So, the big-screen Dallas was dead as of last week. Now, it’s back on, according to John Travolta, who says he’s meeting with a new director — that’d be the third, by the way — and hoping to start shooting here and elsewhere in early ’08. Fine. This is even…
In February, Dallas Observer Music Award-winner Kristy Kruger launched a 50-state tour to honor her brother, Lt. Col. Eric Kruger, an SMU graduate who was killed in Iraq on November 2, 2006. Eric was assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colorado, and…
From The New York Times today: “Ex-Businessman Wins Runoff for Dallas Mayor.” From the San Francisco Chronicle today: “Gay candidate loses runoff in Dallas mayoral contest.” The stories, written by Gretel C. Kovach, are otherwise exactly the same. –Robert Wilonsky…
As of this morning, 261 people have signed a petition begging the city not to allow Teen/Life Challenge of Dallas to set up camp next to the Girl Scouts’ longtime home at Camp Whispering Cedars. According to Allen Gwinn, this week the city’s Plan Commission is set to take up…
A woeful but way better-than-expected 85,590 turned out to cast their vote for mayor, and they’ve chosen Tom Leppert. And it wasn’t even close: 49,512 votes to Ed Oakley’s 36,078. Good night, Dallas, and good luck. –Robert Wilonsky…
We haven’t called Tom Leppert for mayor yet. But Leppert’s people sure have. Oakley’s too, damned near. “It’s not looking good at this point,” Ed Oakley told KDFW-Channel 4 at 9:04 tonight — nonetheless, the nattily dressed council member said he was “cautiously optimistic” about gaining ground on his Republican…
Tom Leppert and some new friends — who, looks like, probably voted for the millionaire construction worker With 320 out of 470 precincts completely reporting, Tom Leppert still has a commanding lead: He’s got 57.76 percent of the vote now, which translates to 37,464 votes. Oakley — who had predicted…
One-hundred fifty-seven of 470 precincts have reported in now, and Tom Leppert’s still way up with 59.81 percent (or 26,440 votes) of the vote. Ed Oakley’s still got 40.19 percent, which translates to 17,767 votes. Matt reports that Leppert’s “destroying Oakley” in the north while “losing but holding his own”…
Matt Pulle’s scouring over spreadsheets at the moment, and he’s discovered that while Tom Leppert’s pulling in the Northern sector and Ed Oakley’s doing well south of I-30, Leppert’s still managing to keep it respectable in the Southern sector. In a number of individual northern precincts during early voting, Leppert…
While we’re waiting on more election result from Mr. Pulle over at Dallas County Elections HQ, here’s a missive from a Friend of Unfair Park who says he too experienced voting problems this gloomy Saturday: I got the same story at the Reverchon Park Rec Center this morning. The ballots…
“Math” Pulle just phoned from county election HQ and wanted to point out that after early voting on May 12, Leppert had a five percent lead over Oakley — now, he’s got a 19 percent lead. He’s just sayin’. Math also has some council updates. In Oakley’s old district, No…
Tom Leppert’s your early leader in early voting, but it’s early yet. Just ask Roger about last-second comebacks. …Tom Leppert, with 59 percent of the vote in early voting — which translates to 19,096 ballots cast his way. Ed Oakley, on the other hand, got 12,897 votes. Which means, as…
There was a strange site outside my polling place this p.m.: a Dallas County Sheriff’s Department car, parked on the curb at Leonides Cigarroa Elementary School. Looked promising. Turns out, there was indeed a deputy inside, plugging cables into a laptop while a county voting official futzed with the voting…
Several Friends have e-mailed, wondering if Matt Pulle will be reporting from county elections HQ tonight as he did back when we had 11 candidates from which to choose. Yup — and, from the sound of it last night ’round the office, Mr. Schutze will also join in the fun…
Last night, I attended my last event of Your 2007 Mayor’s Race, the Vickery Place Neighborhood Association Candidate Forum in East Dallas. To celebrate, I planned to grab a beer or two at my favorite drinking establishment, the bar at the Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff. A little confused on…
Pardon, but what’s the big deal here? So Ed Oakley and a majority of his fellow council members voted on Wednesday to give $583,360 in tax abatements to Crow Holdings so Harlan Crow and his team could renovate the former Parkland Hospital on the corner of Maple and Oak Lawn…
The perfect Father’s Day gift for the lazy, rich man in your life LeBron James got fatherhood, siring the royally named Bryce Maximus James between Games 3 and 4 of the NBA Finals. But he also got the shaft, having to play alongside hapless Cavaliers teammates that never ever threatened…
Backdoor Comedy Club owner Linda Stogner tells some funny stories about things found Nowhere But Texas. I hope you read about Linda Stogner in my feature about stand-up comedy. She owns the Backdoor Comedy Club, but when she’s not telling jokes, she’s also a filmmaker. Her most recent endeavor is…
Maybe you’ve heard stories about the time Dennis Rodman “sat in” with Pearl Jam during a Dallas show in 1998. Yeah — it really happened on July 5 of that year at Reunion Arena, if I have my dates and arenas right. Two years before he signed on as a…
Having just flown through Chicago O’Hare International earlier this week, where the security lines were a few thou deep and the food tasted like foot and the vibe was generally Third World, I could not agree more with Salon’s assessment today that the joint’s among of the world’s worst airports…
Remember the Dallas band Drowning Pool? Tragic story, absolutely. Well, they have a new album, Full Circle, due out on July 24, the first single from which is titled “Soldiers” — payback, turns out. As you may recall, members of the U.S. armed forces in the Middle East took to…
I’ve heard from several Friends of Unfair Park this morning complaining about our “new format,” which is a grey screen with black type. Yeah, that sounds pretty unreadable. Trust me, it’s not a new format. It’s some kind of a glitch, and our people are on it, trying to find…
