The state Legislature addressed Texas’s baby-mama drama this session when, on May 12, Governor Rick Perry signed a bill that immediately relieves men determined not to be the biological father of a child from being required to pay child support. The bill passed unanimously through both the House and Senate.Previously,…
Randy Blair spent about $5,000 more to bedeck his car in glass than on the $15,000 car itself. “I was trying to make something that’s as pretty as my wife, but I’m still not there,” he told people admiring his art car, a four-year work in progress. He and his…
Yesterday, at 4 p.m. sharp, men wearing weight belts and camouflage pants lined up next to young families pushing baby strollers as nearly 400 people bearing backpacks, weights, logs and photos of loved ones set out along the 9.3 mile loop around the White Rock Lake. It was the kick-off…
Old trailers fill the lot in front of Gary Buckner’s West Dallas workshop. Two are almost completely gutted and ready for refurbishing, and one silver Airstream is nearly ready for the move-in of a fairly unlikely tenant. In less than two months, this trailer will be home to an insurance…
The Wisby-Smith Fine Art exhibit of Salvador Dali’s etchings propels viewers into a fairy tale; some pieces are symbolic, some a little twisted, others simply fun, but the collection bears a thrilling levity that is, to put it simply, a pleasure. The etchings of the famous eccentric surrealist artist result…
Photos by Leslie Minora Adrienne Ressler, eating disorder and body image specialist, talks to the crowd about Jewish culture and eating disorders. Potato knishes, challah bread, rugulah pastries — face it, Jewish people have some tempting food options. And with weekly Shabbat and tons of food-filled holidays, not…
The title of Juergen Teller’s Dallas Contemporary exhibit, Man with Banana, sounds like a tongue-in-cheek inside joke — you get it, sort of, but not really. A mix of Teller’s personal photos and advertising photos, interchangeably displayed and impossible to distinguish, carries that same insider feel and punctuates it with…
Yesterday, we sneak-peeked a couple of the big-ticket items on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda. Question is: How’d they sit with council members? First up, let’s visit that Belleview Connector, the estimated $9.5- to $11-million hike-n-bike bridge described by HALFF Associates designer Francois de Kock this morning as…
Over the weekend, media folk were invited to ride around in Dallas Police cars with officers of the Southwest Patrol Division in Oak Cliff to witness a summer crime-curbing program called Operation Heat Wave. It’s designed to improve police-citizen relations in the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where, at the behest…
Not surprisingly, all four of Dallas’s mayoral candidates have Facebook fan pages, some (David Kunkle) more active than others (Edward Okpa). But what, if anything, do Facebook numbers mean? Are they indicators of electoral momentum or of quick-thumbed interns? A Chicago-based social media guru says Facebook numbers, when viewed in…
The Texas Theatre began screening the Dallas TV series at the end of March, but this week, the new-found tradition ended abruptly — with a voicemail, two faxes, and two emails from Warner Bros. ordering theater employees to “cease and desist” the screenings because of copyright laws. The Texas Theatre…
Last night’s screening of Restrepo at the Texas Theatre and the accompanying photography exhibit at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center lead the audience through a close examination of poignantly heartbreaking global realities. From the soldiers in combat in Restrepo to the dust-coated survivors of the September 11th attacks in a…
This morning, Johnny Pinchback sat in the Dallas County Jail, awaiting yet another stop in court. This afternoon, he will be at a steakhouse, celebrating with his family, friends and fellow exonerees. After 27 years behind bars for an aggravated sexual assault he did not commit, Pinchback, dressed in a…
An oddly interesting scene unfolded on Inwood Road earlier today: NBA legend Bob Lanier and Key Coker, Executive Vice President of BBVA Compass Bank, chatting about banking globalization, financial diversification and the tightening of government regulations as they painted the walls of a Thomas J. Rusk Middle School classroom.Lanier was…
Tim Hetherington, the photojournalist and documentarian killed in Libya on April 20, was scheduled to speak at tomorrow’s Oak Cliff Texas Theatre screening of his Oscar-nominated Afghanistan war documentary, Restrepo. Following the tragic and untimely death of the photographer who risked his life to bring all aspects of conflict to…
Former First Lady Laura Bush announced this morning that her foundation, which has provided more than $14 million in grants intended to fill school libraries with more and better books, is dispersing more than a million dollars to some 241 schools this year. Bush made the announcement at Jack Lowe…
Tim Hetherington, the photojournalist and documentarian who was killed in Libya on April 20th, was scheduled to speak at tomorrow’s Oak Cliff Texas Theatre screening of his Oscar-nominated Afghanistan war documentary, Restrepo. Following the tragic and untimely death of the photographer who literally risked his life to bring all aspects…
The state Senate Committee on Health and Human Services voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would renew the Women’s Health Program, a Medicaid-funded program that provides basic women’s health care. It was set to expire this year unless the Lege took action, but now that it has the…
The marble-and-concrete building at 508 Park Avenue, once the Warner Bros. Film Exchange and Brunswick Records’s regional office, will get a much needed face lift after all, now that the Landmark Commission unanimously approved First Presbyterian Church’s plans for that address and the property next door at 1900 Young Street.”We…
