By late Thursday, set-up was nearly completed for this weekend’s annual Taste of Dallas Festival in the West End. So be warned: Ross Avenue (past Lamar Street) is already blocked off and will not be reopened until Monday. There are plenty of small parking lots in the area; however, DART…
Kelly Garrett Rathbone has a habit she can’t shake. The faces, heads and creatures that live in the dark corners of her imagination? She sculpts them, again and again. “My sculptures make up my personal cabinet of curiosities,” says the 26-year-old artist, who recently finished an artist residency at the…
Between June and August of 2008, the Dallas Police Department recorded 30 homicides — 17 fewer than in ’07, a stunning 33 fewer than in 2006. Even ABC News took note of the news, particularly the “astonishing low of eight homicides in July.” But last summer’s dip will, most likely,…
More questions than answers remain about the future of Paul Quinn College a week after its president announced the institution’s loss of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Michael Sorrell last Friday explained to gathered students, alumni and reporters that he would be unable to discuss specifics…
For the Fourth of July weekend, the Dallas Police Department is partnering with Dallas Fire-Rescue — they’re going to ride in patrol cars together — to strictly enforce the no-no’s listed above, especially the part about shooting stuff into the air. It’s the first time the two departments have gone…
Welcome to “Watch Your Car Month” — and, no, we’re not referring to this. Not exactly. But this morning at 10 at the Dallas Police Department Auto Pound on Vilbig Street, officials from several local auto-theft task forces will gather ’round stripped and recovered cars — and a working one…
President Michael Sorrell of Paul Quinn College earlier this afternoon addressed a room full of anxious students, alumni and curious reporters regarding news that Paul Quinn College has lost its accreditation. The news broke yesterday after Sorrell received a phone call from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools “to…
Nyjai Hill is dressed like a debutante, but she isn’t in the mood to act like one. Wearing a white dress, a tiara and gloves that reach her elbows, she can no longer ignore the pain in her feet as she balances on teetering heels. When she spots her mother…
The central question posed in this week’s cover story is this: Can teaching rebellious young girls how to become old-school “ladies” save them from a cycle of teen pregnancy and poverty?Teen pregnancy is a riddle in Texas, a state that has the second-highest teen birthrate in the country behind California…
Dallas’s red light cameras came under scrutiny yesterday during a meeting of the city’s Automated Red Light Enforcement Commission, where commissioners wrestled with the concept of spending a lot to make a little. As in: The installation of the 66 cameras in 2007 — and their maintenance since then, not…
Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill’s public corruption case finally heads into an Earle Cabell Federal Building courtroom tomorrow morning, shortly before the Dallas City Council is sworn in at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center one mile away. But tonight, just outside the building on Commerce Street downtown,…
At noon today in Victory Park, a group of enviro-activists dressed for Halloween dropped to the concrete to rather dramatically mark the end of analog television. The switch from analog to digital television was supposed to happen back in February but was delayed when an estimated 6 million U.S. household…
Update: We’ve got more photos from the protest in our slide show.About 65 protesters — and nearly as many members of the local media — showed up at the southwest corner of Preston Road and Royal Lane yesterday at 4:30 to march with Cindy Sheehan to George W. Bush’s house…
Last night, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins pleaded his case against Dallas County-wide budget cuts in the Garland City Council chambers, where a town hall meeting with Dallas County Commissioner Mike Cantrell, held in front of some 300 audience members, devolved into a scene from The Jerry Springer Show…
Do you want to learn to rope a calf cowgirl-style? Cowgirls and ranch women from the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be on hand to tell you how and much more at the Women’s Museum Hold Your Horses free outdoor festival from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. There will also be…
Just a few feet from his hot dog cart, “Uncle Vinny” takes a man’s neck into the bend of his arm and twists him to the ground. Uncle Vinny is breathing heavily, and his teeth are clenched. The man kicks at the ground and taps at the arm tightening around…
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle tells Unfair Park he expects to launch the so-called no-refusal program full-time in September after key legislation passed Sunday that makes obtaining a blood search warrant easier.”That was the hold up,” says Kunkle, who explains that the old law stipulated that only certain judges could…
The Texas Senate yesterday refused to send to Governor Rick Perry a bill that included an amendment that would allow law enforcement officers to draw blood from folks suspected of driving under the influence — otherwise known as the no-refusal initiative for which the Dallas Police Department is pushing. Instead,…
After spending 23 years in a prison cell for a crime he did not commit, Jerry Lee Evans’s first order of business is a Big Mac from McDonald’s. So said the man who, at a little after 2 p.m. today, was welcomed back to the free world by Judge Carter…
Is the difference between a liberal and conservative drinking group as wide as the chasm between their political views? You decide. A group of self-proclaimed liberals met at the Libertine Bar in Lower Greenville on May 13 for the third organized “Drinking Liberally” soiree in as many months. This is…
A word of caution before you head out for the long Memorial Day weekend: It’s also No-Refusal Weekend. Which means? Well, if Dallas police pull suspect you’re drinking and driving, you’ll be stuck with a butterfly needle attached to a vacuum-packed container, and two vials’ worth of your blood will…
The Garland police officer involved in a shooting that left a suicidal 17-year-old boy dead on March 19 is back on duty after an administrative leave and departmental review, according to a department spokesperson. “That review has been done, and he’s been released, and he’s back on the streets,” says…
