On Friday, we acquired a copy of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s letter to the United States Postal Service, in which he enumerated his “grave concerns” regarding the USPS’s proposal that calls for moving some operations out of the Dallas Main Post Office and out to Coppell. Today, it’s Congresswoman Eddie…
Just as Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban is finishing his jig in the wake of beating an insider trading charge from the Securities & Exchange Commission, today comes another legal pothole. This one from the guy who sold him the Mavericks. Hillwood Center Partners, which is controlled by Ross Perot Jr., filed…
It should be pretty clear by now that our regular contributor Danny Hurley loves heading out to photograph wherever people are dressing up, or undressing. Either that, or we just love sending him out to these things.The Atomic Frolic Burlesque Revue combined elements of both in its Saturday night show…
Jason Roberts — a Happy Bullet, co-founder of the Art Conspiracy, Texas Theater-rehabber and, for the purposes of this item, Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member — sends word that this morning’s Dallas-Fort Worth streetcar item has (pretty much) nothing to do with downtown Dallas trolleys. Which is why Angela…
Ok, where were we? … Ah-ha! Right here. While I was out actually winning some money in Las Vega$, playing some horrible golf and getting some rest in advance of Dallas Cowboys’ training camp in San Antonio, last week on vacation I did make time to catch Channel 8’s “candid” and…
The New York Times’s Julia Preston profiles University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor Kris W. Kobach — a name that might be familiar to residents of Farmers Branch, as Kobach’s one of the co-authors of Ordinance 2952 and one of the lawyers who’s been trying to get it…
After the jump, a highlight among many from George Takei’s evening-with at the Dallas Museum of Art Sunday evening. A guest of the Trammell & Margaret Crow Asian Art Collection, Takei was in town to compliment, in more ways than one, Roger Shimomura’s The Return of the Yellow Peril: A…
While Ian Kinsler’s bat — the first player with both a lead-off and walk-off homer in the same game — last night gave the Texas Rangers a momentary pulse, let’s talk about the future of a dominant arm down on the farm. On his blog yesterday, ESPN’s Buster Olney made…
Almost two months ago, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environmental Committee got a peek at the proposed alignments for the downtown streetcars; but, again, the question of who’ll pay for ’em went unanswered. Then came Friday’s Star-Telegram story in which it was revealed that Dallas and Fort Worth, under…
Don’t tell the 5-year-old living in the house, but we kinda forgot that over the weekend, they were building an 8-foot-tall Yoda at NorthPark Center in conjunction with the opening of the mall’s LEGO store. Thankfully, “Gadget Virtuoso” was there to document the finish-up; I reluctantly showed the boy the…
So says The New York Times on this morning’s front page in advance of ESPN’s Monday-morning announcement that it’s this close to launching a Web site dedicated solely to Dallas sports. The Worldwide Leader’s actually muscling into three markets after testing the product in Chicago, with Los Angeles and New…
Now that Tony Romo is done with his girlfriend, his golfing and his goofs, hopefully he can start concentrating on his gift: A new wide receiver. While I was out on vacation, the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback dumped Jessica Simpson, created a buzz with this extremely unfunny video and finished second in…
Was just taking a peek at tomorrow’s list of public meetings when I stumbled across this familiar name: Fernando Perez, on-and-off ex of the Dallas Police Department. Perez has a hearing scheduled at 9 a.m. tomorrow in front of Administrative Law Judge Willie Crowder, during which the officer, fired seven…
The biggest revelation to arise from Dr. J. Q. Lazarus Schütze’s appearance on KERA-TV last night was that haircut and that suit — quite fancy for a sex-tabloid worker! I’ll let you watch Jim’s Friday-night Think-off with Dallas Morning News’er Lee Hancock without further comment, though why Hancock was invited…
Funny, we’d just been thinking we hadn’t heard from our local Lingerie Football League franchisees in a while — especially with the ABA throwing its weight around Dallas last week — when the Dallas Desire sent an invitation out to catch the team at scrimmage Friday morning.Friday’s media day –…
Had a few thoughts about the Trees reopening, which I posted here in the wee small hours of this morning; pardon the old man’s ramblings. But till yesterday, Pete had never been in Trees, which shuttered well before his arrival in Dallas; our music editor is not burdened by expectations…
What — that headline doesn’t do anything for you? Well, then. So, fine, Mr. Steve Martin then. Or Strove Mortman to his friends. Anyway, Central Dallas Ministries’ honcho Larry James hopes you might want to attend his wingding October 27 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. James says more…
The spending gap between the two convention center hotel campaigns predictably didn’t mimic the narrow margin at the polls, as Harlan Crow’s $5.2 million anti-hotel effort dwarfed an otherwise impressive haul of more than $1.9 million by three pro-hotel committees. Nearly all of the funding for Crow’s campaign came from…
The painfully modest former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver’s new reality show bows on VH1 Monday (psssst … you can watch the debut episode in its entirety right this very second, if that’s what you’re into). Which is why he was on Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC late-night show Thursday — talking, yet…
More than two weeks after Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Administrator Alan Steen acknowledged an internal investigation following the raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth — which left Chad Gibson hospitalized with serious head injuries — Steen finally gave an interview concerning what might have gone wrong that night…
Yesterday, several of you wondered why the city of Dallas wasn’t doing anything to keep the United States Postal Service from moving some of its operations from the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30 to Coppell, as the USPS is considering. Well, this morning, Sam got hold of this missive…
Yes, yes and yes to all those wondering if Dr. James Phoestus Schutze will still brighten up KERA-Channel 13’s airwaves tonight at 7:30 with sand-in-the-levees talk. Says right here:WHAT’S ON TODAYTopicThe Trinity SagaGuestLee Hancock, Jim Schutze & Philip HaasDescriptionWhere does Dallas stand on the Trinity River Project? Will the recent…
