Story archive for June 2007

Saturday, June 30

• An open letter to Tom Leppert

• CDMCars.com is up and running

• Five new red light cameras to go up in Arlington

• Boston Red Sox 2, Texas Rangers 1

• Movie review, take two: Ratatouille

• Father of drowned boy may face criminal negligence charges

• Raised lakes in Dallas-Fort Worth area could make sailing more dangerous

Friday, June 29

• Janine Turner voices new Park Place Motors ad

• Dallas attorney Mark Werbner recognized as one of nation’s top litigators

• Dallas-based Blockbuster to close 282 stores

• Rain alters Carrollton’s July 4th but concert and fireworks are still on

• TrinityVote collects 166% of the signatures necessary to create a Trinity Vote

• TCU School of Music hosts 10th annual Mimir Chamber Music Festival

• Lone Star 92.5 presents Fandango featuring ZZ Top and friends at Smirnoff

• Kidd Kraddick to remain on 106.1 KISS FM for years to come

• 360DRadio: A closer look at PayDay

• $4,500 in funds approved for DeSoto Chamber of Commerce

• Humorist Rosemary Rumbley to speak at Collin College

• Myers Park Concert series for June 30 moved to Third Monday Trade Days

• Farmers Branch Fire Chief Kyle King is a dedicated Christian

• SMU’s Willis & Sanders to sign autographs at Park Cities July 4th parade

• Last chance to catch these plays, musicals, comedies, and new works

• Studio 60 finale fizzles in DFW ratings

• Executive 15-month UTA MBA program offered in Fort Worth

• Mark Cuban sues Don Nelson for taking Warriors coaching position

• Did Keller City Council mistreat planning & zoning committee member?

• Cedar Hill thieves beat the heat by stealing eight four-ton air conditioners

• Dallas-based Brinker makes list of Top 100 Retailers

• Mavs need to focus free-agency attention on Matt Barnes

• City of Duncanville launches online Citizen Action Center

• Fort Worth one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, says U.S. Census and CNNMoney

• Art Institute of Dallas publishes “friendly restaurant” list

• UTA volleyball team announces 2007 schedule

• UNT track & field’s incoming class rich on talent

• “Milk & Cookies” With SMU QB Willis Set For Tuesday, July 3

• Lancaster ISD officials convene at Summer Leadership Institute in San Antonio

• Looking at Dallas immigration arrests in national context

• Dallas-based Alliance Data signs multi-year agreement with Fortunoff

• Allen Xtreme Eagles playing in Montana this weekend

• UPDATED: Possible “human fetus” turns out to be rotten oranges

• Chefs collaborating on “Share Our Strength” charity dinner at Stephan Pyles August 12

• Fort Worth, Mansfield, and Arlington school districts will not be affected by Supreme Court decision

• Heavy rains sweep 10-foot alligator into Lake Ray Hubbard

• Kenny Goss and George Michael revamp Goss Gallery with their personal collection and new foundation

• Grand Prairie named sixth fastest-growing 100,000+ city, says U.S. Census

• Rowlett man sentenced to life after a December 2006 assault spree

• Carroll wide receiver commits to Oregon

• Tuberculosis scare at Mansfield High School

• Movie review: Ratatouille

• Tickets to Sonic Youth, Black Tie Dynasty, Jackopierce, & more on sale soon

• New wave of plays and musicals for the metroplex this weekend

• Chinese National Basketball Team to compete in Dallas at Moody Coliseum

• Thirteen candidates in the running to be the next Plano Wildcat athletic director

• Kid Picks for Bedford

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - June 28, week 13

• Projekt Revolution - Aug. 4 (phone interview with Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, and Taking Back Sunday)

Thursday, June 28

• Dallas.org has scoop on long and contentious DISD board meeting

• Mavs draft Nick Fazekas and two Europeans you’ve never heard of

• Mural in Frisco that took 3 months to paint was vandalized

• Mesquite takes the sparkle out of July 4

• North Texas Tollway Authority gets tentative OK on State Highway 121 contract

• Movie review: Live Free or Die Hard

• Detroit Tigers 5, Texas Rangers 2

• Dallas-based HM Capital Partners to acquire Phone Directories Company

• Dallas-based HardRadio.com ranked #1 by Google both in heavy metal radio and heavy metal reviews

• Irving-based Fluor awarded LOGCAP IV contract by U.S. Army

• Hockaday School students win national speech/debate competition

• FC Dallas to host Atlanta from the USL in U.S. Open Cup third round on July 9

• Casting for new reality show at Stonebriar Mall this weekend

• Free beer with Overscene and Love Paradigm on Thursday

• TECH Fort Worth client receives $600,000 from Texas Emerging Technology Fund

• University of North Texas offers Summer Math Institute

• Dallas-based Wingstop snags coveted Stevie Award for Most Innovative Company

• UNT Department of Theatre’s 2007-2008 season

• Air traffic controllers say that shortage of staff is tying up skies in Dallas-Fort Worth

• Wingstop Names Bruce Evans Vice President of Franchise Recruitment

• Dallas-based Craft College announces agreement with internet marketing firm

• Dallas nurses announce ‘Scrubs for SiCKO’ campaign in conjunction with Michael Moore’ film

• Dallas-based Brinker International sells off 95 Chili’s

• World’s Largest Hair Art and Fashion Show coming to Reunion Arena July 22

• Maren Morris sings the blues

• Arlington CPR program receives national recognition

• Bluegrass news and events, near and far

• Two students shot outside Carter High School in South Dallas

• Last Comic Standing not resonating with DFW viewers

• What the Mavs need from tonight’s draft

• New music venue, Sloppyworld, to open in Exposition Park

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: Kevyn Robertson

• Page 9 asks for fan feedback on new songs

• Gallery to display Collin College student photos

• Yorkie puppy lost (or stolen) at DFW Airport’s Terminal D

• Four DFW bands win the Ernie Ball stage at Warped Tour

• Why Sammy Sosa shouldn’t be on the All-Star Team

• Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Is a Dingo Eating Your Baby?

• Thirty-eight TCU student-athletes tabbed MWC Scholar-Athletes

• Video coverage: White Rock Lake spillway

• TCU places 62 on Spring Academic All-MWC Team

• Metro PCS Communications moving its headquarters

• U.S. Census names Denton ninth fastest-growing city with over 100,000 people

• TYC “State of the Agency” Briefing

• People escape apartment fire by jumping

• Fire destroys Denton landmark The Tomato

• Inner city Dallas neighborhoods need grocery stores

• Theater Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost

• McKinney named second fastest-growing 100,000+ city, says U.S. Census

• Kid Picks for Denton

• Dallas County Constable Mike Dupree resigns in face of trial

• Sewers overflowing in Fort Worth

• Italian artist Natalie Silva opens her first Dallas show at Canvas

Wednesday, June 27

• Today may be the day the “rainiest June” record falls

• Top Chef: Episode three

• CD Review: The Demigs’ Yardling

• SMU tops C-USA in final 2006-07 USSA Cup standings

• SMU coach Bennett to speak at Dallas Chamber’s Young Professionals Breakfast

• Opening night panel discussion: Sicko

• UNT writing class to reconvene in Archer City

• MISD cheerleading squads snag top honors at National Cheerleading Association camp

• Rover Dramawerks presents 24-hour play festival this weekend

• Duncanville Community Theatre offering summer workshops for kids and teens

• Dallas Fish Market to open on ground floor of Kirby Building

• Staubach Co. moving headquarters from Addison to Dallas

• ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips to withdraw from Venezuela operations

