Several Friends of Unfair Park, and many fellow Dallas Independent School Distinct parents, have sent along this morning a link to the Texas Tribune’s newly posted searchable database showing how state Rep. Scott Hochberg’s H.B 2485 — which eliminates target revenue, holds all districts to the same revenue formula and…
Speaking of transportation and the suburbs …Been meaning to mention this for weeks, but Patrick Kennedy’s post on the subject reminds: There’s a Facebook page called Save Downtown Dallas: Tear Down Central Expressway — a subject that’s addressed from a distance in the just-adopted-by-city-council Downtown Dallas 360, actually. As in:…
A few weeks ago, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 was moving Chris Flanagan, co-host of its morning-news show Daybreak, to Good Morning Texas, whatever that is. His replacement: Ron Corning, who’s leaving Kabletown’s Long Island affiliate to pair up with Cynthia Izaguirre, the sixth-most famous graduate of Thomas Jefferson…
On the other side are two surveillance cam videos the Dallas Police Department just posted to YouTube as part of its ongoing effort to enlist the public whenever the department needs some extra eyeballs. In this instance, the department says that two men, at least one of whom carries a…
Linda Gray wasn’t sure she’d be able to attend. But yes, she and Larry Hagman were most definitely in Oak Cliff last night, as evidenced by this photo taken by the great Max Hartman, who graciously allowed us to share on Unfair Park…
Looks like Mike Morath’s going to become a Dallas Independent School District trustee earlier than he’d expected. He was already running unopposed for Jack Lowe’s North Dallas-Near East Dallas District 2 seat, which is one of the reasons why the district canceled the May 14 elections. (Carla Ranger and Adam…
If nothing else, the timing’s certainly good: Just three days after Mayor Dwaine Caraway branded mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings the “Payday Loan King” in a series of ads to which Rawlings later responded, the city council’s Budget, Finance & Audit Committee is about to take up the subject of how…
We spent much of Saturday in the Arts District, where the 7-year-old who lives in my house went trick-or-treating amongst the hundreds of Earth Day Dallas vendors handing out an ironic number of non-biodegradable goodies. At which point the boy pointed to the under-construction building across the street from Booker…
By now construction crews were supposed to have hung several Calatrava cables, or what Schutze calls “Margaret Hunt Hill’s Gee Strings.” But wind gusts in recent weeks have grounded construction workers; hence, but the two at present. And so it falls to Chris Heinbaugh to finish the task: During yesterday’s…
The battle over Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center — which Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa is splitting up in order to excise five of its seven principals next school year, over parents and Carla Ranger’s objections — has reached The New York Times, via its relationship with the Texas…
Speaking of great shows at Moody Coliseum …Floating out in the ether, all by its unmarked lonesome, is this resonant echo: R.E.M. at Moody Coliseum on November 18, 1987 — a stop along The Work Tour in support of that year’s Document, the band’s fifth and final album for I.R.S…
Larry Hagman’s already in Dallas — downtown, to be specific, where the once and future J.R. Ewing will speak at 11 this morning and again at 2 this afternoon during Earth Day Dallas doings. (Jock would be so ashamed.) Then, tomorrow night at around 8, Hagman is scheduled to stop…
Mike Rawlings called this evening to discuss, sort of, those ads in which Mayor Dwaine Caraway blasts the mayoral candidate as the “Payday Loan King,” a reference to Rawlings’s six-year stint on the board of directors of Ace Cash Express — the very sort of high-interest, short-term lender that local…
I was cleaning out the office last weekend and came across my copy of the 166-page indictment that eventually led a parade of people to the Earle Cabell thanks to that low-income housing development corruption case at Dallas City Hall. I didn’t know what to do with it, so I…
Moments ago, during Robert Ashley’s show on KHVN-AM, an ad ran attacking mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings and his ties to Ace Cash Express — though it never mentions Rawlings by name. The speaker: none other than Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway, who is supporting legislative efforts to exclude payday lenders as…
As you’re no doubt aware, American Airlines’ flight attendants and service workers have long been at odds with the Fort Worth-based carrier over new contracts, leading to an endless parade of protests — including ones at Dallas-Fort Worth International during Super Bowl week and one on Wednesday at JFK in…
On Monday the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee will devote its entire meeting to the subject of streetcars. In fact, there’s a field trip involved, as council members will bus out to Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Northwest Rail Operating Facility to once again get a good look at that…
If you’re headed down to Earth Day Dallas, which begins right about now in downtown and runs through tomorrow, you’re invited to check out the mammoth map of the Trinity River Corridor Project that’ll be on display between Booker T. and the AT&T Performing Arts Center. (Above, that’s just a…
While awaiting several calls back about items forthcoming, allow me to dispense with these four VIP ducets to Wednesday’s Iron Fork event at the Fashion Industry Gallery, where chefs John Tesar and Scott Romano will square off whilst attendees dine on samplings from the likes of Il Cane Rosso and…
Perhaps you’ve heard: The Moody Foundation is putting $20 million toward giving the great Moody Coliseum an extreme makeover, as evidenced by the conceptuals provided by SMU (more follow after the jump). But that’s but half of what the Hilltop needs to fund the project, expected to run closer to…
While looking for something unrelated this morning, I came across quite the cinematic find just posted to the Internet Archive: a full-length copy of Oscar-nominated director Emile de Antonio’s 1966 film Rush to Judgment, based upon New York attorney Mark Lane’s best-seller of the same name in which he more…
Rick Perry has already asked the Obama Administration for help in combating the wildfires that continue to devour much of the state. Now, he turns to an even higher power: Moments ago the governor’s office sent word that Perry has proclaimed Friday through Sunday as Days of Prayer for Rain…
