The NBA is a bunch of nit-twitts. Over the weekend the league fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $25,000 for his “criticism” of officials via Twitter, the real-time social network that allows schmucks like you and me to be flies on the walls of the rich, famous and exhibitionistic. Or…
The Ryan Moats-Robert Powell run-in keeps on running — this time to Good Morning America, where Moats and his wife Tamisha sit down for an exclusive with Robin Roberts, though not before a lengthy recap that includes the dash-cam footage and Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s apology. During the course…
Wishful thinking, maybe, that the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2009 would amount to much of anything in Dallas.With that long list of participating buildings, it was fun to imagine downtown without electricity for an hour at night — how eerie the darkened skyline would look, the potential for looting,…
Earlier today, the National Basketball Association lifted $25,000 from Mark Cuban’s pocket for comments Twittered after Friday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets. Tweeted the Dallas Mavericks’ owner, “how do they not call a tech on JR Smith for coming off the bench to taunt our player on the ground?”…
Well, no, I didn’t catch the Fashion Industry Gallery’s nude modeling session and AFI after-party last night. Just got through kicking myself long enough to sit down and post this photo from earlier in the night. (There’s probably a lesson to be learned about not leaving before the real party…
Hell of a time not to have Patrick Michels around — ’round midnight this morning at the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue, where nude and semi-nude women turned a life drawing workshop into a performance-art piece amidst other computer animation exhibits, open bars and a laptop deejay trying out…
Last night at the AMC NorthPark, where he accepted the AFI Dallas Star Award following a screening of Chinatown, the film’s writer, Robert Towne, spoke of how films were once the place where audiences and filmmakers met to share their stories. In the 1930s and ’40s, he said, those who…
I just spoke with Nicholas Cariotis, chief of the Check Division/Task Force on Identity Fraud at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office — and the man charged with prosecuting Bob Sambol, who, as we mentioned this morning, has been accused in an indictment of stealing $300,000 from investor and (former)…
Citing Wednesday’s editorial in The Dallas Morning News, Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel in a press release blasted Mayor Tom Leppert for misleading Dallas voters during the Trinity River toll road campaign by withholding information regarding the cost of the project and risk to the levees. The anti-hotel group also…
Noor Elashi is the 23-year-old daughter of Holy Land Foundation co-founder Ghassan Elashi, who found out only today that he will be sentenced in May following his conviction last November; he’s looking at 15 years to life in prison, after having been among those convicted of donating to Hamas following…
Patrick has posted his bang-up slide show from last night’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival kick-off, which comes with the most adorable photo of Rinko Kikuchi you’ll find anywhere and several others of Adrian Brody. Patrick also grabbed this one of writer-director Robert Towne, who will be at the AMC…
Last night’s affordable housing forum at Temple Emanu-El was a lesson in getting things right by “thinking wrong,” as architect Brent Brown likes to say. “Wrong,” in Brown’s view, really means “creatively.” Despite an intermittently functioning PowerPoint presentation, Brown wowed the mostly middle-aged, well-dressed audience of about 160 with slides…
In Portland, where a former mayor once toyed with the idea of turning an overpass into a park, one columnist is very jealous that in Dallas, we’re actually doing that very thing with the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. And getting some of it funded with stimulus dough to boot. Because,…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has just sent word that Alvaro Ivan Adame — a 40-year-old lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety who’s worked in the Drivers License Division as a supervisor at offices on Northwest Highway in Dallas and in Wichita Falls — was arrested this morning at…
Barack Obama has Pete Souza. And Tom Leppert has Patrick Michels…
Given the reaction of Friends of Unfair Park and Friends of Bob Sambol’s this morning, he’s perhaps the least likely most-wanted man in town, but there’s no disputing a Dallas County grand jury’s true bill indictment that landed in our in-box this morning: The namesake of the 16-year-old Bob’s Steak…
Later today, a longer recap from last night’s opening of the AFI Dallas International Film Festival at NorthPark Center, where Rian Johnson at last gave Dallas audiences a first look at his long-awaited The Brothers Bloom, starring fellow attendees Adrien Brody (an Oscar winner) and Rinko Kikuchi (an Oscar nominee)…
After the jump, the song for which the late, great W.W. Samuell High School graduate Dan Seals was best known: “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight,” performed, of course, with classmate John Ford Coley shortly before they moved back to Dowdy Ferry Road. But here’s the truly classic title…
Went out and toured “new” Rangers Ballpark last month. Well, not exactly new, but how about refurbished? New video scoreboard in left field. Information ribbons wrapping the place. A fashion-forward brick wall behind home plate. My thumbs-up review is here. With a heralded youth movement playing in a spit-shined stadium, there’s…
Shortly before the 2007 referendum on the Trinity Turnpike, I discussed a Dallas Morning News editorial written by Colleen McCain Nelson, in which she had a hard time grasping the difference between a floodway and a floodplain. It wasn’t the first time I disagreed with her as she appears to…
Embarrassed.That was the word used over and over by Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle during an afternoon press conference at DPD HQ during which he described how he felt about the conduct of police officer Robert Powell. As you’re no doubt aware by now, Powell detained Houston Texans running back…
Several neighbors and friends of the show attended yesterday’s public hearing of the Texas State Board of Education down in Austin in advance of today’s evolution vs. creationism vote — which ended in a 7-7 draw, meaning the board will not add, at the moment, language that requires public schools…
