I just spoke with council member Angela Hunt about the four-alarm fire in her district this morning. She spent the last hour where Terilli's, Greenville Bar & Grill, Mick's and Hurricane Grill stood till 5:30 a.m., and visited with Dallas Fire-Rescue officials and the restaurants' owners, and she reports back...
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Jamie Foxx. He's an Oscar winner and has sold his fair amount of R&B records. He's also been a mentor on American Idol before. Last season, he got all up in people's grills. And he did it again this one. Foxx Face! This time, though, he gave out T-shirts with big...
He's never been arrested. Never had a recurring problem with violence. Or drugs. Or alcohol. He loves his momma and has kept the same best friend since third grade. He's 6-foot-2, 225 pounds with giant hands and minuscule body fat. He was, by far, the best, most talented receiver in...
Back in July 2007, the tale of Dallas Area Rapid Transit police officer Susan Craig merited but a few sentences in the regional roundup. The story then: "Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials said Officer Susan Craig falsely claimed that a rider she arrested Monday had kicked her in the head...
Guess I won't be getting a parking ticket near the George Allen next Monday, when the city of Dallas and the Museum of American Railroad's attorneys were scheduled to meet back in Judge Martin Hoffman's courtroom for the injunction hearing. According to First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers, the two...
Bonnie and Clyde have chewed up the cord that connects their automatic food bowl to its solar-powered battery, which is why they are baaaaa-ing mercilessly at Andrew Howard, the 34-year-old bespectacled goat enthusiast who spends most evenings feeding and watering his two charges in the summer heat. Howard leashes up...
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1100 Springs, Roger Alan Wade, Lucero & Shooter Jennings at MusInk's Second nightFair Park Centennial BuildingApril 10, 2010Better than: Watching the Rangers continue to fail to come anywhere near our already low expectations. Seeing a lively crowd enjoying the beautiful weather at the outdoor music stage for MusInk festival, it...
Cans are starting to catch on in the craft-brew world, with more and more microbreweries offering their products in the once-maligned format -- even in Texas. Shiner has long offered its bock in cans, and upstart Southern Star is doing the same. In fact, Dale's Pale Ale from Colorado's Oskar...
Now this is breaking news. By now, surely you know the story of Bob and Jane Cull, which has been around for a decade -- when the twosome sued Perry Homes, claiming their house in Mansfield went to hell shortly after they bought it for $233,730 in 1996. At almost...
Satisfying, delicious morsels of doughy goodness packed with intense flavors, various ground meats, and the heart-warming comfort of soup all rolled into one bite-sized dumpling. Any description of xiao long bao is destined to fall short, because the best way to experience the soup dumpling is to share a steamer...
Nervous Curtains wasn't supposed to be a band at all. Sean Kirkpatrick had all the band he could handle as keyboardist for The Paper Chase. No, he just wanted accompaniment for a few live shows in support of his 2007 debut solo album Turn On the Interference, on which his...
OK, some good news and some bad news...The good news: After a few weeks off, our weekly video series, DC9 Live at El Sibil, is back. We filmed the most recent segment with longtime DC9 favorite galleryCat last week, in fact. It was a grand ole time--par for course, y'know.The...
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Earlier this week, Arlington's Man Factory released for digital download Street Fight!!! Round Two, the second installment in its planned power-pop opera trilogy based on the popular Street Fighter video game series. Fans of Round One had been waiting patiently for the past two years to find out how the...
It's probably not a surprise to hear that Bridges and Blinking Lights frontman Jake Wilganowski is a restless man. His band's two records—2007 debut Standing on the Same Stick and the forthcoming sophomore album Heroes, Guns and Snakes—both make the most of their run times, packing an album's worth of...
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Terri Hodge has already asked voters in House District 100 to stop taking Diane Ragsdale's robocalls. Now, per a good Friend of Unfair Park, the guilty-plea-taking state representative has a message for precinct chairs:I just got a Fed Ex from Terri Hodge, and it's a form letter regarding precinct chairs...
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Whitt’s End: 3.19.10
Last night, The Cavern's free Wednesday night affair, Detour, hosted the live debut of local experimental electro outfit Museum Creatures. And it was a pretty entertaining display offered up by the latest project from Dallas' once-upon-a-time piano-pop musician Tommy Hernandez, most recently of sleaze dance outfit Boytap: Hernandez went to...
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Crawfish, crayfish, crawdads, mudbugs. Whatever you call the lobster's ugly little cousin, chances are you've eaten a few. If you're a Texas native, don't tell anyone if you haven't, unless you want the "what the hell's wrong with you, son?" stare down. This Sunday during game time, you may have...
From the looks of this sneak peek at a presentation Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, is giving the council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee on Tuesday, that $3 mil earmarked for the so-called Loop 12 Gateway will most likely wind up being spent on Trinity River Audubon...
Dallas Area Rapid Transit's board of directors met this afternoon to discuss the ramifications of a significant decline in sales tax receipts. Originally, DART had budgeted for $387.8 million; the numbers, according to the transit agency, are presently looking $15 to $20 million short of that. That's significant because, according...
Actually, it's the "Stemmons Corridor-Southwest Medical District Plan," which has been simmering since 2008 as officials from UT Southwestern, Love Field, Crow Holdings, Parkland and so forth worked with area residents to hash out the (transit-oriented) development details. Nothing's final yet -- that's a few months-plus off -- but tomorrow,...