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The Best Foodie Events of the Week (Nov 14 - 20) Including Free Nutella

The Nutella Breakfast Tour hits Dallas this Thursday through Monday, each day at a different location - primarily college campuses. The idea of a Nutella food truck surely incites a small amount of excited panic, as it should. But, it's not clear what Nutella is offering other than small free sample ... More >>

Dallas Finally Stopped Cutting Libraries, But the Damage is Already Done

Libraries, as we already know, have not been spared City Manager Mary Suhm's budget cleaver in recent years. The library budget has been chopped and quartered like perhaps no other city department, having been sliced in half since peaking at $36 million peak in 2007. That's decimated staffing levels ... More >>

With the Benches Gone from the Downtown Library, the Homeless Wonder What's Next

Until recently, if you walked along the eastern wall of the Dallas Public Library, you would have to weave your way through a gathering of homeless people idling there. Never gave me much of a problem, but apparently something went down because, as Rudy Bush noted yesterday, Downtown Dallas, Inc. qu ... More >>

Today in Old Map Porn: A 112-Year Old Look at Who Owned What in Dallas County

​Our own Nick Rallo, who knows of my fondness for old maps of Dallas, directs my attention this morning to today's posting on the Big Map Blog: Sam Street's Map of Dallas County, which dates back to 1900. It's especially interesting in that it details who owned what and where all the way up to Car ... More >>

Glacial Pace of Dallas Library's Top Job Head Hunt Is One Reason the Interim's Out of Here

Corinne Hill​Dallas Public Library system interim head Corinne Hill says she wasn't pushed out. The decision to quit Texas for Tennessee and helm Chattanooga's Public Library system was hers alone. But the city's leisurely search for a new director -- and a blown Thanksgiving deadline -- sure ... More >>

The Hard Sell: Read Why These Three Finalists Believe They Should Lead the Dallas Library

​Yesterday we met the three finalists for the Dallas Public Library System director's position, one of whom's the current interim, Corinne Hill. The other two candidates presented to city officials by a DeSoto-based search firm (??) are out-of-towners: Juliet Machie, who actually remains the deput ... More >>

Efforts Are Afoot to Restore Forest Lane Brick-Wall Mural to Its Original 1976 Look

​Seems like only days ago we were watching those old home movies shot on Forest Lane, in which you catch a fleeting glimpse of the groovy brick-wall mural, between Midway and Rosser, painted in the spirit of 1976 by W.T. White students. The mural, done to cover graffiti that marred that stretch of ... More >>

Council Checks Out Our Libraries, Some of Which (Hint: Bishop Arts) Will Get Quite Fancy

Corinne Hill​Yesterday we got 'round to covering the first half of the council's Arts, Culture & Libraries Committee meeting -- the part about how other cities spend more on their arts organizations than Dallas, and how we might be able to fix that. (Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette tax.) Th ... More >>

"Preserve Our Dreams": Council to Hear From Syracuse Prof About the Future of Libraries

Via.If nothing else, R. David Lankes's presentation will be the most entertaining and enlightening council briefing presented this year.​Only yesterday I watched as my son's school's librarian begged the Dallas ISD school board to reinstate 42 librarians likely to be let go next school year. Trust ... More >>

In Other Economic Developments, The City Wants To Turn City Lights Back On. And: Dallas Wants Dallas to Furnish a Studio, Apparently.

The old George Dahl library in a cleaned-up rendering found in Monday's briefing​First off, as promised yesterday, here's that Statler Hilton update, which was posted last night to the city's website as the cumbersomely titled Filling in the Missing Pieces Downtown Upcoming Redevelopment Projects ... More >>

Breaking News: Statler Sold! Library Too!

Justin Terveen​A Friend of Unfair Park tipped us off earlier today: Dallas County property records reveal that the old Statler Hilton has indeed been sold; so too its next-door neighbor, the former Dallas Public Library. And according to the deed sale documents, both were purchased by none other t ... More >>

A Comic Pounding

Anyone Wanna Buy a 111-Year-Old Downtown Building? Good Location With Great History.

