Eliot Elisofon Paul Baker, standing in front of the then-new Kalita Humphreys Theater in 1960 This will be but one of two Friday flashback items featuring old photos of a disappearing Dallas; later today, treats from a Friend of Unfair Park’s grandfather’s treasure chest. But this morning, Friend of Unfair…
Ah, the good ol’ days. When Dallas actually lifted sports trophies. Can’t say that I have a vivid memory of it, but apparently I was trying to trick Fort Worth Star-Telegram readers into thinking I knew a little something about indoor soccer and the defending MISL champion Dallas Sidekicks. Back…
Jack Lowe, DISD school board president Blacks were hissing rudely at Hispanics. Hispanics were yelling at other Hispanics. And just about everyone was taunting distraught school board trustees, themselves appearing to teeter on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Ladies and gentleman, this is your Dallas Independent School District. Last…
Associated Press Children were bused to the San Angelo Coliseum with their mothers after the April 3 raid. This morning’s Deseret News has added up the numbers and come up with the figure: $12.4 million. That’s what the April raid on the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado’s going to wind up…
This just in from the so-called Lifestyle Fashion Terminal down in Victory Park concerning its immediate demise, courtesy something formerly called “the economy”: As of Friday, November 21, LFT will begin the liquidation process of the store in Victory Park. “Due primarily to the current state of the economy and…
Patrick Michels Mayor Tom Leppert and City Council Member Sheffie Kadane tenderly declare Union Station open for business. After a $23-million renovation, Union Station is back in business downtown, this time as a Wolfgang Puck-catered feed lot for hungry Hyatt guests. The 93-year-old building has been stripped down to its…
Edwin Flores Northwest Dallas residents with kids in the Dallas Independent School District and some spare time Saturday might want to duck into Thomas C. Marsh Middle School, where, as you will see, board trustee Edwin Flores will be hosting a District 1 Summit. The full flier that came home…
Brett Shipp In October 2006, Benny and Martha Cryer of Wylie were killed when natural gas, leaking beneath their home, ignited and exploded, trapping them beneath fiery debris. One year later, WFAA-Channel 8’s Brett Shipp revisited the story to find out why no one had been held responsible for the…
The Texas State Board of Education’s meeting in Austin about, among other things, whether the board ought to revise the state’s science curriculum to allow for, ya know, the teaching of creationism alongside evolution. Which is why three rabbis, two from ’round these parts and one of whom hails from…
It was the worst of times. It was the best of times. In that order. There is a God. One who, of course, loves sports. And one who, when peering through the hole in the roof, hates what the Dallas Cowboys’ ridiculous mascot does to his favorite team. In other…
Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas Ah, bless you, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Because till GLAAD posted this video on its YouTube channel today, we had no idea that First Baptist Church of Dallas’s Robert Jeffress was among temp host Jane Velez-Mitchell’s guests on…
(Fake Name Alert!) Curt Mega For once the squeals they’re hearing over at Theatre Three aren’t coming from the elderly patrons’ hearing aids. It’s the reaction of a new audience of teenage girls who’ve discovered Curt Mega, the 20-year-old TCU student playing the romantic lead, Fabrizio Nacarelli, in the musical…
It was international news when Sebastiano Ricci’s 1705 painting The Vision of St. Bruno, pictured above, was discovered in Dallas and put on the auction block earlier this month. After all, said Heritage Auction Galleries’ Ted Pillsbury, formerly head honcho at the Kimbell Art Museum, “His paintings are in all…
Back in August, Grapevine-based GameStop posted big second-quarter gains, but the stock price dropped nonetheless, because, as The Wall Street Journal pointed out at the time, there were “sign the results and outlook may not be good enough for investors.” Also, even in August folks were scared the oncoming recession…
Patrick Michels Tammy Blackmon in front of her new home. Earlier this week, we told you about Habitat for Humanity’s latest build project in West Dallas off Westmoreland Road. And, already, nine new homes are a couple days away from being ready for move-in. Unfair Park stopped by yesterday and…
5-7 is looking pretty good right about now, huh? When you get a break from resurrecting the Cowboys, take a minute to not bury the Mavericks either. On the brink of a 2-8 start Monday night, the Mavericks last night beat the Rockets in Houston for their third consecutive victory…
For the second time in three months, the Brinker International Forum has had to swap out celebrity guests — once again because of a “scheduling conflict.” (Do these people not have calendars? Or assistants with calendars?) After already getting a two-for-one deal in September, when Carl Reiner and Martin Short…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Jack Lowe and several of the Dallas Independent School District trustees keep insisting their push to extend term limits, from three to four years, is plenty legal. Which is why, at 5:30 p.m. today, the board will indeed vote on a resolution that does…
City leaders pushing Dallas to build a convention center hotel have been adamant: Money for the controversial $555 million project will not come from your property taxes. Loans to finance building the city-owned hotel will be paid back from money the hotel collects from visitors who stay there. Ah ha!…
One foot was in the grave. “Or bust” was engulfing “Super Bowl.” The Dallas Cowboys, fame and fortune and forecasts be damned, were careening toward the most disappointing, disastrous season in franchise history. They still might end up there, just not this week. Trailing the Washington Redskins 7-0 late in…
“The Big Stall” by Jim Schutze, November 13 Inland Port Foolishness The only thing worse than a carpetbagger is a convening or collaboration of the same. Apparently, Jim Schutze has resorted to the pandering and positioning ways of his past. To make matters worse, his alliance with the Allen Group…
This wasn’t supposed to be a story about a catastrophe. This wasn’t supposed to be about a gunfight at Southfork Ranch that ends with some poor schmuck on the run from media hordes and hundreds of ticket-holders demanding a refund or else. Didn’t even see it coming. When we headed…
