Football coaches, even the high school kind, can be angry men. This is especially true early in the season, when their lives, from their standpoint anyway, are just one big shit salad of false starts and bad reads. Knowing all that, I would have forgiven Patrick Williams, the new coach…
Had dinner at the folks’ house last night, after which the boy and I went digging through a stack of old Dallas Newses and Times Heralds my dad keeps stashed in a closet, almost completely forgotten. They were my grandfather’s and date back to November 22, 1963, and fast-forward through…
Yesterday afternoon, the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce hosted what was essentially a baby shower for the nascent neighborhood on the other side of Dallas’s ballyhooed architectural statement, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. The luncheon at Salon Las Americas — across Fort Worth Avenue from Smoke, which catered the affair…
Back in March we took a look at Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores’s proposal for evaluating the district’s best teachers — an imperative, he said at the time, given the layoffs and buyouts taking place due to the state’s budget shortfall. Turns out, that was bit the tip…
The end is near … sort of. The city’s Redistricting Commission is inching towards putting together a city map it can forward on to the city council, and everyone — the public and commissioners alike — is trying to get in a parting shot before then. Last night’s meeting was…
Call him Steven Phillips, collector of broken men. After all, he should know a thing or two about breaking. The man spent a quarter century in prison for a string of rapes in the early ’80s. In 2007, he was released on mandatory parole to ease overcrowding in Texas prisons…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End:*Only at a Cowboys’ training camp can you look on the sidelines one day and see the guys from Deadliest Catch and the next find a dork in an ill-fitting suit and bow…
And speaking of the Dallas Independent School District …It’s just been sued over a $40-million technology contract that the district awarded to Lewisville-based Delcom Group in May and yanked in June, when the board gave the contract to one of the company’s competitors. At stake: the district’s digital classroom initiative,…
And the hits just keep on coming: One week ago today the Texas Education Agency officially announced that the Dallas Independent School District had more campuses deemed academically unacceptable (33) than exemplary (30) — a radical shift from last year’s stats, thanks in large part to the state doing away…
A blow has been struck in the name of fun: Owners of the ultra-lounge Plush fought for their right to party and won today at the City Plan Commission, when the panel voted to extend the club’s specific use permit (SUP) for one year. As we mentioned yesterday, the club…
On the other side is the budget briefing handed to media members when we arrived at City Manager Mary Suhm’s fourth-floor conference room for a 3:45 meet-the-presser. Long story short: She managed to balance the budget without cutting too much, she said, thanks to the state taking less than originally…
Back in March I introduced you to the Relatives, heretofore overlooked Dallas greats better known in Austin than in their hometown. And now they’re beloved in France and Australia; New York too. And still, still, Rev. Gean West and brother Tommy and the greatest gospel-funk-rock-n-soul revue in town have yet…
Yesterday City Hall put out the call: It’s now accepting entries in something called the 2011 Dallas Great Streets Visual Essay Contest. Which is …? Well, long story short, the city wants you to take up to six pictures or shoot a video no longer than two minutes in length…
The Woodall Rodgers Deck Park is still a good year from opening; as you can see in the construction-cam screengrab of moments ago, there are still 64 concrete crossbeams in need of installation, and that won’t happen till October. Crews will spend the summer waterproofing, and fireproofing, the deck. The…
With a bright blue Frisbee on his head and a blow-up ball hanging from his lips by its mouthpiece, 9-year-old Emanuel spins around in circles so fast, his new camouflage backpack lifts from his body like a parachute at the moment of landing. Today is his birthday, but it feels…
First, let me apologize for the headline — I was listening to Billy Bragg and friends on the way into work this morning, and it could not be helped. Now, then. It’s been a whole two days since last we discussed flow control — I know, right? — which, as…
CBS Early Show’s Marysol Castro’s in town — can’t imagine why. Oh, right. It’s hot. Still, not so hot that two high-school footballers can’t spend their after-practice hours toiling in the sun — one on a construction site, the other decorating doorknobs with fliers, both hoping to buy a car…
10. To accommodate the veterans who will practice with the team for the first time tonight and to give those fans who get off work later a chance to see their ‘Boys, the team has moved its 2:30-5:30 practice this afternoon to 6:30-9:30 tonight at The Alamodome. Players like Doug Free…
For those who don’t recall, on February 23 Dallas Police officers were dispatched to the Hudspeth Avenue home of Dianne Irons after a call concerning some kind of a domestic dispute at the East Oak Cliff residence. Irons and her nephew, who’d once lived at the house, were arguing over…
Miracle whip: Buzz is heartsick we can’t drive to Houston this weekend to attend The Response, Governor Rick Perry’s big prayer meetin’. That means we’ll miss witnessing firsthand any miracles wrought by the convocation of several thousand mostly white, Republican, viciously homophobic “prayer warriors.” The timing of the event also…
The Cowboys’ biggest loss of the season started with a fist bump. While attractive free-agent defensive backs such as Eric Weddle, Dawan Landry and Johnathan Joseph were plucked by NFL teams during the first frantic days of post-lockout training camp, Dallas sat inexplicably idle. Fans who remember last year’s defense…
The life, crime, and prosecution of Don “Dunn Dunn” Hardge, an Oak Cliff gang member whose actions during a chaotic shooting killed a teen girl.
