From the WUSS Facebook pageTony Hale, best known as Arrested Development’s Buster Bluth, has a small role as the band director in Clay Liford’s WUSSOnly yesterday we directed your attention to a handful of local filmmakers, musicians and writers looking for a little Kickstart. It didn’t take long for a…
Lewis Wickes HineSix-year-old Odell McDuffey, left, and 7-year-old Sam Stillman on a Dallas street corner in October 1913We first saw this photo of Odell McDuffey and Sam Stillman selling newspapers on a downtown Dallas street corner in December 2008, when it showed up on Shorpy accompanied only by the original…
When he defiantly refused to carry veteran receiver Roy Williams’ shoulder pads after a training- camp practice in San Antonio, Dallas Cowboys’ rookie Dez Bryant got lots of support. “Hazing is wrong!” some said. “He’s a football player, not an equipment manager,” others offered. “Dez is a man. He ain’t nobody’s…
Last night, as expected, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board signed off on that $1.25-billion budget and 20-year financial plan, which eliminates 150 positions and some rail service, as trains will now run every 15 minutes instead of every 10. The good news-bad news details follow for those who follow such…
Carla Main says she did everything she could to sit down with Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall while reporting her book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land. She finally got in the same room with him today, though, in a morning hearing over Royall’s defamation…
Click to embiggen the chart that answers the question: “What prevents you from cycling more often?”Hanna biked on over to City Hall for last week’s Dallas Bike Plan meeting, the second and final public forum before the formal unveiling of the draft plan to the council during Cyclesomatic 2010 next…
Last night, if-you-don’t-watch-my-show-we-kill-this-dog Kyle Killen wasn’t the only one waiting to see if more than 4.1 million viewers tuned in to the second episode of FOX’s Lone Star. As Dallas Film Commissioner Janis Burklund noted on her Facebook page shortly before the 8 p.m. kick-off, “Now we all hold our…
Casa Blanca Restaurant opened at Redbird Airport back in ’60 and was there all the way till the ’03 redo, at which point the doors shuttered and the city put out the call for bids. It took a while — five years — but in the summer of ’08 the…
Maybe the reason so many people avoided the census workers coming to their doors was because they didn’t want to tell strangers about self-esteem issues related to the appearance of their own asses — a question I must have missed when I filled out the paper version. I’m not sure…
I appreciate Josh Hamilton. Admire him. Think he should be this year’s American League MVP. Really I do. But I would feel even better about him had he participated in last Saturday’s locker-room celebration in Oakland with his alcohol-drenched Rangers’ teammates. It’s great news that yesterday Josh – who hasn’t…
Merritt was just on Kickstarter, funding a friend’s project, when she decided to peek at the Dallasites in need of dough from the “crowdsourced fund-raising service.” She forwarded along this most eclectic and interesting list, among ’em: “Batman Rebuilt” co-creator Caleb Christopher needs two grand for his Batman stop-motion LEGO…
A good Friend of Unfair Park (OK, my next-door-neighbor and fellow DISD parent) directs our attention to yesterday’s announcement heralding the launch of this website, which allows you to see how the Dallas Independent School District’s doling out the $1.35 billion approved for the 2008 bond program. Says the man…
Here’s hoping that Saturday’s Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl is better than last year’s yawny 16-13 Longhorns’ victory. The memorable 45-35 game in 2008 was a little more like it. Still, with pedestrian quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert and Landry Jones and what I think are two mediocre defenses, I’d be shocked if…
Tom Hicks, this shirt’s referring to you.For those wondering why’s it taking so damned long for Tom Hicks to part with the Dallas Stars, Mike Heika has the answer: The lenders are in control now (wuh-oh). That, coupled with Chuck Greenberg’s landing a something-point-something billion-dollar teevee deal, ain’t helping. (If…
Some time after 6:30 this evening, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board will approve the $1,256,451,080 FY2011 budget and the Twenty-Year Financial Plan prompted by the sales-tax shortfall — “The Lost Decade,” for those with short-term memory loss. But let’s dig deeper into the DART meeting agenda for today –…
Watched some Packers-Bears on Monday Night Football last night and it hit me how good Cowboys’ left tackle Doug Free has been this season. How’s that you ask? Bears’ defensive lineman Julius Peppers was all over the field in Chicago’s 20-17 win. (By the way, when their opponents have the…
Sam MertenAccording to The Washington Post this morning, the Democratic Governors Association has already poured $2 million into Bill White’s campaign. Which is just the start: Today the DGA’s set to debut an ad in Dallas that attacks Governor Rick Perry on three fronts — for his 2007 executive order…
An Iraq-born U.S. Army translator and his wife have filed suit against the Dallas Police Department and a local nightclub, alleging that the husband was beaten and pepper-sprayed to the point of unconsciousness by off-duty police officers who made “racial and degrading comments” last summer outside the Al-Amir club and…
Despite the rain early on Saturday, I found myself at the All About Uptown Festival for the third-straight year, and it wasn’t until checking out the festival’s website just now that I realized it’s only the third year of its existence. Not a heckuva lot has changed since 2008 –…
Over these many years I’ve lost track of the number of Dallas crime maps that have come and gone — seem to recall having SpotCrime bookmarked at one point, there’s the slow-loading CrimeWatch, and the city has its own rustic site that looks like something that was very ahead of…
Rod ClevelandThe Red River Shootout’s up for grabs following the 2015 expiration date of Texas and OU’s deal with the city of Dallas. After that, who knows — Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome, most folks figure. Unless something happens between now and then. Hard to say.But up in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, today,…
Carla MainWe were first introduced to Highland Park developer, Humble Oil heir and Hiram Walker distant relation Hiram Walker Royall in December 2008, when he became national news for suing everyone connected to the 2007 tome Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land. And by everyone, I…
