The president of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools just called Unfair Park with news concerning Paul Quinn’s accreditation status. Says Dr. Belle Wheelan, “The appeal panel did uphold the decision the commission had made.” In other words, Paul Quinn will remain unaccredited. The decision comes two months after the…
If you’ve got the time this morning, you should check out the live feed of the city council’s budget workshop, where, at the moment, the topic of discussion is the Park and Recreation cuts. Earlier, council member Ann Margolin told City Manager Mary Suhm she’s concerned about the trims to…
A friendly Sportatoriumite sends along this pic taken moments ago at Cowboys Stadium. Again, I’m no engineer but sure looks like – with the cranes and wenches and roof open – the JumboJerry is being raised. Right?…
Couple of weeks back we had a very brief chat with Kent Robertson, manager of Dallas Animal Services and star of the city’s “Pet of the Week” videos, about the recent rise in animal adoptions — more than 40 a week in recent weeks. Courtesy a briefing doc prepare for…
This week’s column in the Dallas Observer wasn’t more dogpiling on Josh Hamilton, but rather some perspective on how unfairly most of us (yeah, I’m pointing at me) jumped on Josh Howard. They both screwed up. They both – eventually – apologized. They are…
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, via this New York Times story about today’s cash-for-clunkers deadline, I’m the proud owner of one of the most popular trade-ins: a Jeep Cherokee, which is starting to drive like today’s its expiration date as well. So, how’d it go for locals? The…
The boy’s heading out the door, about to begin his first day of first grade — meaning, at least, he’ll be off the streets when the police start sweeping up young’uns on this first day of the Daytime Juvenile Curfew. Passed 12-2 by the Dallas City Council last May, the…
Everything’s bigger (and lower) in Texas. Toldja. Back in May – after reading that the colossal video boards at Cowboys Stadium were to be only 90 feet above the playing field – I penned an item questioning exactly how high was high enough. It was more common sense than aeronautical…
For those Friends of Unfair Park who haven’t read through the entire FY2009-2010 proposed city of Dallas budget, the city council’s biting off tiny pieces during regularly scheduled briefings in advance of the September 23 pass-by date. There’s yet another budget workshop tomorrow morning at Dallas City Hall, during which…
Just as I was getting ready to post photos from last night’s Star Wars art shindig at The Soda Gallery, a Friend of Unfair Park sent word this morning: The Star Wars: In Concert tour is scheduled to land at the Death Star itself — Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome — on…
What you’ll find below is the first episode of what we hope will become a weekly series starring Jim Schutze and former Dallas City Council member Sandra Crenshaw, who’ve been spending way too much time together in an auxiliary courtroom at the Earle Cabell during the Dallas City Hall federal…
Been spending quite a bit of time in Oak Cliff of late, and if you need me ’round 6 tomorrow eve, no doubt I’ll be accompanying the 6-year-old who lives in my house to The Soda Gallery for the Star Wars Fan Appreciation Art Show — otherwise known as “These…
The Los Angeles Times has sniffed out an article published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, in which researchers from Baylor University Medical Center on Gaston Ave. and Japan write about a new test that diagnoses various gastrointestinal cancers by analyzing DNA fragments in feces. All you…
I’ll have a full review of this joint’s football debut Monday, but for now I’ve seen $35 parking at Wal-Mart (good googly moogly), new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ uniforms (so long, white short shorts) and nary a blue star at midfield. Weird…
Representatives from Preservation Dallas and the Landmark Commission met yesterday morning with the Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee and first assistant city attorney Chris Bowers to hammer out the details of a proposed ordinance aimed at expediting the demolition of historic structures, but once again, the committee voted to delay the…
Much thanks to Kevin in the comments down below for spotting this gem amongst Angela Hunt’s photos from her trip to Long Beach. Michael who? Tom wha?…
Speaking of the city and technological advancements involving one’s talking box …This morning on her ever-active Web site, Angela Hunt wonders why in the heck Dallas doesn’t have an iPhone app that lets residents “snap photos of nuisances and code violations and send them off to city hall (geo-tagged, no…
This week, the city of Dallas is pushing — hard — its Reverse 911 Emergency Notification System, which thus far has been used twice to notify folks of, um, an emergency (the most recent event necessitating the calls was the June 11 flooding near the Trinity River in West Dallas)…
Last night the Old 97’s officially welcomed Dallas’s second attempt at a Hard Rock Cafe to what I believe is called Victory Park. So too did a host of other dignitaries, among them Dancing With the Stars star Michael Irvin, a former football player of some renown who kindly offered…
Dear Lifetime, thank you. I’ve really, truly missed Project Runway. Last night I was visibly excited to have it back. One thing though: Go high-def, for crying out loud. Not being able to see ruching and contrast stitching puts me in a teeny rage black-out. I realize you cater to…
Late yesterday, the Texas Senate issued a summary of sorts of the Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security’s public hearing in Arlington on Thursday, during which everything from drought to driving was on the agenda. Of course, Rosemary Miramontes’s testimony, concerning her son’s accident in an HOV lane on I-35E…
We began Thursday morning with the news that Brian Dennehy would be writing and directing the story of Joyce Ann Brown, a then-Koslow’s Furs employee who, in 1980, was convicted of robbery and murder based almost solely on the testimony of a single eyewitness — the wife of the slain…
