Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Now that the voters have overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1, allowing for the citywide sale of beer and wine, when, exactly, will retailers begin drenching the dry parts of Dallas? Because, see, Gary Huddleston, the man behind Keep the Dollars in Dallas, told Unfair…
At today’s Dallas Independent School District board briefing, trustees will yet again discuss that “comprehensive” bullying policy about which we wrote last month. Turns out, on the Dallas City Council’s meeting agenda for Wednesday is a related resolution sent to City Manager Mary Suhm last week, signed by, among others,…
Couple of weeks back Patrick spent the day hanging out with the Big Brothers watching the watchers at the American Society for Industrial Security confab at Dallas Convention Center. Turns out, some attendees were also given an all-access pass to the Dallas Police Department’s video surveillance operations center, located at…
Not yet ready to let go of the 2010 season, Your Texas Rangers held that rally Wednesday evening in the Ballpark’s parking lot. We dispatched Intern Conner Howell to cover the wingding, attended by the team’s owners, the about-to-be-contract-extended skipper, much of the starting line-up, Lil’ Wash and a guesstimated…
Witnessed lots of folks outside Rangers Ballpark last night who believe in their baseball team. The Rangers Rally was a warm hug on a chilly night and the theory goes like this: The present belongs to the San Francisco Giants, but the future belongs to the Texas Rangers. You buyin’ it?…
There are countless studies that show children who get a full day of pre-kindergarten fare better than kids who only get partial-day instruction. Take, for instance, this ’06 National Institute for Early Education Research look-see, Is More Better? The Effects of Full-Day vs. Half-Day Preschool on Early School Achievement. (Spoiler…
Groundhog Day: It’s Election Day. Gotta say something pithy about politics, even though we’re going to press before results are in. “Nation’s course at stake today,” the Morning News’ front page blared today. Wow, that’s pretty big stuff. Gotta pontificate. Gotta earn that paycheck. Hmm… Let’s see. As usual, Buzz…
One of our sports teams is super. The other one sucks. One team has validated hope, lifted spirits, bonded communities, dispensed goose bumps and reminded us how great sports can be. The other team has us eschewing common courteous greetings for “FML.” One team won nine games in October, pushing…
The flirtatious waiter drops off the first round of Bloody Marys at the table of Mesquite High School alums, Class of ’77, gathered at the Buffalo Wild Wings over by Town East Mall for a girls night out. The Cowboys game against the Miami Dolphins is about to begin, but…
Longtime food-and-beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza requested a temporary restraining order and filed a lawsuit against the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport board late this afternoon, stemming from a disagreement regarding approximately $279,000 the board claims he owes in back rent. While the TRO aims to halt the board’s vote tomorrow morning that…
There was a time — 12 years ago, say — when I could have named each man in this photo by sight. Even, at the far right in the middle row, PR man Jerry Doggett, ex of WRR and, after his stint in Dallas, the longtime voice of the Brooklyn…
Admit it: You forgot all about Michael Laurence Browne, the gentleman who led police on a slow ride through Dallas — right by Unfair Park HQ, no less — before landing on the Love Field Airport runway a couple of months back. Browne, charged by Dallas Police with a laundry…
After losing yet again to the Democrats, Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman is prepared to let someone else attempt to turn the blue county back to red, telling us that he doesn’t expect to run for a third term in 2012. “I don’t want to say I’m definitely…
Earlier this week, Robert wrote about state Rep. Eric Johnson’s October 28 letter to Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, in which Johnson wondered whether the district had exhausted all its options for building a new O.M. Roberts Elementary. Johnson also wondered, by the way, whether the DISD wouldn’t…
As I wrote last night, Dallas County’s new elections website is a marked improvement over versions past — from precinct maps to mail-ins breakdowns, it contains all the details a wonk could want. So, then. After the jump a few of the more relevant color-by-numbers, including looks at the Rick…
This is just in from the Dallas Police Department concerning a home invasion that occurred last night, not far from W.W. Samuell High School. Long story short: Even if you think the bad guys, who’d committed their crime dressed in police uniforms, have returned to the scene of the violent…
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…
Feels like since-forever ago we posted Jun Kang’s extraordinary State Fair of Texas short film. But, no — ain’t even been 24 hours. Shortly after, a good friend of the show suggested we take a look at Jun’s mini-feature on the Greenwood Cemetery, the entrance to which is at McKinney…
And speaking of the city of Dallas’s parks …No doubt you’ve forgotten all about the August 19 save the date sent by the city — an invite to this weekend’s first-ever Dallas Parks Stakeholders’ Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Hence, the just-sent reminder that follows, in which,…
OK, so now what? The Texas Rangers just produced their latest, greatest season. Tonight at 6 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington we’ll toast the 2010 team one last time with not a victory parade, but more so a second-place appreciation party to be shown on Fox Sports Southwest and heard on…
Hadn’t thought of the former Dallas Mavericks center in years — certainly, not since his retirement from the National Basketball Association in 2005. Who knew the way-too-longtime Mav was running for a seat in the Utah House of Representatives? But, sure enough: “I have been fortunate in life to use…
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm first suggested selling Elgin B. Robertson Park in mid-May, in a document presented to the city council titled “FY 2010-11 Budget: Brainstorming Ideas.” Wrote Suhm and city staff, money raised from dispensing with the 257 acres on Lake Ray Hubbard — a parcel of land…