• American Idol auditions coming to Dallas in August

• Five Dallas athletes/coaches make Top 50 Sports Jerks of All Time

• McKinney-based My Vintage Baby fashion line to be featured in 10 Neiman Marcus locations

• Local investors buying 10% of Steak N’ Shake

• Hello Samuel offers songs for download

• Carrollton-based GVI Security Solutions to target rapidly growing school security market

• 7-11 sign gets repaired

• Grapevine-Colleyville teachers of the year get to drive Mercedes for the summer

• EDS completes acquisition of RelQ Software Private Limited

• UTA’s Material Science and Engineering Department receives $1 million NSF/NIRT grant for nanofabrications

• Fort Worth-based FamilyNet throws its support behind SIRIUS-XM Satellite Radio merger

• America’s Got Talent keeps rolling in DFW ratings

• Dallas company helping Native American tribe use video games for cultural preservation

• Report says Dupree harassed employees

• Texas ranked fourth in nation for supporting our troops

• University of Texas at Arlington offers Professional Wedding Planning Certification

• Lone Star Conference recognizes two TWU athletes

• Tomlinson returns to TCU for Camp LT

• Learn to swim at Farmers Branch Don Showman Swimming Pool

• Lewisville Lake Park day areas, boat ramps and Tower Bay closed

• Texas Instruments accused of toxic contamination in Dallas’ Hamilton Park Community

• Monica’s family and the immigration debate between law and low prices

• Juvenile corrections could be next venue for restorative justice in Texas

• UPDATED: Fort Worth elementary students’ signatures launch into outer space aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis

• Exhibit Review: Away From Home

Tuesday, June 26

• White Rock Creek may flood early Wednesday morning

• Concert review: The Police at American Airlines Center

• Channel M opening office in Dallas

• Texas Rangers 9, Detroit Tigers 6

• Movie review and director Q/A: Joshua

• Undermain Theatre announces 2007-2008 season

• UPDATED: Denton Community Theatre wins 2007 National AACT Festival

• Fair To Midland debuts at #2 on Billboard New Artist Chart

• The Living Opera offering a family night discount this Thursday

• Grand Prairie chooses ‘AirHogs’ as name of city’s future American Association Baseball team

• Win tickets to see Good Charlotte at the Texas Bar and Grill

• Mysterious ‘Music Man’ to perform in Addison Circle

• Memorial show on Saturday for Moving Atlas’ former drummer, Matthew Baker

• Tom Thumb/Randalls shoppers raise $363,000 for Texas Easter Seals

• Dallas-based Brinker to develop four more On the Border restaurants

• Farmers Branch Police Chief Sid Fuller loves police work

• 2007 Global Games kick off week-long international basketball competition

• Local firm Broome Bobo, LLP, announces $700,000 settlement in construction worker death

• Official SMU photographer offers tips for vacation photos

• Star Telegram writer Heather Landy wins Gerald Loeb Award

• Answering questions about Dallas Cowboy Roy Williams

• Hurst City Council renews juvenile curfew ordinance

• Casting Call: Children’s TV show looking for international dancers

• Where did Dryline go?

• Barbie convention comes to Grapevine

• Panel discussion on “Islamophobia” at Crowne Plaza Park Central on July 8

• City of Grand Prairie updates its Most Wanted List

• Seven free agents get offers from the Dallas Stars

• Plano ISD to build teacher daycare centers without city zoning approval

• Thief stealing electric toothbrushes from Target store in Grapevine

• Richardson City Council names Steve Mitchell new mayor

• Former UTA sprinter heads to Pan American games

• Blue Bell to give out free ice cream at Dallas Heritage Village

• The Destro gets album review from Blabbermouth

• Three TWU student-athletes earn Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award

• UNT javelin thrower Smith Named To Academic All-America First Team

• Former TCU athlete Khadevis Robinson wins 800 meters at USATF Championships

• TCU’s Lorenzen captures three medals at USA Shooting National Rifle/Pistol Championships

• UT Southwestern study finds tree bark cancer treatment promising

• TCU football players Blake and Ortiz named to Bednarik Award watch list

• SMU women’s tennis adds two transfers to the 2007-08 squad

• Lancaster ISD to offer free drivers education lessons

• TWC prosecutes 20 in Dallas area for unemployment insurance fraud

• Five Hispanic civic groups to host major “meet and greet” for Tom Leppert

• Spanish language television bringing in top DFW ratings

• Crane Plumbing will shut down steel manufacturing facility in Dallas and lay off 100

• Students compete to attend UNT environmental leadership day camp

• Mansfield projects $1 million revenue shortfall

• Pagans believed to have set fire to Saginaw church

• Wise County takes the storm brunt; “Heavy Rain Event” predicted for Tuesday

• Dallas-based Hanson Paver Products acquires Perma Paving Stone Co.

• Dallas-based Beryl Companies honored as one of the nation’s ‘Best Places to Work’

• Irving-based Carrington intends to appeal NASDAQ de-listing

• Fort Worth-based Bombay Company to be de-listed on the New York Stock Exchange

• Annual Muslim Conference to be held in Dallas on Saturday, June 30th

• Theater Review Part Deux: Tick, Tick….Boom!

• The Women’s Museum presents “Women in War: Reflections of Courage”

• Kid Picks for Grand Prairie

Monday, June 25

• Retired UNT prof pleads guilty to embezzlement

• Texas Rangers 8, Detroit Tigers 3

• Quadrangle restaurant Riccardi’s sued by waiters

• Tum Tum releases Eat or Get Ate on June 26 at Club Purgatory

• Two DFW swimmers join Centenary men’s swim team

• Former McKinney High golfer wins PGA’s Travelers Championship

• VIP reserved tickets released for B-52s show at HOB

• McKinney Summer Musicals returns this weekend after 11 years

• Owner of Blue Mesa inducted into Texas Restaurant Association Hall Of Honor

• Equipment grant awarded for UTA’s bioanalytical chemistry department

• Polyphonic Spree at the Granada: YouTube roundup

• UTA’s SEED 2007 is developing young artists

• Looking at Bexar Street

• Full text of Tom Leppert’s inauguration speech

• Warehouse catches fire near downtown Dallas

• Theater Review: Jason Ralph shines in Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well

• Country musician Django Walker to play free lake-side show in Rockwall

• Local banjo player, airline pilot, David Miller dies after bout with cancer

• Theater Review: Talent blossoms in A Secret Garden at Repertory Company Theatre

• Holt acts?

• Vince Vance returns to the Mississippi Gulf Coast for two shows

• Funny business with Spamalot Playbill shuts out Lyric Stage

• What happened at the Keller City Council Goals Retreat

• Thieves in Hurst swipe WWII memorabilia

• Farmers Branch weeklong Four Corners Design Workshop kicks off

• UPDATE: Elba Garcia to be Dallas’ next mayor pro tem; Dwaine Caraway deputy

• Video Performance: Jordan Mycoskie

• Creative Arts Theatre & School’s 2007-2008 season

• Baseball As America exhibit coming to Dallas’ Museum of Nature & Science

• Belo8 winning the summer ratings war

• Robert Gomez to be featured on NPR’s World Cafe on Thursday

• Zac Crain pisses off “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott’s family with unauthorized biography

• Next Arlington ISD superintendent to be named sometime around November

• Flood watch in effect for DFW

• The Rocket Summer’s major-label debut coming in mid-July; to be celebrated with a release party at the Granada

