Articles for February 9th, 2010
Whole Foods Robber Nabbed
Details over at Preston Hollow People.
Private Jets Fill the Skies Over Downtown Dallas
From my window on the 21st floor of St. Paul Place, across the street from the DMA, I get to watch the planes coming in on their approach to Love Field. Normally it’s all (or mostly all) Southwest flights. Today, though, I’ve noticed a distinct increase in landings by private jets. I’m guessing these are high-rollers coming in for the NBA All-Star Game?
DMN Is Unfair to DISD — Again
When 48 DISD schools wound up on the so-called PEG list of what the TEA deems “unacceptable” schools, you read about it in the Dallas Morning News — as you should. But when the TEA names 24 elementary schools as “distinguished” (up from eight the previous year), you hear nary a peep. When the good news went out in a release yesterday, I wondered on this blog how the paper would play the story, whether it would be on the front page of Metro or whether it would be buried. I never considered that the paper simply wouldn’t do the story at all. I find this troubling.
Update: A mea culpa to the DMN.
Wham-Mu: A ‘Strange and Spectacular’ One-Weekend Show Coming to an Abandoned Bank Building Near You
Remember all those drive-thru banks that were popping up a few years ago, just before the bottom fell out on the financial world? Now that many of their owners have been wiped out of existence, someone has to deal with them. One WaMu building on Greenville Avenue near Central Market is being dealt with quite nicely. On February 20, more than a dozen artists will open a two-day exhibition called “Modern Ruin” in the never opened, never used, yet completely finished space. The catch: two days after the show opens, the bank building is going to be demolished. The release, as well as an impressive list of participating artists (which includes FrontRow contributor Noah Simblist) is after the jump.
America’s Worst Driver Comes to Dallas
What? You’ve never heard of the Travel Channel show called America’s Worst Driver? The show goes from city to city, pitting contestants against each other in driving challenges. The worst driver in each city gets his car — his own personal car — destroyed. Dallas is one of the eight cities on the show. So intern Ashley Oates conducted an actual journalism-style Q&A with Charlie Parsons, one of the producers of the show, to see what was what:
St. Mark’s Students Demonstrate Lack of Common Sense
There are dozens of St. Mark’s kids walking through the Arts District right now, where it is approximately 27 degrees. That’s below the temperature at which water freezes. And to a man, they are all wearing shorts. I’m just saying, Cistercian kids would have enough sense to wear long pants. Go, Hawks!
The Perils of Flying
First comes news that American Airlines will start charging coach passengers $8 for blankets and pillows (but you get to take them home and you get a coupon for $10 off a $30 purchase at Bed Bath & Beyond!), then we hear that Southwest is being investigated by the FAA for a third time in two years. I still think it’s safer for me to fly rather than drive, and no one offers me a pillow and blanket when I’m in the car. So, really, I don’t think it’s all that bad.
Leading Off (2/9/10)
1. Former Houston mayor Bill White and hair care magnate (a phrase I enjoy typing) Farouk Shami had what might be their only debate last night in Fort Worth, as they vie for the chance to be ignored by everyone in the governor’s race. If you missed it, there’s a live blog right here.
2. The mayors of Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington are all on the same page regarding their priorities for Super Bowl XLV. The weird thing? It’s page 275 from The Da Vinci Code.
3. “An off-duty police officer is accused of hitting two bar workers and pulling a gun on them because they refused to let him back inside after closing.” Kind of getting deja vu, as that’s exactly how my career in law enforcement ended. Now, I just fight crime in my spare time.
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