Professional Services Sector

North Texas Tollway Authority Now Officially Suing the Pants off Habitual Toll Violators

We knew this was coming. The North Texas Tollway Authority kind of telegraphed it when the agency announced that some 6,000 of its top scofflaws would be referred to an outside law firm for possible litigation over their toll-ignoring ways. And now, it's here. The NTTA filed more than a dozen civil ... More >>

Updated: Promoter Wars: Dallas Concert Promoter Sued by South American Concert Promoter

People in South America love them some hair metal. But not enough to keep a Dallas promoter out of court. This morning, Courthouse News reported Dallas rock star-turned-attorney-turned-international concert promoter Gabe Reed (Gabe Reed Productions) is being sued for $270,000 over a canceled stadium ... More >>

Doug Burr to appear at Good Records

J.L. Turner Legal Association Vows to Keep an Eye on Media During JWP Investigation

Photo by Sam Merten​The J.L. Turner Legal Association is better known as the African-American bar association in Dallas, and bills itself as "the oldest and largest national association of African-American and minority attorneys, jurists, legal scholars, and law students in the world." Its leaders ... More >>

Dallas Fire-Rescue Determines Cause of Fire at Rihanna's American Airlines Center Show

Rachel ParkerRihanna at Friday's AAC performance.​Still no word from the folks either at the American Airlines Center or concert promotion conglomerate Live Nation about what, if any, accommodations will be made for the Rihanna fans upset that their Friday night concert experience was cut shot aft ... More >>

Frank Hill Runs His Own Company, Manages The Likes of Fair to Midland and Ha Ha Tonka

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.Frank Hill​Frank Hill's story is essentially that of a music scene kid wh ... More >>

Family of Diabetic Inmate Who Died at Dawson State Jail Sues Private Prison Operator

Pamela Weatherby, who died last July​Pamela Weatherby, a 45-year-old Big Spring woman -- and, according to a federal suit filed Monday in Dallas, an "unstable insulin dependent diabetic" -- was serving a one-year sentence for drug possession at Dawson State Jail when she died last July. Now her pa ... More >>

Why Downtown Dallas Inc.'s Fine With Ad Agency Moving Its Digs to Victory Park

​I called John Crawford, president of Downtown Dallas Inc., on Monday morning, about something -- can't remember, not important. But in between my leaving a message and his calling back, I received a press release: TM Advertising, which moved from Irving into the Comerica Bank Tower at 1717 Main S ... More >>

KPMG Sued For Giving Tom Hicks "Clean Audit" a Year Before $525-Million Loan Default

​Courthouse News has the lawsuit: GSP Finance LLC v. KPMG LLC, an alphabet soup's worth of names that sounds thoroughly uninteresting. Until, that is, you crack open the case and discover that GSP Finance is the lending arm of Galatioto Sports Partners -- the same company Hicks hired in February 2 ... More >>

"An Expression of Life": The Dallas Symphony Orchestra Just Launched a New Ad Campaign

Looking for something entirely unrelated on YouTube moments ago, I came across three videos just posted by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra -- and by "just posted," I mean "20 minutes ago," says DSO manager of publications Chris Shull. They're part of the DSO's "new branding campaign," he says, which w ... More >>

Roach Clip, or: If You Hate Bugs, You May Wanna Steer Clear of Mockingbird Station

Via.​SlashGear this morning directs our attention to a press release issued late Friday by ad agency Publicis's Dallas office, which has found a rather ingenious way to garner attention for a billboard -- by filling the thing with "thousands of live cockroaches." You read that right. It's for Term ... More >>

Thirty-Six Sue Private Operator of Dallas County Judicial Treatment Center For Privacy Invasion

The Dallas County Judicial Treatment Center in Wimer​Cornell Companies, the private operator of correctional facilities 'cross the country, has a motto: "People Changing People." A lawsuit filed this week in Dallas County District Court proposes an alteration: "People Filming People." At least, so ... More >>

Operation Streamline costs taxpayers millions, tramples on the Constitution, treats immigrants like cattle and doesn't work. So why are the feds so committed to it?

So, You Want to Know Who's Paying for The Mayor's European Vacation? Well, Then ...

Remember when I said you'd never see this picture again? Apparently, I was wrong.​Right about now, Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia, Office of Economic Development head Karl Zavikovsky and a few other folks on the Dallas trade mission to Europe are probably ... More >>

Superpages.com Center Offers $10 Tickets For the Last 10 Days of June

​Since last summer, Live Nation's been ramping up their summer ticket sales by offering a promotion known as "No Service Fee June." A brief reminder: For the entire month of June, Live Nation is kind enough to remove the ridiculous service fees from the already steep ticket prices for their concer ... More >>

Concert Promoter Kevin Lyman Apologizes For Country Throwdown's Dallas Cancellation, But The Eli Young Band Actually Does Something About It.

