As he promised last week, right after we first mentioned Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s offer to swap guns for $50 Kroger gift cards, D contributing editor Trey Garrison went out to Reunion Arena to make folks a better offer. (The city collected 147, incidentally.) What he and Best…
Fort Worth-based filmmaker Tom Huckabee’s first feature was a post-apocalyptic William S. Burroughs adaptation, in which a 19-year-old Bill Paxton gets a brainwashing and a sex change from militant feminists.For his second feature now, 26 years later, Huckabee is tackling slightly milder themes, like family ties and caring for the…
Don’t like Jon Kitna? Could be worse. The Dallas Cowboys could still be counting on this clown. Never bought Quincy Carter’s God act when he used to tape scriptures to his locker at Valley Ranch and demand you ask him about his faith during interviews. Just as I never bought…
Speaking of historic properties … an entirely unrelated eBay search over the weekend turned up this gem: a very hard-to-find, hand-colored page from the American Architect and Building News, dating back to November 21, 1896, and yours for the low, low price of $49 plus shipping. What you’re looking at…
Ever since last summer, the city — specifically, Development Services and the City Attorney’s Office — have been attempting to streamline the process that allows for the demolition of buildings in historic districts that it considers “an imminent threat to health or safety.” Initially, the Landmark Commission was horrified by…
Every so often in city council committee briefings, you’ll see the words “Forward Dallas!,” which kinda rings a bell? Anyway, there’s that phrase again this morning — this time in the Economic Development Committee’s briefing package labeled Streetscape Licenses. As “walkability” is the new buzz word, this morning the committee…
I know, whadd’ya say we raid the roster of the only winless roster in NFL history?! Eurrrrrreeeeeka! It only (let’s hope) seems like the Cowboys have targeted the 0-16 Detroit Lions as the supply ship for reinforcements. After nabbing Roy (Receiver) Williams during the season, Dallas acquired backup quarterback Jon…
See more photos from the night here in our slide show.While kids across the country flocked to theaters to catch the Jonas Brothers in concert on the big screen this weekend, the teen-pop trio treated fans and press to a special engagement in Grapevine. For those of us waiting for…
There are plenty of interesting council committee briefings scheduled for Monday; we’ll get to them in the a.m., as usual. But this early sneak preview courtesy the Public Safety Committee: the results of Public Trust and Confidence in the Police: The 2008 Dallas Community Survey provided by the recently created…
While Mayor Tom Leppert continues to dodge questions about his plans to take over the Dallas Independent School District, there’s been no shortage of politicos willing to offer their thoughts on the topic. Since the news broke one week ago today, we’d been attempting to get a hold of Senator…
You’re a fan of the Beatles, right? What’s that you say? No? Hunh. My bad. So sorry. Then if I were you, I most certainly wouldn’t bother with this. Didn’t mean to trouble you on a Friday night. Never mind then. Get back to what you were doing…
The Dallas County Republican Party continued to pick up the pieces from another rough election cycle as it celebrated its largest annual fund-raiser last night at the Westin Park Central Hotel. The Reagan Day Dinner featured House Speaker Joe Straus and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who spoke to dozens…
As you no doubt recall, Dallas police Senior Corporal Victor Lozada was killed on February 22, 2008, when his motorcycle hit a curb as he was escorting Hillary Clinton to a campaign rally in Oak Cliff. Lozada was 49, and he’d been on the job for 19 years. One year…
I’m on a tight budget — but, right, who isn’t? So when my boyfriend suggested we check out the inventory of police-confiscated property for sale at a nearby warehouse, I jumped at the opportunity.The City Store, located off Stemmons Freeway on Irving Boulevard, sells seized property, lost junk and city…
Chip Babcock’s representing Judge Sharon Keller in her fight with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which last week alleged five violations of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct that could lead to her removal from the bench following a public hearing. And he’s plenty upset about how much this…
Producer-director Michael Roland Williams has a tough sell on his hands: a documentary about black mold and how it led to the shuttering of the 264-unit Saratoga Springs Apartments apartment complex in Addison, the subject of this Wall Street Journal story. Williams and girlfriend Karen Noseff, then attending law school…
Moments ago, the city of Dallas posted a little more than eight minutes’ worth of video from the mayor’s press conference Tuesday, during which he and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives discussed the “unacceptable” rating given some parts of the Trinity River’s levee system. As Jim and Sam have…
I’m only half-kidding when I ask this: Was it worth it for South Oak Cliff High School to change the grades of three players – including McDonald’s All-American Darrell Arthur – and win back-to-back state basketball championships in 2005-06, only to have the titles later forfeited? At the time SOC’s wins…
When last we heard from former Dallas Cowboys QB Quincy Carter, he was starting all over (again) down in South Texas. Two weeks before Christmas, he signed a contract with the Rio Grande Valley Dorados of arenafootball2, whose GM, Grant W. Buckborough, welcomed him as a savior: “Not only do…
A few days back, a Friend of Unfair Park wondered what was up with the old LTV Tower, once a crown jewel in downtown courtesy its bright night lights. Turns out, a couple weeks back there was a joint meeting of the Downtown Connection TIF Board and Downtown Dallas Development…
Going: Brad Johnson. Coming: Trent Green? Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said his team won’t make a “big splash” in NFL free agency that kicks off right about now. Maybe not, but he does need to make at least a ripple with the signing of a backup quarterback, inside linebacker and safety…
We’ve been hearing the rumors for some time, well before Matt Pulle began writing his story about the struggling Victory Park: Quiksilver, among the first tenants in the Hillwood project, would be closing sooner than later, as word was the place would go days without posting a single sale. Well,…
