Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comKarl Rove was on The O’Reilly Factor last night discussing the impact the First Baptist Dallas pastor’s comments will have on Rick Perry’s campaign, among other things. Alas, Bill O’Reilly was off, and instead Dubya’s right-hand man was on with Laura Ingraham, who feels bad…
While we await official confirmation from the Dallas Independent School District concerning a well-respected higher-up who was let go yesterday, there’s this. As expected, the Austin-based nonprofit The Equity Center (“founded in 1982 by 55 school districts as a response to the gross inequities that existed in the state’s school…
The folks in charge of the LBJ Express project send word: A month after they called off demolition plans at the very last minute, citing safety concerns, they’re finally going to tear down all of the pedestrian walkway over 635 this weekend, after some of it was taken down in…
While Anna wraps up her redistricting brouhaha recap from last night, start your day with this: yet another story comparing Dallas to New Jersey when it comes to our burgeoning reality TV scene. The Los Angeles Times, taking note of such shows as Bravo’s Most Eligible Dallas and Style’s Big…
We began the day by discussing Occupy Dallas’s missive to the mayor concerning their encampment at Pioneer Plaza, between Dallas City Hall and the Dallas Convention Center. We end it — not counting our Rangers liveblog, which is now into extra innings — with this: Following a sitdown with the…
No doubt you recall it was a mighty big deal for some when Aldi announced it would be opening a couple dozen stores in and around town in the spring of 2010, with “its sights on 100 eventually.” There are 20 at present, most in and around East Dallas and…
And here Anna thought she was done with redistricting. Hah!A Friend of Unfair Park just sent us an invite to wingding Domingo Garcia’s throwing at Tejano Restaurant on West Davis scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. Says the come-one-come-all signed by the redistricting commissioner:”The Dallas city council on Wednesday…
Just got off the phone with a gentleman who’s also keeping an eye on Texas-Detroit: Alex Cosmidis. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is pulling for the Tigers — surprising, since Cosmidis once played baseball in Dallas and in Fort Worth, first as an Eagle in 1955 and ’56,…
What you see at right is the urban garden the Deep Ellum Community Association would like to plant on this lot at Canton and Good-Latimer. The idea isn’t new: In December 2009 we wrote about DECA’s attempt to green up Deep Ellum, and initially they’d looked at planting on the…
Seriously, instead of trying to come up with cute names for teacher evaluations or asking the Dallas Regional Chamber for help, the Dallas Independent School District’s higher-ups (the school board, especially) need to take the few-minute drive to Mesquite and ask Superintendent Dr. Linda Henrie how to make schools, you…
Reports out of England have Liverpool and Manchester City of the Premier League taking a long, hard look at FC Dallas’s Brek Shea, the 21-year-old College Station-born star just called to the U.S. National Team at September’s end. Problem is, Shea — a chief contender for MLS’s MVP award –…
First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress first appeared on Unfair Park back in October 2008 — the first time, or close to, he referred to Mitt Romney, a Mormon, as a member of a “cult.” Friday’s remarks following his endorsement of Rick Perry at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.,…
We went to the Mecum car auction Saturday after all, where a ’68 Corvette sold for $565,000, and as we were driving away from the Dallas Convention Center we espied a small encampment of sorts set up next to Robert Summers’s 49 bronze Longhorns in Pioneer Plaza. There was one…
We’ve been here before: the night the Rolling Stones played Will Rogers Auditorium as the “London Green Shoed Cowboys” in the summer of ’78. The boot, known as Handsome Girls, remains one of the finest in my collection; I revisit it regularly, particularly that rendering of “Starfucker.” No wonder it…
Long ago, in 1978, this was released as a vinyl boot, Dolls Live: Dallas ’74. Over the years the original has become a pricey, much-sought-after artifact — this, despite the fact it’s said to be of “very poor” sound quality. (This attendee didn’t even dig it live: “not that great.”)…
Seems like only days ago we were watching those old home movies shot on Forest Lane, in which you catch a fleeting glimpse of the groovy brick-wall mural, between Midway and Rosser, painted in the spirit of 1976 by W.T. White students. The mural, done to cover graffiti that marred…
The lovely woman you see at right is Willietta Bradley, a kindergarten math teacher at F.P. Caillet Elementary, where, on Tuesday, I took part in the Dallas Independent School District’s Principal for a Day program. I was especially delighted to have been assigned there, of all places: Only a few…
First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress is throwing in with Rick Perry, which is hardly a surprise given Jeffress’s participation in that meeting with Perry and pastors back in June at James Robison’s LIFE Outreach International campus in Euless. (Also: Jeffress would never, ever endorse Mitt Romney. Not ever.) But he…
Speaking of walking along bridges over the Trinity River …Yesterday, members of The Trinity Trust, the Trinity Commons Foundation’s board and a few city officials were invited to take a walk along the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, which is scheduled to have its grand opening during a three-day-long wingding in…
In December of last year, the city of Dallas put out the call: Design firm needed to draw up pedestrian and bicycle enhancements for the Cedar Crest Bridge over the Trinity River. In May, the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee was told that 13 firms had stepped forward with proposals…
Last Friday, ’round this time, we opened with Justin Terveen’s look-see at the downtown Omni illuminated by lightning — a striking shot. This morning, Justin kindly sends this postcard view of the hotel taken last night in advance of Texas-OU at the Cotton Bowl tomorrow morning at 11. “Also, note…
The 4300 block of Lively Lane, just off Midway and between Walnut Hill and Northwest Highway, is a nice, tranquil stretch of street — so nice you wouldn’t be surprised to find out that some of the folks living in that part of the NW have surveillance cameras keeping watch…
