Pete Freedman See, on occasion it pays to get out of the office. As in, some of us were dining this afternoon at the Taco Diner in the West Village — enh — when, on the way back, Merritt Martin’s back-seat passenger snapped this pic of the fire at the…
Pastor Tony Evans of the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church For the last several days, the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia, has been running classified ads in which free English Bulldog pups are being offered. Only, once you respond to the e-mail address at the bottom, you get another…
This morning we received a media release from Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute, about which I wrote a couple of years back, celebrating U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn’s decision today to uphold the state’s law mandating that schoolchildren start their mornings with a moment of silence. David and Shannon Croft,…
Personally, I’m rooting for Snøhetta to get the museum gig — if only because it designed this building, which is scheduled for construction in the United Arab Emirates. It seems … I dunno … very Dallas. This just in: At 2 p.m Tuesday at the Victory Park Sales Center, reps…
Tomorrow night, Frank Campagna’s Kettle Art in Deep Ellum will play host to a singular event: a retrospective of films made in and about — where else? — Deep Ellum. The lineup encompasses both past and present, with such offerings as historian Alan Govenar’s 1985 film Deep Ellum Blues (a…
According to today’s Wall Street Journal, Dallas-based Comerica will partner with the U.S. Treasury Department on a prepaid debit card for folks receiving Social Security benefits. The purpose of the so-called Direct Express card is to “provide safer and cheaper benefits payments” for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income recipients…
Colorado-based Denver Glass Machinery manufactures equipment for “the professional glass artist.” Mesquite-based Paragon Industries likewise manufactures kilns and furnaces for the glass-making and clay-baking enthusiast; has, in fact, since 1948. The two companies could be considered rivals. If nothing else, after Paragon filed suit in Dallas federal court last week,…
Sterling Winfield Sterling Winfield’s a producer and engineer best known for having produced albums by Pantera (the band’s adios, Reinventing The Steel) and the post-Pantera projects Damageplan and Hellyeah. (Says his Nomad Studios bio, he’s also “worked and toured with” everyone from Metallica to the Foo Fighters to the Fugees.)…
In story after story this morning, Charles Chatman has said the same thing: People will know my story. Surely, you know it by now: The 47-year-old Chatman, sentenced to prison in 1981 years ago for aggravated rape, yesterday became the 15th wrongfully convicted prisoner in Dallas County to be exonerated…
NBC News Priscilla Ceballos on Today today Seems America (or, at least, Matt Lauer) cannot get enough of Priscilla Ceballos, the mom who faked that dead-daddy-in-Iraq letter to score her 6-year-old daughter some Hannah Montana tickets. More than a week after the 25-year-old mother of three was first busted by…
So, now we know a little more about what’s planned for what will be the former AMC Loews Cityplace 14 come Sunday: a mixed-use development. Indeed, from all accounts, Georgia-based buyer Inland American Communities plans for the Cityplace side of North Central Expressway a development very much like the one…
Yaser Abdel Said Not 48 hours after the shooting deaths of two teenage sisters in Irving, the blogosphere is atwitter with the missives of angry scribes who’ve already branded the girls’ father, 50-year-old cab driver Yaser Abdel Said, an “honor killer” in a frenzy of Oh-my-God-Muslims-are-ruining-our-country hysteria. And police have…
Our old pal J.D. Freeman, Dallas-Fort Worth’s market manager for Clear Channel Radio, fills us in today concerning some changes around the DFW dial. As in: KDGE-FM (102.1) needs a new morning show, as Lex & Terry are moving over to the recently resuscitated KEGL-FM (97.1) come January 9. (The…
Today, The Economist weighs in on the state’s new “pole tax,” which wriggles an extra fiver out of a strip-joint patron’s wallet before he or she’s even in the door. And while The Economist absolutely agrees that the dough’s being raised for a good cause — helping victims of sexual…
More good news for American Airlines, which is starting the year with two false-imprisonment lawsuits hanging over its head. Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation released its Air Travel Consumer Report for November, and of the 20 major carriers in the United States, Fort Worth-based American ranked 19th in on-time…
Another sportsy item for reading, possibly with shoulders slumping and eyelids closing: Roy Williams was just added to the NFC’s Pro Bowl squad, making this the fifth consecutive Pro Bowl for the Cowboys strong safety who really shouldn’t be getting that free ticket to Honolulu. (Seems like a nice guy,…
Nine months after Deferential Dirk got his ass shackled, shocked and shelved by the Golden State Warriors, Decisive Dirk exacted some revenge last night. OK, so the 22-point blowout is, like, only an ounce of revenge, but that’s some, right? In his best performance in a Mavs season that’s been…
Forty-year-old Monique Blasko of Frisco is a school crossing guard; she and her husband, who have three children, also run a business buying other folks’ garage-sale items to sell on eBay. Fact is, I learned a great deal about Blasko today, as this morning she’s “the commuter” featured at some…
A year ago, then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller was in the midst of that contentious battle with TXU over its plan to build at least 11 new coal-fired power plants throughout the state. Now, she’s among the stars of a documentary about that fight, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars. The 30-minute…
Aunt Fannie’s Butt Jim Schutze’s kind and understated article “Slow Train Coming” (December 20) should really have been titled “Decrepit and Totally Dead Middle Ages Oxcart Left on the Side of the Road.” I have lived in Dallas for more than 27 years, and never in my born days have…
Dear Dallas, We need to talk. You’re a really great city, and you’re really nice and all, but things are not working out for me right now. No, shhh, listen! I have so much respect for you, and I’m so glad we met. But it’s not you. It’s me. I’ve…
A maverick female city council member challenges the powers that be at City Hall all by her lonesome. Voters trek to the polls to decide the fate of the Trinity River project: Will it be a park or an expressway? The feds are sniffing around alleged corruption among southern Dallas…
