First there was the jewelry heist; then, the safe boost. Now, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we’re inside the Home Depot on N. Central Expressway and Forest Lane — from which the man seen in the photo here, and in the video on the other side, schleps “two armloads of…
About a month ago, Patrick Michels sat in on the planning session for Deep Ellum’s attempt to build a Better Block, a la Oak Cliff’s two experiments with taking back the streets. Today, organizer Brandon Castillo sends more details — as in, when and where. Castillo had hoped to stage…
Since last we posted a little taste of Ron Howard’s 1978 made-for-TV Cotton Candy, a few clips have found their way to the YouTube. Like the Battle of the Bands at top — if nothing else, it’s 11 minutes spent inside a Town East Mall that don’t like that no…
Yes, yes, yes, I’ve seen it — Forbes has named Plano “America’s Safest City,” based upon a low-low-low violent crime rate and a relatively low number of killer car crashes. Thanks to the many Friends who’ve sent the piece, which says money matters — so too homogeneity. Which is nice…
I finally watched Friday’s Good Guys last night, and the missus was not pleased. “Still?” she said. “Really?” Civic pride, I guess. I shrugged. She rolled her eyes and went to watch Jets-Vikings in another room. Far as you know. Anyway. There was one upshot to fast-forwarding through the ep…
While we’re on the subject, perhaps some required reading?On Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will take a closer look at a proposed policy: “Freedom from Bullying.” District officials say this morning it was an idea proposed, separately, by trustees Edwin Flores and Bernadette Nutall; Flores tells…
inside the former LTV Tower as it crawls toward a rebirth as The Grand Ricchi’Bout a month back we got a sneak peek at the Grand Ricchi, Leobardo Trevino’s planned hotel-slash-“office condo” slated to move into the former LTV Tower. When all’s said and done, Trevino’s supposed to spend somewhere…
That, in short, is a summary of a study conducted by University of Michigan psychologists Nansook Park and Christopher Peterson, which appeared in the September issue of American Psychologist and is making the rounds this week via this Infrastructurist item. Long story short: Peterson and Park asked, via the Internet,…
George Gillett, left, and Tom HicksIt’s déjà vu all over again this morning in the U.K.: On the one side of the courtroom are attorneys repping the creditors trying to force the sale of a sports team owned by Tom Hicks; on the other side are Hicks’s attorneys. So perhaps…
One of these men ain’t coming back next season.Me, I’m all set for the Texas Rangers to exit the post-season tomorrow — heartbreak and frustration and despair are prerequisites for being a lifelong fan of a franchise yet to sniff a post-season series win. So, then, I consider this release…
Photos by Danny FulgencioOn the other side is Danny Fulgencio’s recap from a Saturday evening spent, yet again, at Stonebriar Centre in Frisco — this time, with recent Entertainment Weekly co-cover boy Ian Somerhalder, star of The Vampire Diaries. (So I’m told.) Me, I liked him just fine in The…
There, on the High Court of Justice Chancery Division’s to-do list tomorrow, is one of two U.K. cases in which locals will keep a close eye: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC v Hicks & Others. As in: Tom Hicks, from whom the Royal Bank of Scotland wants the money owed…
The city’s spending a small fortune fending off Leanne Siri, Helen Watts and others’ long-simmering allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination within Dallas Fire-Rescue. But it didn’t take long for City Hall to settle with two other women who stepped forward with their own lawsuit only last month.No doubt you…
Sam MertenTo be honest, I’d kinda forgotten all about Dallas County District Attorney candidate Danny Clancy’s boosted wheels — that was only Thursday? Guess I’m the only one. Not sure we’ll make it to down to Dallas County Democratic Party HQ this morning, where chair Darlene Ewing’s scheduled to address…
Where to begin, where to begin as we sneak peek the council’s week ahead? Perhaps at Jim’s favorite destination — the shores of the Trinity River. Tomorrow’s meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee looks to be the most interesting in a long while, as the council starts adding…
Photos by Danny FulgencioFormer prisoners of war at Oflag 64 in front of the wall of the dead at the Dallas Holocaust Museum”Uplifting stuff.”So notes our very own Danny Fulgencio after his visit Friday afternoon to the Dallas Holocaust Museum in the West End, where former American prisoners of war…
Flickr photo: Jeff TurnerThree months back, you may recall, attorney-turned-acclaimed writer Ben Fountain took a long, hard look at the increasingly empty Highland Park Village parking lot and wondered why come for The New York Times. It was the first installment in a slow-going, ongoing series of bad-economy close-ups to…
There’s no need imagining the scene — a show videotaped in Houston, at the Summit, on Halloween ’76 gives you some idea of the spectacle George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, the late Gary Shider and the rest of the Mothership Connection took on the road…
On the other side is the final dispatch from Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, who’s among the traveling party wrapping up that trade mission to Spain and France. The quote in the headline comes from the release that follows, in which Leppert says the Euros are ready…
A couple of days back, courtesy the Dallas Police Department, we watched five men boost $40,000 worth of jewels from a Stemmons Expressway wholesaler. Today, against thanks to a DPD-provided video, we’re offered this look at three men ripping the office door out of the Malones Cost Plus on 3939…
Just found this on eBay — an old postcard going for 99 cents sent from the HQ of the company that would eventually become Trinity Industries. A real steel. (Heh.)…
Photos by Nick DeWolfA few months back we took a look at the snapshots the late, great Nick DeWolf took during the Teradyne co-founder’s visit to the State Fair of Texas back in ’77. Seeing as how this is the most wonderful time of the year, I went back to…
