Clint Barlow got to Dallas City Hall way too early today — 10:30 a.m., hours before he was set to plead his case to the City Plan Commission. Still, though it may have taken a while before Barlow spoke to the commissioners about his efforts to re-open Trees, the wait…
Maybe you saw something in the paper last week about two Starck Club docs in the works — the one we mentioned that sneak-peeked at the USA Film Fest, and another being cooked up by AFI Dallas International Film Fest artistic director Michael Cain with club founder Blake Woodall. Turns…
Dirk Nowitzki bought her a ring. Bought her a dog. Bought her entire pack of lies. Sad to say, he went for Crystal Cristal Taylor’s exaggerated, elaborate head fake. Couple of weeks ago the Dallas Mavericks’ star gave an in-depth interview to the German newspaper Bild. In it, he talked about…
Early this morning, a Canadian police officer parked his Hummer H3 in front of Dallas Police Department headquarters on South Lamar Street. This was no surprise visit. A crowd of about 50 DPD officers and staff waited outside for Sgt. Steve Gibson to arrive. Gibson is on a “drive to…
Talking to reporters after the Mavericks’ morning practice, Dirk Nowitzki didn’t have much to add to reports that Cristal Taylor, the woman arrested at his home yesterday, is in fact his pregnant fiancee.”It’s pretty obvious I’m going through a tough time in my personal life right now, but like I…
Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up ’round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they’ve gone … extreme! Which is to say, Star…
Couple of days back, the National Football League announced that 16 so-called “legacy games” would be played this season in honor of the American Football League’s 50th anniversary. One of those games takes place in Kansas City on October 11, when the Dallas Cowboys play … the Dallas Texans. In…
Friend of the show Leslie Halleck is a horticulturist of some renown who chronicles her “Adventures in Urban Organic Gardening…” on her blog GrowLively. She’s also general manager at North Haven Gardens and a veggie test-gardener for Organic Gardening magazine. Add all that together, and that’s how she wound up…
If nothing else, attorney Larry Friedman’s petition filed yesterday in Dallas County County District Court — a class action lawsuit in which four Dallas County residents and one living in Monterrey, Mexico, allege “corruption and greed” at the Mexican Consulate on Stemmons Freeway — is a great read. Dig it:…
A couple of weeks back we learned that United League Baseball would be setting up shop on the shores of the Trinity River, in the very same 60-acre spot where Irving-based JPI abandoned its own ambitious plans. So happens that at 3:30 p.m. today, ULB co-founders John Bryant and Byron…
So you’re having a beer at your favorite watering hole. Next thing you know, zombies. Through the door. Crashing in the windows. Falling from the ceiling. Purgatory-confined, blood-thirsty zombies. Everywhere. This hasn’t happened to me in a while, but when it does I want an athlete to be my bodyguard…
Nine months ago it looked as though Mark and Patty Lovvorn were going to tear down Stanley Marcus’s house on Nonesuch Road, built 71 years ago by Dallas architect Roscoe DeWitt after Mister Stanley told Frank Lloyd Wright to take a flying leap — since, well, Wright had slammed the…
Sometimes I have hope for this big ol’ rock after all. With the Dallas Cowboys named as the construction company and the lead engineer denying hands-on involvement, the aftermath of the team’s practice facility collapse is eventually going to get ugly. And pricey. But out of the rubble emerges some sanity, in…
Better late…: After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its report on the city’s levees in April, we were baffled to learn that construction on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge would continue, especially since drilling a concrete pier for the bridge into the floodway resulted in the troubling discovery…
“Who Do You Trust?” by Sam Merten, April 30 A Water Park Would Be Nice I can’t even imagine the wonders we could accomplish in this city with half a billion dollars. How many community centers equipped with tutors, teachers and computers that will change the future of DISD students…
If this pisses off Dirk Nowitzki and Mark Cuban and the suddenly trendy bandwagon of MFFLers, so be it. After watching the nauseating Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference Semifinals, it has to be said: I’m sick and tired of watching the Dallas Mavwimps. I know it won’t ruffle…
David Simon, sitting to the left of Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney at today’s Senate subcommittee hearing on “The Future of Journalism,” edited his prepared testimony. The creator of The Wire left out the part about how, when a newspaper exec complains about how technology is the sole reason…
About an hour ago, I called the Senate Committee on Nominations to find out how Shanda Perkins’s Board of Pardons and Paroles confirmation hearing went this afternoon. Shortly after that, I received a call from Beth Shields, communications director for state Sen. Mike Jackson, the Republican from La Porte who…
At last night’s meeting of the Urban Forest Advisory Committee, held deep in the bowels of City Hall, the next chapter in Dallas’s tree saga started to unfold. The short version: Article X of the Dallas City Code, which contains the city’s landscape and tree ordinances, is under revision, and…
More than a year after an accident left improv comedian Mark Orvik with a nasty infection that has yet to fully heal, he and Section 8 are celebrating their 10th anniversary of “fast-paced, in your face, rock ‘n’ roll comedy” with shows at Ozona Grill and Bar. The first was…
Let me start off by stating that I only heard the opening minutes of 103.3 FM ESPN’s Choppy & Greggo last night. But just in that smidge, Greg Williams sounded, well, incoherent. First he said something about “ChoppyGreggo” and then some garble and then some mumbling and then something about “6…
After speeding across the desert, dodging wildlife and the highway patrol, drivers in the cross-country Gumball 3000 Rally showed off their sick parking skills for a crowd of racing fans gathered outside the W Hotel last night.Dozens of folks, mostly kids with cameras, milled around outside the roped-off parking lot,…
