Tomorrow we’ll get back to bond-package and alley-repair city council briefings and the business community’s interest in fixing the DISD; meet the new year, same as the old. But here’s a nice way to kick off 2012 — with Boston Globe features editor Katie McLeod’s recap of her recent visit…
Schutze said it the other day: Gov. Rick Perry’s probably just a few days away from crawling back to Austin with his tail tucked between Anita’s legs. We’ll know more tonight at 7, when the Des Moines Register releases its all-important Iowa Poll, and Happy New Year to you too…
Yesterday our new New York Times contributor offered eight ways the Dallas Cowboys can win the NFC East tomorrow night, each one a thoughtful, stat-driven how-to. The New York Daily News counters this morning with one of those (yawn) things-we-hate-about lists, which, as you can see, even graces the the…
Whenever I drive down this stretch of IndustrialRiverfront, which is often, I think about what used to be there: the Three Teardrops Tavern, the honky-tonk that served as home-away-from for old-timers (Boots Bourquin was a regular), newcomers (Ed Burleson got his start there) and those in-between (Ronnie Dawson, then taking…
Whilst doing some housekeeping before heading out for the new year, I came across this gift you see above. It was dispatched by our new friend Ron Hart, the Atlanta photographer who earlier this month was kind enough to send us that never-before-seen color photo of the giant Santa who…
Forthcoming: Anna’s account of a morning presser with Dallas PD Chief David Brown about a crime-ring bust-up and Leslie’s chitchats with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and a Tarrant County ADA about drunk-driving initiatives over the holiday weekend. Happy New Year! But first, the most … ineffective, let’s say,…
I mean, hell, if Schutze could do the Electric Daisy, no reason I can’t go to Lights All Night at the Dallas Convention Center, which starts tonight and lasts through the break of New Year’s Day dawn. At least I have some Girl Talk, Diplo and MSTRKRFT on the iPod…
As conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here’s one that landed in the inbox late yesterday — a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood Apartments. The address, of course, is familiar:…
Four months ago I stumbled across a rough keepsake of The Who’s first-ever Dallas performance in July 1967 at Memorial Auditorium downtown; it’s a rumble of feedback and chatter, though buried somewhere beneath it all is The Greatest Rock and Roll Band of All Time roaring toward immortality. And now…
On May 12 of next year three Dallas Independent School District trustee spots will come up for grabs — those presently held by Bernadette Nutall, Bruce Parrott and Edwin Flores. (And, depending on which rumors you choose to believe about possible doings on the Dallas County Commissioners Court and the…
Doesn’t seem all that long ago that Edwin Cabaniss first told us about his plans for the old Kessler Theater on W. Davis; sweet fancy mayor, has it really been more than two years since Tom Leppert put his shovel into the dirt? From risky concept to necessity to institution…
We said it before: Downtown Dallas is starting to look a little like Lil’ Las Vegas. The subject spurred a little back-and-forth during a staff dinner last night, during which someone mentioned the story in yesterday’s paper about our even more illuminated skyline. Said urban planner Larry Beasley, it’s not…
Whilst you drink in the news that new-to-town Spec’s (where a 1.75L bottle of Old Fitzgerald runs $21.46, cheaper if you pay cash) is looking to buy Sigel’s (where the same bottle of Old Fitz costs $32), allow me to pour you another tall one the day before the day…
Speaking of new grocery stores …Last we’d been told, the Central Market replacing the old Borders (which replaced an old Safeway) in Preston Royal would be open come “mid-winter.” But as you can see from the photo I snapped a couple of nights ago, it’s looking awful close to opening…
Well, maybe you don’t, but several Friends of Unfair Park were curious why the Dallas Police Department sent out the vague message that starting at 9 this morning, “there will be street and sidewalk closures at 2014 Main Street [and] both Main and Commerce streets and sidewalks could be coned…
Two questions this morning about Trader Joe’s plans to build its first Dallas location on the site where once the Arcadia stood: Does this kill the food-trailer park Madison Partners had planned for the site, and what does this mean for the old Whole Foods spot everyone thinks is going…
The highlight of Your Dallas Mavericks’ long-anticipated opening day came well before tip-off, as Mark Cuban’s defending champs decorated the inside of the American Airlines Center with the championship banner. What happened after that erased all the pent-up goodwill: The Miami Heat, humiliated but a few months ago, humbled the…
Just checked the calendar and noticed: The Museum of the American Railroad should be rolled outta Fair Park by … well, by Saturday, would you look at that. Except, no: Two years after the city sued the train museum, telling it to chugga-chugga thee to those new digs in Frisco…
Speaking of historic buildings ….A few days ago a friend of the show sent word that she’d seen workmen inside 108-year-old David Crockett Elementary, which had fallen into a state of grave disrepair in recent years. I reminded her: Back in August, Good Signature Management bought the building from the…
Saw a story in The Wall Street Journal this morning concerning something we’ve written about a couple of times in recent months — how the drought’s causing donkey owners ’round these parts to cut ’em loose, creating what Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Senior Sergeant Patrick Bonner refers to in today’s…
For some — local preservationists, say, or music fans — one of the biggest stories of 2011 was First Presbyterian Church’s purchase of 508 Park Avenue; at last, the long-ago Brunswick Records regional office in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and possibly Charlie Parker recorded no longer had that hellhound…
What you see above is YouPlusDallas’s latest year-end offering: “2011: A Year in Fast-Forward,” which features at least two familiar contributions, Justin Terveen’s sneak-peek at the new-look Reunion Tower and the first few seconds from the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau’s “Moon Over Dallas” promo. There’s trolly-riding, disco-dancing, plane-ticket-buying, hot-air-balloon-inflating,…
