UCR Urban’s Jack Gosnell — who helped convince Forest City to redo the Merc and the Continental — is among those who’ve been charged with recruiting retail to downtown. Which, presumably, is why Aaron Gentry, our pal Justin Terveen and the You+Dallas crew accompanied Gosnell on a tour of downtown,…
Eleven long months ago we got word that while there’d be no big-screen Dallas, TNT was eying a small-screen revisit to Southfork. Since then, nothing — at least, not till today. The Turner-owned network confirms that “an updated version of the classic TV series” is indeed among the four pilots…
I’ve been getting all kinds of e-mails in recent days concerning tomorrow’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees, which will discuss changing the way students are admitted into vanguards, academies and magnets. Last week word was there’d be a lottery system of some kind included in…
Like I said Friday, the the FIFA World Cup Soccer Site Selection Committee’s coming to town — tonight, if Hermine doesn’t mind. Last night, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, sent a few more details concerning the visit in advance of the December 2 decision — as in,…
More than once I’ve directed your attention to the sound track to the long-lost Rolling Stones in-concert doc Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones, filmed during the ’72 Exile on Main St. tour. All of the footage comes from Texas — two shows at the Tarrant County Convention Center, two…
On Saturday we took the 7-year-old who lives in our house to the Trinity River Audubon Center, where he quickly became obsessed with the Pete Delkus-narrated flood-maker showing how high’s too high. So. This morning, out of nowhere, he asked: “Is the Trinity going to flood?” I told him to…
Patrick MichelsHow, ahem, “Walnut Park” looked in the summer of ’09. Now, there’s a little more grass … and graffiti.Twice last summer — in June, then again ’round this time of the year — we checked in on our favorite 42 acres at the intersection of Walnut Hill Lane and…
Josh Ozersky, not so long ago the subject of this open rant from a sister paper, has a new crush: Dean Fearing. The author of The Hambuger: The History visited Fearing’s Ritz-Carlton namesake for Time and decided it’s the bestest restaurant in all the land when it comes to haute-cuisine…
On Thursday we gave you the no-surprise-there heads-up that, yet again, the Dallas Police Department would be drawing blood from long-weekend drunken drivers who refused to voluntarily turn over a blood or breath sample. Well, the numbers are in: DPD just sent word that 54 people were arrested for driving…
Back in May, Kourtny Garrett, senior vice president of marketing for DowntownDallas, told us that come autumn the organization would be hosting an “outdoor movie series” on the Main Street Garden lawn. Now, the official MSG site says the series is “coming soon,” but Downtown Dallas just sent word: It…
This just in from the Texas Rangers’ PR Department: On Friday, when Your Texas Rangers open a weekend series against the New York Yankees at the Ballpark in Arlington, Blue Man Group will perform. And not just once. Not just, like, after the game. Far from it:On Friday, Blue Man…
The Unfair Park in-box has been filling up all morning with missives from local nonprofits requesting we visit the Donor Bridge TX website tomorrow — because yet again Communities Foundation of Texas is going to match donations made between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, otherwise known as “Get Up…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews Harrison Ford for Star Wars 1977 from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.First it appeared on The New York Times’s Web site this morning, courtesy fellow nostalgist Dave Itzkoff (who actually stumbled across it on The Daily Wh.at); then, MTV’s. This six-minute clip of Channel 5’s Bobbie Wygant interviewing Harrison…
For months Theresa O’Donnell, director of the city’s Sustainable Development and Construction department, has been meeting with contractors and developers about how to loosen up the permit-granting, inspection-making logjam caused in recent months by departmental layoffs and other budget-busters. Says O’Donnell, TEXO, which reps most of the major commercial contractors…
Back in May, you may recall, JP Morgan analyst Jamie Baker kinda gave it to American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey during a first-quarter earnings conference call. Said Baker to Arpey, following a discussion of dwindling earnings and a vague “flight plan” for the future, “I guess you just don’t sound…
This afternoon’s meeting of the council’s Public Safety Committee should be a particularly good one; its agenda, covering everything from reality teevee shows to neighborhood crime watch groups to the latest crime stats, is action-packed. Andrea, but of course, will liveblog. But the item most likely to generate interest is…
On Saturday the Nasher Sculpture Center debuted its latest exhibit: Revelation: The Art of James Magee, the first time in almost 20 years the El Paso-based sculptor’s work has been collected and shown publicly. For the past quarter century, the lawyer-turned-cabbie-turned-artist has been hard at work on his hill –…
As promised, photographer Carissa Byers and many others spent yesterday afternoon cleaning up the trash wasteland Dylan Hollingsworth discovered along White Rock Creek last week. KXAS-Channel 5 documented their doings — and interviewed the photographer for the story without ever ID’ing her. So I asked Carissa for her account of…
That’s 807 Elm Street at right, captured last month in a photo taken by our old pal Justin Terveen. Built in 1925, the building occupies 20,025 square feet in a parking lot between N. Austin and N. Lamar Streets facing El Centro. It was, once, among the assemblage of buildings…
To the list of Dallas-set-or-shot series airing in the fall — The Good Guys, Chase and Lone Star — add another heretofore unknown to us till it appeared on the city council Public Safety Committee’s agenda for Tuesday: Police Women of Dallas. It’ll air on the network formerly known as…
When I first met Angus Wynne some 20 years ago, when I was at the Dallas Times Herald, this photo was on his desk — a most impressive introduction. I remember asking him: “Were you friends with Jimi Hendrix?” But I didn’t remember his answer. So I called him this…
Every now and then I check to see if the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan website’s up and running, because ever since that jam-packed open house in late May it’s been little more than a new-site-coming-soon place-holder with a survey. But, sure enough, I clicked over from City Hall’s home page…
