Tucked into Robert’s preview of Oak Cliff’s Better Block sequel was Jason Roberts’s passing mention of a Deep Ellum spin-off slated for September 18 — and while we knew about the I-30 overpass murals kickoff set for the week before that, it was the first we’d heard about any plans…
If you’ve passed the Exxon station at Maple and Oak Lawn Avenue this month, you’ve probably spotted the well-dressed man sitting in a lawn chair, wearing a sign around his neck with one simple question and three burning punctuation marks: “Where is our money???” His name is Muhammet Atayev, and…
On any other night, Meat Loaf’s show at the House of Blues would’ve been your go-to happening for thinly veiled onstage innuendo. Meat’s idea of subtlety has been free-falling from his early sex-as-fiery-explosion and baseball metaphors to the epic line off his latest album that’s also spawned the next great…
You might recall reading last month about the Mesquite couple found dead in their home, in what police suspected was a murder-suicide. Police found Irene Haggerty, 46, beaten to death at the foot of the steps, while her 52-year-old husband Godfrey Spain was found upstairs where he’d hanged himself. Both…
Last week around this time, the Wall Street Journal was telling us about three very private oil and gas companies — two of them based in Dallas — with designs on getting bigger in the gas drilling world. So, to help take their operations up a notch, both Talon Oil…
Some artists go soft in their old age, but at age 62, Marvin Lee Aday isn’t about to serve up the same old leftover Meat Loaf. After spinning a career out of the seven epic piano rockers and sweeping ballads on 1977’s Bat Out of Hell, the Dallas native turned…
As evening falls on southern Mexico, Sarah (not her real name) is shopping at a fruit market a block from her house. It is Friday, and her father, an investigator for the State Judicial Police, is home relaxing on his night off. Wearing blue jeans and an unbuttoned shirt, he…
Jay Jay the Jet Plane sat empty, and the gift shop was all locked up, but it was standing room only inside the Frontiers of Flight Museum’s auditorium last night for the latest in the city’s series of town hall meetings over next year’s budget.This one was hosted by Angela…
Once they hung the posters for this afternoon’s big announcement at City Hall, the suspense was pretty well killed. My money was on a Batman to slash the cost of crime-fighting, but it turns out the hype was over the new Oncor-sponsored Mayor’s Youth Fitness Initiative. As for how this…
[Update: If you can’t make it through all 80-some-odd comments to get to the actual news, here it is: The council eventually voted to open up the bids at Love Field. It wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t pretty. But it’s done.]It’s another Wednesday morning here at City Hall, and love…
The trade show at last weekend’s Europa Super Show Expo was full of vendors hawking everything you need to support a healthy (?) extreme weightlifting lifestyle. From smack-talking T-shirts to stun guns, to the sequined spandex slingshots those judges like so much, it was one-stop shopping at the Dallas Convention…
Not to take anything away from the good people at the GovEnergy federal electricity management trade show, but the biggest thing at the Dallas Convention Center over the weekend was, by far, the smorgasbord of hugeness, the ode to the swoll, the EuropaCon bodybuilding and muscle supplement expo. From the…
With the clock ticking on the Cliff Manor Task Force’s 6 p.m. deadline yesterday, Patrick “Buzz” Williams and I had a chance to sit down with Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance director Mike Faenza, who wanted to offers his perspective on the fight over Cliff Manor that seems to be getting…
As Master o’ Doom John Carmack wrapped his keynote sermon yesterday evening, the old familiar QuakeCon rhythm began drumming back to life, tap-tap-slurp, in the dim and sprawling tournament hall full of home-built gaming towers, beady-eyed gamers lit by their screens and enough snack foods to stock a few 7-Elevens…
As gamers from around the world wheeled their home-tweaked shoot-’em-up-optimized computers into the Hilton Anatole this afternoon, industry maven John Carmack was getting his call to the stage in the hotel’s grand ballroom for his 15th annual QuakeCon keynote at the largest free networked gaming party in the world. It’s…
Ain’t no party like a LAN party, and every August, thousands of gamers from around the world stream into Dallas for the largest one in the world: QuakeCon, billed as “the Woodstock of gaming.” Built around a series of Quake Live tournaments with around $50,000 in prizes–plus a pair of…
The natural gas industry’s slow creep toward Dallas over the Barnett Shale has launched a small army of activists in Fort Worth’s exurbs, from small-town mayors to goat fromagers — a well-organized crew that’s gotten used to running into one another at wild parties like the EPA’s six-hour public comment…
As Sam noted yesterday, the local Republican party shelled out three grand for a proper venue to accommodate the mammoth crowd they expected at their welcoming protest for President Obama. So, miles from the president’s fundraiser, in the thick of the triple-digit late afternoon heat, how was the crowd out…
We can’t all fly with small children or require special assistance at the gate, but for the last few years, thanks to Neville Aga and his website CheckinSooner.com, we’ve been able to bounce to the general boarding zone of our dreams — for the low, low annual price of $79…
For a guy coping with the dismissal of his long-running challenge to the city’s bike helmet law, Paul Woodfield sounded in awfully good spirits this morning when I reached him by phone.Could’ve had something to do with the 160-mile bike ride through Washington State from which he and his wife…
It’s old folks’ night at the skatepark, and the dinosaurs are out. Sporting Vans and board shorts, faded tattoos and thinning hair, they drop into the bowl on loose old boards, one by one in some unspoken order. Each cuts his own certain route around the outdoor bowl, but a…
As mentioned late last month, property owners and vendors around the Dallas Farmers Market have been not-so-subtly courting DPD for a new substation in their neighborhood, and based on this morning’s bimonthly police-hosted meeting, that’s probably where it’ll go — just as soon as someone comes up with the money…
