If you need wheels to leave town for the weekend or if your windshield looks like a spider web after this week’s hailstorm, don’t wait until the last minute to get a car. You will be turned down by several rental companies, and you will be among a few lucky…
One thing the city of Dallas won’t have to deal with in its attempt to keep the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination classy is a lot of new information that complicates our picture of November 22, 1963. Salon reported yesterday that the National Archives is refusing to release 1,171 classified…
Now that the race for North Texas’ newest congressional seat has officially been whittled down from a dozen to just two, it has transformed from an entertaining, no-holds-barred political cockfight with several amusing sideshows into a ethno-geographical scramble for endorsements. A mess, in other, smaller words. A couple of days…
Five months to go and Republicans are waking up to the awful realization that over the course of the primary season — the last five or six years, really — they’ve done their level-best to alienate the largest minority demographic not only in Texas, but in the nation. It is…
If you’ve ever thought that some of those fly-by-night cash-for-gold operations that sprout like weeds when the economy sucks are a scam, well, so does the U.S. Secret Service. Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’ office sent word yesterday that a two-year joint investigation with the Secret Service wrapped up…
Three additional suspects were indicted yesterday for allegedly dousing a puppy in flammable liquid and lighting it on fire at a Pleasant Grove apartment complex in early April. The puppy, named Justice by people who rescued it, ultimately died from the burns that covered most of its body. Darius Ewing,…
Museum Tower and the Nasher Sculpture Center have been in mediation for months now to try to hammer out the Case of All That Incredibly Reflective Glass. In an interview with The Dallas Morning News today, Nasher architect Renzo Piano harshly criticized Museum Tower’s owners and developers, saying that in…
DART is in the midst of a series of community meetings to explain its proposed fare changes. The in-person get-togethers seem to have gone swimmingly, but this afternoon, DART went all 21st century for a one-hour Twitter town hall from 1 to 2 p.m. today. Awfully brave, I thought. Something…
If you are a roof, a delicate glass sculpture or one of the cars stuck in the open because of the assholes who took shelter under one of the overpasses on Central, yesterday was not a good day. Days usually aren’t when you’re pelted with chunks of ice the size…
On Memorial Day, two Mormon missionaries stopped by Rare and Out of Print Books and Art in Mesa, Arizona, to have their picture taken with a first edition of the Book of Mormon that was kept there. But when store owner Helen Schlie looked in the fireproof box where she…
When it meets later this morning, the DISD Board of Trustees will get an update on efforts to boost the number of students taking and passing Advanced Placement exams. As the graph above shows, the short answer is, a helluva lot more than there used to be. Right at a…
I know what you’re thinking: Come December, when DART opens its station at DFW Airport, you’ll just slide your luxury vehicle into one of the 597 brand-new parking spaces at the Orange Line terminus while you hop on Lufthansa for your European ski holiday. After all, there’s plenty of space…
Sixteen years ago, the last time a bunch of well-funded outsiders tried to reform the Dallas School system, the results were a disaster. I remember it. Some of you may too. Now the same kind of movement is starting up again, and so far it’s been smooth as silk. So…
Reports of smashed car windows, skylights and pretty-expensive-art exhibits rolled on Twitter this evening, as egg-to-baseball sized hail fell in Dallas. The storm hit right around the time the Dallas reboot kicked in on TNT, which meteorologists said was due to Mother Nature’s hatred for Patrick Duffy. First, some video…
The Dallas Police Department sends word that it has suspended officer Jakarsha Carter following a family violence call early this morning. According to the police report, Carter, 29, and a 25-year-old woman were arguing in a car in the 9800 block of Sophora Circle just after midnight. When the woman…
View Larger Map Remember a few weeks ago when the FBI said that John Wiley Price had sold the vacant land 7001 Grady Niblo Road as part of a massive money laundering scheme? The property was at the center of another, less sensational but probably related debate over at City…
Today, City Council member Dwaine Caraway relaunched his war on saggy pants with a press conference/”Pull ‘Em Up” summit in City Hall, and it was without a doubt the single best thing to ever happen to Dallas. First there was the star-studded cast of characters: all of City Council, except…
Update at 3:46 p.m.Methodist says nuh uh. Spokeswoman Sandra Minatra sends word via email: Thanks for contacting us for a response to the release of a statement by a small subset of members of the Oak Cliff Gateway committee. It is our understanding that the full recommendations of the committee…
Texas has become the top destination for refugee resettlement, with Dallas the second largest hub, according to recent statistics. It became the main destination for resettlement as of last year, rising from number five in 2001. In an article earlier this week, the Houston Chronicle reported that Texas’ rise in…
The Houston Chronicle tried yesterday afternoon to prove that Houston is better, or at least sucks less, than Dallas. Tried and failed. Sorry to piss on your parade, Alyson Ward, but that debate has been settled: Houston blows way harder than we do. Ward says that Houston has a better…
Wait. You knew that man and dinosaur walked the earth hand-in-talon, right? Happened about 6,000 years ago? “And on the fifth day God created dinosaurs and on the sixth He made man to rideth upon them.”? Well how exactly do you explain these fossil things that keep turning up? I…
This is the type of weirdness that the re-boot of Dallas has created. The show premieres tonight on TNT — we’ll see you at the Angelika, right? — and in celebration, the channel and Groupon are giving away a deal that a journalism school grad turned Groupon copywriter predictably felt…
