Speaking of criminals …Courthouse News today has this lawsuit brought by an Austin law firm against the City of Arlington, in which Sullo & Bobbitt PLLC claims that the city, by moving its criminal records to municipal court, is attempting to restrict access to docs every other city in the…
Avid mug-shot magazine readers (or picture-lookers) will have noticed some changes in that sliver of the media landscape since our first mention of Busted and Mugly! earlier this month. I’ve been trying to reach Busted’s Ryan Chief to learn more about the shame rag business around here, and finally caught…
If you’ve yet to see a movie at the Texas Theatre, which recently began showing classic and foreign-language films after too long in the dark, tonight would be a good time to check it out. At 7:30 they’ll screen Gerardo Naranjo’s I’m Gonna Explode, which opened in New York last…
While I wait for folks to return calls, I wanted to share with the Friends of Unfair Park one of two items I picked up at Half Price Books over the weekend: a 1952 black-and-white pamphlet from the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts showcasing Impressions of Dallas, consisting entirely of…
After another fascinating True Blood last night, I caught Mike Modano on Fox 4’s Sports Sunday with Mike Doocy. Anyone else see this? I could’ve sworn Modano – who was in studio – said he is strongly leaning toward coming back and playing another season for the Dallas Stars. Didn’t jot…
Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway opened today’s Public Safety Committee meeting with a gift to his fellow committee members — what appear to be candy-scented, hold the phone, rolling papers. As the city council members bumbled with tearing open what looked like metallic Airhead wrappers, Caraway name-dropped K2, the herbal…
When Jason Roberts first introduced the Better Block Block project in late March, he did so with the caveat that it was “a ‘living block’ art installation” intended to prove it’s possible to turn a screwed-up Oak Cliff intersection zoned “light industrial” into something livable and walkable. But three months…
Spent Father’s Day between the grill and the couch. OK, mostly the couch. Instead of another tacky tie for a gift, I let dear ol’ dad man the remote control. Went something like this: U.S. Open … Rangers … U.S. Open … World Cup … Rangers … U.S. Open … zzzzzzz…
Tomorrow in a Fort Worth courtroom, should all go according to plan, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn will rule on whether Hicks Sports Group can move ahead with its sale of the first-place Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. But this morning in a subscription-only…
Actually, if I’m not mistaken, Six Flags’s corporate offices in the DFW are in Grand Prairie on Avenue J East. But today — which marks the amusement park’s return to the New York Stock Exchange following Chapter 11 reorganization — Six Flags announced that Al Weber Jr., its president and…
Back in March at Texas Rangers spring training out in Surprise, Arizona I asked team president Nolan Ryan his expectations this season for Josh Hamilton. Is the real Josh the player who had 54 RBI by June 1 in 2008 or the player who hit only 10 homers between numerous…
For weeks we’ve wondered: When will Dallas get around to building an honest-to-God movie-television production facility? Because the city’s filling up with shows, but production companies have scant options: Fair Park, which The Good Guys will have to adios upon its August return (fingers crossed) to make way for State…
It’s unusual for Dallas City Hall to send word of a briefing involving the Dallas Police Department, but last night, a little after 10, Frank Librio notified the media of a briefing scheduled for 11:15 p.m. concerning “the incident in Lancaster.” By now, you no doubt know what he was…
The boy and I were downtown yesterday. We’d just been to Dallas Farmers Market and taken a long drive through the Cedars so he could take pictures. He asked, from the backseat, if we could go to Main Street Garden. I asked, “Why?” Told him he couldn’t play on the…
Before you take a long look at the 62-page sneak peek at the park the city plans to build upon the Continental Avenue Bridge with $10 million donated dollars, I’d recommend going back to our January Q&A with Jim Parrish of CH2M Hill, the Dallas-based project manager for the project…
Only yesterday, according to Willie Nelson’s Web site, the Library of Congress added to its National Recording Registry one of the greatest albums ever recorded ’round these parts: Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger, cut at Autumn Sound Studios in Garland in February ’75. You’ll hear plenty of that record, my favorite…
The day before Mayor Tom Leppert and the city council deferred voting on contract extensions for the food and retail concessions at Dallas Love Field Airport, the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce faxed Leppert a letter urging him to direct staff to “return to the drawing board,” according to a…
If you thought the Park and Rec board’s decision yesterday to defer a vote on a proposed sale of Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park meant that was that till August 5, so sorry. But, hell, might as well go five-for-five this work week with one final item on…
First thing this morning I saw Sarah Blaskovich’s story about Friends of Fair Park’s decision to cancel Fair Park Fourth — no money, natch. Well, that’s disappointing. I’ve been once; my folks, a few times. The Gruccis did a nice job. And, as evidenced by our trip down there last…
If you happened to stroll past Pegasus Plaza downtown over the lunch hour, what follows may not be news to you. Odds are, you already noticed the 20-some protesters wielding signs with behind-the-scenes photos of elephants and anti-circus slogans. Or maybe you noticed the half-naked woman lying on the sidewalk…
Angela Hunt has mixed feelings about the June 9 gathering of the city council to sign their names inside the center arch of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. “I think it’s nice to have great iconic structures in our city, but, at the same time, if we’re going to have…
It would probably take some kind of seizure disorder to set in before most Texans, or anyone else, would agree to camp outside during a June heatwave for a week straight on a patch of concrete. But Justin Wagoner actually does have a seizure disorder, as he wrote in his…
