The U.S. Attorney’s Office has just sent word that Alvaro Ivan Adame — a 40-year-old lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety who’s worked in the Drivers License Division as a supervisor at offices on Northwest Highway in Dallas and in Wichita Falls — was arrested this morning at…
Barack Obama has Pete Souza. And Tom Leppert has Patrick Michels…
Given the reaction of Friends of Unfair Park and Friends of Bob Sambol’s this morning, he’s perhaps the least likely most-wanted man in town, but there’s no disputing a Dallas County grand jury’s true bill indictment that landed in our in-box this morning: The namesake of the 16-year-old Bob’s Steak…
Later today, a longer recap from last night’s opening of the AFI Dallas International Film Festival at NorthPark Center, where Rian Johnson at last gave Dallas audiences a first look at his long-awaited The Brothers Bloom, starring fellow attendees Adrien Brody (an Oscar winner) and Rinko Kikuchi (an Oscar nominee)…
After the jump, the song for which the late, great W.W. Samuell High School graduate Dan Seals was best known: “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight,” performed, of course, with classmate John Ford Coley shortly before they moved back to Dowdy Ferry Road. But here’s the truly classic title…
Went out and toured “new” Rangers Ballpark last month. Well, not exactly new, but how about refurbished? New video scoreboard in left field. Information ribbons wrapping the place. A fashion-forward brick wall behind home plate. My thumbs-up review is here. With a heralded youth movement playing in a spit-shined stadium, there’s…
Shortly before the 2007 referendum on the Trinity Turnpike, I discussed a Dallas Morning News editorial written by Colleen McCain Nelson, in which she had a hard time grasping the difference between a floodway and a floodplain. It wasn’t the first time I disagreed with her as she appears to…
Embarrassed.That was the word used over and over by Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle during an afternoon press conference at DPD HQ during which he described how he felt about the conduct of police officer Robert Powell. As you’re no doubt aware by now, Powell detained Houston Texans running back…
Several neighbors and friends of the show attended yesterday’s public hearing of the Texas State Board of Education down in Austin in advance of today’s evolution vs. creationism vote — which ended in a 7-7 draw, meaning the board will not add, at the moment, language that requires public schools…
Dallas Morning News Managing Editor George Rodrigue just posted his latest “Ask the Editor” column. And, even though nobody asked — we are soooooo blushing right now — it’s mostly about the Dallas Observer, otherwise known as “a sexually oriented weekly tabloid,” which sounds significantly more interesting than the paper…
Yesterday, the SPCA of Texas began transferring to McKinney 150 dogs seized from a Paris, Arkansas, puppy mill. In all, some 400 animals — including miniature ponies, cats, exotic birds and turtles — were seized from the “horrific” 82-acre facility on Monday, with the Humane Society of the United States…
Lose a basketball game. Win another ratings period. Ho-hum. With Arbitron’s new Portable People Meter (PPMs) ratings, instead of a three-month window we can check out the stats monthly. And what do the PPMs indicate for February? That, just like last month, 1310 AM The Ticket is as strong as…
A Friend of Unfair Park noticed this note at the end of ESPN.com’s recap of last night’s Mavs-Warriors recap:Movie director Spike Lee, a noted Knicks fan, sat courtside with Mavs owner Mark Cuban. Lee is in town for a film festival.Can only think of one, but so far no confirmation…
First, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says quarterback Tony Romo is untouchable. “I wouldn’t trade Tony for anybody.” Now head coach Wade Phillips – who never addressed his team after last season and has been publicly silent since 2008 – says he hasn’t talked just because, um, he hasn’t wanted to…
At this very moment, AFI Dallas International Film Festival CEO and artist director Michael Cain is attending a funeral in Euless: His father-in-law, Allan McKinnon, died on Monday after a long battle with cancer. So do not expect Cain’s wife — Melina, as much a force and familiar face on…
I had intended to watch the Texas Transportation Commission meeting this morning — it’s being Webcast over here, for those so interested — because among the agenda items for this morning was approving stimulus dough for those so-called “shovel-ready projects” ’round the state, among them the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park…
Richie has the recap of last night’s Ticket-Lake Highlands High all-girls squad basketball game, and no doubt he’ll post the sports-talk radio ratings for February sooner than later. (Spoiler alert: KTCK’s No. 1 overall in the market with men 25-54 from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, posting…
Last week, Angela Hunt was close to posting on her Web site a Trinity River Corridor Project Plan B — the name of Jim Schutze’s new band, so happens. Instead, she fleshed it out with a flash-forward and gave it to The Dallas Morning News, where it appears this morning…
Truth hurts: A political gaffe, it’s been said, is what happens when a politician accidentally says something honest. So, we figure former Dallas City Council member Craig Holcomb must have been wishing for a do-over for his comment in last Sunday’s page-one Trinity River story in The Dallas Morning News…
“Gimme Shelter,” by Megan Feldman, March 12 Kids These Days I picked up the Dallas Observer yesterday because of the artwork on the cover. I am a product of the 1960s and was a child when Vietnam was going on. The Vietnam War was something that was never discussed in…
Texas Rangers fans attending games in Arlington this season will do something for the first time since their ballpark opened in 1994. Sorry, it has nothing to do with winning. Or does it? Thanks to a $4 million facelift, every fan in every seat at Rangers Ballpark will be able…
BLOWIN’ IN THE WINDThe T. Boone Pickens alternative energy show rolls across America T. Boone Pickens looks tired. Standing in the sunken pit of a packed lecture hall at Houston’s Rice University, he’s hawking his Pickens Plan for energy independence, saying we need to use more wind power and natural…
