One more follow-up to the red-light camera ruling: Moments ago, Kevin Lightfoot, vice president of corporate communications for Affiliated Computer Services, shot us his company’s statement concerning 192nd Civil District Court Judge Craig Smith’s order of November 19. Lightfoot also provides an update concerning further legal doings in Smith’s courtroom…
So confusing. Didn’t we already know George and Laura Bush were moving to Dallas once he the president left the White House in January? Haven’t they said this a thousand times — most recently, like, Sunday? Well, apparently we need further confirmation, which came today at the White House as…
First thing yesterday we noted 192nd Civil District Court Judge Craig Smith’s ruling in the red-light camera case in which a plaintiff claimed Affiliated Computer Services doesn’t have the legal right to act as a law-enforcement agency. This morning, we received a statement from Frank Librio, spokesperson for the City…
Below, as you can see, we’ve added the video containing the, um, sloppy remarks for which Dallas Star Sean Avery received his indefinite suspension last night from National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman. Meanwhile, back in New York, Newsday’s Arthur Staples is among those calling out the commish and Stars…
Over in Marshall, a Fort Worth woman named Donna West has taken cross-dressing franchise Tyler Perry to federal court, claiming that Perry used her 1991 play Fantasy of a Black Woman as the basis for his 2005 movie Diary of a Mad Black Woman. West actually filed the suit in…
The Las Vegas media this morning is touting the arrest of a man wanted in connection with an October 24 shooting in South Dallas: Kevin Jermaine Davis, who was picked up by law enforcement officials only last night. Davis had a whole posse after him: the U.S. Marshals Service’s Nevada…
Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment is under siege, and Dallas-Fort Worth looks to be the battleground at the moment. A local’s looking to stage a hostile takeover: Robert Rowling, the six-billionaire whose Irving-based TRT Holdings holds amongst its holdings the Omni hotel chain, recently the beneficiary of City Hall’s good tidings as…
Sean Avery, for a long while we thought your boorishwacky antics were adorable! Alas, turns out that the National Hockey League isn’t so enamored — because, moments ago, the league indefinitely suspended the Dallas Star for referring to a former flame, Old School co-star Elisha Cuthbert, as his “sloppy seconds.”…
Looks like the meeting at the Nasher Sculpture Center was last week, but the Friends of the Katy Trail only today posted the sneak peek at the proposed Katy Trail Arts Loop, which is just what it sounds like:This connection improves the bicycle and pedestrian facilities between the Katy Trail…
There’s a small but interesting item of note on the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Facility Improvement Corporation Board’s meeting agenda today — and, right, whatever that is. Seems American Airlines is looking to unload one of its flight simulators. It’s not for one of the big planes, though. Old Friend…
On Friday, we mentioned how Axl Rose had sicced his attorney on Dr Pepper, claiming that the Plano-based beverage maker had broken its promise to the American peoples when it failed to dispense a soda to every man, woman and child in the U.S. following the release of Guns N’…
Dallas County’s FY2009 budget was passed by the commissioners on September 9 and went into effect October 1 — and chief among the Commissioners Court’s objectives was balancing the budget without raising taxes, as you’ll see on Page 2 of the 371-page document. But just two months into the new…
A classical-music outfit from the Netherlands has just posted this profile of Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Jaap van Zweden. Alas, it’s in Dutch, which, oddly, only makes it that much more compelling. But the opening few seconds are in full-on Texan. –Robert Wilonsky…
Those interested in the future of downtown Dallas may wanna carve out some time on Friday — like, all day Friday. Because from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., City Hall will play host to a daylong “design charrette” during which city officials; architect Brent Brown, founder of bcWORKSHOP; and folks…
What happens when one Vancouver Sun columnist and her aunt decide to see the great state of Texas from a car, a Greyhound bus and a train? Well, nothing terribly exciting, though Susan Riley’s recounting of her trip through Texas, including stops in Dallas and Austin and elsewhere, provides a…
This morning, Roger Friedman of FOX News has cobbled together a series of old newspaper clips and federal tax returns in an effort to make sense of the Oprah Winfrey-Harold Simmons love affair. Because, after all, Winfrey was chief among Barack Obama’s backers, while the Dallas billionaire and Swift Boat…
So, this is the future of Blockbuster — as a seller of concert tickets? Which would make it, what, CD World? This morning comes the official word: The Dallas-based videotailer, whose set-top box is supposed to keep you out of the stores, is looking to bring folks back to the…
An interesting case to keep an eye on this a.m. in 192nd Civil District Court Judge Craig Smith’s courtroom: Amanda Ward v. ACS State and Local Solutions Inc., in which a local attorney has taken Affiliated Computer Services to court for mailing to the house a traffic ticket the attorney…
Friend of Unfair Park “Rhinosaur” sends us this early review of Blockbuster’s OnDemand set-top box — and so far … so-so?Unlike the Netflix streaming experience, Blockbuster permits you to browse their entire catalog from the couch… although they charge per rental, like typical video on demand services. Which raises the…
Texas Motor Speedway announced today it’s ditching some 21,022 seats on the backstretch, which’ll put the track’s total number of butts allowed at right around 138,000. ESPN says it’s because of “the economic recession that has affected most tracks which play host to NASCAR events.” But TMS president Eddie Gossage…
Whilst out and about Saturday night, the missus and I were hypnotized to the point of distraction by the strobe-light twinklings coming from the new Park Lane development off N. Central Expressway. After the jump, a brief video from the residential high-rise under construction across the expressway from NorthPark Center;…
Regrets, he’s had a few: President Bush has done a lot of navel-gazing in recent days — on CNN earlier this month, followed by a sit-down with his sister Doro Bush Koch on behalf of StoryCorps, excerpts from which began appearing Friday. Tonight comes the former and future Dallas resident’s…
