Art Conspiracy, that annual ode to Dallas’ ground-level art scene, has put out the call for beneficiaries for its 9th annual charity event. If you’re involved in arts education in Dallas, you’ve got until one minute before midnight on April 1 to get in an application. So hop to it…
State Senator Dan Patrick, R-Houston, took to his Facebook page on Sunday to defend his proposed legislation to alter the core curriculum requirements of Texas and American history at public colleges and universities. (h/t Texas Tribune) SB 1128 would make history courses on “singular topics,” like race, gender and class,…
Ayana Hampton, the “Kayne of Cabaret,” has a lot of zingers: For breakfast I had birth control. For lunch I had happy hour. And for dinner I usually get laid. How do you expect me to work when there is so much werk to do? If you love something let…
This week, Dallas ISD’s Ross Avenue headquarters was hit with a flurry of teacher resignations, with 279 rank-and-file educators telling the district they were calling it quits. This minor exodus had nothing to do with teachers’ well-known frustration with Superintendent Mike Miles. This was policy. Yesterday was the cutoff for…
The District Attorney’s office very excitedly announced today that a federal judge found no merit in Al Hill III’s allegations of misconduct against Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins. The allegations stem from a dispute Hill had concerning legal fees he owed his former attorney Lisa Blue, a prominent Dallas lawyer…
It’s hard being an American Idol contestant. It’s hard enough to perform for judges, with an audience behind them, and an even bigger one unseen that’s analyzing every gesture and head nod. It’s hard knowing you’re performing on a show that’s almost old enough to be a teenager, which is…
This is day one of the Battle of Texas, which is mostly marked by a website launch. Battleground Texas, the Democratic Party’s efforts to shake the GOP hold on the state, officially starts today. The site comes with a nifty graphic showing a red Texas filling up with blue (it’s…
It’s an impressive feat to show up in The New Yorker as a freshman Congressman, and kudos to Senator Ted Cruz for pulling it off. Cruz has been facing widespread criticism for, among other things, his aggressive questioning of Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for Defense Secretary. Jane Mayer joined…
An appeals committee at City Hall on Thursday upheld Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s decision to fire a 911 call-taker over her mishandling of a call last August. Angelia Herrod-Graham answered the 911 call from the mother of Deanna Cook, saying she hadn’t seen her daughter in two days and…
This weekend, SMU plays host to something called the North East Texas Humor Research Conference, pithily titled “Humor in the Professions, Psychology, Philology: Intercultural perspectives.” The conference is co-hosted by SMU and Texas A&M-Commerce, and features sessions like “Crowdsourcing Cartooning,” “Neuroscience of Humor” and “Evaluative Formulas Behind Psychology Jokes.” Sounds…
The House State Affairs Committee was scheduled today to consider Rep. Dan Flynn’s proposal to ban “religious or cultural law” from Texas courts. Rep. Flynn apparently withdrew his proposal, HJR 43, from committee consideration at the last second, but it’s still worth a look. As the Texas Freedom Network reports,…
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow is scheduled to speak at First Baptist Dallas at 9:15 a.m. on April 28. Tebow is very open about the role religion plays in his life (good for him), and First Baptist Dallas Reverend Robert Jeffress is also very open about his beliefs, like…
A hearing to determine if Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins committed prosecutorial misconduct was postponed today after Watkins refused to appear in court. The allegations were brought by attorneys of Al Hill III, who was charged with mortgage fraud by the DA’s office shortly before a legal dispute with…
Governor Rick Perry is in California this week as part of his campaign to lure businesses to Texas, attempting to finish in person what his radio ads started. In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News Perry said that California Governor Jerry Brown’s comments that Perry’s radio ad was…
Last week a jury found 68-year-old Jackie Don Burke guilty of one count of unlicensed sale of firearms. According to Burke’s own records he sold 135 firearms in 14 months, because if you’re gonna do it then why not do it big? One of those firearms was a pistol the…
A hacker using the handle “Guccifer” hacked the email accounts of several members of the Bush family, including the AOL account of Dorothy Bush Koch, Bush 43’s sister. Among the leaked information are a lot of home numbers and addresses for Bush family members and their kids, and two pictures…
So here’s what happened. Dallas-based SCA Promotions, a sports insurer, paid Lance Armstrong a $12 million bonus for winning three Tour de France titles between 2002 and 2004. Tailwind Sports, which owned the U.S. Postal Service (Armstrong’s) team, gave SCA Promotions $200,000 as insurance for the bonus. If Armstrong didn’t…
On February 4 a 30-second radio ad featuring none other than Governor Rick Perry started its week-long run in six California cities. The ad features the governor’s voice tempting the state’s businesses to relocate to Texas: “Building a business is tough, but I hear building a business in California is…
Texas Values, an organization whose goal is to “preserve and advance a culture of family values,” has issued an open letter to the Boy Scouts of America with their thoughts on lifting the ban on gay scouts. They’re against it. “While adopting this ill-considered and wrongly devised policy might earn…
