You’ll be reading plenty in the next few days about a certain other film festival coming up in town — but for all you high-minded cinephiles who just can’t wait, good news: Thursday night at the Texas Theatre, the Found Footage Festival’s back for its third stop in Dallas, with…
Dallas County Commissioner Clay Jenkins rounded up reporters this morning to help spread the good word about the county’s plan to help owners get reunited with cars impounded at Dowdy Ferry Auto Services. The county had an auction planned this week for the 1,400 cars still sitting in the lot,…
Maybe you noticed Elizabeth’s post about the Observer-sponsored eating contest at Jersey Mike’s last night. As many of you noted in the comments, that topless photo of Jack Nicholson was pretty hard to miss. As promised, a few of us here at City of Ate — this highfalutin’ James Beard Award finalist…
Last night, Robert teased us all with the news that Lynn Moak, from Dallas ISD’s lobbyist-consultant group Moak Casey & Associates, would be taking a seat before trustees this afternoon with an update from Austin on the Legislature’s attempts to finesse away the state’s budget shortfall. Earlier estimates, you’ll recall,…
Marisol Valles became an instant media star last October, when she took over as police chief of Práxedis G. Guerrero, a town near Juarez. She was just 20 years old, a criminology student and a mother, and the job she was taking only opened up when her predecessor was beheaded…
With this year’s Dallas Art Fair just a couple weeks away, downtown’s Neiman Marcus flagship store is once again getting into the spirit — which is why, just after noon Tuesday, Houston artist-hoarder Bill Davenport was packed into a window box along Main Street, hanging thrift store paintings on the…
Over the years he lived in the Oak Lawn area, Mike Walker recalls the Turtle Creek Association’s annual Easter in the Park as an outdoor occasion for everybody and their dogs, a big event around both the Turtle Creek neighborhood and in the gay and lesbian community. “The fact that…
This week the Paper Version of Unfair Park’s cover is a profile of Al Armendariz, who took a leave from his gig as a Southern Methodist University engineering professor to run the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Dallas, stepping right into a simmering fight between the agency and Rick…
With two years of construction and exhibit-building left before it opens its doors in Victory Park, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science got topped off this afternoon, with a ceremonial beam signed by Margot and H. Ross Perot and their sons and daughters who donated $50 million to the…
This here is Justin Wagoner. Maybe you’ve read his name this week in The News. Maybe you the name mentioned in HuffPo: “Justin Wagoner Reportedly Forms First iPad 2 Line In Texas.” Or on FrontBurner, “Apple-loving Justin Wagoner.” Justin Wagoner. Justin Wagoner. Justin Wagoner. Wagoner’s been camped outside Apple’s temporary…
There’s a mob of environmentalists in the middle of the room before lunch, and it’s not for the vegan seaweed salad. It’s a cool Friday in February, just minutes before this year’s State of the Air conference, hosted by the clean-air advocate Air Alliance Houston, in a community center in…
With a crowd of DART execs, reporters and folks who’d apparently misplaced their cars looking on at downtown’s Akard Station, the Kinkisharyo ameriTRAM streetcar made its first arrival a little after 11:30 this morning, just a hair behind schedule. The first of two audition runs through downtown carried VIPs, including…
You may have heard Il Cane Rosso finally found a bricks-and-mortar home in the warm bosom of Deep Ellum, in the welcoming shadow of the Central Expressway overpass. Two trips in the last week haven’t gotten me any closer to being the Foursquare mayor (Doyle!), but have given me a…
Fired up over the very real chance that nearly half the teachers at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts could be let go, senior Korey Elizabeth Parker paced the Wyly Theater stage last night, letting the crowd know that in the coming budget battle, she…
Just less than a year ago, The Paper Version of Unfair Park recounted the story of Michael Manos, an ex-con from Poughkeepsie who jumped parole and started a series of more glamorous new lives, under a series of unlikely assumed names, from Houston to Atlanta to, eventually, Dallas, running all…
Editor’s note: Skip to the jump to see an update to this post.A pair of former waitresses at Randy White’s Hall of Fame Barbecue detail their months spent in the “sexually hostile work environment” of the local chain’s Mesquite location in a suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in…
Some 200 pro-choice demonstrators — some college-age, others old enough to recall protesting for abortion rights before Roe v. Wade — turned out for Saturday’s Walk for Choice in downtown Dallas, one of a few dozen in cities around the world meant to drum up support for Title X funding…
Welcome to City Hall, where nothing seems to have changed too drastically since Mayor Dwaine Caraway took the reins over the weekend. Any doubts you might have had should be assuaged by item number one on this afternoon’s agenda at the Transportation and Environment Committee briefing, where, as Robert told…
Tomorrow at noon, pro-choicers from around Dallas will be meeting up at JFK Memorial Plaza and moseying through downtown for a “Walk for Choice” protest, against a run on bills around the country aimed at slashing funding for women’s health providers and limiting access to abortions.The Dallas event is one…
The Woodall Rogers Deck Park Foundation’s still $17 million shy of its fund-raising target, but with construction well under way, the series of major donations announced today was a fine chance for Mayor-For-One-More-Day Tom Leppert to take one last photo op beside a group of kids and wax dreamy on…
Potted palms and wildflowers flanked the podium at the Ann Richards Middle School construction site this morning, where Dallas Independent School District officials talked about the energy efficiency, sustainable landscape, an exterior sundial that will make the school a landmark of green design. Of course, that’s not the kind of…
For most of the crowd gathered there Sunday afternoon, the birthday bash at Spiral Diner was about celebrating three years of vegan eating in the always-friendly Oak Cliff spin-off, but for Mario Sanchez it was about something else entirely: “Retribution.” That was the word on Sanchez’s lips moments after he…
