Maybe you remember: Back in September ’07, Waxahachie High School student Pete Palmer was called into the principal’s office and that, Look, you’re all-black look is way too goth for the school’s dress code. At which point his dad, Paul, showed up with a replacement tee supporting then-presidential candidate John…
On Friday, January 8 at approximately 5 p.m., I officially started hating Tom Thumb. Seriously? Valentine’s Day is sooo wonderful that it demands a 5-week run-up? Vomit. And to think, some houses in my neighborhood still have their Christmas trees and lights up. And on…
Let’s start this item with some kind words for (for now) Tom Hicks Sr.’s baseball club, which, at 12:30 p.m. today will help out Cedar Hill High School, where students returned from the winter break to find the baseball team’s field house ransacked and more or less destroyed by vandals…
Maybe you noticed (over to the right, beneath our Twitter Updates header) that yesterday, The New York Times took A Peek Into Netflix Queues in 12 U.S. cities, including Dallas. The breakdown’s by zip code and ranks the top rentals of ’09 — and most zips find The Curious Case…
Pretty sure Sam’s heading to the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting today, during which council members will meet with Dallas Area Rapid Transit president and executive director Gary Thomas and other board members to discuss what’s on the agenda for 2010. Morgan Lyons, DART spokesman, sends this reminder…
The sun rose in the east this morning. But don’t kid yourself, it’s a vastly different planet for your Dallas Cowboys. A world, that is, free of monkeys, gorillas, primates, mandrills, King Kongs and, most imporantly, playoff pratfalls. In what will surely be referenced for years to come, owner Jerry…
10. Spit Happens. So do three-game sweeps that finally, unequivocally bury memories of 44-6. 9. Cowboys at Vikings next Sunday at noon. Get ready for a week of Tony-Romo-is-a-younger-Brett-Favre comparisons. One thing’s for sure: Cowboys are as hot as anyone. During their four-game winning streak they have never trailed. 8…
Earlier this evening, Paul Gardner — Spirit of Shankly Regeneration Liaison Officer and rabid Liverpool FC fan — sent word: Tom Hicks Jr.’s got a potty mouth. Which is no big deal, sure, except Hicks is vice president of Hicks Sports Group and a director of Liverpool FC, the soccer…
As we mentioned earlier, some of the meeting planners in town for the Association for Convention Operations Management’s annual conference took a tour of Dallas this morning. They hit all the, um, hot spots — meaning, Highland Park, the Arts District and, of course, the Grassy Knoll.So happened we were…
Sorry I didn’t make it out to The Gourds show at the Granada on Saturday; had every intention, as it’s been too long. And I was just thinking about the boys — came across the Picket Line Coyotes’ ’88 cassette Upholstery Van Songs right before Christmas in a Sound Warehouse…
Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall breaks the bad news: “Due to budget considerations, the 2010 City of Dallas Calendar and Annual Progress Report will not be printed this year.” Which is especially heartbreaking for Schutze, as this year’s calendar features the winning entries from the Trinity River Photo Contest…
Liz Mikel, a member of the Dallas Theater Center’s resident ensemble and, from 2006 through ’08, a co-star on Friday Night Lights, was among those who lost everything yesterday when the Holly Hills apartment complex near Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane caught fire. As she told KXAS-Channel 5, “Memories…
It may take a while to get a response from DISH Network; a spokesperson tells Unfair Park most of its higher-ups are at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. Till we get a response, then, this is Fox Sports Southwest’s side of the story.This year, the network upped the…
After the jump, in its entirety, is a release we just received that offers sketchy details involving 19 people — most of them locals — who were indicted by a federal grand jury this week for their involvement in what the U.S. Attorney’s Office calls a “massive cybercrime conspiracy.” We…
As you’re no doubt aware by now, the City Plan Commission yesterday voted unanimously to change the name of South Central Expressway downtown, between Pacific and Grand Avenues, to César Chávez Boulevard (not Parkway, as originally proposed). The council will now get to vote on the name change, which was…
You may spot more than a few out-of-towners wandering ’round our frigid climes this a.m.: The Association for Convention Operations Management is holding its annual conference at the Westin City Center today through Sunday, and among the opening events are optional sightseeing tours of the city, the convention center or…
With five blankets and a parka separating her from the toughest cold Dallas has seen in years, May Davis figured she’d spend last night like all the others she’s spent on the street in South Dallas. Around 9 p.m., though, as the temperature sunk into the mid-20s, a city of…
Henry Spruiell does not disagree with the city of Dallas: The house he owns at 500 E. 6th Street in the Lake Cliff Historic District does indeed pose what’s known as an “imminent threat to public health and safety” and probably should be torn down. “It’s terrible,” Spruiell says, “and…
Mike Rawlings and Mike Faenza of the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance briefed the City Plan Commission this morning regarding the city’s goal of diverting those living in homeless shelters into 700 new units of permanent supportive housing. Their appearance was timely after last night’s brutal weather caused the city to…
As I didn’t back in 2006, I still don’t get Dallas’ obsession with the University of Texas. I know there’s tons of alumni and it’s the big state university and lone star pride and yadda, yadda and more yadda. But it’s Commerce Street, not Sixth Street. It’s Reunion Tower, not…
Maybe you recall that back in November, we heard from Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney about the company’s decision to pack up and abandon its Southern Dallas packaging facility near the intersection of Interstates 20 and 45 on Langdon Road. Reason we e-mailed Moroney was because some folks wondered…
We called it almost one year ago to the day: Bob’s Steak & Chop House will be the anchor eatery in the convention center hotel. No surprise there: After all, Omni, which will operate the hotel, owns a 50-percent steak (see what I did there?) in the chain, which is…
