Today down in Austin, more than a dozen former Texas prisoners freed using DNA testing made their case in front of Texas legislators concerning myriad related bills sitting before lawmakers, among them fixing the way victims ID would-be offenders using photos of a live lineup, about which we wrote at…
So, before getting to today’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival quick picks, this locally related film note: Former Dallas Observer film critic and all-round good egg Matt Zoller Seitz sends word that he’s been commissioned by the Museum of the Moving Image to do a five-part online video series breaking…
On Wednesday, the Dallas city council will meet behind closed doors to discuss a host of subjects — among them, pending lawsuits involving the city and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ floodway report. On the briefing agenda, you will also find an item that has been making cameo appearances…
Sad – and surprising – that your Dallas Mavericks are reduced to trying to hold on to 8th place in the Western Conference over their final nine games over two weeks. But with that gut-gouging home loss to the Denver Nuggets last Friday night, I think they fumbled away any…
This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency released a list of 62 schools around the country set to have their air quality studied as part of what the agency calls “a new air toxics monitoring initiative.” And there’s a Dallas Independent School District elementary on the list: N.W. Harllee, so named…
Mayor Tom Leppert’s introduction of renowned urban planner and architect Andrés Duany last night at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom on the SMU campus was less a please-welcome than a separate speech altogether. Full of pragmatic optimism and pride, and clad in his trademark pinstripes, the mayor insisted, “Not only…
Dallas-based Retail Connection has more mixed-use, retail and restaurant properties around the DFW and Texas than you can shake a stick at, if that’s your idea of fun. Which is why GlobeSt.com had its brokerage managing director, Steve Zimmerman, write a piece about the latest trend in real estate: business…
Waaaaaay back in June, Jon Stewart first got the WTF giggles over that Central Kia spot in which a Barack Obama impersonator sells cars at low, low prices. You’ve probably seen the ad plenty since then; in fact, Central Kia — which has locations in Plano, Irving, Carrollton and Lewisville…
Out of 25 U.S. major metropolises surveyed for the just-released America’s Least Wasteful Cities study, Dallas ranks … 24th, ahead of only Atlanta. Some 4,000 folks nationwide participated in the survey, in which they were asked such things as: How long do you shower? How much trash do you create?…
I play sports because I love them. But I watch sports because I love to see done what I can’t do. I watch Tiger Woods because I can’t hit a 7-iron 210 yards. I watch Andy Roddick because I can’t hit a serve 149 mph. I watch Kobe Bryant because I…
Ryan and Tamisha Moats started off Monday with a Good Morning America exclusive in which Tamisha said she’d forgive Dallas police officer Robert Powell for those excruciating 13 minutes in a Plano hospital parking lot. Then Powell ended Monday with a KTVT-Channel 11 exclusive in which he apologized and said,…
Since the Dallas City Council approved the developer and operator agreements for the convention center hotel, the Vote No’ers have been eagerly awaiting an upswing in the bond market. A favorable shift would allow the city to land the 5.5 percent interest rate it deems reasonable before asking the council…
Brint Ryan in a press release urged fellow city council candidate Ann Margolin to stop misleading voters by campaigning on a senior tax issue that has already been proposed by City Manager Mary Suhm and the Dallas City Council. Ryan cited campaign materials sent out by Margolin, which tout her…
From GMA to NPR, the Ryan Moats-Robert Powell run-in remains the talk of the nation — by which I mean the story’s the subject of this 11-minute Tell Me More story airing on National Public Radio affiliates today. Host Michael Martin interviews at great length Dallas Assistant Police Chief Floyd…
This is not the time to talk politics. It’s the time to talk baseball. I’ll put my liberal left leaning on hold today because the Texas Rangers have announced – no surprise – that former Prez and former co-owner George W. Bush will throw out the first pitch before next…
Mayor Tom Leppert and wife Laura spent yesterday worshiping at churches in South Dallas, where services were interrupted so the mayor could give his convention center hotel sales pitch and instruct audience members how to vote May 9. “We need you to go to the polls and vote no on…
I am none too pleased about how my AFI Dallas International Film Festival schedule worked out for today: Instead of attending the Very Special Screening of Frederick Wiseman’s Neiman Marcus documentary The Store, scheduled for the AMC NorthPark at 4:15 p.m., I’ll be moderating a 5:30 panel about the state…
My March Madness bracket has long been in shambles. But my pick to win it all – UConn – is alive, well and poised to win the title next weekend in Detroit. If you called Michigan State over Louisville, kudos. If you predicted UConn, Villanova, North Carolina and the Spartans as…
He’s trying to hold on to his job as top cop in DeKalb County, Georgia — which isn’t stopping Terrell Bolton from also pursuing his wrongful termination claim filed against the city of Dallas. But you know who is putting a stop to it? The Supreme Court of the United…
Dallas Independent School District school board trustee Carla Ranger returned from the superintendent’s weekend “retreat” to post the rules concerning how the board fills a trustee’s seat (i.e., special election or appointment) should he or she leave before a term is up. Among the procedures: “If less than nine (9)…
Earth Hour Dallas from Charlie McRae on Vimeo.Down below you’ll find Justin Terveen’s photos from Saturday night, otherwise known as The Night the Lights Went Out in Dallas … Kinda. Charlie McRae captured the video — very Koyaanisqatsi. McRae too was underwhelmed…
A couple of weeks back we mentioned the findings of The City of Dallas Citizen Survey, recently posted to the city of Dallas’s Web site. The city council will finally get around to hashing over the findings at its Wednesday council briefing session, where the council will also get a…
