Dallas PD just passed along word that former City Councilwoman Sandra Crenshaw was arrested today at about 4:45 p.m. at the downtown library on a theft warrant for a rental car. According to CBS 11, Crenshaw claimed she was having medical issues when officers arrested her and was taken to…
Last month, the Advocate quietly reported on Lincoln Property Co.’s plans for the intersection of Garland Road and Gaston Avenue. Starbucks, Freebird’s and a grocery store all look to be in the cards. Also — and this might rile some certain neighbors — the developer wants to change the name…
Katherine Seale officially ended her five-year tenure as executive director of Preservation Dallas early this year, but she didn’t stop working. Instead, she’s been hanging around as a volunteer until the nonprofit found a new leader. That just happened. The nonprofit announced in a press release today. that David Preziosi,…
Lester Smith was a deputy under Constable Derick Evans until earlier this year when, according to him, he was fired with several others for blowing the whistle on his boss’ illegal activities to the FBI and DA’s office. Smith protested that his termination was straightforward retaliation, and he, like many…
It’s been almost a month since Beau Chandler and Mark “Major” Jiminez walked into the Dallas County Records building to apply for a marriage license. Chandler and Jiminez being men, and this being Texas, they were denied, but the couple had the foresight to bring handcuffs, which they placed on…
Six Flags was a summer ritual when I grew up in North Texas. Getting dropped off by parents as far from the gate as possible, stuffing oneself with overpriced, sticky-sweet funnel cakes, trying to get a basketball through an undersized and slightly lopsided hoop for the plush Looney Toons character…
You remember Craig James, right? The SMU football star-turned ESPN broadcaster-turned stick-pin doll of Red Raiders everywhere? And how he ran for Senate and lost in embarrassing fashion? Well, losing that badly isn’t cheap, and seeing as he doesn’t really have a job at the moment, he’s having trouble paying…
The recent police shooting on Dixon Circle and the circumstances surrounding provided a reminder, if one was needed, that Dallas has large pockets of extremely concentrated poverty. As CitySquare’s Gerald Britt wrote, average income in that particular ZIP code is $8,000 per year and has all the problems one associates…
When you set aside any aesthetic hangups and knee-jerk assumption that any vehicle without an internal combustion engine is a piece of junk, it’s pretty hard to argue that electric cars aren’t a good idea. If we’re are going to drive anyway — and current habits and decades worth of…
Last month, the daughter of Larry Gene McCollum sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. McCollum was serving an 11-month sentence at Hutchins State Jail in Dallas last summer when, after days in a cell where the temperature neared triple digits, he had a seizure. He was taken to the…
Last month, Dallas businessman Joseph Haggar Jr., the founder of the eponymous apparel company and the father, for better or worse, of the term “slacks,” died at 87 of heart disease. One of the many things I learned about Haggar from reading his obituary was that LBJ, onetime leader of…
Some consider Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest cricketer of all time. For others, it’s Sir Donald Bradman. But for my money, none can hold a candle to Sunil Gavaskar. As an opening batsmen, no one came close. There’s a reason he set world records for the most Test runs and…
We knew it already, but Ted Cruz is Texas’ next U.S. Senator. Sure, he still has to face Democrat Paul Sadler in the November general election, but this is Texas, where so long as you promise to cut taxes and put a big ‘R’ somewhere near your name, you’re good…
I’m not, by nature, someone who spends much time worrying. I assume, more or less automatically, that I’m not going to contract that horrible disease, that ominous-looking strangers probably won’t murder me, that there will be time to swerve when that 18-wheeler drifts into my lane. My wife says I…
One time I was talking down the street and I saw Jason Roberts leap a tall curb with a single bound. No joke. He barely broke a sweat under that tweed cap. Then he shot rainbow beams from his eyes that turned all the concrete into an organic garden tended…
A friend of Unfair Park passed along an interesting email exchange between some members of the Gas Drillng Task Force in advance of tomorrow’s throwdown public hearing. Seems that some are none too happy that Councliman Scott Griggs chose task force member Terry Welch to speak in favor of tighter…
Can’t say we didn’t see this coming, but a pair of Dallas voters are alleging that the recently redrawn City Council districts illegally dilutes the Hispanic vote. The city redrew its 14 council districts following the release of the 2010 Census. It adopted the final maps in October. According to…
It didn’t make the marquee for tomorrow’s “Thrilla on Marilla,” but there are a couple of other things the City Council will be briefed on, same day, same place. One of those is a rather dry study, the first since 2006, comparing the pay and benefits of city of Dallas…
You know Combat Zone Corp. as the illustrious production company that brought you such unforgettable cinematic experiences as Bareback Mount Him, These Feet Were Made For Fucking and Chow My Puntang” All of them are motion pictures of the first order, I assure you, but all is not well in…
I suppose it was only a matter of time before Texas politicians, still on a high from their glorious victory over the evil, job-killing dunes sagebrush lizard, turned their attention to similarly insidious threats to our economic well-being. This time, the threat comes from four species of salamander — the…
Update at 11:09 a.m.: Candy Evans, just back from vacation, has more. You can snap up the Leppert homestead for a mere $5.7 mil. Movie theater included. Original post: Tom Leppert, you might have notice, did not do terribly well in his quest for U.S. Senate. He lost. Got trounced,…
Dallas police just sent word that they arrested 46-year-old Enio Cardoso Wissel for alleged indecency with an 8-year-old boy at Julia C Frazier Elementary School. Tawnell Hobbs at the Morning News has more. Wissell was a fine arts teacher with DISD from August 2011 until March 2012, when he was…
