At this very moment in a Fort Worth courtroom, all those involved in the bankruptcy and sale proceedings of Your First-Place Texas Rangers are trying to convince Judge Michael Lynn to auction off the team — or not — on August 4. Sam’s there too, and during this lunch break…
A release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office just arrived with the following subject header: “Two Plead Guilty in Pill ‘Smurfing’ Case.” Oh, right. That kind of smurfing. To the feds’ more formal definition: “the unlawful practice of making numerous purchases of over-the-counter medication containing pseudoephedrine so that it can be…
So say creative-classicist Richard Florida and UCLA demographer Gary Gates over on The Daily Beast, where this morning they tout their Gay/Lesbian Index’s metro-area rankings culled from a 2008 U.S. Census Bureau survey. And while Florida notes a handful of caveats that come with crunching the numbers, he also notes…
Perhaps you’ve heard: WFAA-Channel 8 and KRLD-AM reported this morning that a few folks spotted tigers in downtown Dallas last night — two, specifically, near Union Station. Which prompted Dallas police spokesman Senior Corporal Kevin Janse to send the following missive moments ago, accompanied by the subject heading “Bobcat sightings.”Last…
The sad news came yesterday, via a tweet from Ken Stringfellow of The Posies: “Another sad loss for Big Star fans as Andy Hummel passes away after long illness.” Over on DC9, in a morning must-read, our own Jesse Hughey confirms it: Hummel, founding bassist of the band that influenced…
On a whim this morning I visited the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park’s Web site, where I found the video above: a nearly 7-minute-long Quin Mathews-made tribute to Willis Winters, the assistant director of City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department. Winters is far more than just another City Hall bureaucrat…
It was just one month ago that Dallas Police Officer Jeffrey Thorn was arrested for an alleged sexual assault not far from DPD HQ in the Cedars. Today, the department sends word that yet another officer is behind bars: Isac De La Rosa, a 3-year veteran assigned to the Southwest…
Back in early June, Andrea liveblogged a council committee meeting during which there was a brief discussion of paying sanitation workers a “living wage” of $8.88 per hour, which would up residential fees by some 30 cents a billing cycle. From the liveblog: “‘I disagree that $8.88 is a living…
Like I said last week, NBC’s Chase, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, has started shooting in and around town — which is why, between 9 and 11 a.m. tomorrow (though it could run till 2 p.m., fair warning), you’ll notice a helicopter hovering over the West End. Per a Downtown Emergency…
Blockbuster continues to insist it ain’t going nowhere — even as 24/7 Wall Street puts the downtown-based company on its death-watch list (one of three locals to make the list, actually, and not the first time someone has predicted Blockbuster’s inevitable demise). But just in case it goes, my long-ago…
For a few minutes just a few minutes ago, Allen and Cynthia Salzman Mondell’s 17-minute doc about the history of Jews in Dallas appeared on Vimeo — only to get yanked, since it’s a $20-per-copy fund-raiser for the Dallas Jewish Historical Society. I’d never seen the movie before (and it’s…
This just in from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The agency, along with the Office of Homeland Security Investigations National Gang Unit and an alphabet’s soup worth of local law enforcement agencies, spent the last five days sweeping Dallas-Fort Worth for gang members and their associates, and when all…
Beckett Media, HQ’d off Welch Road and LBJ Freeway, publishes monthly price guides for damned near everything you can buy, sell, trade and collect — from sports cards to Beanie Babies. And though business ain’t what it used to be — myriad titles have been dropped over the years as…
What was it Tom Hicks said Tom Hicks said Saturday night? Ah, yes: The sale of Your Texas Rangers — to Chuck Greenberg, Jim Crane, Mark Cuban or The Still-Living Ghost of Brad Corbett — is a “complex proceeding.” (What’s wrong with the family-friendly “clusterfudge”?) But those needing some summing…
Five weeks ago the fate of Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s proposed over-age high school was in question, as trustee Bernadette Nutall took the $2-mil proposal from the fast track to the benches for a little look-see. But trustees finally gave it the okee-doke, and this morning the…
Friend of Unfair Park and downtown denizen Noah Jeppson got into the Atmos Complex over the weekend thanks to an invite from John Greenan, executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, who never asks us anywhere. With a nod to the controversy surrounding the properties, which Forest City handed…
Seldom is Tom Hicks drawn offside. There’s been hardly a peep from Hicks whilst attorneys battle it out over the auction, or not, of Your Texas Rangers — even after JPMorgan Chase filed a separate suit yesterday contesting Hicks Sports Group’s right to sell Rangers Ballpark as part of the…
For the past week — which is to say, ever since Bronx bomber Harry Niko Celentano sent a letter to Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes demanding an emergency stockholder meeting — I’ve been trying to get an Official Response from the downtown-based company; so too Celentano. And, for the past week,…
Beginning at 9 Sunday morning, three students from W.T. White High School will drive to Colorado in that very ride you see above: a $30,000, corporate-sponsor paid-for experiment nicknamed Quetzalcoatl. (Kids today — what’s wrong with a ’66 Chevelle SS 396 with a a 360 hp, 396 cubic inch engine?)…
After the jump is the city’s 25-page motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Robert Groden on June 30, in which alleges, among myriad other things, that the city and the Dallas police are harassing him and violating his First Amendment rights because they won’t let him sell his conspiracy-theory-pushing…
Some of the winners of the 21 National Endowment for the Arts grants handed out Thursday know precisely how — and where — that money will be spent. In Los Angeles, the $100,000 awarded through the Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative will go toward the mixed-use Broadway…
Back in June we noticed there were plans afoot to build a 150,000-square foot teevee and movie production facility at 2901 S. Lamar Street — in a warehouse owned by a partnership that includes South Side on Lamar and convention center hotel developer Jack Matthews. The $400,000 build-out cost is…
