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Yesterday on DC9, Pete posted a note from Smile Smile’s Ryan Hamilton in which the guitarist-vocalist mentioned that the duo got one of its songs, “Anymore,” placed in a direct-to-video release, Jack and Jill vs. the World. The film — “A Freddie Prinze Jr. movie with some promise,” says here…

Begin panicking … now. Because, according to the City of Dallas’ Web site: Dallas County announces West Nile Virus found in Highland Park: The City will increase collections and urges residents to take precautions Don’t worry, though. Mosquitoes are only …. Man’s Deadliest Foe! –Robert Wilonsky…

Conventional thinking: It’s not that we’re obsessed. Just because we ask everyone who comes through the door what they think of the city’s fast-track plan to spend half a billion dollars to get into the hotel business doesn’t mean we don’t have lives. It just means our lives are dull…

Last week, Dallas continued its speedy progress toward completing a deal to build a $500 million, publicly owned convention center hotel when a city council committee selected a developer for the project. But key questions remain unanswered, and the cancellation of a debate on the issue has opponents crying foul…

On a cloudy May morning, the 1,700 students of Bryan Adams High School enter the building in different states of haste, some racing to class to beat the 8:35 bell, some loitering with friends unaware of time or space, some openly defiant and bent on being tardy. A metal detector…

“Sexy Town,” by Jim Schutze, June 19 Unpaved Paradise In response to Jim Schutze’s column “Sexy Town,” I have to say that he may have spent copious time trying to phrase his thoughts in “sexy” prose, but the thrust is accurate: Without the place to “decompress” [in] an urban area,…

FBI Director Robert Mueller, announcing the arrests and recoveries made during Operation Cross Country The Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced that from June 18 to 23, it had law enforcement agencies from across the country involved in a so-called “national enforcement action” called Operation Cross Country, during which 389…

Matthew Tully Me, I prefer the couch and a bottle of cheap hooch with which to enjoy my Bravo, but if you dig on high-end apps, smart cocktails and pointing and bitching at the TV as a group, I can give you the scoop on two Shear Genius watching parties…

DART Couple days back, Dallas Area Rapid Transit debuted its new railcars — the Super Light Rail Vehicles, as they’re technically referred to. Word of the $200-million Osaka, Japan-designed railcars has reached Wired’s Autopia blog today, where it points out that “currently all but one stations have platforms that do…

David Byrne’s sketch for Julio, the singing robot created by Dr. David Hanson They ain’t answering the phone this afternoon over at Hanson Robotics in Richardson this afternoon. Makes sense: Dr. David Hanson’s no doubt in Madrid at this very moment, with head Talking Head David Byrne, as the twosome…

Another Tom Leppert photo, another caption-writing contest — winner gets a Walker, Texas Ranger Season 5 boxed set! Mayor Tom Leppert opened today’s council meeting, the last one before the council takes off the month of July, with his first “State of the City Address.” Ironically, the morning open-microphone session,…

Wyatt Cenac, now available Daily Three weeks ago, Wyatt Cenac debuted as the newest regular correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. And, turns out, the hilarious 32-year-old New Yorker grew up in Dallas and went to high school at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. Cenac…

After the jump, a detailed look at how and why Matthews Southwest was selected to become the developer for the convention center hotel — including interviews with Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez and Jack Matthews…

Imagine what Avi could do inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. ‘Bout a month ago, Barking Dog Avi Adelman posted this video of “taggerettes” putting marker to a Shell station on Lower Greenville; a better version of said tape went to the police. Turns out, Avi notes, one of the…

Just a programming note, for those with nothing better to do at 10 this morning. On WFAA-Channel 8, like you didn’t know. –Robert Wilonsky…

Joe Hammeke’s a pro photographer best known for his pictures of skateboarders, most of which appear in Thrasher, for which Hammeke’s also a contributing writer. Like, in the new issue, he’s got a piece headlined “Dangerous Technology,” which isn’t online but which documents a recent trip he made to Dallas…

I hope Dallas’ Lennon Madzima did not prepare your income tax returns. Because the feds allege today that Madzima falsified some 1,100 returns since tax year 2004, with the amounts in question somewhere in excess of one … million …dollars. Like this, from the Justice Department this afternoon: According to…

The City Hall duo at The Dallas Morning News has been all over Mayor Tom’s proposed changes to the council’s rules of procedure, highlighted by today’s story about some council members’ concerns regarding one of the 18 suggestions, which would remove the morning open-microphone session. Of no surprise to us,…

Keven McAlester, at right, with Roky Erickson. One day we’ll get a different picture of Keven. One day. Couple weeks back, we posted the new Old 97’s video for “Dance With Me” off the band’s latest, Blame it on Gravity. It’s an impressive piece of work, not only because it…