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Luna Tortilla Factory, also on the Endangered list For the fourth year, Preservation Dallas has announced its “Most Endangered Resources” list, which features everything from specific buildings to general neighborhoods -- and includes this year a plea for the city to change its teardown procedures, lest more historic properties get...
Sean Greene, the Dallas Zoo's director of community relations, read yesterday's item about folks protesting the zoo's moving Jenny the elephant to the Africam Safari Park in Puebla, Mexico. Then he read the comments, which keep piling up from people who'd rather see Jenny sent to an elephant sanctuary in...
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Treasure Hunt
Mike Ware, head of the Dallas County District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Division Seventeen Dallas County men have been freed from prison following DNA tests that have cleared their names. And till today, those cases have been fairly cut and dry. But Jeff Blackburn, senior counsel for the Innocence Project of...
More than 4,200 defendants convicted in federal court in the Northern District of Texas owe their victims $1 billion, give or take. Which would make U.S. Attorney Richard Roper and his financial litigation unit the biggest debt collector in North Texas, give or take. Among Department of Justice Districts, Northern...
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No, Evan Smith, "exonerated" is not "too strong a word" when describing what happened last week to Thomas McGowan, the 16th Dallas County prisoner freed after DNA testing revealed he wasn't guilty of the crime for which he'd been convicted and sentenced to prison for 23 years. Smith, the editor...
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Coming Together, Falling Apart
Steven Spielberg may rule Hollywood, but in the video-game biz — the more profitable of the two industries, becoming more so with each passing year — he's a bikini-clad babe in Jaws-infested waters. Perhaps that's why in 2005, Spielberg, an avid gamer, signed with developing giant EA Games for three...
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DeVotchKa
Ryu won't like Blanka when he gets angry... For many bands, video games are an amusing distraction at best. Practicing at the home of a member who owns a console can be a risky endeavor, as a spontaneous game of Halo or Madden might stretch into an hours-long tournament. That’s...
The recipe for recording a successful sophomore album begins with a bottle of cheap wine...sort of. In Ladyhawk's case, it starts with the band's beloved quick-fire sangria (cheap wine, juice and Sprite), a drafty house without electricity or plumbing and—to answer your question—a bucket in which to piss. More than...
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View Larger Map Developer Larry Hamilton, founder and CEO of Hamilton Properties Corporation, is one of many landowners facing a fight with the Dallas Central Appraisal District regarding its new appraisals of downtown properties. Hamilton recently purchased a parking lot at 1114 Wood Street as a potential site for his...
Another Tom Leppert photo, another caption-writing contest -- winner gets a Walker, Texas Ranger Season 5 boxed set! Mayor Tom Leppert opened today’s council meeting, the last one before the council takes off the month of July, with his first “State of the City Address.” Ironically, the morning open-microphone session,...
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The Doctor is Way Out
Their hellbent country-punk theatrics suggest the offspring of Tim Kasher and David Eugene Edwards. A combination of The Good Life's conceptual psycho-dramas and 16 Horsepower's Pentecostal fury, Murder by Death's latest album, Red of Tooth and Claw, brings all the band's elements into tight focus and cooks it at 425...
Speaking of major(ish) announcements in Arlington, there's no word yet on whether the United States Bowling Congress will be moving its balls to Texas. The congress, which has some 2.3 million members, is staying mum on the results of yesterday's meeting during which Milwaukee reps (including the city's mayor) begged...
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The Dork Knight Returns
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See, if Pulle were still around, we'd be full of local results too -- like, ya know, that little race for Dallas County Sheriff. Looks like it'll be Lupe Valdez for the Dems -- by a landslide. She's got 56,112 votes so far -- or damned near half of the...
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When Less Is Less
Some housecleaning this a.m., before finding out how Jessica and Greggo voted last night. We suggested these t-shirts yesterday, but after last night's election results -- Clinton wins Texas and Ohio, though Obama still's the frontrunner among those who like math -- a Friend of Unfair Park instead suggests these...
The last time the Texas Seven were together, their crime spree claimed a life. Last week, members of the group came together to try to save one. Randy Halprin was one of the seven escaped convicts who robbed an Irving Oshman's SuperSports store on Christmas Eve 2000. Halprin carried a...