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A Robbery Suspect Confronted Police in North Oak Cliff, and Was Promptly Shot in the Ass

Two armed men held up the 7-Eleven on Zang and Colorado Sunday afternoon. As they made their getaway, Dallas Police were fanned out, searching for a vehicle matching the description given by witnesses. A police helicopter crisscrossed the area. It didn't take long for officers to find them. What f ... More >>

North Oak Cliff Music Festival Moves To Lake Cliff Park

The first Oak Cliff Music Festival - now called the North Oak Cliff Music Festival - has gotten a positive early response, so much so that the fest is now moving from its original Winnetka Heights location, near the Kessler Theater, to Lake Cliff Park, at 300 East Colorado Blvd. The November 3 sho ... More >>

First Ever Oak Cliff Music Festival Set For November 3

The Kessler Theater is getting in on the festival action, and has just announced the inaugural Oak Cliff Music Festival, set for November 3, which will take place in the Winnetka Heights neighborhood surrounding the venue. The acts slated so far are the usual suspects -- Carolyn Wonderland, Alejandr ... More >>

The Rise of Dallas' New Pioneers

And the fall of everything Schutze wastes his time bitching about.

After Years of Foreclosures and Frustration, North Oak Cliff Apartments Back on Track

​As conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here's one that landed in the inbox late yesterday -- a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood Apartments. The address, of course, is familiar: A few years ago, you ma ... More >>

As Council Prepares to Vote on Sylvan Thirty Plan, Bike Lanes Proposed Along Sylvan Ave.

Click to expand for a better look at what may land at Sylvan and Fort Worth Ave. One day.​Last I looked, Sylvan Thirty -- the proposed mixed-use development across the street from the Belmont -- was closer to conceptual than actual. As in: Short a few million, developer Brent Jackson more than lik ... More >>

"It's Time to Take Action": Latino Redistricting Task Force Pledges to Fight New Council Map

Photo by Anna MerlanDomingo Garcia and, sitting to his right, Scott Griggs at last night's meeting over the map in Oak Cliff​Last week we sat through a very long, very ugly city council meeting, which ended with the members narrowly adopting a new redistricting plan. At that time, council member D ... More >>

Making Black Voters Disappear

Domingo Garcia and his council redistricting pals pull off a neat trick.

RAND Corp. Enrolls in Dallas ISD's Summer Schools As Part of $50-Mil Best Practices Study

​Yesterday, some 8,500 Dallas Independent School District elementary students reported to 17 campuses, from Bryan and Caillet to Truett and Winnetka, to begin summer school. Pardon: Make that summer camp. At least, that's how district officials and DISD's educational partners sell the idea to kids ... More >>

This Old House Says Now's the Time to Buy in North Oak Cliff, a "Best Old House" 'Hood

According to Nest Realty's North Oak Cliff website, this Winnetka Heights house is about to hit the market.​Last year, This Old House magazine singled out Junius Heights as one of the Best Old House Neighborhoods in the country, insisting, "Proximity to downtown Dallas, great schools, and recent r ... More >>

How the City's Board of Adjustment turned the dreams of Josh and Jenn Terry into a nightmare.

Old Oak Cliff Conservation League Prez Makes Late-Hour Plea About Bishop/Davis Plan

​After "thousands of hours of discussion and debate," according to architect Rick Garza, head of the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study steering committee, the Dallas City Council will finally vote on the plan Wednesday. Bob Stimson, the former city council member who's  now president of ... More >>

And the Winner(s) For Best Historic Preservation Project in Dallas Goes To ...

Courtesy Preservation Dallas311 N. Edgefield Avenue in Oak Cliff, before and after its restoration​We're still waiting for Preservation Dallas's list of endangered properties -- that should be ready by the end of the month. But till then, it has announced the winners of its Eleventh Annual Preserv ... More >>

Public Safety Committee Shuns Preservationists, Approves New Historic Demolition Ordinance

Sam MertenYup, Dwaine. This briefing was way over the collective heads of your committee.​Baffled and outraged preservationists quietly vacated Monday afternoon's Public Safety Committee meeting after the city council committee voted unanimously to adopt a new historic building demolition ordi ... More >>

The City's Still Debating How to Tear Down Safety Threats in Historic Districts

In August 2008, this was among the houses depicted in the initial council committee briefing regarding the need for a new teardown ordinance.​If it feels like City Hall's been debating the issue of how to tear down blighted properties within historic districts since forever, well, it's only been . ... More >>

Attention, Old-Timers: Terry Southern's Son Could Sure Use Your Help

Courtesy Nile SouthernTerry Southern at SMU in the early 1940s, shortly before he joined the Army and went to Europe​One of the first cover stories I wrote for the Dallas Observer was a profile of writer Terry Southern -- same guy who wrote Dr. Strangelove, The Magic Christian, Easy Rider, Barbare ... More >>

Oak Cliff Becomes Cool Embracing What Other Parts Of Dallas Have Fought: Builders, Bikes And Immigrants

Owner of Lake Cliff District Home Can't Blame City, Bank For Calling In the Bulldozers

500 E. 6th Street in the Lake Cliff Historic District​Henry Spruiell does not disagree with the city of Dallas: The house he owns at 500 E. 6th Street in the Lake Cliff Historic District does indeed pose what's known as an "imminent threat to public health and safety" and probably should be torn d ... More >>

In Oak Cliff, Reclaiming Seventh Street?

​Bike Friendly Oak Cliff sends word this morning of a plan intended to turn Seventh Street into a "pedestrian/bicycle boulevard." It's among several bits of heads-up offered this morning, along with further promise of pedicabs courtesy Eno's.Heads of Winnetka Heights home owners association, local ... More >>

To Raze or Not to Raze? That is the Question Faced By the City Council.

What you see at top is the apartment structure at 104 S. Edgefield in Oak Cliff -- or what remains of it, following a fire in 2005. Twice the city has tried to demo the building, for obvious reasons; it's the very definition of what staff calls "an imminent threat to public health and safety." In Ja ... More >>

Family Shattered After Oscar Sanchez's Murder

Sanchez's family thought they'd left the lawlessness of Mexico behind. But somehow it caught up with them.

Letters

Makes Me Holler, Back of the Bus

Letters

Ganging Up, Parrott Uncaged

True Crime

Dallas' favorite criminal pair offers tourists a real Texas treat

Buzz

Schoonerville Trolley; Silence is golden

Cursed are the peacemakers

Councilwoman Laura Miller steps right into the line of fire--and ends up wounded--in a neighborhood war over a parking lot

There But For The Grace of God

As the Tenth Street freedmen's town crumbles, its would-be saviors bicker among the ruins

World of difference

"Gay-friendly" businesses carve a comfortable niche in North Oak Cliff

Events for the week

Razing Hopes (Part II)

Thousands of people in Dallas need a cheap place to live. So why is the city destroying homes that could be saved?