The two-day Earth Day Dallas celebration kicked off in the Arts District at 10 this morning, and right from the start it was absolutely packed — thanks to the Trammell S. Crow-sponsored event planners, who footed the bill to bring in 200 busloads of kids from all over the Dallas…
Most of the time, when an artist tells you his work is “about light,” what he really means is that he’s too busy to deal with your stupid questions, and maybe you should try figuring things out for yourself for a change. Not at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary this week,…
The scary letters started coming for Alex last fall, at his childhood home on a quiet suburban street about an hour north of San Francisco. He’d been sued in federal court, the letters said—in Dallas, of all places—for illegally sharing a pornographic film on a website called gay-torrents.net. Just a…
Welcome back to City Hall, where the council’s settling back into their seats in the briefing room after a much-needed break for lunch. Word was that the council was going to treat us to its gas drilling update in the morning — but after taking an extra-long executive session to…
It’s The Big Day today for gas drilling activists here at City Hall, and as Robert mentioned yesterday, the environmentalist set kicked off the party by joining up with the local NAACP chapter to take a tougher look at gas drilling and compressed natural gas. The “historic alliance” makes a…
While package stores keep on feeling the “significant impact” of the election that opened up beer and wine sales citywide, lawyers for the city are one step closer to beating back that legal challenge over the petitions that got the issue on the ballot back in November. Today at the…
At long last, the Dallas City Council’s set to tackle the subject: What to do about allowing natural-gas drilling on city property. According to a presentation prepared by city staff for Wednesday’s briefing, the council can choose from one of the following options: form a task force, hire a consultant…
After the comments began streaming in on yesterday’s preview of the public art proposals for the Ross Avenue Underpass, there was no way we’d miss a chance to hear direct from the artists about, well, what exactly they were thinking.Two general thoughts on the artists’ live proposals: For one, all…
Last night at Victory Plaza, Major League Eating finally made good on its promise to bring the country’s top eating talent to Dallas for a wing-eating contest, months after Snowpocalypse 2011 scrapped the original Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship planned just ahead of the Super Bowl.Just before the final Mavericks home…
Lester Tucker wasn’t supposed to be up there last weekend, speed-swallowing whole pickled quail eggs before a for a crowd of hollering fans. The 57-year-old Tucker had a foot of intestine removed just months ago, spent more than two weeks in the hospital, and his family pleaded with him that…
Today marks the middle of SMU’s Engineering & Humanity Week, where, as Robert already told you, students are field-testing some the latest in emergency shelter technology, cooking their meals outside and carrying their own water in an operation called the Living Village. I dropped by this morning, where a few…
If police have any new leads in that statewide run of Dr Pepper truck thefts, they’re not saying much — days of phone messages left with Fort Worth PD spokesmen and detectives have gone unanswered. (As if they’ve got more important things to do.)I was, however, able to reach Sherman…
A crowd of Deep Ellum residents and business owners got a look at City Hall’s latest plans for turning one-way Elm and Commerce Streets into models of walkability during a two-hour PowerPoint-n-panel-talk at Life In Deep Ellum last night. Pamè La Ashford from the City Manager’s office spent much of…
Under a tent along Bexar Street in South Dallas this morning, city officials treated a crowd of more than 100 to an enthusiastic display of back-slapping and upbeat progress reports for the neighborhood revitalization underway around them. Surrounded by blocks of mixed-use construction and new brick townhomes, Mayor Dwaine Caraway…
A trio of truck thefts from Dr Pepper distributors around Texas in the last few months have all ended the same way — with the trucks abandoned just hours after they were stolen, somewhere between Dallas and Fort Worth, with loads of beverage gone missing. In early February, according to…
When Florida pastor Terry Jones finally made good on the threat he’d been toying with in the press for months, to burn a Quran in his church, it set off days of deadly protests in Afghanistan. And while U.S. military officials and lawmakers work to undo the damage he caused,…
Maybe you’ve heard, but chess is serious business at UT Dallas. Perennial contenders for the national championship, the Comets are one of three Texas teams that always put on a mean show — and unless you’re some kind of Aggie, last weekend’s Final Four of Chess was your best bet…
If the city’s shutting down another hookers-n-drugs party shack around town, you can bet Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s going to be there for the photo op, and so it was this morning at the Luxury Inn Motel in Southeast Dallas. Backed by a posse including neighborhood leaders, council members, City Attorney…
With all the planet’s dwindling forests, contaminated waters and changing climate, it might take a 2012-themed recycling rally to scare new people into recycling more. But with Earth Day coming up, the city went with a “1960’s style Rally for Recycling” today at the Whole Foods in Lakewood — an…
Every eating contest is brutal in the end, but some sound harmless enough right up until you’re in the thick of the competition. How bad, for instance, could a few sandwiches hurt? Turns out, plenty. But sometimes there’s a contest — and I’m talking about Grand Prairie’s annual World Championship…
A lengthy federal suit filed this morning by the national advocacy group Children’s Rights says Gov. Rick Perry and other state officials have neglected their legal responsibility to the children in state care, and violated their constitutional rights, by “failing to either return them safely to their families or find…
Late last year, you may recall the excitement surrounding the Christian TV mega-network Daystar, whose co-founder Marcus Lamb announced on the air that he’d had an affair with one of his employees. Three ex-employees, he said, were trying to extort $7.5 million from Lamb and his wife Joni, threatening to…
