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At least, maybe it should be when a Dallas couple turn their wedding vows into a bit. Though, we do wish them well in their heads-up match. –Robert Wilonsky…

Attorney turned film producer Sally Helppie This week, Dallas film producer Sally Helppie has been shooting footage for her second film, a supernatural thriller called The Beacon, at locations around Dallas and Waxahachie. Those dreaming of a life in Hollywood, take note: Helppie’s also a Carrollton mom with five kids…

Touchy, touchy: We originally called Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins last week to ask him about criticism he had received in some quarters for his handling of the forgery case against former Dallas Area Rapid Transit chairwoman Lynn Flint Shaw. That story was made tragically moot by the deaths…

Prominent Dallas political activists Lynn Flint Shaw and her husband, Rufus Shaw, dead Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide by gun, were players in a tight-knit circle of advisors to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert—a group keenly interested in city and Dallas Area Rapid Transit contracts. According to e-mails provided to the…

The Texas Rangers have demons. Demons they desperately need to exorcise, beginning in spring training at Surprise, Arizona. Most are self-spawned. All unwelcome. But the gnarly, persistent, debilitating demons remain nonetheless. Through the years they’ve manifested in peculiar places such as Roger Moret’s trance and Jose Canseco’s noggin and Kenny…

“Dense Thinking,” by Sam Merten, March 6 Tear It Up I anxiously await the demolition of this eyesore. It’s nice to finally know what is planned for this area. However, there are several apartment complexes near The Village area now under demolition. Does anyone know what is planned for these…

Amanda Brooks, we have a very legit business proposition to discuss with you. Picking up on Wednesday’s revelation in The New York Times that now-former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer got the high-priced pro treatment in Dallas, The Dallas Morning News follows with this piece about how, well, our hookers…

View Larger Map Early this morning over on DC9, Rich Lopez posted word that John Freeman has closed down the newish yet already beloved Sloppyworld — only because, well, five Dallas police officers and an assistant city attorney made him. See, Freeman — the genius behind Dooms U.K., Dutch Treats…

Yeah, that’s spelled right — because, see, Mayor Tom will be holding court tonight at Urban Market on Jackson Street. He’s speaking from 7-8 p.m., providing an “update on downtown” (less urine-y!) and then taking Your Questions, and I do believe we have a few. Better still, there are wining…

A scene from To the Ends of the Earth Not the most productive South by Southwest Film Festival for local filmmakers: The best story coming in and going out of Austin remains that of 15-year-old R.L. Turner sophomore John Gordon III, whose five-minute movie To the Ends of the Earth…

Dean Fearing, clearly not a role model for young chefs Speaking of The New York Times and Dallas and our city’s estimable pleasures, as we were one item down, today critic Frank Bruni releases the names of three more eateries that make his list of “Intriguing New Restaurants Outside of…

There’s a Dallas connection to Eliot Spitzer after all: Turns out, reports The New York Times, the almost-former Democratic first-term New York governor funneled a little of that long green into the local economy. As in: “A person with knowledge of the service’s operations said that Mr. Spitzer had begun…

PBS.org Tom Pauken, owner of Dallas Blog Late this morning, Dallas Blog owner Tom Pauken posted a brief piece regarding the death of Dallas Blog columnist Rufus Shaw, in which he described him as a friend and touted his achievements as an SMU football player, community leader and writer. Pauken,…

A Friend of Unfair Park sends us this link to an Associated Press video concerning a dispute over a KKK supply store in Laurens, South Carolina, where you can load up on swastika stickers (swastickers?), Confederate-flag patches and other racist doodads. The reason our Friends shot us the link? The…

No doubt, a thousand other bloggers will provide you with a far better photo of Mark Cuban, on stage at left, and Michael Eisner, speaking today at SXSW. A true South by Southwest film fest first: a waiting line to get into a panel. Course, this was the Mark Cuban-Michael…

Rufus Shaw Shortly before 10:30 a.m., Dallas police Lt. Craig Miller, commander of the homicide unit, confirmed what had already become evident in the light of day: Late yesterday, Dallas Blog political columnist Rufus Shaw took a handgun and shot his wife, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit chair Lynn Flint…