Special Olympics’ “Renegade” Coach

Mark Graham Steve Fleming, the former Special Olympics coach, laments the state of Lewisville’s delegation since his dismissal. The current issue of Sports Illustrated has a story on Steve Fleming, the firebrand Lewisville coach who tried to change the nature of the Special Olympics and was kicked out in the…

Dallas-Born Judge Sharon Keller Is Getting More Popular Every Day

Judge Sharon Keller — or “Killer Keller” or “Sharon Killer,” depending on your level of clever Folks who consider themselves tough on crime love, love, love Dallas-born Judge Sharon Keller, who, in 1994, was elected as a Republican to the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals. (The Greenhill School and SMU…

Children of Dallas, Keep Your Bra Straps To Yourselves

This morning, Salon’s Broadsheet contributor Catherine Price posted an item on the excellent ladyblog about a recent push in Dallas-area schools to crack (hah) down on sexual harassment. In the item, Price asks, “Is it sexual harassment when a 7-year-old at a school in Duncanville, Texas, tells a classmate to…

Cleaning Up the Truck Stops, One Abused Woman At a Time

Office Terry Peters, better known as the Dallas Police Department’s “whore cop,” has gotten to know, and tried to help, prostitutes populating local truck stops such as this one. This morning I got a call from my favorite cop regarding my favorite crackhead, a former truck driver named Country who…

The Balls of October

Before the month of October fully unravels, we mustn’t forget that it has been officially designated National Popcorn Poppin’ Month. Which means Dallas lawyers are conceivably having a banner time of it, what with the recently reported emerging lethal disease called popcorn lung linked to a buttery flavoring additive called…

Bless Your iPod With Some Live St. Vincent

Whilst doing a little MP3 blog trolling over the weekend, we stumbled across a pleasant surprise: The night after Unfair Park fave St. Vincent joined the likes of Peter and the Wolf, Doug Burr, Tame…Tame and Quiet and many other notables at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, music…

Max Fischer in Dallas Tonight

Jason Schwartzman as affable a movie star as you’re likely to meet — and you’re likely to meet him tonight at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station, come to think of it. It’s not often an actor comes into pitch a movie after it’s in theaters, but in conjunction…

A New Man Law: Pullin’ Up Your Pants

Neither of these Web sites actually work, but who has time to write down the URLs while driving, anyway? Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s campaign to get Dallas to pull up its pants made it to National Public Radio; so too did Dooney Da Priest, whose “Pull Your Pants…

God’s Favorite Web Site

Back in March, we brought word — or should that be Word? — of GodTube, which was Dallas Theological Seminary student Chris Wyatt’s answer to, yup, YouTube. But only now, as the Dallas-based site — its HQ is off Skillman Street and Lovers Lane — becomes one of the hottest…

Um, Jim … Redux

Look, we went almost a whole day without mentioning the Trinity River toll road and The Dallas Morning News — I know, right? Alas, seems we oughta point out that The News’ managing editor, Gentleman George Rodrigue, is back at it today with another shot across Jim’s bow. In today’s…

Further Adventures in Healing Prayer

At the risk of sounding sappy — and oh, Bible Girl hates sounding sappy; must be a consequence of my crime reporter days — let me tell you something that is going to sound kinda sappy. When I prayed for a friend’s physical healing a few weeks ago and saw…

King Tut Gave His Life for Tourism

This morning, the Dallas Museum of Art confirmed what everyone already knew: Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs is returning to the DMA … in, oh, a year from now. DMA members can’t even buy tickets till April 2008; non-members, July ’08. But Dallas is the first city…

The “Vice and Virtue” of The Happy Bullets’ New Video

No, this isn’t the new Modest Mouse video — which is to say, the old Modest Mouse video. Rather, it’s the latest short from going-for-baroque Dallas-based pop-rockers The Happy Bullets. Titled “The Vice and Virtue Ministry” — an MP3 of which the band’s offering here, absolutely gratis — the clever…

Digging Deep Holes for the Future

Those who missed the Carter Albrecht Memorial concert Saturday night at the Granada Theater — and there were not many who did; it was packed with old friends and familiar faces — will find it a copy of the show, in its entirety, beginning tomorrow on Pegasus News’ site. You…

Wholeness in Dallas Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Healthiness

If you need Schutze today, he’ll be with Mayor Tom at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, where the Williams Institute is holding its third annual conference. Jim’s moderating a crime panel this afternoon — and, says the latest Wholeness Index, crime in Dallas is the worst in northwest Dallas, “mostly west…

The Marijuana “Muffin Boys” Received Their Punishment Today

Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Joseph Robert Tellini, at left, and Ian McConnell Walker received their sentences today for their pot brownie prank. Pamela Karnavas, a 10th grade English teacher at Lake Highlands High School, took the morning off to be in the court of Judge Lana Myers — for the…

Um, Jim …

Dallas Morning News managing editor George Rodrigue just accused you of “lunacy.” Called you a “polemicist.” Says you “demonize.” Insists you are “no longer acting as a journalist.” And he just hates my headline. Says it wasn’t “civil.” Oh, why do I get the feeling George Rodrigue ain’t seen nothing…

Fashion Week, Weak

Jaime Pressly’s still coming to town tomorrow night. But the rest of Dallas International Fashion Week’s gone out for cigarettes till further notice. Per an e-mail from Some Publicist this morning: “Dallas International Fashion Week is announcing its postponement of its planned launch October 20 – 26, 2007 until a…