The Collin Central Appraisal District still lists Memphis, Tennessee-based Belz Factory Outlet Mall as the owner of some 43 acres on Shelby Road in Allen, near the intersection of State Highway 121 and U.S. 75. So too do county deed records and the county’s latest tax assessment. The only one…
Before touting today’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival line-up, this heads-up: The Dallas Film Society just sent along the guest list for Friday’s daylong Texas Day event, which kicks off with the free Texasville screening and Peter Bogdanovich Q&A at the Magnolia. Says the schedule we just received, Victory Park…
On Tuesday, Dallas police officer Robert Powell went on KTVT-Channel 11 to apologize to Ryan and Tamisha Moats for detaining them in a Plano hospital parking lot for 13 excrutiating minutes. Powell, placed on administrative leave last week pending a DPD investigation, also insisted he wanted nothing more in the…
My career has its perks. I’ve sipped Mai Tais on Waikiki Beach with Troy Aikman. Shaken hands with Wayne Gretzky moments after his final NHL game. Seen – first hand – Roger Federer win at Wimbledon, Michael Johnson triumph in Atlanta and Michael Jordan sink his last shot as a…
In more than three decades as an animator, Henry Selick has lived not only at the edge of the film industry, but as a stop-motion animator, even the fringes of animation world. From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Coraline, though, audiences have gladly followed him out to the edge.Tuesday night,…
The ad above began airing on local television stations this morning and represents the third installment from the anti-hotel group in what has become an extremely pricey effort funded largely by Harlan Crow to thwart the city’s plans to build a publicly owned convention center hotel. It features the recent…
This is by far the most difficult post I’ve ever written. But it’s time. I can continue this charade no longer. Over the past 11 months on this blog I’ve spewed forth a plethora of radical opinions, most of which this morning I’d like to officially denounce. I admit, most of them…
Back in June, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees voted not to name the district’s Ross Ave. HQ for former school board president Kathlyn Gilliam, despite the protesters at their front door. The polarizing Gilliam, who served on the school board from 1974 till she was replaced by…
I saw this mash-up the day it popped up on YouTube a couple of weeks back, but discarded it because, truthfully, every other day it seems like some genius reaches into the pop-culture dustbin to retrofit the Dallas title sequence. But if it’s good enogh for BoingBoing, well, it’s good…
Today down in Austin, more than a dozen former Texas prisoners freed using DNA testing made their case in front of Texas legislators concerning myriad related bills sitting before lawmakers, among them fixing the way victims ID would-be offenders using photos of a live lineup, about which we wrote at…
So, before getting to today’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival quick picks, this locally related film note: Former Dallas Observer film critic and all-round good egg Matt Zoller Seitz sends word that he’s been commissioned by the Museum of the Moving Image to do a five-part online video series breaking…
On Wednesday, the Dallas city council will meet behind closed doors to discuss a host of subjects — among them, pending lawsuits involving the city and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ floodway report. On the briefing agenda, you will also find an item that has been making cameo appearances…
Sad – and surprising – that your Dallas Mavericks are reduced to trying to hold on to 8th place in the Western Conference over their final nine games over two weeks. But with that gut-gouging home loss to the Denver Nuggets last Friday night, I think they fumbled away any…
This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency released a list of 62 schools around the country set to have their air quality studied as part of what the agency calls “a new air toxics monitoring initiative.” And there’s a Dallas Independent School District elementary on the list: N.W. Harllee, so named…
Mayor Tom Leppert’s introduction of renowned urban planner and architect Andrés Duany last night at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom on the SMU campus was less a please-welcome than a separate speech altogether. Full of pragmatic optimism and pride, and clad in his trademark pinstripes, the mayor insisted, “Not only…
Dallas-based Retail Connection has more mixed-use, retail and restaurant properties around the DFW and Texas than you can shake a stick at, if that’s your idea of fun. Which is why GlobeSt.com had its brokerage managing director, Steve Zimmerman, write a piece about the latest trend in real estate: business…
Waaaaaay back in June, Jon Stewart first got the WTF giggles over that Central Kia spot in which a Barack Obama impersonator sells cars at low, low prices. You’ve probably seen the ad plenty since then; in fact, Central Kia — which has locations in Plano, Irving, Carrollton and Lewisville…
Out of 25 U.S. major metropolises surveyed for the just-released America’s Least Wasteful Cities study, Dallas ranks … 24th, ahead of only Atlanta. Some 4,000 folks nationwide participated in the survey, in which they were asked such things as: How long do you shower? How much trash do you create?…
I play sports because I love them. But I watch sports because I love to see done what I can’t do. I watch Tiger Woods because I can’t hit a 7-iron 210 yards. I watch Andy Roddick because I can’t hit a serve 149 mph. I watch Kobe Bryant because I…
Ryan and Tamisha Moats started off Monday with a Good Morning America exclusive in which Tamisha said she’d forgive Dallas police officer Robert Powell for those excruciating 13 minutes in a Plano hospital parking lot. Then Powell ended Monday with a KTVT-Channel 11 exclusive in which he apologized and said,…
Since the Dallas City Council approved the developer and operator agreements for the convention center hotel, the Vote No’ers have been eagerly awaiting an upswing in the bond market. A favorable shift would allow the city to land the 5.5 percent interest rate it deems reasonable before asking the council…
Brint Ryan in a press release urged fellow city council candidate Ann Margolin to stop misleading voters by campaigning on a senior tax issue that has already been proposed by City Manager Mary Suhm and the Dallas City Council. Ryan cited campaign materials sent out by Margolin, which tout her…
