Dallas Habitat for Humanity, which already claims to be the biggest single-family home builder in the city, will knock down and build more than 500 more homes in a $100 million blitz on the city's blighted neighborhoods. The project, called Dream Dallas, was formally announced today at City Hall and...
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On opposite sides of the legal teeter-totter over gas-drilling, citizen protection and drilling flexibility weigh heavily, with a city's gas drilling ordinance at the center -- trying, at least in theory, to find balance between the two. It's happened in Forth Worth and other small cities. And next week, Dallas's...
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Cowboys-49ers: Look Out Below!
Saw this heads-up for the first time last night. As it turns out, according to DirecTV's website, the satellite provider and Belo Corp. are engaged in a tussle over broadcast fees. Belo, which signed its agreement with the carrier in February 2001, says DirecTV isn't paying enough for the rights...
In the early days of the mayoral race, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle quietly proclaimed on his website that he wanted Dallas to become "No-Kill City," meaning: With significant tweaks to its policies and procedures, Dallas Animal Services should be able to stop euthanizing strays. Six months later, the...
If you happen to own or rent a house and you enjoy exploiting the elderly and the mentally ill, the city of Dallas has a legal loophole made just for you. A representative from Mental Health America of Greater Dallas warned the city's Senior Affairs Commission yesterday that despite years...
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Underground dining and pop-up restaurants aren't anything new. The seemingly exclusive events have been gaining popularity in cities all over the country for years now, and in some cities you could dine out seven days a week and never set foot in a proper restaurant. Dallas has been slower to...
A new website, Healthy Dining Finder, apparently aims to facilitate healthy choices for people who eat out. From the home page, a visitor can enter a ZIP code and get dining recommendations within a 20-mile radius. A test search using 75219 turns up 22 restaurants. Among them? McDonald's, Hooters, Jack...
New Year's Eve, 2011. Just across the moat on Interstate 45, at exit at 283B, down the Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard ramp to where the highway spills into Fair Park, there's a corner with an open liquor store and a closed movie theater. It's usually pretty desolate here, save...
The People's Last Stand (5319 East Mockingbird Lane, 214-370-8755) opened two weeks ago, adding to the collection of bars and restaurants to tempt would-be diners and drinkers after shopping and movie-going at Mockingbird Station. I stopped in after watching Toast, to pay Omar Yeefoon a visit and check out his...
For over a decade, Dustin Blocker has led some form of Exit 380, one of the most intriguing local bands. When they first started, Exit 380 was more of a conventional alt-rock act, playing songs that mixed a rural influence into a muscular Stone Temple Pilots vibe. But Blocker has...
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Das Racist’s Crazy-Ass Combo
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SMU is inching closer to admission into one of college football's hallowed BCS conferences, which will mark the latest milestone on what the school and its alumni hope is the road back to football relevancy. It's certainly been a long road, starting with the death penalty in '87 and winding...
City of Ate had just posted its monthly revolving doors column when the Dallas Morning News reported on the closing of Cafe San Miguel yesterday. The owners sent out an email to diners saying, "After making a home at 1907 N. Henderson Ave. for over 6 years, with great sadness...
Texas ranchers, bowed under the driest year in state history, are looking to Gov. Rick Perry for help. In an online petition, they're asking him to use the Texas National Guard and any state resources at his disposal to bring hay into the starving ranch country. Drought has withered much...
Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King are a match made in scary, anxiety-inducing horror movie heaven. Oh, no wait. Actually, let's make that perfect pairing a three-way with Jack Nicholson. Creepy Jack Nicholson, to be specific. The tale is a classic: Isolation (or near isolation) + malicious spirits + person of...
In a fuzzy confusion of city limit lines, Patty Shack Burgers sits at 510 East Avenue K, just off Hwy 360 in either Euless, Grand Prairie or Arlington. It depends on which site you look at. Tucked away in an obscure strip of stores behind an old restaurant, it's not...
Dallas Police Sergeant Preston Gilstrap, recent former president of the Black Police Association of Dallas, has made serious allegations of financial wrongdoing against his own organization in reports he has taken to the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the Texas Attorney General's Office and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office...
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From what I can tell, Jessica Huseman and Shawn Williams were the sole media members to attend Eddie Bernice Johnson's campaign kick-off held yesterday at the beleaguered Southwest Center Mall. The event was also attended by three council members: Pauline Medrano, Vonciel Jones Hill and Tennell Atkins, who referred to...
So, what's our problem? Mostly, it's La Nina, that little trollop. She's been messin' with Texas for a long time. And the relationship between her cool Pacific sea-surface temperatures and dry times here is pretty well established. For nearly 120 years, since we've kept any kind of reliable records, La...
It's tough being a gulf oyster. The BP oil spill devastated Louisiana oyster beds, and then a historic Texas drought reduced river flows into Galveston Bay, seriously increasing the bay's salinity. Predators and disease are thriving and threatening the already hobbled industry. Now the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality has...
The first few months after her husband died, Heather Boulware was fine. She didn't feel fine, of course, but she managed to keep taking the medications she'd been prescribed five years before to treat her bipolar disorder and continued to care for the couple's three children. "I was doing what...