Current Dallas Morning News photographer David Woo and former Dallas Morning News photographer Richard Pruitt have been moonlighting on a side project: a coffee-table book titled Top Dogs and Their Pets, proceeds from which toward rescuing, rehabbing and re-housing abused puppies. The book’s not out till November, but I discovered…
In recent days, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s been awfully busy posting videos to its YouTube page — most of ’em having to do with the Green Line, which is scheduled to open September 14. I’ve put four of them after the jump: Two feature interviews with Brad Oldham and Reel…
Via Swing State Project, we find a link to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s interview with WBAP-AM’s Mark Davis this morning, in which the senator said she’ll officially launch her gubernatorial campaign in August and then step down from the Senate “sometime October, November — that time frame.” According to the…
In his latest Business Week column, KLIF’s Ed Wallace documents the case of “Judi, a news assignments manager for a Dallas TV news operation,” who went to see several docs and specialists as she began experiencing “creeping numbness across her upper right abdomen.” She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis –…
This is probably what happened: Angela Hunt got a phone call yesterday afternoon from Rudy Bush at The News, who wanted to know why the council person was one of seven to sign a letter telling Jerry Allen and the mayor, that, look, they’ll cut their own budgets, thanks very…
The Courthouse News Service this morning has this lawsuit outta Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — specifically, the Vanguard Car Rental locations at the airport (Vanguard operates National and Alamo). The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board’s Fort Worth office has filed suit against the car rental company in…
So, driving while texting is 23 times more dangerous than just, ya know, driving; 88 percent of Texas teens do it anyhow; with the growed-ups, the number’s probably closer to 104 percent; and some states are proposing legislation outlawing the practice altogether. To which an Irving-based company says: Have we…
Ah, and speaking of local nostalgia … An old Friend of Unfair Park just sent me a link to Michael Pyeatt’s YouTube page, to which he’s been posting in recent days clips from the likes of Funland, Bedhead, UFOFU, Tripping Daisy, Tablet and Rumble performing at such late, great local…
Regarding yesterday’s item concerning the Dallas City Council’s retreat to Paradise tomorrow, Jaynie Schultz, vice president of the Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center, sends this reply about her family’s Very Special Gift to our elected officials:After learning that the Dallas City Council was potentially not going to hold their retreat,…
I was looking for something unrelated on YouTube earlier this afternoon and noticed that Lifetime just posted the home-tour videos for this season’s Project Runway contestants, among them local Louise Black. (We posted the Dallas resident’s video back on July 9.) One thing led to another, and suddenly Merritt Martin…
Maybe you saw Janet St. James’s story last Thursday on WFAA-Channel 8, when she visited that Tarrant-Parker Counties bordertown known as Azle to find out what-the-what was up with that “Hispanics Keep Out” sign. The folks over at Guanabee followed up with a weekend item, including a video you’ll find…
Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference this morning during which they doled out $1 billion in federal money to back the blue. And from the look of the list of cities due to receive Community Oriented Policing Services grants, Dallas fared pretty, pretty…
Out old pal the Red Oak Kid has been posting to his Flickr page a bunch of photos of downtown Dallas from the late ’70s and early ’80s, including this one of the old Dallas Public Library on Commerce Street (attached to the Statler Hilton, natch). For some reason, they…
I ask only because this morning, Variety reports that ESPN and the National Football League are collaborating on a biopic called Lombardi — you’ll never guess who it’s about. Notes the trade, the film about the Green Bay Packers coach will be released in theaters the weekend before the 2011…
But that’s precisely where our Danny Hurley found himself over the weekend — at the Monty Python Madness Charity Festival, which was chock full o’ Spam eating, movie watching, tribute making and silly walking. Danny’s got the slide show, as usual, but keep in mind the event wraps this weekend:…
It would appear Norm Hitzges alone cannot keep Lone Star Park’s numbers from suffering a dramatic decline in the midst of a recession. The 65-day spring meet wrapped in Grand Prairie yesterday, and track officials noted with great disappointment the drop in both attendance and wagering, on-site and off. According…
Can’t understand a word of the intro to Forbes’s latest listicle — “Best Cities For Singles 2009,” apparently compiled using Match.com data and other info — so let’s skip it and head straight to the entry for Dallas, which comes in at No. 17:Dallas is high on the list for…
Guess this could go under the “From the RTF Department” category, since Miles Fisher has quite the estimable demo reel — which includes a snippet from the video in which he parodies Tom Cruise’s infamous Scientology promo. Or maybe “Business News for People Who Don’t Read Business News,” since Miles’s…
Last week came word that KTVT-Channel 11 had gone to the Federal Communications Commission to get a new frequency following the digital transition. And why was such an emergency petition necessary? Because, according to KTVT docs on file with the FCC, the local CBS affiliate “has received thousands of complaints…
I just found on YouTube a few clips in which Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s talking health care reform with members of the Dallas Tea Party. As it turns out, the senator met with several of their representatives Saturday morning at her Dallas offices; the Tea Party’s report from the get-together…
When Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm briefed the city council on proposed budget cuts in May, she all but left the 311 Customer Service Center untouched: $1,398,060 was proposed in order to fund 92 full-time employees who answer those pesky non-emergency service requests. Noted the May briefing, “The City is…
Two media matters this morning, beginning with A.H. Belo releasing its second-quarter numbers: “Advertising revenue, including print and Internet revenue, was down 30.2 percent, due to declines in retail, general and classified revenues in all AHC markets.” The press release has all the stats concerning The Dallas Morning News’s parent…
