Couldn’t find the game on TV out here in the Arizona desert, but after watching the highlights I didn’t need to. I’ve seen this Mavericks movie a lot recently. The good guys die in the end. Last night in Portland the Mavs made their first 11 shots, hit almost 60…
All four mayoral candidates are running on similar platforms to improve neighborhoods and boost economic development. But underdog Edward Okpa sought to set himself apart from the field this afternoon, claiming David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings “don’t have the relevant facts” to make the necessary progress in neighborhoods. He also…
Mayor Dwaine Caraway sent a letter on Friday expressing the city’s “deepest condolences” to his counterpart in Sendai, Japan, Mayor Emiko Okuyama. Caraway mentioned in the missive that his wife, state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, had attended the Sendai International Marathon, and said, “Due to our years of people-to-people exchanges…
From the Texas Enterprise Fund, that is — otherwise known as the state’s “deal-closing fund” intended, in part, to bring new bidness to Texas. The governor was in Richardson earlier today to announce the state’s “investing” $2.45 million in Virtual Computing Environment Company, a Cisco-created cloud-computin’ company that’s building a…
By now you’ve read this (I hope), and it now appears the governor’s going to allow the state Lege to take $3.2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund to pay down some of that budget shortfall, which may just save a few teachers’ jobs. But Michael Quinn Sullivan, president of…
Valeri Williams doesn’t want to talk about why her client — Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., the only son of Wendy Russell Reves — filed suit in Dallas federal court Friday, alleging that the Dallas Museum of Art and former UT Southwestern president Kern Wildenthal took part in an “intricate pattern…
Monday, on what would have been their father’s 95th birthday, the four children of Pulitzer- and two-time Academy Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote celebrated the launch of the area-wide festival of his work at a party in the lobby of the Winspear Opera House. Actors and directors from many…
Short shorts. Skinny players. No 3-point line. Jay Bilas at Duke instead of ESPN. A lot was different in college basketball the last – and only – time the Final Four descended upon Dallas. (College basketball’s March Madness will climax in Cowboys Stadium in 2014). In 1986 the stage was…
For those who’ve forgotten the now-legendary tale of Nathan Wayne Pugh, a 49-year-old Sachse man, allow me to recap. On July 26, Pugh went into the Wells Fargo at 4332 Lemon Avenue carrying a bag from a fast-food restaurant. He walked up to the teller and told her, “I want…
One week ago today we took a look at Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores’s proposal to rework how the district determines who its “best teachers” are before mass layoffs begin courtesy the state’s budget shortfall. After which it went before the board at Thursday’s briefing. After which it…
While I was out last week the Dallas Mavericks blew a seven-point lead in the final minute in a flabbergasting loss in New Orleans. Afterward, head coach Rick Carlisle called his team “soft.” Veteran shooting guard Jason Terry bristled at the suggestion, saying “I’m not soft, not me. I don’t…
As Sam pointed out last week, it’s clear that mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings is well funded — so much so he’s released what appears to be a web-only mini-doc shot, for the most part, at the Good Street Missionary Baptist Church on Bonnie View. It also features two current council…
After watching Neftali Feliz hurl an impressive first four innings of Monday’s 5-4 exhibition win over the Los Angeles Dodgers here in Surprise, Arizona, I sat down with general manager Jon Daniels to find out exactly where the 22-year-old fireballer fits in this season. Closer? Or starter? “I think that…
ABC’s set to start shooting that Good Christian Bitches pilot around town on Monday, last we heard, with Carley Bobby as Amanda Vaughn, the divorced mother of two moving back to the Park Cities with her tail tucked. Late last night, ABC announced it’s added a new castmate to Sex…
Sooner than later, of course, there will be but one Borders left in Dallas — the Lovers and Greenville location, spared, so far, from closure following the company’s Chapter 11 filing a few weeks ago. The other two locations, in Preston Royal and the West Village, are well into their…
After lunch, we headed out to see that live cockroach billboard on display outside the Angelika Theater in Mockingbird Station and got a few close-ups of the creepy-crawlers for your viewing … um … pleasure? (There’s video on the other side.) And, yes, some of the smaller roaches occasionally slipped…
Sour Grapes at Neiman Marcus from Carlos Donjuan on Vimeo.Tagged, that is, by the estimable, Dallas Contemporary-endorsed members of the Sour Grapes crew. The Neimans windows received their new look in advance of next month’s Dallas Art Fair, located at the Fashion Industry Gallery — and sponsored by Neimans, so…
At this late date, tell me there’s no need to remind you who Terry Southern is. No? We’re good? Fantastic.Well, OK, in case you’re still not clear: He’s Alvarado-born, Oak Cliff-raised, SMU-educated writer who bridged the gap between the Beat 1950s and the Beatles 1960s — the author of masterpiece…
10. The St. Patrick’s Day/Greenville Avenue Parade is my favorite day of the year in Dallas. It’s the one day our city lets its hair down, drops the materialistic b.s. and has fun, with total disregard to how we may look doing it. For about 12 hours a year, I get tricked…
Alan Smith says he can’t get any clean water to drink because his tap’s poisoned — and that’s the same old tap water everyone else in Dallas is drinking. Every drop, of course, is treated with fluoride to reduce cavities — but each time Smith pours a cup of water,…
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa was among those who spoke Saturday in front of the guesstimated 12,000-plus parents, educators and students amassed in front of the state capitol building in Austin. His brief remarks are above. They am what they am. Dalton Sherman spoke after the super and…
SlashGear this morning directs our attention to a press release issued late Friday by ad agency Publicis’s Dallas office, which has found a rather ingenious way to garner attention for a billboard — by filling the thing with “thousands of live cockroaches.” You read that right. It’s for Terminex, a…
