In the latest piece of depressing women’s health news from the Texas Legislature, The Dallas Morning News reported today that the House has voted to deny state funding to public hospitals that either perform “elective abortions” or “do business with entities that provide ‘abortion-related services,'” whatever that means.But that’s just…
If you liked The Association’s Game Four mini-movie, you’ll love the Game Five short film, which was just posted. Come for the in-game footage; stay for the behind-the-scenes stuff. “They’re in the way of our championship,” says LeBron James. Oh, really?…
This week, a couple dozen high-schoolers have been honing their design skills, trying to create the perfect plan for a social space adjacent to a community garden planned for a patch of land along Good-Latimer. Various plans for the space, just south of Canton Street, include a serpent that is…
Wednesday afternoon photo intern Taryn Walker stopped by the Living Plaza, which made its return to Dallas City Hall … and not for the final time, as organizers within OCP headquarters now expect it to become a monthly event, at least. Yet again, bcWORKSHOP’s shipping-container-turned-food-commissary was parked on the plaza,…
This morning, Courthouse News directs our attention to a legal dispute playing out in Judge Carlos Cortez’s courtroom: Country Music Television v. Time Warner Cable, filed by McKinney Ave. attorney Michael Raiff. The original complaint itself isn’t available: All of the available filings in the Dallas County District Clerk’s jacket…
This morning we find two items of local interest contained within the virtual pages of IndieWire. First: Long-ago Observer-er Dana Harris sends word that the extremely authorized Sarah Palin propaganda filmdocumentary The Undefeated has found a collaboratorexhibitor, the AMC chain of theaters. As a result its producers and distributors say…
It’s been three long months since Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr. filed his federal suit, so perhaps you’ve forgotten the details. Long story short: Schroeder — the sole son of Marshall, Texas’s own Wendy Russell Reves — claims the Dallas Museum of Art charmed and flattered and conspired to swindle his…
With The Finals tied 2-2, Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway finally made a sports bet with a Miami politician — not Mayor Tomás Regalado, but Miami-Dade County Commissioner Chairman Joe A. Martinez, who extended the wager. The note came from City Hall late yesterday:Caraway added a twist to the traditional bet: the…
10. So did he or didn’t he? Rashard Lewis I mean. Did he or didn’t he sleep with LeBron James’ girlfriend? Best guess: Maybe. 9. Remember when I said a faster pace would equal better looks for the Mavs on offense? With J.J. Barea joining the series and Jason Kidd pushing the ball…
The man seen at right is Thomas Michael Roberts, a 35-year-old Dallas Police say was among the parade of motorcyclists responsible for shutting down and spray-painting Central Expressway on Memorial Day. No doubt you’ve seen the video, which went from YouTube to Channel 5 Monday night — and led DPD…
Speaking of Fair Park …The very week we — and only we, for whatever reason — commemorate the June 6, 1936, opening of the Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park, more photos from The Baltimore Sun’s archives have appeared on eBay. You may recall only a few weeks ago I…
Seems like only four and a half years ago that Terri Moore joined the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office as Craig Watkins’s first assistant. But Moore, once a perennial candidate for the Tarrant County District Attorney’s job, is out effective July 1. So too is Mike Ware, head of the…
For 14 years, a salvaged portion of a Southern Pacific Railroad bridge from 1909 gathered dust, waiting to be recycled as main support of the trolley turntable now under construction at Cityplace Station near the West Village. Earlier today, a giant crane lifted the piece of bridge and lowered it…
We went over this last year: Despite the fact the Dallas Independent School District board was just given a presentation on preliminary TAKS scores for the school year that just wrapped, the Texas Education Agency won’t formally release its 2011 Accountability Ratings till July 29. That said, there are some…
The Dallas Independent School District board was just told it’s “still in limbo” when it comes to the exact dollar figure it can expect in cuts from the state Legislature, though something could land on Gov. Rick Perry’s desk as early as late next week. Right now, Senate Bill 1…
There is a big hole in Fair Park. Finally. Eventually the crater will be filled with a 500-foot pole surrounded by a doughnut-shaped slowly spinning glass chamber. This new rotating ride will give visitors a 360-degree view of Dallas and, so they say, rival the Texas Star. But you knew…
School’s out, but not for the Dallas Independent School District’s trustees, who’re meeting at this very moment (behind closed doors) before they look at two versions of the 2011-’12 budget — what they’re calling versions 5.1 and 6.0, which follow the iteration presented to the board on May 26 that…
In four NBA Finals’ fourth quarters, LeBron James has three baskets. He’s been outscored in the final quarters of this series by Dirk Nowitzki, 44-9. In Game 4 he not only scored a playoff career-low 8 points — first time in 433 games he’s been held below 10 — he let Jason…
They’ve been showing this video at American Airlines Center during The NBA Finals and it’s awesomely badass. Says Mavs’ general manager Donnie Nelson, “I’m sitting in a suite and by the time that thing ends everybody in there is standing up and cheering and they’ve got that look in their…
On the way out to the ballpark a couple of weeks ago, as we drove down 30 over Belt Line, the boy noticed for the first time how close the Trinity River runs next the freeway. I told him that’s known as the West Fork of the Trinity, which merges…
Lots of Texas Rangers’ catch-up to spread around today … *Back in spring training we all watched how Neftali Feliz would react to being stretched out as a potential starter. While Feliz wound up back in the bullpen, Alexi Ogando became the team’s oh-by-the-way No. 5 starter. And then he…
In the midst of all the chaos, clutter and claptrap that is a FOX4 news broadcast, the station found time last night to devote close to eight entire minutes to the fight amongst the Dallas County Commissioners over the redistricting map unveiled at Tuesday’s meeting, which caused Maurine Dickey to…
