In recent weeks the back-and-forth over Texas’s redistricting and the will-it-won’t-it primary date has turned into a blur of legal briefs and oral arguments; seems that May 29 is the primary date now, so long, Super Tuesday. All of which you’d know if you follow Michael Li: The former Baker…
“You’re saying I died?” Michael Sorrell was lying in a bed at Methodist Hospital. It was September 14, 2008, and he had been unconscious for the better part of 72 hours. His chest had been sliced open, a battery-operated cardiac defibrillator implanted above his ribs. A nest of wires snaked…
A little after 2:30 the council got ’round to that Uplift briefing, which was supposed to be about the city’s creating a nonprofit corporation to help the charter school sell tax-free bonds for its expansion into Deep Ellum and Fort Worth. Which, as the council’s been reminded over and over,…
Free for two years, Richard Miles has nevertheless waited and waited for today — the official acknowledgement that he did not commit the murder and attempted murder at a Texaco near Bachman Lake in 1994 for which he was sent to prison. The detailed 52-page opinion handed down from the Texas…
Tell that quivering liver of yours to relax: The Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade marches on — thanks to a guy who knows a little something about spring parades. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has cut a $40,000 check to the Greenville Avenue Area Business Association to save the parade,…
A week ago Monday, two people picketed outside Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. “Don’t Stop, Don’t Shop,” and “They’re Using the ‘N’ Word,” their signs read. The day after that, there were three. One snapped my picture for crossing the picket line and entering the…
In the wake of the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s vote yesterday not to grant Uplift Education the parking waiver it requested on Elm Street, in the old Baylor offices in Deep Ellum, I spoke with some staffers in Sustainable Development about why they changed their minds. Because initially, city staff…
In one way, shape or form we’ve noted most of what the city council will discuss this afternoon during its briefing. But there’s one briefing we’ve overlooked: Water Conservation and the Land Development Process. This one addresses a familiar subject ’round these parts: the city’s attempt to conserve water during…
In November The News broke the news that Roslyn Carter, the principal at Tom Field Elementary, took teaching to the test a little too far — at least, according to Dallas Independent School District investigators. Acting on anonymous tips, the district says it discovered that Carter told her third-grade science,…
This is absolutely within the purview of Unfair Park’s more musically inclined sibling; my apologies in advance, Audra. But for months I’ve had this song stuck in my head; the same goes (and then some) this morning, following Lady of the Lake Erykah Badu’s appearance on The Late Show with…
It feels like forever ago that we began discussing Uplift Education’s plans to open Laureate Preparatory in Deep Ellum, in the old Baylor offices on Elm Street; but, no, it was only a few weeks ago. And we found out about it, in part, because Uplift had filed with the…
Mark Elfenbein’s known for a good month that Josh Lewin would be taking a spot in the New York Mets’ radio booth this season. His cousin told him. Says the longtime sports-radio fixture known as Elf, he was sitting at a pre-show production meeting ’round the beginning of the year…
Speaking of midways, as we were yesterday, and Valley View Center, as we are, um, frequently? …We were out running a few errands late Sunday when I espied the Ferris wheel presently sitting in the mall parking lot. In recent years it feels like it’s there more often than not,…
The bride wore a strapless dress in shades of blue and white. The other bride wore a battered leather jacket, a shiny, pale pink tie and a snug gray beanie. Hendrix Scott and Jennifer McCluskey rode up to the second floor of the Dallas County Records Building on Main Street…
In light of a few things — namely the one-year anniversary of the most widespread rolling blackout in Texas history; the razor-thin reserve margins that left the state teetering on the verge of more rolling blackouts during that hot-as-hell summer; and ERCOT’s assertion that there aren’t enough plants to power…
I’ve long been a fan of the great Jun Kang, who’s responsible for some of YouPlusDallas’s best offerings. This one is no exception. Justin Ransom, who helped shoot the short you see above, kindly dropped in my inbox this Valentine’s Day offering posted this morning: Just In Time For Love…
Just dialed into Josh & Elf on The Fan (or, as they’re billing it this a.m., “Two Jews and the Flu”) to see if there’d be any mention of this morning’s news out of New York, where Josh Lewin’s been named to the New York Mets’ radio broadcast team. But,…
Edwin Flores said it a couple of weeks back: The Dallas Independent School District has a communications problem. Which is one way of putting it — the nice way of putting it. And so, following months’ worth of dust-ups and screw-ups involving school closures and longer teacher workdays and suspended…
Spent the better part of the morning virtually touring Historic Auto Attractions in Roscoe, Illinois, where, per Roadside America’s rave, “the fireplace mantle on which President Truman signed the order to bomb Hiroshima is only a few feet from a pickup truck used on Sanford and Son” and “Colonel Klink’s…
For months, Mayor Mike Rawlings has made it clear that he’s got his eye on Southern Dallas. This afternoon, as promised, was the first of three public presentations he’ll give on his Southern Dallas Economic Growth Plan, which played to a packed house of bigwigs at the South Side Studios…
The bureaucratic red tape for bike lanes is loosening in Dallas. Well, OK. There’s talk of it loosening. Which, for those who like to want to ride their bicycles, who want to ride them where they like, is better than nothing. At today’s meeting of the city council’s Transportation and…
A Friend of Unfair Park dispatches this look at Addison’s new water tower, which is presently making the rounds on Reddit. And, yes, those are wind turbines on top — 10 total, each eight feet tall, the point of which is to operate the water tower and power the street…
