Professional Services Sector

Californians Are Flocking to Texas, But, Hard as Rick Perry May Try, Their Businesses Aren't

Governor Rick Perry is in California this week as part of his campaign to lure businesses to Texas, attempting to finish in person what his radio ads started. In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News Perry said that California Governor Jerry Brown's comments that Perry's radio ad was "a fart ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being hel ... More >>

The Morning News is "Very Satisfied" with Year One of the Paywall. How 'Bout You?

Yesterday was First-Quarter Earnings Day for Dallas Morning News parent A.H. Belo, or as we call it in the newspaper business, So How Many of Us Are Getting Whacked on Christmas Day? Day. The news was pretty predictable: Total first-quarter revenue was $105 million, down 7 percent over last year. ... More >>

Derek Walker's Gone From Airwaves to Dirt Track

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. In 2009, KZPS-FM 92.5 fired Derek Walker from their promotions crew. Unfortunately, he was sorely misunderstood by the marketing department's then-head honcho, and was let go after going ... More >>

Right Now, At Least, the Dallas ISD Isn't Making Much of Anything By Way of Ad Revenue

Alpha Media​In May we hopped about this ad-adorned Dallas County Schools bus, one of many so decorated courtesy an ad agency specializing in school-bus advertising (hence the name of its website). As Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander explained at the time, the district con ... More >>

Fixing the Trinity Levees: Don't Worry, Just Trust City Hall

Dallas-Based Concert Promoter Sued in Federal Court Over South American Motley Crue Shows

Vigo says this show should've been his.​In a Dallas federal courthouse on Tuesday, a civil lawsuit was filed against Dallas-based concert promoter Gabe Reed, accusing Reed and his company, Gabe Reed Productions, of fraud, breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation as pertains to a handful ... More >>

DA Watkins Says He'll Get a Law Firm to Collect That $35 Million in Missing Bail Bond Money

​No doubt you, the well-informed and engaged Friend of Unfair Park, are well aware that Dallas County's missing around, oh, $35 million that some bail bondsmen somehow forget to turn over to the county when their clients fail to show up for court. The Dallas Morning News had the story over the wee ... More >>

Mike Rawlings Would Now Like to Have a Word About That Trail Safety Campaign Contract

​So far today we've heard from Ron Natinsky, David Kunkle, City Auditor Craig Kinton and even Mayor Dwaine Caraway about last night's Channel 8 story, which alleged that mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings used his influence as Park Board president to get city officials to hire his friend and former T ... More >>

Tabasco Sauce Could be Feeling Super

Something Tabasco fans can use to wash down all that pizza.​The reliably stupendous sales of pizza on Super Bowl Sunday have inspired makers of pie accoutrements to intercept some of the action. Tabasco sauce has made an annual habit of piggybacking on the pizza industry's holiday, running ra ... More >>

MLB Says Texas Rangers' Lawyers "Decided to Rewrite History" in Request for $5.4 Million in Bankruptcy Fees, Claims Tom Hicks "Appeared" to Use Bidding Process to Hold Onto Franchise

Sam MertenFormer MLB president and COO Bob DuPuy (foreground) and attorney Sandy Esserman leave Fort Worth's federal courthouse during this summer's bankruptcy hearings. DuPuy, who resigned effective October 31, was credited by MLB.com with helping broker the Texas Rangers' sale and facilitating neg ... More >>

The City Would Love to Get Its Hands On the Dawson State Jail. It'll Have to Keep Waiting.

​This morning, a reader wondered: Has the state decided if it's going to renew its contract with Corrections Corporation of America regarding operations of the Jesse R. Dawson State Jail on the Trinity River? When last we looked at the issue, the contract was set to expire January 15,  only ... More >>

So, Says Here You Should Be Parking on the Continental Ave. Bridge By November 2012

​Courtesy the city council's agenda for Wednesday, we have a little more information about efforts to turn the Continental Avenue bridge into a pedestrian park -- as in, how will that anonymously donated $10 million get spent, and when does the city expect to begin design and construction on the p ... More >>

Surf's (Hanging) Up

This Sandwich Smells Like the '60s

The Richards Group's Hoagie Man, who looks awfully familiarThe Richards Group gets a shout-out in The New York Times this morning for its Hoagiefest promotion, which takes a big ol' bite outta the Yellow Submarine in order to sell sandwiches to folks living up north. Turns out, Richards is just ridi ... More >>

Moye Rules: Earth is Flat!

At 2:30 p.m. today 14th Civil District Judge Eric Moye put the Planet Earth back where it belongs, much to the relief of people clinging to its surface in one East Dallas neighborhood. In the infamous "dirt skirts" case, a zoning dispute over building heights, Moye ruled that city of Dallas buildin ... More >>

Bacon Causeburger

Beef and drink while fighting AIDS

From a Dallas Casting Call, Denny's Serves Up a Sneak Preview of Its "Authentic" Cowboys

Remember that Denny's Super Bowl ad casting call last month? The one looking for "authentically weathered, tough, rugged" cowboys from Dallas? Right. That one. Anyway, today we get a peek at the 'pokes Denny's rustled up for its first-ever Super Bowl spot, which Denny's spokesperson Cori Rice tells ... More >>

How Undeadly

Dallas Ad Firm Uses Bailout to Sell Denny's Grand Slam Breakfast

Table Making

Furniture masters make a difference

When It Comes to Downtown Rail, Tomorrow Looks Like Yesterday

DART: Conflict? What Conflict?

Advertisements for Itself

HKS and Tom Hicks Will Partner on a New Stadium for Liverpool FC

Grande Psychology

Scapegoat

How Michael Hinojosa escaped blame in the DISD credit card scandal

In Your Face, Facebook

Wednesday P.M. Throat-Clearing

Schutze Tickles Everything But the Ivories

Rudy Can Fail?

The Yellow-Brick Corridor

Down Belo

Office Space

The Last Word on MADI. For Now.

Bril Cream

Cox, Hard to Get Into

You Can't Spell "Below Expectations" Without Belo

Bales Musicians Out of Trouble

Because She's Worth It

Die-In

Harriet Miers' conservative views drew threats of an ugly protest in 1989

Die-In

Harriet Miers' conservative views drew threats of an ugly protest in 1989

Best place to feel at one with Deep Ellum

Boyd Gallery

Mean green

Neighbors in Southeast Dallas find that getting their parks fixed is no picnic

The art of the touch

Too bad Al Lipscomb never learned to do it like Judge Kendall and his wife

The Race Not Run

Republican Bill Hill is running against Democrat Rick Reed for district attorney. Don't think you have a choice.

Letters

Campaign casualty

Cheryl Wattley's appointment to the federal bench is M.I.A. in presidential politics

Snakes in the grass

We're about to get bit again by deregulation

Buzz