While in the middle of dealing with some South by Southwest film fest logistics, this announcement arrived from the Dallas International Film Festival: It’s ready to debut its first dozen titles. Not that you need to queue up at this very moment: Passes to the fest are on sale, running…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: A federal grand jury in Dallas has indicted a 35-year-old Ennis man named Jerry Wayne Valek on three counts of production of child pornography. He’s been in custody for about a month, and according to the indictment, Valek spent more than two…
For close to three years, Amazon and the state have long been at odds over a distribution facility in Irving: Texas wants the Seattle-based books-and-everything-else-ever-seller to pay sales tax for doing business there, while Amazon has long insisted it doesn’t have to. The whole thing came to a head at…
Back in September, beleaguered Blockbuster finally made it official: The downtown Dallas-based company was bankrupt. Hence, the voluntary, “prepackaged” Chapter 11 filing, which the company insisted would “substantially reduce” the amount of debt it owed — from $1.46 billion to around $125 million. Ever since then, the thing’s been tied…
San Diego-based Competitive Edge Research’s has been doing a Super Bowl Host City Image Study since Super Bowl XXXVII. Sometimes, says the study, a Super Bowl makes a city looks good — like, really improves its image across the country (see: San Diego, Tampa). And sometimes, a Super Bowl don’t…
Shame the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees couldn’t meet yesterday, when all the teachers and students were iced in and needed something to watch — like, say, this afternoon’s board briefing, during which trustees will get their first look at Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s proposed $260 million worth of…
It’s the least surprising political announcement of the week, no doubt: Dallas Park Board President Mike Rawlings is running for Dallas mayor. The formal announcement, sent from Mari Woodlief, follows in full. In the release — which names Joe Haggar Jr., former CEO of Haggar Apparel, as his campaign treasurer…
Late yesterday, as the boy grew fidgety from yet another day stuck at home, we flipped on the teevee hoping to find something interesting, educational. Which meant: No Disney Channel, no nonsense. A few flips later, and there we were on C-SPAN2, listening to former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk address…
As we were eating dinner, about half an hour ago, the 7-year-old who lives in my house asked me to check Dallas Independent School District’s Facebook page to see if there’d been an announcement about school tomorrow. So I did. I read this aloud:Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Dallas ISD schools…
Shame about this weather — if only because the ice and snow put the kibosh on our plans to head down to Fair Park this morning for a meeting of the Landmark Commission’s Fair Park Task Force, which was called on account of the weather. Because, you see, there was…
I’ll leave it to Schutze, who’s covered this subject at great length, to explain precisely how Larry and Ted Hamilton wound up including more affordable-housing units in their Atmos Complex project downtown. Perhaps Jim will do so as early as tomorrow morning, when, I see here, the Downtown Connection Tax…
Couldn’t make it to Monday’s Landmark Commission meeting, during which there was discussion of the proposed 500-foot-tall Top of Texas Centennial Tower at Fair Park that State Fair of Texas president Errol McKoy hopes to plant in his summertime Midway. But this afternoon I spoke with Good Fulton & Farrell’s…
Way back in September, Laura Bush stopped by North Dallas High School to introduce the George W. Bush Institute’s education initiative intended to change “the way America’s public school principals are identified, recruited, selected, prepared, evaluated, and empowered.” Well, now that that’s been taken care of comes Initiative No. 2…
It’s been a whole two months since last we contemplated Tom Hicks’s threat to sue for $1.6 billion over the sale — pardon, “epic swindle” — of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures way back in October. But right on schedule, Paul Girolami, a barrister repping Hicks and George…
Council’s already in recess — till 1:30, said the mayor, citing a brief afternoon agenda. But the morning began with a bit of a bite — bark too.First up, a man repping the striking cabbies said the strike’s over, for now. There’s a demand on the table, of course, for…
On the other side you’ll find the 11-page complaint filed yesterday in Dallas federal court titled STEVE SIMMS and MIKE DOLABI, individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, vs. JERRAL “JERRY” WAYNE JONES, NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL CLUB, LTD., JWJ CORPORATION, COWBOYS STADIUM, L.P., COWBOYS STADIUM…
The Dallas Independent School District, like most others ’round these parts, is closed yet again. To the Facebook message sent earlier this morning:Guess what? Dallas ISD schools and administrative offices are closed on Wednesday, Feb. 9, because of inclement winter weather. Stay safe and warm everyone!When someone asked about make-up…
It hasn’t been easy reaching a preservationist in this state in the last couple of hours. Or in D.C., for that matter. Not since Governor Rick Perry announced earlier today that in order to save the state some money, he’s proposing the elimination of the Texas Historical Commission, at least…
You have asked, and Frank Librio, the public information officer at Dallas City Hall, has answered by providing a recent sampling of the famous, infamous and who’s-that?’s who have received keys to the city of Dallas. At last, a list I can get behind. Because, as I’ve been reminded more…
In case you forgot, today Governor Rick Perry delivered his State of the State address down in Austin. And, far as he’s concerned, ain’t nothing wrong with Texas a little streamlinin’ and reformin’ won’t take care of. And as for that $27-billion budget shortfall, well, damn it, that’s all media-manufactured…
Like I wrote last week, TNT’s coming to town this week (and good luck with all that) to see if its wants to shoot Dallas in Dallas, which I can’t even believe is a question at this point. Neither can Larry Hagman, who was at an AARP dinner last night…
A dip into the downtown federal courthouse grab bag this morning comes up with two interesting filings. Let’s begin with this one.You probably recognize the name Ralph Janvey by now. For a long while, the partner at the Ross Avenue law firm of Krage & Janvey has been the court-appointed…
