Fingers crossed, we’ll get to this asked-and-answered more than once a month. But not a week goes by that four, five e-mails don’t pop up in the in-box wondering what in the wide, wide world of sports became of City Manager Mary Suhm’s plan to take the downtown Dallas Farmers…
I had a few minutes of down time this afternoon, so I hopped over to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image to see if any Dallas films of note had been added to the collection since last I looked in December. Which is when I came across the film…
It would appear The Hot Topic today is about how hard one can get their drink on at the St. Patrick’s Day Party and Parade along Greenville Avenue Saturday. The Dallas Police Department sends word that one need look no further than the Central Patrol Division’s website, which has the…
For the moment, at least, it isn’t easy to access The Former Trinity Standing Wave, known, for now, as The Dallas Wave — though that’s but an unofficial working title being floated out there (see what I did?). Willis Winters, assistant director of Parks and Rec, offered to show it…
As mentioned below, Gov. Rick Perry was in town yesterday — at Manda Machine Company, on Myrtle Springs Road near Harry Hines — insisting, yet again, that Texas need not tap the Rainy Day Fund to deal with the state’s $27-billion-ish shortfall. You can watch the entirety of his speech…
Bloomberg News says this morning that higher oil prices may be bad for Texans, but are good for Texas — especially the so-called Rainy Day Fund Gov. Rick Perry doesn’t want to touch to offset the state’s $27-billion shortfall. (In a speech in Dallas only yesterday, the gov said the…
Twice in recent weeks I’ve heard Dallas ISD trustee Edwin Flores discuss his proposal to rework how the district determines who its “best teachers” are — the first time, when we spoke two weeks ago about the district’s offer to buy out full-timers, then again at his budget town hall…
Gosh, it’s been … what … four whole days since the last mention of The Zoo? But I can’t help myself: While scouting the YouTube for something wildly unrelated, I came across this just-posted flashback courtesy one “Walter from Waco” (oh, the memories): an old KZEW-FM TV ad starring Johns…
So says this just-posted AP piece, which notes that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has decided to allow charter flights to Cuba from eight new airports — among them Baltimore, New Orleans, Atlanta, San Juan … and Dallas-Fort Worth International! Till now, you could only fly out of New York,…
Friday morning, a Friend of Unfair Park sent a note with the header: “The Former Grand 24 Theater.” In it, he asked: “Have you checked out the new refurbishing there? It’s worth taking a camera along.” So on the way in, I swung by — because, clearly, I’m on the…
Jim’s on his way back from that court hearing involving Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s request for a temporary restraining order that would, at least temporarily, block the release of police records documenting Dallas PD officers’ visit to the home of Caraway and his wife, state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, on January…
We noted just last week that ABC has already changed the title of Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches, about a divorced mother of two moving back to the Park Cities. Right now, the working title is GCB — and that’s…
At this very moment, the state Senate Committee on Education — which includes chair Florence Shapiro, John Carona and Royce West — is hearing testimony related to these seven Senate bills, most of which would let school districts increase class size and give teachers furlough days and further flexibility in…
Never mind what I wrote yesterday. Because yesterday, when I checked the Dallas County District Clerk’s computers, there was no record of it. But early this morning I took another look, and sure enough, there it was — a suit filed yesterday afternoon in the 68th District Court, Judge Martin…
There’s an intriguing item on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board agenda this morning: “DART Board of Directors’ Streetcar Tour.” Which is exactly what it sounds like: At 11:30 this morning, the DART board — and some city of Dallas officials, says DART director of media relations Morgan Lyons –…
Earlier this afternoon, I noticed that the City of Dallas Store’s selling a Stoelting Model #22608 lie detector, which was the go-to “Emotional Stress Monitor” for the U.S. Armed Forces upon its release in the mid-1960s. I also noticed that 14 people have thus far bid on the item, which…
Seems like only 10 months or so The Hottest Topic in Town was who’d get a crack at those Love Field concessions. And, sure, it seems so 2010, but only for those not paying attention. Because just a few days ago the city put out the request for proposals –…
On Friday, the Texas Attorney General’s Office told the city of Dallas to give up those police records pertaining to Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s pals Arthur and Archie. At which point Caraway’s attorney — Michael Payma of Payma, Kuhnel, & Smith — turned around and sued Greg Abbott, claiming the AG…
Via the Facebook, the city of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management directs our attention to this just-posted crime-prevention PSA made by Dallas Area Rapid Transit titled Always Be Alert, the hilarious prequel to the better-known Always Be Closing…
When Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa initially told the school board last month about the coming budget cuts that could result in the district laying off 3,100 on-campus full-timers and some 600 at 3700 Ross, he warned that under the so-called “worst-case scenario,” the losses could add up to…
By now you’re no doubt aware that the old Municipal Building downtown, otherwise known as the ca.-1914 City Hall, is where the University of North Texas hopes to put the UNT Dallas College of Law, which still needs to be funded by the state Legislature in the current session. Right…
In years past, the AFI Dallas International Film Festival — which last year made its bow as the rebranded Dallas International Film Festival — has doled out its Dallas Star Award to the likes of Lauren Bacall, Frank Darabont, Adrien Brody, Kathryn Bigelow and Peter Bogdanovich, amongst other bold-faced names…
