Hank Stuever is a critic for The Washington Post, but he did spend plenty of time down thisaway from 2006 through ’08 whilst researching and writing his tome Tinsel, about o little town of Frisco and how its many merry residents guzzle holiday spirits. Which is something to keep in…
Texas is in a tight spot. Electric supply simply isn’t keeping up with consumer demand in a state bursting at the seams. By 2013, grid operator ERCOT predicts we won’t have enough to cover peak demand, when we’re all sweating and dashing for our thermostats. Summer 2012, on the other…
As promised, Korean and black leaders met today in Oak Cliff to announce the end of the Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Rev. Ronald Wright addressed the media first, standing next to Korean Society of Dallas vice president Ted Kim. The two were flanked…
We virtually toured the splendor that is the 48,000-square-foot Champ d’Or up in Denton County in August 2010, when the asking price was, oh, $70 million, give or take — not quite The Nice Price. But it didn’t sell — shocking — not even when the price tag dropped to…
Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge, formerly a criminal justice professor at UNT Dallas, filed a handwritten, pro se civil rights suit against the University of North Texas in 2010 for discrimination and retaliation after she didn’t get picked for a few faculty positions, allegedly because she’s black. Chief Judge Sidney Fitzwater gave the…
As we noted earlier in the week, the council’s Economic Development Committee will be briefed Monday concerning plans for the old Dallas High School downtown. So too, turns out, will the Landmark Commission: The freshly posted agenda for Monday’s 1 p.m. meeting reveals that developer Wynne/Jackson is looking to sink…
Our own Nick Rallo, who knows of my fondness for old maps of Dallas, directs my attention this morning to today’s posting on the Big Map Blog: Sam Street’s Map of Dallas County, which dates back to 1900. It’s especially interesting in that it details who owned what and where…
Whilst trolling the Dallas ISD’s website last night, I noticed that the district has posted its 2012-2013 District Improvement Plan, a 21-page look at all that ails DISD and offers general fix-its to accommodate its myriad needs. And needs there are: The word appears dozens of time over a handful…
Scanning the city’s inscrutable bids website this morning in the hopes of finding that not-there-yet Dallas Farmers Market RFP, I came across this instead: a 102-page request for proposals from the Dallas Police Department, which is looking to significantly step up its arsenal of video surveillance cameras. As in: Just…
When you’ve turned nothing into something once already, you tend to feel you can do it again. There’s faith your luck will turn. Perhaps it’s delusion. But for a professional poker player, self-confidence is essential. So it is for Walter Wright, who now finds himself in Costa Rica. He left…
Anthony Bond, founder of the Irving chapter of the NAACP, looked at what was happening in South Dallas, at the Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and decided: Enough’s enough. Those protests at the Korean-owned convenience store had to stop, as did calls for its owner…
It’s been 11 years since George Rivas lead the Texas Seven in their escape from prison and shooting of a police officer, and the hour of his death is fast-approaching. At around 6 p.m, the State of Texas will end his life by lethal injection. Rivas confessed that he was…
This morning, Pat Boyack asked if I’d heard, if it’s true: Had Tim Schuller died? Then, later, came the confirmation, via Buddy Magazine’s Facebook page: “Sad news as long time friend and Buddy music writer, Tim Schuller has passed on. We want to wish his family and close friends our…
By now you’re no doubt well aware that Monkees lead singer Davy Jones died today at the age of 66 following a heart attack. His bandmates have each posted their goodbyes: Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith, the Monkee with deep Dallas roots.The Thomas Jefferson High School graduate didn’t…
Noticed on PACER this morning something that’s gone unnoticed since its filing at the end of last week: That heated lawsuit pitting Dallas County constables against the Dallas County Commissioners Court — the one involving allegations of retaliation and corruption, the one that dragged everyone in and out of federal…
A few major issues, including set-back distances from drill sites and whether to protect parks from fracking, have plagued the Dallas gas drilling task force for months … and months. (Keep in mind: Yesterday’s final meeting was more than three months past the scheduled end date.) At meeting after meeting…
I called Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander early this morning to see if that lone, anonymous teacher’s call for a leap day of protest went answered by his peers. No, says Dahlander in a statement just dispatched from 3700 Ross. Not at all:The percentage of Dallas ISD teachers…
When the U.S. Attorney’s Office unsealed the indictment yesterday alleging that Dr. Jacques Roy spearheaded the largest healthcare fraud in the nation’s history out of his DeSoto office, they revealed that in 2010, he dispatched recruiters to The Bridge downtown. Their mission: pay homeless Medicaid beneficiaries $50 a pop to…
Daniel opened up DC9 this morning with his thoughts about last night’s intimate Tim DeLaughter-Jon Anderson two-fer at the Kessler, which really was something special — so much so that DeLaughter and Anderson swapped emails by night’s end for a down-the-road collaboration, to which Anderson refers toward the end of…
We began the day on the bridge, we end the day on (OK, near) the bridge — this time with one of Justin’s photos compiled for the Margaret Hunt Hill slide show you’ll find here. It was either this or this: from the Library of Congress’s archives, a 100-year-old photo…
Sunday’s supposed to be my last day ’round here, but I just may stick around till Monday. The reason: The just-posted agenda for Monday’s meeting of the council’s Economic Development Committee promises that Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, will walk council through a PowerPoint titled…
Calvin Beckton, a former band teacher at Boude Storey Middle School, is serving a 10-year stint in the TDCJ’s Fort Stockton Unit for the 2008 sexual assault of a 14-year-old female student to whom he’d often given rides home in the past. He was sentenced in September, after prosecutors proved…
