Kim’s at the city council’s Public Safety Committee meeting this morning; she’s got a few crime-stat questions for Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, who brought with him to City Hall the latest crime report. Till she returns, these are the latest figures according to the DPD…
Former Dallas Morning News Cowboys beat writer Gary Myers’s new book doesn’t look like the easiest read for longtime fans of the home team: The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL. (And, with a foreword by Joe Montana!) Early word is good: Publishers Weekly…
Imagine the Byron Nelson Pavilion on steroids. And ecstasy. Then, about every 10 minutes, a fight breaks out. Welcome to Ultimate Fighting Championship 103, better known as the best place to see bullies, boobs, brawls and good ol’ blood on a Saturday night in Dallas. Scooch a bit, boxing. “Boxing,”…
“Ask a Mexican,” by Gustavo Arellano, September 17 Repatriate with a vengeance Our Mexican visitors come to Dallas to work, get free education for their kids and free medical help from out candy-ass hospitals who refuse to bill them. Yet, there is a silver lining to their visits. They can…
I’m on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who once worked for Gandhi and who specializes in the virtues of discipline and peace. Naturally, I’m late. I slept through two alarms and turned off the third, woke up an hour later, and now I’m speeding west on Highway…
Don’t blame the system: We’ve been hearing a lot of chatter from commenters on the Observer’s Web site about how former city council member Don Hill’s trial on charges of corruption is, in fact, an indictment of the city’s 14-1 council system. Under 14-1, created under federal court order in…
It’s cute when it happens in the movies and stars, oh, Andie McDowell and Gérard Depardieu or Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. But when you screw around with immigration documents and arrange for foreign nationals to marry U.S. citizens for permanent residence or citizenship, well, that’s a federal offense that…
Those trying to keep the Dallas Independent School District from razing W.H. Adamson High School have put out the word: Tomorrow’s the last chance to speak up before the board votes on the resolution to quash historical designation. It’s on the consent agenda for tomorrow, and Adamson alumni are marshalling…
View Larger MapFirst, a very brief history of Midway Road, which runs from Love Field Airport to the Shops of Willow Bend. As best as Rachel Howell, assistant manager of the Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division at the Dallas Public Library, and her colleague Brian Collins can determine, the road…
To the Friends of Unfair Park who were less than thrilled with how that whole Drew Barrymore meet-and-greet went down at Urban Outfitters last week, Roderick Stoker at Moroch, the agency handling PR for Whip It, has read your complaints and extends a sincere “so sorry.” He also invites you…
Earlier this month, Steve Thompson and Tanya Eiserer took a long, hard look at how the Dallas Police Department reports car burglaries and thefts — or, rather, how the DPD doesn’t report some car burglaries and thefts. The reason: the so-called Auto Theft Affidavit, which was introduced in June 2007…
Ann Margolin’s picking up where her predecessor, Mitchell Rasansky, left off: She ain’t voting for City Manager Mary Suhm’s budget, which the council is discussing at this very moment for those with time to kill. The District 13 council rep hinted as much a month ago, when she wrote that…
After 13 weeks and 45 trial days, jurors begin deliberations this afternoon in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial, determining the fates of former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, his wife Sheila, former plan commissioner D’Angelo Lee, community activist Darren Reagan and car dealer Rickey Robertson. I’m glad the end…
We’ve known all along that the city’s upping myriad fees to cover some of the $190-million budget shortfall in the budget that’ll get passed today by the city council and take effect October 1. But the best look yet at what’s to come is spelled out in Addendum Item No…
Rudy Bush has the story: The College Football Hall of Fame is indeed picking up and leaving South Bend, Indiana … for Atlanta! But, but, but. “We would not be pursuing this unless we had a good sense from our conversations that success was possible,” the mayor said in April…
Some time today, the Dallas City Council will approve City Manager Mary Suhm’s FY2009-2010 budget. And as a sort of preview, District 14 rep Angela Hunt last night posted a flashback to last year’s budget vote, when she warned on September 24, 2008, that “this budget is overly optimistic …..
Friend of the show Danny Bollinger, the Mavs man responsible for yesterday’s photo of Jason “Dorf” Terry in the team’s alternate unis, also brings us a significantly more high-def look at the American Airlines Center’s new scoreboards than our earlier sneak peek. And if this doesn’t do it for you,…
Back in April, you may recall, the Dallas Independent School District started auctioning off items former district secretary Gloria Orapello bought with her DISD-issued credit card. So, then, I was on Lone Star Auctions yesterday and noticed that DISD’s selling off a whole bunch of stuff, most of which clearly…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that at least one component of the Trinity River Corridor Project is close to being good to go — and, yup, that’s the Standing Wave whitewater-maker about which we wrote yesterday. As we learned today at the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project committee…
Much thanks to the many Friends of Unfair Park who’ve sent along the Associated Press’s EXCLUSIVE! report concerning the degree to which the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission investigates, um, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Because, sure, it’s one thing to discipline a few agents in a highly publicized raid-gone-wrong. But…
A Friend of Unfair Park, who I’m pretty sure works for North Texas Public Broadcasting, sends word: KXT-FM (91.7), the all-music sibling of KERA-FM (90.1) set to get its rocks off November 9, now has two tees up for grabs, each available for the pledge price of $60 if you…
Beginning Thursday through Sunday, Nina Kotova will sit in with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, as the acclaimed Russian cellist makes her Texas Instruments Classical Series bow. Hers is a particularly special debut in Dallas, as the occasional University of Texas at Austin visiting artist, former Charlie Rose guest and one-time…
