The much-anticipated Fort Worth Natural Gas Air Quality Study, a major million-dollar undertaking to determine the air quality effects of natural gas drilling, was released toward day’s end yesterday and indicates there’s no need to get your gas masks out just yet — for the most part. The study, conducted…
The great Will Clarke hipped us to this sneak peek at Breaking Bad, which returns Sunday at 9 p.m. on AMC. The reason Will’s so excited: The above clip features none other than Kitchen Dog Theater’s co-artistic director Tina Parker, who’s had bit parts on the meth-addled thriller since its…
And Schutze and I were just talking about Steve Bartlett. Then a Friend of Unfair Park goes and sends this piece posted a little while ago to The New York Times’s website about how the former mayor of Dallas (twixt Strauss and Kirk, for those new to town or who…
Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander, back from summer break, shot me a note this morning about a short film called Von Bagdad nach Dallas. “At some point, you need to see this,” he wrote, explaining he had a lone copy on DVD given to him a while back,…
This just in from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas: Adjust your thermostats to 78 or higher now — or, at the very least, between 3 and 7 p.m. — or the whole state runs the risk of brownouts later. Why? Well, sure — it’s hot, hot, hotter than hell…
Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade’s worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The accompanying documents, which Robert shared in yesterday’s post, are a fascinating…
Just for the sake of historical accuracy, I would like to point out that the city of Dallas has claimed in court filings that the Sixth Floor Museum was behind the June 10, 2010, arrest and incarceration of Kennedy assassination author Robert Groden, who is charged with illegally selling literature…
I see Avi’s posted a piece to Barking Dogs wondering whether a Walmart will take over the old Whole Foods on Lowest Greenville. Writes Adelman, yesterday “teams of inspectors — electrical, structure, property, roofing — swarmed all over the building, taking photos, comparing architectural drawings to reality, and deciding what…
Last month we noted that Dallas Area Rapid Transit has long has a policy in place prohibiting beer and wine ads on buses and light rail. Why? No real reason, other than previous boards didn’t much like the idea. But DART needs dough, which is why, over the course of…
The Rangers start their post-break schedule tonight in Seattle. Despite a seven-game winning streak, baseball’s sixth-best record and a one-game lead in the AL West, president Nolan Ryan sounds none too satisfied. “It concerns me,” Ryan told ESPN when asked to assess the state of the Rangers at the break…
At 10 this morning on the steps of the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse, Rais Bhuiyan, who was shot in the face by white supremacist Mark Stroman as part of a post-September 11, 2001 shooting spree, will announce that he’s filing suit today against Gov. Rick Perry and other…
I was talking to George Gimarc last night (more about that later … ish) when he mentioned that the Texas Radio Hall of Fame has announced its 2011 class of inductees. Among them is a local great who won’t be able to attend the October ceremony: the great Cuzzin’ Linnie,…
Touche: You’re good, Angela Hunt. Very good. We thought we had you last week, after you tweeted photos of ordinary-looking folks hanging out in Main Street Gardens park with their luggage. Lots of luggage. “I’m tired of bums in Main St. Garden,” you railed. “Counted 12-many sleepng. Where is DPD?…
On a Wednesday morning in late March, Joey Dauben and his team are gathered at his little blue-trimmed cottage in Palmer, the town where Dauben is running for mayor. The election is about six weeks away, and they’re supposed to be gearing up for the first day of door-to-door campaigning…
Now this is a response: Perhaps you’ve heard that a Wisconsin-based “state/church watchdog” group opposed to mixin’ government and religion today filed for a temporary injunction down in Houston, asking a federal court to put the kibosh on Gov. Rick Perry’s star-studded prayer rally scheduled for August 6 at Reliant…
I’ve heard from a few folks furious that council member Sheffie Kadane, a vocal proponent of gas drilling within the city limits, sat with the gas drilling task force yesterday during its inaugural meeting. As Marc McCord, an anti-drilling activist, put it in the comments below: “He showed up, took…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word: Federal authorities have rounded up dozens suspected of trafficking heroin and cocaine from Dallas to Atlanta to Baltimore to Philadelphia to Nashville and all points in between. Those arrested yesterday come from all over, including Dallas and Fort Worth and Mansfield and Grand Prairie;…
Earlier this year, state Rep. Marva Beck looked up at the elegant light fixtures above the House floor in Austin and decided they would be ruined by “squiggly” energy-efficient bulbs. So she delved into the bulb issue and co-authored a bill, recently signed into law by Governor Rick Perry, that…
Feels like it’s been a long while since we’ve touched upon the U.S. Senate candidacy of former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, last seen gigging David Dewhurst and who’s still insisting that the Trinity River Corridor Project is worthy of federal earmarks. Anyway. On Saturday he was down at the San…
At last, an interesting Redistricting Commission meeting. And a vaguely star-studded one too. Among those in attendance at last night’s meeting: council members Dwaine Caraway, Carolyn Davis and Tennell Atkins (who didn’t stick around the whole time), Schutze debating partner Sandra Crenshaw, preservationist Virgina McAlester and former plan commissioner Neil…
If you thought the invitations for Tony Romo’s wedding were first-class, wait until you watch the video. At the risk of being uncompletely unmanly: This. Is. Awesome…
Julia Barton, with an assist from Schutze, covered much the same territory earlier this year in her American Icons piece about Dallas for Studio 360. But now that TNT’s given the green light to that next-gen Dallas, CNN, as part of its Defining America series, takes a look at how…