The above, poorly-lit clip finds concert promoter Kevin Lyman (he of Warped Tour creation fame) apologizing to the music fans in Dallas, Houston, San Diego and Phoenix for the fact that, due to low ticket sales, scheduled stops from his new Country Throwdown tour, which features Montgomery Gentry, J ... More >>

The Homegrown Festival with Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Telegraph Canyon, This Will Destroy You, Ishi and others

Saturday, May 22, at Main Street Garden Park

So, How Hard Is City Pulling for State Not to Renew Contract for Jail on Trinity?

​A couple of weeks back, Nicole Porter at Texas Prison Bid'ness took note of the state's impending budget shortfall and concluded that, more than likely, it'll result in the closing of some private prisons and jails. Sure, but which ones? Well, writes our old pal Scott Henson today over at Grits f ... More >>

Live Nation Opens Up Shop In Dallas, Tags Danny Eaton As Senior VP

​Yesterday afternoon, via a press release, major concert booking/promotions conglomerate Live Nation announced the opening of a new Dallas office to handle all the company's business in the region, which will be led by longtime area concert promoter Danny Eaton (of 462 Productions and, more recent ... More >>

The School Teacher Who Keeps The Rock Scene Moving

Schutze is Live-Blogging This Morning's Council Vote on City Hall Ethics Reform

William S. Dahlstrom​This morning the city council is debating lobbyist reform, and the lobbyists are all here. And nervous. They have their own corner of the city council chamber, front row, extreme left (from my direction in the peanut gallery, extreme right from the council's perspective). The ... More >>

Kay Bailey and Ray Hutchison, Putting the "Green" in DART's Green Line

Ray Hutchison​"Did Kay Bailey Hutchison cross an ethical line by supporting a rail line that is a payday for her husband?" That's the question addressed in this morning's Texas Watchdog piece written by former Observer-er Matt Pulle, who examines the Texas gubernatorial candidate's involvement in ... More >>

Prosecution Hands Over Key Witness to Defense Without Proving Don Hill's Guilt, Bolsters Case Against D'Angelo Lee

Sam MertenD'Angelo Lee crosses Commerce Street in front of the Earle Cabell Federal Building Thursday afternoon.The second full day of testimony from affordable housing developer Brian Potashnik strengthened the prosecution's case against former city plan commissioner D'Angelo Lee in the City Hall c ... More >>

Belo Will "Continue to Focus on Expense Reductions and Operational Realignment"

Weeks after completing its latest round of penny-saving layoffs, which were preceded by pay cuts and benefits trims, A.H. Belo this morning reported its first-quarter '09 results -- and they are significant. The publisher of The Dallas Morning News reports a first quarter net loss of $103.1 millio ... More >>

Warm Wizards

Don Snuggies proudly for charity

Never, Ever Volunteer

All Apologies, Mr. Librio

DART's Outside Auditor Seems Too Inside to Expose Secrets

We're over the game of hide the ball with Deloitte Touche

What Happens at Amon Carter Stadium Doesn't Stay at Amon Carter Stadium

It Pays to Be DART Board Chair

Waiting By the Telephone

How Come No One Here Is Talking About Tom Hicks' New Stadium?

IMC2 Gets National Recognition. Again. Oh, and Our Art Director.

Go West

With Dallas Democrats' return from the dead, state Senator Royce West is poised for bigger things, like maybe paychecks

Is Craig Watkins from Kazakhstan?

Something Stinks. And, No, It's Not This Cigarette.

Advertising Age

Dallas is Anti-Pro Bono

That Fred Baron, Bud

To the Defense of Enron

Four More Years? Well...

Who Is That Guy?

He plays golf with George Clooney. He clowns around with Chris Tucker. He's best buddies with Peri Gilpin. He's a pasty white dude named Steve Stodghill.

Bad Judgment

That's the problem with the Democratic Party--anyone can join

Shut Up, Fido

The Morning News and pals want the FBI to call off its dogs at DISD. But the feds have not yet begun to bite.

Buzz

Clinton's buddy gets a new job

Casual Day Casualties

Do clothes make the lawyer? One Dallas judge thinks so.

The perfect crime

DISD crooks continue to elude an FBI probe

Conflict? What conflict?

When D/FW Airport hired the partner of one of its board members, something didn't add up

Rambo Justice

Are bad-boy lawyers Bill Brewer and John Bickel building a bridge to Dallas' minority communities, or trying to sell them one?

Buzz