Taking an early glance at the 72-page budget briefing that the city council’s Quality of Life Committee will thumb through today, we glean these few randomly highlighted cuts presented in no particular order of importance. Keep in mind, of course, that till City Manager Mary Suhm submits her final budget…
It appears on the horizon like a massive jellyfish made of metal and glass. As you get closer, it resembles a round version of Arizona’s Biosphere. Then you walk in, and no matter how much you may have read about the new, state-of-the art, 80,000-plus-seat Cowboys Stadium, you feel like…
Every now and then folks like to subject Dallas to an F5 tornado for the sake of a terrifying what-if short film. The first in line remains the best: the Discovery Channel’s Perfect Disaster “Supertornado” episode, which is only missing Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton; if that’s what’ll happen to…
More photos from the show, including cast members after the show, in our slide show.Joel Hodgson and the rest of the old MST3K crew treated a fair-sized crowd of die-hard fans to the first run-through of their signature treatment of The Alien Factor Friday night, loosening the bolts in…
Yup, stole that headline from the poetry of one David Yearsley, the Cornell U. prof soon to be the subject of our newly christened interview series “Dude, Seriously, What the Fuck.” Till then, we send you into the weekend with this freshly minted image courtesy our old friend Justin Terveen…
A recent late-spring clean-up resulted in the discovery of a stash of Dallas-related 78s I’d collected back when I was music editor, which was some time between the switchover from cylinder recordings to reel-to-reel. Most are the scratchy leftovers of forgotten footnotes; one or two sound like sandpaper rubbing against…
The Transportation and Environment Committee failed to vote Monday on the proposed booting ordinance, choosing instead to schedule a third meeting before the city council’s July recess. In the meantime, booting companies continue their aggressive tactics, as we witnessed last night during a ride-along with a Dallas police officer patrolling…
That somebody is Cornell University associate music professor David Yearsley, whose university bio says that during the past two decades, he’s “immersed himself in the musical culture of the German Baroque.” He’s certainly going for baroque with this intriguingly punctuated essay posted to Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair’s CounterPunch,…
Last night, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins pleaded his case against Dallas County-wide budget cuts in the Garland City Council chambers, where a town hall meeting with Dallas County Commissioner Mike Cantrell, held in front of some 300 audience members, devolved into a scene from The Jerry Springer Show…
In July 2008, federal authorities arrested a Carrollton man named Joseph Kelly Lara, whom the feds had accused of creating a phony name (Nick DeAngelis Mancuso) and a fake job (securities attorney and investment professional), which he then used to sell securities (including Google stock) he claimed he owned but…
It’s been a year since the word “streetcar” started circulating through the halls of City Hall; as Jim noted upon his return from a so-called “streetcar workshop” in May ’08, “It looks like the best idea since Mad Max Goldblatt’s scheme for a downtown monorail.” In January of this year,…
Two decades since he made watching lousy movies on Comedy Central one of the funniest ways to waste a mid-’90s afternoon, Joel Hodgson has found a new, if similar, calling: a live touring show, Cinematic Titanic, with the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast silhouetted against campy sci-fi flicks.When Cinematic…
More than once in recent days, Dave Levinthal’s had to warn City Hall Blog commenters to stay on topic and stop shouting, “Voter fraud!” in the District 1 Dallas City Council runoff pitting Delia Jasso against Justin Epker. Seems there’s been a lingering question about whether 65-year-old Juana Rodriguez voted…
Only three years ago? Seems like a thousand heartbreaks since doesn’t it?…
Soon enough, the breaking news of Tom Hicks’s financial woes in England will make its way Stateside. Till then, these fresh headlines from the U.K.: “Liverpool owners Hicks and Gillett suffer £42m loss due to loans,” says the Guardian. “Liverpool’s £350m debt sets off alarm as Tom Hicks and George…
Sure, we haven’t always been on the same page as Mayor Tom Leppert, but one thing we apparently agree upon is there’s no shame in accepting cash from people or businesses otherwise shunned by the masses. When we found a strip club’s vice president among the sponsors of Leppert’s fund-raiser…
Saw a “story” in the no-relation New York Observer this morning concerning the “yanking” of a “racy” movie ad from the side of Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses, and I thought it might be a good idea to ask DART spokesman Morgan Lyons the ol’ what-the-what. Dutifully, he researched the…
We’ve written a couple of times in recent months about developer Curtis Lockey’s plans to redevelop the old LTV Tower on Pacific Avenue, but, truth is, the city’s been working on making this a go project since at least 2007. And it hasn’t been easy: Plans and proposals changed so…
The only drama: When his Orlando Magic are dismantled by the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals, will Dwight Howard shake hands or pull a LeBrat James? We all wanted Kobe vs. LeBron. Instead, starting with tonight’s Game 1, we got ourselves a sweep. It’s a nice story that the…
In May we mentioned that the city council’s Quality of Life Committee was looking at doling out so-called Loving My Community Neighborhood Improvement Grants worth up to $10,000 each, with the money going neighborhood groups, homeowner associations, crime-watch and community garden groups, PTAs, Scout troops and so forth savvy enough…
With just a few days until the start of a new season, the Mesquite Championship Rodeo opened its doors yesterday for a sneak peak at the new-look Resistol Arena.Actually, it looks an awful lot like it used to — same wooden boards under the seats, still dirt in the middle…
It was a routine play, pulled off with such balance, power and elegance that it was anything but routine. And when the RoughRiders’ 19-year-old shortstop completed turning his half of the double-play, I turned to Frisco play-by-play voice Scott Garner and said: “The first time he steps on the field…
