Just last night I was telling the wife about how, like, about 20 years ago I was part of a small group of music freaks and geeks who’d gather ’round the turntable every so often to drink bourbon and swap songs and stories about why this guitar solo was, like,…
Soon as I got back to the office, Jim Rogers showed up with a press release and a photo. Rogers, the first president of the Bryan Place Neighborhood Association perched in the shadow of downtown, came by to announce that he’s running for Dallas City Council — the District 14…
This morning’s hearing got started an hour late, and court’s in recess till 1 p.m. — I’ve sent Intern Jesse to cover the afternoon portion of the proceedings. Should be interesting: Shortly before Judge Laurine Blake called for the noontime lunch break, City Secretary Deborah Watkins was on the stand…
Off to the George Allen in a few for that 9:30 court date I told you about last week, during which attorneys representing the city, Keep the Dollars in Dallas and those contesting the election allowing for the wetting up of Dallas will hash over some legal matters, baby. Top…
… but half the site didn’t load this morning. Instead, I kept getting the message, “Sorry you are experiencing a delay. Please try your request again.” And it won’t verify my subscriber account — now I have to call just so I can read that story about how “Carrollton councilman…
Remember when that L.A. auction house auctioned off the pine box in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery in Fort Worth? Man, seems like only six weeks ago. Since then, of course, the coffin sold — for…
Patrick Michels, our go-to guy on all things having to do with XTO’s efforts to drill for oil and gas at Hensley Field, is presently occupied, and so, once more, it falls to me to point out what some Friends of Unfair Park have mentioned in the comments below: On…
Shortly after we posted that item about bcWORKSHOP’s public art installation intended to draw attention to the 5,750 homeless men, women and children living in Dallas, we received this look-see at the first installation set up at White Rock Lake. Word is they’re close to finishing setting up the cutouts…
I needed a book yesterday and happened to be driving by the Borders in Preston Royal, which did not have said book. Or many books, for that matter. There were, however, bins full of discounted tchotchkes, aisles lined with 2011 calendars (each selling for $4.99) and displays hawking T-shirts and…
Just got the heads-up: At this very moment, volunteers with the bcWORKSHOP are out and about installing cut-outs like those you see below across the city, from North Dallas to downtown to White Rock and points in between. They’re intended to raise awareness about how to end homelessness. The cutouts…
Almost as soon as we published that very popular post about University of Texas at Dallas researchers’ efforts to silence that high-pitched problem known as tinnitus, readers began leaving comments and sending e-mails in which they all asked the same question: How can I participate in the forthcoming human clinical…
Dallas police just sent word: First thing this morning, the store manager opening up the CVS Pharmacy on E. Northwest Highway — where Plano Road turns into E. Lake Highlands Drive — found a dead man in the bathroom. Hell of a way to start the day. DPD explains:Drug paraphernalia,…
At this very moment, Mayor Tom Leppert — for now — is taking part in the annual Elite News MLK Parade, after which he will fly to Austin for Governor Rick Perry’s inauguration. When he returns Wednesday, there will be a budget workshop at which time City Manager Mary Suhm…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now. It’s official: Mayor Tom Leppert has decided not to run for a second term. On his website, he explains:Since 2007, I’ve had one of the best jobs in the world: Mayor of Dallas. In that time, I have worked with committed Council colleagues, talented city…
What you see above is a Jeff Liles-filmed two-fer from Joe Ely’s extraordinary, intimate “Storytellers” performance at the Kessler last night: Dig All Night’s “Behind the Bamboo Shade” followed by Ely’s rendition of the immortal “Dallas,” penned by Jimmie Dale Gilmore and originally released as the one and lonely Flatlanders…
I’ve considered retiring this weekly feature many times in recent weeks; we’re about out of the good stuff, I fear — unless you’re just dying for a ladies-choice between Linda Ronstadt at Reunion in ’82 or Courtney Love and Hole at Deep Ellum Live in ’94, which I’d briefly considered…
When last we heard from Anna Fermanova, the would-be cosmetologist from Plano was dishing out celeb gossip on CW33 while awaiting yet another court appearance in New York on federal weapons-smuggling charges after feds accused her of rocketing to Russia high-priced rifle scopes on the U.S. Munitions List. Her TV…
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…
Carolyn Beck, spokesperson for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, just called with an update about that Rick’s Cabaret scheduled to open within days near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Says Beck, Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and the DFW Airport board weren’t the first to protest the topless joint’s liquor license…
Luxist directs our attention this afternoon to the Strait Lane home of one Phil Romano, which has been on the market for quite some time. But the ’07 asking price of $17.5 million has come way, way down since then — to $12.5 million, per the Sotheby’s listing, which provides…
Back in August we got a look at that city council briefing titled “Effective Business Strategies to Support Sustainable Growth,” in which there were numerous new fees and rate hikes proposed by the ever-shrinking, oft-backed-up Sustainable Development and Construction department in order to “recover the true costs of delivering services…
Of course, no word yet from the likely local contender to run for KBH’s still-warm seat: Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. But while poking around his website this morning (where you’ll find his positions on health care, education and public safety), I did find one interesting and heretofore overlooked note on…
