Peace Out: Dallas ISD Kiddos Decorate NorthPark Barney’s For Christmas

Earlier today our downstairs neighbors at Big Thought sent the image above, which you’ve no doubt seen if you’ve window-shopped at NorthPark Center during this most wonderful (enh) time of the year. It’s the storefront at Barney’s New York, where the theme’s “Have a Hippie Holiday,” which, I’ll assume, involves…

Charlie Brown Is a Blockhead, But he Did Get a Nice Tree

Seems appropriate that on this freezing-foggy night at 7, WFAA-Channel 8 will air A Charlie Brown Christmas, augmented with 30 minutes’ worth of needless extras: “a series of Christmas-themed animated stories entitled Charlie Brown Christmas Tales, based on Schulz’s work, in which each of the beloved PEANUTS characters — Charlie…

Cowboys Have 5 Pro Bowlers Not Named Tony Romo

The Dallas Cowboys’ Pro Bowl representation dwindled from 11 players last year to 5 this afternoon. Will their win total similarly decline from 13 to 11? … 10? … 9?   Tight end Jason Witten, center Andre Gurode, nose tackle Jay Ratliff, linebacker DeMarcus Ware and right guard Leonard Davis were…

Dallas ISD Trustee Ellis Defends Superintendent Hinojosa. Kinda.

Last month, while reporting last week’s cover story on Dallas Independent Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, I had two long interviews with school board trustee Leigh Ann Ellis, pictured at right. Most people consider the soft-spoken Ellis one of Hinojosa’s most reliable supporters on the board, but I found her more ambivalent…

Those TxDOT Cams Need Deicing

A Friend of Unfair Park who travels up and down Central Expressway all day long and uses the Texas Department of Transportation cams before heading out sends word: Many of them are completely useless today, courtesy the ice that has glazed over a few of the lenses. But, on the…

Tomorrow Morning, a Fired DPD Officer Will Fight to Get His Job Back

In March, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle fired Senior Cpl. Jeffrey “Jack” Nelson, one of the three officers involved in the now-infamous phony ticket scandal that also resulted in the officers filing a lawsuit against D magazine last July. As The News recounted upon Nelson’s firing in the spring:Senior Cpl…

NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 16

Tony Romo, all is forgiven. At least for a week. After one of the most Gawd-awful performances of his career – or, let’s face it, any career – in Pittsburgh, the Cowboys’ quarterback went out Sunday night and padded his legacy with a game straight from Hollywood. Aching back and nagging…

Highland Park Developer Who Likes to Sue Is Royally Pissed Over Book

Can’t say I’d ever heard of Highland Park’s Hiram Walker Royall till last night, when I stumbled across this piece from the First Amendment Center concerning the developer’s October ’08 libel lawsuit, brought about because Royall’s furious over the contents of the well-reviewed 2007 book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and…

Scenes from the White Rock Marathon

Dylan Hollingsworth was out at the Dallas White Rock Marathon yesterday, gathering photos for our slide show. The event, though, was been overshadowed by the death of Erin Lahr, a 29-year-old newlywed from Austin whose mother tells the Austin American-Statesman today that she was “really positive and always smiling and…