It’s hard to overstate how completely the city of Dallas has neglected its aquatics system. It hasn’t built a new pool since 1978, when it built an indoor facility near Bachman Lake. The number of pools operated by the city dropped from 107 in 1983 to 17 today. Those that…
Delia Jasso has long been an ally to the LGBT community. One of her first major initiatives upon joining the City Council in 2009 was to organize the LGBT Task Force. More recently, she was among the first to put her name to a resolution in support of gay marriage…
On March 5, the Wichita Falls Police Department took a call from a man who threatened to blow up the federal courthouse in Dallas. Why he was relaying this information to Wichita Falls police, or why he thought it wise to inform law enforcement of his plans, wasn’t clear. But…
Broderic Allen, aka Ballen, aka B.A., is an aspiring Dallas rapper and member of local hip-hop collective The Chaos Theory. But it’s not his music that’s landed him on TV, and on AOL News, and in the U.K.’s Daily Mail. All that stems from his drinking habits or, more accurately,…
Early on Tuesday morning, Jerry Waller woke to a noise coming from outside the garage of his home on a quiet street near Woodhaven Country Club in East Fort Worth. It was about 1 a.m. when the 72-year-old stepped outside to investigate. He grabbed his .38-caliber handgun just to be…
There’s really no legitimate reason to ever carry an ice pick in Dallas. That rule applies year-round (ice comes in cubes nowadays), but it’s particularly true in late May, when temps dip to a not-quite-frigid 75 degrees. That point was driven home in extremely painful fashion early this morning at…
It was only a matter of time, really before this happened. Put giant B’s and G’s around the city as part of the official “Big Things Happen Here” marketing campaign, and someone will eventually think “You know what? A penis is shaped kinda like an ‘I.'” Then, it’s only a…
There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Dallas financier Barrett Wissman is not entirely on the up-and-up. That story he told hedge fund colleagues of taking over his father’s sizable chemical company two years out of college? D reported that it was a tiny company that manufactured tablecloths and lawn-care…
There would be some practical questions that would have to be answered if the Texas Department of Transportation decided to tear down I-345, the short stump of Central Expressway between Woodall Rodgers and Interstate 30. Where will one find shade at Bark Park Central? Where will those artsy, bohemian types…
Type Jerome Oberlton’s name into Google, and one of the first things to pop up is a Baltimore Sun article detailing all the places he used the local school district’s credit cards. These included businesses like Bath & Body Works and Ross, which would seem to provide little of use…
It’s a long drive to the Omni Hotel downtown from the nearest Waffle House, which is three-fourths of the way to Farmers Branch. It’s a sleepy one, too, when made at the typical Waffle House hour of 4 a.m. Nevertheless, an unidentified gentleman driving a 2004 Lexus SUV decided to…
It’s easy to forget, immersed as we are in creepy YouTube renderings of Big Tex’s face, that the rest of the world probably isn’t obsessively tracking the progress in replacing the gangly 50-foot cowboy. And so, over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal filled them in on the rebuilding effort…
Drivers and liberals can breathe easy: Central Expressway is still officially Central Expressway. The state legislature opted over the weekend to retain the familiar name for the roadway’s entire length. That said, the three-and-a-half mile stretch between Knox Street and Northwest Highway will also be called George W. Bush Expressway…
Terry Costa owner Tina Loyd would like it on the record that she fully supports cross dressers. Her North Dallas dress shop happily supplies the gowns for any number of men competing in local drag shows and employs a pageant consultant who often attends the events in support of customers…
Many in Dallas have no doubt been eagerly awaiting the June 4 unveiling of the Dallas Stars’ new logos and uniforms. Probably not as many as are eager to glimpse Buster the Armpit Lion on the Mavs’ new duds, but logo changes always generate a bit of buzz. It looks…
Josh Brent has managed to stay mostly out of the headlines since the blitz of media coverage that followed his indictment on intoxication manslaughter charges in the December 8 death of Cowboys teammate Jerry Brown. That changed today. Brent was back in court this morning after prosecutors said he’d violated…
You’d think the clerk might have recognized the man as he waited in line at 7:30 Thursday morning. After all, he’d made memorable appearances at the same Ninth Street 7-Eleven twice in the previous 27 hours. In the first, which happened just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the 200-pound Hispanic…
The Trinity Groves project is still in its infancy. Babb Bros. BBQ and Four Corners Brewing arrived last year, followed by Hoffman Hots. The restaurant incubator hasn’t just started incubating. The stores and apartments are still just a glimmer in Phil Romano’s eye. But backers aren’t letting the preliminary nature…
We were sad, distraught even, when Six Flags announced that it was closing the Flashback last summer. The news that it would be replaced by the 400-foot Texas Skyscreamer, and that the Skyscreamer would stand as the tallest swing ride in the world, failed to move us. No matter how…
It’s hard to tell sometimes, but Texas does in fact have gun restrictions. Handguns, for instance, are barred from sporting events, courtrooms, polling places, racetracks and schools, particularly when gunowners are drunk. They still can’t be carried out in the open or onto college campuses, despite some lawmakers’ best efforts…
When preservationists began lobbying Sylvan 30 developer Brent Jackson to return the Alamo Plaza sign to its home along Fort Worth Avenue, this isn’t what they had in mind. From the Sylvan 30 website: We’ve heard you and we agree: The Alamo Plaza sign will stay at Sylvan | Thirty…
If you’ve ever been curious what it would be like to watch a century-old railroad trestle go down in flames, the video above should give you an idea. The bridge, which spans 900 feet over the Colorado River near San Saba, Texas, was built in 1910 on a spur of…
