You just knew this was coming: Today, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (the folks who brought you that lawsuit against Preston Hollow Elementary School) filed a lawsuit today challenging Framers Branch’s new law outlawing landlords renting to illegal immigrants. They claim the ordinance,…
Were he not having elbow operated on Thursday morning, Angus Wynne would be attending James Brown’s funeral — not as a fan, but as a friend. Wynne, who began accruing his local legend in the mid-1960s as a show promoter who brought the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan…
Bill Parcells takes the blame for last night’s loss to the Eagles. Takes a big man — a very big man. Lemme see…nope, not there. Um, not there either. Maybe…uh-unh. Look for a shred of positivity from yesterday’s game at Texas Stadium, and you’ll come up emptier than Terry Hornbuckle’s…
Two weeks ago, attorneys representing seven former Holy Land Foundation and Development officials — who’re awaiting trial in federal court here on charges they funded terrorist activities — asked U.S. District Judge Joe Fish to dismiss the government’s charges against their clients. They claimed a November ruling by a federal…
This is Chrissy Haley with her kids. She talked to us before Channel 11. Just don’t tell Channel 11 that. They’ve got the “exclusive.” Yeah, right. Fine. OK. Whatever. Call me The Grinch if you must, but after watching the news last night I’m compelled to spread some Christmas jeer…
From the all-you-need-to-know-department: “DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones named Terrell Bolton as the county’s new police chief Friday afternoon.” Good. Luck. With. All. That. –Robert Wilonsky…
Today, the Washington, D.C.-based National Fair Housing Alliance issued a report, Still No Home for the Holidays, that outlines “the housing discrimination that hurricane [Katrina] survivors continue to face this holiday season.” It deals specifically with allegations that two apartment complexes — one in Florida, another right here in the…
It did not take long for U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer to rule on the immediate fate of jailed DISD teacher Miguel Arango, who was indicted last month on charges he touched a 6-year-old girl’s vagina in front of his class in October. Less than 24 hours after Arango and…
Peter Ogego, the Kenyan ambassador to the U.S., was in Dallas to talk business. And marathons, maybe. A couple of months ago, would-be presidential candidate Barack Obama said of Kenya — during a trip to his father’s homeland, no less — that it was a corrupt place. “There is a…
Just wanna give a big thanks and Merry Christmas to the folks at the North Texas Tollway Authority, who, last night at 8, reduced the number of southbound Wycliff Toll Plaza booths to four — two for the TollTag users, two for folks paying with cash (or those trying to…
Saw Matt Pinto’s Dallas Mavs-L.A. Clippers preview and noticed this listed among Pinto’s “Five Things to Know About the Dallas Mavericks”: “Rapper Joe Budden mentioned Josh Howard’s error in Game 5 of the 2006 NBA Finals in the remix of Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy.'” News to me, but, yup, he’s right;…
I tore apart the house this morning looking for my copy of Idol Records’ 2000 Christmas comp Electric Ornaments, so I could share with you Chomsky’s peppy rendition of the gloomy holiday fave “Christmas Time is Here” from A Charlie Brown Christmas. No luck; guess it’s off to CD World…
Matt Doherty’s turning the Mustanks back into the Mustangs. Is it the holiday yet? Can we go home? First, a fancy library. Now, a legit basketball program? As Grandpa Bill Parcells says, it’s not time to get out the anointing oil just yet. But first-year head coach Matt Doherty at…
Look, maybe we just never get tired of running this picture of Ann Lott. Ever think of that? Guy Brignon, the chairman of the Dallas Housing Authority and a real-estate developer and apartment complex owner, said earlier this week he won’t OK or even discuss DHA president and CEO Ann…
Don’t know about you, but there’s one former Dallas coach I miss more than any other: Ken Hitchcock, ex of Your Dallas Stars. And, from an interview he gives in a forthcoming issue of Canadian general-interest mag Macleans, it would seem Hitch also misses Dallas — at least, those glory…
This is Desmond Howard before his brain fell out of his head. Where’s the helmet when you need it? I take it back. Female sideline reporters are not the biggest wastes of time on TV. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Desmond Howard. Yes, that one. Won the Heisman…
This is so not how you break news. Our Man On Top Of It, Rich Lopez, phones from SMU, where moments ago President R. Gerald Turner announced, but not really, that the Hilltop was going to be the home to the George W. Bush Presidential Library. “I am not announcing…
Miguel Arango — the DISD teacher accused of inappropriately touching a 6-year-old student at Julian T. Saldivar Elementary School near Love Field in October — will remain in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center and under the authority of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the forseeable future. After listening to…
Dallas County District Attorney’s Office flack Rachel Raya can say whatever she wants, but she may be the only person who actually believes that Bill Hill has a real open-file policy. A few months ago, I spoke to several defense attorneys who describe a haphazard, unpredictable process that clogs up…
If Dane Cook’s a comedian, why isn’t he funny? At all. Ever. Wanna see some video of The Great Mark Cuban partying — by which I mean, talking on the cell phone for about 1.2 seconds outside West Hollywood hot spot Hyde? If so, go here; he’s at the end…
On a related note, Dazed and Confused is, like, the third-best film ever made in Texas. We’re too stoned to recall the other two at the moment. In June, we mentioned how the Dallas Film Commission and others from around the state had banded together as the Texas Motion Picture…
Beginning in June we told you the tale of South Side of Lamar coffee house-slash-performance space Standard & Pours Coffee & Stocks and how the actual Standard & Poor’s wanted it to change its name…or else. First there were threatening letters sent from Standard & Poor’s owner McGraw-Hill Company to…
