Steven Michael was hired in April 2007 as an Environmental Inspector III for the city of Dallas Water Utilities Department, at which point he told his immediate supervisor, Yilam Zerihun, that he had a disability that didn’t allow him to lift anything heavier than 20 pounds. Michael, who employment was…
… I present to you the story of one Richard Jordan, a local man whose tale of traveling cross-country in a Lamborghini Gallardo has become a smash hit over on Jalopnik since it was posted yesterday. Friend of Unfair Park The Big Guy sent it my way late Thursday, along…
Richard Avedon’s photo of Lewisville lumber salesman John Harrison and his daughter Melissa, taken in 1981 for In the American West, sold for $26,290. Bruce Barnbaum’s 1986 Dallas — a photo of the Chapel of Thanksgiving, with the Republic National Bank in the background — sold for a mere $298.75…
The good people with the Republican Party of Texas are just beginning to get their biennial convention locked and loaded into the Dallas Convention Center, where the next few days promise a wealth of political theater, and this year, even a little more substance than usual. As Robert pointed out…
TribLive featuring Dallas DA Craig Watkins from texastribune on Vimeo.Whilst browsing the Vimeo moments ago, I came across the entirety of Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith’s chat with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins yesterday at the Austin Club. It was just posted. We posted a three minute-excerpt yesterday, but…
Been meaning to get to this for a couple of days, ever since the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee sent out its weekly newsletter that said, at the very top:TOM LANDRY SUPER BOWL HIGHWAY: On Tuesday, June 15 at 3:30 p.m., the Host Committee along with Alicia Landry…
Within computer-security and hacker circles, the names Thomas James Frederick Smith and David Anthony Edwards are well-known — have been since 2006, when both men launched remote attacks on computer servers housed at Dallas-based The Planet and T35 Hosting. The attacks were intended to be but the beginning of the…
I got pretty excited last night when I heard a couple of women were attempting to knife each other in a parking lot in Pleasant Grove. Not, you know, because ladies knifing each other is my thing, but because I really wanted to crank up the sirens, throw on the…
Dallas Mavericks fans certainly salivate over LeBron James. Dirk Nowitzki wouldn’t mind having him as a running buddy. Mark Cuban’s already been fined for flirting with LeBron. And mayor Tom Leppert likely would appreciate the $2 billion economic impact that the most coveted free agent in the history of sports…
If this week’s cover story on Dallas Theater Center’s revisal of the 1966 Broadway smash flop It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman! isn’t enough to make you want to see what Kevin Moriarty, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams have done to the singing Last…
As you no doubt recall, the rains of March ’06 wreaked havoc upon the White Rock Lake Spillway — retaining walls collapsed, and huge hunks of land were swallowed by the storms. Which is why, in August ’08, the city council agreed to spend $16,748,070 to not only repair the…
Yeah, it’s the world’s biggest sporting event. But we’re not in the world, we’re in Texas. Dallas, more precisely, where football is king, spring football is queen, basketball is a part-time curiousity, hockey is a memory, baseball is foreplay to more football and soccer is … Stupid? A game played by…
At some point today, Pete will no doubt post his musings on last night’s LCD Soundsystem spectacular-spectacular at the Palladium. I look forward to that. But, alas, poor Pete bailed too soon. There was the after-show, after all, otherwise known as Rock Star Karaoke in the upstairs Loft (where the…
At the Dallas Independent School District board meeting two weeks ago, the trustees held off on voting yea or nay on Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s plan to open an over-age high school in the 2010-’11 school year. Most agree that, yes, it’s probably a very good thing to put, say, college-age…
10. Josh Hamilton may never return to the 2008 form in which he already had 17 homers and 67 RBI through 59 games, but all the sudden he’s a pretty dang good hitter. The drop to fifth in the order and the loss of the toe-tap timing mechanism have done wonders…
Never experienced a flash mob. But if it’ll help the Mavericks lure LeBron James to Dallas, I’m down. James, the 25-year-old superstar and arguably the planet’s best basketball player, will on July 1 become the most coveted free agent in the history of sports. Free to sign with any team—the…
Damned if you do: Short of handing his testicles to Republican County Commissioner Ken Mayfield to wear as cufflinks, what exactly could District Attorney Craig Watkins do to please those—like the local GOP and Morning News—who criticize his handling of the investigation into allegations of corruption by Constable Jaime Cortes?…
It is the least interesting part of any superhero story: the origin story. OK, OK, already—we get it. His parents were killed in an alley by a thug with a pistol. He was bitten by a radioactive spider. She came from an island full of Amazons. His parents sent him…
Sue Krentz answered the phone about 6 p.m. It was March 27, a Saturday, and she was in Phoenix, tending to her aged parents as a sister attended a conference. Sue usually doesn’t stray from her family’s venerable cattle ranch in Cochise County for too long at a stretch. But…
Alan Todd May spent the better part of 1983 to 2002 in and out of prison, having been arrested for such things as credit card abuse, check fraud, theft … well, you name the hustle, he hustled it. There were 14 convictions in all, including parole violations. He even pulled…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word that 44-year-old Jon Leslie Lyons, who has been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, was arrested and charged yesterday with possessing child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5. According to an affidavit filed today by an…
As promised below, Texas Tribune has indeed posted a snippet of editor-in-chief Evan Smith’s interview with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins conducted this morning down in Austin. And, as promised, Watkins does indeed say, rather emphatically, that his office’s investigation into the doings of Constables Jaime Cortes and Derrick…
