Jack Lowe, DISD school board president Jack Lowe, president of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees, is in New Braunfels awaiting the birth of his seventh grandchild. But shortly before he left town yesterday, he met with DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa, who told Lowe the bad news reported…
Intern Courtney’s at 3700 Ross Avenue this very moment, where district officials have indeed confirmed a sudden $64-million shortfall — in the 2007-’08 budget. How’d this happen? Well, see, it’s “complicated,” said superintendent Michael Hinojosa, the result of having more teachers and support staff in the schools. “The majority of…
Look, at this point we’re just killing time till the 4 p.m. emergency press conference at DISD HQ on Ross Ave., from which Intern Courtney will likely report back with the bad news that the district’s suddenly “$64 million and change” in the hole, says one source with whom we’ve…
Aren’t they so cuuute together?! Jessica ain’t bad, either. Ramiro Romo, that is. While the quarterback with the stitched-up chin continues an “I don’t talk about my personal life” vow, Tony’s dad opened up a teensy weensy bit to NBC 5’s Newy Scruggs recently. Says pops of son’s girlfriend, “To…
Kristina Bowman Last night’s Carl Reiner-Martin Short showdown at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center was all a little boy raised on teevee could dream for, as Reiner recounted the creation of The Dick Van Dyke show and discussed working on Your Show of Shows while Short explained the genesis…
What you see at right is the autobiography of Jamie Carragher, who you’d totally know and adore and maybe even worship if you lived in Liverpool, where, you know, Tom Hicks owns a soccer team. The 30-year-old defender’s book is being published in the U.K. tomorrow, and folks are giddy,…
Hey, there’s John Wiley Price! Wonder if he recalls when the old Parkland building was a black hole. Seemed impolite not to cross Maple Avenue this a.m. for the big Parkland Hospital announcement: $50 million from Annette and Harold Simmons; $25 million from Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones; millions more from…
Jeffrey Yarbrough, whose Liberty Noodles is still sorely missed A year ago, Jeffrey Yarbrough — the man behind Club Clearview, after its initial success in the mid-1980s, and Liberty Noodles — shared his secret shame with the readers of Forbes Small Business: filing for Chapter 13. His reasons for writing…
Did someone say W? Because it’s only a matter of weeks now till Oliver Stone’s depictification of “George Bush Jr.” stumbles into megaplexes with its drunk on. And, at last, some real footage from the movie’s shown up all official-like: 1:15 worth of the day George (Josh Brolin) met Laura…
A.C. Gonzalez, who, when you glance at him real quick, kinda looks like Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet Among the many items under consideration by the city council this morning is addendum item 13, which authorizes $4.4 million in costs for the convention center hotel. When the item is likely…
The Cowboys’ former battering-ram fullback is now also the Cowboys’ former Director of Alumni Affairs. At a time when memories of past Dallas Cowboys regularly come rushing in, former running back Robert Newhouse is out. While trying to track down former players to share their Texas Stadium recollections, it came…
Regan Adair, honored by the DFW Theater Critic Forum for a season’s worth of work — including his by-God hilarious turn in Dallas Theater Center’s The Misanthrope Win a DFW Theater Critics Forum award and you get … absolutely nothing. No bronze trophy. No crystal gewgaw with your named etched…
The Village at Allen, where the parking lots go for miles Gar Herring, president of MGHerring Group, is opening two malls more or less right on top of each other in coming months: The Village at Allen in October, followed by The Village at Fairview in August ’09. Combined space:…
I know — this is very last-minute. But, if nothing else, you will have a second chance to catch KERA-TV’s second installment of Nowhere But Texas if you miss tonight’s airing, which begins at 7 p.m. on Channel 13, natch. There’s a Saturday-morning rebroadcast at 11:30, and it’s worth a…
See, it really is a Bridge to Nowhere. We’ve just posted the slide show from Sam’s trip to the Trinity Trust, where they unveiled the world’s most expensive and incomplete model in the history of glue. Seriously, after spending half a million dollars and taking two years, they couldn’t debut…
Two years ago, University of Texas-Dallas economics professor Catherine Eckel co-authored, with a Rice U. prof, a paper called Judging a Book by its Cover: Beauty and Expectations in the Trust Game. The premise: There’s such a thing called “the beauty penalty,” which, if I’m reading this right, means folks…
Man, American Airlines is getting the worst kind of PR imaginable today, as the Tale of Teresa Olaya spreads far and wide. And, look, the first part was bad enough: Miguel Olaya said he sent his wife’s corpse from Brooklyn to her native Ecuador for burial after she died in…
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Came across a quote from Texas Rangers’ bench Art Howe this morning that summed up the perverted perspective of our local baseball team: “ … if we finish second, we’ve had a heck of a…
Sam Merten Mayor Tom points to the two Trinity bridges, but does he know which is which? The big unveiling of the model for the Trinity River Corridor Project was held today at the Trinity Center, and, as expected, all the Trinity folks gathered to pay homage. A short press…
In February 2007, Rev. Nicholas Katinas — described by The Dallas Morning News as “the longtime, beloved pastor of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in North Dallas” — was suspended from the church because of allegations he’d sexually abused minors. At 1:30 today, one of those allegations will become yet…
We were at Dallas Farmers Market over the weekend, when, for the first time in a hundred or so visits, the boy spotted the plaque above, which is sort of obscured in its spot next to the still overwhelmingly empty Shed 2. (And the city’s still looking for vendors, for…
Our Man Merten’s over at Trinity Trust Foundation HQ for the big unveiling of the 20-foot-long model of the Trinity River Corridor Project, which should be happening right … about … now. His show-and-tell is due shortly. I only hope it’s more exciting than the public invite above, as in:…
