For the most part, Adam “Pacman” Jones’ day on The Michael Irvin Show sounded like this: “I had a horrible childhood” and “It was blown outta proportion.” Finally, in hour three of his sit-in, we got to the relevant stuff. Jones, currently the property of the Tennessee Titans, does indeed…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement What this photo of the T. Don Hutto detention center doesn’t adequately communicate is the smell of urine and fear. This month brings some interesting and troubling tidbits on our favorite immigrant detention center, the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility — which, as you…
On Sunday, some folks flying into Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport from Europe will be doused with, ah, “Showers of Affection” courtesy the airport’s fire department. Well, technically, only the plane’s will get doused as they taxi to the gate; passengers are free to get wet however they see fit after…
Rev. Jeremiah Wright will actually be in Dallas this weekend, not Fort Worth. On its Web site for the State of the Black Church Summit, which takes place this weekend, TCU’s Brite Divinity School reveals the new location for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s appearance — and, hey, now it’s smack…
Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson Friends of Unfair Park know all too well the hot water in which former Dallas Housing Authority president and CEO Alphonso Jackson’s bathing these days, so no point in rehashing it when the history lesson’s but a click away. But for those in need of more…
Lewisville-based Institute for Policy Innovation — the Dick Armey-founded “non-profit, non-partisan public policy ‘think tank'” — will be in D.C. this week, hosting a chitchat at the National Press Club called “Trade and the Race for the White House: Exploring the Candidates’ Positions.” John McCain’s sending someone: a former director…
Seven years ago, Lyons Partnership — the Allen-based company best known for feeding and bathing Barney — paid the dino’s creator, Plano’s Sheryl Leach — some $65 million as a “contract termination payment” when HIT Entertainment took the leash. Only, says the Internal Revenue Service now, that lump-sum payment wasn’t…
So much to say about the new-look Dallas Morning News, which has apparently been redesigned for old people (bigger type!) and 7-year-olds (“We’ve added color”!). But not to leave out the big-screen owner, in the, ah, “reader’s guide” found on Page 10A of the paper there’s this note concerning the…
If you’d like this to be part of your job description, Dallas is woefully short on air marshals. The Transportation Security Administration’s looking for air marshals — about 50 of ’em, if you’re in need of a job. Pay ain’t bad, between $37,683.00 and $86,857, though you might have to…
Over on DC9 at Night, music editor Pete Freedman chats with John Freeman about the fate and state of Sloppyworld, which was shut down by the city earlier this month because the venue does not yet have its certificate of occupancy. Turns out, Sloppyworld’s a thing of the past, as…
Tomorrow, Shared Hope International, which investigates and documents incidents of sex trafficking across the country, will release the first in a series of reports that detail how 10 American cities respond to victims of the sex trade. Tomorrow’s report focuses on Las Vegas, and an assessment of the Dallas-Fort Worth…
The Green Spot and Market, which opened on N. Buckner Boulevard about a month ago, is perhaps best described as a feel-good 7-Eleven: You pull up, pump some biodiesel into your hybrid and snag yourself an Odwalla bar and a bottle of Pom. It doesn’t get more biodegradable and antioxidant…
A scene from Battle in Seattle, AFI Dallas’ closing-night film — and the reason Charlize Theron and Andre Benjamin are coming to town next week It took all of one year, and several million dollars provided by the likes of Target, for the AFI Dallas International Film Festival to establish…
Just got the official word from the Mavericks: “Dirk Nowitzki has a moderate high left ankle sprain and a mild left knee sprain. He is currently walking in a protective boot without crutches. No timetable is set for his return.” OK, words like “moderate” and “mild” are a relief –…
Though he was cued up for sentencing March 12, convicted Colleyville network marketing and anti-government guru (and Alabama gubernatorial candidate) James Phipps had his sentencing hearing vacated. At the moment, Phipps languishes in Seagoville federal prison with a potential 20- to 27-year sentence hanging over his head. But it seems…
Hermes Nye From the nostalgia section comes this excerpt from and review of Hermes Nye’s long-lost 1958 novel Fortune is a Woman, posted today to The Neglected Books Page. Nye’s among those once-upon-a-time famous Dallas folks whose name has slipped into history’s margins: The Chicago native spent most of his…
The Pacman cometh, if only to co-host a radio show. Adam “Pacman” Jones is coming to Dallas. Not to the Cowboys — not yet, anyway. But he will be on our radio airwaves, like, pretty pronto. Insider know-it-alls are telling me this morning that Jones will be in town tonight…
For those who might have been Eastering yesterday, or just slow to rise, here’s the precise moment at which the Dallas Mavericks’ season officially ended. No doubt, Richie will be along shortly to blame it on Jason Kidd. –Robert Wilonsky…
This morning, the city council’s Quality of Life & Government Services Committee, chaired by Pauline Medrano, will discuss whether or not allowing light-emitting diode signs in downtown Dallas is a bright idea. Last July, Spectrum Properties, Ltd. — the local developers behind the Third Rail Lofts at 1407 Main Street…
Spring has sprung at Dallas Farmers Market, which means, for those planning an Easter weekend shopping spree, plentiful amounts of tomato and herb plants, greenhouse-grown tomatoes, barnyard eggs and fresh-from-the-sea salmon, the latter courtesy an Alaskan family in the area for just a short time. Also, in Shed 2, you’ll…
For the benefit of the olds in the listening audience, here’s a 10-year-old track I found whilst taking my cane down Amnesia Lane: Bedhead, performing Transaction de Novo’s “More Than Ever” at Bennington College on April 20th, 1998. It’ll do whilst Matt and Bubba Kadane and the rest of The…
Norah Jones and Natalie Portman share My Blueberry Nights Almost a year after its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, Wong Kar Wai’s first English-language film, the not-well-received My Blueberry Nights, has a Dallas release date: April 18 at the Angelika Film Center. (Though clips from the film, including the…
