When he left in 2000 his going-away party was thrown at Sipango, because the guy with the red hair would never venture into the “white house.” When he returned in 2007 he was a 40-year-old virgin who’d never called, much less crafted, a playbook. And now—in a crazy, capricious 2010—he’s…
Artists will make art even if they don’t make money. With a few dollars, however, they can make more art, bigger art and even take some time to teach others how to make art. For our first MasterMinds competition, which awards three grants of $2,000 to local artists, we were…
Back in June 2009, you may recall, the Dallas Independent School District and the U.S. Department of Justice settled up over the misuse of funds provided to the district for the feds’ E-Rate program, which was created in 1996 to give “affordable access to telecommunications services for all eligible schools…
I’ve been trying on and off throughout the afternoon to keep up with the city council’s attempts to canvass the results of last week’s election — specifically, the votes overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 1 allowing for the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. About half an hour ago,…
Friend of the show Leslie Halleck’s adventures in urban chickening have not gone unnoticed, here or elsewhere. But till today I had no idea she’s actually featured in a well-received, just-published, just-landed-on-the-WSJ-best-seller-list tome on how the Great Recession’s frugaling up America — Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is…
True to his word, John Keaten, who’s handling PR duties for the just-released The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, sent over a few stats about Dallas-Fort Worth that didn’t make the massive doc — involving, specifically, income, education and health breakdowns “by race.” But before you go,…
In a federal lawsuit filed last month in the Northern District Court of Texas, a Euless man and 10-year employee of Whataburger claims he was wrongfully terminated for marrying an African-American woman. Court documents say Michael Young was warned that Whataburger management was “old school” and that his relationship could…
If you have a few hours to spare, allow me to direct your attention to the Marion Butts Collection on the Dallas Public Library’s Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division website. I came across it by accident this morning and have spent the last hour or so browsing through the 1,800…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
After talking with a couple embedded folks I trust out at Valley Ranch, this is how I see it all going down: The next permanent head coach of the Dallas Cowboys will come from one of four corners. Owner Jerry Jones is as conflicted, confused and confounded as at any time…
Here’s yet another good Friend of Unfair Park-suggested video — this one, a just-posted piece from the fine folks at You+Dallas in which several videographers (including newfound favorite Jun Kang) hop in the passenger seat of Dallas Police officer Jason Groom’s squad car for a downtown ride-along. Groom’s a good…
During my 90-minute FOX stopdown last night — still having a hard time getting around to Running Wilde, which is a decided fall-season disappointment — there were copious teases for the 9 p.m. news recap of the James Martin High School lip dub featuring everyone at the ginormous school. Alas,…
My dad was over this morning, and we got to talking about the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. One thing leads to another, and we’re watching the construction cam, which now tops the Calatrava cam on my must-watch list. Impressive. I called Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, to…
I thought Elvis Andrus got ripped off last year when he didn’t win American League Rookie of the Year. But it’s nothing compared to the travesty of him not winning a Gold Glove yesterday. Think of it this way: With your life at stake and a grounder hit in the hole,…
Just spent the better part of the morning browsing the The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, a report released this morning by the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Social Science Research Council. It’s a profoundly long look at the well-being of the country, three components specifically: How smart we are…
I stopped by Dallas Animal Services over on Westmoreland Road this afternoon to check out the facilities in anticipation of the long-awaited and long-delayed Humane Society of the United States report about practices and conditions at the shelter. You may have heard of some of the problems as of late,…
Clips from Josh Hamilton’s Interview with Dr. Robert Jeffress from First Dallas on Vimeo.Josh Hamilton, who is second, was First Baptist Dallas’s special guest speaker this weekend. The result is the Q&A above, in which the Rangers’ center fielder talks about getting this close to a title, how he got…
As you may have read here earlier, Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano debuted their new plans for Lowest Greenville Avenue earlier today: a street-narrowing game-changer replacing two lanes of traffic with new parking spaces, trees and flower boxes to be implemented straightaway, at the low, low introductory price of $1.3…
Our Danny Fulgencio accompanied me to Borders this morning; he got there early and stayed late, documenting the scene as some 2,400 folks — well, that’s what Dubya told Rush afterward — waited to meet and greet the X-President, who, by my stopwatch, could sign 17-20 copies of Decision Points…
Much like other media outlets, we’ve been following the courthouse rumors of two prosecutors fired on Friday by First Assistant District Attorney Terri Moore as payback for attending the Election Day shindig at Hotel Palomar hosted by the Dallas County Republican Party. But until one of the men — Tom…
10. Jerry Jones wants tangible improvements. Is that simply Jason getting the Cowboys to play harder? Or does he need to go 3-5 down the stretch? Either way, you can bet Bill Cowher’s number is handy. 9. Garrett played behind Troy Aikman and was coached by Norv Turner and Sean…
On May 20, the City Plan Commission gave Bruce Heydarian the okee-doke to plant an enormous scrap yard on Singleton Boulevard and Pluto Street, not terribly far from the Trinity River. Only two commissioners voted against the plan, among them Michael Davis; the rest had no problem with giving Heydarian…
