… like these folks. Because, at last, something interesting on the Dallas City Council’s Wednesday agenda: Bushgate. No doubt the council will approve President Bush’s request for a security gate on Daria Drive and Meaders Lane, site of George and Laura’s new home near Preston Hollow. (That’s where Dubya expects…
When the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meets today, it’ll get a sneak peek at the new and improved IH30-U.S. 80 — the so-called “East Corridor,” or at least the concept of it. For now, of course, this proposal — the brainchild of Friends of Fair Park’s Craig…
If you missed Pacman Jones on CBS’ NFL pre-game Saturday afternoon, here are the highlights lowlights: *His hair was in a sorta mohawk, stolen from Wesley Snipes’ Blade, and he was wearing a cheesy, white sports jacket, a la Don Johnson in Miami frigging’ Vice. *He used “man” as some of puntcuator…
A decade ago, I interviewed Kevin Sullivan on his last day as the Dallas Mavericks’ vice president of communications, a job he’d held for 18 years — since the team’s inception in 1980. It seemed like a good idea to do another exit interview today, because Sullivan, pictured above with…
How do you freak out a serious stage actor? Ask him or her to do some improv. On video.That’s what we did with members of the new Dallas Theater Center resident acting company. After we conducted the serious interviews about being ack-tohrs in big-time regional theater, we made them act…
Tomorrow up in Plano, animal-rights activists are scheduled to bark at Petland, which is being accused of selling dogs bred in puppy mills. The exact location’s 340 Coit Road near the Bush Turnpike, if you’re in the area and wondering about the barking. (No word about plans for the Preston…
Don’t know if you’re aware of this, as it hasn’t made the local news yet, but on Wednesday, State Rep. Myra Crownover, a Republican from Denton, filed House Bill 5 — yet another attempt to create a statewide smoking ban similar to the ordinance passed by the Dallas City Council…
A.H. Belo hopes you think so, because The Dallas Morning News just posted the following notice: Starting Feb. 9, The Dallas Morning News will increase the newsstand price of its Monday-through-Saturday newspapers to one dollar from the current level of 75 cents. The News attributed the price hike to continued…
That’s the word from Newsarama.com, which says that come November, the Arlington Convention Center will no longer be cram-packed with action figures, comic books and other fanboys favorites brought to the DFW courtesy the annual WizardWorld comic convention. Which comes as little surprise: Attendees of this year’s event say attendance…
(Helping Dallas secure a convention center hotel earned DCVB President and CEO Phillip Jones a bonus larger than most people’s paychecks./Sam Merten) When Harlan Crow launched a petition drive to give Dallas voters a say in publicly financing a $525 million convention center hotel, proponents of the project cried foul,…
It’s gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain’t got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it’s time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That’s right, you’re spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with “Hopelessly Devoted to You II,” the second…
To quote Brad Sham: “What a pitiful display by the Dallas Cowboys.” And, to think, we thought they’d still be playing come 2009. – Richie Whitt …
Oxford University Press has just published Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic, written by UT Southwestern Medical Center professor of cell biology Frederick Grinnell, pictured here. In the tome, Grinnell writes on his Web site, “I will suggest that science and religion represent distinct…
After the jump, meet Eclipse, the City of Dallas’s “Pet of the Week” — a chihuahua discovered while digging in the garbage who’s been “vaccinated, micro-chipped and sterilized” and is ready to roll if you’re looking to adopt a stray. Dallas Animal Services has turned to YouTube in an effort…
T. Boone Pickens, out peddling his plan to ween the U.S. off the foreign-oil teat since July, has long maintained that natural gas is the future. FedEx CEO Fred Smith says: Nope, sorry hybrids are the future. Notes this morning’s Wall Street Journal, the disagreement’s getting awful big and growing…
In between the few highlights of an entirely underwhelming college football championship game between what looked like two very average quarterbacks, I sneaked some peeks last night at your Dallas Mavericks. What’d I see? Another win, pushing their record to an impressive 22-13. Another unimpressive performance, this time barely outlasting the lowly…
View Larger MapI was at City Hall this afternoon, where I ran into City Plan Commission Neil Emmons, who reminded me, yet again, that there is no such thing as a slam dunk at City Hall. As it happens, that small street name-change I mentioned this morning — turning Shepherd…
As addressed in our March 2007 cover story, Senator Royce West is a powerful guy who makes a lot of dough collecting legal fees from the Dallas Independent School District. At the time, former Observer staff writer Matt Pulle reported payments of nearly $2.5 million from DISD to West in…
The cover story in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park is a look at Galveston months after Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc on Texas’s Gulf Coast. To accompany the piece, Daniel Kramer and editor Monica Fuentes offer this multimedia piece depicting the city as it (barely) stands today. –Patrick Michels…
First off, Unfair Park calls dibs on the movie adaptation of the story of Jorge Gomez Pinto Sr. Just so we’re clear. Because what follows, again courtesy the U.S. Attorney’s Office, is a crisply written tragicomic short story about a restaurant owner who’s due in Fort Worth federal court at…
UPDATE: Our Village Voice sister paper in Palm Beach will be live blogging from the game tonight. Pop Quiz: A) I’m jazzed about tonight’s BCS National Championship Game, pitting the two best teams in college football this season. B) I’m mildy interested, even though I think Southern Cal, Texas and Utah…
The next production at the Dallas Theater Center, In the Beginning (opening January 21), also marks the start of a new era for actors at the 50-year-old playhouse. It will be the first production to star all of the members of artistic director Kevin Moriarty’s new nine-member resident acting company:…
