OK. Back to the greenery — or brownery — along N. Central Expressway. I’ll keep it brief, but I did want to answer some Friends’ follow-ups questions from yesterday.This morning I got a call from Assistant Public Works Director Alan Hendrix, who knows more about this subject than anyone. He…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sent hizzoner’s weekly sked this morning, and it says that Wednesday night and Thursday morning (and, like, early Thursday morning) he’s got a date with the FIFA World Cup Soccer Site Selection Committee. Remember: Dallas is among the 18 cities that made…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Eddie Bernice Johnson, who keeps changing her story about those scholarships that went to family members, appeared last night on Anderson Cooper 360 (via telephone). The segment was called “Keeping Them Honest.” And Anderson did not disappoint…
Sooner or later, sure, we’ll all be biking to work or play. Or taking DART. Or riding hovercrafts. Or jet packs. Or solar-powered water taxis. But till that day happens, well, we gotta park our cars somewhere. And, like I need to tell you, that ain’t easy sometimes. Which is…
A few weeks back, you no doubt recall, Virgin America announced that in December, it would begin flying out of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The announcement was made in Houston, at the National Business Travel Association confab, and, turns out, Time’s Stacy Perman was on-hand for the announcement. So too…
A couple of nights back I was watching Channel 8 when, strange, an H&M ad popped up — strange since there’s no H&M in Dallas yet despite your myriad requests. Turns out the hip-n-affordable clothier has launched a national ad campaign — featuring, as Pete pointed out this morning, none…
Two months ago Intern Elliot broke the news that City Manager Mary Suhm was considering putting Dallas Farmers Market (and Fair Park) in the hands of a private operator, a la the city’s deal with the Dallas Zoological Society last year. At the time, there was no time line for…
From the in-box, this from one good Friend of Unfair Park: “What the h is going on with the landscaping on Central? Is TxDOT letting everything die? It looks like crap.”Good question(s). And I have the answer.First, let’s flashback to a meeting of the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee…
Back in June 2009, then-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle told then-Dallas Observer-er Kimberly Thorpe why he was (and, no doubt, remains) a big fan of the department’s so-called No-Refusal DWI Initiative, which allows officers who pull over suspected drunk drivers to take and test two vials’ worth of blood. Said…
Whilst looking for something entirely unrelated on PACER this morning I came across the latest handwritten court filing by none other than Jonathan Lee Riches, from whom we last heard way back in January ’08. The suit — which names, among others, Cuban, Carmelo Anthony, Jerry Buss and Jerry Reinsdorf…
Way back in June we mentioned that a federal judge told the Royal Lane-based Institute for Creation Research that its lawsuit against the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board didn’t stand a holy ghost of a chance — mostly because, well, it didn’t make a lick of sense. Which is to…
Our good pal Justin Terveen was out last night, dodging raindrops, and captured this downtown scene sure to make a return if and when the owners of the former Statler Hilton part with the property “within 90 days” as promised. Should, of course, lightning strike twice…
The original announcement came back in May: The Texas Theatre, threatened by the wrecking ball as recently as the mid-’90s, was on the road to recovery as a revival house — a much-needed, much-welcomed addition to the local cinemascape. At present, the Texas is closed for much-needed, much-welcomed renovations with…
Observer contributor Dylan Hollingsworth was out at White Rock Creek yesterday shooting his nieces Autumn Hollingsworth and Chassidy Levassuer when he came across this — “a wasteland of debris,” as he put it when we spoke this afternoon. This is the spot: Goforth Road, only a few yards from the…
It’s been almost six months now since Jubilee Park residents began protesting the Dallas Independent School District’s plans to seize their businesses and homes by any means necessary to make way for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary. In that time there have been countless protests and meetings, and only recently…
On Monday I noted that city officials were anxiously awaiting a verdict in the 4-year-old case of City of Dallas v. TCI West End Inc., which concerned the demolition of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Freight Station in the West End in ’06. The trial started two weeks ago, and on Friday, city…
Back in June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word: Jon Leslie Lyons, a 44-year-old who’d been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, had been arrested and charged with keeping child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5, on his home computer and iPhone.A Dallas…
It’s quite the reunion this morning: Ex-Dallas News-er Emily Ramshaw, now at the Texas Tribune, sits down with ex-Dallas Observer-er and former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, now director of projects for Summit Power, which is in the clean-coal (big) business. Miller, who hasn’t done many sitdowns since leaving office, opens…
Thanks to Roger Ebert’s early-Tuesday-morning tweet (“Beck’s next rally is planned for Nov. 22 in Dallas, at Dealey Plaza”), I’ve received more than a few e-mails from people wondering, in short: Really? No, not really. (I don’t think.) But he will be in Alaska on September 11. (And the other…
Rep. Donald Payne, a Democrat from New Jersey, is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation — which, as you’re well aware by now, is where Eddie Bernice Johnson found the $25,000 she gave in scholarships to relatives and her top aide’s kids. And Payne’s so livid over the…
This morning the council takes its most detailed look yet at Mary Suhm’s proposal to gut the libraries’ budget for the coming fiscal year. The briefing goes back a few years too — back to when branches were open 47 hours (some on Sundays) and were fully staffed, when the…
