He set the world tamale-eating record here three years ago, downing 71 in a 12-minute bout on the steps of Lewisville City Hall, and even with a dozen fewer tamales last Saturday, Tim “Eater X” Janus easily out-ate the competition to claim his third tamale title. The discontinuation of the…
The year-old faith network Greater Dallas Justice Revival threw its weight behind the push for more permanent supportive housing around the city at a boxed-lunch get-together at Cliff Temple Baptist Church this morning. “This really is a historic day,” Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance president Mike Faenza told the gathered homeless…
If you’re planning on packing on a few extra pounds of fat and grease this weekend, odds are you’re headed to the state fair. But up in Lewisville Saturday afternoon, a chosen few iron-stomached meat warriors will down more tamales in 12 minutes than some folks will eat in their…
Pair the cultured air of John Malkovich with the preachiness of Sean Penn and the looks of former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill (with some serious dental work), and you’ve got an idea what kind of a dinner companion you’ll have in Garrett Oliver, the craft beer guru and…
Maybe you were shocked to discover that copy of Der Gute Onkel you downloaded wasn’t, in fact, a meditative German cop drama from 1998. Or maybe that feel-good family porn video was exactly what you were looking for. But if you pulled it off a BitTorrent site in the last,…
Not saying I know something you don’t, but: if Dallas gets hit with a bioterrorism attack, and the only vaccine is inside a heavily guarded briefcase at Parkland Hospital, and the only doctor who knows how to make more of it is being held hostage by a gun-wielding maniac –…
As always, we do the YouTube too.It’s been a couple months since we served up a live performance video from out at El Sibil, but the release of lalagray’s Devil’s Nest earlier this month inspired us to get back in the game, if only intermittently for now.Pete’s called the album…
After hearing from the public and discussing the issue at great length last Thursday, the City Plan Commission stopped short of recommending an SUP for XTO Energy to drill for gas at Hensley Field. It would be the first drill site for natural gas in Dallas proper, and while XTO’s…
If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute’s 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we’re gonna do it all again.Next week’s panel discussion, “Four…
We’re down in the big room at City Hall, where the City Plan Commission’s taken over the big boy chairs and taped their nametags over the City Council’s placards. As they wend their way through the less-thrilling zoning issues on the agenda, the smallish crowd in here is waiting patiently…
It was all hands on stage this morning at Jubilee Park, where the new community center’s dedication drew the city’s best and the brightest for an hour of speeches, dancing kids and cookies. Just a block from the new homes along Congo Street, which bcWorkshop celebrated last weekend with a…
For a while there, life was pretty sweet for Ed Molz III. The financial start-up he formed last August was doing great business, and while his office staff fielded calls from investors around the world, he lived the good life, with shopping for sports cars and getting plastic surgery by…
If you had a hard time flagging down a taxi this morning, well, consider that just a taste of what’s to come if independent cabbies don’t get their way fighting the ordinance that lets natural gas-powered taxis jump to the front of the line at Love Field Airport. Hundreds of…
Welcome back to City Hall, where the city council’s Quality of Life Committee is hearing from a blue-ribbon panel of downtown homelessness players, led by MDHA’s Mike Faenza and the city’s Housing/Community Services director Jerry Killingsworth. Up next is the briefing Robert mentioned on the Garland Road Vision Study, but…
Never one to let an unwelcome neighbor move in unannounced, Councilman Dave Neumann invited residents around far west Oak Cliff’s Hensley Field to come on out to the airfield last night and hear direct from XTO Energy reps about their natural gas drilling plans in their neighborhood.The City Plan Commission…
Saturday evening marked a big finish to Ella Garrett’s long, tough summer, with a party full of neighbors and friends outside her new house — the sixth home built by bcWorkshop’s Congo Street Initiative along Jubilee Park’s historic, improbably narrow stretch of road. June was the hardest for Garrett, who…
The P’Zone is reason enough to be seriously suspicious of Pizza Hut’s motives, but the results from survey in The Economic Times of India carried a reminder that the brand we Americans all know as The Hut is the most trusted name in the Indian dining world — and has…
Along with Mayor Tom Leppert and our good friends at Telemundo, we got up early this morning and rode over to the Dallas Convention Center, where the FIFA World Cup Soccer Site Selection Committee stopped by to size up the place. Like a team of mall-walking grandmas, they showed up…
One month since the EPA’s stolid road warriors blew threw Arlington to get your thoughts on pollution from gas drilling, the agency’s making its triumphant return to Dallas today with an all-day public comment session at the Hyatt Regency downtown that kicks off in about an hour. This time ’round,…
Now that Steve Salazar’s run the City Council’s Public Safety Committee out of the briefing room, his Housing Committee is powering through the afternoon in here for a look at the latest on efforts to place homeless folks into permanent supportive housing. With bullet-pointed stats presented in soothing ocean blues,…
As we stroll from the ruins of the Baker Hotel lobby into what’s left of the dining room, Mark Rawlings points his flashlight through a hole in the paster ceiling, lighting an ornate stretch of the original moulding hidden underneath. Back in the ’50s, he tells me, an attempt to…
Local private spaceflight player Armadillo Aerospace has always had a complex relationship with NASA. Like other NewSpace teams, they pretty much define themselves against the glacial pace and dense bureaucracy of government spaceflight — but at least until there’s a real market for space tourism and commercial cargo, NASA’s going…
