A Friend of Unfair Park sends us a link to an online petition virtually circulating amongst local motorcycle and scooter enthusiasts demanding City Hall create “off street motorcycle parking in all public parking lots, whether privately or municipally owned.” The petition offers myriad reasons for such a demand, including “skyrocketing”…
Why is this man smiling? No, seriously. Over on The Dallas Morning News’ DISD Blog, Kent Fischer has posted a memo sent today from Kimberly Olson, the district’s chief human development officer, to its executive leadership team and all district principals. In short, the district has instituted a hiring freeze,…
As we mentioned a month ago, Suze’s Lisa Garza will make her national-TV bow this weekend, when The Next Food Network Star Season Four kicks off Sunday night at 9. For those so interested, there’s plenty of video featuring Garza on the Food Network site: a profile (in which she…
Courtesy FOCH Investments The St. Regis, as it will appear, more or less, upon completion Maybe you remember how, last month, Sam posted something about the proposed St. Regis Hotel on the Katy Trail and the opposition to the development. Well, opposition be damned — with all due apologies, Mrs…
Madeja look. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is at it again. Ya know, being everywhere all the time right now. But this time, we’re going to have an awfully tough time working up some criticism. His latest “it guy” project isn’t jetting off to Cancun or jumping on stage or polluting…
Drinking Up Denton There’s something in the water in Denton. I don’t know what it is or where it came from, but you CANNOT tread it. That said, the bands that stay afloat for awhile are worth a listen. What a great place to see a show and meet some…
It’d be easy to criticize the Dallas Cowboys for making Marion Barber the highest-paid running back in franchise history. The dude has started only one game in his three-year NFL career. He’s never rushed for 1,000 yards. And with a style as subtle as a taser, he’ll be susceptible to…
On Saturday, May 31, the final day of DFW International Alliance’s African Unity Cup soccer tournament, dozens of players will gather at a field thousands of miles and worlds away from where they began. There’s Alie Patrick Koroma, a defender from Sierra Leone, the West African nation still shadowed by…
The ick factor: Here Buzz was, ready to congratulate the 3rd Court of Appeals on its courage and commitment to the rule of law for deciding last week that the state overreached in taking more than 450 kids from the polygamist FLDS compound in West Texas. Gotta be tough, hearing…
The last time the Texas Seven were together, their crime spree claimed a life. Last week, members of the group came together to try to save one. Randy Halprin was one of the seven escaped convicts who robbed an Irving Oshman’s SuperSports store on Christmas Eve 2000. Halprin carried a…
Kenneth Shropshire, director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, has authored a second edition of his invaluable and utterly readable The Business of Sports Agents. The author of six books on sports and bidness today offers a sneak preview of the tome, which has been…
Last time we saw a Ranger on the cover gas was $1.20 and this guy was a high-school sophomore. You haven’t even made it to your afternoon smoke break and already the Rangers have again failed to summit Mount Mediocrity. For the fourth time in the last two weeks Texas…
This morning on KERA-FM (90.1), Sam Baker previewed tonight’s screening at 8 on Channel 13 of Sharing the Power, which examines how Dallas wound up with a 14-1 system of governance courtesy, among others, Roy Williams and Marvin Crenshaw. It’s part of a weeklong examination of the landmark lawsuit that…
Samir Patel, back when he was belle of the Bee Surely, you know the heartbreaking tale of Colleyville’s Samir Patel — the spelling wunderkind who always seemed to come this close to clinching the Scripps National Spelling Bee title before dropping the proverbial clevis. Well, a year after his final…
Also holding its annual shareholder meeting today was Dallas-based Blockbuster, where the, uh, rockin’ new-ish CEO Jim Keyes debuted the future of the video and gaming rental company: in-store kiosks from which customers can download movies onto portable devices in a matter of minutes. Only, a few caveats as the…
The Commonwealth Fund today released its rankings of states based on the quality of health care available to children — and Texas, well, we didn’t so well. Using 13 performance indicators of “access, quality, costs, equity, and the potential to lead healthy lives,” the report puts Texas at No. 46…
The protesters outside the ExxonMobil shareholders meeting this morning Things are ugly-ish here at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, site of ExxonMobil’s annual shareholders get-together. This morning, media outnumbered protesters two-to-one; Enough’s enough, looks like. But at the actual meeting ExxonMobil’s board of directors recommended the shareholders vote against…
Back in January, we warned you that Jessica Simpson was recording a country album — though, really, how she finds the time. Anyway, a single from the disc has been leaked-released, and we’re ever so … um … pleased? … proud? … well, something to provide you with the sneakiest…
W.H. Adamson High School — is it a historic landmark? Yeah, probably. Lost amidst all the talk last week concerning the preservation of the Statler Hilton Hotel was mention of tonight’s meeting of the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee, which will get take place at City Hall at 5:45 p.m. Should…
Grapevine-based GameStop, branded damned near recession-proof only last month, gets a lengthy looking-over from Fortune this week in a piece not online. And while the joint’s making money thumb over fist — it’s expected to move one out of every five copies of Grand Theft Auto IV sold in the…
Sam Merten’s most favoritist ball player in the history of leather and wood graces the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated, and as beautiful as the cover is, Albert Chen’s story is even better. The title: “The Super Natural.” The lead: Josh Hamilton is at peace now, at peace even…
The beast that ate Dallas. Is it possible to up and move a river? Because if so, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will slap a “wide load” banner on the Trinity River project and steer it toward Tarrant County any day now. And the JFK museum, and Deep Ellum and the…
