En Tequila Es Verdad (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I don't even know what to say : Of course, the local cops are calling it a "rookie mistake" : A Dallas rookie police officer erred when he cited a woman earlier this month for being a non-English speaking driver, police said. Officer Gary Bromley issued a citation Oct. 2 to 48-year-old Ernestina Mondragon after stopping her for making an illegal U-turn in the 500 block of Easton Road, near...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
DOWNLOADS: (29) PLAYS: (122) Of course, the local cops are calling it a "rookie mistake" : A Dallas rookie police officer erred when he cited a woman earlier this month for being a non-English speaking driver, police said. Officer Gary Bromley issued a citation Oct. 2 to 48-year-old Ernestina Mondragon after stopping her for making an illegal U-turn in the 500 block of Easton Road, near...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
NORTHWEST DALLAS Man shoots former girlfriend, kills self A man shot his ex-girlfriend then fatally shot himself Sunday night, police said. The man, whose identity was not released, went to his ex-girlfriend's house in the 4100 block of Northaven Road about 8:30 p.m. Sunday to discuss an upcoming court case, police said. The suspect shot at the home, then entered and shot his girlfriend before shooting...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Officers shot a man carrying a weapon Saturday in South Dallas moments after he reached into his pocket to discard illegal drugs, police said.The man, in his early 20s, was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas with wounds to his extremities. His injuries aren't considered life-threatening. Two officers patrolling the outer area of Fair Park saw the man standing in the middle of Gertrude...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Jonathan Pryce has appeared in The Caretaker before – a BBC adaptation followed by a staging at the National Theatre in 1980 – but when veteran director Christopher Morahan asked him if he would consider doing it again, he was immediately interested. His one proviso? "If I do it I want to do it at the Everyman".
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED the news yesterday that many had all but given up hope of hearing: a drug trial in Thailand had shown that an experimental vaccine could protect against HIV/Aids, even if only to a limited extent.
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
If there are any doubts that "Visiting Mr. Green" is a critic-proof property, the effective revival at the Colony Theatre should settle them. Jeff Baron's much-produced 1996 two-hander about an accidental inter-generational alliance enjoys an adept staging that treats the...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
No one was injured in what appeared to be a random early morning shooting on Loop 12 in southwest Dallas, and five suspects were in custody after their vehicle crashed outside an apartment complex, police said. A woman with two passengers was driving south on the freeway about 3 a.m. when an old police car, a Ford Crown Victoria, pulled up next to her and the people inside began to wave gang signs,...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
A 13-year-old girl arrested for shoplifting was held in the Dallas County Jail for nearly two weeks before it was determined that she is underage, a police sergeant said Thursday.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Harry Towb the EastEnders actor has died aged 83.
The Eagle Texas and Region (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
DALLAS -- A man is dead after shots were fired into a crowd of vendors setting up for a sidewalk computer street sale in downtown Dallas.Dallas police Sgt. Warren Mitchell said the shooting happened under the Woodall Rodgers Freeway early Saturday wh ...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
The shooting happened around 3 a.m. in the 1100 block of Woodall Rodgers Freeway when a man driving a dark-colored vehicle fired multiple shots at vendors, striking the victim in the head, Dallas police Sgt. Warren Mitchell said.
Traction Control (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The Star-Telegram has this story: One man dead following gun battle in southwest Dallas Possible goblin-on-goblin action: The front door of the home appeared to have been smashed, possibly by someone’s foot, but the robbers were met by gunfire, Douglass said. The victim, an unidentified Hispanic man in his 20s, was fatally shot in the doorway, but the violence didn’t [...]
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
A man died in Dallas police custody this morning after approaching a warehouse security guard while acting strangely and having hallucinations, police said. “Probably the most force that was used was just placing the handcuffs on him,” said Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a police spokesman. Shortly before 2 a.m., the man walked up to a security booth by a warehouse in the 5300 block of South Lamar...
Hitchens Watch (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
No, that quote wasn't from Hitch, but from one of his fellow bigots, Alf Garnet. When Warren Mitchell came onto the BBC as Alf Garnet in Till Death Us Do Part back in 1967, most of the British people, with the possible exception of Mary Whitehouse, laughed like drains. And for the most part they laughed at Alf, not with him. It was only much later that some of our leading public intellectuals began...
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