Photos by Andrea GrimesLisa Stone’s friends pray for answers — and justice — in her disappearance.Holding candles and cupcakes, Lisa Stone’s friends met to sing, pray and shed tears last night under the billboard they hope will help them find answers as to why Stone has been missing for more…
As we mentioned last week, Mayor Tom Leppert spiced up his State of the City address with, among other things, some harsh comments directed toward the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Not only did he claim the corps is “not accountable to the citizens of Dallas,” Leppert urged them to…
After hearing from the public and discussing the issue at great length last Thursday, the City Plan Commission stopped short of recommending an SUP for XTO Energy to drill for gas at Hensley Field. It would be the first drill site for natural gas in Dallas proper, and while XTO’s…
Photos by Danny FulgencioI’m headed to Fair Park shortly for a Very Special Sneak Peak at … well, you’ll find out later, so there. Till then, the surest sign yet that the State Fair of Texas kicks off its till-October-17 run this very Friday: the annual erecting of Big Tex…
The thing that people like me — people who hate running — say about running is that they don’t do it unless they’re being chased. But I’m not even sure that being chased is an especially good reason to run. If you can’t outwit a dinosaur, thief or zombie using…
Photos by Hal SamplesAdrianne Palicki, left, and Jon Voight on the set of Lone StarAs you’re no doubt aware by now, Lone Star premieres tonight on FOX at 8 p.m. It’s shot here but set in Houston and Midland, between which James Wolk’s Bob/Robert bounces while leading the con man’s…
We’re at a rare, almost unprecedented and admittedly awkward spot in Texas Rangers’ history. The Rangers will win the American League West, but they’re still so far away with so much time left in the season that it makes for – honestly – some uninteresting and practically meaningless baseball here in mid-September…
The City Auditor’s Office this morning released its look-see at the amount of overtime paid to Dallas Police Department officers waiting around to testify at municipal court. DPD’s got a general order that says: Off-duty officers can either hang around court waiting for trial and be guaranteed two hours overtime…
Back in ’07, during his brief break from the paper version of Unfair Park, Out Fearless Leader Mark Donald profiled Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins — “Impact Player of the Year” — for Texas Lawyer. In that piece, Mark mentioned that two prosecutors fired by Watkins during the early…
In the past few hours, stories from the U.K. began surfacing: Tom Hicks isn’t leaving Liverpool after all, but has instead asked a Blackstone Group subsidiary to help him refinance his debt. Which suggested to some that Hicks’s has no intention of getting Yanks-out after — hence this weekend’s planned…
All the sudden it’s been four months since Greg Williams launched his radio comeback by landing a gig at 105.3 The Fan alongside yours truly. Since mid-May I’ve found him to be: *On time. *Thoroughly prepared. *Unequivocally lucid/coherent. *And, well, his old self. He’s come a long way from the…
10. If I told you that Team A had edges over Team B in yards (410-308), plays (71-49) and time of possession (33:40-26:20) while holding its opponent to 1 of 11 on third downs and producing a special teams touchdown, you’d probably say that Team A had a 90-percent chance of winning that…
A 2008 rendering of the new Sylvan Avenue bridge, which will be discussed at another public meeting on October 7Feels like it’s been forever since last we heard of plans to replace the low-lying, flood-prone Sylvan Avenue bridge — almost two years to the month, matter of fact. Back in…
First off: G’mar chatimah tovah. Now, then.When I posted the link to that Feb. ’68 Jimi Hendrix Experience show at the Music Hall at Fair Park a few weeks back, I espied the set list for the next night’s follow-up at the Will Rogers Auditorium — a little different, mostly…
Longtime Dallas Love Field Airport food and beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza has accepted the city’s offer to extend his lease through the remainder of the new terminal’s construction, according to a statement just released by Aranza. As requested by the Dallas City Council, we signed an agreement with the City…
Now’s the time for Dallas residents to go and see the new Grevy’s zebra foal in the Wilds of Africa exhibit at the Dallas Zoo. It’s a big deal, zoo officials say, because Grevy’s are a rare type of zebra, with about 2,500 left in Africa. To mark the occasion,…
If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute’s 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we’re gonna do it all again.Next week’s panel discussion, “Four…
Shortly after the Clark County School District’s board of trustees announced that Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa is a finalist for the top job there, the super released a statement in which he said, among other things:Tomorrow, we will announce our final budget numbers from the 2009-10 school…
This is just an arm-chair amateur speaking, but Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s response to the motorcycle beat-down scandal seems right-on to me. Brown is going to require his more veteran coppers to work afternoon and midnight shifts with the rookies so that the rookies won’t all be out on…
Kit NelsonA week ago today we told you that the Royal Bank of Scotland has given Tom Hicks till October 6 to find a buyer for Liverpool FC, or else it’s taking over. Hicks and George Gillett owe the bank £237 million. Hicks and Gillett want £800 million for the…
Gov. Rick Perry said concealed handgun laws have made Texas safer during a campaign stop at McClelland Gun Shop yesterday afternoon while receiving endorsements from the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. He also continued to milk his story about killing a coyote with a handgun while…
Says so right here: November 10. She’ll be out promoting Austin-based Heroic Media, self-described as “a faith-based non-profit that reduces abortion by creating a Culture of Life through television, billboard and internet advertising which connects women in crisis with life-affirming pregnancy centers.” No word on ticket prices yet, and I…
