On Monday we told you the story of Jason Clay Kennedy and the Brothers O’Brien, who, on February 5, disabled a Houston jewelry store’s alarm and video surveillance system and sawed through six inches of steel and concrete and made off with $6 million in 22-carat gold, Rolex watches and…
There’s a HuffPo piece this morning about how the pepper-spray-flavored Occupy Wall Street protests moved to the West Coast yesterday — San Francisco, specifically, and the Bank of America building in the Financial District. Next Thursday, though, they hit a little closer to home. Without Radiohead, which may or may…
Victor Recindos has aged 26 years by the calendar’s count since first becoming a mechanic at Pilgrim’s Pride chicken processing plant just south of downtown, but he says the decades of continuous labor have worn away at his body and left him run down. He feels ill-prepared to reenter the…
Many Friends of Unfair Park have asked when Jerry Haynes’s funeral will take place. It will be tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church at Northwest Highway and Inwood. Initially, Haynes’s family had considered two services — a private one for family, and a public memorial later…
Doesn’t seem like that long ago we were just here: trying to work and watch a Rangers post-season game. Today’s extended dance remix of the 2011 major league season starts at 4:07 this afternoon at the Ballpark in Arlington, with Texas, for the first time ever, facing Rays rookie Matt…
The light show arrived well before last night’s rains showed up and stuck around long after they’d headed south — enough time for our old friend Justin Terveen, who makes this city look beautiful, to snap this photo of the skyline, now partially obscured by the soon-to-open Omni Hotel. One…
Another redistricting post, I know. Settle down. But this one’s especially interesting: Dwaine Caraway, Tennell Atkins and Carolyn Davis have made it very clear that whatever the redistricting map ends up looking like, they want four “winnable” African-American districts. At last week’s forum, that was also important to the majority…
Friends of Unfair Park who followed the federal City Hall corruption trial in 2009 may recall the name Sarah Saldaña; she was among the more prominent prosecutors on that team. But till I glanced at her U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary questionnaire, I had no idea, for instance, that…
No doubt you recall: A couple of weeks ago we discovered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants the city to pay back $15 million in federal funds doled out for the Dallas Floodway Extension project. Problem is, we don’t have it — at least, not all of it. Rebecca…
Well, look what made Courthouse News today: Yucatan and Service Bar’s lawsuit against the city over the late-night specific use permits as mandated by the Lower Greenville ordinance. Good timing too, given yesterday’s no-go for both bars in front of the city council. The whole petition’s here, but by now…
Called my dad the other day and asked him: “You know what’s coming to the Dallas Convention Center the first week of October?” To which he replied, very matter-of-factly: “Yeah, the Mecum auction.” Which he knows because my father, a second-generation car-parts man, spends his occasional free Saturday nights watching…
Feels like only two weeks ago we celebrated PARK(ing) Day Dallas, then spent an awful lot of time arguing about it … for some reason. Anyway. Several Friends of Unfair Park have pointed out the YouPlusDallas video made that day, which features Friend of Unfair Park and co-organizer Noah Jeppson…
To refresh: The local Coalition of Reason is the atheist/agnostic group that bought all those “Good Without God” bus ads in Forth Worth last year, causing quite the stir.Well, they’re back — this time in a slight kerfuffle with The Dallas Morning News’s Texas Faith blog.Zachary Moore, a coordinator for…
Just a few weeks after we pulled into the parking lot of the former AMC Grand off Northwest Highway and Stemmons, we get word this morning: The space, newly rechristened the AmStar 14, is about to open. Curtain goes up October 14, says the missive, at which point the one-time…
Today’s The Big Day (well, all right, a big day) for Dallas County Constables Ben Adamcik, Beth Villareal and Roy Williams and many of the deputy constables who say Dallas County is eliminating their jobs because some of them blew the whistle on Dallas County Precinct 1 Constable Derick Evans…
It’s creepy to write your own obituary. Nonetheless, I’m dead. This truly is Whitt’s End, my final column at the Dallas Observer. While I’m actually alive and relatively well, budget cuts — you’ve heard of those? — have forced the Observer to eliminate its full-time sportswriting position, one of the…
Somewhere out in the northeast corner of Young County, about 40 miles south of Wichita Falls, an aging cattleman cups his gnarled hands around his mouth, and from it comes his call, high and sharp and short. It snaps over mesquite and chaparral with the clarity of a rifle’s report…
Terrible thing to waste: So that’s it, then. Governor Rick Perry’s run for the GOP presidential nomination is done, o-vah, dust in the wind. One inarticulate response in a debate watched by precisely 172 people in which he muffed a chance to call Mitt Romney a flip-flopper again, plus a…
Thanks to my 8-year-old son’s intense but not at all unpleasant love affair with baseball, I’ve spent way too many evenings in recent days glued to the MLB Network watching Tampa Bay and/or Boston slug it out to see which team lands the American League wild-card spot. Because if the…
This afternoon at the Frank Crowley courts building, Anthony Robinson, a chief investigator at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, announced that 17 people have been indicted for allegedly taking part in a retail theft ring that stole an estimated $400,000 in goods. Police have arrested 14 people and expect…
At around 9, before the Dallas City Council voted on the measure that would direct all trash collected in the city to the landfill in southeast Dallas, more than 50 students and teachers at Paul Quinn College marched around City Hall chanting and wearing white T-shirts that read, “I AM…
If you’re planning on doing anything illegal in the next three days (not that you would), may we suggest keeping well away from the Aloft Hotel on Young Street? That place is crawling with cops. This morning marked the start of the SMILE Conference — Social Media Internet Law Enforcement…
