Actually, if I’m not mistaken, Six Flags’s corporate offices in the DFW are in Grand Prairie on Avenue J East. But today — which marks the amusement park’s return to the New York Stock Exchange following Chapter 11 reorganization — Six Flags announced that Al Weber Jr., its president and…
For weeks we’ve wondered: When will Dallas get around to building an honest-to-God movie-television production facility? Because the city’s filling up with shows, but production companies have scant options: Fair Park, which The Good Guys will have to adios upon its August return (fingers crossed) to make way for State…
It’s unusual for Dallas City Hall to send word of a briefing involving the Dallas Police Department, but last night, a little after 10, Frank Librio notified the media of a briefing scheduled for 11:15 p.m. concerning “the incident in Lancaster.” By now, you no doubt know what he was…
The boy and I were downtown yesterday. We’d just been to Dallas Farmers Market and taken a long drive through the Cedars so he could take pictures. He asked, from the backseat, if we could go to Main Street Garden. I asked, “Why?” Told him he couldn’t play on the…
Before you take a long look at the 62-page sneak peek at the park the city plans to build upon the Continental Avenue Bridge with $10 million donated dollars, I’d recommend going back to our January Q&A with Jim Parrish of CH2M Hill, the Dallas-based project manager for the project…
Only yesterday, according to Willie Nelson’s Web site, the Library of Congress added to its National Recording Registry one of the greatest albums ever recorded ’round these parts: Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger, cut at Autumn Sound Studios in Garland in February ’75. You’ll hear plenty of that record, my favorite…
If you thought the Park and Rec board’s decision yesterday to defer a vote on a proposed sale of Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park meant that was that till August 5, so sorry. But, hell, might as well go five-for-five this work week with one final item on…
First thing this morning I saw Sarah Blaskovich’s story about Friends of Fair Park’s decision to cancel Fair Park Fourth — no money, natch. Well, that’s disappointing. I’ve been once; my folks, a few times. The Gruccis did a nice job. And, as evidenced by our trip down there last…
Cari Weinberg sends word this morning of two significant developments concerning this year’s Art Conspiracy, always an annual highlight. First: After last December’s frigid wingding on West Commerce, organizers have opted to move up the date to October — no specifics yet, just October.But before that can happen, ArtCon needs…
Hao Liu is not an attorney. He’s never been an attorney, nor a member of the State Bar of Texas. He’s also not in law school. Never has been to law school. Hard to say what he does — except, that is, tie up Dallas courts with frivolous lawsuits.Used to…
No doubt by now you’ve heard all about Rep. Joe Barton of Arlington (who has a 2 p.m. meeting scheduled with Mayor Tom Leppert on Monday) telling BP chief exec Tony Hayward how sorry he is — how so so so so so sorry he is — that President Obama…
The news broke this morning: 27-year-old Dallas Police Officer Kelly Beemer was out drinking last night, at Lee Harvey’s, when a few of her pals realized she’d had a few too many to drive. A fellow officer offered to drive her home. They didn’t quite make it. At the intersection…
Section 31-33 of the Dallas City Code outlines precisely when the under-17 set can’t be loose on the city’s streets. But let’s just summarize and say: Pretty much, when it’s dark out. And if you don’t think Dallas police are serious about enforcing the curfew, well, then, you didn’t just…
The Dallas Voice has been all over Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s rewording of its discrimination policy, which has been altered, it appears, to exclude protection for gay and transgender employees. The Voice has honed in on one word inserted into the policy — “except.” As it reads now, per the…
Some day, maybe, Tom Hicks will sell Liverpool FC. If, that is, the “asset stripper” (so said a newly elected MP in the House of Commons!) can find someone willing to pay the £800 million he insists the soccer team is worth (if only to make up for what he…
Seem to recall that back in November, when we were discussing efforts to clean up the Royal Lane-Dennis Road intersection in my beloved Northwest Dallas, talk turned to a certain Chinese-Mexican one-two punch located in a former check-cashing facility on Royal. Ah, yes. Here it is. Well, it’s for sale…
The University of Texas at Austin sends word today that it’s partnering with Dallas-based Education is Freedom — the beneficiary of Mayor Tom’s fund-raiser at the Dallas Zoo on June 26 — on a pilot program intended to “support students who might not otherwise consider the university as an option.”…
On Monday, in the comments to Daniel’s item about People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protesting Fort Worth’s libraries for hopping into tent with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, longtime Friend of Unfair Park Religion of Bacon complained that “PETA lost all credibility when they stopped using…
Preservation Dallas’s most-endangered list won’t be released till June 30. But this morning, the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League has released its own variation — an “Architecture at Risk List,” its first. Not surprisingly, the top spot’s taken by the Oak Cliff Christian Church, which is under the gun for…
Back in April there was a piece in The News about the sale of Pacific Place downtown, which Houston’s Boxer Property picked up at the low, low price of $5.3 million (or close to — those figures are never that spot-on). But the 20-story building right next to the Majestic…
We’ve written plenty about one item in particular on today’s Park and Rec Board meeting agenda, but it’s not the only item of interest. As in: Were you aware that the city’s about to put out the call for bids for a Stevens Park Golf Course redo? Colligan Golf Design…
So notes The Wall Street Journal in a just-posted piece concerning the fortunes, or lack thereof, of Feldman Mall Properties Inc., which has acknowledged that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will in fact sell the Golden Triangle, located off of I-35, at foreclosure auction sooner than later. Feldman bought the…