• TWU’s Hanebutt steps down as head basketball coach

• TCU announces 2007 Lettermen’s Hall of Fame class

• Walkley joins TCU swimming and diving staff

• TCU track team’s Jackson, McDaniel conclude competition at USATF Championships

• Commentary: Make homeless mission a Robert Johnson museum

• SMU punter Morstead named pre-season First-Team All-C-USA

• SMU Student-Athletes To Visit CHAMPS Sports Camp

• Fast-acting Arlington cops apprehend four on a late-night vandalism spree

• The Fort Worth Community Arts Center announces two new separate exhibits beginning in July

• Carrollton-based Sandunga Dance launches dance shoe website Salsashoes4u.com

• Kid Picks for Southlake

Sunday, June 24

• Houston Astros 12, Texas Rangers 9

• Student at Brookhaven College wins national civic service award

• 12-year-old girl from Dallas missing since early Friday morning

• Mansfield spraying for mosquitoes on Monday, for second time

• Tarrant DA’s new DWI policy will overcrowd jail

• Concert Review: Cyndi Lauper / Erasure / Deborah Harry / Dresden Dolls / Margaret Cho / Rosie O’Donnell

• FC Dallas 1, Colorado Rapids 0

• New Dallas mayor and city council to be inaugurated on Monday at the Mort

• Man found shot, dead in motel room in South Dallas

• Dallas Morning News inadvertently reveals shoe fetish with goodbye video of Mayor Laura Miller

• Man shot off Jacksboro Highway in Fort Worth

• Texas Frightmare Weekend 2007: photo gallery

• Texas Rangers 7, Houston Astros 2

Saturday, June 23

• Texas Girls’ Choir hosts seventh annual Children’s Universal Music Festival

• Guy kills another guy at a gas station on Walnut Hill near I-35 in Dallas

• FC Dallas’ Drew Moor selected to the U.S. Men’s National Team Copa America Roster

• Kroger reaches tentative agreement with unions in Dallas and Houston

• Fire at apartment building in Euless displaces 45 people

• Movie review: 1408

• “Audie’s Place” VFW hall on Lakeland closed

• McKinney-based My Vintage Baby becomes a publicly traded company

• Dallas woman earns GEICO Community Volunteer of the Year Award

• Fort Worth-based Cano Petroleum announces Texas Panhandle wildfire case dismissed

• Wesley A. Jackson to step down as leader of Belo Interactive Media after just three months

• UPDATED: Ludwig Schwarz will exhibit new paintings at Road Agent

• Texas Rangers 11, Houston Astros 3

Friday, June 22

• Farmers Branch to celebrate Independence Day July 3

• Perry veto of probation funding fix a surprise to Jerry Madden

• Everything’s coming up Fox 4 on Thursdays

• Starbucks’ new summer flavor will be - ta-da - raspberry

• UNT names TJ Hubbard new head softball coach

• Superman ride NOT being shut down at Arlington Six Flags

• SMU golfer Kate Ackerson comes up just short at Pub Links

• $12 mil lottery ticket won by 25 employees of AT&T in Irving

• UniCare unveils Dallas Community Resource Center

• Demonstration to be held Saturday in Desoto to protest gun laws

• Girls coach in Lewisville arrested for sexual assault of two players

• Standard & Poor’s Rating service keeps Lancaster School District’s bond ratings intact

• The House Harkonnen posts new, ridiculously acronymic song

• Grand Prairie Police Department invests in “aggressive driving” detection device

• Tickets to Incubus, Blue October, Joan Sebastían, & more on sale soon

• Fun on the Fourth of July in Dallas / Fort Worth 2007

• Duncanville councilmember’s discovery proceedings coming to a close

• Last weekend to catch one of these seven shows

• New slew of shows opening all over the metroplex this weekend

• DeSoto’s Holiday Inn acquires new management, changes name to “MCM Grande Hotel Fundome”

• Cedar Hill council candidates ruminate on wins, losses and working together

• Chamberlain’s Steak & Chop offering yet-another weirdly-named Japanese beef

• A hip-hop ‘Romeo’ and pun-filled Python give anachronisms a jolt of life

• Runoffs leave Dallas’ horseshoe gay-free

• Dallas County commissioners set to hear report on Dupree

• Movie review: Rescue Dawn

• 16-year-old Keller girl hit by auto while riding bicycle

• Texas leads nation in uninsured population

• Ex-Carroll ISD swim coach accused of sexual relationship with 17-year-old student not indicted

• UPDATED x2: Denton Veterans for Peace activist, David Honish, found shot to death

• Roanoke granny accused of spouting off about hiring a hit man to kill a judge

• Kid Picks for Lancaster

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - June 21, week 12

Thursday, June 21

• Book Review and Author Interview: Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light

• Inaugural musical extravaganza will have outgoing Dallas Mayor Miller’s detractors dancing in the aisles

• Dallas Public Library hosts annual Petzapalooza pet event

• New Texas Symphony Orchestra announces summer concert

• North Texas high school billiard athletes recognized as Academic All-Americans

• UNT’s Mean Green Basketball Championships rings arrive

• Easter Seals North Texas initiates employment program in Dallas

• Ritz-Carlton hosting 2-day job fair at Dallas’ Info Mart to fill 400 new jobs

• SMU golfer Kate Ackerson advances to round two at Pub Links

• Dallas attorney sues GlaxoSmithKline over man’s heart attack death

• Woman found beaten and strangled in her southwest Dallas home

• Concert Review: Les Claypool at the House of Blues

• Texas Rangers 6, Chicago Cubs 5

• Former Keller resident Rebecca Henricks releases Dance With Me at Ozona July 14

• Two McKinney ISD bands advance to TMEA Area competition

• Dallas firm wins $5.5 million award in first federal Fentanyl patch trial

• Quad C Theatre set to present Shakespeare’s All’s Well That End’s Well

• Dallas metal band Drowning Pool aims to testify before U.S. Congress

• Methodist Dallas Medical Center first hospital in Texas to offer alternative breast cancer therapy

• EDS ranked #1 Best Managed Global Outsourcing Vendor

• Kerrang! Awards voting happening now

• The Semiconductor Industry Association to co-sponsor NANOTX’07 conference in Dallas

• Irving-based Fluor awarded Canadian power plant project

• Morrow names Laflin new assistant coach for the UTA women’s basketball team

• UTA aerospace team takes first place in low-cost satellite competition

• Theater Review: Monty Python’s Spamalot

• UTA faculty and students to participate in African health initiative

• Grand Prairie man electrocuted, killed by hanging utility pole wires

• Farmers Branch Police Department to post accident reports online

• Quaint farm museum in Plano may possibly have been robbing city blind

• Mesquite woman missing since Monday maybe went to buy drugs

• Legacy Heart Center opens new Friday-only Frisco office

• Texas Pacific Land Trust announces 5-for-1 split of its sub-share certificates

• DCCCD Chairman responds to Gov. Perry’s veto of group health funding

• Pool parking lots in Arlington keep getting vandalized, even after security beef-up

• Woman crossing I-30 is struck and dies

• Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Seven Keys to Offseason Success

• Lost cat in Valley Ranch

• Top Chef: Episode two

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: Candace Evans

• Kid Picks for Carrollton

• Clarifying the “English-only” resolution recently adopted by Oak Point

Wednesday, June 20

• Texas Rangers 7, Chicago Cubs 3

• Dallas seeks volunteers for “Back to School” Fair on August 2

• Grapevine hospital worker steals IDs from deceased cop, buys TV

• Surgeon sues UT Southwestern under whistle-blower act

• Shakespeare in the Park continues with Love’s Labour’s Lost this weekend

• Dallas Opera presents free screening of The Merry Widow

• Theater Review: Romeo & Juliet

• Ben Zephyr and Sally Beauty Supply in cahoots

• Art Institute of Dallas announces two new fashion degree programs

• Local playwright, Tom Sime, wins Stage West’s playwriting competition

• Roger Staubach to step down as CEO of Staubach Co.

