Over at Dd, our boy Sam Machkovech has gotten a scoop on a story (and don’t even think about not crediting that guy or he’ll totally kick your ass) that will surely shake the core of a Deep Ellum that has been slowly but surely climbing out of a slump…
Buzz was going to begin our annual look back at the past year this way: Another year has come and gone. Good God, will they never end? But then something strange happened on the way to press. Reviewing the past 12 months, we became afflicted with an odd, unfamiliar feeling…
Fifteen years ago, Larry James was unknown in Dallas political circles. His name didn’t appear regularly in the paper, the mayor didn’t have his phone number, and he certainly didn’t dine with presidential hopefuls, as he one day would. If he was known for anything, it was the AIDS ministry…
It’s one of the more bizarre tales you’ll ever hear from a Texas law enforcement officer: Last Friday, Dallas County Constable Mike Dupree admitted he arranged to have his ex-lover deported to his native Honduras after Dupree ordered one of his officers to arrest the young man at the constable’s…
The Team-Wrecker Stone him: Who would have thought? A member of the press using T.O. (“Terrible Owens,” by Richie Whitt, December 28) as a catharsis for decades of frustration. What was it—a woman? Being cut from the J.V. team? There’s gotta be something eating someone up who could hate a…
Wanna hear the worst idea since Saddam Hussein’s kinfolk got him a tie for Christmas? The city of Dallas is spending $50 million to renovate a lame-duck stadium. Unless you’re a nearsighted, closed-minded, sports-oblivious politico, you know the Cotton Bowl’s present is almost history because its future resides not in…
Since we don’t have a photo of Guy Brignon, we thought we’d run this one of Ann Lott. Again. Hey, could be worse. This came out of left field: Guy Brignon, the Mayor Laura Miller-appointed chairman of the Dallas Housing Authority board, sent the mayor his letter of resignation today…
Just got off the phone with Mayor Laura Miller, who confirms something we just heard: Guy Brignon — the controversial chairman of the Dallas Housing Authority board who worked to oust DHA’s CEO and president, Ann Lott — has resigned. His letter of resignation is on its way to Unfair…
A mundane, yet oddly haunting image from Dean Terry’s doc Subdivided Just a reminder: Dean Terry’s Subdivided: Isolation & Community in America airs tonight at 8 on KERA-Channel 13. We wrote about this doc months ago, complete with an interview with the University of Texas-Dallas new media prof. Here ’tis…
The Department of Homeland Security today officially released a report in which it details just how well prepared 75 U.S. metropolitan areas in case of an emergency. Specifically, the DHS wanted to whether cities’ emegency agencies were able to talk to each other in case of some kind of a…
Data Drive Thru says its ad, starring 6-year-old chimp Cody, is cruelty-free, which probably won’t satisfy PETA. Didn’t the first two times… Yesterday, we mentioned how the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was opposed to an ad for Dallas-based Data Drive Thru’s new networking device called The Tornado…
We’re not sure how old you have to be to post your stats to Sports Groove’s Web site, but these look like likely candidates. Granted, I’m one of the few cyberdorks who somehow exists without a MySpace page. But I do know when I smell something sporty baking in the…
Today’s subscription-only Wall Street Journal takes a stab at the new Dallas Cowboys home set to open in 2009. You know the drill: 2.3 million square feet, 100,000 seats when counting standing room, two 2.1-million pound roof panels that open on a rack and pinion drive system so God can…
We’re a couple of days late on this, but Friend of Unfair Park Scott Henson, who runs the must-read Grits for Breakfast Web site, has posted his list of the Top Ten Texas Criminal Justice Stories of 2006. There are plenty of Dallas mentions on the list, naturally, among them…
The Texas Association of School Boards and the Texas Association of School Administrators released a joint study yesterday revealing how much teachers are making across the state — and for the first time, Region XI (which would be Fort Worth) has the heighest average salary, at least for the 2006-’07…
We just can’t stop staring at this new photo of DMN editor Bob Mong. Something about it makes us want to launch a haiku contest. Any takers? We have heard many stories coming from 508 Young Street about impending changes at Dallas’ Only Daily. So we did what we always…
Trustees gone wild! Actually, the video of DISD Trustee Jerome Garza isn’t all that exciting. But it sure is interesting. Exactly one month ago, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece about how the DISD finally decided how to divvy up the School District Formerly Known as Wilmer-Hutchins. Contained within…
Dunno if this is Cody, but it is one of the chimps Data Drive Thru is using in its ad campaign that PETA’s opposing. Last month, Dallas-based Data Drive Thru announced that it was going to debut an ad at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas featuring two chimpanzees…
One of the restaurant closings I overlooked in my 2006 wrap-up was Lazlo’s Cuisine, the continental restaurant specializing in Eastern European cuisine that took shape in 2003 in the former Ruggeri’s Ristorante space in Addison. Lazlo’s was the work of Lazlo Toth, an 18-year veteran of Ruggeri’s who had an…
John Criswell may not be on TV anymore, but he’s still lookin’ good. The other day, BlogMaverick hisself Mark Cuban was bemoaning the lack of actual user-generated content on YouTube. Seems all you’re getting on the site these days are repeated postings of “Dick in a Box” and and movie…
Zac Crain may or not become mayor, but he does know the good rock from the bad. Gary Griffith, not s’much. A Friend of Unfair Park sends word today that he’s been listening to advance tracks from the double-disc comp due out shortly to raise some campaign dough for our…
Belo Corp.’s stock has suffered significant declines in the last two years. Seems the public doesn’t wanna hold that stock. Yesterday, newspaperman-turned-Interweb entrepreneur Alan Mutter posted to his blog Reflections of a Newsosaur this item about the beatings publicly held publishing companies are taking on the stock markets. In short,…
