Earlier this afternoon, over on the DISD Blog, Matthew Haag posted a memo Dallas Independent School District sent to district employees Friday, in which the super warned: The state's mammoth budget shortfall could result in "a staggering $180-$200 million" being excised from the district's budget during the next two years...
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No, hold on. Don't leave yet. I know that I, disgruntled bearer of coffee and a bad attitude, should be the last breathing person to give serving advice. But I've worked in restaurants for years. I've talked some tables into leaving a few extra dollars, and I've frustrated others into...
If things are unusually quiet on some local stages right now, it's because most of the biggest, baddest voices in Dallas musical theater are singing like mad in Broadway Our Way, the annual fundraising revue at Oak Lawn's Uptown Players. The cast is an all-star lineup of area divas and...
For a singer-songwriter often associated with protest songs such as "Alice's Restaurant" and "Coming into Los Angeles," Arlo Guthrie comes across as anything but a protester over the phone. "Actually, I'm a registered Republican," Guthrie says while speaking on his cell phone in a hotel room in upstate Ohio. "And...
Speaking of disputes between Texas Rangers ownership past and present ...Courthouse News has the lengthy lawsuit filed Monday in Tarrant County District Court, in which the current ownership team (Rangers Baseball Express) is suing the former owner (Tom Hicks's Ballpark Real Estate) over 11,679 parking spaces around the Ballpark in...
Good Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our rapt attention to yesterday's installment of Paul Lukas's UniWatch, which provides a rare glimpse into the inaugural 1960 season of Lamar Hunt's Dallas Texans. Long story short: Bob Halford, the Texans' PR man, loaned a longtime UniWatch-er named Billy Quinton his Mayo...
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I see here I can buy back my misplaced Rolling Stones-at-the-Cotton Bowl concert tee for $139; quite the ... bargain? Better still: You can relive the show absolutely gratis -- at least, the Halloween '81 gully washer that gave way to the next day's bright-n-shiny seen in this blinding clip.Given...
The catfish shortage that's lately beset North Texas should be over by June, a catfish industry spokesman says. As NBC's local affiliate first reported, all but one location of Babe's Chicken Dinner House locations have scratched catfish from their menus, citing inadequate supply. Jeff McCord, a spokesman for the Catfish...
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Tony Romo + Golf = Bad Decision?
We've already had a busy week of shows, but that doesn't mean the weekend's shows will be spare. There's actually quite a few nice choices this weekend. Let's start by re-capping the oneswe've been mentioning all week.Tonight, Those Darlins will bring their newly established rock sound to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal...
For about 10 years now, Arkansas native Joe Purdy has steadily released album after album of solid -- and at times, spectacular -- folk music. Most recently, though, with his two 2010 releases, 4th of July and This American, Purdy has adopted inventive ways to get his music heard.Case in...
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Sune Rose Wagner, the singer and guitarist who makes up half of Denmark's biggest rock 'n' roll export, The Raveonettes, is stuck in a hotel in Copenhagen. He moved to New York seven years ago, and he normally enjoys his visits back home, where he and his bandmate Sharin Foo...
Yep, pretty much the easiest list I've ever put together. On June 24, 1998 the Dallas Mavericks drafted robust, rotund -- let's face it, fat -- Michigan forward Robert "Tractor" Traylor with the No. 6 pick in the draft. Three picks later the Milwaukee Bucks drafted a German teen named...
Not too far west on Interstate 20, past the last of Fort Worth's low-slung homes and on the road to Weatherford, farm country suddenly replaces all that suburban sprawl. Also fading into the rearview mirror are such distinctive Fort Worth eateries as Del Frisco's, Reata, Angelo's Barbecue and Bonnell's, all...
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Whitt’s End: 4.15.11
Not up for driving out to Mansfield (Hi, Mom and Dad!) tonight in Friday-evening traffic to talk about children who are bought and sold into sexual slavery and will probably live an average of seven years before dying as a result of the danger and trauma of the industry? No?...
About a month ago, Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander told Unfair Park that even during this current budget crisis, the district has no intention of touching its fund balance, which, he said, should sit at somewhere near the $100-million mark. Explained Dahlander, the DISD's reserve fund is not...
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We are about to spend $40 million to build less than two miles of modern streetcar line linking downtown Dallas to Oak Cliff. A few things to keep in mind: •According to the experts, modern streetcars are no better at carrying people around than other transit methods, maybe a little...
Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1978. Within a couple of years, the duo had grown into a quartet and released "Messages," the first of several hit singles that brought the band fame and critical kudos. Yet, after seven successful albums, Humphreys left the...
Fort Worth singer-songwriter Tim Halperin, whose music we first shared with you back in July, had some ups and downs throughout his Hollywood Week auditions, according to the Idol judges. So, the challenge they'd presented him with this week was showing them who he really was. And, in his final...
Kudos and garlands of gratitude should be scattered around to all responsible for the surprisingly dramatic and heart-tugging bit of programming improbably known as the Chopped All-Stars series. Begun several weeks ago with individual competitions featuring representatives of various Food Network subcultures -- such as stars Robert Irvine and Anne...