On June 29, in Judge Ken Molberg’s courtroom, attorneys representing Steven Phillips and Kevin Glasheen argued over money, which is what attorneys often do when they clash in courtrooms. At stake: around $1 million, which Glasheen says he’s owed by Phillips per an agreement they made three years ago. Phillips…
Some of his pieces burst with a spectacle of vibrant color while others find their power in the absence of any hue at all. Burnt, swirled, carefully prodded and calculated with the precise hand of tattoo artist, David Sena’s art pairs scientific measure with impulsive creativity. His mark-making instruments of…
Mayor Mike Rawlings took the mic before last night’s Observer co-sponsored Gasland screening and told the audience of council members, activists and concerned locals, “I will never vote to put any neighborhood at risk because of money.” And there are high stakes behind that sentence — tens of millions of…
Last night, some of the state’s most fashionable people descended on the Design District to celebrate original Texas fashion — yes, it does exist. It was the fourth annual Texas Next Top Designer Announcement Gala at eM the Venue with a runway show featuring 20 designers from around the state…
The post-inauguration celebration didn’t last long, as Mayor Mike Rawlings and city council members new and old got straight to work at a 2 p.m. meeting. After a few housekeeping items — a quick vote to unanimously select Pauline Medrano as mayor pro tem and Tennell Atkins as deputy mayor…
It was only after Mike Rawlings became the new mayor of Dallas, only after council members new and old and in-between (in the case of Sandy Greyson) were sworn in at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center this morning did they discover they were about to step into The Breaking…
Yesterday afternoon, the stretch of Ross from North Hawkins to Pavilion temporarily became a pedestrian oasis of sorts as cars slowed into a narrowed traffic pattern, bike paths ran alongside car lanes and a marketplace island replaced the center lanes of one area, as Robert dispatched yesterday. Visitors enjoyed crepes,…
The night began mildly enough, though that would change quickly. Motorcycles lined the side-street outside of Lucky 7 Cycles on Haskell Ave; their owners mingled in and out of the garage, pouring beer from a couple kegs, swigging sips of Jager from the bottle. It was last weekend’s celebration…
Being fairly new to town, I’m learning my Dallas history little by little. Yesterday was a good step: On the way home I stopped by the Hall of State at Fair Park, where Al Lipscomb is resting comfortably till this evening’s public wake, which begins at 6 p.m., and tomorrow’s…
After postponing last Thursday’s meeting so council members could ride in the Dallas Mavericks’ parade through downtown, the city council’s Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee got back to speed-dating candidates for the committee Tuesday afternoon. The intention: paring down the list of 67 wannabes to 18 finalists…
On Fourth of July weekend in 2008, Don “Dunn” Hardge, an 18-year-old member of Dallas’s DFW Mafia gang, stashed his AK-47 in his friend’s trunk and walked into an Oak Cliff club. It was a sticky night, made stickier by the presence of nearly 200 sweaty teenage bodies packed into…
A long-time Deep Ellumite gave me a tip the other day: If you want to see a cool place where a guy with a great beard makes motorcycles from scratch, check out the gray building on Main Street.So I did, and that’s where I met Aaron Kaufman, the 29-year-old self-taught…
Look on TV, DIRK; look on Twitter, DIRK; Look on your neighbor’s T-shirt, DIRK…and we’re not even close to sick of him! His likeness pops up in the most unexpected places, almost the way Jesus appears on a burnt grilled cheese or in pizza sauce.Perhaps the most unexpected place we’ve…
Early this morning Mavs fans packed the intersection of Griffin and Young, setting up chairs and coolers and settling in behind the barricade along the first block of the parade’s route. And there, amongst the growing throng, was none other than the ubiquitous Robert Crawford — better known, simply, as…
As we’re well aware of the Friends of Unfair Park’s thoughts on parking in downtown Dallas, we attended yesterday’s meeting of the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee, drawn like moths to the Downtown Dallas Parking Strategic Plan presentation on the agenda. And Chris Beynon, the familiar face of MIG and…
This week, a couple dozen high-schoolers have been honing their design skills, trying to create the perfect plan for a social space adjacent to a community garden planned for a patch of land along Good-Latimer. Various plans for the space, just south of Canton Street, include a serpent that is…
For 14 years, a salvaged portion of a Southern Pacific Railroad bridge from 1909 gathered dust, waiting to be recycled as main support of the trolley turntable now under construction at Cityplace Station near the West Village. Earlier today, a giant crane lifted the piece of bridge and lowered it…
There is a big hole in Fair Park. Finally. Eventually the crater will be filled with a 500-foot pole surrounded by a doughnut-shaped slowly spinning glass chamber. This new rotating ride will give visitors a 360-degree view of Dallas and, so they say, rival the Texas Star. But you knew…
What if there was a bulbous bearded man from generations ago, and then his head was splattered in such an excited rush of sporadic color that somehow the form of Popeye made it’s way into the mix as a momentarily logical inclusion? What if there was an unidentifiable animal corpse…
Following their acceptance of superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s resignation, the Dallas Independent School District board unanimously selected current district CFO Alan King — who’s all of six month into his job — as the interim superintendent. “He’s done a great job … and I’m looking forward to him doing an even…
Well, that was certainly…unexpected. Last night I went to the SMU-hosted Global Summit on Ending Corporal Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline and wound up being treated to a presentation by none other than kiddie performer Raffi, who, as it turns out, is a children’s-rights advocate when he’s not entertaining the…
The white paint on Felix Losada’s home in West Dallas is wearing away. His brittle wooden porch swing seems ready to snap at any moment. Old but neatly maintained, the house fades into a swath of similar homes, worn and seemingly attached to the ground by winding roots rather than…
