A little while ago the city’s Park and Rec Department posted to its Hike & Bike Trails Facebook page the photo you see above. It was accompanied by the note: “Check out the new addition to the Trinity Forest Trail — a new trail bridge was just added this week!…
As we noted just last month, a group of parents with kids at the First Presbyterian Church Developmental Day School on St. Paul are upset that a permanent supportive housing project (PSH) for the chronically homeless may be going up next door to the school. They’re especially concerned that parts…
Remember when Dwaine Caraway gave Michael Vick a key to the city of Dallas and everyone got outraged and then-Mayor Tom Leppert had the city clamp down on who had access to the prize closet and Caraway said but look, man, I did it for the children? Yeah. Good times…
It wasn’t even two years ago that the Texas DMV enlisted a private contractor to design vanity license plates for the state’s drivers, one of the first such partnerships in the country. But after 18 months of the contractor throwing just about anything you could think of on Texas bumpers,…
Determining the best Mavs’ pick of all-time is simple: Dirk Nowitzki. You know the story. In 1998 then-general manager Don Nelson took the giant German in a draft-day switcheroo with the Milwaukee Bucks for the late, not-so-great Robert “Tractor” Trayor. Just a week after their championship parade climaxed in the…
Maybe you’ve seen the ads: On Wednesday we’re co-sponsoring a special screening of Gasland at the Texas Theatre, which isn’t the only movie we’re screening next week. More about that later. But Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated film, as you probably know, features that now-infamous scene of a Colorado man being able…
Arizona forward Derrick Williams is a beast. He has 3-point shooting range, can score in the paint with either hand and has an NBA body that can bang and rebound on the low blocks. And that’s it. The rest of the 2011 NBA Draft class: Weak to questionable. Yes, even projected…
[Update at 9:40 a.m.: Shortly after I posted this, Mark Cuban’s attorney called to talk about the response to yesterday’s filing. Our interview follows after the jump.]We’ve written about and spoken to Fish & Richardson’s Tom Melsheimer on numerous occasions, most often and most recently regarding his representation of Tom…
It would appear that Robert Lange, a social studies teacher at Williams High School in Plano, is well-liked by his students; one writes that he was “was the coolest teacher I have ever had.” And not so long ago he was awarded cash money for having been named a finalist…
Was gonna construct a list of the Rangers’ worst losses this season, then I realized after last night’s 5-3 self-Heimlich to the Houston Astros … there is no No. 2.Two-run lead in the 9th. All-Star closer Neftali Feliz on the mound. At home. Against the worst team in baseball. And one…
I had the audacity to write the truth about Charles Haley. And this was my castigation. Between 1992 and 1994, I made a lot of visits to the Cowboys’ locker room at Valley Ranch. On most of them, I was serenaded by Charles Haley, one of the baddest people and…
We are about to spend $40 million to build less than two miles of modern streetcar line linking downtown Dallas to Oak Cliff. A few things to keep in mind: •According to the experts, modern streetcars are no better at carrying people around than other transit methods, maybe a little…
Speak up, son: So, Wick Allison, publisher of D Magazine, long ago dropped his support for the city’s controversial plan to build a toll road between the Trinity River levees. Who knew? We sure didn’t. Last we’d heard, D was still a member of the toll road’s cheerleading squad led…
Earlier today, in an item he’s since updated, Rudy Bush noted the death of Leslie Allen Davis, among the rare regulars at the city council’s public-speakers podium whose presence was welcomed by city officials. They’ve long been charmed by his warm wishes. How Davis died remains a mystery: The police…
Moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent a note telling media types to head to its Facebook page for a very special announcement. OK. Let’s see … Ah. “Dallas Police Make Second Arrest in Biker Incident.” And by “biker incident,” of course, the DPD’s referring to the parade of motorcyclists…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Back on March 25, a still-unidentified Southwest Airlines pilot was somewhere over the great state of Texas when he decided to use his open mike to review the Love Field-based carrier’s flight attendants. Said the fellow, all he could find on his route were “11 fucking over-the…
Found this in the in-box: a few words from Alamo Drafthouse CEO and founder Tim League, who wanted to explain why he decided to add Bottle Rocket to its Rolling Roadshow revue, which has taken iconic Texas-made films to the towns in which they were filmed. The series, which was…
For as long as anyone can recall — at least six years, right? — there’s been an attempt to create a Stevens Park Conservation District intended to preserve the neighborhood around the Oak Cliff golf course. Most of the homeowners in the area are behind it; so too Oak Cliff…
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Most of the time, when the subject of scrap-metal recyclers comes before the Dallas City Council the conversation grows contentious, with southern sector council members and residents wondering, yet again, why their part of the city, which lacks grocery stores and movie theaters and other quality-of-life basics, is the one…
No, really. At the 1:41 mark. Pete thinks it’s hilarious…
From time to time we’ll come across federal suits filed by scorned subscribers to Preston Center-based Match.com, all of whom more or less say the same thing: The dating service is nothing but a tease, its “winks” little more than hollow promises of hook-ups between prospective partners — one of…
