With this year’s Dallas Art Fair just a couple weeks away, downtown’s Neiman Marcus flagship store is once again getting into the spirit — which is why, just after noon Tuesday, Houston artist-hoarder Bill Davenport was packed into a window box along Main Street, hanging thrift store paintings on the…
On Friday we were introduced to the Dallas Independent School District’s Citizens Budget Review Commission, a 10-member group selected by the school board and Superintendent Michael Hinojosa that’s been tasked with helping the administration find places to slash and burn the budget — without losing teachers, at least as far…
Whether it’s Roy Williams’ pads or his friends’ sagging pants, Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant makes some mind-boggling interesting decisions. And whether it was his underwear exposed or whether he was banned from NorthPark mall over the weekend or whether he launched obscenities at the police and parked in a fire…
Last night, a Dallas Police Department spokesman sent an e-mail to media members containing three thing: recaps of weekend incidents involving Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant and corner Bryan McCann, along with incident reports detailing what led to McCann’s arrest downtown in the wee small hours of the 19th…
Arthur and Archie did it. At 8 p.m., after a marathon hearing, Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson shot down Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s request for an injunction barring the release of an audio recording Dallas Police officers made at his home on January 2, when cops showed up to to investigate…
We’ve already gotten former Dallas Police Chief-turned-Dallas mayoral candidate David Kunkle’s response to Mike Rawlings’s latest campaign mailer. Now, it’s Ron Natinsky’s turn to respond to the flier, which says — without naming him — that Natinsky served as chair of the city council’s Economic Development Committee “while the tax…
[Update at 8:09 p.m.: Jim sends word from the courthouse that Judge Snelson has denied that request for an injunction, leaving the temporary restraining order to dissolve at midnight — and the records will be released after all. Tomorrow, maybe, no word yet on when.] Jim’s at the George Allen…
Thanks to the Facebook page Where’s Neumann, we learned this morning that council member Dave Neumann has been a no-show at several candidate forums held this month. The page’s unknown author named recent forums sponsored by LULAC, the NAACP and both the West Kessler and Cedar Vista neighborhood associations, claiming…
A couple of weeks back we got Mike Rawlings’s first big-money mailer — a slick meet-the-candidate flier highlighted by quite the ’70s ‘stache — accompanied by the first of what’s proved to be a series of good-looking short films starring the mayoral candidate. (The most recent follows.) The latest four-pager…
He has $165,000 in his checking account. He wants to come back as himself when he dies. And he hangs out with guys who kiss other guys on the lips. Wow…
[Update at 3:52 p.m.: Jim sends word that Mayor Dwaine Caraway has just taken the stand during the evidentiary hearing now expected to stretch into the evening. More to come.][Update at 1:41 p.m.: Jim reports that Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson has denied Caraway’s request to extend the temporary restraining order…
It’s not exactly the same as NFL owners shutting down its $9 billion business, but unless outraged parents in Wylie are successful in lobbying city officials to find their children a suitable venue and ample playing fields there may be no 20011 youth football in this Collin County town next…
Two weeks ago Bill Zedler, state rep for District 96 in Arlington, tossed into the legislative heap House Bill 2454, which would prohibit “discrimination by public institutions of higher education against faculty members and students based on their conduct of research relating to intelligent design.” It was referred to the…
On Friday, the Dallas Independent School District unveiled its line-up for the first-ever Citizens Budget Review Commission, a trustee-appointed group charged with helping the school district find ways to cut the budget — without, it would appear, trimming teachers. Channel 11 was on the scene for last night’s first meeting…
A few weeks ago, Leobardo Trevino — the man who bought the Statler Hilton and the adjacent library — led Sam and me on a tour of the Statler. I’d also wanted to see the library, which opened in ’55 and shuttered in ’83, never to be used again; at…
Sorry, Jack, but Mayor Dwaine Caraway did not appear on last night’s CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, which, as advertised, did indeed run an “Assignment America” story about Dallas’s deep ties to earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Sendai, one of our International Friendship Cities. Instead, the piece was about Mark Berry’s…
Sure Sign No. 4,928 that a celebrity’s “breakdown” is a bit: He interrupts a celebrity guest’s late-night chat-show appearance to shine the spotlight on himself for a while by acting “crazy” while simultaneously hawking an entire catalog’s worth of product and upcoming appearances on the concert-tour circuit. Which is what…
And I know the league has a new focus on health and safety, but I don’t like the proposed rule changes being kicked about at the NFL owners’ meetings in New Orleans this week. Owners are expected to vote today on a rule that would move kickoffs from the 30 to…
Pete and Nick did a bang-up job covering South by Southwest’s music fest over on DC9 at Night. But Friend of Unfair Park Big Jon Daniel directs our attention to this holy-effing-ess moment: Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears’ Friday-afternoon lunchtime treat at the Austin Convention Center featuring none other…
If nothing else, Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s letters to and from Sendai following the earthquake and tsunami served to remind us of the long, deep connection shared between the International Friendship Cities. So too does a video posted on the other side that comes from the Dallas Independent School District, which…
At this very moment, President Obama’s chief of staff, William Daley, is looking for someone to replace Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who Obama tapped on March 9 to become the next ambassador to China. An afternoon Wall Street Journal item reminds: “Ron Kirk, the U.S. trade representative, is widely considered…
I went over to The Hilltop’s website this afternoon to look for something unrelated and espied this announcement: “SMU announces the newest inductees into its Athletics Hall of Fame.” At the top of the pops: running back Craig James of the Pony ExcessExpress. No word whether his former agent, Sherwood…
