Preston Hollow Democrats get a kick out of a couple of things — firstly, being Preston Hollow Democrats, and secondly, Andrea White, wife of Bill, he of the running for governor of Texas. The PHD was formed in the wake of the March ’08 primaries during which Obama fever was…
No doubt you’ve at least heard about KTVT-Channel 11’s story that aired last night, in which the CBS owned-and-operated reported that a homeless man from Mexico made it past those security gates and all the way to George W. Bush’s front door. Said Channel 11, which has since yanked the…
Thanks — no, really — to the many Friends of Unfair Park who’ve forwarded Anna Fermanova’s Thursday-night debut on the CW33, for which she’s now an entertainment-gossip correspondent. I’ll leave it to you to review the performance, which is on the other side, though how she squeezes even two minutes…
Photos by Jeffrey LilesMount Pisgah Baptist built its first church at the corner of what’s now Preston and Spring Valley in the late 1800s; the structure that sits there now is a rebuild that dates back to 1945. But in 1981 the church bought property on Webb Chapel near Forest,…
The Dallas Business Journal this morning brings news of a $1-billion, 1-million-square-foot movie and teevee production facility being planned in Frisco, near the Dallas North Tollway and Warren Parkway. And that’s not all: According to Premier Studios’ elaborate website, filled with conceptual renderings and site plans and build-out phases and…
Spirit of ShanklyHit it, Lozninger: Baby, can’t you see what the Royal Bank of Scotland just did — it moved Tom Hicks and George Gillett’s £237 million debt in Liverpool FC to the totally-teffed-list. Meaning: After asking somewhere between £600 and £800 million for the Reds (which, I believe, translates…
Courtesy Danny BalisA couple of nights back, my ol’ pal Danny Balis — a radio producer of some kind, a musician of some note — sent me the link to a scratchy 45 released in September 1955: “Another You,” credited to Deonne Dome With Hoyle Nix And His West Texas…
Patrick MichelsAngela Hunt at a budget town hall in late August at Frontiers of Flight MuseumYesterday, shortly after I posted that budget amendment memo in which eight council members called for a 4.91-cent tax hike, I heard from countless Friends of Unfair Park who said, more or less: “Yeah, but…
I’d planned on going to the Downtown Connection TIF District Review Committee Meeting, but, well, I had a prior commitment, and, besides, the thing was canceled for lack of a quorum. There was, though, an item of interest on the agenda: “Review and approval of design plans for 1600 Pacific…
Ann from Dallas: hater of holiday sweaters, according to her bioThe newest season (Cycle 15, for those counting or interested) of America’s Next Top Model kicked off last night, and since I’m posting this here, you know we have at least one contestant from our fair city. Oh, but wait,…
When ESPN debuted in the early 1980s, one of the network’s time-filling staples was Australian Rules Football. I was obsessed. The giant, oval field. The fans with gigantic pom poms. The four – that’s right, four – goal posts. The referees that signaled points by seemingly drawing six-shooters from their holsters and by resuming play…
Donna MicheauxI’m here at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees briefing, awaiting a presentation by Chief Administrative Officer Donna Micheaux on those proposed new admissions policies for the district’s magnet schools. But according to the public speakers who have already appeared, Micheaux called them all this morning before…
Ms. Greer called me this morning to tell me she made it through the night. She’s a courtly, pretty lady, 88 years old, whose house is at the very end of Rockefeller Boulevard by Moore Park, south of Cadillac Heights, about four miles down river from downtown. She’s the last…
Along with Mayor Tom Leppert and our good friends at Telemundo, we got up early this morning and rode over to the Dallas Convention Center, where the FIFA World Cup Soccer Site Selection Committee stopped by to size up the place. Like a team of mall-walking grandmas, they showed up…
Bill Parcells considered him a closer. Jerry Jones gave him a ton of money. At one point we called him “The Barbarian.” But at this point, Dallas Cowboys’ running back Marion Barber is just a minimal role player. Right? Barber went to the Pro Bowl as a backup in 2007,…
And now, two excellent opportunities to see (and participate in!) community activism this weekend in Deep Ellum. Tucked into doors of many neighborhood residences this week are fliers for Saturday’s Deep Ellum Community Day, wherein members of the Deep Ellum Community Association and friends are asking Ellumites to help build…
If only Fritz Von Erich was around to see this. The old Dallas-based professional wrestler used to mesmerize me and paralyze opponents in the 1970s – down at The Sportatorium, no less – with his signature move, “The Iron Claw.” He’d basically take his powerful right hand and squeeze the life…
Yesterday, I mentioned that some Dallas Independent School District parents are concerned about a proposed change to magnet admissions that would allow room for “students of promise”; today it’s in the paper, where trustee Edwin Flores “acknowledged that a proposed change would reserve 10 percent of magnet admission slots for…
Justin TerveenI woke up this morning to find this present in the Unfair Park in-box courtesy — who else? — our old pal Justin Terveen. It speaks, or sings, for itself — and needs to be seen much larger than I’m capable of displaying it here. (So too does this…
Between the weather and the Rosh a few things fell through the cracks yesterday. Like, oh, former FBI agent Terence Hart’s report to City Manager Mary Suhm concerning the funeral procession for Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s son. City Hall sent the 11-page doc, and Suhm’s accompanying memo, late Wednesday…
CIUDAD JUÁREZ—Esteban was riding shotgun in his family’s rusted teal minivan when his dad, Lorenzo, suddenly stopped the car. It was odd—a vehicle facing the opposite direction blocked their way on the narrow street. They were just four blocks from home. Esteban, who was 6 at the time, with soft…
BUZZ Kids these days: Well, if that isn’t just about the saddest thing ever. We’re talking about U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who has spent much of the past two weeks being raked over coals after The Dallas Morning News reported that she arranged for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation…
