Mike Modano is on Facebook. And out of hockey. The legendary Dallas Star used social media to announce his retirement from the NHL yesterday, ending a 21-year career as one of the sport's all-time greatest skaters and its most prolific American-born scorer. Feels like we've delivered these eulogies before -- remember...
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Juve Remixes A Name For Itself
The difference between a good band and a great one is in the evolution. Given enough time, any band can write a decent debut fueled only by youthful ambition, piss and vinegar. A good band can then replicate that energy the next time out. A great band is able to...
As the performances began at Zilker Park, they were accompanied by a much-needed downpour as venders, outside and in the festival, struggled for their piece of the poncho market-share. On the plus side -- and it's a very plus side -- the rain brought relief to an area of Texas...
By cutting funding to libraries, eliminating raises (or just paychecks) for City Hall workers, raising taxes, closing pools, deferring maintenance on pothole-ridden streets and privatizing parks clean-up? I kid. Only, I don't. Anyway. This just in from Dallas City Hall: Angela Hunt, a 2008 recipient of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship,...
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Obama’s War on Weed
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Probably should have broken this week's stack into about 12 different items, seeing as how one of the docs is 178 pages (many redundant) just on flow control, which involves forcing all solid-waste collectors in the city to dump everything at the city's McCommas Bluff Landfill or other city transfer...
Back in April Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm warned the city council that the state's $27 billion budget shortfall would end up having significant impact on the city's coffers. On Wednesday, Assistant City Attorney Larry Casto, the city's Director of Legislative Affairs, will outline to the council exactly how it...
There's no denying it now: Gulf War Syndrome, characterized by memory loss, lack of concentration, neuropathic pain and depression, is a physiological illness, not a psychological one. A UT Southwestern study, published in the journal Radiology, used a specialized MRI that specifically measures blood flow in the brain and detected...
Stories linking Los Zetas -- a drug cartel consisting of, among others, former Mexican Army commandos -- with North Texas have been around for years. Take this story, from three years ago, connecting a Collin County deputy constable with a cousin said to be working for the cartel. In March,...
A Dallas VA Medical Center nurse is on leave and her bosses are in full-blown groveling mode after a gay combat vet, in search of help for her deepening depression, said she was urged to come out of the darkness and to stop living in terrible lesbian sin. "I was...
Rest easy, Friends of Unfair Park. ICE's Counterterrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit is on the job. In the most recent sweep, they rounded up 27 dangerous immigration violators in the Dallas-Fort Worth area -- criminals guilty largely of ... overstaying their student visas. Not quite the stuff of Bruckheimer actioners...
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35 Denton, the latest name for Denton's annual pre-South by Southwest music festival, now stands as a much different beast from the SXSW day parties once organized and thrown by a group of Dan's Silverleaf regulars down in Austin. Both conceptually and in practice, the festival has grown from an...
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Denton’s Yung God Gets “Based”
Finally time to see how your tax dollars were put to work by Bravo and its Magical Elves. As you'll recall, we reported back in July that Governor Rick Perry's office, that bastion of small government, spent $400,000 to promote the state's brand in the upcoming and Texas-themed season of...
This just in from the Department of Justice: No way, no how does it want downtown-based AT&T from getting its hands on T-Mobile. So much so it's just filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in D.C. federal court to block the sale, insisting that ...... the proposed $39 billion transaction would...
The scene this mid-November night felt more like a clip from Leave It To Beaver than Law and Order. Dale Duke sat with his elderly parents eating dinner in their quiet Dallas home. A crystal vase of red roses decorated the dining room table; soft classical music played in the...
Sergeant Vince Ariaz liked what he saw in 15-year-old "Maggie." Eager to please, in awe of police work and seeking a trustworthy authority figure in her life, the shy brunette was an ideal fit for the Brownwood, Texas, Police Department's Explorer program. With nearly 2,000 law-enforcement Explorer posts and upward...
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Although The Bangles started out as an indie pop band associated with Los Angeles' Paisley Underground scene in the early 1980's, it didn't take the band long to make major commercial inroads. By the mid 80's, the band had released two huge singles, Prince's "Manic Monday" and the almost novelty...
Anna's out working on a piece about horrific animal cruelty involving dead livestock found just south of downtown; how ... lucky? But back to yesterday's piece about that mutilated kitty. Here's what Dallas Police Department spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell has to say about those legs found in the yard of...
The Google-chompers gobbled up Zagat yesterday, as reported by the New York Times, the LA Times, and then everyone else. The acquisition gives the internet mogul access to a sizable restaurant database full of addresses and reviews that's 29 years in the making, and positions the company to compete directly...
And the hits just keep on coming: One week ago today the Texas Education Agency officially announced that the Dallas Independent School District had more campuses deemed academically unacceptable (33) than exemplary (30) -- a radical shift from last year's stats, thanks in large part to the state doing away...