To be honest with you, if I’d known before we sat down at the Lakewood Penne Pomodoro on Sunday morning that they’re a beer- and wine-only joint, I’d never have gone. No liquor means no Bloody Mary, and no Bloody Mary is a crappy way to spend Sunday morning. But…
Both of you who followed along with yesterday’s liveblog of the Animal Shelter Commission will remember that former ASC member and animal rights bigwig Jonnie England wondered during the public comment: Why is Tyrone McGill, the former Dallas Animal Services manager who has been indicted on charges of animal cruelty…
Merry afternoon, Friends. I’m here at City Hall for today’s Animal Shelter Commission meeting. They’ll be discussing the recently released, mildly damning Humane Society report on the troubled Dallas Animal Services, which, under the new leadership of interim manager Lieutenant Scott Walton, has been trying to do an about-face in…
A few minutes after 10 a.m. today, 50 or so people stood in line outside the H&M Preview store in NorthPark Center behind a polyester rope, anxiously awaiting the first-ever opportunity to buy off-the-rack H&M clothing on Texas soil. Stroller-pushers, grandparents and fashionistas of all genders clapped as we made…
Last night a hundred or so folks interested in downtown development gathered at the Dallas Convention Center — where they were filming an episode of Chase! — to be presented with the findings from the Downtown Dallas 360 plan and, ostensibly, to provide some input and feedback. Bobsky and I…
What happened to Austin? I moved away from the land of academic breakfast tacos in May, only to return this past weekend to find that parking’s as bad on East Sixth Street as it is Downtown and everything west of Congress Avenue looks like Uptown Dallas, but with better signage…
Behind bars for more than 20 years, after being found guilty of the 1986 rape and murder of a Garland woman named Galua Crosby, Clay Chabot always maintained he was innocent. This morning, that all changed: In a Dallas courtroom, Chabot pleaded guilty to Crosby’s murder. He was poised to…
Here is the sad thing: Last night, I did not wear my pair of 1981 Justin cowboy boots to the Winspear Opera House. This is largely due to the fact that I have literally worn the soles through as a result of wearing them practically every day for the last…
Dressed in full cowboy gear, complete with a Virgin America belt buckle, British business mogul Sir Richard Branson greeted representatives of what looked to be every media outlet within a hundred miles — and anyone else who could get their lunch hour off — at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport ’round…
Last night, a crowd of about 75 folks gathered with martinis and wine glasses in hand to watch, as advertised, a massive, high-tech advertisement for The Tourist, the new Jolie-and-Depp sexy suspense flick. A movie trailer and stills were projected in “4D” on the facade of the Praetorian Building at…
Most marriages take work — in the months and years after the wedding ceremony. But for Mark and Dante Walkup, just getting their marriage recognized has been an exercise in legal and logistical hoop-jumping. The virally famous couple, who married over Skype to sidestep Texas’s ban on same-sex marriages, found…
For as long as I’ve lived in Dallas — off and on for five years now — I’ve put off going to the Dream Cafe because the name strikes me as powerfully lame. The whole “eclectic” and “global” shtick sounds like the kind of thing that Ian guy would be…
The Skype’d wedding of Mark Reed and Dante Walkup — held at the Dallas W hotel, officiated over Internet teleconferencing software in Washington, D.C. — went viral a few weeks after the gay couple was legally married in our nation’s capital in October. Gay rights activists the world over celebrated…
Most humans would probably be grateful if someone would come by a couple times a day and tidy up after them. Feral cats likely feel differently. They’re often brought to Dallas Animal Services scared and stressed out, and their sparse cages offer nowhere to hide from kennel workers who feed,…
Nothing like the holiday season to bring out the best in all of us, right? Notsomuch, says the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, which held a press conference today in front of the Kroger at Mockingbird and Greenville to advise citizens not to park in handicapped spots if they’re not, you…
A press release from 7-Eleven today announces “Purple Friday” as an alternative to “Black Friday,” the busiest shopping day of the year, when hordes of deal-seekers rise at the asscrack to trample each other for large-screen televisions, game systems and other crap they couldn’t possibly survive without. But while your…
Sunday morning dawned early, but not bright, in my house. You know how people say cheap beer gives you a bad hangover? Well, expensive beer does too, if you drink enough of it. I have the Anvil Pub to blame for its enticing and extensive selection, but only myself to…
A large-scale vandalization job at South Dallas’s CorinthPark warehouse-workspace will be turned into an gallery exhibition in the Cedars tomorrow during the Cedars Open Studios Eighth Annual Studio Tour. Thousands of dollars worth of damage was done over a period of days last month by a “jealous” and “insecure” person…
Since it opened one week ago today, there’s hardly been a moment when the Anvil Pub’s “OPEN” sign wasn’t on that I didn’t pass by and see the place brimming ever fuller with enthusiastic patrons overjoyed to have a proper pub in Deep Ellum. Opening up on a strip of…
Dallas has long been one of the most woefully ill-equipped large cities in the United States when it comes to dealing with sexual assault. Until recently, only Parkland Hospital was authorized to conduct rape kits for submission into evidence, and there was no free-standing rape crisis center that victims could…
Joking happily about how he’s already told you to pull up your pants and quit the K2, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway hosted a press conference this afternoon in the Flag Room at City Hall to get all up in your personal business some more with his “Quit Smoking Dallas!”…
Trying to suss out ownership based on the many incarnations of the name of Pepe’s & Mito’s Mexican Cafe online, on menus, and on the restaurant itself, is a copy editor’s nightmare–is it Pepe’s and Mito’s? Pepes Y Mito’s? Pepe and Mito’s? To whom can we address our letters of…
