See our slideshow for more photos from Woodrow’s 80th.Out in front of Woodrow Wilson High School Saturday morning, Tom Hopkins sat on the back of his ’57 Corvette, watching the parade roll in. The 1968 graduate had the look of someone well trained in the art of leaning on his…
If you’re meeting up with friends later today, Jarrod Atkinson has a joke for you to try. He told his rendition through a megaphone Saturday afternoon, before a crowd outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and it went a little like this:”Knock knock.”Who’s there?”Inflation.”(Confused pause from the audience)”That’s right,…
Last night, at 7:48 to be precise, a certain Eleventy Billionth Blog’er sent me a note in which she posed the question: “Is it just me, or is this weird?” The this, in this particular case, was a link to the Vote No Dallas, where, Bethany noted, Angela Hunt’s mug…
George Gimarc called yesterday — and, look, if you would have told me when I was 13 that one day I’d grow up and be friends with the voice behind The Rock and Roll Alternative … well, anyway. He told me about something he’s been planning for months now: a…
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s debut Half Nelson was one of the highlights of 2006, a nuanced look at a young teacher in an inner-city school who dismantled the inspirational teacher-movie cliches with just a toke of his crack pipe.The writer-director team’s next film, Sugar, gives the same hard-nosed, heartfelt…
While serving a third tour in Iraq last fall, Ty Reed, a soldier with the First Brigade, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, discovered something she couldn’t ignore. The 32-year-old Fort Worth native was working on rebuilding projects in South Baghdad when a woman named Fatima approached. Not yet…
This week, the first major pieces Barnett Shale legislation passed the Texas Senate, allowing gas companies to place pipelines on state highways and highway rights-of-way. FWCanDo, the group of Fort Worth residents that’s been protesting gas pipelines in their neighborhoods, hopes this will mean fewer pipelines in residential areas and…
The Vote No’ers yesterday began airing their second TV ad, which features Mayor Tom Leppert and Dallas citizens Joanne and Bob Goodfellow, whose hot sports opinions regarding the convention center hotel are lacking to say the least — as in, they’re mute throughout the entire 30-second spot. So we gave…
In May of last year, CNN went looking for Wiley Fountain who, in 2003, received a full pardon from Gov. Rick Perry after DNA evidence revealed Fountain did not commit the aggravated sexual assault of which he’d been convicted in 1986. But the network’s Ed Lavandera couldn’t find the 52-year-old,…
AT&T shareholders headed to their annual meeting at the Dallas Arboretum this morning enjoyed a cosmopolitan welcoming committee: about 200 red-shirted company employees lining Garland Road, chanting and waving signs.”Our world NOT delivered,” “Retirees are people too” and “Will work for health care” were just a few of the slogans…
Simple: Whoever wins Game 4 of Spurs-Mavs Saturday afternoon at American Airlines Center wins the series. Right? With a win, the Mavs go up 3-1 and would have three shots – including a Game 6 at AAC – to seal the deal. With a win, the Spurs would suddenly grab back home-court…
The home page for Diandra Leslie-Pelecky’s research group in the Department of Physics at The University of Texas at Dallas isn’t altogether exciting — though, late some nights, I will feel absolutely qualified to discuss the studying of nanostructured magnetic materials to understand their fundamental properties, as well as potential…
If nothing else, the paper version of Unfair Park has a most devoted reader in one George Rodrigue, the Dallas Morning News managing editor who, yet again, tears himself from the ads in the back of the Dallas Observer just long enough to read Schutze. As Jim’s out of the…
Silly me, somehow thinking that the sports content of a sports talk radio station mattered. In the midst of America’s most recognizable sports brand taking its product to a new radio station, a lot of Sportatorium readers clamored merely for monthly ratings. I aim to please. Did it for January and…
Those Friends of Unfair Park wondering who those folks are picketing the Dallas Arboretum and snarling traffic this morning, wonder no more: They’re reps from the Communication Workers of America, who yesterday vowed to bring “hundreds of CWA members from all over District 6, and some from even further away,”…
So, odd coincidence. Was reading this morning about the governor making it a bit easier for out-of-state filmmakers to shoot in Texas when it occurred to me that Big D — the Warner Bros. Television-produced would-be sitcom for CBS that’s set in Dallas — might ougtha be shooting its pilot…
More than a few Woodrow Wilson High School Wildcats have sent reminders in recent days that Saturday marks the landmark’s 80th birthday: The day starts with a 10 a.m. parade from the Lakewood Shopping Plaza to the city-designated landmark and ends with a battle-of-the-bands shindig at Eddie Dean’s. And somewhere…
At yesterday’s farmers market set-up in Mockingbird Station, turnout was relatively small but nonetheless familiar. Brandon Pollard, a favorite at the downtown Dallas Farmers Market, wore his trademark honeybee costume, complete with wings and antennae. (See for yourself in our brief slideshow.) His wife Susan wore earrings shaped like bees…
What you see above is the North Central Texas Council of Governments’ map charting the number of new residents added to the area’s 16 counties’ “Top Ten Cities” over the past decade. This year alone, Fort Worth topped Dallas by adding 17,400 new residents, as opposed to the 6,000 newcomers…
Richie’s just returned from Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome out in some place called “Arlington,” and he brings news: Your Dallas Cowboys have a new radio home. (Which, sure, is very old news to anyone who reads Sportatorium, as Richie will remind you.) He’s got all the details, but this note seemed…
If this comes as a surprise (I first hinted at this way back in October) you haven’t been paying attention, but today – officially – the new radio home of the Dallas Cowboys is 105.3 The Fan. Funny, seems like just yesterday we were dissecting how The Ticket would treat America’s…
The duo behind the bestselling weight-loss how-to Skinny Bitch are back with a follow-up: Skinny Bastard, due to hit stores Monday. And it features among its famous faces several vegan athletes, including them a certain hobbled Dallas Maverick who’s been sidelined during the playoffs. Alas, The New York Times has…
