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Dallas gets thrown under the bus in this morning’s Los Angeles Times. In a story about how the Fox series The O.C. — which went from beloved to…uh…beloathed (?) in record time — is likely to get the ax, there’s also some question about how the show affected the image…

Well, the numbers are in, and it seems that all the door-knocking and phone-calling may have paid off after all. A report due to be released tomorrow by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project shows that more Latinos voted in Dallas County in November than in the last mid-term election…

Department of Justice officials have concluded that conditions at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center amount to a house of horrors. It was even worse than anyone expected. Just more than a year after it launched its investigation of the Dallas County jail, the U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday sent…

I spent Sunday watching the White Rock Marathon from Dolly Parton’s cleavage, and it wasn’t as warm there as I thought it would be. But the spot between the 19th and 20th mile markers is the best possible vantage point to observe all the dedication, determination and drama that accompanies…

Terrell Bolton: the only guy up for the top cop gig in Georgia who’s been fired. Terrell Bolton may have won the right to take his wrongful-termination suit against the city to the federal level, but he still doesn’t know whether he’ll fight City Hall in court as the next…

We were at Toys “R” Us yesterday shopping for the 3-year-old who lives in our house; apparently it’s gettin’ close to Hannukah or something. Whatever. Anyway, while browing the action-figure aisle (though, oddly, not for the 3-year-old who lives in our house) we came across more than a dozen of…

Seventy-year-old Mitchell Buchanan has been missing since October 24. But rescuers haven’t given up looking for him. Over the weekend, there was a search for Mitchell Buchanan, a 70-year-old Dallas man who has been missing since October 24. The Tyler Morning Telegraph reported that about 60 volunteers and members of…

The Nightcaps, pictured here during their 1960s heyday, influenced the Vaughans and the Top. And, yes, the word is still “Thunderbird.” So, enough with the young paying homage to the old. Seems like the old — well, c’mon, you know what I mean — can manage just fine on their…

Good news for folks who’re good with computers and stuff: If you’re not working today — which is to say, you’re out of work and not just taking the day off to download current theatrical releases or browse for porn — just wait till the beginning of 2007. You just…

The long-rumored, difficult-to-confirm is official now: New York-based Smith & Wollensky is closing its huge Dallas Steak House, incurring $3.2 million in charges in the process. In short: “The Company decided to close S&W Dallas because it was unable to achieve a level of income from operations that was in…

Photo taken by Ash Creek resident Jack Loughead For the last year or so, the plight of the Ash Creeek Mobile Home Park — a low-income enclave on Highland Road, between Interstate 30 and White Rock Lake, that’s been around since the 1940s — has been the source of much…

Like I said Wednesday, the Reunion Tower Revue tracks available here and here are coming down on Monday. Fret not, they’ll resurface at a later date, but if you want ’em to warm you on a cold winter’s night, best act fast. Enough’s been said about that night, but not…

Whilst browsing through some federal court documents this morning, we stumbled across a case filed on Wednesday: Miguel Arango v. Dallas Independent School District et al. Certainly, any cases involving the DISD intrigue us, even one as seemingly routine as a wrongful termination suit — the kind filed against city,…

Yesterday, we mentioned the Dallas Voice article in which good Baptist and Dreamgirl Jennifer Hudson said, in response to a question about whether homosexuality is a sin, said, “According to the way we’re taught, and what it says in the Bible, it is.” And we pointed you to her blog…

Young and old, they lined up to get healed. Old farmer’s wives with calloused, misshapen hands. A pot-bellied guy and his bum knee, souvenir of an athletic youth. Willowy teenage girls with their eyes closed, arms raised, illness unspecified. On some faces you saw quiet expectation. Others seemed so weary…

Back and better than ever: Terrell Bolton now gets to say he made a federal case of his firing. How awesome is that? Terrell Bolton’s already gotten some $1.8 million from the city in retirement benefits. Yesterday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, Ya know, maybe we oughta…

In the paper version of Unfair Park last week I had a little something to say about little d musician Daniel Folmer’s latest release Wear Headphones. I gotta say, I like Folmer — from his handwritten letters to his “Hey, so, this is who I am” songwriting style. He’s no-bullshit…

You know what’s odd? Yesterday, we linked to City Plan Commission chair Betty Culbreath’s blog, where she wrote on Wednesday about the possible reasons behind the Dallas Housing Authority’s decision to get rid of CEO Ann Lott. In her post, Culbreath wrote that she knows “for a fact a Professional…

All I want for Christmas is the chance to dance with Emmitt Smith. Now, where’s my earring of honor? Much as this pains me, I cannot deny your (creepy) fascination with watching grown men dance. So, in the spirit of Christmas, here goes: You can win a chance to dance…