How much does the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office agree with defense attorneys that convicted murdered Roderick Newton had his rights violated during his 2000 trial? So much so that District Attorney Craig Watkins has agreed to a stay of execution in order to litigate the Brady violation involving the…
Only a few of us left at the office — most everyone else is already down at the Granada for tonight’s Dallas Observer Music Awards, where doors open at 8 p.m. following the VIP shebang. Pete’s got all the details here for those considering the last-minute rally. Me, all I…
Let’s get back to Kim’s item about Roderick Newton, scheduled to be executed by the state on Thursday, for just a minute. And let’s go ahead and set aside the issue of “mental retardation.” Instead, focus on the second of three claims Newton’s attorneys make in the writ filed today…
So reports the great Ed Bark, who’s peeked at a copy of the CBS affiliate’s petition to the Federal Communications Commission in which KTVT’s asking for a new frequency pronto. Uncle Barky’s got the details, but the short version is: Channel 11 says the digital transition on June 12 absolutely…
At some point today, the city of Dallas put out the very advance word on the city’s Web site: “City offices will be closed for business on Friday, September 4, 2009 (furlough day) and Monday, September 7, 2009 in observance of Labor/Ceasar E. Chavez Day.” (Look, maybe city officials would…
Bart Forbes doesn’t recall the painting of his currently up for grabs on eBay; “boy, this is old,” says the Dallas-based illustrator when reached by Unfair Park for a little backstory. Course, he’s done plenty of pieces since the 1970s — everything from stamps for the U.S. Postal Service to…
So, by now you’re probably plenty beaten down by all the items we’ve had in recent weeks dealing with Re:Vision Dallas and that proposed sustainable block behind City Hall. Because, clearly, you just don’t care. I just noticed that for the last couple of weeks, Urban Re:Vision has been taking…
Allow me to quote from the source material: “In 2000, five percent (5%) of all drivers observed on Dallas area highways were using a handheld cell phone during the afternoon peak period.” So notes Page 145 of a 266-page National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study completed in 2003 but made…
Sorry, that’s hardly as sexy as it sounds. But that is how José Bowen, dean of the university’s Meadows School of the Arts, describes his edict to pull the plug on the technology clogging up the classrooms. Bowen, speaking to The Chronicle of Higher Education, doesn’t buy University of Texas…
Literally, judging by this photo I took on my way back to the office from The Cedars. So what do they do now — knock out one leg at a time and see what happens? No? Because they should…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this Austin American-Statesman story from yesterday, in which two former Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents — one of them a former Dallas captain — warn that TABC Administrator Alan Steen ain’t much good when it comes to following through with apologies and investigations…
On Friday, we acquired a copy of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s letter to the United States Postal Service, in which he enumerated his “grave concerns” regarding the USPS’s proposal that calls for moving some operations out of the Dallas Main Post Office and out to Coppell. Today, it’s Congresswoman Eddie…
Jason Roberts — a Happy Bullet, co-founder of the Art Conspiracy, Texas Theater-rehabber and, for the purposes of this item, Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member — sends word that this morning’s Dallas-Fort Worth streetcar item has (pretty much) nothing to do with downtown Dallas trolleys. Which is why Angela…
The New York Times’s Julia Preston profiles University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor Kris W. Kobach — a name that might be familiar to residents of Farmers Branch, as Kobach’s one of the co-authors of Ordinance 2952 and one of the lawyers who’s been trying to get it…
After the jump, a highlight among many from George Takei’s evening-with at the Dallas Museum of Art Sunday evening. A guest of the Trammell & Margaret Crow Asian Art Collection, Takei was in town to compliment, in more ways than one, Roger Shimomura’s The Return of the Yellow Peril: A…
Almost two months ago, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environmental Committee got a peek at the proposed alignments for the downtown streetcars; but, again, the question of who’ll pay for ’em went unanswered. Then came Friday’s Star-Telegram story in which it was revealed that Dallas and Fort Worth, under…
Don’t tell the 5-year-old living in the house, but we kinda forgot that over the weekend, they were building an 8-foot-tall Yoda at NorthPark Center in conjunction with the opening of the mall’s LEGO store. Thankfully, “Gadget Virtuoso” was there to document the finish-up; I reluctantly showed the boy the…
So says The New York Times on this morning’s front page in advance of ESPN’s Monday-morning announcement that it’s this close to launching a Web site dedicated solely to Dallas sports. The Worldwide Leader’s actually muscling into three markets after testing the product in Chicago, with Los Angeles and New…
Was just taking a peek at tomorrow’s list of public meetings when I stumbled across this familiar name: Fernando Perez, on-and-off ex of the Dallas Police Department. Perez has a hearing scheduled at 9 a.m. tomorrow in front of Administrative Law Judge Willie Crowder, during which the officer, fired seven…
The biggest revelation to arise from Dr. J. Q. Lazarus Schütze’s appearance on KERA-TV last night was that haircut and that suit — quite fancy for a sex-tabloid worker! I’ll let you watch Jim’s Friday-night Think-off with Dallas Morning News’er Lee Hancock without further comment, though why Hancock was invited…
Had a few thoughts about the Trees reopening, which I posted here in the wee small hours of this morning; pardon the old man’s ramblings. But till yesterday, Pete had never been in Trees, which shuttered well before his arrival in Dallas; our music editor is not burdened by expectations…
What — that headline doesn’t do anything for you? Well, then. So, fine, Mr. Steve Martin then. Or Strove Mortman to his friends. Anyway, Central Dallas Ministries’ honcho Larry James hopes you might want to attend his wingding October 27 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. James says more…
