Looks like Chicago-based Mercy for Animals has a week’s worth of Dallas events on its schedule, beginning at noon today with a go-vegetarian leafleting at the West End DART station and a meat-free lunch deal at Bliss Raw Cafe. And Friday they’ll return to the West End DART stop, where…
He’s converted 31 of 34 save chances. He struck out the side in Sunday’s important 6-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. He’s even gone to the dominating dreadlocks wrapped in a bandana. But when push comes to shove and the Texas Rangers need a crucial inning, do we trust Neftali Feliz? Yesterday…
This morning, Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall sends word: City Auditor Craig Kinton has wrapped his look-see at parking revenues from Dallas Summer Musicals’ productions at the Fair Park Music Hall. And there’s one major problem: For the last couple of years, the city didn’t have any idea how…
I knew there was a reason I keep watching Entourage — to keep up with the parade of Dallas sports team owners parading through the office of Ari Gold. Jerry Jones has already appeared twice: once to tell Ari maybe he’s just the man to bring a pro football team…
At 9 this morning, the council will yet again sit down to debate the budget, and most of the briefing will likely focus on cuts to Park and Rec, which is looking to lose around $15.4 million out of its budget in the coming fiscal year (from $64,266,766 to $48,855,266),…
10. I’m out of excuses/reasons/explanations. Any theories as to why – still – quarterback Tony Romo and receiver Roy Williams don’t seem to be on the same page? Sometimes it’s Romo overthrowing him and sometimes it’s Williams falling down. Whatever, they just don’t click. 9. Of all the linebackers drafted…
There’s a big ol’ story on the front page of this morning’s New York Times in which Charles and Sam Wyly insist the Securities and Exchange Commission — which recently charged the two with moving and hiding $550 million in “undisclosed gains” — ain’t got nothin’ on them. The same…
“I got a hit on the K2!”Heard a fair bit of that last night at the Pride House Bed and Breakfast out in Jefferson. Get a big enough hit on your K2, and you might feel like you were having a heart attack. But we weren’t smoking the illegal potpourri…
Well, that’s not true. It’s not everything — just 29 Qs and As and a few handy-dandy exhibits provided by City Manager Mary Suhm in a memo distributed last night. And you didn’t ask the questions — the council did following the last budget workshop, another of which is scheduled…
Three, almost four years ago I first mentioned it — Jeff Beck at Lou and Ann Bovis’s joint on Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue in ’68, with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood among those rounding out the band (Mickey Waller too, on drums). Not so hard to find as I…
Tyrone Weatherall, the 35-year-old leader of the “West Side Gator Boys,” pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, according to U.S. Attorney James Jacks. Weatherall’s West Side Gator Boys was a Dallas drug trafficking and criminal street gang that operated as…
If you’re not presently a Cliffdweller, here’s hoping you really like where you live before you read this week’s feature, “Greener Acres,” about the biking, gardening and quality-of-life-obsessed activists Jim Schutze christened “bikos” earlier this year. Most every moment I spent writing and reporting the story was also a moment…
Ten days before Christmas we broke the news: The Dallas Independent School District has purchased the old Oak Cliff Christian Church with the intentions of razing the 94-year-old 10th Street structure to make way for an athletic complex accompanying the W.H. Adamson High School redo. But court hearings and negotiations…
So now we know what the Dallas Police Department is charging Michael Laurence Browne with following yesterday’s slow ride that landed on the Love Field runway: evading arrest in a vehicle, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal mischief, aggravated robbery and an outstanding traffic ticket. That’s the laundry list…
Once upon a time, the City Attorney’s Office had hoped to get the Museum of the American Railroad outta Fair Park by August 1. But that was way back in February — before the myriad court hearings and legal filings that ultimately led to Judge Martin Hoffman setting a January…
I’ve been trying to tell you: Word from inside City Hall is that a tax hike of at least one cent “actually might happen.” The reason: That’s what The People are demanding at these budget town halls, if only to keep the rec centers open and the parks mowed. And…
Long story short: Upon learning from Zac Crain this morning of the death of Jimmy Wehba — that’s Garland’s own Skandor Akbar to you and my grandfather, who spent every Saturday night tuned to wrestling on Channel 11 so way back when — I spent way too much time stumbling…
No doubt you caught at least some of The Dallas Morning News’s recently wrapped three-part series on Texas’s trouble with properly punishing drunken drivers. Probation instead of prison; back behind the wheel instead of behind bars. Says Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins in a missive his campaign sent out…
It takes all of this long to find someone insisting that Emmitt Smith ain’t all that. “Smith’s record is overrated.” See, that did not take long. And. And. And. The common knock on the Dallas Cowboy: “Had the best offensive line of all time in front of him.” Imagine if…
This is what the Google Machine tells me about Dallas defense attorney Jim Moore: He’s a namesake in the Oak Lawn firm of Moore, Grant & Barrett. He’s a Hillcrest and SMU graduate (just like my father, hmmm). He is indeed eligible to practice law in the state of Texas…
In the annals of local meteorological-teevee history, Mike Burger never achieved the renown of, say, a Harold Taft. Or Troy Dungan. Or David Finfrock. Or Rebecca Miller, even. Still. He’s had two swims through Dallas — first in 1989, when he went to work at KDFW-Channel 4 (a stint that…
Moments ago, Angela Hunt posted to her blog her thoughts on yesterday’s Love Field concessions vote — which, she says, needed to be voted on yesterday rather than dragged on another week, as some council members had wanted during the hours-long debate. The reason: A delay “would not bring greater…
