The AT&T Performing Arts Center is about to send out a formal release, but long story short: Jamie Foxx isn’t coming to the Winspear Opera House tomorrow night after all. The Terrell native was supposed to take part in the Brinker International Forum, for a Q&A hosted by none other…
Remember back in August of last year, when 48-year-old carjacker Michael Browne led police on a slow ride through Dallas before landing on the Love Field Airport runway? Sure you do. Passed right by Unfair Park HQ, matter of fact. Then, in November of last year, a federal grand jury…
The young man you see at right is Daniel Villegas Jr. He is 25 years old, and at this very moment the Dallas Police Department’s Missing Persons Squad is trying to find him. That’s because Villegas “suffers from diminished mental capacity and is unable to communicate verbally or in writing,”…
So much for that proposal to stretch some Dallas Independent School District students’ calendars till July 26. Still: District parents have till Monday to vote on two calendar options, down from the five presented to trustees earlier this month, and on the surface, at least, both run longer than the…
In mid-August, the Texas Rangers said that come Opening Day 2012 the team hoped to have near the Home Plate Gate of the Ballpark in Arlington a statue of Shannon Stone and 6-year-old son Cooper as a tribute to the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter killed at the Ballpark on July 7…
Over the course of the day a few items have rolled in related to American Airlines and AMR’s Chapter 11 filing this morning. Among them: A Q&A from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport about how the bankruptcy might but probably won’t affect the airport (it follows in full); and a statement…
All the ducats for Saturday’s TEDxSMU wingding at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre are long gone, but no matter: As The Hilltop reminds, you can espy the doings from three remote locations: the Texas Theatre, Tech Wildcatters and the AT&T Foundry in Plano. And, of course, it’ll livestream on…
Interesting: I see the Dallas Independent School District has yanked from its Thursday agenda that STAAR End of Course Policy Impact briefing we posted yesterday. Also gone: the supporting docs for the Teach for America review, which we posted last week. At least they haven’t pulled this (yet): Discussion of…
Late yesterday I got a call back from Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett, for whom I’d left a message about Irving and the North Texas Municipal Water District’s need to buy water from the city. We set up a time to chat this morning, and just got through visiting…
The city’s spent the last month or so piloting some Complete Streets projects all ’round town, among them the Grand Avenue Better Block-ing that transformed the four lanes and land in front of R.L. Griffin’s Blues Palace near Fair Park the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Sustainable Development and Construction is this…
Wait — who’s Tom Horton (no, not a Canadian coffee shop), and what has he done with Gerard Arpey? Oh, Arpey’s out — decided to “retire,” per the statement from Fort Worth-based AMR that follows in the wake of its Chapter 11 filing in NYC court this morning. (Though some…
The Dallas Police report says, simply, “TRAFFIC FATALITY #78.” There is a time and date: 10:30 p.m. Friday. A location too: 4100 Cedar Springs. But the DPD has no further information, which is why it’s asking for help as it attempts to ID whoever was driving the SUV that struck…
The man who see at right is Thomas C. Royer, M.D., who, for 12 years, was the man in charge of CHRISTUS Health, described on its website as “a Catholic health ministry.” Not long ago he received the American Hospital Association’s Distinguished Service Award, one among myriad high honors on…
Speaking of Dallas’s water supply …I was on US 380 yesterday, headed to Cattleman’s Cafe in Blue Ridge for chicken-fried steak, when, driving toward Farmersville, I espied what’s left of Lake Lavon, down some 13 feet due to the drought. “It’s stunning,” in the words of North Texas Municipal Water…
Yesterday we gave you the heads-up: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has brought in former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement to try to throw out what they claim are the federal court’s “unlawful redistricting maps.” And, right on cue, they’ve filed their emergency stays with the U.S. Supreme Court: All…
After the jump are two docs parents of kiddos in the Dallas Independent School District might want to look at sooner than later — before Thursday morning, certainly. That’s when the trustees will begin discussing how to factor in the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test scores,…
A couple of weeks back, during those water conservation and watering restriction briefings, council member Scott Griggs had a few questions for Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett that she wasn’t prepared to answer, among them: Is the city presently selling water to gas drillers, and, be honest, how much…
Shortly before Thanksgiving 2007, Timothy Bray and co-author Nathan Berg of the University of Texas at Dallas issued a report that hasn’t aged a day since its initial publication: Access to Grocery Stores and Food Security in Dallas, which began the ongoing conversation concerning the so-called “food desert” that exists…
On Wednesday we got our first look at the new-look Texas maps drawn by the court, which is attempting to rectify the U.S. Department of Justice’s concerns that the state Legislature is attempting to keep Hispanics from voting for Hispanic candidates, especially in Dallas-Fort Worth. To which Texas Attorney General…
I’ve seen Cheap Trick countless times, among them: playing the State Fair of Texas, opening for Meat Loaf at Starplex, at Reunion Arena some time in the ’86. No matter when, no matter where, the band never disappoints; there’s a reason they’re beloved by the likes of Steve Albini, the…
Speaking of the local garage-rock scene of the 1960s …Three long years ago I noted that Fort Worth filmmaker Melissa Kirkendall was in the process of wrapping her doc Teen-A-Go-Go, a history of those good old days. And while the film — which features the likes of Bugs Henderson (ex…
Almost two months ago to the day, Mike Modano retired from the National Hockey League as a Dallas Star, after a single ill-fated, injury-shortened season with the Detroit Red Wings. So, then: What now? For the longest time he’s made no secret of his desire to move into the front…
