I’ve just spent the last way too long flipping through a virtual photo album Jeff Liles has put together consisting of 43 Polaroids David Tatge snapped while out and about Deep Ellum during the early 1990s. (Oh, sweet bird of youth …) Jeff says these heretofore unseen pictures — featuring…
At the end of January, we directed your attention to a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety filed on behalf of three men — each born in Mexico but currently living in Dallas and Denton counties with valid work visas — who were denied driver’s licenses because of…
I’m confused by the Rangers and their uncharacteristic 2-0 start. I’m confused by the Mavs and their 270 combined points and back-to-back victories after pratfalling in Memphis. And I’m confused how new Britney morphed from horrible Britney into bad Britney into a Britney that’s just as good as even original…
Mayor Tom Leppert made two stops on his tireless convention center hotel campaign tour Tuesday as he dropped by for “coffee and conversation” with the Dallas County Council of Republican Women shortly before squaring off with anti-hotel group leader Anne Raymond at the Westin Galleria. Leppert addressed the recent TV…
The Houston Chronicle has the story: Republican State Rep. Betty Brown, who reps Henderson and Kaufman counties, on Tuesday suggested during a House Elections Committee wingding that Asians might oughta “adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here.” And KXAN-Channel 36 down in Austin has the video…
Maybe Neiman Marcus, which today released yet more dispiriting sales stats, ought to consider going all-nude. Seems to be working out quite nicely for Houston-based, publicly traded (lesse … p-u-b-l-i-c … yeah, that’s right) Rick’s Cabaret International, which today announced that its revenues are up by some 18 percent during…
The Texas Attorney General’s Office sends word this morning that 22 Dallas parents who’ve been court-ordered to pony up child support were arrested by Dallas County constables — and it was the very definition of a “rude awakening,” as the round-up kicked off at 5:30 in the a.m. Says Attorney…
The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York is hallowed ground. The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is a sacred shrine. The Basketball Hall of Fame is an absolute joke. I realize it’s weird timing, seeing that this year’s class – Michael Jordan, Jerry Sloan, David Robinson and John…
Last night’s Passover seder no doubt kept some of you from attending the Dallas Tea Party planning session in advance of next Wednesday’s rally in front of Dallas City Hall, scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. — and, do note, the time’s been changed as the group says it’s “been…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have wondered this morning, in so many words, “Where we goin’ smoking tonight?” You know, last day and all. Really hadn’t though about it. But now that they mention it … I dunno, Ship’s, maybe? But it’s been a while. The Slip Inn? Been even…
I’d tweet this item, but … no. Instead, this trio of Twitter-related items in a single post. As in: This morning, the Chicago Tribune becomes the latest in a series of stories to reference Addison-based TweetCongress, which, go figure, follows the tweets of those in Congress — about 110 politicians…
Seriously, who are these guys? With generally the same cast of characters that has face-planted out of the gate the last two seasons, the Texas Rangers are off to a dream start. Granted 2-0 gets only a subtle nod in Boston or New York or Anaheim, but in Arlington it’s cause…
Like the rest of us, Texas Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson admitted to being a little confused during Monday’s Opening Day. “It didn’t look like us out there,” he said after throwing a scoreless inning in his team’s 9-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Of course,…
It was a postcard-perfect January afternoon in Scottsdale, a winter’s day more like a postcard-perfect spring afternoon. Some 60 Stanford Group Company “wealth managers” had flown to Arizona for the company’s quarterly meeting—the kind most of these advisors might have skipped most other quarters. But not this one, not now,…
“Athletes’ Feat?” by Richie Whitt, April 2 Dim Whitt I don’t know who you think you are, but you have no idea what you’re talking about. So why don’t you keep your screwed-up, backward opinions about the No. 1 sport in America to yourself? You don’t know what the hell…
Remember Jenny?: Give Margaret Morin credit for perseverance. For nearly a year, the leader of Concerned Citizens for Jenny has lobbied, cajoled and pleaded with city leaders to send Jenny—until last week the Dallas Zoo’s only elephant—to a sanctuary in Tennessee. In that time, she says, she’s learned just how…
At the end of March, The Washington Post ran a piece in which some National Public Radio hosts and higher-ups discussed the idea of having NPR member stations raise funds on the mothership’s behalf. Because, after all, NPR’s struggling like every other media organization: In December, it axed two popular…
GlobeSt.com today crunches Texas’s apartment vacancy numbers and finds that multifamily units around the state — and in Dallas very specifically — are a little less full-up now than they were this time last year. There are, of course, two very obvious reasons for the rise in vacancies: the economy…
I’ll leave it to Dr. Merten to comment on the content of Vote No!’s brand spankin’ new ad, which the pro-hotel campaign just posted to the series of tubes interconnected to each other, and instead just let you watch as God and Tom Leppert intended. Because it’s mighty meta and…
It’s all well and dandy that Jason Terry is all but guaranteeing a Dallas Mavericks’ victory tonight against the Utah Jazz and that Dirk Nowitzki is welcoming difficult games during the NBA season’s final week. They’re saying the right things. But will they do the right things? Who knows? In…
View Larger MapMoments ago, the Dallas City Council approved spending $120,000 in economic development grant money so the Urban Land Institute can “assess redevelopment options” at Southwest Center Mall. As we noted earlier this week, the council’s Economic Development Committee took a peek at the proposal, and it was recommended…
So much for Tennell Atkins’s move to push back the citywide smoking ban till October 10. Atkins had insisted that some bars and restaurants have had issues securing city permits to build porches and patios in advance of the April 10 start date of the new ordinance’s enforcement, which will…
