After a weird, scary ordeal that started with him being admitted to the hospital with early pneumonia and then kept longer than anticipated despite “significant improvement,” Texas Rangers’ outfielder and American League MVP Josh Hamilton was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon. The thing was handled strangely by the Rangers from…
While a lot of you are off work today, take time to remember and refresh the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. The rest of us? Let’s commemorate MLK Day with an impossible task: Selecting the world’s all-time greatest black athletes. First step, choosing the criteria. Sheer athleticism? Popularity? Accomplishment? Social…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now. It’s official: Mayor Tom Leppert has decided not to run for a second term. On his website, he explains:Since 2007, I’ve had one of the best jobs in the world: Mayor of Dallas. In that time, I have worked with committed Council colleagues, talented city…
What you see above is a Jeff Liles-filmed two-fer from Joe Ely’s extraordinary, intimate “Storytellers” performance at the Kessler last night: Dig All Night’s “Behind the Bamboo Shade” followed by Ely’s rendition of the immortal “Dallas,” penned by Jimmie Dale Gilmore and originally released as the one and lonely Flatlanders…
I’ve considered retiring this weekly feature many times in recent weeks; we’re about out of the good stuff, I fear — unless you’re just dying for a ladies-choice between Linda Ronstadt at Reunion in ’82 or Courtney Love and Hole at Deep Ellum Live in ’94, which I’d briefly considered…
When last we heard from Anna Fermanova, the would-be cosmetologist from Plano was dishing out celeb gossip on CW33 while awaiting yet another court appearance in New York on federal weapons-smuggling charges after feds accused her of rocketing to Russia high-priced rifle scopes on the U.S. Munitions List. Her TV…
When U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reps dropped in last August to hear the public’s thoughts on new gas drilling regulations, it was a ¡Three Amigos! sort of moment, the townspeople pleading for help wrangling with Governor Guapo and his jefes at the TCEQ. Now that the EPA’s muscled them aside…
Built in 1900, 1516 Elm Street has been on and off the market for years; about six years back, it was even offered as part of a package that included 807 Elm, which is coming down any second now. The for-lease sign has been a constant, but every so often…
I’m guessing the male “potential candidates” for mayor listed in a Wednesday Dallas Morning News article have personal lives. They’re probably in relationships or unmarried singles. Some of ’em might have kids. Others could have ailing or aging parents they’re responsible for. Maybe one or two once had or is…
Carolyn Beck, spokesperson for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, just called with an update about that Rick’s Cabaret scheduled to open within days near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Says Beck, Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and the DFW Airport board weren’t the first to protest the topless joint’s liquor license…
Luxist directs our attention this afternoon to the Strait Lane home of one Phil Romano, which has been on the market for quite some time. But the ’07 asking price of $17.5 million has come way, way down since then — to $12.5 million, per the Sotheby’s listing, which provides…
Back in August we got a look at that city council briefing titled “Effective Business Strategies to Support Sustainable Growth,” in which there were numerous new fees and rate hikes proposed by the ever-shrinking, oft-backed-up Sustainable Development and Construction department in order to “recover the true costs of delivering services…
As advertised, Brent Brown, Larry Beasley and the rest of the Dallas CityDesign Studio crew welcomed 100 or so friends, neighbors and urban planning devotees to chat about their latest “Urban Structure” plan, meant to put a walkable, complete-street face on the development explosion everyone seems to expect once traffic…
Of course, no word yet from the likely local contender to run for KBH’s still-warm seat: Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. But while poking around his website this morning (where you’ll find his positions on health care, education and public safety), I did find one interesting and heretofore overlooked note on…
There’s no shortage of names being tossed out there as would-be replacements for Kay Bailey Hutchison, who yesterday announced she won’t run for re-election to the U.S. Senate. Top o’ the list, of course, is Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, who made his intentions clear Thursday afternoon on his blog: “I…
If you were all revved up yesterday for a few solid hours of public debate on the environment, only to be abruptly denied, well, take heart — at the Crowne Plaza Hotel tomorrow, the Environmental Protection Agency’s holding an all-day hearing on its proposals for regulating greenhouse gases. From 10…
Back in April we learned that New York’s Public Theater and the Dallas Theater Center would team up to present Michael John LaChuisa and Sybille Pearson’s potentially very-big-deal musical-theater adaptation of Giant, which, befitting so mammoth a novel, ran around four hours during its ’09 debut at the Signature Theater…
A little while ago I came across the video you’ll find after the jump, in which a man can be seen breaking into Observer staff favorite Sal’s Pizza on Wycliff Sunday morning. Police report says the man, driving an ’02 Ford Expedition, popped the deadbolt and got off with $200…
This week’s feature in the Paper Version of Unfair Park recounts the story of Victoria Peterson, a 40-year-old woman who’s been accused by a handful of old men in Dallas of pretending at romance while she slowly bilked them out of their life savings.According to court docs and police reports,…
No doubt City Hall will send out a release sooner or later, or post it to the City Secretary’s open-meetings page, but we like to plan ahead. So, in case you missed the notice — buried in tiny type at the bottom of Page 4B in the morning paper, right…
No, no, it has nothing to do with whether or not Tom Leppert’s going to run for her Senate seat following today’s bit o’ breaking news. Sorry. That announcement’s still a few weeks off — after the Super Bowl, that’s my guess. Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, sends…
In the past year — in the wake of Reggie Bush — Kim Kardashian has dated Dallas athletes Miles Austin, the Cowboys’ receiver, and then Kris Humpries, who played briefly for the Mavericks. Apparently she hasn’t, after all, moved on to Kanye West. While hotties like Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker and Pamela Anderson…
