At Kirkwood Temple C.M.E. Church last night, 120 or so congregants petitioned an Ecclesiastical Court on behalf of a decidedly earthly cause: that of embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the target of a sweeping FBI probe. Matrons fanned themselves with “A Night of Prayer and Preparation” programs as…
Alamo Drafthouse’s Texas Monthly Rolling Roadshow has been kicking up dust around the Lone Star State for the last month, screening 10 Texas film gems in their locales of conception: Blood Simple in Austin, The Searchers in Groesbeck and No Country For Old Men in Marfa, etc. But the finale…
You probably didn’t know this (I didn’t either), but the annual gathering of Mages and magicians, professional tricksters, practicing misdirectionists and wide-eyed neophytes, has alighted at the Sheraton Hotel. The 83rd Annual Convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians is upon us, folks, so I wandered the yawning, psychedelically carpeted…
As we’ve mentioned before, Dallas has been grappling for some time with how to regulate the city’s nearly 280 group homes, those halfway houses and assisted-living facilities that are protected by federal housing laws. But the operator of 14 North Texas group homes for Alzheimer’s patients isn’t waiting for the…
