Earlier this year it appeared Carl Icahn was all done with Blockbuster: The one-time major shareholder in the downtown-based video-rentalist, the guy who led the charge to oust CEO John Antioco and replace him with Jim Keyes, resigned from its board in January. Then, in March, he began dumping stock…
On July 9 Your Texas Rangers acquired Cliff Lee from the Seattle Mariners. Which was great. Very exciting. But, just maybe, something just as interesting was taking place in the chambers of Judge Michael Lynn, the Fort Worth bankruptcy judge who, on July 9, gathered behind closed doors several of…
Patrick MichelsOn Wednesday, Dallas Police Chief David Brown released that dash-cam video and called upon the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office to prosecute three officers involved in the beating of Andrew Collins. Thursday evening, the Dallas Police Department sent word: Brown has fired five more officers for alleged offenses dating…
Patrick MichelsPatrick took this photo this morning at the Jubilee Park event. I knew it would come in handy.A few minutes ago, the Clark County School District announced: Sure enough, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s a finalist for the superintendent’s job there — no surprise. Joining him on…
We’re down in the big room at City Hall, where the City Plan Commission’s taken over the big boy chairs and taped their nametags over the City Council’s placards. As they wend their way through the less-thrilling zoning issues on the agenda, the smallish crowd in here is waiting patiently…
Dallas model Ann, tethered so she won’t blow away in a slight breezeWe found the chosen girls from the America’s Next Top Model premiere talking themselves up something crazy and strolling Venice Beach, which, if I’m not mistaken, go hand in hand. A Venice street performer rolled up, and they…
That’s the just-posted, very-latest exclusive from Deadline Hollywood, which earlier brought news that several networks were vying for Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s semi(?)fictional tome about the Park Cities. Reports Nellie Andreeva:I hear ABC’s new chief Paul Lee spearheaded the network’s efforts to land…
Truth told I wasn’t aware the state’s vehicle registration sticker was so hideous and hard-to-read. But it is. It is! Hence the new-and-improved version just debuted in Arlington at the Tarrant County tax office, where Texas Department of Motor Vehicles higher-ups gathered to birth with much pride and pomp the…
It was all hands on stage this morning at Jubilee Park, where the new community center’s dedication drew the city’s best and the brightest for an hour of speeches, dancing kids and cookies. Just a block from the new homes along Congo Street, which bcWorkshop celebrated last weekend with a…
Hard to be persnickety about a defense that didn’t allow a touchdown in the season opener, but at some point the Dallas Cowboys’ pressure has to translate into points. Right? Continuing a troubling trend from 2009, the Cowboys harassed Washington quarterback Donovan McNabb and generally suffocated the the Redskins last…
Early this morning ALDI sent word:ALDI, a leader in grocery quality and value will be dropping its prices on all varieties of its Friendly Farms milk beginning this Sat. (Sept. 18). For the next several weeks Metroplex Area shoppers may purchase one-gallon varieties of milk for only $.99. (Limit 4…
In May 2008 the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee first took up the topic of W.H. Adamson High School, once known as Oak Cliff High. At the time it was expected that the Dallas Independent School District might have some issues with designation — not only because the district has only…
It’s common sense that Ian Kinsler should not have been suspended. It’s also becoming pretty clear that he’s vital to the Texas Rangers’ post-season success. Loved me some Andres Blanco. He filled in with OK defense, scrappy base-running and even some pop in his bat. But in Wednesday night’s 11-7 win over the…
SmokeWho wouldn’t love a guy who smelled like one of the best restaurants in town?As the mayor of upscale Oak Cliff barbecue joint Smoke on the Foursquare smartphone app, I feel especially qualified to weigh in on the latest sales-science attempt from Axe, the grooming product line for men that…
This morning, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States report. And while some take issue with how the bureau calculates the poverty rate, the headline are more or less the same: “U.S. Poverty Rate Jumps To 14.3 Percent.” The median national…
Dallas Independent School District’s Facebook pageThat photo above? Comes from DISD’s Facebook page, from Saturday’s launch of “Operation Comeback,” during which Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa went out looking dropouts. The twosome will reteam this morning at Townview for the launch of “a…
Once upon a time at a Valley Ranch far, far away, Jimmy Johnson drove his black Nissan 300Z into the parking lot and hurried into the building. He’d summoned a snotty-nosed, smart-ass reporter to his office, and I sat nervously in the foyer. After reading aloud my story in that day’s Fort…
Walking into The Dock restaurant at Fair Park early Labor Day morning, you smell nothing but cotton candy, grease and arrhythmia. Mmmmmm. Take in a nice, deep breath of impending diabetes, y’all. It’s time for the final judging of The Big Tex Choice Awards. After years of experimenting and weeks…
Straw dogs: If you see a roomful of opposing politicians pointing fingers at one another and shouting “liar” and “disingenuous” and “snake-oil salesman,” rest assured you’re witnessing one of those rare instances when they’re all telling the truth. So it was at Monday’s Dallas City Council meeting, when the council…
When he bought a large chunk of land in Ennis back in the mid-1980s, Billy Meyer had a vision. He’d build the world’s fastest strip of concrete and let the United States government do the rest. But long after the over-hyped, under-producing Superconducting Super Collider went kaput in nearby Waxahachie,…
Just two days after suffering the worst defeat of his short political career, Mayor Tom Leppert offered something different from his typical canned State of the City address that we’ve grown accustomed to hearing around this time of year. “I am very optimistic about the state of our city, but…
Just got back from Jack Evans Police Headquarters for Chief David Brown’s press conference accompanying the release of dash-cam video in which several officers assaulted Andrew Collins on September 5th. On the video, officers can be seen doing what Chief Brown called “making contact” with Collins — kicking, punching and…
