From GMA to NPR, the Ryan Moats-Robert Powell run-in remains the talk of the nation — by which I mean the story’s the subject of this 11-minute Tell Me More story airing on National Public Radio affiliates today. Host Michael Martin interviews at great length Dallas Assistant Police Chief Floyd…
This is not the time to talk politics. It’s the time to talk baseball. I’ll put my liberal left leaning on hold today because the Texas Rangers have announced – no surprise – that former Prez and former co-owner George W. Bush will throw out the first pitch before next…
Mayor Tom Leppert and wife Laura spent yesterday worshiping at churches in South Dallas, where services were interrupted so the mayor could give his convention center hotel sales pitch and instruct audience members how to vote May 9. “We need you to go to the polls and vote no on…
I am none too pleased about how my AFI Dallas International Film Festival schedule worked out for today: Instead of attending the Very Special Screening of Frederick Wiseman’s Neiman Marcus documentary The Store, scheduled for the AMC NorthPark at 4:15 p.m., I’ll be moderating a 5:30 panel about the state…
My March Madness bracket has long been in shambles. But my pick to win it all – UConn – is alive, well and poised to win the title next weekend in Detroit. If you called Michigan State over Louisville, kudos. If you predicted UConn, Villanova, North Carolina and the Spartans as…
He’s trying to hold on to his job as top cop in DeKalb County, Georgia — which isn’t stopping Terrell Bolton from also pursuing his wrongful termination claim filed against the city of Dallas. But you know who is putting a stop to it? The Supreme Court of the United…
Dallas Independent School District school board trustee Carla Ranger returned from the superintendent’s weekend “retreat” to post the rules concerning how the board fills a trustee’s seat (i.e., special election or appointment) should he or she leave before a term is up. Among the procedures: “If less than nine (9)…
Earth Hour Dallas from Charlie McRae on Vimeo.Down below you’ll find Justin Terveen’s photos from Saturday night, otherwise known as The Night the Lights Went Out in Dallas … Kinda. Charlie McRae captured the video — very Koyaanisqatsi. McRae too was underwhelmed…
A couple of weeks back we mentioned the findings of The City of Dallas Citizen Survey, recently posted to the city of Dallas’s Web site. The city council will finally get around to hashing over the findings at its Wednesday council briefing session, where the council will also get a…
The NBA is a bunch of nit-twitts. Over the weekend the league fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $25,000 for his “criticism” of officials via Twitter, the real-time social network that allows schmucks like you and me to be flies on the walls of the rich, famous and exhibitionistic. Or…
The Ryan Moats-Robert Powell run-in keeps on running — this time to Good Morning America, where Moats and his wife Tamisha sit down for an exclusive with Robin Roberts, though not before a lengthy recap that includes the dash-cam footage and Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s apology. During the course…
Wishful thinking, maybe, that the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2009 would amount to much of anything in Dallas.With that long list of participating buildings, it was fun to imagine downtown without electricity for an hour at night — how eerie the darkened skyline would look, the potential for looting,…
Earlier today, the National Basketball Association lifted $25,000 from Mark Cuban’s pocket for comments Twittered after Friday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets. Tweeted the Dallas Mavericks’ owner, “how do they not call a tech on JR Smith for coming off the bench to taunt our player on the ground?”…
Well, no, I didn’t catch the Fashion Industry Gallery’s nude modeling session and AFI after-party last night. Just got through kicking myself long enough to sit down and post this photo from earlier in the night. (There’s probably a lesson to be learned about not leaving before the real party…
Hell of a time not to have Patrick Michels around — ’round midnight this morning at the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue, where nude and semi-nude women turned a life drawing workshop into a performance-art piece amidst other computer animation exhibits, open bars and a laptop deejay trying out…
Last night at the AMC NorthPark, where he accepted the AFI Dallas Star Award following a screening of Chinatown, the film’s writer, Robert Towne, spoke of how films were once the place where audiences and filmmakers met to share their stories. In the 1930s and ’40s, he said, those who…
I just spoke with Nicholas Cariotis, chief of the Check Division/Task Force on Identity Fraud at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office — and the man charged with prosecuting Bob Sambol, who, as we mentioned this morning, has been accused in an indictment of stealing $300,000 from investor and (former)…
Citing Wednesday’s editorial in The Dallas Morning News, Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel in a press release blasted Mayor Tom Leppert for misleading Dallas voters during the Trinity River toll road campaign by withholding information regarding the cost of the project and risk to the levees. The anti-hotel group also…
Noor Elashi is the 23-year-old daughter of Holy Land Foundation co-founder Ghassan Elashi, who found out only today that he will be sentenced in May following his conviction last November; he’s looking at 15 years to life in prison, after having been among those convicted of donating to Hamas following…
Patrick has posted his bang-up slide show from last night’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival kick-off, which comes with the most adorable photo of Rinko Kikuchi you’ll find anywhere and several others of Adrian Brody. Patrick also grabbed this one of writer-director Robert Towne, who will be at the AMC…
Last night’s affordable housing forum at Temple Emanu-El was a lesson in getting things right by “thinking wrong,” as architect Brent Brown likes to say. “Wrong,” in Brown’s view, really means “creatively.” Despite an intermittently functioning PowerPoint presentation, Brown wowed the mostly middle-aged, well-dressed audience of about 160 with slides…
In Portland, where a former mayor once toyed with the idea of turning an overpass into a park, one columnist is very jealous that in Dallas, we’re actually doing that very thing with the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. And getting some of it funded with stimulus dough to boot. Because,…