• Dallas-based Saxon Oil announces participation in New Mexico exploration well

• Irving-based Fluor to build offshore drilling & gas production platform off coast of Trinidad

• Swanky Ritz-Carlton complex in Dallas’ Uptown breaks ground on Phase II

• Dallas-based MumboJumbo signs publishing deal for game based on hit comedy, “The Office”

• UTD problem solvers score highly in global competition

• Dallas man shoots son, self

• Fort Worth-based Novamedia wins OMA Award

• Waffle House in Fort Worth robbed for second time

• Dallas-based Christian advertising agency Affiliated Media Group selected by Dr. Leroy Thompson Ministries

• Dallas branch of Veterans Affairs outpatient pharmacy dedicates new wing

• Carrollton-based Integrated Security Systems’ subsidiary to provide anti-terrorist gates and barrier systems for U.S. Embassy

• Irving-based Carrington extends alcohol contract with SERCOHOL

• Foedus opens Dallas Office

• Carrollton-based TGI Friday’s Inc. announces plans to expand franchises in Louisiana

• Someone’s stealing cars from the valet outside the W Hotel

• Samsung Fresh Films announces open casting call in Dallas

• Woodbelly singer Cas Haley wows America’s Got Talent judges

• Miller Group buys up 4 miles of frontage road on I-35 in Valley View

• New Interview: Tommy Hernandez

• Chicago Cubs 5, Texas Rangers 4

• Exhibit Review: Joe Ramiro Garcia and Ellen Frances Tuchman

Tuesday, June 19

• Dallas cop accused of taking money from driver in traffic offense

• Farewell fete for Buzz-Oven bigwig Aden Holt, leaving Deep Ellum for Denver

• Amphibian Productions presents Miss Witherspoon this week

• Redefine nabs their new drummer

• Collin County seeking input for Mobility Plan

• Mesquite Police Department to hold community meetings for “cheese heroin”

• Texas Motion Picture Alliance plans annual meeting

• The Salutation wins contest to open for Fall Out Boy tonight

• Magnolia Theater free movie screening: Born Yesterday

• TeCo Theatrical Productions offering a free summer theater camp

• UT Arlington to auction off cars, lab equipment, contents of its lost-and-found box

• Calling all Farmers Branch SCUBA-diving wannabes

• Cadbury Schweppes cutting loose its Plano operation

• TCU rolls out Energy Institute centered around Barnett Shale discoveries

• UTA physics professor wins grant from office of high energy physics

• Dallas Opera Music Director signs contract for four more years

• Kennedale kid shot while showing off rifle to his friends

• Irving ISD identifies areas of teacher shortage: special and non-English education

• TWU outdoor pool open to public

• UNT emergency coordinator says recent floods should serve as reminder

• Incumbent wins Westlake Board seat in runoff

• Mansfield ISD Board is now complete

• Grapevine voters elect final council member in runoff

• Mark Cuban (fake) sniffs cocaine in L.A.

• Frisco elects final two council members in runoff

• Dallas police seek public’s help identifying bank holdup suspect

• Unidentified man found dead in apartment

• Oak Point City Council makes English official language

• Kid Picks for Burleson

• Concert Review and Photo Gallery: Bless the Broken

Monday, June 18

• Unwanted customers at Dallas liquor store

• Why Texas’ corrections costs are (relatively) low and why it’s an illusion

• An Oak Cliff letter to 7-11

• Local audience for US Open grew as the afternoon went on

• KERA’s THINK on the Kimbell’s Picasso exhibit

• KERA’s THINK delves into local transit

• Tom Hicks appoints Casey Shilts COO of Hicks Sports Group

• Wall of Sound Festival announces first round of bands and new venue in Fort Worth

• Oscar Pareja Community Clinic, updated with photo gallery

• The Sixth Annual Reebok Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game hits Dr Pepper Ballpark on Saturday, June 23

• Mesquite-raised, UTD-educated astronaut aboard Atlantis walks through space

• Schedule announced for Children’s Activities Series at Northpark Center

• Richardson City Council election results for Place 5

• Garland has a new mayor

• FC Dallas 0, Toronto FC 4

• Forest Hill City Council takes shape after runoff election

• Grand Prairie crash claims an Arlington teen’s life

• Theatre Coppell announces 2007-2008 season

• UPDATED: Grand Prairie renames Veterans Park more derivative “Central Park”

• Arlington father asking questions in daughter’s shooting

• Another lame survey that namedrops Dallas, this one sponsored by Old Spice

• Arlington City Council to vote on Arlington-Fort Worth bus system

• Dallas police find decomposed body near Camp Wisdom & Mountain Creek Parkway

• Grand Prairie Police Department unveils memorial in honor of fallen Sergeant Gregory Hunter

• Meadows Museum acquires significant painting by Martín Rico

• Dallas man shot, robbed then arrested for pot

• Dallas-based Blockbuster commits to Blue-ray format for high-def rentals

• Dallas Summer Musicals opens Spamalot this week

• Further evidence people in Hurst will steal anything

• Pearl presents Robert Johnson recording party and contest on Wednesday

• Ex-Cedar Hill ISD HR director no-shows at his new job in K.C.

• Runoff election completes Euless City Council

• Restaurant Review: House of Blues Dallas

• Cedar Hill citizens bring back incumbent

• UTA wins gold medal from Distance Education Association

• McKinney creates new cheerleading overseer position

• Dallas City Council finally in place after runoff election

• Movie review: Angel-A

• Leppert impresses South Dallas church by showing up day after election

• 4-year-old girl dies in flood waters in Haltom City

• Exhibit Review: Rebecca Holland’s New Works

• Dallas Observer wins best alternative weekly blog award

• Kid Picks for Allen

• La Hacienda Ranch parking lot in Colleyville great place to get your car broken into

• CD Review: White Light Fever’s Heavy Knife Blues

• Concert Review: The Future Unlived

Sunday, June 17

• Tarrant County College math prof David Price named to state’s Top 15 list

• Concert Review: Rise Against, Silverstein, and Comeback Kid

• Texas Rangers 11, Cincinnati Reds 4

• Farmers Branch residents concerned over webworms

• Concert review: VNV Nation

• Carrollton wins award for NOTICE program

• Nominations for Tech Titans awards opened

• Farmers Branch holding public workshop June 25-29 to craft vision for retail area

• City of Dallas considering placing camp for “troubled men” near scout camps

• Sheriffs snubbed by blue warrant bail veto

• Grits for Breakfast ranks best and worst local legislators on justice policies

• NBA Finals final game rocks DFW ratings

Saturday, June 16

• Leppert wins runoff to become mayor of Dallas

• New law makes PE mandatory in Texas schools

• T. Boone Pickens Foundation donates $1.1 million to Fisher House Program

• Cincinnati Reds 8, Texas Rangers 4

• Fort Worth-based Crescent Real Estate sells off most of its Dallas properties

• Murphy city manager parts ways with city of Murphy

• Northwest Airlines will now fly direct from Dallas to N.Y.

