Dallas Independent School District trustees once more spent most of Friday afternoon and evening rating and debating the five interim superintendent candidates. But, once more, they retreated to exec session and opted to run out the clock till Michael Hinojosa was officially offered the top job in Cobb County, Georgia…
10. I absolutely love ABC’s The Finals open with snippets of great plays and legendary players from the past. How surreal would it be to a year from now see Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd in that production? 9. Down 45-31, Dallas came roaring back again and almost pulled off…
That’s a mighty nice piece about The Kessler in The New York Times this morning; nice illustration too, courtesy the great Paul Rogers. The story’s by local boy Ben Fountain, the att’y-turned-author who wraps up his semi-regular from-the-mean-streets-of dispatches with a trip to the Oak Cliff venue — the polar…
First off, as promised yesterday, here’s that Statler Hilton update, which was posted last night to the city’s website as the cumbersomely titled Filling in the Missing Pieces Downtown Upcoming Redevelopment Projects Former Statler Hilton Building / Former Dallas Public Library Building (Downtown Connection TIF District), which is also the…
Hard to believe it took this long to get to Van Halen, everyone’s favorite metal band back then, especially if you didn’t like metal, mostly because it was just catchy pop anyway. Thought this would be a good one to dust off for tomorrow’s Lone Star Beer-sponsored Forest festivities; can’t…
It’d be mighty hard to stay away from Mark Roberts’s Forest Lane Reunion scheduled to begin rolling down the road ’round 7 p.m. tomorrow. First, it’s about two miles from the house. And, I’m nothing if not a sucker for reliving the past. If only Lt. Col. Mike could make…
ight now, DISD trustees are meeting once again in closed session (Leslie drew the short straw on this one) to discuss their pick for an interim superintendent once Michael Hinojosa exhales his first fresh breaths in Cobb County.All the discussions of particular candidates have taken place behind closed doors — giving…
Karl Zavitkovsky, director of the Office of Economic Development, has a long Monday morning ahead of him: He’s scheduled to deliver three presentations to the council’s Economic Development Committee, one of which has to do with two of our favorite topics: the Statler Hilton and the George Dahl-designed library that…
Our first real introduction to First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress was in the fall of 2008, when the downtown pastor came under fire for referring to Mormon Mitt Romney a member of a “cult.” That came up today on FOX News, where Jeffress is a frequent guest and where he…
Turns out, the Dallas Independent School District’s decision to take away teachers’ collaborative planning time — a very reluctant budget cut — has necessitated a change to schools’ start times next year, which begins August 22. So here’s the deal: School’s starting just a little bit later next year, which…
Well, that was certainly…unexpected. Last night I went to the SMU-hosted Global Summit on Ending Corporal Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline and wound up being treated to a presentation by none other than kiddie performer Raffi, who, as it turns out, is a children’s-rights advocate when he’s not entertaining the…
There was a long stretch during the early ’90s when I wrote what felt like piece after piece after piece about Dallas’s estimable, almost entirely forgotten but ultimately influential garage-rock scene of the 1960s. I was obsessed with the likes of The Chessmen (featuring a young Jimmie Vaughan and Doyle…
As noted yesterday, the Living Plaza makes its return to the front of Dallas City Hall on Wednesday — this one a collaborative effort amongst city workers eager to keep alive William H. Whyte’s vision of a vibrant space replacing the moribund one that exists now. So, then, perfect timing:…
There was a time, in 2007 and ’08, when you couldn’t escape the name Sam Zell, the billionaire who, in December 2007, bought media giant Tribune Company … and then swiftly brought it to its knees by taking it into Chapter 11. The reason for the bankruptcy: The parent company…
10. Was worried when Dirk Nowitzki left the court during an early timeout. But I think it was more potty break than finger finagling. He dribbled left. He made a hustling save with a lefty tap. A Fraulein finger is zero excuse. 9. And that’s precisely why I hate Dwyane…
A Friend of Unfair Park asked the other day if I was “lining up some 70s aerosmith/journey/boston type cruzin music for the Forest Lane Reunion next week.” Well, as a matter of fact…I do have something lined up for tomorrow’s weekend-listening adios. But this one can’t wait, because you never…
I mentioned this in passing on Tuesday, but just got the Official Release, so here’s the reminder: You can now redraw the city’s council districts, and, hey, who knows — yours might be just the puzzle the city winds up going with. The redistricting website has all the info you…
Last Friday, Robert offered a first look at some of the big names that had applied to sit on the city’s gas drilling task force: Margaret Keliher, Royce West II, Betty Culbreath, the train-bedeviled Chico Grimes and more. This morning, Linda Koop and the handful of other members on the…
Moments after I posted that piece on the Living Plaza in front of Dallas City Hall a few weeks ago, one Friend of Unfair Park took a look at the commissary and crowd and proclaimed it little more than “a bit” — a one-time-only event after which “the plaza will…
At this very moment, Nolan Estes is at his home in Austin filling out a questionnaire sent to the handful of finalists for the position of interim Dallas Independent School District superintendent. It was dispatched to him by DISD board president Lew Blackburn, who, Estes says, called him yesterday and…
When the NBA All-Star Game came to Dallas in February 2010 I got to hop in a Hummer limo. Driven by a big guy. Who had no use for road rules, or police barriers. As he ran over a bunch of traffic cones and headed toward a security barricade in front…
A fellow Dallas Independent School District parent, who recalls Tuesday’s sparring match between Carla Ranger and newly installed board president Lew Blackburn, suggests I take another look at the prolific Ranger’s blog. That’s because, moments ago, she posted yet another item about the interim superintendent debate — this one suggesting…
