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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
USA Boxing Duncanville’s Luis Yanez is already being hyped as USA Boxing’s best and brightest — we’ll find out this week in Chicago, just maybe. Duncanville High School product Luis Yanez turns a whopping 19 on Thursday, and as an early birthday present, the kid is the recipient of a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Weird game yesterday: Dallas rolls into its bye week at 6-1 after yesterday’s 10-point victory over the Vikings that felt more than 30. Didn’t it? Tony Romo was 28 of 32 in the first half, yet somehow Dallas trailed by seven. The second half featured the Cowboys’ first return of…
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…
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…
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…
More than two decades after being convicted of murder, Clay Chabot will get another trial. Clay Chabot stays in prison — for now. For 21 years, Clay Chabot has been imprisoned for the 1986 murder of Galua Crosby. But a A DNA test has implicated the state’s chief witness against…
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…
At this very moment, beloved Club Dada doorman John “Beard” Brewer is being released from Parkland Memorial Hospital — great news after a long, hard week during which Beard was, for the most part, confined to an intensive care unit after suffering a seizure last Friday. This morning, “Gentleman Musicianer…
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…
