The Grand Ricchi, some dayAfternoon, Unfair Friends! Once again I find myself at City Hall, moving and shaking as I do among the political hoi polloi, bringing you the livest, bloggingest account of today’s Economic Development Committee, wherein we’ll be hearing about the Downtown Connection TIF District, meaning the mixed-use…
Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O’ The HourMenudo! Donde esta Ricky Martin? Il n’est pas ici. Nein.Like many of my fellow Dallasites, I spent this weekend in Central Texas. But I never gave a single Flo-Max laden Eagles fan directions to the Port-A-Potties. Nor did I cut any rugs…
Among the recommendation in the downtown plan to be discussed shortly: Plant “glass box” retail downtown pronto!It’s dudes in suits on parade here at City Hall this afternoon, as the Transportation and Environment Committee Meeting — which, in due time, will finally get ’round to the Downtown Dallas 360 plan…
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 Dallas” at the 1916 San…
Brave new world: All citizens are agents of the state, charged with keeping watch on every other citizen and reporting activities detrimental to good order. Unorthodoxy is suspicious. Remember when that used to be considered a bad thing? Look, we don’t want to overstate the situation here, but we’ve heard…
Photos by Andrea GrimesTexas Governor Rick Perry grins it up for the UNT Dallas crowd.Governor Rick Perry visited the new University of North Texas at Dallas campus today off Camp Wisdom Road in South Dallas to mark the school’s first-ever Founders Day. This afternoon marked the opening of the first…
Photos by Andrea GrimesLaura Bush poses with Girl Scout Troop 92, who painted the library in Bryan’s House and organized the books.Late yesterday afternoon, Laura Bush joined former Dallas Cowboy Daryl Johnston and members of the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee to celebrate a project completed through SLANT 45,…
Afternoon, Friends of Unfair Park. Here I am in bristly cold City Hall prepared to bring you the latest in how Dallas is going to keep you safe. Or, how you’re going to keep your damn selves safe with iWatch. Between that and Dwaine Caraway’s magic crime-reducing cameras, we should…
Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O’ The HourThe Libertine’s olive-garnished Bloody Mary. Long a haven for Lower Greenvillers who like to be able to hear themselves think and their friends speak, the Libertine bar is one of the neighborhood’s stand-out spots in terms of food, drink and atmosphere. The…
The question shouldn’t be “Are these dresses too sexy for homecoming?” but “Why are we so interested in asking that question?”I find the hand-wringing over the homecoming dance dresses worn by high school girls in Mesquite to be extremely creepy. Talking about tight dresses and short skirts on teenage girls…
Of course, you probably already have this, you giant lush, you. But if not … here.Here’s one for the multitudes who will be struggling not to nap the afternoon away after a three-martini lunch: According to research conducted by UT-Southwestern Medical Center, boozing is on the rise. What appears to…
Maybe the reason so many people avoided the census workers coming to their doors was because they didn’t want to tell strangers about self-esteem issues related to the appearance of their own asses — a question I must have missed when I filled out the paper version. I’m not sure…
An Iraq-born U.S. Army translator and his wife have filed suit against the Dallas Police Department and a local nightclub, alleging that the husband was beaten and pepper-sprayed to the point of unconsciousness by off-duty police officers who made “racial and degrading comments” last summer outside the Al-Amir club and…
Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O’ The HourHattie’s Bloody Mary, homemade.Sprawling mega-churches dot our fair, smooth-plained Dallas landscape, so you’d think you’d see more of the blessed and baptized while out to Sunday brunch, this clearly being Our Lord and Savior’s municipality of choice and all. But they’re hard…
Yo bro-dawgs, round up that skirt you took home from the Loon last night (or was it Social House?) and iron your best whisker-washed $200 Ed Hardy khakis: it’s time for the All About Uptown Festival. The day-long event showcases the best of Uptown, which according to organizers is food,…
Friendship-West’s Dr. Frederick Haynes, a longtime Leppert ally, spoke in favor of a tax hike: “We cannot ride first class without paying for it.”Hey y’all. I rode the elevator up to City Council Chambers this morning with Carolyn Davis, who is doing this whole Jackie O thing in a fun-collared…
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court against the city of Dallas, an 18-year employee of the Dallas Police Department alleges that she’s been sexually harassed by a sergeant, ignored by the chain of command and retaliated against by fellow officers for filing complaints. Casandra Jones, who was…
Photos by Andrea GrimesLisa Stone’s friends pray for answers — and justice — in her disappearance.Holding candles and cupcakes, Lisa Stone’s friends met to sing, pray and shed tears last night under the billboard they hope will help them find answers as to why Stone has been missing for more…
Photos by Man O’The HourThe Holy Blood …y Mary.A Google Maps search for the Holy Grail this Saturday turned up a location at the intersection of 121 and Preston Road in Plano. Very clever, Joseph of Arimethea. Very clever. Hide the chalice of our Lord in a prefab, pop-up shopping…
The thing that people like me — people who hate running — say about running is that they don’t do it unless they’re being chased. But I’m not even sure that being chased is an especially good reason to run. If you can’t outwit a dinosaur, thief or zombie using…
In case you missed the newly resurrected Green Room’s slow-opening, reservation-only summer, tonight’s your chance to sample the Deep Ellum eatery’s highly touted cuisine–for free. The neighborhood’s “Monthly Taste” event starts at 6 p.m. tonight, brought to you by all the abbreviated-associations that matter: DEEP, DECA, DEF and Deep Ellum…
SmokeWho wouldn’t love a guy who smelled like one of the best restaurants in town?As the mayor of upscale Oak Cliff barbecue joint Smoke on the Foursquare smartphone app, I feel especially qualified to weigh in on the latest sales-science attempt from Axe, the grooming product line for men that…
