Food Network We just got very interested in who’s gonna become The Next Food Network Star. Local connections and all. A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: Is the Lisa Garza mentioned below, as the Dallas contestant on the forthcoming season of The Next Food Network Star, the same Lisa Garza…
FLDS The state claims to have found evidence that 20 young girls living in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints compound in Eldorado became pregnant when they were between the ages of 13 and 16, which supports Texas’ allegations of a culture of systematic abuse that occurred…
Texas Department of Transportation What “negative perception?” Because this looks fine to us. Aside from the Love Field item on the Transportation and Environment Committee’s agenda today, the council committee will also discuss later this p.m. how to get the state to better tend to Dallas’ crap highway landscaping. Of…
View Larger Map On LA’s Homeless Blog today, PATH Dallas director Ken McGill offers a sneak peek at the $16.5-million one-stop homeless assistance “mall” set to open shortly at 1818 Corsicana Street, at the intersection of S. St. Paul Street. Notes McGill, PATH Dallas at the Bridge “will operate in…
Breaking news for the Liz Lemons of the world, or at least the 30 Rock viewers who get the headline: Food Network today announced the 10 peeps competing for the title of The Next Food Network Star, and one of them’s a local — name of Lisa Garza. The series…
Busy day at City Hall: Aside from the animal-ownership restrictions under consideration today during the Quality of Life and Government Services Committee’s powwow, the Transportation and Environment Committee will take up the discussion of modernizing Love Field Airport, per the Wright Amendment Reform Act of 2006. The city’s among the…
Shortly after noon at City Hall, the Dallas city council’s Quality of Life and Government Services Committee will discuss Proposed Ordinances for Animal Control. Among the suggestions to be considered: new guidelines for dealing with “dangerous dogs” and mandatory spaying and neutering for all dogs and cats within the city…
On April 2, 1978, the cultural tsunami that was the TV show Dallas debuted with an episode titled “Digger’s Daughter” — and, of course, the hard-drinking, hard-fighting and hard-effin’ Ewings may be far more responsible for the fall of communism than the Afghani fighters who beat the Russians courtesy some…
After last night’s dichotomous performances by the Mavs and Stars, it appears we’ll be having our spring over ice, thanks. Because while Dallas’ hockey team was dismantling the San Jose Sharks to take a 2-0 series lead, its basketball team put forth one of the most disturbingly ineffective efforts in…
The scene at Keller’s today. And I swear Tommy Lee and Ludacris are somewhere in this photo. Hell of a thing, getting caught up in a celebreality-show shoot while just trying to grab a burger and beer at 2 p.m. on a Saturday. Shoulda known something was up when the…
Texas Association of School Boards I wish Wilonsky would take the amazingly long list of comments on my recent Woodrow Wilson High School item, bind them in pigskin and publish them as an anthology. Taken together, the whole package is a fascinating specimen of blogography. The original item was one…
There’s very little to say about this lengthy clip from today’s episode of The Michael Irvin Show on ESPN-FM 103.3, during which Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard addressed this article that appeared over the weekend. Because, really, it’s no biggie. So, sure, the Mav went on the air and admitted…
Something tells me Mrs. Mike Modano ain’t gonna make too many friends amongst San Jose Sharks fans with comments like this one, posted today to her official NHL blog: “The San Jose arena is one of the loudest and most violent crowds that I’ve ever seen in person. It worries…
Two blocks behind Unfair Park HQ, at the intersections of Brown and Reagan streets, sits an empty lot worth $613,200. For more than a year, there’s been a billboard planted in the ground promising the Homes of Audubon Place — which, when completed, will feature 10 town homes, running between…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger As mentioned below, at last night’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees, Carla Ranger delivered a speech in which she questioned the ethics of board president Jack Lowe, whose company, it was revealed last weekend, has received some $10 million…
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints now has a Web site documenting children being taken from their mothers. For some reason The Dallas Morning News doesn’t want to look in to the phone call that sparked the April 3 raid on the polygamist compound in Eldorado. As…
Prepare for the most overrated, underwhelming non-event in all of sports. No, not another ho-hum Rangers’ loss. It’s the NFL Draft, also known as the most overdone entity this side of Mel Kiper’s hair helmet. It’s a day when dork draftniks like Kiper and Gil Brandt and Norm Hitzges and…
Texas Department of Transportation See, this just-snapped traffic photo shows why you should commute to work at, like, 10 in the morning. Because 8’s just too early. Forbes has some astonishing news for Dallas commuters: Your drive to work s-s-s-s-s-sucks. Thanks, holmes. Specifically, ours is the fifth-worst commute amongst the…
Yesterday we linked to the Daily Campus story concerning the increase in sexual assaults on the SMU campus in 2006 — and how school officials did nothing to notify students, parents and faculty members that 13 women had been raped on campus during the school year. Well, late yesterday we…
Outside the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees meeting last night, more than a dozen protesters carried signs decrying the $1.35-billion bond proposal and DISD leadership. “F! The sign speaks for itself,” said Pete Peterson, pictured above. “The audit doesn’t look good for the district, and that doesn’t look…
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle with the novel idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead of writing garishly caricatured bit players with names like Long Duk Dong, you cast an Asian actor as the smart, handsome, upwardly mobile…
Could have sworn I’ve seen this episode of Baby Mama before—like sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled “The Baby Show” and aired on the other prime-time series starring Tina Fey, 30 Rock. (Wait a minute—you say Baby Mama’s a movie and not a TV show? Seriously? Coulda…