• Texas Rangers 7, Cincinnati Reds 6

• FC Dallas’ McCarty and Wallace selected to U.S. U-20 World Cup roster

• FBI charges Arlington man in “Operation Bot Roast” cyber crime initiative

Friday, June 15

• 2nd annual Texas Frightmare Weekend starts June 22 with George Romero in attendance

• J.D. Whittenburg’s CD available on iTunes

• North Garland Branch Library re-opens this weekend

• Last chance to catch one of these shows

• Free Silence After Sundown download SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY only

• Duncanville police investigating recent unrelated shootings

• University of Texas at Arlington proposing $37 million construction facility in Grand Prairie

• New crop of shows in Dallas theaters include Das Barbecu

• DeSoto School Board approves non-profit to secure instructional support center funding

• FC Dallas 1, Real Salt Lake 0

• 90.9’s Christian-themed puppeteer Bongo Rod to perform at Grand Prairie libraries

• Preview screening: 1408

• Best Bites: Dining out in Dallas-Fort Worth June 15

• Grand Prairie’s Senior Center wants to teach you how to whittle your wildest dreams

• City of Benbrook to consider jumping on the dog park bandwagon

• Tom Hicks files for IPO

• Grand Prairie traffic notice: I-20 lane closures rescheduled for Sunday, June 24

• ExxonMobil Senior Vice President Stuart McGill announces retirement after 38 years of service

• Dallas-based InterFinancial Holdings Corp. completes acquisition of Hess International Properties

• Teenager in Little Elm confesses to a string of crimes

• Dallas Voice remains in Oak Lawn Kroger store

• Dallas-based Ewing Management Group invests $100 million in China

• Five Things you never knew about Vera Carp

• Coppell Police Department to host 24th annual National Night Out

• UNT “Mean Greens” healthy dining menu cited for excellence by industry publication

• DIFFA’s Dining by Design fundraiser unites eye-catching talents of visionaries like Shane Walker

• Coming down to the wire in Dallas mayoral race

• Summer Lovin’ Romance Series plays the Angelika

• Arlington cops searching for thug who thinks he’s Clint Eastwood

• City of Irving unanimously approves illegal immigration “Criminal Alien” program

• City of Richardson purchases $600,000 worth of land, unsure what to do with it

• FUNimation moves HQ to new business park in Flower Mound

• Proposed DISD budget aims to raise teacher, staff salaries

• Oil heiress Margaret Hunt Hill died Thursday

• Dallas County public defender’s office pursuing DNA-testing position

• Fort Worth man loses legs after jumping off moving train

• Dallas Executive Airport struck by lightning, withstands minor damage

• Leppert and Oakley in dual bid to woo Abraham Lincoln

• Hyatt Regency and Hyatt DFW very big into ice cream this summer

• 14-year-old killed by gunfire in Arlington

• Former Sunnyvale Middle School teacher arrested for possession of child pornography

• Two Carrollton Aqua Racers break club records

• Kid Picks for Garland

• Little Elm wakeboarders learning the sport from pro

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - June 14, week 11

• The MAC presents Susan Kae Grant: A Retrospective this September

Thursday, June 14

• Texas Rangers 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 0

• UTA Fermilab physicists discover “Triple-Scoop” Baryon; three-quark particle contains one quark from each family

• Kelly Clarkson’s summer tour hits a road block

• Chris Holt recounts overseas shows with Johnny Lloyd Rollins

• Dallas City Council approves two new TIF districts in Northern Oak Cliff

• Lake Highlands Town Center receives approval for zoning and TIF funding from Dallas City Council

• Irving-based Nexstar Broadcasting enters into retransmission services agreement with Verizon

• 31 women detained after immigration raid on Fossil watch factory in Dallas

• Class action lawsuit filed against Irving-based True.com dating website

• Ashmore to be featured on Bodog Battle on Fuse TV

• TWU’s Denton campus closed after air-conditioner craps out

• Chef/owner of Sevy’s battling cancer

• Fallen Grand Prairie Police Sergeant to be honored with memorial statue at site of death at Wal-Mart parking lot

• Two men are targeting restaurants and stealing toilet fixtures

• Fort Worth-based Sabre retained by Aegean Airlines to oversee passenger management

• Texas Attorney General traces Allen man to “zombie” spam email scheme

• Attempted robbery of Mesquite/Balch Springs grocery store results in suspect’s death

• Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Live From Toronto!

• UNT’s Rio Grande Initiative bears fruit

• Dallas-based American Consolidated Media buys pub group in Midwest

• Six Flags Over Texas debuts new summer hoo-ha: Cirque Dreams Coobrila

• Garland Summer Musicals’ season begins this weekend

• Four Flower Mound students take their robot to an international competition

• MLS Disciplinary Committee suspends, fines Marshall and Ferruzzi

• Flight from Love Field to Houston disrupted by agitated guy

• Dallas-based Motel 6 goes green with battery and fluorescent bulb recycling program

• Tractor-trailer, likely stolen, careens into Lake Worth

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: Raphael Parry

• UTD hires renowned technology innovator as VP for Diversity and Community Engagement

• Grammy-nominated Spanish rock group La 5ª Estación to play Victory Park House of Blues

• Sex offender in Dallas is first in the U.S. to be arrested for using MySpace

• American National Bank to acquire Tarrant County-based Bryant-Irvin Bancshares

• UTA grad student’s serendipity leads to device to thwart Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

• Season three of Top Chef debuts with two high-profile Dallas chefs

• ArtCentre of Plano presents Jeff Green’s Storybooks, opening this weekend

Wednesday, June 13

• Afternoon rains strand five Oak Cliff kids

• TXU gains approval for Oak Grove coal plants

• Interview: Fair To Midland release Fables From A Mayfly

• Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Texas Rangers 1

• Retired Highland Park lawyer arrested for drugs, maybe was dealing them, too

• SMU athletics amps up local marketing with Richards Group and Camelot Communications

• The Slack finishes new album, Wishful Sinking

• Assassination City Roller Derby recaps last bout and previews Sunday’s match

• Theater Review: Tick, Tick….Boom!

• Fort Worth-based Citizens National Bank purchased by Terrell bank

• Grand Prairie’s Bowles Library to host “MySpace safety” seminar for teens

• Killdares albums now available on iTunes

• Legislature approves new prison beds

• Closures on the Tollway and US 75 promise utter havoc this weekend

• Neiman Marcus’ Cusp stores aim for a younger demographic

• UTD appoints new director of Eugene McDermott Scholars Program

• DFW viewers have disproportionate love for this game

• Dallas Council approves downtown condominium project, Tower Petroleum Building renovation

• UT Dallas students blow up graduate studios (in Second Life)

• Balch Springs convenience store ATM smashed, grabbed

• Linus in the studio

• UIL sets guidelines for athletes who test positive for steroids

• The Catholic Foundation in Dallas calls upon North Texas artists to partake in second-annual art competition

• Nine-year-old west Oak Cliff boy smokes some pot, gets sick

• Seven Story Drop adds new member

• UNT displays a rare collection of prints

• Kitchen Dog Theater’s 2007-2008 season

• TXU Power announces plans to install mercury emissions controls

• Habitable planet identified by UT Arlington astronomer and team

• Virginia firm acquires the Barons Apartments in Mesquite

• Former Dallas Council member Harriet Miers subpoenaed in Justice Department probe

• Zyvex announces a new General Manager

• Plano-based Triad’s stockholders approve merger with Community Health Systems, Inc

• “Pied Piper of Astronomy” to talk at UTA Astro Day

• Coyotes thrive in Old Lake Highlands

• Collin County’s district courts, DA, clerks moving to new offices on Bloomdale

• Exhibit Review - Kinetic Creatures

• Trophy Club Police Department citizens police academy begins June 14

• Dallas breaks ground on Audubon facility in former landfill

• Developer Craig Hall countersues city of Dallas over Arts District tower

• City of Rockwall to begin neighborhood storm drain improvements

• Euless residents to join mayor and City Council for exercising walk through the city

