As we mentioned Monday, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will discuss at tomorrow’s meeting its contingency plans for Kimball, Roosevelt, Pinkston and Seagoville high schools should the Texas Education Agency deem them academically unacceptable for a fifth straight year. As DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander pointed out, the…
My favorite auction site is at it again, this time disposing of watches, rings, necklaces and other assorted gold-plated goodies on behalf of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department.The county will use the proceeds to replenish its coffers, and there are bargains to be had amongst the seized loot. Like, for…
Good bless Mr. Rid for reminding us this morning that back in ’84, Steve Dirkx (Telefone, Teenage Queer) directed this video that should have served as Dallas’s promotional reel. This morning, Steve provides the back story: Two women — Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola — wrote and recorded a song…
Last time we saw Duncanville Olympic boxer Luis Yanez he was mending fences, winning fights and building a professional career while re-building his reputation. Whoops. Turns out the snotty-nose brat who got crossways with U.S. Olympic Boxing is at it again, this time acting the fool enough to get dumped…
As promised, there they were this afternoon, seated on leather chairs perched upon the Woodrow Wilson High School auditorium stage: Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Tony Dorsett, “Mean” Joe Greene, Craig James, Daryl Johnston, Billy Sims. Also there, of course, was Woodrow’s favorite son, Tim Brown, joined by the…
First, the NBA All-Star Game. Then the Super Bowl. Could the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022 be next? It’s not so far fetched now that Dallas has made the final cut as the USA Bid Committee has narrowed a list of 27 cities down…
I rip (make that ripped, past tense) Wade Phillips all the time, but, um, looks like Minnesota Vikings’ head coach Brad Childress needs a history lesson. On Dec. 28, 1975, the Dallas Cowboys traveled to frigid Metropolitan Stadium for a playoff game against the Vikings. Trailing 14-10 with less than…
Yet again, we’re back to the subject of redevelopment in downtown Dallas — if only, for a moment, to visit a block of Elm Street that seems stuck in reverse. It’s the section more or less between N. Akard and N. Ervay Streets, which is populated by buildings significantly shorter…
This morning, during a speech at a Big Brothers Big Sisters benefit breakfast, Mayor Tom Leppert announced a few possible corporate relocations to Dallas — among them, he said, a Fortune 200 company to which he clearly sent an iPhone. But that wasn’t the breaking news that jumped out from…
In Texas, the old saying goes, there exist only two sports: Football. And spring football. God, after all, decreed Texas Stadium have a hole in its roof so he could look down upon his favorite team. Right? From the old wooden Fair Park Bowl through the Cotton Bowl, Texas Stadium…
Michael May’s the latest to wonder whether the AT&T Performing Arts Center is going to remake downtown. Brent Brown, of bcWORKSHOP and the Dallas City Design Studio at City Hall, says, Yup, sure ’nuff, so long as you include, oh, Main Street Garden in the mix: “It’s still dead on…
Had no idea, but should have known, that the former Baby Doe’s Matchless Mine has become a sorta skate park following its ’05 demise. Our boy Justin Terveen was on Goat Hill recently — he makes the occasional hike up thataways — and came across this scene. “As time progresses,…
Really. (Update: This was indeed made for the Professional Convention Management Association conference, which has posted a better version of the video. I’ve dropped in the replacement.)…
In the wake of Tom Hicks Jr.’s blow-me missive to one Liverpool FC fan, and Tommy’s subsequent resignation from the club’s board of directors, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sends along this essay from the U.K. Independent that kinda, sorta applauds Junior for, if nothing else, speaking the truth. Because,…
Courthouse News this morning brings us The Case of the For-Profit Vocational School vs. The Personal-Injury Law Firm. The former is Rhodes Colleges, a California-based chain of campuses that offers courses in everything from criminal justice to HVAC repair (maybe you’ve seen the ads?). Locally, Rhodes has three DFW locations…
I guess the question at this point is, do you give a crap? About baseball players and their steroid use? During the 1998 Major League Baseball season I went to Houston a couple times as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to cover the magical home-run chase between the St. Louis…
We attended today’s meeting of the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee in the hopes of finding out from DART officials where they stood on the second downtown light-rail alignment and streetcars. Instead, the only thing that jumped out was committee chair Linda Koop’s concerns about the lack of development near…
Sure hope those convention planners were aboard Dallas Area Rapid Transit yesterday, when Improv Everywhere’s No Pants! wingdingus made its Dallas debut. If not, our Dylan Hollingsworth was along for the ride and has the slide show to prove it. Bare-Legged Performance Art Terrorists or bored, innocent fun-havers? You be…
Friend of Unfair Park Brad Moulton has been part of a group of folks that, for the last two years, has spent the second Saturday of every month tidying up part of the White Rock Lake shoreline. During that time, he’s been documenting those efforts on Flickr; as Brad writes…
The Professional Convention Management Association kicked off its 3,000-attendees-strong annual conference last night with a wingding at the Dallas Convention Center. Mayor Tom, Southwest Airlines’ Gary Kelly and American Airlines’ Gerard Arpey spoke this morning during “Airlines and Meetings: A CEO Conversation,” but I’m looking forward to Wednesday, when Malcolm…
If you can’t beat ’em, sign ’em? For years Vladimir Guerrero tormented the Texas Rangers. Now, in a sign that new owner Chuck Greenberg has money and moxy and motivation, the Rangers will this week sign the free-agent slugger to a one-year contract. While Tom Hicks, Jr. has some fun with…
On Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will have their “second reading” of contingency plans for four high schools at risk of being labeled academically unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency for a fifth straight year. The at-risk campuses are Kimball, Pinkston, Roosevelt and Seagoville, and, exactly…
