Like I said a few weeks ago: John Lithgow’s coming to town November 18 for a Very Special Event courtesy the Dallas Film Society, which will take place at the Hall of State with Elvis Mitchell moderating the Q&A. And, like I said a few weeks ago, the Dallas Film…
The city council-appointed gas drilling task force stopped listening to The Experts yesterday and got down to the business of discussing just what it’ll suggest the council do about the business of fracking. And for its first recommendation, the task force decided … the city should keep on doing what…
For the last year, my 8-year-old boy’s had a morning routine that involves watching SportsCenter and reading SportsDay over breakfast. Today he wanted to watch highlights from last night’s Stars win over the Capitals, 5-2, making Dallas tops in the NHL — big news ’round our house in the absence…
An old friend who knows of my lifelong love affair with Steely Dan sends this note I somehow managed to miss: Chuck Rainey, the band’s more-or-less bassist from Pretzel Logic in ’74 to Gaucho six years later, suffered a stroke Friday night. Susan Rainey, the second Mrs., writes on the…
Never did hear from City Manager Mary Suhm about what she intended to tell Mayor Mike Rawlings concerning Occupy Dallas’s continued camp-out behind Dallas City Hall. No matter: Moments ago Suhm sent to the mayor and city council a memo outlining what she says are “numerous, ongoing, and material breaches”…
After completing jury selection yesterday, the prosecution began laying out its case this morning in the felony animal cruelty trial of former animal shelter manager Tyrone McGill, who is currently on administrative leave and continues to draw a paycheck from the city of Dallas. “This is not a difficult case,”…
For the longest time I’ve had this auction item sitting on my desktop: a chair said to be from the Cotton Bowl circa 1960-’62, during the Dallas Texans’ days at Fair Park. Heritage is parting with the curio this weekend, during the same auction at which it’s offering the Ted…
There was a small wingding at Dallas City Hall this afternoon at which it was announced that the Rotary Club of Dallas is kicking in $500,000 for the under-construction Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. For its donation, the Rotary International logo will be etched into the so-called Learning Tree Deck in…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office sends word that a man named Ennis Harris Jackson will be going to federal prison for more than 17 years for his role in holding up a Loomis armored truck in May 2010 outside a Mesquite Bank of America branch. Jackson was sentenced yesterday by U.S…
Speaking of learnin’ stuff …At last week’s Dallas ISD board meeting, district spokesman Jon Dahlander told the trustees that so far, a few hundred folks had signed up to read to kiddos on Friday, when the district’s hoping to round up 1,111 volunteers for its so-called “community-wide celebration of reading.”…
Get ready for remedial history, college-bound Texans, because the statewide blueprint that dictates what you learn in high school isn’t doing you any favors — a longstanding tradition in public secondary education, according to a report prepared for the Texas Board of Higher Education. A 1998 survey commissioned by the…
Yesterday over on Unfair Park, a few folks asked if maybe we could go ahead and re-open the Sportatorium, if only to give y’all a place to chit and chat in an open thread. To which I said: Sure, let’s do that.Moments ago Huffington Post a Q&A with one Captain…
In the wake of two reports concerning the city’s response to Saturday’s arrest of eight Occupy Dallasites, some Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Is the city going to boot the protesters camping out behind Dallas City Hall, allowed by agreement following last month’s trip to the courthouse? The short…
Speaking of big, bright signs …Today the Landmark Commission will take a long, hard look at a proposal from the Adolphus Hotel, which is concerned that the Rodeo Bar & Grill is languishing at the corner of Commerce and Akard due to the absence of significant signage. There’s also one…
Electric Sky’s filmography is extremely large and extraordinarily varied, its titles ranging from Hookers for Jesus (about a born-again Vegas prostitute) to The Ronnie Wood Show (a talk show starring, of course, the Rolling Stone) to A 3D Guide to Belly Dancing (a 3D guide to belly dancing). To that…
The Texas Medical Board is putting off until April a vote on how to regulate adult stem cell therapy, which involves using tissues from one’s own body rather than controversial stem cells cultivated from human embryos. We don’t blame ’em. This issue is thornier than a Texas mesquite thicket, posing…
Forgive us for seeming a little primate-obsessed today, but the Dallas Zoo is giving us an awful lot of material. Hot on the heels of the news that a Twitter-savvy “rogue” spider monkey got loose this morning and was quickly captured, we heard back from Dr. Lynn Kramer, the deputy…
A few weeks ago we noted that developer Craig Hall finally wants to build in the Arts District — 25 years after he first came to the city with those extraordinary renderings of that spiraling tower. But he has maintained for months that the proposed Hall Arts Center, which would…
At long last, that proposed Greenville Avenue bowling alley, next to Good Records, just went before the Dallas City Council — its last hope following the City Plan Commission’s gutter ball over the summer. But District 14 rep Angela Hunt — who, along with Pauline Medrano, birthed the Lower Greenville…
Perhaps you’ve heard: A spider monkey got loose at the Dallas Zoo this morning. It’s back in its cage now, say zoo officials, who didn’t have to tranq or Jabari the monkey to get it back behind bars. But the zoo also can’t get the monkey to stop tweeting.Almost “as…
I see over on DC9 we’ve noted the latest bit of breaking Radiohead news: The band’s coming back to town March 5, this time at the American Airlines Center. Tix go on sale Wednesday. Nick’s got further details concerning the show, among the first announced on the forthcoming U.S. tour;…
A couple of years back we espied three pallets of band uniforms and hats being auctioned off by the Dallas Independent School District, and at quite the nice price. (The whole lot wound up going for … $15.) This, then, is the sequel: Whilst perusing the latest DISD surplus-equipment offering…
