By the time we got to Dallas Comic Con Saturday ’round 2:30, there was still a line snaking around the Irving Convention Center. Ben Stevens, the show’s co-organizer, guesstimated that some 8,000 attendees had walked through the door — enough to cause the con to run out of badges with…
10. Regrettably, I didn’t go to the Oklahoma City National Museum, but apparently Jason Kidd did. Can’t believe that tragedy was 16 years ago all the sudden. 9. Stayed in a hip, happening part of OKC called “Bricktown.” Think of it as Dallas’ West End, with a canal running through…
On and off last year we took a look at the sad state of the 108-year-old Davy Crockett School on Carroll Avenue, a designated city historic landmark since 1993 and almost all but empty since the Dallas Independent School District moved its students to close-by Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary in ’89…
A day short of six weeks after breaking his arm, Josh Hamilton is back. So is Nelson Cruz. And with them, will the Rangers welcome the return of their offense? After a weekend in Philly in which they were outscored only 5-4 over 27 innings of, let’s face it, boring baseball,…
Exactly one year ago, parents of a former student at Episcopal School of Dallas sued the private school for unspecified damages, insisting it should have known about — and stopped — teacher Nathan Campbell’s advances and ultimately sexual relationship with their daughter, who was 16 at the time. The parents…
Michael Hinojosa is in Georgia today for a 4:30 p.m. meet-n-greet with the citizenry of Cobb County, most of whom appear happy to be taking the Dallas Independent School District super’s off Dallas’s hands. Twenty-five hours later, the DISD board will meet for the first time since Hinojosa’s almost-adios for…
10. Think of the Ford Center Oklahoma City Arena as a ‘roided Reunion. Basketball here is still fresh and, let’s face it, there’s nothing else to do. I was at Reunion in the ’80s and Sacramento’s ARCO Arena with the cowbells in the ’00s, and this place is louder. Says Dirk…
Remember how offended everyone got when Los Angeles-based photographer Donald Barnat penned his dispatch from Dealey Plaza back in March? Sure you do. Wrote Barnat, who’d been here during the Super Bowl, “The place is in such a miserable state of disrepair that it amounts to a disgrace for the…
One week from today, Goodluck Jonathan — who won election last month after receiving more than 60 percent of the vote during mostly peaceful elections — will be sworn in as president of Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa. Analysts are mixed on what Jonathan’s presidency will mean for…
Add City Manager Mary Suhm to the list of folks lined up to bury the so-called Dallas Pedestrian Network, otherwise known as the downtown tunnels. But two days ago she told the DSpotters that those inhabiting the maze of passageways beneath the downtown skyscrapers ain’t nothing but “a community of…
Contained in the stack of City Hall memos distributed to media last night was one from Assistant City Manage Forest Turner to the mayor and council members. In it, Turner announced that at long last, the city has chosen the new manager for Animal Services: Jody Jones.Jones, who is expected…
Two small but important bits of information from a long U.S. Army Corps of Engineers press gathering this afternoon: First: In order to fix the Trinity River levee system, Dallas will have to build an impervious concrete-like barrier between the levees and the river. Second: The barrier will have to…
After Mike Rawlings wrapped Ron Natinsky’s endorsement this morning at the Adolphus, he joined fellow Dallas mayoral hopeful David Kunkle for lunch with the Dallas Regional Chamber and paying guests from Texas Instruments, DART, Oncor and Southwest Airlines. After finishing their chicken, the race’s two remaining contenders took the stage…
Just spent 20 minutes getting an earful from Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and City Attorney Tom Perkins, who insisted, over and over, that the city’s lawsuit over those Trinity River records has nothing whatsoever to do with our request to see “all the individual invoices paid in relation to…
How about some good news for the Dallas Independent School District? That would come from today’s online edition of The Washington Post, where longtime education columnist Jay Mathews ranks more than 1,900 public high schools across the U.S. — the first time he’s done so for the paper, after 13…
Patrick’s at the Adolphus Hotel for the noontime showdown between David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings, their first debate since Saturday’s elections results sent the two into the June runoff. But before the fireworks, or whatever, Ron Natinsky (who received 17,430 votes on Saturday) pulled the assembled media aside to make…
Earlier this month, Dallas Police reported finding the body of 18-year-old Jonathan Sierra in a room at the Aloft Hotel downtown, across from Dallas City Hall. DPD suspected that the Skyline senior, who’d been to his senior prom and was all set to graduate, died of alcohol poisoning. At the…
As we noted a couple of weeks back, Dallas City Hall’s taking applications for the gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt demanded after Dave Neumann failed to make good on his promise to do … well, anything, really. Linda Koop’s chairing the thing. And Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway — the same man…
I knew where I’d be tomorrow back in January, when we first mentioned that, oh, some guys named Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy would be attending the Dallas Comic Con, which makes its move to the newly opened Irving Convention Center after years in Richardson and Plano. Figure we’ll get…
Left a few messages for Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger yesterday, but never heard back. No matter — she’s always got her blog. And there, this morning, she has posted a rather straight-forward item headlined “Trustees should remove Superintendent Hinojosa immediately for bad faith.” Because Ranger, like…
10. You knew the Thunder wouldn’t be content to lose another game of one-on-one with Dirk Nowitzki. They fronted him in the post. They doubled him. They held him to 29 points. Nick Collison, touche. And, you’re right, that’s something I thought I’d never type. 9. Mavs coach Rick Carlisle…
Moments ago, the Cobb County School District outside of Atlanta, Georgia, named Michael Hinojosa as its superintendent. He was, as expected, its sole finalist — but as per school district policy there, they will wait 14 days before officially naming him the superintendent.All seven members of its board of education…
