There are several items of interest and note on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board's agenda for today, but let's focus on two for now -- the ones on the Operations Committee's to-do list that'll impact drivers of cars and riders of mass transit ... well, the naughty ones, anyway...
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After Dwaine Caraway got done excoriating Paul Dyer over the city's decision to close five pools in the coming fiscal year, two in Caraway's district, the head of Park and Rec told the former mayor to get used to the idea. Because, look, said Dyer: The city owning and operating...
The Cowboys had exactly 10 practices in pads in San Antonio. In this weird, truncated preseason of NFL football, that makes a training camp. After a walkthrough this morning at The Alamodome, Dallas headed north and will tomorrow night begin its four-game exhibition season against the Broncos in Arlington. Ready...
After a gas drilling field trip to Arlington and debriefing session, a public hearing at City Hall and a few weeks to let all the information marinate, the city's gas drilling task force got back to the horseshoe Tuesday afternoon with four items on its agenda -- presentations by gas-drilling...
A writer for UK's Guardian takes on a topic today that's near and dear to my probably-clogged heart: the writing down of orders. You see it all the time, at restaurants of various levels of sophistication: the Penless Server. No matter how many people are in your party, no matter...
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has spent the last year trying to balance its books and fill its coffers, going so far as to launch last fall The Great Orchestra Campaign intended to raise a quick $50 million. The process continues: Per a press release dispatched by the DSO today, management...
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Nice to see our sports columnist thinks the race for the AL West is "over." Still, though, coulda sworn the Rangers have 18 games left on the schedule, including three against the Angels at season's end; the magic number remains a far-from-over 17. Guess that's why I'm not a sportswriter...
Wow, I haven't heard the name Gym Class Heroes in a while! I remember the group, though. They were a hip-hop-and-pop-punk hybrid band that sounded tailor-made for the kids that got their music cues solely from MTV2.Then the band's emcee, Travie McCoy, went off and did a solo thing, releasing...
On Monday, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs will cut the city of Dallas a sales-tax revenue check for $16,658,081.23, as you can see above; City Manager Mary Suhm says that's 13 straight months the city has seen a "slight increase" in tax revenue, among the "slight, slow signs of a recovery."...
We've been hypnotized and we've been to comedy shows, but we've never experienced both at one time. That's what Flip Orley, comic hypnotist, is all about. Orley, who tours packed -- like sold-out packed -- clubs and other venues (including a corporate event here and there), takes a different approach...
Even Rick Perry doesn't hate science all the time. His uneasy relationship with evolution and global warming notwithstanding, the Man Beneath the Hair understands that sometimes all that brainy shit with the white coats and clipboards can actually benefit him. And that's exactly what happened in his 2006 bid for...
The cool thing about Kevin Bacon is that he doesn't really seem like a movie star. He seems like, you know, a guy. The kind of guy it would be fun to hang out and shoot the shit with. He's good looking, but not George Clooney good looking. He's been...
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Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her car — a weathered Honda Civic with "Nobama," Marco Rubio and Tea Party bumper stickers — smells like it's been fumigated with sweet incense...
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Ruby Jane Gets Inspired
Over the weekend, The Dallas Morning News blessed us with a pay-walled profile of First Baptist Dallas's Robert Jeffress, no stranger to the Friends of Unfair Park. And while briefly touching upon some of the pastor's more, oh, let's say controversial offerings in recent years, for the most part Scott...
First, the city of Dallas said it would begin exploring the possibility of selling naming rights to ... well, you name it, from city-owned facilities to its vehicles; first on the to-sell list, the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill. A few weeks later, Dallas Independent School District trustee...
Soft-spoken to a fault, Jimmy Tamborello comes across like some kind of computer nerd who's checking out porn, afraid of waking his parents. A shy, friendly kind of guy, Tamborello makes music under the name Dntel; he either won't explain the moniker or simply can't find the strength to do...
In the paper version of City of Ate this week, Alice Laussade writes of the patty smackdown we ordered between Whataburger and In-N-Out burger. We got Grape owner Brian Luscher, Angry Dog owner Todd Dickerson and Jack Perkins of Maple Motor--all burger mavens in this here Dallas, TX--to compare the...
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Purple Hazed
The most recent Dallas gas drilling task force meeting ended with mutterings of how to speed up the process of drafting drilling ordinance recommendations. Several task force members voiced concerns that they were crawling toward the finish line -- even after the task force's schedule for deliberation was extended by...
This morning we find two items of local interest contained within the virtual pages of IndieWire. First: Long-ago Observer-er Dana Harris sends word that the extremely authorized Sarah Palin propaganda filmdocumentary The Undefeated has found a collaboratorexhibitor, the AMC chain of theaters. As a result its producers and distributors say...
Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Jeff Jacobs, a fairly recent transplant from Chicago, spends much of his time these...