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Randall D. Chrisman, DART’s new board chair Dallas Area Rapid Transit has just named its new board chairman — and, nope, it ain’t John Ware after all, Jim. Rather, it’s Carrollton’s Randall Chrisman, president of a commercial real estate company on Josey Lane. Among the more interesting items on the…

A postcard of downtown Dallas, circa 1944 eBay’s littered with vintage Dallas postcards, most going for a few bucks. There’s also a Web site dedicated to postcards depicting Dallas as it looked in the early 1900s — from the race track at Fair Park to the original 1901 Carnegie Library…

Used to have the concert tee from the Rolling Stones’ November 1, 1981, concert at the Cotton Bowl — second show of a two-day stay in Dallas, matter of fact, promoting Tattoo You. And while the entire set’s been bootlegged under two different titles (Executive Action and Crossfire Hurricane), I’ve…

Divide and Conquer I am elated that Mr. Diaz was able to achieve his goal of becoming a Border Patrol agent (“The Thin Green Line,” by Megan Feldman, January 24). However, the continual hiring of agents with a Hispanic background is highly suspicious. It seems that the plan for continuing…

Wusses: We suppose we should be grateful. Since Mayor Tom Leppert and the new host of city council members came on board last summer, things have been so civil at City Hall. No weekly blow-ups at the council chambers. No Mayor Laura Miller vs. everyone else. With one notable exception—how…

Not much is left of Little Mexico, the once-vibrant Hispanic community surrounding Reverchon Park that blossomed in the 1920s. Uptown redevelopment has replaced the blocks of small single-family homes and businesses with Victory Park and condominiums. Fragments of the old neighborhood can still be seen in four homes on McKinnon…

Courtesy TMZ.com comes some actual legal news involving American Idol and a Dallas-based company called Peachez Inc. On Monday in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Studdard sued the promoter, which offices on South R.L. Thornton Freeway, for breach of contract — most likely, over an axed…

Lynn Flint Shaw Lynn Flint Shaw today resigned as the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board chair, claiming the Dallas County District Attorney’s investigations into allegations she lifted Craig Watkins’ signature and created phone District Attorney’s office letterhead had become “a distraction.” She also mentions the “public scrutiny” given her “personal…

The New York Times today is reporting that Methodists still trying to push President Bush’s library and think tank off the S.M.U. campus are mounting a “last-ditch effort” to block the damned-near done deal. They want to put the project to a vote in front of the 290 members of…

Yesterday we came across the following video, in which a woman — identified on her YouTube page only as “Widowedtoosoon” — grieves the loss of her husband and blames the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in part, for her husband’s suicide. Next to the video was a story that appeared…

Yesterday we received word that the locally made doc A Fair To Remember — about, yup, the State Fair o’ Texas — received a Golden Eagle Award from Washington, D.C.-based CINE, a rather prestigious infotainment organization that boasts Ken Burns, Al Maysles and Steven Spielberg among its honorary board members…

This morning comes word from the Army that a 26-year-old PFC from Duncanville, David W. Webb, died over the weekend in Germany — though no one yet knows why. Reports the Associated Press, Webb was taken on Sunday night to the Leopoldina Hospital in Schweinfurt — where Webb was stationed…

Best line from this brand-new travel video courtesy the folks at HowStuffWorks: “Dallas has become a center of culture with institutions such as the Sixth Floor Museum and the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.” Nailed it. And here’s that travel guide too, which, all things considered, ain’t that bad. –Robert…

Nothing to see here, sure — move along, because, like I said yesterday morning, you’re better than this. Tony Romo, not so much as he revisits the scene of the February ’07 crime against classic rock, this time with Yoko in tow for a very classy rendition of “Sweet Child…

KXAS-Channel 5 In case you didn’t know, it’s dangerously windy outside — either that, or my trees are just randomly shedding giant limbs and the stop lights in Deep Ellum just decided to take the afternoon off and grass is spontaneously combusting all over the DFW. To that end, the…

Dallas Fed prez Richard Fisher The Federal Reserve’s beginning a two-day sitdown in D.C., during which the Federal Open Market Committee’s expected to cut interest rates again — by half a point, according to best guesses. And among the committee’s voting members is Richard Fisher, president of Federal Reserve Bank…