Or: What do voluntary compliance mean?No doubt you’re well aware of the fact that for the last six weeks or so, you’ve needed a city-issued $15 permit to hold a garage sale in the city of Dallas. But when last we peeked at the permitting process, there were but three…
Good friend of the show Justin Terveen was kind enough to share this photo with the Friends of Unfair Park this morning — a view of downtown taken from the trestle directly north of Lew Sterrett Justice Center, which rumbles over Stemmons. Look for the more ginormous version sooner than…
Bike-riding the few blocks to F.P. Caillet Elementary back in the day was certainly no big deal — it certainly wasn’t revolutionary, it certainly wasn’t news. It’s how we got to school. Flash-forward three decades, and our neighborhood — same one in which I grew up — stages a Bike…
New Campus Fountain Animation from First Dallas on Vimeo.A couple of weeks back, First Baptist Dallas ‘sploded some of downtown to make way for its $115-million campus makeover. Yesterday, Robert Jeffress debuted a more detailed look at one of the centerpieces of the redo — the towering fountain that’s part…
What you see above are the new pavilions at Brownwood Park on Walnut Hill Lane, between Webb Chapel Road and Marsh Lane. When I spotted them Friday morning, contractors were putting the finishing touches on the three structures, which have been very slow to take shape. “We had difficulty with…
Late-afternoon legal matters yesterday ate into the usual work-week-ending rock-and-roll-and offering. So, then, straight to it via a legendary Swingin’ Pig LP digitized for your protection: Leslie West, Jack Bruce and Corky Laing at Memorial Auditorium in downtown Dallas on November 29, 1972. Otherwise known as West, Bruce & Laing…
You knew it was coming. And now, it’s here: the lawsuit against the city of Dallas that Andy Siegel vowed to file by week’s end in which he asks the court to void the results of last week’s vote to allow the off-premise sale of wine and beer citywide. It…
Over on Unfair Park moments ago, Big Bucks Burnett announced, at long last, that he’s finally found a home for his Eight Track Museum. Long story short: Merry Christmas, Deep Ellum! Literally. Opening day’s December 25. Somewhere on Commerce Street. He ain’t saying exactly where. Not for a couple more…
Moments ago — and that is no exaggeration — James “Big Bucks” Burnett finally signed the lease that will allow him to set up the Eight Track Museum that’s been in the works ever since the October 2009 exhibition at the Barry Whistler Gallery. As proof, Bucks sends this lease-signing…
Tom Hicks is friends with Brian Mulroney, who served as Canadian prime minister from September 1984 to June 1993 — and was, at one time, a senior counselor to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Anyway. In the you-gotta-pay-to-read-it UK Times today, Mulroney op-eds about Liverpool fans’ vilification of Hicks. Long…
Andrea’s headed back from Dallas City Hall, where she stopped by the 21st Century City Shindig to katch some Kotkin. But before she left, she caught City Manager Mary Suhm’s noontime announcements concerning big doings down on the Trinity. This is what Andrea just posted in the comments:ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. “I…
So says Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff Chris Heinbaugh in this just-posted Gay Travel look-see at the city. It accompanies these out-and-abouts on Cedar Springs, at Fair Park, the W Hotel in Victory Park, Gay Bingo, Cyclone Anaya’s, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the original Sonny Bryan’s.Just don’t try…
About a month ago we gave you the heads-up that Dallas City Hall would be overrun all day today with planners and politicians looking for a home in the heart of the 21st Century city. Fingers crossed a few of us’ll have time enough to slip in and out during…
Back in ’08, federal agents snatched up Melvis “Ty” Denman and several others charged with being part of a ginormous pot-selling operation; Denman pleaded guilty a year later and is presently serving a lengthy stint in the pokey. But the U.S. Marshals Service still had in its possession one of…
Our own Danny Fulgencio was downtown this afternoon for the Veterans Day parade. He sends back these images, with (Update) many more in a slide show.May I also recommend this touching tribute by good friend of the show Bill Holston that appeared in this morning’s paper…
Dallas, at least as of this very moment, is all-wet when it comes to the off-premise sale of beer and wine. And as Rudy Bush noted this morning, there hasn’t exactly been a rush to the Oak Cliff Municipal Center’s permit office — in large part because of the city…
Danny Cain does not and never has worked for the Dallas Independent School District. He does not and never has worked for Hewlett Packard. And yet yesterday, two federal agencies announced that he was awarded a chunk of HP’s $16.25-million settlement over wrongdoing at the district having to do with…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department: It’s asking for the public’s help in finding 85-year-old Schley Ervin and 84-year-old wife Elsie. According to the Critical Missing Persons bulletin just sent to media, yesterday afternoon — sometime between 1:45 and 5:45 — the couple left their home in the…
Back in February, we took a long, hard look at the 107-year-old Davy Crockett School on Carroll Avenue, a designated city historic landmark since 1993. Long story short: The Dallas Independent School District shipped its students to Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary in ’89, repurposed the building as administrative offices, and, about…
On Tuesday we got a couple of sneak peeks at the Lower Greenville of the future — meaning, the end of next year, all things go according to plan. Late yesterday, council member Angela Hunt, who’s spearheading the streetscaping with Pauline Medrano, posted to her blog a recap of this…
Back in June 2009, you may recall, the Dallas Independent School District and the U.S. Department of Justice settled up over the misuse of funds provided to the district for the feds’ E-Rate program, which was created in 1996 to give “affordable access to telecommunications services for all eligible schools…
I’ve been trying on and off throughout the afternoon to keep up with the city council’s attempts to canvass the results of last week’s election — specifically, the votes overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 1 allowing for the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. About half an hour ago,…
