But, seriously, who'll be his running mate? Randy Galloway? The BBC News blog Talking America today has an interview with James Meredith, the first black student ever to enroll in the University of Mississippi back in 1962. The reason for the interview is that Ole Miss is located in Oxford,...
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The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will meet twice today: at their 3 p.m. "financial workshop," then again for their regularly scheduled 5:30 p.m. meeting. It is the former, of course, that's of most concern today, as on the agenda is Item No. 3, which reads, "Consideration and...
Shara Worden's gonna ride this buzz like Seabiscuit. (Sarah Small) Methinks someone over at Stereogum has a little crush on Dallas artists, 'cause, today, on the heels of plenty of other coverage the national music blog's tossed the D's way, comes a 'Gum Drop feature on former UNT student Shara...
Jeff Pearlman's book ain't got nothing on Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson's 1987 autobiography Out of Control: Confessions of an NFL Casualty, in which he detailed how, during Super Bowl XIII, he kept that infamous inhaler of liquefied cocaine stashed in his uniform. But much has changed since Tom Landry cut Hollywood...
Sometime in the last couple of days, the Dallas Independent School District added to its Web site a "Dallas ISD Finances" page, where it lays out those pesky frequently asked questions (as in, "How did the figure rise from $64 million to $84 million?") and offers answers, more or less,...
Really can't say I'd ever heard of Dallas hip-hop artist Big Gemini before coming across the above video this afternoon. Don't really apologize for it either--kind tough to keep up with the Dallas hip-hop scene these days. So much so that I'll say this quite confidently: Either something's definitely, definitely...
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Last night, I caught a little bit of T. Boone Pickens' Q&A in front of the National Press Club yesterday. C-SPAN's got the whole thing, for those with an hour to spare. If not, here's a highlight, during which the Dallas oil billionaire with The Plan talks about how Democratic...
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CNN Grades DISD’s Grading Policy
Transona Five, A Weather, The New Year Granada Theater September 18, 2008 Better Than: Sulking and reminiscing about the way things were, that's for sure. The New Year kept things in line all night. (Sarah Jane Semrad) The New Year's performance at the Granada Theater last night was, oddly enough,...
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The DISD’s Exigency Strategy
We're still hyping The New Year. You listen to it yet? (Allison Smith) Maybe the, I dunno, four or so posts here on DC9 over the past two weeks have clued you into the fact that we're pretty big fans of The New Year here in the office. Or maybe...
Says the Friend of Unfair Park who sent this from the Eagles show Saturday night, when Fox News appeared on the big screen during "Dirty Laundry," the AAC went "silent." Probably the best sound the audience heard all night? We kid, we kid! No, that's the answer: the Guess Who...
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No doubt you've heard that Sean Avery, the latest and greatest (?) Dallas Star, is about to have his tenure at Vogue, where he served as an "intern" this summer, turned into a romantic comedy by New Line and the guys responsible for Journey to the Center of the Earth,...
Sarah McDaniel For those who like to do their Sunday-morning reading on a Thursday, two local items of note in The New York Times' sportsy supplement Play. One's a lengthy, engrossing Mimi Swartz-penned piece on the selling of Parker's Nastia Liukin -- whose name is misspelled throughout much of the...
A.C. Gonzalez, who, when you glance at him real quick, kinda looks like Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet Among the many items under consideration by the city council this morning is addendum item 13, which authorizes $4.4 million in costs for the convention center hotel. When the item is likely...
"Chemtrails" is one of the handful of tremendous tracks found on Beck's recently released Modern Guilt -- not at catchy as "Gammy Ray," but still. Sings the Scientologist: "I can’t believe what we’ve seen outside/You and me watching the jets go by." Perhaps the song provided the yesterday-morning inspiration for...
Tom Hicks is still loathed in Liverpool -- sounds like it ought to be the name of autobiography at this point. Last week, Hicks announced that the team's new stadium wasn't going to be built after all -- looks like he and partner George Gillett kinda ran out of money,...
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Say this for Lily Tomlin: She does not screw around. One month after she sent Mayor Tom Leppert a missive begging the Dallas Zoo to ship Jenny (who, I believe, is an elephant of some kind) to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and two weeks after talking to Unfair Park...
Brian Harkin Dr. Elba Garcia, Mayor Pro Tem When the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee voted unanimously to both rename Industrial Boulevard “Riverfront Boulevard” and move forward with renaming Ross Avenue “Cesar Chavez Boulevard,” I finally became interested in this whole mess. Why? Simple: The process had finally...
Harold Simmons Harold Simmons spent about $3 million on that Barack Obama attack ad, and Politico.com's making sure he's getting his money's worth. Because moments ago, Ben Smith posted the second missive Obama's counsel, Robert Bauer, sent to the Department of Justice in which Bauer demands an investigation into the...
By now, you're no doubt aware of my insatiable and irrational interest in Oliver Stone's W, which opens in October. So imagine my delight, then, to come across this item from late last week: extensive making-of footage from Lionsgate provided by Access Hollywood in which, for the first time, we...