Did you wake up this morning wondering what all the arguing’s going to be about at Saturday’s redistricting forum with Mayor Mike Rawlings and the city council members? Wonder no longer! At a City Hall press conference just now, council members Dwaine Caraway and Tennell Atkins, backed by former council member…
You read it here first: The venerable Balcony Club was in danger of being adiosed out of existence as owner Tommy Stanco and the landlord were at loggerheads over rent, for starters. A piece in the paper yesterday only reiterated the previously stated: Its future deep in the heart of…
Longtime Friends of Unfair Park are well acquainted with my fetish for old photos of forgotten Dallas; so then, to HistoryPin we go, thanks to this morning’s friendly suggestion from Friend of Unfair Park PeterK. And what is HistoryPin? In short, a giant map-slash-time line to which users virtually pin…
On June 30, as I’m almost positive you’ll recall, FBI agents raided the offices of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price; his executive assistant, Dapheny Fain; and Kathy Nealy, the well-connected political consultant. What you may have missed: Nineteen days before the raid, Center Operating Company, which owns and operates…
Mike Modano is on Facebook. And out of hockey. The legendary Dallas Star used social media to announce his retirement from the NHL yesterday, ending a 21-year career as one of the sport’s all-time greatest skaters and its most prolific American-born scorer. Feels like we’ve delivered these eulogies before — remember…
Just kidding: Wrapped around this issue is our 2011 Best of Dallas® edition, in which we take a lighthearted look at predictions that the end of the world is near. Man, we hope those jokes don’t come back to bite us in the ass. We say this because Texas AgriLife…
Think of the Dallas City Council Redistricting Commission as Sunday school, where everything is done by the book. Right next door you have this dumpy divey smoke-filled neon joint called “Domingo’s Dance Hall.” That’s where people just do it. The official redistricting process, carried out over months by a legally…
Let’s see: There have been the firing of the hitting coach, the TV play-by-play voice and even the co-owner. A loyal father and fan leaned over a railing in left field and fell to his death. Every time you turn around a player is taking paternity leave. Last week the…
If you care at all, by now surely you’ve heard: Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills have called it a day. Good Lord — has it really been 31 years? “I hope our fans realize this wasn’t an easy decision,” Stipe writes on the band’s website, “but all things…
I was looking for something extremely unrelated on the city’s bids website when I came across what’s referred to as an “informal solicitation,” which is what landed Schutze in the county lockup in the early 1970s. And seeing as how we take and take and take from City Hall but…
Ran into Chris Penn of Good Records yesterday, at which point he told me about the sign planted in the middle of Greenville Avenue yesterday by the city’s Public Works department — the one that says southbound Greenville between Bell and Alta will be closed from September 26 till November…
In the end, it would be quicker to name the council members who didn’t submit amendments to the Redistricting Commission by Monday’s 3 p.m. deadline: Sheffie Kadane, Angela Hunt, Jerry Allen and Sandy Greyson. Everyone else had something to say, including Mayor Mike, who actually turned in two amendments –…
In April 2010, Mike Modano told us he wasn’t sure if he was ready to retire. He sure felt like it, he said: “At this point, on this day, I can make the decision: I’m done.” But, of course, he wasn’t: After a tear-stained farewell to the American Airlines Center…
Call it the Pat 12. As in, no thanks to expansion, we’ll stand. As in, the Big 12 — all but buried by a lot of us dorks — remains alive, like the muddy, bony, cob-webbed hand reaching up from the grave to snatch onto life. Again. Because it couldn’t get…
Water, water, everywhere — more than ample supply to frack, according to Jody Puckett, the director of Dallas Water Utilities, who spoke at yesterday’s gas drilling task force meeting. She clarified that, sure, there’s a drought, and conservation is always important, but she also insisted that water for fracking isn’t…
Tonight at the Texas Theatre, the Dallas Video Festival kicks off its five-day run at the Texas and Angelika with screenings of Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme (“filled with sensuous pleasures,” insists our J. Hoberman) and Slacker 2011, wherein 24 Austin-based filmmakers pay homage to Richard Linklater’s 1991 day-in-the-life debut. An…
[jump] Underwhelming. Kevin Ogletree — Undrafted free agent. 14 catches in 3 years. Jesse Holley — Reality-show winner. 3 catches in 2 years. Dwayne Harris — 6th-round draft pick. 0 catches in 2 games as a rookie. Laurent Robinson — Cut by Chargers in training camp. 89 catches (4 TDs) in…
Driving home last night, I saw a few lonely sign wavers on the north side of Northwest Highway. “Bring our troops home now,” the signs urged, and I thought: Hey. That’s nice. A totally depoliticized protest of our country’s ongoing wars, just some guys who, on a comfortable Tuesday evening,…
Yesterday we got ’round to covering the first half of the council’s Arts, Culture & Libraries Committee meeting — the part about how other cities spend more on their arts organizations than Dallas, and how we might be able to fix that. (Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette tax.) This morning,…
10. Only thing funnier than Oakland trusting Rich Harden is Comedy Central’s Tosh.0. 9. Michael Young countdown to 3,000 hits is at 953 … 952 … 951. 25 3-hit games most ever by a Ranger in a single season and the guy most of us thought wouldn’t be a Ranger…
Back in August, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said he was taking a long, hard look at Mortgage Electronic Registration System, which, as we noted at the time, was created in 1995 by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other financial institutions to speed up the recording and transfer of…
Mall shootings never start on time, and the “massacre” that occurred Tuesday afternoon was no exception. While about 50 7th- to 12th-grade Dallas Lutheran students arranged themselves inside Valley View Center in various states of death and grievous injury, 22 paramedics, 11 ambulances, one command center and a few battalion…
