On Monday I mentioned director Clay Liford’s looking for extras for his new movie — still needs ’em, matter of fact. One hundred to 300 — enough to fill the Garland High School gym for a 10th high school reunion. Think Grosse Point Blank. But one thing: The movie’s no…
Angela Hunt wants to make one thing clear: That proposed ordinance that would rezone Lower Greenville Avenue as a Planned Development District isn’t “Area 51, black helicopter, keep-it-quiet stuff. There’s nothing secret about this.” Which is why, late Tuesday, she released the revised ordinance to be presented at a July…
Last month, as you and no doubt Andrea recall, the Dallas Police Department launched its summer-safety initiative: Operation Triangle, so named for its three main goals: reducing property crime, violent crime and public disorder. And, yes, while those are good year-round goals, DPD says there’s a “spike” in such activities…
A few profs and economists, among them SMU’s own Bernard Weinstein, are among those in the new issue of Fortune trying to figure out how “Texas powered through the global fiscal crisis,” while California “remains locked in such a pronounced slump compared to its economically and demographically similar cousin to…
I have been a terrible former music editor. Here we are, but three days from the kick-off of the Dallas Observer Music Awards, and so far I’ve written not one word about so glorious an event as the one planned by Pete and our crack promotions staff. Pete has offered…
Texas Observer Forrest Wilder has been doing an occasional chat-with series featuring homegrowns “involved in issues of the environment and energy,” and for his latest installment he’s chatting up none other than our old pal Patrick “Car-Free in Big D” Kennedy. Not surprisingly, Patrick’s got plenty to say: Wilder sent…
Back in May we introduced you to Brenda Jackson, who had just been named Oncor’s Chief Customer Officer — and a more thankless job title you will not find. The gig, which I am sure she likes, and that was the question, was created following the fallout from the February…
For the last several days I’ve been trying to find out the answer to one simple question: Is the water in Fish Trap Lake — site of the Dallas Watersports Complex since put on indefinite hold by the Dallas Housing Authority — safe for wakeboarding?Chad Lacerte, who had hoped to…
Elliot’s at the Keep the Dollars in Dallas press conference at this very moment — he’ll post his Qs and their As shortly. Till then, some light lunchtime reading follows on the other side: Ray Perryman’s 25-page report — The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Expanding Alcoholic Beverage Sales in…
Been trying to get more info from the city concerning what, exactly, this just-handed-down ruling from the Fifth District Court of Appeals of Texas means. But, in short, it appears that a lengthy legal battle concerning a small slice o’ street off Inwood Road and Walnut Hill Lane has come,…
Art Conspiracy’s annual SEED fund-raiser is still on the schedule for this Friday at the Sons of Hermann Hall. No need to remind you what the what this is, right? (OK, then: This is when ArtCon’s organizers raise money for The Big Event, that annual artists’ slambang during which original…
This morning, the Associated Press tells the tale of Stephen Brodie, a deaf inmate serving time in the TDCJ’s Estelle Unit till 2012 — and, quite possibly, yet another innocent man imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. In 1991, Richardson police detained a 19-year-old Brodie for “stealing quarters from…
Not together, mind you — this isn’t a joint project between Ewing Oil and the Hilltop. But both Larry Hagman, now positioning himself as the Anti-Palin, and Southern Methodist are making a singular push for solar power — the former Dallas star in a highly publicized ad for a German…
… turns out, it was already out-of-date.Council member Angela Hunt just sent us the latest iteration of the proposed ordinance that would turn Lower Greenville into a Planned Development District. And though much of it’s the same as Avi’s copy, which dates back to April, the new version (so new…
At this very moment, Sam is sitting in the parking lot outside the federal courthouse in Fort Worth, where, moments ago, details concerning the auction of Your Texas Rangers were announced. Sam reports that the auction will take place at 9 a.m. on August 4 in Judge Michael Lynn’s courtroom…
The more surprising news: There’s still a CNBC. I kid. Anyway. One year after Texas was knocked off as America’s Top State for Business by Virginia, we’re back on top. How so? Well, CNBC added up 10 “key categories of competitiveness” (among them, the cost of doing business, quality of…
A major tip o’ the yarmulke to Avi Adelman, who, in advance of a July 29 meeting called by council member Angela Hunt, just posted a draft of the proposed ordinance that would turn Lower Greenville into a Planned Development District. Avi got the doc today via an open-records request…
Yesterday, Rudy Bush mentioned that Doug’s Gym on Commerce Street downtown is getting a new neighbor: a 7-Eleven, oh thank heavens. Should be open in late August or early September.But before that, that former 7-Eleven in Preston Royal — shuttered because, among other reasons, “it wasn’t facing the street” –…
Dallas filmmaker and journalist Kirby Warnock’s doc Return to Giant, about the making of George Stevens’s Texas-sized ’56 epic with Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, is available on the double-disc DVD collection issued in 2005. Only: Not really. Because, you see, when Warner Bros. issued the disc,…
Tomorrow Keep the Dollars in Dallas, the Kroger-led group hoping to get Dallas wet, will hold a press conference and lunch, during which it’ll announce some endorsements and hand out Ray Perryman’s study insisting, among myriad other things, that allowing off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide will add some…
At 1:30 this afternoon all those involved in the sale of the Texas Rangers will meet in U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn’s Fort Worth courtroom for an expedited hearing concerning Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s lawsuit filed yesterday against Tom Hicks’ Texas Rangers Baseball Partners. But before that: Just this…
New Campus Groundbreaking from First Dallas on Vimeo.Perhaps you saw in Sunday’s paper the great-gosh-a-mighty spread First Baptist Dallas took out to commemorate last weekend’s groundbreaking on its $130-million plans to remake that end of downtown in its own image. Turns out, the ceremony was as spectacular-spectacular as the advertisement…
