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Cotton Candy, the movie featured Howard’s
American Graffiti co-star Charles Martin Smith.
62. Erica Abi Wright is better known to music fans as Erykah Badu. Her original stage name was Apples, one half of the hip-hop duo the Def Ones, while attending Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
63. The Old 97’s make an appearance (and serve as a fairly major plot point, in the 2006 film
The Break-Up. Producer and star Vince Vaughn is a noted longtime fan of the 97’s. Their “Timebomb” was used in his 1998 movie
Clay Pigeons.
64. KNON was the first radio station to play hip-hop in Dallas.
They were all summer children. They had shining hair and brown arms and bare legs, and as I watched them, under a blue sky in the dense heat of four August afternoons, nothing was serious.
They had come together, more than a thousand of them, for a cheerleading clinic given each summer on the campus of Southern Methodist University. This clinic is one of 200 the National Cheerleaders Association holds throughout the United States, but it is the largest of the 25 in Texas and attracts squads from high schools all over Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and even from as far away as Kansas City, Missouri.
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Eagles To Compete For 4A Bi-District Championship The Hillsboro High School varsity baseball team will play in the University Interscholastic League Class 4A Region II bi-district championship series against North Dallas High School. Game one of the best-of-three game series is set for 7 p.m. Friday, May 7, at Eagle Park in Hillsboro. Game two will be held at noon Saturday, May 8, at North Dallas. If necessary, game three will follow 30 minutes after game two in North Dallas. Coached by Ryan Cook, the Eagles earned the postseason appearance by claiming the fourth seed out of District 11-4A behind Waxahachie Life, Godley and Alvarado. Cook said that his team has seen some tough pitchers in district play and he feels the experience will benefit the Eagles in the post-season.
Rangers legend Michael Young donates $50k to Reverchon Park ballfield restoration
By FOX 4 Staff article
DALLAS - Texas Rangers legend Michael Young is doing his part to bring life back to a baseball field near downtown Dallas.
Young donated $50,000 to the Dallas Education Foundation, which is raising funds for the Reverchon Park restoration project. The young people in our community, and their families, deserve to have a place they can be proud of and call their own. Dallas has always embraced me and my family, and we are thrilled to be able to support this inclusive project, Young said in a statement.