Dallas Police officers don’t often find themselves coaxing people off a rooftop ledge, but Tuesday afternoon at the InterContinental Hotel, a few of the lucky VIPs needed a little pep talk before taking the plunge. They were well strapped in and harnessed, of course, and it was all part of…
This weekend they’re laying the first of the concrete beams over Woodall Rodgers Freeway for the deck-park-to-be, including the Ceremonial First Beam pictured above, which served as a centerpiece for a wet ‘n’ wild celebratory picnic Saturday afternoon. With 15 more trucks waiting just down the access road with the…
Speaking of the Bush Institute …Its new director for education reform, Kerri Briggs, has been on the job for about two weeks now, after abruptly leaving her old job as D.C.’s state superintendent of education — jumping ship from lame-duck mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration almost a month before school chancellor…
[Update at 6:45: To spare you the trouble of reading all the way through, here’s the news. With a 7-6 vote, the commission denied XTO Energy’s application for an SUP to drill at Hensely Field. XTO can now appeal that decision to the City Council, which will, you have to…
It’s been a long time coming, but it finally happened today — right there, second on today’s consent agenda for the Texas DPS’s Public Safety Commission: “Discussion and possible action to recognize Chuck and Aaron Norris as Honorary Texas Rangers.” The Texas Tribune’s Brandi Grissom spread the word on Twitter,…
A handful of Dallas Independent School District gatheredn the old board room at 3700 Ross this morning to poke at a question with big implications: How can the district get the most of its new partnerships charter schools, possibly even next school year? Born out of April’s West Dallas “School…
If you woke up this morning respecting your local news broadcasters a little too much, well, witness the healing power of the KDFW-produced video after the jump. Since it hit the station’s Facebook page yesterday morning, it’s been drawing raves from ROFL’ing commenters, but if, like us, you missed last…
Just under a month ago, we mentioned Denton lawyer Evan Stone’s crusade against illegal porn downloaders, filing hundreds upon hundreds of “John Doe” suits right here in Northern District Court on behalf of adult film producers, against folks identified only by their IP addresses. So long as the judge was…
The Dallas Convention Center was easily the safest place in town this week, as the 56th annual ASIS International seminar had the run of the place, with a showroom full of the latest toys you’d need to spy on the bad guys, liberate the good guys and zap anyone else…
All the Idea Week fun that kicked off with a little “speed ideating” downtown on Monday (maybe next year we’ll finally get that speed eating session) rolled along this morning with the second annual bike ride to City Hall, showcasing the latest draft of the Dallas Bike Plan, and spotlighting…
Just up the street from Robert’s encampment out at the George Allen Courts Building, The Good Guys crew was wrapping up shooting the second half of its first season with a series of big explosions — like this here, pictured above. Not shown here are Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks,…
Two minutes in and you begin to realize this much: With each extra chew, every labored swallow, with every passing second, you’re losing. To your right, they’re eating much faster than you are. They are shoveling the food in hand over hand, and so are you, or at least trying…
Between the “Music and Media” and “Travel” sections at Borders’ Lovers Lane branch last night, the Old 97’s celebrated The Grand Theatre, Volume One’s official release date with a 45-minute set, followed by a signing session for anyone fan enough to buy the new album in the store. The band’s…
The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance’s Mike Faenza and John Castle have been pretty regular faces at City Hall over the past few months, but this afternoon, the city council’s Quality of Life Committee turned the tables and took their show straight to The Bridge.They wrapped their visit with a 10-minute…
Back at the big kick-off lunch for Dallas Justice Revival’s Homes for Our Neighbors campaign, we heard about plans to build a community garden for Cliff Manor residents — an olive branch of sorts between the apartment complex and its neighbors, built in the image of other nearby gardens organized…
As the education policy call-to-arms doc Waiting for Superman has been released across the country, educators and would-be reformers everywhere have been doing the thing you do when a Davis Guggenheim documentary (or a Mel Gibson film in the original Aramaic) comes out: special screenings and post-movie panel talks to…
Nobody at City Hall can seem to hear enough about permanent supportive housing these days, and since the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance’s Mike Faenza just can’t talk it up enough, we’re back at City Hall for another update on how the city’s PSH programs are doing at filling up neighborhoods…
As we mentioned last week, if you’re headed to the fair looking for a corny dog contest this year, you’d better be ready to find your own challengers and drop nine tickets for every dog. This time around, the only organized contest at the fair was Sunday afternoon’s Jimmy John’s…
Just a couple weeks since that really promising new Deep Ellum coffee shop made its explosive exit in the course of a Chase shoot, the empty storefront looked ready to rebound last week, all painted up as a Jewish diner — or maybe even a proper deli, at long last…
It’s tough to know just how to feel about this year’s competitive eating lineup at the State Fair of Texas. On one hand, on this Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m., the main stage is featuring some world-class eating talent, racing to put away sandwiches faster than a team of Jimmy…
Hundreds of art supporters and political types, from Ross Perot to state Rep. Dan Branch, strolled through the AT&T Performing Arts Center this afternoon for a look at the city’s newest outdoor stage at the just-finished Annette Strauss Square. The amphitheater — with a grassy grade leading down to its…
Carla Main says she did everything she could to sit down with Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall while reporting her book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land. She finally got in the same room with him today, though, in a morning hearing over Royall’s defamation…