Justin Terveen​Built in 1900, 1516 Elm Street has been on and off the market for years; about six years back, it was even offered as part of a package that included 807 Elm, which is coming down any second now. The for-lease sign has been a constant, but every so often it trades hands; not long ag ... More >>

Alibris, Meet Half-Price Books

​There's a business-section piece today about Half-Price Books' new online marketplace, which coincides with the Dallas-based used-bookseller's own release this morning announcing the virtual shoppe. Says Kathy Doyle Thomas, Half-Price's exec veep, in the official announcement: "Half-Price Books i ... More >>

For Sale: Some of the Most Important Paintings in Dallas Times Herald (And Dallas) History

At left is Allen Merriman, editor emeritus; at right, James Chambers, a publisher​Speaking of fine art ...Tuesday morning, our editorial assistant got the phone call. The voice on the other end of the line whispered: Someone has just brought to Consignment Heaven dozens of pieces taken out of the ... More >>

"He Had an Eye for Talent": From the Archives of Paul Mahoney, a "Miss Dallas" You Can't Miss

​Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, who once directed our rapt attention to this Miss Dallas, was kind enough to send along this for-sale photo on the eBay: burlesque dancer (maybe) Lettie Mae Etier, photographed by long-ago local Paul Mahoney, who, according to the Handbook of Texas Online, "had disco ... More >>

Spent the Rest of the Day Browsing Through the Dallas As Seen Through Marion Butts's Lens

Photos by Marion Butts/Courtesy Texas/Dallas History & Archives DivisionFrom October 22, 1960: "Protesters, including Dallas ministers Rev. E.W. Thomas and Rev. H. Rhett James, in front of H.L. Green's fighting for integrated lunch counters."​If you have a few hours to spare, allow me to direc ... More >>

The "Duchess of Dallas" Makes an Appearance From the Great Socialite Party in the Sky

Shorpy.com​Looking for Halloween costume inspiration? You may want to study this historic photo posted today on Shorpy. It's Dallas socialite Inez Thomas, looking downright stunning in 1920 flapper gear. Her contemporaries appeared to have appreciated her style as well -- she was the "Duchess of D ... More >>

Do You Like to Helpy-Selfy? Well, They Sure Did In Dallas Back in the 1920s and '30s.

​It's too late to bid on the photo above -- it's a couple days past closing time. But good news for those of who don't tire of these detours into Dallas's ancient history: No one bought this picture (going for a lousy $24.99) of a grocery I'd never heard of till Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent i ... More >>

Remember the Barrio

César Chávez Lives! Or: Looks Like the City Council's Found a Street to Rename After All.

Too bad Belo Corp. killed its Young Street show ... If you're unaware for whom Young Street downtown is named, here's a brief history lesson courtesy the Texas/Dallas History & Archives at the Dallas Public Library:Young Street was named for Methodist minister Reverend William C. Young. Young ha ... More >>

When It Comes to Downtown Rail, Tomorrow Looks Like Yesterday

Dallas' Virtual Memory

Dirt Finds New Ground

Dirt and Earthy Vibes go where others fear to tread

Them's Bitin' Words

Pocket School

A Grand Return? Um, Maybe.

You Had Them, Gary Griffith, Then You Lost Them

Who'll Be Our Next Mayor? Hell If We Know. But We'll Keep on Guessin', Anyway.

Devil Creek

For decades we buried our streams beneath concrete. Now they're baaaack.

Darth Reader

Jones, We Are Your Fans

Home Is Where the Art Is

Child's Play

Fired Up

For the Kids

Films that are kid-tested, 'rents-approved

Letters

What a Dildo Same Old Tune

Run Away

This stallion gallops into the IMAX theater

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Star Bright

Plus: Gimme Some Skin; Dude, You Owe Us, Like, $304

Keepin' It Real

Go behind the scenes at the zoo

Kid Around

Arts in the park, Kennedy style

Art, Ho!

Magazine pimps a good cause

Arts and Crafts

Irving offers a solution to bummer camps

Butt Nekkid

The DMA presents a fig leaf of an exhibition that hides little and reveals much, none of it good

Letters

The Horror, Losing Battle, Look in the Mirror, Keeping the Cows Happy

Traveling mamma

Epistle of a "cranky Christian"

Blink

Home for homeless art; Going south

Hash Over

Events for the week

Buzz