Brad Lollar On Tuesday, Dallas County Chief Public Defender Brad Lollar resigned — right about the time he was being forced out by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who claimed Lollar wasn’t very good at his job — wasting money, wasting time. From jump, Scott Henson at Grits for…
NYLO Plano: Or, if I’m going to travel that far north, I’d need a hotel room. Speaking of hotels — and, really, when are we not these days? — the new issue of Time celebrates the latest brands of boffo lodging aimed at the traveling hipster in need of WiFi,…
Which is: by laying off 50 central staffers come September 1. That’s according to a memo the Dallas Independent School District just posted to its Web site. The district’s making the move to cover the $4 million budget shortfall, of course; there’s still the matter of the missing audit; and…
Courtesy Lisa’s computer Lisa Loeb has the most amazing posses in the history of ever. Surely I’ve mentioned that Lisa Loeb and I were cast mates in a Hockaday School production of The Pajama Game back in, oh, 1984, I think it was. (The school was low on public-school boys,…
The nicest hotel in Texas is the Grand Hyatt DFW, no foolin’. So says Expedia, at least, which ranks the airport hotel, connected to Dallas/Fort Worth International’s Terminal D, at No. 41 amongst all the hotels on the face of the entire planet, go figure. Fret not: The folks at…
Rob Goodspeed From Belleview Place, the winning design for the Cedars in the Urban Land Institute competition In January, we mentioned that the Urban Land Institute annual Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition was using Dallas’s very own Cedars neighborhood as the site of its contest. Well, the competition’s…
At long last, the Dallas Public Library System’s latest branch — Bookmarks — is set to open at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in NorthPark Center. Come for the magazines, CDs and DVDs; stay for the Early Leaning Stations and after-school homework tutoring! Sounds too good to be true, especially as the…
At last, Viewzi is live. And what, precisely, is Viewzi? Um, well, hard to say — so let their press release say it instead: “It’s a new type of search engine, providing Internet users a way to visually experience the best results from top search sites and other online content…
Sheldon Drobny’s the mastermind behind Air America Radio, which departed the DFW airwaves in October ’06. But Drobny and his missus actually had little to do with the expansion and eventual contraction of the liberal-talk syndicate. Turns out, they started their own competitor: Nova M Radio, which broadcasts the likes…
Once more, this is still the only thing I’ve ever ordered at a Chili’s. Speaking of lawsuits, here’s yet another one filed in Dallas federal court: On June 5, a woman from Washington named Anne Paskett filed a class-action suit here against Brinker International, the parent company of Chili’s, Romano’s…
This man will crush you if you mess with the Barnett Shale. Dallas-based ICC Energy Corp. sued Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. in Dallas district court yesterday. Why come? Alleges today’s media release from the law firm repping ICC Enegy, “Chesapeake reneged on a commitment to partner with ICC Energy…
Always a good day when you can lead off with a Daily Show video mocking a local business — in this instance, Central Kia’s spot using a Barack Obama lookalike to move 2008 Sportages at low, low prices. Notes Stewart: “Un. Believable.” Because of the low, low prices. And because…
The Happening What a bunch of nonsense—effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. This is what happens when M. Night Shyamalan tries to play both John Carpenter (bloody) and Stanley Kubrick (cold-blooded) while writing and directing what the literalist will either dismiss or embrace as the horror-film…
In recent days, Universal’s been running a TV spot for The Incredible Hulk that gives away what should come as no surprise to any fanboy worth his action figure collection: the appearance of Robert Downey Jr. as, natch, Tony Stark. From the delighted, deafening squeals of at least one sneak-preview…
On Monday morning, American Airlines announced it had raised fares by $20, across the board. Then, later that day, very patient and helpful Friend of Unfair Park broke the good news right here that, nope, “The fare increase that we initiated Friday night did not stick.” Well, see, though, it…
Below, a video getting a lot of play on the YouTube today, in light of former NBA ref Tim Donaghy’s allegations that league officials had a hand in the outcome of certain games — including the Houston Rockets-Dallas Mavericks playoff series in 2005. “Go look at the tapes,” Mark Cuban…
Megan Feldman Ex-con Andres Latallade, also known as Capitol X, at the protest in front of the Crowley today Hours before Karl Eugene Chamberlain is scheduled to be executed for the rape and murder of Felecia Prechtl in Dallas in 1991, a small group of protesters gathered on the steps…
Keven McAlester, at right, with Roky Erickson, subject of Kev’s acclaimed documentary You’re Gonna Miss Me Surely, the Friends know the name: He’s an old pal, local boy, former met music editor, ex-Adventure Club co-host, my El Lay replacement and now an acclaimed filmmaker of both the short-form and long-form…
Photo by Terry Shuck/Mural by Frank Campagna As mentioned yesterday, the Deep Ellum Town Hall Meeting at the Sons of Hermann is two weeks away — but it’s very top-of-mind amongst the residents of the neighborhood that’s referred to as Dallas’s “wetlands for [the] creative class and entrepreneurs” in the…
Yesterday’s news that The News would be delivering a bare-bones version of its daily product to the front lawns of rich folks who really don’t want it has landed Dallas’ Only Daily on Gawker, with the headline: “Unwanted Free Papers Delivered To Uninterested Rich Readers.” Which, yes, more or less…
After the jump, an invite to the W Hotel in Victory Park tonight. It arrives courtesy our Friend Justin Terveen, better known as the extraordinary photographer The Urban Fabric (who, from the looks of his Flickr page, is currently in the running for the cover of Mapsco’s 2009 Dallas Street…
Daron Tapscott The former Harwood K. Smith-designed office building on Turtle Creek, where Canadians want to build a hotel and sell alcohol At last, the city council today will consider GGH Development’s request to build a hotel, spa and restaurant at 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard — you recall, site of…
