You remember Brian Dean Miller, right? Sure you do. He’s the 43-year-old Northeast Dallas man who, back in March, posted to Craigslist’s “Rants & Raves” section an item titled “Obama must die.” Among its highlights, reminds the U.S. Attorney’s Office today, he wrote: “People the time has come for revolution…
On November 20, 2008, only weeks after it came to light the Dallas Independent School District had come up with a sudden shortfall of $64 million, the district hired Austin ISD’s chief financial officer, Larry Throm, as its new moneyman in charge. Said DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa in a press…
We began the day by taking a look back at yesterday’s Arts District Better Block, an edible experiment augmented by the goings-on up and down Flora. But Grimes reminded me earlier: Saturday was also Deep Ellum’s turn up to the Better Block chopping block, courtesy organizer Brandon Castillo’s attempt to…
It’s not often when we get to watch Mayor Tom Leppert play Robin to anyone’s Batman, but that’s exactly what happened when he introduced and subsequently endorsed Governor Rick Perry a couple weeks ago during Perry’s visit to the Hyatt Regency for his State of the State Address. No doubt…
Gas drilling opponents from around North Texas rallied around director Josh Fox and his documentary Gasland Friday night at the Angelika, in support of local activists who’ve been fighting the first drilling proposals within Dallas’s city limits. Jim Schermbeck of Downwinders At Risk — who organized the screening — said…
The Power of God from First Dallas on Vimeo.Patrick was downtown Saturday morning when First Baptist blew up a few buildings to make way for its downtown expansion. But Patrick didn’t have cameras stationed all over downtown. Not like First Baptist, which appears to have captured the big bang from…
Hey, at least one of our teams won on Halloween. Prediction: Just three games into the season and Jason Kidd’s swish from inside the Clippers’ 3-point line will be the longest shot made in the NBA this season…
Last week, the city council was all ready to vote on — and OK, since it was on the consent agenda — spending $8,723,971 in Homeland Security dough on about 2,000 Motorola multi-band mobile radios for Dallas Fire-Rescue and the Dallas Police Department. But at the last minute, the item…
[jump] Tonight will be the first November game in Rangers’ history and also the game of the season in Arlington. Even if they win tonight, the Rangers must find a way to win two straight games at AT&T Park, where they are 0-11 all-time. And if the Rangers don’t score…
Exactly two months ago, it appeared as though the Dallas Independent School District was backing off its intentions to seize via eminent domain houses in Jubilee Park to make way for a new-and-improved O.M. Roberts Elementary. On August 12, the district informed Pat Berry, owner of Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse, that…
10. All you Tony Romo haters, how’d that feel? You wanted life without the so-called “celebrity golfer,” you got it. By the way Jon Kitna, perfectly thrown passes tipped into interceptions suck huh? 9. David Garrard is a very mediocre quarterback. The Cowboys made him look like Johnny Unitas. Garrard…
Win or lose, tonight’s the final home game of the 2010 Texas Rangers season. And, yes, even the die-hards must admit at this late date (November 1, itself a remarkable achievement) that the Rangers’ chances of winning the World Series look slim. But Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg, posting to his…
Jason Roberts has a few thoughts about how well yesterday’s Arts District Better Block-ing went; there’s a highlight below. But long story short: It wasn’t just about the food trucks (ate from three, only one of which I’d visit again — and then, just for the salted-melon snow cone) and…
[jump] 5. I’ll ask it again: How the hell can baseball take itself seriously with such horribly incompetent umpiring? Not only was the Game 4 strike zone drastically different from Game 3 – shouldn’t it be universally consistent in every game? – first-base umpire Jeff Kellogg blew two plays. Not…
Just returned from a long night of trick-or-treating to find the Rangers down by two and this picture in my in-box, courtesy the friend of a friend who works for MLB Advanced Media in NYC. That, of course, is 7-year-old Liam Roybal of Keller with The Real Ron Washington in…
10. Yes metroplex, for the first time ever there will be baseball … in November. Regardless of Tommy Hunter in tonight’s Game 4, Game 5 will be Monday night, Novembrer 1, at Rangers Ballpark at 6:57. And oh, by the way Giants fans, you know where you can stick those…
With a mighty set of booms that echoed throughout downtown, Mayor Tom Leppert and his pastor Robert Jeffress made room for the opulent new face of First Baptist Dallas this morning, reducing four buildings to a heap of rubble at the foot of the old 120-year-old sanctuary. As a crowd…
Patrick’s forthcoming with pictures and words from the downtown blow-em-ups this morning, as Big Bob Jeffress and Mayor Tom held hands and made First Baptist go boom, but first, this just in from the Texas Theatre: Love-him-or-hate-him Neil Hamburger’s been booked into the joint for what it’s calling its 1931…
Legend has it George Harrison’s ’74 tour, kicked off shortly before the release of Dark Horse late that year, was a fiasco best forgotten — in large part because the former Beatle, whose wife Pattie had just left him for Eric Clapton, had gone on the road following the same…
That’s the word from the Dish Network, which just sent word that, nope, it’s not gonna drop regular ol’ FOX from its line-up after all. And, matter of fact, those 19 regional sports nets axed on October 1, including Fox Sports Southwest, are back; so too FX and the National…
Took us a while to get ’round to watching this week’s America’s Next Top Model — something to do with bats, balls and boys in tight pants. And, there was the World Series. Anyway. Let’s catch up:Last week, Arlington’s Liz ousted Dallas’s Ann for the first time since the season…
Yesterday — thanks to Gordon Keith, thanks to Midwest Sports Fans, thanks to Deadspin, geez — we met Lil’ Ron Washington, otherwise known as Liam Roybal of Keller, poor feller. Turns out, the 7-year-old had no intention whatsoever of going as the Rangers’ skipper’s Mini-Me for Halloween. He was just…
