Speaking of the mayor pro tem …City Hall just sent word that tomorrow at City Hall, Dwaine Caraway will be joined by SMU associate psychology prof Jasper Smits, clinical psychologist Jay Ashmore of the Cooper Aerobics Center and others to launch a citywide anti-smoking initiative. Its title: “Quit Smoking Dallas.”…
As I’ve said before, I like Jason Garrett. Really do. Got to know him a little bit personally when he was a backup and I was beat writer out at Valley Ranch in the ’90s. I’ve long pushed for him to be Dallas’ head coach in place of Stumbledoofus. What’s…
Shortly before the vote on Proposition 1, which allowed for the citywide off-premise sale of beer and wine, we noted: Goody Goody Liquor and Vantex Enterprises, the parent company of Centennial and Big Daddy’s, contributed $30,000 to the anti- campaign under the moniker No Alcohol PAC/Neighborhood For Safety. They were,…
As you may recall, the city sent word last month that it needed to meet with Trinity River property owners to discuss those revised Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, due to debut in February before the final ones are drawn up in December 2011 and go into effect in…
A couple of years back we noted that the price-fix was back in, thanks in large part to a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that eventually put a Flower Mound business out of business. Perhaps you recall that case: Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. Kay’s Kloset — or Leegin,…
I had something reasonably newsworthy with which to end the day. But it’ll have to wait till morning — I need one more confirmation. (How’s that for a tease?) So instead I’ll leave you with this just-posted ad for the DART’s Green Line, set to open all the way on…
Sitting in a white patio chair on the porch of her 86-year-old house Sunday afternoon, Yvette Laster can look directly across the street to the new Jubilee Park community center, the $6 million building named for Walt Humann and T. Boone Pickens that opened to great fanfare in September. For…
Two months ago TNT announced that it was indeed planning on a return to Southfork with the Ewing clan in tow. For now, though, the new Dallas is but a hypothetical — a pilot that will more than likely shoot in the spring. Efforts are under way to recruit members…
There’s a restaurant in Fayetteville, Arkansas, called Northern Exposure. Its slogan: “GREAT STEAKS, COLD DRINKS & FREE SCENIC VIEWS.” (Which may be true, according to the barren, surely-that-can’t-be-right Google streetview.) There’s no website at present — the gentleman who answered when I called said it’s down for maintenance.Reason I called…
10. First couple of rounds I actually thought Antonio Margarito had a chance against Manny Pacquiao. Margarito charged ahead and threw bigger punches. But the end result of most of the center-ring skirmishes was him running into a swarm of gnats. The cumulative effect proved catastrophic as he spent Saturday night…
At the end of August there was that report noting that The Dallas Morning News was about to put much of its staff-written content behind a paywall, leaving only Associated Press pieces and 150-word breaking-news briefs as gratis offerings. Publisher and CEO Jim Moroney told us that wasn’t quite accurate,…
Last month your Texas Rangers finally made it to baseball’s World Series. Hasn’t been quite as long of a wait, but FC Dallas is at last in soccer’s MLS Cup. With a 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy Sunday night, FC Dallas won Major League Soccer’s Western Conference and…
I cannot count the number of stories Observer editor Mark Donald and I have written about Ronald “Buffalo” Chambers, who, on April 10, 1975, kidnapped 22-year-old Texas Tech student Mike McMahan and 20-year-old Deia Sutton, drove them to the Trinity River bottoms and shot both in the head. McMahan died…
Or: What do voluntary compliance mean?No doubt you’re well aware of the fact that for the last six weeks or so, you’ve needed a city-issued $15 permit to hold a garage sale in the city of Dallas. But when last we peeked at the permitting process, there were but three…
Good friend of the show Justin Terveen was kind enough to share this photo with the Friends of Unfair Park this morning — a view of downtown taken from the trestle directly north of Lew Sterrett Justice Center, which rumbles over Stemmons. Look for the more ginormous version sooner than…
Bike-riding the few blocks to F.P. Caillet Elementary back in the day was certainly no big deal — it certainly wasn’t revolutionary, it certainly wasn’t news. It’s how we got to school. Flash-forward three decades, and our neighborhood — same one in which I grew up — stages a Bike…
10. It took all of one play to smack you in the kisser with the fact that these were not your same ol’ Stumbledoofus Cowboys. Bruised ribs and all, cornerback Terence Newman tackled Mario Manningham for a 2-yard loss after a catch on New York’s first play. Against the Packers last…
New Campus Fountain Animation from First Dallas on Vimeo.A couple of weeks back, First Baptist Dallas ‘sploded some of downtown to make way for its $115-million campus makeover. Yesterday, Robert Jeffress debuted a more detailed look at one of the centerpieces of the redo — the towering fountain that’s part…
What you see above are the new pavilions at Brownwood Park on Walnut Hill Lane, between Webb Chapel Road and Marsh Lane. When I spotted them Friday morning, contractors were putting the finishing touches on the three structures, which have been very slow to take shape. “We had difficulty with…
Late-afternoon legal matters yesterday ate into the usual work-week-ending rock-and-roll-and offering. So, then, straight to it via a legendary Swingin’ Pig LP digitized for your protection: Leslie West, Jack Bruce and Corky Laing at Memorial Auditorium in downtown Dallas on November 29, 1972. Otherwise known as West, Bruce & Laing…
You knew it was coming. And now, it’s here: the lawsuit against the city of Dallas that Andy Siegel vowed to file by week’s end in which he asks the court to void the results of last week’s vote to allow the off-premise sale of wine and beer citywide. It…
I lost my Air Sex virginity a long time ago in New York City, and the experience was so pleasurable I just can’t stop coming back for more. I had a fab time judging the Air Sex Championships at Trees that were held back in August, and couldn’t have been…
