My bad. Been meaning to get back in here and post something, anything, of note, and there’s been plenty in recent days. And as Josh’s Broken Groin notes, it’s been way too long. So then, to today’s Breaking, or Broken, Rangers News: The club has offered salary arbitration for next…
While I attempt to find someone at the city who hasn’t already left for Thanksgiving, here’s a little something I found just posted to the Live Music Archive: the great Doug Burr, with Glen Farris but of course, at the Church of the Incarnation on McKinney Avenue November 3. The…
Yesterday Major League Baseball sent word that it has a new labor agreement in place with the Major League Baseball Players Association — this one, good for five years. It hasn’t been signed yet; Tuesday’s announcement, which follows, details the memorandum of understanding that will formally replace the current collective…
Last night, Mayor Mike Rawlings hosted a community forum at Cedar Crest Golf Course, billed in the invitation as an “update on the City of Dallas.” Backed by council members Dwaine Caraway and Tennell Atkins and a large supporting cast of other city officials, he tried to reassure the crowd:…
One week from tomorrow, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will settle in for what’s sure to be a calm, reasonable and thoroughly thoughtful discussion about extending the district’s contract with Teach for America through the 2017 school year. The cost of the new deal: $3 million spread…
Researchers at UT Southwestern published a study in the journal Nature Sunday identifying a cancer-specific metabolic pathway that fuels only the growth of certain kinds of kidney and adrenal tumors. This is a pretty remarkable finding, chiefly because if you can halt that specific metabolic process, you can kill the…
After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, Johnny Calvin Brewer was listening to the radio while working behind the cash register at Hardy’s Shoe Store on West Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. At around 1:15 p.m., the radio broadcaster announced that another gunshot had been…
View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com.For whatever reason Ken Kalthoff got a little distracted whilst reporting the piece you see above about the city experimenting with solar-powered parking meters that take credit cards (all together now: finally). Ken spends most of the piece trying to get his cash key re-upped. First…
I almost hate to tell you about this auction; I’d like these balls all to myself … wait, that didn’t come out right. But I’ve been watching ’em for the past, oh, week or so, and the prices aren’t climbing like they oughta for such rare commodities as these: signed…
Yesterday we met the three finalists for the Dallas Public Library System director’s position, one of whom’s the current interim, Corinne Hill. The other two candidates presented to city officials by a DeSoto-based search firm (??) are out-of-towners: Juliet Machie, who actually remains the deputy director of the Detroit Public…
The most recent Dallas gas drilling task force meeting ended with mutterings of how to speed up the process of drafting drilling ordinance recommendations. Several task force members voiced concerns that they were crawling toward the finish line — even after the task force’s schedule for deliberation was extended by…
If you happen to own or rent a house and you enjoy exploiting the elderly and the mentally ill, the city of Dallas has a legal loophole made just for you. A representative from Mental Health America of Greater Dallas warned the city’s Senior Affairs Commission yesterday that despite years…
Just a couple of weeks back some Brits asked Dallas County for the okee-doke to film a 3D programme in the county jail for a couple of days, to which the commissioners courts said: Sure, fine. But the request going before Dallas County higher-ups today is much, much bigger –…
Rick’s Cabaret — last seen slugging it out with then-Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and American Airlines over that topless club on the south side of Dallas-Fort Worth International — is about to make it rain all up and down Stemmons, near Mockingbird. Per its morning heads-up, the Houston-based chain…
Nicola Longford, executive director of the Sixth Floor Museum, won’t talk to Schutze, no fan of the museum’s plans to take over Dealey Plaza two years from today. But she will visit with the Los Angeles Times about those plans, not to mention that Dealey Plaza redo the city’s splitting…
Back in late August we mentioned that the city had hired a search firm to find a permanent (well, you know what I mean) director of the Dallas Public Library System. Corinne Hill’s been serving as interim director since Laurie Evans retired in June 2010, and by all accounts she’s…
Speaking of the Dallas Grand Prix at Fair Park …I see that someone has just posted 30 minutes’ worth of highlights from that brutally hot July 1984 to the YouTube. And it’s exceptionally classy footage too: It comes to us via the BBC with commentary by Murray Walker and James…
Denton County Judge Bruce McFarling declared a mistrial Friday when it was found that Seth Winder of The Colony — who is accused of allegedly murdering and dismembering his lover in the man’s Far North Dallas apartment — hadn’t been taking and/or receiving his meds. In fact, defense attorney Derek…
Every couple of weeks someone asks how goes those UT-Dallas docs’ tinnitus research, which, last we heard, would begin with clinical trials in Belgium. Well, so happens that Dr. Michael Kilgard and Dr. Navzer Engineer, hoping to discover the sound of silence via nerve stimulation, are over there at this…
While I wait for City Hall to get back to me about something, here’s a little something to fill your holiday-week “work” hours: 32 minutes with Peter Weller, most of it shot Saturday during our chitchat following the Dallas Film Society’s Very Special Screening of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai…
While sifting through Vimeo this morning I came across a Shops at Park Lane construction time lapse posted this morning by the good folks at Good Fulton & Farrell. Which led me to the video you see above: The Fairmount Street-based architectural firm’s entry in the city’s Complete Streets Visual…
Just three years ago, 94 percent of the state’s school districts told their kiddos: Just say no to sex. And that was that when it came to sex ed — abstinence only and nothing but, which was working out real well considering that Texas’s teen-pregnancy rate was the third-highest in…
