Over on the city of Dallas’s Web site you’ll find this warning: “Do you have an outstanding citation? If so, you could be arrested at your home or office.” Yup, must be the Summer Warrant Round-Up, yee-haw. And if you’re not sure whether Johnny Law’s hot on your trail, the…
Remember how, earlier this week, we mentioned that Austin venture capitalist John Thornton was starting an online newspaper, the intention of which is to cover Texas and specifically Austin? Well, now we know who the CEO of that paper’s gonna be: none other than Texas Monthly’s president and editor-in-chief Evan…
Far as I can tell, there are no 99 Ranch Market groceries in Texas — most are way out west, in California, Washington and Nevada (with the stray site in Atlanta). To the relatively short list, add Plano: GlobeSt.com reports this morning that the 25-year-old Asian grocery store chain will…
This morning, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s complaint that Mark Cuban violated insider-trading laws in 2004, when he sold off $750,000 in Mamma.com stock. Why the heave-ho? You know what, just read the judge’s opinion and order for yourself, which I’ve included below. The…
Ever gone to rent a movie when, suddenly, the urge to buy what some consider a so-so netbook just, you know, hit you? If so you’ll be tickled with Blockbuster’s morning announcement that beginning whenever, the Dallas-based videotailer is stocking the shelves with the Archos 10 netbook, which will sell…
It’s doubtful you’ve ever heard of Border Media Partners: It’s a miniature radio conglomerate founded in 2002 in McAllen but now HQ’d in the same shiny N. Central Expressway office tower as Richards Group, and it owns and operate more than two dozen Hispanic-centric stations from Waco down to Austin…
A condensed version of Richard Sandomir’s visit to Cowboys Stadium, which appears in this morning’s edition:Jerry Jones, tour guide, was showing off. Lost in the excitement of the show and tell, Jones trampled a couple of traffic cones and nearly flattened two fans walking to the $15-per-person stadium tour. He…
Club Dada’s closed. Again. For at least two months. Says owner: “This is bullshit.” But, hey, Trees is about to reopen … with Faster Pussycat, which isn’t even the original lineup. This is bullshit. At least Course of Empire’s still got the beat…
So, yes, Jay Bowdy and I have made peace. If you haven’t been playing along this morning, the owner of the North Texas Fresh — that’d be Fort Worth’s new entry into the American Basketball Association — called me out this morning for ugh-ing the name of the franchise. (Wonders…
Much to the chagrin of the half dozen city attorneys attending this morning’s Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee meeting, members voted 5-1 to postpone a decision on a new ordinance regarding the demolition of structures in historic districts. The motion to postpone, made by vice-chair Ann Bagley, also urged Preservation Dallas…
J.D. Freeman, Clear Channel’s Dallas market manager, just called with the bad news: Bo Roberts, co-host of the Bo & Jim Mornings show on Lone Star 92.5 and a local radio fixture dating back to his days on Q102 beginning in 1982, suffered a heart attack late Tuesday. Freeman says…
After the jump you’ll find a copy of a letter sent on July 10 “to the citizens of Dallas, TX” by the local chapter of the American Postal Workers Union, in which union president Larry Crawford warns of the United States Postal Service’s plan to close the Dallas Main Post…
At last year’s QuakeCon, held at the Hilton Anatole, id Software’s John Carmack made a few announcements considered quite major at the time, among them word that the Mesquite-based developer was looking at getting in the iPhone bidness whilst updating such classic titles as Doom and Castle Wolfenstein. But on…
Says here that on August 22 at Mountain View College, the American Basketball Association’s Dallas Generals will hold it final tryouts and a combine — seriously, the ABA returneth? Dunno how we missed it, and I’ve yet to find mention made anywhere else, but at the end of May, the…
Almost one year ago, the city debuted a proposal to streamline the process that allows for the demolition of structures within historic districts — by eliminating altogether the Landmark Commission, which has to approve of the razing before anyone can haul out the wrecking ball. Preservationists, the City Attorney’s Office…
It’s been almost two months since Silveroak Holdings, Ltd. — better known as Bob’s Steak & Chop House — filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Dallas; on this otherwise slow news morning, well, it seemed like a good time to check in. Which, as you’ll see…
Dallas two-step: Buzz has been a crime victim four times in Dallas: one car break-in, two break-ins of a shed and one home burglary that cleaned us out. The number of times Dallas police have been at our house? Zero. Now, Buzz is a realist, so we understand that the…
“Just Say No, Thank You,” By Kimberly Thorpe, June 25 Cigar Just a Cigar I enjoyed your [story]—until I got to the last sentence. It was certainly a dramatically constructed symbolism suitable for provocative fiction. But it is precisely this type of cynicism that communicates to our youth today, “Why…
He giveth (Jonestown Coliseum). He taketh away (Terrell Owens). Not that it’s a push, but for Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, it is status quo. For the third time in the list’s four-year history, the ol’ oil wildcatter has rambled and gambled his way to the top of the Dallas…
Allen Gwinn has the details over on Dallas.org, but the short version is: Ever since February, Dallas city council member Dave Neumann, along with wife Frances Malik Neumann, have been engaged in a legal battle with a former employee, Shannon DeMerse, they claim stole $1.9 million from Ivy Jane, the…
Up in my swatted-neck of the woods, the city’s preparing to kill mosquitoes dead, dead, dead thanks to the first positive West Nile test of the summer. (Yes.) Says this city of Dallas press release, folks who live in an area boundeded by Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, Dallas North Tollway,…
Back in November ’07, two-time Irving school board candidate Manuel Benavidez sued that city, claiming its at-large voting method violated the Voting Rights Act. Today, U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis, in Dallas federal court, issued a judgment in which he said, in short, Yup, it sure does. The order, in…
