KXAS-Channel 5 has wisely — nay, brilliantly — posted the entirety of Jane McGarry’s sit-down with President Bush. You know how sometimes, 10 minutes isn’t long enough? This is one of those times. A question, though: What is she saying at the start of the video? And what does it…
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will vote on an ordinance that targets “apartment complexes with excessive crime rates,” as the council considers revising Chapter 27 of the Dallas City Code, which deals with code compliance in multi-tenant units. It’s an extensive overhaul that was first presented to the council’s Public…
Right before Christmas, Dallas County revealed that it just might consider lifting the condom distribution ban enacted in 1995, when then-County Commissioner Jim Jackson told The New York Times, “Sodomy is still against the law in Texas. I hear people say the government shouldn’t be in the bedroom. This isn’t…
Okay, let’s try something different. Something titillating. Since Observer staff writers Merritt Martin and Megan Feldman almost never get in a cat fight that spills over into the mud-wrestling pit, they instead want to entertain us visually-stimulated, testosterone-saturated dorks with their own list. Couple of months ago I gave you my…
Everybody needs a hobby, and, of course, Avi Adelman’s is keeping track of Lower Greenville’s drunks. Adelman, who’s taken his obsession to YouTube in recent months, has now gone one step further: He’s published the full names of 950 folks arrested on public intoxication charges during 2008. Click here to…
Of no surprise to us, former council member Al Lipscomb’s grandson, LeVar “LD” Thomas, became the first challenger to battle freshman Tennell Atkins for his District 8 council seat when Thomas held a press conference at the E Zee Shop parking lot in South Dallas Friday morning. He was joined…
View Larger MapUnfair Park has learned that Glazer’s Distributors — owners of 508 Park Avenue, the building in which Robert Johnson recorded 13 songs that changed the music world — has filed with the city a permit that would allow them to tear down one of the most historic structures…
It’s been a little more than a month since a few dozen urban planners, architects and city officials gathered at City Hall to discuss turning two blocks of downtown in a self-sustaining mixed-income “community,” as part of RE:Vision Dallas. Ostensibly, the folks behind the project are off collating their findings…
As we speak, 105.3 The Fan is in the middle of a 30-day negotiating period with the Cowboys to steal the team away from 1310 AM The Ticket and become Dallas’ official flagship station. The new sports-talk station has also hired Dallas’ Only Daily columnist Tim Cowlishaw for a regular role…
A self-proclaimed “Unfair Park reader/air breather” sends this link to Midlothian council member Ken Chambers’s blog — or “Personal Convictions” page, which sounds even better — where Chambers has opted to take on TXI and Ash Grove Cement Company. Writes Chambers, “There are now developing countries like Vietnam and Uzbekistan…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word that at 3 p.m. today, Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy Standric Choice and two other men are due in U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney courtroom to face allegations that the trio were involved in a steal-to-deal cocaine arrest on Friday. The feds’ allegations follow…
Michael Young, meet Michael Finley. Seems like forever Finley was a good solider on bad Mavericks teams, the best player and the involuntarily spokesman absorbing and explaining years of losing while the cast of crappy teammates and coaches around him constantly changed. He played hurt. He played well. He was an All-Star…
Houston-based and publicly traded Rick’s Cabaret bought two local topless joints last year: the former Executive Club on Stemmons Freeway and the late Platinum Club II off Northwest Highway. Dunno how the latter, rebranded Club Onyx and “catering to African-American gentlemen,” is doing. But the former’s not raking in the…
The USA Today headline’s a little misleading: “Economy prompts more calls to suicide hotlines.” Because six paragraphs in, the story notes: Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline jumped 36% from 2007 to 2008, totaling 545,000 last year, says director John Draper. But callers were increasing before the economic collapse,…
… like these folks. Because, at last, something interesting on the Dallas City Council’s Wednesday agenda: Bushgate. No doubt the council will approve President Bush’s request for a security gate on Daria Drive and Meaders Lane, site of George and Laura’s new home near Preston Hollow. (That’s where Dubya expects…
When the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meets today, it’ll get a sneak peek at the new and improved IH30-U.S. 80 — the so-called “East Corridor,” or at least the concept of it. For now, of course, this proposal — the brainchild of Friends of Fair Park’s Craig…
If you missed Pacman Jones on CBS’ NFL pre-game Saturday afternoon, here are the highlights lowlights: *His hair was in a sorta mohawk, stolen from Wesley Snipes’ Blade, and he was wearing a cheesy, white sports jacket, a la Don Johnson in Miami frigging’ Vice. *He used “man” as some of puntcuator…
A decade ago, I interviewed Kevin Sullivan on his last day as the Dallas Mavericks’ vice president of communications, a job he’d held for 18 years — since the team’s inception in 1980. It seemed like a good idea to do another exit interview today, because Sullivan, pictured above with…
How do you freak out a serious stage actor? Ask him or her to do some improv. On video.That’s what we did with members of the new Dallas Theater Center resident acting company. After we conducted the serious interviews about being ack-tohrs in big-time regional theater, we made them act…
Tomorrow up in Plano, animal-rights activists are scheduled to bark at Petland, which is being accused of selling dogs bred in puppy mills. The exact location’s 340 Coit Road near the Bush Turnpike, if you’re in the area and wondering about the barking. (No word about plans for the Preston…
Don’t know if you’re aware of this, as it hasn’t made the local news yet, but on Wednesday, State Rep. Myra Crownover, a Republican from Denton, filed House Bill 5 — yet another attempt to create a statewide smoking ban similar to the ordinance passed by the Dallas City Council…
A.H. Belo hopes you think so, because The Dallas Morning News just posted the following notice: Starting Feb. 9, The Dallas Morning News will increase the newsstand price of its Monday-through-Saturday newspapers to one dollar from the current level of 75 cents. The News attributed the price hike to continued…
