Trinity River Audubon Center

Awesome Beer and Dinner Events This Week in Dallas, Including Iron Fork and Picnics

Wednesday, May 8 It's a culinary showdown at the Dallas Contemporary as Scott Romano battles Matt McCallister of FT-33 in the Iron Fork chef challenge. The King Bucks will perform as guests (you!) sample food from different restaurants along with wine, beer and cocktails. Tickets are on sale at obs ... More >>

City of Dallas Looking for Someone to Turn its Feral Hog Problem Into Delicious Bacon

In recent years, as North Texas' feral hog population has exploded, Arlington, Irving and other suburbs have taken to rounding up the swine and selling them for bacon. Now, it's Dallas' turn. Robert Wilonsky brings news this morning that the city is looking for someone to harvest its feral hogs.

Dallas City Hall Explains How the New Trinity Forest Golf Course Will Save the World

The Great Trinity Forest, as Mayor Rawlings is fond of reminding people, is an underutilized jewel, a huge, relatively untrammeled swath of nature cutting through the city's southern half. As the country's largest urban hardwood forest in the country, it's already world-class, to borrow a phrase. Ye ... More >>

One More List of Things to Do In Dallas Reminds: There Are Much Better Things to Do

​The librarians have landed, as today's the first day of the estimable American Library Association Midwinter Meeting at the Dallas Convention Center, so you know what that means. Good timing, then, for Reuters' freshly minted "48 hours in Dallas/Fort Worth" itinerary, which is a little better tha ... More >>

City Hasn't Forgotten About Trinity Horse Park. It Just Needs Someone to Develop, Operate It.

One of Brown Reynolds Watford's renderings for the Texas Horse Park. More scaled-back renderings forthcoming.​Technically I could have filed this under "Today's History Lesson," since most of you who even recall the Texas Horse Park likely considered it a thing of the past. After all it's been aro ... More >>

Bow to Your Partner

Used to Be Everyone Square Danced 'Round These Parts. Now, It's An Art Project.

A friend directed my attention to something entirely unrelated on Kickstarter, where I stumbled across this intriguing item: Square Dance: A Community Project, which the organizers -- Leila Grothe and Cynthia Mulcahy -- are billing as a "public art project." Which is how you have to bill an event ju ... More >>

Biking for Mayor: Ride Along as Bike Friendly Oak Cliff Q&A's David Kunkle, Mike Rawlings

​At this late date we've heard mayoral wannabes David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings address myriad issues -- everything from DISD to LGBT. But, at last, a new wrinkle: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff has rounded up the runoff-ers for a question-and-answer session aimed at the hike-n-bike crowd wondering where ... More >>

It's a diary of a mad year as Buzz recalls a P.O.'d 2010.

In Trinity Trust News: Calatrava Party Plans! And, the Promise of a "More Humane City."

Last night I espied this billboard in a TV trailer for Country Strong, which clearly takes place in the distant future. The Dallas Trinity Arena can be found next to Ray's Sporting Goods. Or Austin, home of Hornitos.​The Trinity Trust this morning sends further details concerning the grand opening ... More >>

Nothing Wrong With Keeping Public Parks Public. So Long As the Public Uses 'Em.

​Dallas Park Czar Mike Rawlings -- current president of the Park and Recreation Board, former homeless czar (he was not homeless, he was helping them), former Pizza Hut CEO and ad guy -- declares in The Dallas Morning News today that he wants the Dallas park system to be one of the top five in the ... More >>

We're All Winners When It Comes to the Trinty River Corridor Project Photo Contest

The Dallas City Council doesn't have the most exciting agenda today -- though if you're interested in the state of sales tax revenue from '02 to '09, I've got just the PowerPoint for you. But to the more interesting business: First thing this morning, Dave Neumman, chairman of the Trinity River Corr ... More >>

Your Trinity Photo Contest Grand Prize Winner

Sean FitzgeraldTaken at the Trinity River Audubon Center in February​In the video below you get a fleeting glimpse of Sean Fitzgerald's Grand Prize winner in the second annual Trinity River Corridor Project Photo Contest. City Hall spokesman Frank Librio was kind enough to send the real thing.Upda ... More >>

Following the Money, Live at City Hall With the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee

Sam MertenDave Neumann and Rebecca Rasor chat before this morning's committee meeting.​We're here at City Hall for the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee's briefing about the recent setback in the city's rush to restore the Trinity River levees' 100-year flood protection before FEMA finalize ... More >>

Anyone Seen Schutze This Morning? (Updated)

​On Saturday we took the 7-year-old who lives in our house to the Trinity River Audubon Center, where he quickly became obsessed with the Pete Delkus-narrated flood-maker showing how high's too high. So. This morning, out of nowhere, he asked: "Is the Trinity going to flood?" I told him to leave m ... More >>