• Kid Picks for Flower Mound

Tuesday, June 12

• Peter Piper Pizza expanding Dallas presence

• Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Texas Rangers 5

• Theater Review Part Deux: CHICAGO

• Movie review and actress interview: Hollywood Dreams

• Dallas boxer Charlie Hatley wins U.S. National Welterweight Championship

• State unfurls new program to prevent cheating on TAKS tests

• Local audiences eat up Hell’s Kitchen

• Four Mustangs Named To All-Texas College Team

• Merged Easter Seals chapter scores $600k

• UPDATED: Dentonites make last-ditch effort to save mural before Fry Street is plowed to the ground

• Eddie Bernice Johnson invites constituents to conference call on immigration

• Dallas Children’s Theater announces shows for 2007-2008 season

• Three Mustangs among Conference USA Scholar-Athlete Award winners

• Ray Davis, Co-CEO and Chairman of Energy Transfer retires

• Video: DeSoto fire rescue responds to major accident at Centre Park and I-35

• British Emporium hosting weekend of Monty Python Spamalot festivities as a benefit

• MusicNation online music video competition begins June 18

• District Attorney to seek death penalty in Plano murder case

• SMU President appoints substance abuse prevention task force

• Theater Review: End Times

• U.S.- Brazilian Energy Conference set for Dallas

• Fort Worth-based Cano Petroleum announces sale of Oklahoma asset

• Town of Trophy Club regretfully uproots trees for road reconstruction

• Ennis ISD to hold meeting regarding police chief’s DUI arrest

• Local playwright, Bill Fountain, gets his play published

• Burleson City Council to consider annexing 3 acres of land at East Renfro Street and Christopher Lane

• Dallas-based SaveOnEnergy.com announces aggressive national expansion

• Addison-based Credit Solutions recognized for excellence by J.D. Power and Associates

• Dallas-based Alsbridge Research identifies next top 10 Chinese cities for the future of IT outsourcing

• Dallas-based Wingstop sells one billionth wing

• Jamee Green named Executive Director for the Greater Dallas Restaurant Association

• Dallas-based Captain Hope’s Kids looking for golf tournament sponsors

• UTA professor and former student honored for Best Paper

• UTA Professor elected as President of National Association of Social Workers Chapter

• TCU student ad team recognized by Coca-Cola Company for outstanding strategy development

• House of Blues Two for One Tuesday: Pat Benetar and Gallagher

• Grapevine Heritage Foundation will honor local patron with Edith’s Follies

• North Richland Hills public library wants you to know that books are still awesome

• Former Haltom City Mayor Calvin White dies

• Dallas Challenge’s race for the cure merges ponies and problem-solving

• UPDATED: Clerk at Bedford’s D&S Food Mart fatally shot

• UPDATED: Woman’s body found in field behind Seagoville High after she was scheduled to pick wildflowers

• New poll shows Dallas mayoral race coming down to a photo-finish

• Kid Picks for Keller

• Photographs Do Not Bend celebrates the Latin woman’s vision with Mirada de Mujer

• Redefine and drummer part ways

• New Interview: The Horrifics

Monday, June 11

• Kids start carrying along Collin to learn the history of his County

• Attorneys gather in Dallas to attempt to do what local weathermen can’t

• SMU Assistant Tumpkin Selected For NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship Program

• Opponents of jail overcrowding measure ignore its permissive nature

• Deadline looms for Dallas Public Library short story contest

• Dolores Wolfe earns city council recognition for community service

• Collin County Road 593 to be closed for repair

• SMU’s Niare finishes in 4th place in heptathlon

• Two burglaries last week on Sweetwater

• Residential burglary uptick in White Rock Village

• Before The Fall seeking lovely local ladies for video shoot

• Sopranos unlikely to have whacked local audience for NBA Finals

• Affiliated Computer Services deal exclusivity expires

• The Fellow Americans lose lead singer

• Dallas’ housing challenge a key to the future

• Rivethead tries to get FM exposure, needs your help

• Dallas Council to tackle crucial city clean-up issues: unsightly newspaper bins

• Urban Taco opens in Mockingbird Station

• Fort Worth uses the summer to prepare for the grackle’s fall return

• Dallas Kroger meat cutters hold off on strike … for now

• Local group prefers its political discussion with extra vermouth

• Shakespeare in the Park begins this week with Romeo & Juliet

• 3 men pose as police officers, attack and rob Garland man

• Iced tea contest coming to Preston Center on June 24

• Thieves in Hurst will steal anything not nailed down (but maybe that, too)

• Polyphonic Spree meet-and-greet new-CD party at Good Records

• Family First joins Duncanville Juneteenth event

• Voting for FW Weekly’s 2007 Music Awards ends Friday

• Contemporary Theatre of Dallas announces lineup of 2007-2008 season

• Dallas ISD recruiting teachers for next school year

• Plano-based JCPenney reports its sales figures for May

• Dallas-based Tyler Technologies wins contract with Supreme Court of Indiana

• Dallas-based 226 Music shutting down artist management division

• Mitchell Boulevard Elementary fights obesity with “‘Get Up and Go!’ walk”

• Grapevine-Colleyville ISD football ticket sales to begin in August

• Kenny Goss and George Michael create collection for their new art foundation

• John’s Cafe re-opens on Lower Greenville

• UPDATED: Dallas City Council member Leo Chaney supports statue of Leo Chaney — but Council does not

• Milwaukee Brewers 9, Texas Rangers 6

Sunday, June 10

• FC Dallas 3, LA Galaxy 1 (with post-game audio interviews)

• Team from Austin’s Driskill Hotel will run Stoneleigh

• Conceraunt Review: House of Blues Gospel Brunch

• CD Review: The Shock of Pleasure’s This is a Test - EP

• Tommie Sunshine hits the Ghostbar on June 12

Saturday, June 9

• Texas Rangers 4, Milwaukee Brewers 3

• Movie review: Day Watch

• City of Dallas opens its first skate park at Lakeland Hills Park

• Dallas mayoral runoff: It’s not over until it’s over (even when it’s over)

• Turtle Creek Chorale’s Dr. Tim Seelig talks to KERA’s THINK

• Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief talks about the future of the city on KERA’s Think

• Russ Kerbow named new Lewisville Chief of Police

• West Plano yard sale report: Just call me a bag lady

• Murders in Dallas are up by 20 percent

• Former mechanic wanted by Arlington police for forgery

• UPDATED 2x: Bed bugs infest UTD

• New Interview: The Demigs

• Texas Rangers 9, Milwaukee Brewers 6

Friday, June 8

• Theatre Three’s 2007-2008 season

• Carrollton Police Department to offer Rape Aggression Defense classes

• Tickets for Rascal Flatts, The Killers, Marilyn Manson & Slayer, & more go on sale soon

• Thaddeus “Fabulous” Ford returns from China

• DFW loves Spurs basketball programming

• UTA summer movie series offers ninja turtles, ancient battles and spirits in limbo

• UT Arlington head track and field coach named Men’s South District Coach of the Year

• Massa leads UTA at state amateur golf tourney

• Last weekend for these 4 shows

• SMU’s Niare in lead after day one of the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships

• Fort Worth-based ReoStar Energy announces sale of interest in Tri-County Gas Gathering System

