news today; it started last night, actually and one can’t imagine why, judging from the ad after the jump, which links Barack Obama with former Weather Underground-er William Ayers, a subject discussed and more or less dismissed…
Pete mentioned it last night — which, yup, seems like forever ago. So, for those who missed My Morning Jacket “Tyrone” one on with Erykah Badu at the Palladium, here ’tis. And, yeah, maybe you could have seen this one coming: Eryah’s 1997 hit single is a MMJ set list…
Lon Tinkle’s book The Key to Dallas has probably been out of print since its publication in 1965. Copies of the slim tome — written for now-defunct publishing house J. B. Lippincott & Co.’s “Keys to the Cities” series, which also included books about New York City, Rome, Paris and…
You asked for it, you got it. –Robert Wilonsky…
That’s what U.S. News & World Report says, anyway, in its latest ranking of the best colleges in the country. Which puts Southern Methodist behind BaylorRice, the University of Texas and Texas A&M when it comes to the other Texas universities on the list. But don’t feel left out, TCU:…
Dalton Sherman, a a fifth-grader at the Charles Rice Learning Center, was quite the hit at the Dallas Independent School District’s Believe/Achieve Back-To-School Kickoff at the American Airlines Center earlier this week. But the kid’s no rookie at making The Big Speech: Megan Feldman was in awe of the young…
Angela Hunt I know, right? On Wednesday, Paul Dyer, director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, handed down his decree that Jenny the elephant is to remain in Dallas after all. No doubt you figured, “Well, that is that,” for better or worse. Only, not so fast. Not only…
Central Texas’s own Chet Edwards So, yeah, everyone’s suddenly thinking that maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama’s going to announce Congressman Chet Edwards as his running mate, maybe as early as this afternoon — and if it’s on Fox, it must be true! To which Gawker notes this very funny hypothetical…
Sarah McDaniel Nastia Liukin’s pal Carly Patterson crashed the welcome-home party yesterday at DFW. Intern Courtney ended up at Dallas-Fort Worth International yesterday — just in time for Nastia Liukin’s meet-and-greet with the media and a few hundred well-wishers. Her account, along with some photos of the gold medalist and…
After getting some bad press for its new grading policies, the Dallas Independent School District has posted to its Web site myriad documents explaining them — including one titled “Concerns and Facts.” Of its new grading procedures, the district insists they will “better reflect the more rigorous and effort-based learning…
Jonathan Neerman At the end of the day yesterday, Jonathan Neerman, the recently installed chair of the Dallas County Republican Party, called Unfair Park to talk about that Lupe Valdez-is-a-chicken video. Neerman said, sure, Dallas County GOP absolutely made it — because, see, they were pretty sure the Dallas County…
Perched at No. 25 on Inc. magazine’s annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. is a locally based online retailer with which you’re probably familiar, if’n you’re into good deals cleverly crafted. Yup, it’s Carrollton-based Woot, which ranks as both the very fastest-growing retailer in the…
Around 7:30 this morning, I hopped on the YouTubes to see if someone had posted a video of local interest — do it every day. Maybe a page or two into the search this a.m., I came across the video in which someone dressed in a chicken outfit taunts Dallas…
Dunno why David Blaine’s production company chose this afternoon to post this vintage video, shot in the Dallas Cowboys’ locker room, to the YouTubes, but, whatever the reason, the thing’s magical. And, yes, I am totally referring to Emmitt Smith’s haircut. –Robert Wilonsky…
Just got back from a late-ish lunch with Dr. Schutze, who figured, sure, might as well dine at the Metro Diner in Preston Center before it collects its last tip Saturday afternoon ’round 2:30. Sitting at the counter was Wayne Adams, whose father, James W., opened the joint in 1963,…
Fact is, Irving has big plans for Texas Stadium’s site once the building’s gone. Reunion Arena isn’t about to go the way of Nakatomi Plaza; Texas Stadium is a long way from getting the Gotham City Hospital treatment. Right now, Dallas Film Commission director Janis Burklund’s idea of making those…
Dallas-based Blockbuster has its problems; so noted. But Grapevine-based GameStop’s doing all right, all right, all right for itself: Today, the seller of video game stuffs posted ginormous second-quarter income figures — $57.2 million, or damned near three times what it brought in this time last year. Did amazingly well;…
At this very moment, Nastia Liukin’s on her way to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for a 4:15 p.m. press conference — where, no doubt, the Parker-living, Plano-training Olympian will be asked about stories circulating today concerning the age of Chinese gymnast He Kexin, who controversially outscored Liukin to take gold…
The Sporting News’ blog FirstCuts directs our attention to the latest and greatest in Official Terrell Owens Sportswear: the Dallas Cowboy’s line of “iShirts,” for the first person in all of us. And while the shirt pictured above is perhaps the best of the lot — after all, it signifies…
“No, don’t see it, Willie. You sure you tossed it out the window?” A Friend of Unfair Park who recalls my former obsession with any story dealing with Willie Nelson and his BioWillie fuel — which, of course, is produced by Dallas-based Earth Biofuels, which is in the midst of…