Coasting Through Recovery

A Few Questions For the Out-of-Towners Wanting to Replace DPD Chief Kunkle

Daniel RodrigueThe six DPD chief finalists meeting with city officials last night​Last night, the city of Dallas held a reception and dinner at the Trinity River Audubon Center where the six candidates to replace outgoing Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle underwent what City Manager Mary Suhm refer ... More >>

This Week's Stack o' Council Memos Reads Like an Unfair Park Week That Was

​This week we covered storm debris collection (more than once), council members using (or being) social media tools, the outgoing director of convention and event services and the Dallas International Film Festival (OK, so that was last week). And they're all subjects included in the packet of mem ... More >>

A Beacon of Hope: Council Committee Not Terribly Fond of Those 120-Foot Towers

​So, back to those Trinity Beacons for a second. We went to this afternoon's meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project committee convinced the council would bite on the 120-foot-tall light towers, which would cost $3 million in '98 bond money earmarked for the so-called Loop 12 Gateway. But we ... More >>

Maybe You Can Help the City Decide How to Spend $3 Million in Trinity Bond Money

Around here, Schutze is known as "The Trinity Beacon."​Back in 1998, 38,016 voters OK'd Proposition 11 -- otherwise known as the $246 million that was supposed to get the Trinity River Corridor Project up and running, like I need to tell you. Anyway. Three million of that money was supposed to go ... More >>

Take a Brief Glimpse at South Dallas Students' Once in a Lifetime Trip to China

World ClassroomOne of Mark Birnbaum's cameras filming kids from Lincoln High in China for the film Once in a Lifetime​And, speaking of Mark Birnbaum ...When last I spoke with the Dallas-based doc maker, he was out and about filming Mayor Tom Leppert and other council members for a short promoting ... More >>

Says One Dallas ISD Teacher, the Trinity River Audubon Center Is An Act of "Pure Genius"

Jeremy Woodhouse/Audubon​Former Unfair Park-er Alexa Schirtzinger sure dug her some nature, if you recall. So it's not surprising she shows up in the latest issue of Audubon talking up the Trinity River Audubon Center. But she also tells the tale of how a teacher at Rufus C. Burleson Elementary Sc ... More >>

The City's Giving Away Free Bags of Green Goodies. All You Have to Do Is ...

​Meranda Cohn at Dallas City Hall sends word that the city's giving out green goodie bags to anyone who wants 'em -- if, of course, you're willing to sit through one of 11 "Home Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation" seminars scheduled between Saturday (kicking off at Dallas Farmers Market) and ... More >>

From California, a Note of Concern Sent to City Council Regarding Dallas Zoo Transfer

Robert Cabello, Dallas Zoological Society​On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will more than likely vote to approve turning over management of the Dallas Zoo to the Dallas Zoological Society -- and, more specifically, its management arm, Dallas Zoo Management, Inc. Further details concerning the ... More >>

It's Back to Paradise for City Council

​No, literally. It would appear the Trinity River Audubon Center wasn't good enough for Mayor Tom Leppert. That's where the Dallas city council met last year for its annual retreat, a much closer-to-home and, at around $2,700, slightly less expensive alternative to '07's choice: the Garrett Creek ... More >>

The Trinity River Audubon Center "Beats the Hell Out of a Landfill or Dump." Sure Does.

Jeremy Woodhouse/AudubonOver on the Reuters environment blog, Ed Stoddard sings the praises of the Trinity River Audubon Center, to which he paid "an eye-opening visit." Writes Stoddard:This is a "good news" green story that shines a spotlight on many different issues: the environmental costs of pov ... More >>

Ooooh, Shiny: There Won't Be a Trinity Toll Road For a While, So a Photo Contest Instead!

Patrick MichelsOne of our submissions for the Trinity River Project photo contest. Pay up, city.Meant to get to this yesterday, when Dallas City Hall first sent word, but was otherwise distracted -- the whole point, perhaps, of this city-sponsored Trinity River photo contest for which we'd like to s ... More >>

Bush Is in the Back: A Video Round-Up!

The George Bush was in town yesterday. No, not that one -- this one. Bringing up the rear too. The trip was well-documented with two videos captured by "unkonshus," who deems the occasion a significant one, as ol' No. 41 was "in [the] Dallas city limits for the first time in over 4 years." See for y ... More >>

For The Birds

The Bath House salutes Audubon

Jonas Brothers and Laura Bush Take a Sunday Stroll Along the Trinity

On Sunday in Dallas, Laura Bush Has a Date With the Jonas Brothers

Trinity River Audubon Center Is For the ... Well, They've Got Birds There

Dallas's "Six Key Priorities"

Mayor Tom: Man, What An Amazing Year! And It's Gonna Get Awesomer.

The Great Trinity Forest Ain't So Great

Well, not yet anyway.

Warning You Now: A Lot of Math Ahead

Hell, No, Blow, We Won't Vote Ever Again. For Anything. Because Democracy Sucks, Man!