There’s a reason why I went to see Houston Mayor Bill White during his stop in Plano last month. It wasn’t because he was one of many folks vying for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s job in the Senate, although I suppose that would have warranted the trip. Nope. I’ve long viewed…
New statistics collected by the FBI show fewer hate crimes being committed in Dallas in 2008 compared with 2007. According to 2008 Hate Crime Statistics, which was released today, Dallas reported 17 hate crimes, which include crimes motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability. (As you may recall,…
It has been seven months since Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty announced the lineup for DTC’s inaugural season in the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, during which time the venue’s been finished and feted and Moriarty wove a month-long Midsummer Night’s Dream that ended its run yesterday. It…
Out at Dealey Plaza Sunday afternoon, there was something for everyone: fashion, literature, song and, finally, a moment of silence at 12:30 p.m., to mark the 46th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Hundreds of people milled around, some picking up pamphlets or snapping photos next to the helpful “Grassy Knoll”…
Kay Bailey Hutchison’s appearance Sunday on Meet the Press could have been an opportunity to show potential voters why she kept her gig in Washington instead of resigning to focus on winning the GOP gubernatorial primary in March. It certainly should have been. Yet, on the heels of her questionable…
In January we told you about improv comedian Mark Orvik’s protracted battle with a bizarre illness.The Section 8 Comedy Troupe co-founder finally got a clean bill of health this month after two years of pain and multiple surgeries. But the day doctors declared Orvik healthy, another member of the troupe…
There’s no place like home for the holidays — right, Perry Como? The Dallas Police Department couldn’t agree more: At this most wonderful time of the year, DPD once again launches its Home for the Holidays DWI initiative — since, after all, “December, historically, is the highest month of the…
Forthcoming shortly, Patrick’s account of his day spent amongst the John F. Kennedy in-crowd on the 46th anniversary of the president’s fateful trip to Dallas. Till then, though, this preview: Patrick happened upon Joey Granati performing his epic rendition of “The Torch is Passed” shortly before the 12:30 p.m. moment…
Five years ago, Brad Blauser of Grapevine landed in Iraq as a civilian contractor. Though his family remains here, Blauser has stayed in Baghdad. But he quit his job in 2005 in order to focus full time, and without pay, on securing wheelchairs for disabled Iraqi children, to whom he…
The Washington Redskins suck. Furthermore, they were playing without running back Clinton Portis, tight end Chris Cooley, two starting offensive linemen and stud defensive playmaker Albert Haynesworth. That’s what makes yesterday’s 7-6 escape by the Dallas Cowboys so damn fugly. A couple missed field goals by Shaun Suisham. A vintageTony Romo escape-n-create…
John Greenan has made it official: He and Brent Brown are going forward with Forwarding Dallas to fill that parking lot behind Dallas City Hall with a self-sustaining building. Says Greenan of his decision to go with the Portuguese architects behind the downtown hillside, “Dallas would be a richer city…
According to the University of Texas at Dallas’s own press release, more than 80 percent of students surveyed want the school to sell beer and wine at The PUB in the student union — which seems shockingly low, you ask me. Nonetheless, that’s why the school has asked Chartwells, which…
10. Fine, I’ll say it: Offensive coordinator Jason Garrett is too quick to abandon the pass. I’ll say it, of course, with tongue firmly planted in cheek. After only 11 handoffs to running backs in Green Bay, Dallas was committed to the running game today. The good: 33 rushes for 153…
Mayor Tom Leppert and council member Ron Natinsky are wrapping up their trade mission to China today; alas, no flaming statues for the mayor, only the hope that a Shanghai company will bring one of its LED manufacturing facilities to Dallas. Leppert and Mayor Ji Jianye of Nanjing also signed…
The missus, the wee one and I are presently sucking in the ’70s downtown, where Effects, a riff-rockin’ import from Nashville, is warming up the chilly throng-lite for Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights with decent Plant and Page and Joe Walsh offerings original and otherwise. The Dallas Chop House, due to…
Let’s end the week with a little journalistic quiz for all your Friends of Unfair Park out there. First, a little background.In October, D magazine published a lengthy feature headlined “The Woman-hating Culture Inside the Dallas Fire Department,” by Gretel C. Kovach. The story included copious details about how hard…
The Dallas Police Department media relations office announced moments ago that yet another DPD officer has been terminated by Chief David Kunkle. Here’s the missive that just dropped in our in-box:Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle terminated Police Officer Robert G. Ramsey, #8803, today during a disciplinary hearing. On March 6,…
No Roky Erickson freak-outs this Friday; no KNUS odds, sods or seeds and stems for you, dear Friends. Instead, George Gimarc offers something even more lost from the Dallas radio lost-and-found. As in? Well, let’s let the rock and roll alternative explain:Once upon a time there was a program called…
Earlier this week, state Sen. Royce West sent to Dallas County Democratic Party precinct chairs a missive beneath the subject heading “From One Democrat to Another.” It has become, during the last 48 hours, a subject of much conversation among those who received it. (Well, that’s not entirely true. Some…
In case you missed it, Michael Lindenberger reported in Saturday’s Dallas Morning News that the Texas Department of Transportation finally submitted its proposals to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers aimed at solving the soil issues currently stalling construction of the approaches to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. And if…
KXAS-Channel 5 was supposed to go off the air at 11 this morning — there’s still much repair work to be done after last night’s electrical fire that knocked the 10 p.m. newscast off the air. But staffers are still awaiting the outage, which is forthcoming … any … second…
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is fond of saying – when asked about his team’s 13-year playoff-less drought – um, “did you like those three Super Bowls?!” Our answer, of course, is yes. But, according to Jones during his weekly visit on 105.3 The Fan with myself and Newy Scruggs this morning,…
