Someday soon his money and moxie may make an annual trek to our Cotton Bowl. Texas-OU has temporarily left the building. But – surprise! – another big-time college football game may be permanently on its way to the reupholstered Cotton Bowl. A month after Texas Tech chancellor Kent Hance visited…
Illustration by Brian Stauffer The Dallas Independent School District has plenty of other things to worry about, especially today, as the district begins laying off 450 teachers to make up for its $84 million budget shortfall this school year. (And for those who may have missed it, DISD Superintendent Michael…
Guess Pacman wasn’t Jesus after all. Hmm, imagine that. You may never forgive Pacman Jones. But, listening to the tone of the Cowboys yesterday, he may be easy to forget. Said head coach Wade Phillips, “He’s gone.” While Pacman considers checking into an alcohol treatment facility in town – conjuring…
Defamer’s already had some separated-at-birth giggles with the latest Entertainment Weekly cover, a Star Trek movie preview featuring J.J. Abrams’ 2.0 versions of Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Mr. Spock (Zachary Quinto). But, really, Katie Holmes? Seriously, we think we can do better. And you probably know where…
Frankly, the “today’s member” part of the sign had us laughing for, like, two minutes. A Friend of Unfair Park sends this from the Costco in Lewisville, where gas is well below the local average, which is $2.93 for a gallon of plain ol’ regular, says AAA. But the most…
To offset any potential sticker shock at shelling out another $4.6 million for the convention center hotel, the city unveiled development renderings, cloth samples and even a model of the proposed project at this morning’s Economic Development Committee meeting. This prompted committee chair Ron Natinsky to take a quick poll…
One-hit wonder? Or another lethal weapon in the Stars’ arsenal? Stay tuned. While America’s “hockey moms” were likely learning about Joe the Plumber last night, Dallas’ hockey fans were introduced to Fabian Brunnstrom. How’s this for a lid-lifter? In his first NHL game, the Swedish winger scored three goals in…
Patrick Michels From DISD trustee Carla Ranger this morning, in a note to teachers: “May your lives be blessed in spite of the unjust price you now pay for the mistakes of others.” Briefly this morning, a dispatch from the front lines of the DISD teacher layoffs coming down today…
Turns out those Meridian Room obits last month were a tad premature. Unfair Park spoke with Mike Smith last night, and the former Meridian Room owner confirms that the Expo Park eatery-drinkery will indeed reopen at the beginning of November — under new management. Indeed, the paperwork’s being completed this…
Patrick Michels Dick the Editor makes way for Joe the Plumber. Plenty of debate watch parties sprung up around Dallas last night, but one of the most intriguing was the one at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — the museum built around on the spot where Oswald took…
Oh, so that’s why he’s stopped turning his frown upside down. Makes total sense. The good news: I think I got it figured out. The bad news: Tony Romo ain’t real happy. Been sniffing around some Cowboys’ sources this week to find out just why Romo’s demeanor has taken such…
As the mayor and city council keep marching forward with the convention center hotel project despite an upcoming vote in May — and it’s safe to assume the anti-hotel folks wouldn’t have turned in the petitions so early if they weren’t 100 percent sure that at least 20,000 would be…
No doubt, by now you’ve heard all about the poor folks who spent all Saturday night at Lone Star Auto Service trying to retrieve their cars, which had been towed from lots near Fair Park. Everybody’s looking into how that happened: the towing company, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and,…
How’s this for a scary thought? Pacman Jones isn’t the Dallas Cowboys’ biggest problem. But, hey, you gotta start somewhere. Though owner Jerry Jones dismissed any disciplinary action in downplaying Pacman’s latest transgression, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday suspended the nefarious cornerback at least four games. It’s a start…
For as long as most people can remember, the news out of the Texas borderlands has been anything but quaint—reporters and cops gunned down by cartel hit men, warring rivals beheaded, migrants dying in the desert and political fights over how to stop them from crossing. Public discussion about the…
Sentimental journey: So it’s damn the petitions, full speed ahead with City Hall’s plan to spend a half-billion dollars to build a convention center hotel. Nearly 60,000 people signed petitions calling for a public vote, but the city intends to sell bonds for the project in January, though the earliest…
“Blackboard Jungle,” by Jim Schutze and Robert Wilonsky, October 9 Nobody Knows What They’re Doing My God! I left DISD a year and a half ago to work for a district in the suburbs, and I have never looked back. The waste and outright fraud I witnessed was sickening. When…
Steve Houser’s the chair of the Dallas Urban Forest Advisory Committee, as well as the founder and former president of the Dallas Historic Tree Coalition, which is “a local citizens’ group advocating protection and preservation of irreplaceable trees in urban landscapes.” In other words, the dude’s a tree-hugger — as…
After the jump, the latest Denny’s spot — which is notable for two reasons. One, it’s the chain’s effort to capitalize, if that’s the right word, on the $700 billion bailout, which is the subject of a lengthy New York Times story today about “advertisements that seek to take advantage…
Brandon Thibodeaux Kent Fischer at The Dallas Morning News writes that late yesterday, he received “a copy of a document titled ‘RIF worksheet’ dated 10/14 at 8 a.m.” The district, of course, was to begin its layoffs today, but pushed back the so-called reduction in workforce till tomorrow — creating…
Ssh! Can you hear Greggo? Me neither. First off, congrats to ESPN Radio for being nominated for a 2008 Marconi Award. Last month in Austin it was honored by the National Association of Broadcasters as one of five finalists for Sports Station of the Year. (Curiously, The Ticket won the…
Ben Fountain First Texas Monthly calls him the next big thing, and now the New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell (of Blink and Tipping Point fame) is calling Best of Dallas novelist Ben Fountain a new kind of genius. Some geniuses are born more or less fully formed, Gladwell writes, and others,…
