Meant to get to this yesterday, when Dallas City Hall first sent word, but was otherwise distracted — the whole point, perhaps, of this city-sponsored Trinity River photo contest for which we’d like to submit several entries. It kicked off yesterday and runs through September 30, during which time you…
Apologies for taking a few days too long to post our slide show from the Deep Ellum Mural Project kick-off, held Saturday night at Kettle Art in Deep Ellum, but better to post now than to … um … not post. Gloria Lovario captured this terrific two-fer from Cathey Miller,…
Actually, once you read the piece — which appears in the issue hitting newsstands this week but which you can read right now — it seems rather unlikely that the Prairie Home Companionist actually came to Dallas for the State Fair, as his is more of an essay about the…
For weeks, the Dallas Tea Party has been calling out Janeane Garofalo in the hopes of getting the star of Wet Hot American Summer and The Truth About Cats & Dogs and noted Tea Party-crasher to attend Saturday’s America’s Tea Party at Southfork Ranch. Alas, it hasn’t worked — Garofalo…
Friend of the show Justin Cozart likes to show off his estimable collection of faded photos of late, great Dallas landmarks, always a welcome respite from the day’s breaking news. But over the weekend he posted pictures of a particularly personal nature: exteriors and interiors from his family’s businesses, among…
One day after sending word that the “Little Hacker” got 135 months in prison for “swatting,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office says today it has arrested an Arlington man federal authorities allege is the leader of the hacker group called “Electronik Tribulation Army.” (As in …?) According to the press release,…
Mitch McCabe’s documentary Youth Knows No Pain, set to premiere on HBO August 31 after making a few fest-circuit stopovers, has already played New York and, two weeks ago, CineVegas. Directed by the daughter of a plastic surgeon, the film “subjects America’s anti-aging obsession to an intimate, often unflattering closeup,”…
Amazingly, we still have stashed on the server Polyphonic Spree’s “H-O-O-P-S Yes!,” the ’07 “anthem” penned for FC Dallas — what do you mean you don’t remember? Then perhaps you recall a time when Your Dallas Mavericks were “Rowdy, Loud and Proud,” courtesy PPT; and who can forget Pantera’s catchy…
Gawker points it out, and Google proves it: FOX News’s Shep Smith never saw a high-speed car chase he didn’t love to narrate. So, Dallas-Garland-Richardson, it our turn! I assume you have nine minutes to spare. Sure you do…
Kathy Colvin in the U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word that late Friday, Matthew Weigman — otherwise known as the “Little Hacker” about whom we wrote in January — was sentenced to 135 months behind bars by U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn, who, at this very moment, is presiding…
Our sister paper in Houston cites a Trojan-funded survey that says Houstonians get it on 101 times a year, tops in the country. Dallas residents, on the other hand, do it 73 times a year — at least, according to the 1,000 folks polled for the survey (clearly, none of…
Schutze is at the Don Hill trial today, and during the lunch break he was sent word that WFAA and The Dallas Morning News buildings on César Chávez were cordoned off by police. Till moments ago, the Dallas Police Department’s Web site listed an active call down thataways with no…
On Friday, Kimberly spent the afternoon on the campus of Paul Quinn College, which is appealing the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ decision to yank the school’s accreditation; said president Michael Sorrell, “It is not time to write Paul Quinn’s obituary.” This morning, Dr. Michael L. Lomax, president and…
I had the privilege and pleasure of riding shotgun with Jack E. Jett during yesterday’s broadcast of his Rational Radio show, during which he welcomed the most astounding what-the-what assortment of guests: Al B. Sure!, Bob Barker, Gennifer Flowers and Joe the Plumber — no, really. Anyway, during her appearance,…
Moments from now in U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn’s courtroom, opening statements will be delivered in the public corruption case against former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, his wife Sheila Farrington Hill, former Dallas City Plan Commissioner D’Angelo Lee and others indicted in October 2007. But per the…
Forty years to the day after the raid on the Stonewall Inn, the unofficial birthplace of the gay-rights movement, the Dallas Voice’s Instant Tea blog has been full of updates Sunday concerning last night’s Fort Worth police raid on the Rainbow Lounge on 615 S. Jennings Ave. There are myriad…
Yesterday, State Sen. Florence Shapiro sent out the following tweet: Which directed our attention to this video from Our Boss’s sister…
Lt. Andy Harvey, who handles media relations for the Dallas Police Department, sends along this photo — which, yup, is a casket full of marijuana. Seems like the perfect adios for the weed and week that was. He also sends along this description for those Friends of Unfair Park still…
In the comments to our earlier Don Hill item this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park points our direction to this Web site: DonHillTrial.com. Hoo-boy. What gag order indeed. But, this question: Is this the first public corruption trial in history to provide its own logo?…
This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice’s press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give “affordable access to telecommunications services for all eligible…
Late yesterday, Don Hill’s PR man, Ken Carter, sent to media an objection filed in federal court in which the former Dallas mayor pro tem and his wife, Sheila Farrington, want U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn to keep from the public’s prying ears the feds’ “audio-visual evidence” against the two…
The Star-Telegram has rounded up a few folks who attended The Jacksons’ three-night stopover at Texas Stadium in 1984, to which I referred yesterday. Contained therein is a story that I will spend the better part of today and the next who-knows-how-long fleshing out, if only because I’ve finally found…
