Look who’s got some brand spankin’ new shoes. Like the rest of us, the Deep Ellum “Traveling Man” sculpture’s been a little chilly this week. And being made of metal, can you imagine how much worse that must be? Finally, someone took pity on his big robot feet and sized…
About 100 Iraqi men gathered at the Imam Ali Islamic Center in Grand Prairie yesterday. Some crowded beneath a big white party tent, grilling meat and eating, or relaxed inside the mosque; others were inside the big blue Carter BloodCare van, doing what they’d all come to do — give…
Socioeconomically speaking, Dallas has a pretty damn diverse food scene. The Big D is chock-full of $1 taco stands (if you’re of the financial status to seek them rather than pass with blinders), $2 slightly fancier tacos found at many bars (LaGrange’s are tasty), barbecue shacks out the wazoo (hey,…
Sylvan Thirty, the planned mixed-use development for Fort Worth Avenue in West Dallas, has received more attention than any development project in recent memory — especially given the fact it’s nothing but a barren patch of land where once sat at motor hotel. The $47-million project, still closer to concept…
Injection wells, like most aspects of gas drilling, elicit conflicting opinions, contradictory data and the frequent, familiar demand: “Not in my backyard!”. While the wells used for the disposal of produced fracking water are not currently allowed within Dallas city limits, the issue prompted a particularly lengthy debate at yesterday’s…
According to a New York Times piece published earlier this week, the population behind bars has more than doubled in the past 15 years. Best guess at present: 2.3 million Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving in the clink. And Robert Morris, a criminology professor at University of Texas at Dallas, wants…
After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, Johnny Calvin Brewer was listening to the radio while working behind the cash register at Hardy’s Shoe Store on West Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. At around 1:15 p.m., the radio broadcaster announced that another gunshot had been…
The most recent Dallas gas drilling task force meeting ended with mutterings of how to speed up the process of drafting drilling ordinance recommendations. Several task force members voiced concerns that they were crawling toward the finish line — even after the task force’s schedule for deliberation was extended by…
Each week, we move a little closer to the best episodes of Top Chef, the ones where you know the characters’ styles, tastes, personalities and Achilles’ heels. This week, the third episode of the season and the first single-elimination episode, tugged, however lightly, at viewers’ heartstrings — it’s official, we’re…
A little past 11 last night, one of the protesters camped out behind Dallas City Hall was walking from tent to tent, shouting: “Anybody in there? Anybody in there?” From one emerged a groggy, irritated “What?” He was told: “You gotta go, you gotta go. Police are coming.” And they…
This morning marked a turning point in the local approach to homeless care. Mayor Mike Rawlings, city and county officials and leaders of local non-profits took turns at the podium in the Flag Room at City Hall in an introduction to the Greater Dallas Homeless Policy Alliance, a public-private partnership…
This morning, U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle denied the request by Occupy Dallas for a temporary restraining order that would have prevented City Hall from evicting the Occupiers based on specific sections of the October agreement. Occupy Dallas Attorney Jonathan Winocour repeatedly called portions of the arrangement with the city…
Right now we were supposed to be at the Earle Cabell for a federal hearing over Occupy Dallas’s camp-out behind Dallas City Hall. Alas, that was not meant to be: Friday’s agreement, which said the Occupiers could occupy City Hall’s bathrooms and kept the city from making good on its…
On Saturday night, the inside perimeter of a sweeping gray West Dallas warehouse building at 511 West Commerce Street was temporary tiled with rows of square works of art — all the same size (18×18 inch square boards) and all created locally, but each incredibly unique, from a colorful woman…
This afternoon, U.S. District Judge David Godbey helped City Hall and Occupy Dallas come to a verbal agreement that protestors can not only keep camping outside City Hall, but can also use City Hall restrooms and keep their current signage — two issues disputed in the lawsuit seeking a temporary…
The property rights law of adverse possession is normally a dry topic, a chapter covered in law school to be forgotten immediately after final exams. This will not be the case for about 100 SMU law students who attended a Wednesday evening lecture by Ken Robinson, the Flower Mound man…
Last week, during an oil-and-gas drilling confab at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, execs turned their attention to a very touchy subject: how to get folks decidedly against gas drilling on their side. At which point, according to audio first obtained by CNBC earlier this week, gas-drilling spokesmen offered some…
Last night’s episode of Top Chef: Texas should have come with a five-minute bonus Colicchio-lead meditation at the end — it was INTENSE. I get it, the show’s in Texas where everything’s bigger, and hence this season includes about a million (or 29) contestants, but these first couple episodes (see…
Relax for a moment and imagine a place where women’s curly locks bounce on their shoulders like perfectly spiraled ribbons atop beautifully wrapped presents. A mother-daughter outing means a trip to the plastic surgeon. On an average date, a high-heeled twentysomething might find herself riding a privately reserved McKinney Avenue…
The city council-appointed gas drilling task force stopped listening to The Experts yesterday and got down to the business of discussing just what it’ll suggest the council do about the business of fracking. And for its first recommendation, the task force decided … the city should keep on doing what…
At yesterday’s Dallas ISD board meeting, trustee Mike Morath had a fairly novel idea regarding the school calendar. Long story short, he said: Let’s consider testing the merits of a radical school calendar change that would include more than 200 days of instruction. And, he told his fellow trustees, let’s…
As a free man for the first time in 14 years, Dale Duke tightly embraced his tearful mother. His every move followed by a swarm of cameras, the wrongfully imprisoned man, now 60, exited the packed courtroom of District Judge Susan Hawk with his parents, lawyer and supporters from his…