• The Cedars Art Gallery to hold grand opening

• Coppell-based Gemmy Industries recalls Floating Eyeballs

• DFW has a ton of plays and musicals opening this weekend

• Two UNT students receive scholarships from Division of Equity and Diversity

• ‘Whisper’ campaign plagues Dallas District 3 race

• N’dambi video performance posted on YouTube

• Dallas Voice: DTC names new artistic director

• Dallas Voice: DART pass program in need of fuel

• Duncanville home invasion ends in shots below (or near) the belt

• Questions turn personal at Cedar Hill forum part 2

• DeSoto ISD set to rededicate 40-year-old Ruby Young campus

• Slow-speed crash at Jerry’s Car Wash has drivers and owner pointing fingers

• Northwest Highway closing briefly at ungodly hour on Sunday morning

• As yet unidentified woman’s body discovered in Buffalo Ridge Park

• West Village apartment complex still not wheelchair friendly

• Oak Cliff couple gets robbed and their bulldog is gone, too

• Slingshot Media founder Owen Hannay to speak on interactive media at American Marketing Association luncheon

• Kid Picks for Plano

• Detroit Tigers 11, Texas Rangers 4

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - June 7, week 10

Thursday, June 7

• Dallas Morning News names new senior VP

• Study finds Dallas to be one of the models of urban greatness

• Samba Room in Travis Walk closed

• Cryptic message at SMU prompts campus alert, mild lockdown on Friday

• Ludacris and Ne-Yo concert for Thursday cancelled

• Michael Johnson opens performance training center in McKinney (with photo gallery and interview audio)

• New Maren Morris video posted on YouTube

• Uptown Players presenting regional premiere of Tick Tick…Boom!

• Texan storyteller Joy Cunningham to put on one-woman show in Euless

• Grand Prairie railroad crossing cameras are first in Texas

• $6 Fashion Outlet to open new store in Fort Worth

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: John S. Davies

• Summer concerts continue at Armstrong Park in Duncanville

• DeSoto police searching for June 3 murder suspect

• Red light cameras go up in Cedar HIll

• Questions turn personal at Cedar Hill forum

• Criminal justice funding in the 80th Texas Budget

• Sonic giving out free root beer floats Thursday night

• Theater Review: CHICAGO

• Grand Prairie to host 32nd Annual Antique Auto Swap Meet

• Dallas named as semi-finalist for traffic-busting federal grant

• Euless Animal Shelter picks Pets of the Month for June

• TWU’s first annual Pioneer Power Sprint Triathlon scheduled for July 1

• Art Institute of Dallas invites DPD “cheese” expert to campus

• ABC winning Wednesday night ratings war with reality programming

• The MAC to present an exhibition of works about War & Peace

• TCU football announces its 2007 Leadership Council

• Kickoff time announced for TCU football game at Texas

• TCU track team advances four individuals through prelims and women’s 4x100 relay to finals

• Three SMU tennis players ranked in South Central Region

• SMU golfer Colt Knost named a PING All-American

• Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Five Lessons from the Stanley Cup Finals

• Paciugo rolls out new veggie flavored gelato

• Needless Necessities partners with Paws In The City, Lakewood Pet Watch

• English Bulldog reported stolen at 121 and Riverside

• Sky Eats Airplane with new lyrics

• TCU professor Charles Bond accused of “terroristic threats”

• Bill Moyers’ SMU commencement address touched on local community and economic justice

• Nanette Lee-less K104 continues to slip in the ratings

• The Bloods apologize to Fort Worth neighborhood

• Two Arlington businesses go up in flames

• Detroit Tigers 10, Texas Rangers 0

Wednesday, June 6

• 50 copies of rare Chomsky CD single available

• Fred Baron, Lisa Blue and Baron and Budd Announce Settlement of Claims and Counter Claims

• Lawn-obsessed suburbanites in McKinney and Frisco get their way

• Arlington city council agrees to give Tom Hicks’ Glorypark $135 mil

• Dallas-based WingStreet tries to distinguish itself from 85 other wing chains with free trip to wing birthplace

• Probably not a good idea to get married in Grapevine right now

• Missing Garland couple found in their car, underwater, in Trinity River

• Contemporary Theatre of Dallas previews and opens Sylvia

• Freeway ramps at I-20 and US 67 in Duncanville to be closed for weekend

• Zumiez Couch Tour stops in Dallas on Saturday, and hey, it’s free!

• Fort Worth’s MC Router on YouTube’s homepage

• New Artistic Director announced for Dallas Theater Center

• The Mansion on Turtle Creek revises its dress code

• Hip Pocket Theatre’s season opener postponed until June 8

• Duncanville Teen Court looking for volunteer summer jurors

• UNT hosts archival preservation workshop for high school students

• New TYC rules make more kids eligible for release

• Kitchen Dog Theater’s New Works Festival opening this weekend

• TXU pays $5 million fine for bilking small businesses

• UNT’s Heath Smith to compete in javelin throw at NCAA meet on Wednesday

• Final day to renew 2007 season tickets for UNT football

• Texas Commission on the Arts Announces Appointments of State Poet Laureate, Musician, and Visual Artists

• Irving-based DG FastChannel purchases Pathfire

• Two SMU track and field athletes headed to NCAA Outdoor Championships

• Marlin next company town for Texas’ prison system

• Email bankruptcy needn’t happen to you, says UNT computer expert

• Allied Pilots Association, Southwest Airlines Pilots’ Association co-hosting collective bargaining roundtable

• Hash Brown video performance posted by Blues Scene Sampler Project

• Dallas-based Pet Butler launches 70th franchise

• ExxonMobil gives $340,000 to provide 139 Texas nonprofits with summer interns

• UTA appoints new human resources vice president

• America’s Got Talent wins Tuesday night’s local ratings

• Dallas South to celebrate one year anniversary

• Oakley goes negative in bid to become Dallas Mayor

• Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD’s auto program receives national certification

• Two Fort Worth banks robbed

• Judge delays Farmers Branch ordinance from being implemented for 2 more weeks

• Kid Picks for McKinney

• Frisco Boy Scouts’ trailer stolen from church parking lot

• UT Dallas delays dormitory hall construction, but it will likely suck regardless

Tuesday, June 5

• Texas Rangers 7, Detroit Tigers 4

• Movie review: Ocean’s 13

• White Rock Coffee looking to book neighborhood musicians

• Dallas City Council’s Quality of Life Committee to consider alcohol-free school zones ordinance

• Ross Perot was keynote speaker at UT Dallas dedication on Tuesday

• R.L. Turner High School add-ons to be finished this summer

• Bring a food item to Chipotle on Tuesday and they’ll give you a free item back

• Denton-based eInstruction purchased by New York investment firm

• Plano-based ESI granted Voice Mail over IP patent

• DFW viewers care about House repeats, but not hockey

• Mary Hazlewood joins Cantey Hanger

• Southwest Airlines reports higher May traffic

• Dallas pizzeria Gordo’s not closing, not yet anyway, nope, still open

• Ben’s Halfyard House closing down

• Deep Ellum Cafe closes, for the second time

• Two young Dallas Morning News reporters win journalism awards

• What did the Texas Lege really do on TYC now that the dust has cleared? Part I

• UT Southwestern researcher studies fat-burning mouse hormone

• Poteet baseball advances to state tournament

• Local attorneys Reyes and Orr representing family in first federal fentanyl case

• UT Dallas expands its foreign language repertoire, adds German courses

• UNT to host two early music concerts

• McKinney High School journalism department raising money to replace $30,000 worth of stolen computers

• Shark bites Fort Worth woman

• Grits For Breakfast releases 2007 Liberty Index

• Sushi Samba ropes guitarist Dave Navarro into spending his birthday in Dallas

• Richardson junior high student receives patent for hearing-impaired sports bracelet

