Two Dallas high schools — the School for the Talented and Gifted and the School of Science and Engineering Magnet — didn’t just survive the multi-stage culling process U.S. News and World Report used to arrive at a list of the country’s 97 cream-of-the-crop schools. They snagged two of the…
Ah, the Trinity River corridor, that swath of green that anchors urban Dallas to Mother Nature. How we cherish it. Unless, that is, someone — Mayor Mike Rawlings, for example — wants to build a toll road through its heart … Or maybe dump a few hundred gallons of pig…
“The Josh Hamilton relapse: What does it mean?” one headline blared, after Hamilton got drunk at a Dallas bar earlier this year. “Hamilton’s slip could cost him millions,” another professed. And we all thought: Sure, that makes sense. A couple teams get scared off, demand drops, price drops. But there’s…
So by now you’ve probably seen or heard about 55-year-old Sharon Simmons, who tried out to be a Cowboys cheerleader. For some reason I hadn’t heard of her, probably because I’m a Redskins fan and have been sitting in my bedroom with candles lit and YouTube on, looking at videos…
Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and a gaggle of other titans, from former U.S. Spec Ops commanders to Sam Gilliland, chief executive officer of Dallas-based Sabre Holdings, reject outright the idea that we can drill our way to energy independence. In an Energy Security Leadership Council report unveiled Tuesday at…
That’s right: Tonight, during an open house and public meeting at the Dallas Convention Center, you can crop-dust NTTA with all your brilliant ideas to save the Trinity River flood plains from the dreaded pavement monster, only to see your suggestions treated like the things my wife leaves at the…
Dallas may be inhospitable to hipsters, but we’re apparently a city filled with porn enthusiasts: Men’s Health recently ranked Dallas 15th in a list of the 100 “smuttiest” American cities (Orlando won. Those perverts.) MH based its rankings on the number of adult DVDs purchased, rented or streamed, square footage…
Early last week, before the start of his ongoing divorce hearing with dramatics suited for a soap opera, former Cowboy Deion Sanders tweeted the above photo. It looks like a boring portrait of three wide-smiling, well-dressed men. In fact, the photo is quite revealing of the tangle of lies behind…
The badly burned body of a man in his 20s or 30s was found Saturday in a vacant field at the end of Wixom Lane in far southeast Dallas, not far from a set of railroad tracks. His death is being treated as a homicide, but police haven’t yet identified…
A couple of weeks back, Dallas ISD trustee candidate Damarcus Offord filed an ethics complaint against someone named Mike Rawlins. It turned out that Rawlins was actually Mike Rawlings, mayor of Dallas, even though he had allegedly removed his mayor’s cape off before he endorsed three trustee candidates in the…
Around 3 a.m. today, a cab driver called the Dallas police to report that he’d been carjacked after dropping off a passenger. He couldn’t specify just where he’d been when this happened, and he didn’t know the license plate number of the cab, only the unit number. Upon arriving at…
Late on Friday, we passed along a letter from the Dallas Arboretum celebrating an agreement with White Rock Lake neighbors that allows the city to turn the grasslands of Winfrey Point into a temporary parking lot. It was a strange missive to begin with — a botanical garden celebrating its…
Longtime NBC 5 anchor Jane McGarry got popped for DUI over the weekend. She was stopped early Sunday morning in a 2007 Porsche, WFAA reported, after failing to use her signal on the tollway. She refused to take a breathalyzer and was booked into Dallas County jail, where they apparently…
Earlier this week, Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a preliminary injunction that kept Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of the Women’s Health Program. It looked as though that was the first step toward a decision allowing Texas to keep Planned Parenthood out of…
After an agreement was reached earlier to let the city mow the wild grass at Winfrey Point, both City Hall and the Arboretum have come out firing PR-wise, trying to turn the tide of support for keeping cars off of the “prairie.” Below you’ll find releases sent by both City…
Rep. Ralph Hall finally found his General Services Administration-style confab scandal. No, it doesn’t involve EPA employees playing a blindfolded game of Crucify the Energy Executive during a conference at The Venetian. But it’s the next best thing: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with its heretical climate change studies…
While Jim’s wife hosed out the dog house over his Arboretum screed this morning, lawyers for the Arboretum and the city were in court trying to get a judge to let them turn Winfrey Point into a temporary parking lot, to prepare for the crush of visitors for this weekend’s…
Hey, Dallas Arboretum: Do you really not see how this is shaping up? You have one of two things staring you in the face. A great opportunity. Or a well-deserved black eye. You are in court this very moment, hauled there by citizens trying to stop your plans to decimate…
We tuned in to the Dallas ISD’s District 9 school board trustee forum on KHVN 970 yesterday between incumbent Bernadette Nutall and her challenger, 20-year-old Damarcus Offord. Host Robert Ashley and his station, it turns out, moderated the best debate thus far. The two clearly don’t like each other (nothing…
Well, last week was pretty bad too, as he physically fought with his estranged wife in front of his kids and then tweeted a photo of his two boys filling out police reports. A picture speaks way more than 140 characters, and that tweet was one in a series of…
Immediately after Mayor Mike’s extremely non-surprising show of support for the Trinity River toll road yesterday, the city council members retreated into executive session to continue talking about how to regulate the city’s boarding homes . After more than an hour off-camera, they came back and agreed to let staff…
I sat in the front row of the folding chairs yesterday and gazed around the ceremonial “flag room” at City Hall. Mayor Mike Rawlings and a majority of the Dallas city council were ganged up around the podium endorsing a plan to build a two-billion-dollar toll road next to the…
