Archive for July, 2010
by Bruce Felps So, last night at the Last Thursday happy hour, I joked with some of the folks about not being able to turn around without a Woodrow grad being right there. Today is no exception. I read in the morning’s paper about the reunion of Playboy Bunnies happening tonight. Just a bit ago [...]
by Bruce Felps Not that I exactly became an honorary Woodrow Wildcat last night, but one of the alumna — hi Marti — invited me to attend the July installment of Last Thursday, the unofficial monthly gathering of Woodrow Nation at Fox and Hound pub in Lake Highlands. Pretty amazing gathering. There must have been more [...]
Cindy Walkup and Beth Labos Basile — Photo by Connor Basile by Bruce Felps Everything comes with strings attached. Earlier this week, we conducted a little contest to award four tickets to the final summer show of the Cool Thursdays concert series at the Dallas Arboretum. Two sisters — Cindy Walkup and Beth Labos [...]
by Bruce Felps Like just about every other blog and news media outlet populating the Weird Wide Web, this little site includes a “Comments” function associated with each and every posting. I’m not sure the operators of every site use the function so much as a way to take the pulse of its readership as [...]
by Bruce Felps The postal person today delivered a postcard, the likes of which I don’t recall having seen before. It came from the Texas Department of Public Safety — and hey, I paid my debt to society — and it warned of a potentially high risk sex offender in the neighborhood.
by Bruce Felps Annemarie Marek and her colleagues at Shared FUEL — Focus on Urban Environmental Leadership — along with Elizabeth Dry, executive director of Promise of Peace Community Garden, earlier this week received 25,000 reasons to celebrate. Shared FUEL won a $25,000 grant from the Hoblitzelle Foundation, and the East Dallas nonprofit group — that [...]
by Bruce Felps, but not really One of the recent posts about the city budget and how it could affect at least one community center raised the hackles of one reader, a Hollywood-Santa Monica resident, who blew off a little steam in an e-mail message. The reader-turned-writer requested anonymity, which I will respect. The sentiments [...]
No, Downing Hill doesn’t sell that kind … — Courtesy Photo by Bruce Felps Long before Downing Hill Garden Studio opened its doors, proprietor Tom Henderson knew the name of the shop. Downing and Hill — Mr. James L. Downing and the Rev. C. E. Hill — are the grandparents of Henderson and his wife, [...]
by Bruce Felps Dallas, once again, faces a shortfall on its 2010-11 fiscal year operations budget. The city manager and staff have looked over the budget and recommended a few cuts to city services and personnel. Although, I haven’t seen it yet, it’s not posted on Dallas City Hall’s Web site, the budget apparently contains [...]
by Bruce Felps Recent days brought alarming reports of multiple dog attacks on humans and the resulting vitriolic human attacks on humans in the comments sections of a few blog outlets, all in the name of the American Staffordshire Bull terrier, commonly referred to on the street as the pit bull. Yes, pits, like any [...]