• Allison Singleton named Director of Women’s Basketball Operations at SMU

• SMU adds two new players to football roster

• Glass Intrepid posts new music on MySpace

• Two Hurst high school seniors have their essays published in national journals

• New Hal Samples-shot Polyphonic Spree video released

• Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson to present Youth Crime Summit

• The Dallas Architecture Forum presents a special lecture series

• Arlington police investigating accident involving an officer

• Five injured after man drives car into Golden Corral

• Dallas ISD to assess 17 recently built tracks

• New Interview: Mahteo

• Kid Picks for Wylie

Monday, June 4

• Alo, new restaurant from owners of La Duni, set to open in July

• Fort Worth-based XTO to buy some U.S. onshore properties

• Addison-based Concentra purchases ppoNEXT for $19 million

• Dallas-based ACS acquires CDR Associates

• Traffic at Fort Worth-based American and American Eagle goes down in May

• Minor Alcohol Compliance Inspections conducted in Carrollton

• Dallas-based Michaels Stores hires new CEO

• Former Washington State baseball player Grant Alexander teaches Farmers Branch 6 through 10 year olds

• FC Dallas Foundation hosts Kicks for Kids Bowling Party

• Casa Mañana opening A Few Good Men with Jensen Ackles and Lou Diamond Phillips Tuesday

• Google pegs We Shot JR as a “spam blog,” shuts writers out

• Salim Nourallah to release new album

• “Doo the Right Thing” dog poop awareness campaign picking up (giving off) steam in North Texas

• UPDATED: Farstar song used in Wingstop ad

• Eric McGehearty’s United We Stand sculpture included in the 2007 Public Art Year in Review

• Dallas Summer Musicals presents CHICAGO starring Lisa Rinna this week

• UNT volleyball primed for success in 2007

• Plano Civic Chorus holding auditions for 2007-2008 season

• Farmers Branch Resident Incentive Programs agreeable to most

• Sixteen non-Latino Bedford elementary students complete six-year “Spanish Immersion” program

• Broadway Review: Grey Gardens

• TCU track team prepped for NCAA Championships

• 3-1 loss to Rice ends season for TCU baseball

• Dallas-based Diodes Incorporated named in 2007’s “100 Fastest Growing Tech Companies”

• Irving-based Caris Diagnostics announces merger with Cohen Dermatopathology

• ExxonMobil to help build four houses in historic Joppa neighborhood of South Dallas

• Bingo lays the ratings smackdown on WWE programming

• North Dallas Bank awards two scholarships

• Cri$ Ca$h posts video for “Closeup”

• Study: Cuts to state jail drug treatment increasing Texas crime

• Man who accidentally steps in front of DART train gets hit

• Double-blind lineups another milestone for new Dallas DA

• Administering wicked laws in Texas

• Grand Prairie schools recognized with Keep Texas Beautiful awards

• Coppell finds football coach to lead Cowboys

• Studio Movie Grills host “Circus Movie Mania”

• Hurst, Texas: Where door-to-door vacuum salesmen steal your jewelry

• DMN makes non-issue of the gay issue in the Dallas mayor’s race

• Real Men Cook event comes back to Dallas this Father’s Day

• When will Tom Hicks get out of the baseball business?

• Potential for voting in Snider Plaza plans more favorable than in the past

• DMN article prompts flood of contributions for DFW USO

• Arlington woman to undergo rare transplant surgery

• New PE law could be a pain in some school districts

• Free movie screening at the Magnolia: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

• Southlake Carroll assistant lacrosse coach given state award

• Texas tops list of worst carbon dioxide emissions in the country

Sunday, June 3

• McKinney Main Street 2007 Art & Jazz Festival gets tipply

• The Colony’s Rudy Rangel prepares to take over football program

• Aggravated robbery at the Village Apartment complex in Dallas

• FC Dallas 1, Houston Dynamo 2

• Seattle Mariners 11, Texas Rangers 6

• New Lakeland Hills skate park grand opening on June 9

• Carrollton-Farmers Branch I.S.D. Educational Foundation awards nearly $35,000 in teacher grants

• Rangers could choose high school pitcher from Connecticut in upcoming draft

• Garland softball wins another 5A state title

• DMN analysis indicates cheating on TAKS to be widespread

• Homeless getting more aggressive on Lower Greenville

• Three people stabbed in Carrollton, one dead

• Seattle Mariners 5, Texas Rangers 4

• Frisco City Council runoff features gay candidate

Saturday, June 2

• Campisi family sheds all dignity for E! “reality” show

• West Plano yard sale report: Friday for a change

• Lancaster ISD school capacity analysis

• With AmeriCorps funds, Central Dallas Ministries places members in community-building positions

• Free (and super-cheap) summer kids movies coming to area AMC, Cinemark and Regal theaters

• Lancaster’s own Cleo Hearn to be featured on KERA 13’s new documentary

• Movie review: Mr. Brooks

• Eastwood posts new tracks on MySpace

• Cedar Hill mayor, Emmert sworn into office

• Texas Rangers 9, Seattle Mariners 8

• Dallas Voice: Rain blocks reopening of Cedar Springs bridge

Friday, June 1

• House of Blues Gospel Brunch starts June 3

• Tickets for Family Values Tour, Buddy Guy & Muddy Waters’ Band, Travis & more on sale soon

• Shows ending their run this weekend

• UNT’s Dykstra announces 2007-08 swimming and diving schedule

• Pet Flix Festival plays the Granada

• UTA hurdler Morrison adds name to national list

• TWU athletes’ academic streak runs to 50 semesters

• TCU tennis players Brink and Cotet ranked in final Fila/ITA poll

• Best Bites: Dining out in Dallas-Fort Worth June 1

• Seven TCU baseball players ready for Houston Homecoming

• New round of plays and musicals for DFW this weekend

• Adam’s Mark Dallas to be sold to San Francisco firm

• Plano man charged with tax fraud conspiracy

• Dallas-based Manchester, Inc buys Americars

• Local lawmakers unite in strengthening UTA’s budget situation

• Dragonfly at Dallas’ Hotel ZaZa scoops up Luqa chef

• State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico and the Dallas Logistics Hub sign Memorandum of Understanding

• Grand Prairie introduces first railroad crossing photo enforcement system in Texas

• Amalgamated Transit Union and Greyhound reach tentative agreement for new labor contract

• Young Phil releases “No Problem” video

• SMU Continues to top Conference USA in NACDA Cup

• 11 DFW area students awarded Verizon Foundation Scholarships

• Fatal car wreck in Arlington

• KELLERfest! to feature tons of local music with bands battling to the… recording session

• Dallas Voice: Laura Miller slams Ed Oakley over rezone issue

• Grand Prairie graduation speakers highlight past, look to future

• Come learn about Project Duncanville

• Three art exhibits open at the Bath House Cultural Center this weekend

• Coppell-based Mannatech 12th among the nation’s Top 100 ‘Hot Growth’ small companies

• Denton case illustrates need for federal Matthew Shepard Act

• Duncanville named retirement community

• Previous interim DeSoto superintendent named as super during search

• CVC offers head start for young entrepeneurs

• Cedar Hill pit bulls give rise to residents’ fears

• Crazy ex-boyfriend indicted for twice crashing tow truck into McKinney woman’s apartment

• Murphy’s To Catch a Predator cases canned by Collin DA

• Dallas firefighters rappel down ropes to rescue accident victim

• Flower Mound man attempted to buy a child for sex

• Details unfold surrounding Meghan Bosch’s death

• Kid Picks for East Dallas/Lakewood

• Seattle Mariners 9, Texas Rangers 5

• Photo: Weekly Dallas Cowboys Stadium construction update - May 31, week 9