Cari Weinberg sends word this morning of two significant developments concerning this year’s Art Conspiracy, always an annual highlight. First: After last December’s frigid wingding on West Commerce, organizers have opted to move up the date to October — no specifics yet, just October.But before that can happen, ArtCon needs…
Hao Liu is not an attorney. He’s never been an attorney, nor a member of the State Bar of Texas. He’s also not in law school. Never has been to law school. Hard to say what he does — except, that is, tie up Dallas courts with frivolous lawsuits.Used to…
No doubt by now you’ve heard all about Rep. Joe Barton of Arlington (who has a 2 p.m. meeting scheduled with Mayor Tom Leppert on Monday) telling BP chief exec Tony Hayward how sorry he is — how so so so so so sorry he is — that President Obama…
The news broke this morning: 27-year-old Dallas Police Officer Kelly Beemer was out drinking last night, at Lee Harvey’s, when a few of her pals realized she’d had a few too many to drive. A fellow officer offered to drive her home. They didn’t quite make it. At the intersection…
Section 31-33 of the Dallas City Code outlines precisely when the under-17 set can’t be loose on the city’s streets. But let’s just summarize and say: Pretty much, when it’s dark out. And if you don’t think Dallas police are serious about enforcing the curfew, well, then, you didn’t just…
The Dallas Voice has been all over Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s rewording of its discrimination policy, which has been altered, it appears, to exclude protection for gay and transgender employees. The Voice has honed in on one word inserted into the policy — “except.” As it reads now, per the…
Some day, maybe, Tom Hicks will sell Liverpool FC. If, that is, the “asset stripper” (so said a newly elected MP in the House of Commons!) can find someone willing to pay the £800 million he insists the soccer team is worth (if only to make up for what he…
Seem to recall that back in November, when we were discussing efforts to clean up the Royal Lane-Dennis Road intersection in my beloved Northwest Dallas, talk turned to a certain Chinese-Mexican one-two punch located in a former check-cashing facility on Royal. Ah, yes. Here it is. Well, it’s for sale…
The University of Texas at Austin sends word today that it’s partnering with Dallas-based Education is Freedom — the beneficiary of Mayor Tom’s fund-raiser at the Dallas Zoo on June 26 — on a pilot program intended to “support students who might not otherwise consider the university as an option.”…
Dallas Cowboys receiver Miles Austin has a new contract. He doesn’t, however, have a new girlfriend. I’ll say it. “Kardaustian” ain’t so. At least not yet. While the Internet cranks up its buzz machine for the Miles Austin-is-dating-Kim-Kardashian rumors, this girl says not so fast. And, you’ll have to trust me on…
On Monday, in the comments to Daniel’s item about People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protesting Fort Worth’s libraries for hopping into tent with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, longtime Friend of Unfair Park Religion of Bacon complained that “PETA lost all credibility when they stopped using…
All kinds of folks are crammed up in City Hall’s sixth-floor Parks and Rec meeting room — ladies who lunch, guys in suits, city officials and, of course, some dude who stinks pretty bad. It’s so full some people are actually standing in a storage closet.Plenty of stuff to cover…
Now it’s time to return the favor. Because while battling lung cancer, the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach needs a lift. His spirits should be at least temporarily boosted Monday when family, friends and colleagues hold the David Milson Charity Golf Tournament at Tangle Ridge Golf Club in Grand…
Preservation Dallas’s most-endangered list won’t be released till June 30. But this morning, the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League has released its own variation — an “Architecture at Risk List,” its first. Not surprisingly, the top spot’s taken by the Oak Cliff Christian Church, which is under the gun for…
Back in April there was a piece in The News about the sale of Pacific Place downtown, which Houston’s Boxer Property picked up at the low, low price of $5.3 million (or close to — those figures are never that spot-on). But the 20-story building right next to the Majestic…
We’ve written plenty about one item in particular on today’s Park and Rec Board meeting agenda, but it’s not the only item of interest. As in: Were you aware that the city’s about to put out the call for bids for a Stevens Park Golf Course redo? Colligan Golf Design…
Kobe Bryant tonight will do something Michael Jordan never did: Win a Game 7 of the NBA Finals. I know the simpleton argument is that Jordan was so good his Chicago Bulls were never pushed to the brink. Nonetheless, Kobe’s feat in this series – Most Valuable Player, rallying his…
Ties suck. Unless, that is, you’re Troy Dungan. Or Megan Fox’s brother. Or some calf-ropin’ cowboy over at the Mesquite Rodeo. But don’t tell that to soccer. Especially don’t whisper a word to the wonderfully fanatical gaggle of American fans that converged on Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station last Saturday…
Conventional thinking: Perhaps the best word to describe the 2010 Republican Party of Texas Convention, held last weekend at the Dallas Convention Center, is “magical,” and not just because of the multitude of sequined, shiny stars and stripes plastered on every available surface—including, blessedly, the seat of at least one…
Twelve years ago, Jose Saenz was a LAUSD dropout and run-of-the-mill tagger known on the Eastside of Los Angeles as Smiley, a nod to the way he flashed his trademark brilliant grin. At age 22, he sidled up to two young Eastside men peddling dope on North Clarence Street in…
Gilbert Aranza darts down two flights of stairs from the offices of Star Concessions Ltd. into Dallas Love Field Airport’s main lobby. “It’s my daily exercise,” the 57-year-old explains as he shoots by an elevator on the third floor and then skips an escalator ride on the second, “and a…
So notes The Wall Street Journal in a just-posted piece concerning the fortunes, or lack thereof, of Feldman Mall Properties Inc., which has acknowledged that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will in fact sell the Golden Triangle, located off of I-35, at foreclosure auction sooner than later. Feldman bought the…
