The city of Dallas might become Texas' second major city to "ban the box" and require private employers to delay asking applicants about their criminal backgrounds until they have been given a conditional offer of employment. The policy change would bring private employers in line with the city itself, Dallas...
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A story in yesterday’s Dallas Morning News about a slow-down in turnover among public school principals in Dallas contained this unattributed wisdom: “Experts say a principal needs five years at the same school to make real improvement. When the principals keep changing, so does the teaching staff. Student test scores...
When Richard Haskins showed up to court on Thursday morning, he had no idea that he was going to receive his sentence. Arrested in December 2012 for attempting to rob the Well Fargo bank on University Drive in Denton, the Wee Beasties singer has been in jail since last March...
The news lately on DART, our regional mass transit agency, is that the city’s elected officials are having major credibility problems with the things DART staff tells them about rail construction projects worth billions of dollars. When I hear about those problems at the big-deal end, a part of me...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings loves task forces. During five years in office he has created specialized committees both large (Rawlings’ domestic violence task force boasts more than 40 members) and small (the obscure senior citizen’s task force, chaired by Councilwoman Monica Alonzo, which we have to assume has some members, though...
One good indication an institution is up to no good and probably guilty of the sin you suspect it of is an extremely thin-skinned response to your complaint. If they’re not feeling guilty, they wouldn’t be thin-skinned. With thin skin as my scale, I don’t know who measures up as...
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Lometa are obsessed with putting out the perfect EP. The dynamic alt-rock duo have already released five with impressive results, but the songs don't come cheap. The asking price on their Bandcamp page is $713. That's actually a byproduct of their obsession. You are welcome to buy these songs if...
In an election year, even mainstream political parties seem a little wild. But North Texas is home to groups who are on the fringe of politics, grouped together to target the status quo. Here's a guide to some of the most noteworthy activists taking their messages to the streets in...
This week marks the arrival of legit summer, with the longest day of the entire year upon us today. And if pagan rituals aren’t your bag, then maybe carpe some diem and load up your calendar with some extra arts and culture events instead? You’ll find plenty of options below...
Earl’s 377 is a pizza oasis, a bright blossom in Argyle’s food desert. When this restaurant opened its doors in May, Argyle’s count of eateries increased by more than 10 percent. With pickings that slim, any restaurant would be a welcome sight. But Earl’s isn’t just any restaurant; it's slinging...
At 10 a.m. Friday, Dallas police Assistant Chief Gary Tittle briefed the media on the results of the department's 12-day-old downtown panhandling crackdown. As of Thursday, cops had made 128 arrests as part of the initiative, which downtown inhabitants say has already had a dramatic impact: On Wednesday, commercial real...
Back in 2009, just as the Dallas Theater Center was moving into its brand new home in the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Wyly Theatre, DTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty sat in the audience for a performance of Cara Mia Theatre Co.’s original production of Crystal City 1969. Although it was his...
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Google “shrimp sausage” in quotation marks. The results, you’ll find, are recipes for shrimp and sausage as two separate ingredients, not one crazy thing. After five whole pages of results for “Creole shrimp and sausage,” paella, gumbo, pasta, jambalaya, kabobs and the like, finally one hit turns up for shrimp...
On Tuesday afternoon, four weeks to the day after Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick asked his office to weigh in, Attorney General Ken Paxton opined that a Fort Worth ISD policy allowing students to use the bathroom consistent with their gender identity was illegal. The AG opinion is a curious thing...
After more than two years of planning, organizing and fundraising — ending a quarter century in which Dallas has failed to pay tribute to its most legendary pair of musical siblings — the Dallas City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved plans for a monument to Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan...
This afternoon, it comes. The storm that will wash away the unfaithful and vindicate doomsday prophet Jim Schutze is slated to hit Dallas, bringing with it a torrent of water, hail, wind and tweets about Pete Delkus' rolled up sleeves. "We'll have what looks like a line of thunderstorms develop...
Justina Walford is the founder director of the Women Texas Film Festival (WTxFF), the first event in the state to exclusively showcase cinematic work created by women in high-profile positions. But perhaps more important, Walford was just slipped a coupon for a free coffee, an unexpected perk of being on...
One of the biggest impediments against the city of Dallas stopping dog attacks like the one that killed Antoinette Brown in South Dallas last week is that the city, no matter how many reports it receives about a bad dog owner or how many dogs it confiscates from that owner,...
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According to IMDb, Jaume Collet-Serra’s over-before-you-know-it The Shallows runs for one hour and 27 minutes — a number that produces a reaction something like when an NBA roster lists a short-looking player at five-foot-nine and you marvel, Really? Nate Robinson is that tall? The shark thriller has only three or...
From last winter's bizarre fight over having the Texas GOP's 2016 Convention at Dallas' Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center comes a more bizarre fight over the fact that it's still here, beginning in earnest on Thursday. Over the past few days, a mailer has circulated accusing Texas GOP Chairman Tom...
In his tight, trim, health insurance thriller A Monster With a Thousand Heads, Mexican-Uruguayan director Rodrigo Plá achieves a visual style that is ice cold but also deeply human — a clever way to depict an all-powerful system that feeds on our lives and thrives on our fallibility. Plá opens...
NBC's The Voice has a simple goal: Focus on the contestants' singing capabilities rather than their appearance. From blind auditions to the finale, about 400 contestants have been a part of the show in the nine seasons since it debuted back in 2011. But the results of the show's talent-scouting have...