No doubt you recall the October ruling from Judge Tena Callahan of Dallas County’s 302nd Family District Court, who said there was no good reason for the courts not to consider allowing two men married in Massachusetts to divorce in Texas. To which Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said, Oh…
Among the myriad reasons I like posting vintage photos of bygone Dallas: You never know who’ll show up in the comments to provide details previously thought lost to history. So, great thanks to Jerome Weeks and Bud Kennedy; courtesy their comments here, I’ve learned a great deal about Dallas’s hockey…
When the shooting occurred in June, it merited but a few paragraphs in a crime brief headlined, “19-year-old fires on gang officers, Dallas police say.” Today, though, the U.S. Attorney sends word that a federal jury found Rene Salazar, a member of the East Side Homeboys, guilty of two counts…
Took, oh, ’bout four months, but I see the city finally got around to posting The Official Convention Center Hotel Groundbreaking Video, which I’ve embedded after the jump. Good timing, though: Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sends word that at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, the mayor will pay…
But, don’t worry, there won’t be too many of these left: Michael Amonett, president of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League, sends word (and pictures) today that Ponce Construction Co. is yanking out the windows and hustling up with the teardown. “Won’t be long now, I guess,” writes Amonett, who’s…
Back in August of ’08, Sam wrote about the case of the Dallas Police Department’s Roosevelt Holiday, who claimed at the time that he’d been pushed out of his job as a crime scene detective by higher-ups who didn’t like the color of his skin. Holiday, who’s black, initially filed…
T. Boone Pickens’s latest ad for his Pickens Plan begins airing today; that’s it above. A story on the front page of today’s The New York Times’s business section wonders what the Dallas billionaire’s up to with the spot, in which he underscores national security concerns in an effort to…
Just a quick follow-up about Code 58, the FOX buddy-cop series set to shoot here beginning January 26 with Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks. Yes, yes, as the great Ed Bark noted yesterday on something called LocateTV.com, some of the series will be shot at Fair Park (the historic locale…
Everything I know about the Dallas Texans hockey team comes from The Handbook of Texas History’s Dallas Stars entry:Professional hockey in Dallas dates back to 1941, when the Dallas Texans joined the minor-league American Hockey Association. The debut occurred at Fair Park Ice Arena on November 6, 1941, when the…
Fan of The Sopranos? Mad Men? Andy Richter Controls the Universe? Um … Becker? Then you are already familiar with the name Matthew Weiner, good for you. But how you’d like to see the creator of Mad Men in person? Tomorrow night, no less, at the Casa Mañana Theater in…
Friend of Unfair Park The Big Guy just shot us an e-mail with the subject header “Mary Kay > Christopher Columbus.” Also contained within his missive: a link to this Associated Press story about the brewing battle over State Board of Education’s new social studies curriculum standards, for which the…
Shooting starts January 26 on Code 58, the FOX series formerly known as Jack and Dan that will star, among others, Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford. Unlike ABC’s The Deep End, which premieres January 21 and turns Dallas into Los Angeles, this one will be very local. As in, per…
The National Association of Broadcasters has announced the latest inductee into its hall of fame: the former Irving Harrigan, as he was known to listeners of KLIF waaaay back in the day. The One-Time Voice of KVIL, inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in ’02 (and again in…
As Brad Sham noted toward the end of yesterday’s presentation of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s “Century in the Making” list at Woodrow Wilson High School, the thing ran a bit long — more than hour, and folks got a big fidgety. Shame. Because at the end…
While we’re on the subject of embarrassing videos, let’s take a peek at the one above, posted by the Dallas Police Department a few days ago. In it, a man breaks into a DPD bait car to steal the GPS device, and the department’s asking if anyone knows who’s responsible…
As we mentioned Monday, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will discuss at tomorrow’s meeting its contingency plans for Kimball, Roosevelt, Pinkston and Seagoville high schools should the Texas Education Agency deem them academically unacceptable for a fifth straight year. As DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander pointed out, the…
My favorite auction site is at it again, this time disposing of watches, rings, necklaces and other assorted gold-plated goodies on behalf of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department.The county will use the proceeds to replenish its coffers, and there are bargains to be had amongst the seized loot. Like, for…
Good bless Mr. Rid for reminding us this morning that back in ’84, Steve Dirkx (Telefone, Teenage Queer) directed this video that should have served as Dallas’s promotional reel. This morning, Steve provides the back story: Two women — Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola — wrote and recorded a song…
As promised, there they were this afternoon, seated on leather chairs perched upon the Woodrow Wilson High School auditorium stage: Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Tony Dorsett, “Mean” Joe Greene, Craig James, Daryl Johnston, Billy Sims. Also there, of course, was Woodrow’s favorite son, Tim Brown, joined by the…
Yet again, we’re back to the subject of redevelopment in downtown Dallas — if only, for a moment, to visit a block of Elm Street that seems stuck in reverse. It’s the section more or less between N. Akard and N. Ervay Streets, which is populated by buildings significantly shorter…
This morning, during a speech at a Big Brothers Big Sisters benefit breakfast, Mayor Tom Leppert announced a few possible corporate relocations to Dallas — among them, he said, a Fortune 200 company to which he clearly sent an iPhone. But that wasn’t the breaking news that jumped out from…
Michael May’s the latest to wonder whether the AT&T Performing Arts Center is going to remake downtown. Brent Brown, of bcWORKSHOP and the Dallas City Design Studio at City Hall, says, Yup, sure ’nuff, so long as you include, oh, Main Street Garden in the mix: “It’s still dead on…
