Big Rig Jig Parking a big rig in a Dallas neighborhood’s against the law — gets you a $25 ticket and, more than likely, a tow to a city pound — unless it’s being loaded or unloaded. Only, seems some folks are finding more and more commercial vehicles and one-and-a-half-tonners…
Big, big science news this morning: Neanderthals weren’t as dumb as they looked. It’s in all the U.K. papers today, as one member of the team that made the discovery that stupidity was not the Neanderthals’ cause of extinction hails from the University of Exeter; the discovery also turns up…
On the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Barack Obama’s campaign is busying itself with the handiwork of Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who, as we noted yesterday, financed an ad linking the Democratic presidential candidate with former Weather Underground-er William Ayers. As Time noted late this afternoon,…
The Marcus House, as it looked during construction in 1938 On this slow news day, more blasts from the past — only, this is history heretofore unwritten. Two weeks ago, Unfair Park broke the news that Marc and Patty Lovvorn were going to tear down the house Stanley Marcus built…
The star of the June 1944 Woodrow Wilson Senior Class production of And Came the Spring, in which he played Jeffrey Hartman If you know Nicky de Larios — Woodrow Wilson High School, Class of ’44 — please let the former cheerleader know I have her yearbook. Seems to be…
The city’s decision to strike a deal with Cimolai, an Italian steel manufacturer, to save a few bucks while building the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is what led to a possible 10-month delay in the project. Apparently, the deal was so sweet that Cimolai is having “difficultly finding the financial…
It’s been mentioned a couple of times on FrontBurner, including today: Folks wake up in the morning, only to find their car or SUV is missing all four wheels. The D boys have mentioned a few locations — Preston Hollow, University Park, Abrams Road and Northwest Highway, Lovers Lane and…
Not much about this afternoon’s meeting of the city’s Commission on Productivity and Innovation seems out of the ordinary — save for the tiny note at the end of the agenda concerning a new item being introduced at meeting’s end. It’s but three simple words: “Property Tax Holiday.” Which seemed…
The above photo was taken at 10:49 this morning, from the City of Dallas’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Construction Web cam. We peek at it every so often; Schutze can spend hours on the thing, eyes glued and slightly glazed. (At least, I think that’s what he’s looking at.) Only,…
In a April 2004 review of the Dallas Convention Center, the City Auditor’s Office determined that the Department of Convention and Event Services wasn’t using software — called Convention Center Resource Information and Control System — purchased in 2001 that was intended to “enhance event scheduling and processing” at the…
Apologies for the delay this a.m., but there was a good reason: The boy’s first day as a Dallas Independent School District student. Heck of a moment: He was cool, calm, excited but not nervous. His father, slapped in the face by the familiar smell of DISD hallways on the…
That’s it, the bandwagon is over-booked. Sent the kid back to school this morning. The Olympics are over. Josh Hamilton’s Triple Crown bid – remember that? – is just a fading, fuzzy summer memory. In other words: Are you ready for some football?! High school and colleges kick it off…
Harold Simmons, a vision in white Lots of Harold Simmons mentions in the news today; it started last night, actually and one can’t imagine why, judging from the ad after the jump, which links Barack Obama with former Weather Underground-er William Ayers, a subject discussed and more or less dismissed…
Rest in peace, No. 68. Sobering news this afternoon as former Dallas Cowboy Frank Cornish was found dead last night in his Southlake home of an apparent heart attack. Cornish, who would’ve been 41 next month, was just yesterday talking to former Cowboys about an upcoming mini-reunion. Players like Larry…
Lon Tinkle’s book The Key to Dallas has probably been out of print since its publication in 1965. Copies of the slim tome — written for now-defunct publishing house J. B. Lippincott & Co.’s “Keys to the Cities” series, which also included books about New York City, Rome, Paris and…
You asked for it, you got it. –Robert Wilonsky…
That’s what U.S. News & World Report says, anyway, in its latest ranking of the best colleges in the country. Which puts Southern Methodist behind BaylorRice, the University of Texas and Texas A&M when it comes to the other Texas universities on the list. But don’t feel left out, TCU:…
Dalton Sherman, a a fifth-grader at the Charles Rice Learning Center, was quite the hit at the Dallas Independent School District’s Believe/Achieve Back-To-School Kickoff at the American Airlines Center earlier this week. But the kid’s no rookie at making The Big Speech: Megan Feldman was in awe of the young…
Right now we’d settle for a preseason win, okay? The Cowboys don’t need to win tonight. But, seriously, they do need to at least look decent. Typically NFL teams use the third preseason game as the dress rehearsal for the regular season. So will be the case tonight when Dallas’…
Angela Hunt I know, right? On Wednesday, Paul Dyer, director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, handed down his decree that Jenny the elephant is to remain in Dallas after all. No doubt you figured, “Well, that is that,” for better or worse. Only, not so fast. Not only…
Central Texas’s own Chet Edwards So, yeah, everyone’s suddenly thinking that maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama’s going to announce Congressman Chet Edwards as his running mate, maybe as early as this afternoon — and if it’s on Fox, it must be true! To which Gawker notes this very funny hypothetical…
Sarah McDaniel Nastia Liukin’s pal Carly Patterson crashed the welcome-home party yesterday at DFW. Intern Courtney ended up at Dallas-Fort Worth International yesterday — just in time for Nastia Liukin’s meet-and-greet with the media and a few hundred well-wishers. Her account, along with some photos of the gold medalist and…
