Of the myriad lawsuits involving the city, Doug Moore v. City of Dallas et al is among the most expensive -- and getting a little more pricey all the time. This case, for those not keeping score at home, has already cost the city $2.5 million, paid to the state...
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It's not just that Rick Perry screwed up in a debate. He is asking supporters to invest millions of dollars in his campaign. When savvy big donors have their phones in their hands about to send the money, they're all asking themselves the presidential timber question: Has he got the...
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The Curious Case of Alexi Ogando
Next week's council agenda makes it official: The long-talked-about expansion of César Chávez Boulevard and Pearl Expressway downtown, from Commerce Street to Live Oak Street, is on track to begin in December. The council is set to sign off on paying $12,473,920 to Tiseo Paving Company to do the job,...
We told you yesterday that the Dallas Independent School District is considering offering "excess" Chapter 21 employees -- teachers, principals, librarians, counselors -- a pile of cash worth $3 million to retire. After last night's called board meeting, it became clear that while that's probably what trustees will ultimately vote...
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Achieve a State of Sand
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At 72, keyboardist Ray Manzarek has just about done it all. Best known at the keyboardist for the Doors, Manzarek has stayed busy as a performer and producer for the past three decades. Joining forces with renowned slide guitarist Roy Rogers in 2008, the duo have recorded two critically acclaimed...
Riddle: What does the city of Dallas have in common with Westchester County, New York? This is a hard one. They're a county. We're a city. They're Yankees. We're not. Their median home value is $559,800, according to the census. Ours is $128,800. Getting tired of this? OK, I'll tell...
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The Great Hot Dogs of Dallas
All right, class, today our lesson is: "Logical Wormholes and Semantic Corkscrews: Translating the Language of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Into More or Less Plain English, or, You Know, Spanish. Whatever. Language How People Talk." But first an ironclad guarantee. This is not a homework assignment. There will...
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Nicholas Altobelli
As we were heading out the door Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas handed down opinions in two local cases, one of which we've written about before but neither of which is the "billion-dollar case" still awaiting a result. Let's begin with this one: City of Dallas v Heather Stewart,...
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Very few bands come close to boasting a story like Los Angeles' White Arrows claims. Formed in 2008 by Mickey Schiff, a talented multi-instrumentalist who happens to have been born legally blind (he gained his sight back at age 11), the band plays a marvelous amalgam of alternative music, electronic...
Incubus, Young the Giant Gexa Energy Pavillion September 29, 2011 Better than: sitting at home playing a bongo shirtless... by myself. riving up to Gexa Energy Pavillion last night was greeted with an impressive light show. Not only was the iconic Texas Star Ferris Wheel illuminated to mark the beginning of the...
I can tell you this much for sure: You and I do not know the truth about the mortal danger to downtown Dallas posed by potential flooding on the Trinity River. I will give you specific important instances here of misleading statements by public officials, but I can't give you...
"You're saying I died?" Michael Sorrell was lying in a bed at Methodist Hospital. It was September 14, 2008, and he had been unconscious for the better part of 72 hours. His chest had been sliced open, a battery-operated cardiac defibrillator implanted above his ribs. A nest of wires snaked...
We made it Aters. Another Restaurant Week has come to a close. When I wrote about its beginning last Monday, many chimed in with experiences yet to come. Capital Grille, Salum, Nosh, Nonna, Abacus: Everyone dove in with enthusiasm listing the places they planned to patronize. But now the dust...
It's a rock show reflex: When the curtain goes up and the lights go down, you stand up and prepare to wig out. Fact is, many of the area's best venues make the choice of whether to sit or to stand during the show an easy one. By typically not...
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Waste as opportunity, or waste as the perpetuation of racial and economic inequality? Unfair interference in the trash-hauling free market or the forward-looking future of refuse? Both sides have been hashing it out for a while now, but the Dallas City Council's black members will get back to you on...
In a Dallas federal courthouse on Tuesday, a civil lawsuit was filed against Dallas-based concert promoter Gabe Reed, accusing Reed and his company, Gabe Reed Productions, of fraud, breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation as pertains to a handful of Motley Crue concerts that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
My love for Premiership Soccer has spurred many secondary obsessions in English fare. I drink far more Guinness than I should and have become a sucker for other session beers. Tetley's stands out, but is hard to find. I love a hearty lamb stew. And of course, there's fish and...
The Heart Attack Grill opened last spring to a media shit-show. Jenny Block posted an article covering the open that coined the place Hooters in Hell. The story got 11 times more traffic than a typical City of Ate post, and that's exactly what owner Jon Basso wanted. The marketing...