In Town Dallas

Opens Tonight

Adapted from the Orignal Play, GREASE

IB World School, Woodrow Wilson High School, will get back to its old school roots with GREASE, when the nationally recognized musical department returns to its legendary heavy choreographed production style that gained them a reputation for rivaling professional touring company’s.

Editorial

Solving DISD Budget Crisis Will Take Common Sense Solutions

In reviewing the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth over whose fault the current school debt crisis is in DISD, we can’t depend on the State. Citizens and Corporate Dallas needs to own up and quash the talk about firing or paying off teachers to leave which would raise the classroom ratio to 35/1.  It’s time we get real and do what should have been done a long time ago in regards to sales tax, property tax and privatization. 

After thinking about it, it’s awfully coincidental that our public school failings, both fiscally and behaviorally, began when helicopter parents, lawyers and overly sensitive public school administrators jacked the Six Grade Crossing Guard.

For DISD Scholarships

3rd Annual Retail As Art Photography Invitational

Retail as Art is a photography contest designed to showcase the best local photographic talent that captures the true essence of Dallas retail and next Thursday, February 24th, an informational session will be held at design within reach.

Viva Dallas Burlesque

Cirque du Burlesque

The monthly show in February, Cirque du Burlesque, takes its inspiration from Cirque du Soleil and will feature aerial artists, juggling, a snake charmer, lion tamer and more, all with a burlesque twist and pretty pasties!

Invest In Your Neighborhood

Preserving Dallas Beyond Today

Michael Amonett with the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League has recently brought an important city-wide issue to our attention that affects everyone who owns a business or lives inside the City of Dallas in or near a neighborhood that is historic, under conservation status or simply values having the ability to maintain what’s left of the cities structural history.  The City’s record at historic preservation has been abysmal and without the support by the historic preservation program, it goes without saying, more would have been destroyed. 

Katherine Seale with Preservation Dallas has drafted a letter below that details the fee increase in addition to moving the preservation program back to the General Fund from the Enterprise Fund that Amonett, with support by the OOCCL encourages everyone to consider sending to their Council Representative since the vote is tomorrow.  Feel free to copy and paste the letter below to this City of Dallas link. DHarris

Make New Trail Friends!

Friends of the Santa Fe Trail Mixer

Everyone in East Dallas has their Santa Fe train and whistle stories and I swear for years after it stopped running and sometimes still; I can hear the whistle in the distance.  Luckily I’m not the only one and am glad there are others who call it the ghost train.  The completion of the Santa Fe Trail has been a long time coming and the City hopes to have it finished by Thanksgiving (see pics below).  With that said, The Wolf Group is hosting the first ever Trail Mix Event for the Friends of the Santa Fe to mix and mingle for the trail. 

Holiday Play only this weekend

The New Tamale Makers - Las Nuevas Tamaleras

Whether one is attempting to make the infamous family green bean casserole, perogies, bagels, palak bhaji, handmade pasta, dim sum or tamales, the bilingual play is understandable on many levels from the back and forth banter to relating to your own hilarious attempts at mastering your Grandmothers traditional delicacies.