Dalton Sherman is a legend. Eight years ago, at the age of 9, he stood before some 17,000 Dallas ISD teachers and staff members packed into the American Airlines Center and delivered a piece of oratory so precocious and so trenchant that, once the speech was posted to YouTube, he...
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2014 was a good year for LGBTQ rights in Dallas. The city added limited insurance benefits for transgender city employees, made it possible for city employees to use the Family Medical Leave Act to take care of their same-sex partners and started on a path toward getting retirement benefits for the...
Every year or so, the Texas Transportation Institute releases its Urban Mobility Report, which looks at the impact of traffic congestion on major metropolitan areas in the United States, and every year or so the report's release prompts a barrage of critiques from transportation wonks whose livings aren't tied to building new...
The scene downtown was a concert promoter's dream: At 4:30 in the afternoon, the line outside Main Street Garden Park stretched around the block and down the street, but none of these people waiting outside the gate for Taco Libre was going to get in. Gates had opened for this...
Thankful is what I am. But being thankful always worries me. Maybe something terrible is about to happen. I am truly thankful that Dallas right now is pretty much at the forefront of the national school reform movement because of its comprehensive merit pay system for teachers. The Dallas Independent...
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Dallas is rampant with every type of musician, varying from classically-trained savants to genres which can only be described as WHAT?, and we're damn proud of our diversity. While they're all rich in talent, local musician's finances slightly vacillate, depending on, among other things, their tip jar's undernourished or obese...
DFW home prices are almost 9 percent higher than this time last year, Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. That's more than double the average 4.2 percent growth across the country. Dallas is one of just two metro areas where home buyers face prices higher than they were in 2006...
Dan Deacon With Prince Rama, Ben O'Brien and Party Static Trees, Dallas Saturday, April 25, 2015 To celebrate the first anniversary of Do214 on Saturday night at Trees, Dan Deacon came out using Steely Dan as entrance music and appreciated the curtains enough to have them ceremoniously closed and reopened...
On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld “disparate impact” as a key principle in racial desegregation law, ruling that what matters is the effect, not the intent of government practices. That day the headline over Emily Badger’s item on “Wonk Blog” in The Washington Post exulted: “The Supreme Court’s...
Thursday, October 15 Bruckner's Fifth Symphony One of the truly great symphonists, Bruckner wrote symphonies in the grand philosophical, yet personal, tradition of Beethoven; each symphony he composed stands as a richly detailed statement on the composer's ideology and mood at the time of writing. Often referred to as the...
Ryan Mills snaps black surgical gloves on his hands and plucks a syringe off a paper-shrouded tray. Its 10-gauge needle gleams under the fluorescent lights. Hidden inside the tip is a half-inch long electronic implant. Mills prepares for the procedure with professional quickness and ease that come with experience. He's...
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Further confirmation of what all of us who live here already know comes from the 2015 National Apartment Index: All of our buildings are full, and our rents are even more too damn high than they used to be. Marcus and Millichap, the research firm that does the annual index,...
The new Dallas school superintendent, Michael Hinojosa, could have done a lot of things to signal he was the new sheriff in town. Reform the teacher pay system. Look at testing. The enemies of the old one, Mike Miles, claimed they were mad about everything, so Hinojosa had everything to...
It's like walking into a restaurant inside a kids' book. Nestled in the Casa Linda Plaza shopping center, next to Great Clips, is the adorable Dugg Burger. Inside, there's a menu that's all pictures. It's perfect for non-readers, lovers of simple food and extraterrestrials. E.T. would actually have no trouble...
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro Dallas has been an incredible learning experience. I never expected that canceling an exhibition would...
In a bright, open space inside Dallas' downtown library, about 50 women and men stand alert at a table with their hands tied behind their backs. "3-2-1, go!" someone counts down, and they begin to change diapers on children's dolls. Their hands bound, the competitors fumble with the stand-in babies...
DFW rents are at all-time high and home prices in the area are rising faster than anywhere in the country save Houston, say surveys released by a couple of real estate research firms. While Dallas remains one of the most affordable big cities in the United States, paying to keep...
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For many Dallas listeners, April's been a month long anticipated: the month that brings Mozart's Requiem. You could almost be forgiven for blowing off the rest of the month, were it not for a series of unexpectedly brilliant programs peppering the calendar in Requiem's wake. Courtesy some of the smaller,...
Local weather forecasters including Pete Delkus, CBS11Larry, and your mama predicted that sleet would rain down upon us all last night, and it sure did. (For my fellow Native Texans, "sleet," of course, in meteorological terms is the petulant baby that is created when snow and rain do The Nasty.)...
Starting with the adoption of a an equality resolution by the City Council in March, 2014 saw the city of Dallas continue to inch its way to becoming one of the most inclusive municipalities in the country. The city added health benefits for transgender city employees, made it possible for...
The fight started on the third floor right before fifth period, when the kids were still buzzing from lunch and hardest to manage. Jennifer Duggins, a Spanish teacher, was monitoring the hallway outside her classroom when a surge of students rushed passed her and disappeared around the corner into an...