Finally, Project Runway returns tonight at 9 on its new home at Lifetime — and, if nothing else, Jon Stewart shares my enthusiasm. Of course, locals have two good reasons to take note of this dramatically long-delayed season: And as we’ve mentioned a couple of times, Shirin Askari of Richardson…
Angela Hunt just called with the bad news: The National Fraternal Order of Police voted not to hold their 2013 convention in Dallas after all. Says Hunt, who returned from Long Beach, California — site of this year’s confab — at 1 this morning, the organization’s members voted 1,100 to…
This morning at City Hall, the Park and Recreation Department’s Planning and Design Committee authorized the acquisition of the last piece of land the city needs for the long-planned, $9 million Pacific Plaza Park project. Right now, it’s just a parking lot west of Live Oak and St. Paul streets…
No Terrell Owens. No Pacman Jones. No Michael Vick or Brett Favre or Michael Crabtree. No drama. To which I say … Yes! Last summer the Dallas Cowboys broke camp fat ‘n happy and consumed with personal agendas. After a successful training camp at San Antonio’s Alamodome in which the focus…
View Larger MapEarlier this week, we made mention of plans afoot to raze Simon David on Inwood Road and replace it with an even larger grocery store. Turns out, some in the neighborhood are absolutely opposed to Randall’s Food & Drugs’ proposal, which is about to be discussed by the…
Rick Perry came to Dallas yesterday for a bill-signing — two months after he’d signed the bill.Then he swung by Opening Bell on South Lamar for some coffee-talk with campaign workers, which was closed to the media but open to YouTube. Drink up…
When Walter Cronkite punted the bucket recently, the title of “Most Trusted Man in America” fell to – believe it or not – Jon Stewart. While this news made me, a Daily Show devotee, click my heels, it also got me to thinking: Who’s the Most Trusted Sportscaster in the Metroplex?…
To Irving we go this morning, as the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau asked us, via e-mail, to pretty please check out the new Web site for its convention center opening “in late 2010.” Hunh. Not bad. Not bad at all. Better than this, anyhow. But you know me –…
“Did Kay Bailey Hutchison cross an ethical line by supporting a rail line that is a payday for her husband?” That’s the question addressed in this morning’s Texas Watchdog piece written by former Observer-er Matt Pulle, who examines the Texas gubernatorial candidate’s involvement in procuring funds for Dallas Area Rapid…
We’ve written extensively about the yearlong battle between city attorneys and preservationists over a proposed ordinance that would expedite the demolition of historic structures, both residential and commercial. Last time we got to this was a whole two weeks ago, when the Landmark Commission raised a host of new objections…
At long last — which is to say, close to 20 years since Joyce Ann Brown was freed from prison for a robbery and murder she did not commit — the South Dallas woman’s story will become a movie. So reports The Hollywood Reporter, which makes special note of the…
Unless you consider the Dallas Stars’ 1999 Stanley Cup a lifetime pardon, we’ve all got one. That is, that moment when Tom Hicks did/said something so outrageously inane that you WTF’d him onto your permament shit list. For me it was the Texas Rangers’ owner offering the bassackward philosophy of…
Josh I has 26 tattoos, some of which are demons. Belying a stable, middle-class upbringing, he has a résumé littered with revolving-door drug and alcohol rehab stints. He’s a former crackhead who’s admitted to driving drunk, getting high and not having the faintest idea what he might have done or…
Smoke ’em if you got ’em: Craig Johnson, executive director of ProtectYouth.org, a Dallas-based nonprofit and lobbying group, doesn’t smoke marijuana himself, he says. He doesn’t think your kids should be smoking it either. No drug dealings in the neighborhood; none in the schoolyard either. But he and his group…
Fort Worth’s drowsiness more than a century ago led to an urban myth of sorts that a panther had wandered up from the Trinity River bottoms and was spotted sleeping on a downtown street. Even today, this carefully rebuilt and shiny place always seems to be waiting for more people…
Texas Workforce Commission chairman and Dallas resident Tom Pauken has informed the offices of Governor Rick Perry and Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst of his interest in running for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat. “I’m taking a look at it, but I’m a long way from making a decision to…
The Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation sent word earlier today that it’s chosen a New York-based architectural firm — Thomas Phifer and Partners — to design the 6,000 square-foot restaurant and “performance pavilion” planned for the 5.2-acre, federally stimulated deck park that’ll get its ground broken September 14. The firm’s already…
Meranda Cohn at Dallas City Hall sends word that the city’s giving out green goodie bags to anyone who wants ’em — if, of course, you’re willing to sit through one of 11 “Home Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation” seminars scheduled between Saturday (kicking off at Dallas Farmers Market) and…
Couldn’t help myself — just had to get on PACER for a status update on the Institute for Creation Research’s lawsuit against the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. No doubt you recall the reason for the litigation filed in April in Dallas federal court: The Royal Lane-based ICR claims the…
Speaking of the police and Twitter …Back in January, Angela Hunt first acknowledged that she was working to lure the National Fraternal Order of Police to town for its national convention in Dallas in 2013. Then, she was giving FOP reps a tour of Dallas — from DPD HQ to…
Granted, it would force me to actually watch the ridiculousy cheesy show, but I’d be willing to stomach Dancing With The Stars’ sequins and sass and smarminess of Tom Bergeron if only I could orchestrate whom was boogieing down with whom. Following in the “Foxtrot” footsteps of Emmitt Smith, Cowboys’ Hall…
Perhaps you’re aware that in recent days, the Dallas Police Department’s moved to Twitter and Nixle in order to send out alerts — such as Tuesday evening’s press release concerning a suspect in the Skillman-Mockingbird area who, since October, has been responsible for at least four burglaries, one robbery and…
