Speaking of public eduction and whether or not the Dallas Independent School District can split Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center without the school board’s OK …A missive just arrived in the Unfair Park in-box that was sent today to the DISD board concerning plans to restructure Townview and cut five…
Speaking of the arts (and, in the comments, affordable tickets) …The Dallas Symphony Orchestra sends word this morning that the DSO’s heading to Carnegie Hall on May 11, where, as part of the first-ever Spring for Music fest, the orchestra will perform for the 11th time — its first with…
On Tuesday, the Dallas Independent School District announced it’s splitting Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center into two schools, divvying up the six magnets housed within and reducing the number of principals from seven to two in an effort to save money — and teachers. Shortly after the release went out,…
Later this morning in a New York courtroom, Dish Network will turn in its final final list of Blockbuster leases it wants to keep — some 600 total out of close to 1,600 remaining. For now, of course, Dish has said that when it takes control of for-now-downtown-based Blockbuster it…
My copy of William H. Whyte’s 1988 book City: Rediscovering the Center arrived today, and right there, on Page 123, The Organization Man writes of his attempt to redesign Dallas City Hall Plaza by sinking chairs in the sea of concrete:The building was striking, but the plaza was near empty…
KERA’s teevee side sends word: In order to “remain fiscally responsible and to move the organization forward in an ever-changing media landscape,” the public broadcaster has canceled the Friday-night version of Krys Boyd’s chat show Think, which also features the great Jerome Weeks. It is also laying off six employees,…
Speaking of Dallas mayors-turned-U.S. Senate candidates …Tom Leppert just sent word that a new website launched today: Pastors for Leppert, which includes not only endorsements from religious leaders but also “Tom’s Statement of Faith.” Writes Not Mayor Tom on his Facebook page:I am truly humbled by the support I’ve received…
USA Today’s Richard Wolf attended this morning’s Third Way breakfast, where former Dallas Mayor-turned-U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk insisted the demographic shift in Texas over the last decade — where 38 percent of the population is now Hispanic, 12 percent African-American — has paved the way for a Democratic victory…
While writing all those items about the old Dallas High School (or Crozier Tech) at the beginning of 2010, and long after, I heard, time and again, the same thing: The owner will never, ever sell. Those with whom I spoke — city officials, preservationists, even those who worked for…
At the end of February, city and council officials explained Dallas’s meager 0.8 percent population growth over the last decade thusly: “The third-largest city in Texas is simply built out.” Which lead police chief-turned-mayoral candidate David Kunkle to wonder whether it wasn’t time to re-brand Big D as the “‘donut…
Over here you’ll find the highlights from last night’s mayoral debate held in front of dozens on the SMU campus; KTVT-Channel 11 was kind enough to cut it up into little pieces, lest we choke on the whole thing. But let’s begin the morning at the end of affair –…
The Dallas Independent School District sent word earlier this afternoon: It is splitting the mammoth Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center on E. Eighth Street into two schools — one devoted to humanities; the other, arts and science. The six magnets housed within Townview, among them the TAG Magnet, the School…
Below, unhappy Friend of Unfair Park Ben notes in the comments that the Dallas Wave (formerly known as the Standing Wave) is off-limits — meaning, you can wave adios to that May 7 dedication ceremony that’s been on the books since last fall. Willis Winters, second-in-command at Park and Rec,…
As Patrick mentioned yesterday, the city council will at long last debate that gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt pitched only after Dave Neumann promised but failed to deliver his own proposal. In advance of The Big Day, several groups — Downwinders at Risk, Dallas Area Residents for Responsible Drilling, You…
What you see above is a 47-second sneak peek at a sneak peek of a film Wired.com shot at the Hilton Anatole during the installation of Reuben Margolin’s “kinetic sculpture” Nebula, which was hung at Harlan Crow’s hotel back in October. Reason I mention it: Wired shot about 100 hours’…
On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park, which opened on June 6, 1936, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK espied this one-of-a-kind keepsake up for grabs on eBay courtesy Minneapolis-based seller “celluloid”: a bronze coin commemorating the 1894 Texas State Fair. That was…
Yesterday on the City Hall Blog, Rudy Bush noted that Love Field concessionaire Gilbert Aranza has sued the city in an effort to halt its efforts to find new food-and-beverage and retail concessionaires. As we noted last month, the city recently opened up the bidding process, and Aranza, who’d wanted…
Yesterday President Obama gave four brief interviews to local television stations, among them WFAA-Channel 8, which sent Brad Watson to Washington. Their chat has become something of a national news item — not because of what was said during the interview, during which Obama scolded Gov. Rick Perry for being…
Perhaps you’ve forgotten: On May 1 council member Delia Jasso will officially proclaim it Terry Southern Day to coincide with a screening of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb at the Texas Theatre, after which Terry’s boy Nile and I will talk about…
Mayoral Mike Rawlings just posted to his campaign website his Southern Sector Development Plan, which kicks off by ID’ing what the former Pizza Hut CEO and Park Board president refers to as “key beachheads”: Bishop Arts & Jefferson Avenue, Pinnacle Park/Mountain Creek, Lancaster Kiest Transportation Corridor, Paul Quinn/UNT Dallas Education…
In the wake of news that Dish Network’s looking to keep only a few hundred of Blockbuster’s brick-and-mortar locations once the deal’s sealed Thursday, several Friends of Unfair Park living in North Dallas have asked: What will become of the Preston Royal location? It’s a good question — not only…
Bravo was first out of the box with its introduction of Most Eligible: Dallas, a reality series about the dating lives of Dallas’s rich-n-pretty. Then came the Style Network, which last week introduced Big Rich Texas, a reality series from the same people responsible for Dallas Divas & Daughters. And…
