Don’t. It’s closed. Per Dallas PD a little while ago, officer were serving warrants on two aggravated robbery suspects when one ran … all the way into the Giants of the Savanna exhibit, where he remains at large. Per DPD’s note, SWAT’s been sent in.When the incident occurred shortly after…
Angus Wynne just called with the sad news: Stoney Burns — who, in 1967 co-founded The Dallas Notes and then The Iconoclast and would go on to publish Buddy Magazine — died early this morning at Baylor of a heart attack.For those who didn’t know the Hillcrest grad, there was…
The timing, if nothing else, is remarkable. May 8 marks the 100th birthday of Robert Johnson, the Mississippi bluesman who cut half his influential body of work — perhaps the most influential in all of popular music — at 508 Park Avenue downtown in June 1937. The building, once the…
The NCAA’s Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee met today in New Orleans, where it okee-doke’d bowl licenses through 2013-’14 for 32 out of the 35 game played during college football’s postseason. (Really? Only 35? Coulda swore it was more like 98.) Anyway. Two of the no-go’s were already fo-sho’s: the Fiesta…
A woman who claims a former Dallas County deputy constable demanded sex in exchange for burying outstanding arrest warrants has filed suit against the county, claiming it failed to perform proper background checks on the deputy.In January 2010, a Dallas County grand jury indicted Deputy Constable Howard Watson on nine…
Just a few minutes ago, the Dallas Independent School District posted to its Facebook page a lengthy note that says Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has ditched his plan to split Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center into two schools while at the same time eliminating five of its seven principals. Instead, says…
I was on the City Secretary Office’s website looking for something the other day when I noticed a new addition in bright red letters: “NOTICE: PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.” It goes on to quote Section 3-1(a) of the Dallas City Code, which says that it’s … “… unlawful…
It was a Wednesday afternoon, so I traded my neighbor’s vintage Fender Telecaster for an eight ball and locked myself in the hallway bathroom. I pulled out the dirty mirror from underneath the sink and chopped up some lines that spelled out the word “WINNING.” This was an important night…
Like Sam said: Mike Rawlings has raised more than $1 million in his quest to become the next mayor of Dallas — or “nearly three times the combined haul of Ron Natinksy and David Kunkle.” And he’s determined to spend that dough: Moments ago his campaign posted Rawlings’s latest ad…
The Mavericks are 0-4 in Portland’s Rose Garden this season. All-time they are 18-46 in Portland, including 1-8 in the playoffs. They lost Games 3 and 4 of this first-round series. Since 2006 they are a putrid 2-17 in road playoff games. The Blazers, meanwhile, have won 12 of their last 13 at…
Back in July, WFAA-Channel 8’s Byron Harris spent quite some time digging into the doings of the Kennedale-based United States Fallen Heroes Foundation, which said it was a nonprofit raising funds to construct a memorial in Tarrant County to servicemen and women killed in action since September 11, 2001. Turned…
The Cowboys need help at safety. Their 2010 pass defense was the worst in the 50-year history of the storied franchise and two culprits were Gerald Sensabaugh and Alan Ball. Problem: The Cowboys won’t take a safety with the 9th pick in tonight’s NFL Draft. Why? Because only UCLA’s Rahim…
In recent weeks, the YouPlusDallas gang has been out recording some of the more intriguing mayoral debates and forums, like the arts-and-crafts showdown at the Nasher last week and the Faith and Public Policy Forum held Monday at the Gospel Lighthouse Church on W. Illinois. That event was sponsored by…
On the other side’s a video that started making the rounds yesterday (courtesy Alex Jones and FOX News) in which 2003 Miss USA winner-turned-actress Susie Castillo cries into a camera while recounting a particularly invasive pat-down at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Says Castillo — speaking, she says, immediately after the…
Oh God, yes: It’s been a double spit-take week here at Buzz HQ, thanks to The Dallas Morning News opinion pages —and frankly, we wish the paper would knock it off. Spraying mouthfuls of our “afternoonish” bourbon is a waste of perfectly good liquor. Speaking of wasted fluids, what first…
We should really be used to this shit. In 1993, the Mavericks were 3-38 at the All-Star break. They managed to do one game worse the following year. In 1995, in a game at Reunion Arena, there was a jump ball near Cleveland’s defensive basket. Confused, the Cavaliers’ Michael Cage…
And they say Dallas has no focal point, no Central Park or Trafalgar Square. On this bright jewel of a Saturday in early April 2011, Dealey Plaza at the western entrance to downtown is the city’s beating heart. President John F. Kennedy, his wife Jackie, Governor John Connally and his…
First K2. Then Salvia. Now bath-salt uppers? How will law-abiding citizens ever get high around here?Texas lawmakers are well on their way to banning yet another synthetic narcotic after the House on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill criminalizing the chemical compounds found in “bath salts.” The salts, sold in head…
I’d intended to spend, oh, maybe half an hour in front of Dallas City Hall today, where, decades after William H. Whyte first proposed the idea of making that expanse of concrete habitable for humans, Brent Brown and Jason Roberts and Andrew Howard and many more breathed life into what…
Two weeks back it came to light that the current owners of the Texas Rangers were feuding with the former owner of the Texas Rangers over some 12,000 parking spots around the Ballpark in Arlington. To recap, quickly: Ray Davis and Bob Simpson’s Rangers Baseball Express, LLC took Hicks’s Ballpark…
This just in from The Hilltop: On May 9, the Dalai Lama’s going to appear on the Southern Methodist University campus, where he’ll speak from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at McFarlin Auditorium as part of SMU’s 10th Hart Global Leaders Forum. Per the announcement, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan…
On the way through Expo Park this morning, I just happened to catch a glimpse of a few big trucks, some folks in sweatshirts and two cops all surrounding a bright red sports car in an alley — and while my instinct was still to search the crowd for Bradley…
