As you should be well aware by now, attorneys Andy Siegel and Leland de la Garza are trying to overturn the November 2010 referendum that made it legal to sell beer and wine citywide. That case is scheduled to go to trial next month. All that remains is a single…
10. Eerie. On July 19 the red-hot Rangers went into Anaheim with a 4-game lead and — with Alexi Ogando on the mound — got back-to-back homers (from Josh Hamilton and Adrian Beltre) in a series-opening rout. And on August 15 the red-hot Rangers went into Anaheim with a 4-game…
In July we told you about Dr. David Shorrman, author of The Exchange of Truth: Liberating the World From the Lie of Evolution and a member of the state biology panel making recommendations to the Texas Board of Education. Turns out, Shorrman (pictured to the left) was riding in the…
A disheartening report by the Dallas Police Department shows that crimes against senior citizens have increased in the past year, with rates for July 2011 15 percent higher than during the same time last year. Lieutenant Herbert Ashford presented the numbers at this morning’s Senior Affairs Commission Victimization Committee meeting,…
The July 7 death of Shannon Stone at the Ballpark in Arlington continues to impact the Texas Rangers, who moments ago announced that a statue will be commissioned by the ball club to pay homage to the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter. According to the release from club spokesman John Blake, the…
If a man spends 26 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit, you can bet he’s going to want every cent he can get through the state’s statutory compensation plan for the wrongfully imprisoned. We spoke with Johnnie Lindsey for this week’s cover story about the ongoing legal…
Speaking of the LBJ Express …Andy Rittler, spokesman for LBJ Infrastructure Group LLC, the developer of the LBJ do-over that will involve sinking managed toll lanes beneath 635, sends word of a public meeting tomorrow at the Sheraton Dallas North during which reps will present “a proposed change for the…
The city warns, via its Hike & Bike Trail Facebook page, that it’s “preparing to collect data on cyclists’ speeds on Dallas trails.” And … that’s about that. So I called Park and Rec’s second-in-command, Willis Winters, for further information — such as, for starters, what does the city intend…
The New York Times just posted one in a series of national-press pieces since Saturday questioning Rick Perry’s role in the so-called Texas Miracle. Read it or don’t; your call. But the photo with the story — Perry watching himself play football for A&M courtesy Electronic Arts, which is expanding…
That there is the photo CBS News used to illustrate Dallas’s promiscuity, which made me think that it was all our our honky-tonkin’ that makes us America’s sixth-sluttiest city. But in the description alongside that photo, CBS notes our high concentration of Fortune 500 companies, which made me think that…
Last time I noted the Dallas Police Department’s concerns over cat killings ‘cross the city, the great Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram jumped in the comments and insisted, “Every ‘cat mutilation’ hoax nationwide has turned out to be the work of animal predators.” Far as Bud’s concerned, it’s all the…
We know one of these days in the next two weeks Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is going to call a press conference at which he’ll announce his intent to induct former receiver Drew Pearson into the team’s Ring of Honor. Good. Not a more deserving candidate. But … not so fast?…
Like a lot of Aggie traditions, how is their nonsensical, yet sacred War Hymn going to sound in the SEC? Good bye to Texas University; So long to the orange and white Imagine the curious looks in Florida’s Swamp when the Aggies, trailing 42-7 in the third quarter, start singing about about…
Back in February, the city auditor in Austin, Ken Mory, took a long, hard look at hotel occupancy taxes down there and noted that folks renting out their homes to vacationers weren’t paying what he believed to be their fair share. At which point, Mory called Dallas and said: Hey,…
On the other side you’ll find the stack of memos City Hall sent Saturday morning, and, as usual, it’s a mixed grab bag of goodies covering some familiar topics. As in: Assistant City Manager Forest Turner kicks things off by telling Mayor Mike and the city council that we’re gonna…
In mid-May, Ray Washburne explained his attraction to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty thusly: “He’s got a great story to tell.” This was in a Wall Street Journal piece about how Pawlenty was attracting big-money men such as Washburne — co-founder of Mi Cocina, owner of the Highland Park Village,…
We know the Rangers are better than the crappy Mariners and A’s. Now can they put away the AL West’s second-best team, the Angels? Fresh off a sweep in Oakland that improved them to 19-7 against the division’s two cellar-dwellers, the Rangers tonight can begin winning the West. But, come to…
Five years ago, SMU hung in the Hamon Arts Library a heretofore little-known collection of works by a former Hilltop art student — and then professor — named Ed Bearden. The occasion garnered press then, and continues to generate interest, because of the subject matter: portraits from the set of…
Speaking of late, great Lower Greenville venues …Last weekend the boy and I picked over Paperbacks Plus, where I found a copy of David Seeley’s Too Cool to Get Married, a 1989 paperback collection of pieces written for, mostly, Texas Monthly. Included are some familiar pieces: that ’82 story about…
This one’s special. I found it late last night, buried in one of the Internet’s dustier corners, marked only “Living Colour – Dallas, TX – 11-27-90.” It didn’t say where. So I thought maybe it was that extraordinary Bronco Bowl show I reviewed for the Times Herald, drenched in sweat…
In the spirit of this week’s cover on the exoneree compensation scheme and the attorneys who’ve profited handsomely from it, we submit the case of Billy Frederick Allen — a man incarcerated for nearly 26 years for two apparently drug-related University Park murders. In February 2009, the Court of Criminal…
Speaking of the Trinity River … Perhaps I didn’t end up visiting the under-construction Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge on the best day for our ongoing Unfair Park series, “Sweaty Dispatches From a Sweltering City.” While I was out on the pavement girded with Italian steel early Thursday afternoon, there were…
