As we head into the long, steamy three-day weekend (for some), let me make good on a promise: In advance of Rhino Records’ June 8 release of the three-disc Disintegration: Deluxe Edition, The Cure is now streaming a hunk of its September 15, 1989, Prayer Tour stop-over at Starplex. And…
… which is, you gotta move it from where it currently sits at 3909 University Boulevard. That’s right smack next to the parking lot at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, which has big plans to make its parking lot, well, much bigger — plans that call for paving over not just…
What you see above are crews using a big-ass crane and a specially made “sling” to set in place the center arch for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Oh, and the view? It’s from high atop Unfair Park HQ. But you can see it right outside our editorial-side windows. Schutze…
As if the fear of wrong-way drivers, fiery crashes and wheelie-poppers wasn’t enough to put you in the bike lane, the North Texas Tollway Authority has released video from a Wednesday-morning crash near the Belt Line Road exit in which no one, astoundingly, was seriously hurt. Yet one more reason…
While browsing the Heritage Auction Galleries site late last night, in search of something entirely unrelated (this, if you must know), I came across a most estimable offering from the June Signature Photography Fine Art Auction: 17 rarely seen photos taken inside the Mercantile Bank Building shortly after its ’58…
The June/July Esquire arrived at the house yesterday — the How to Be a Man 2010 issue, thank God. And contained therein is the fifth annual rundown of the magazine’s Best Bars in America, two of which are in stumbling distance courtesy the contributions of my friend Adam McGill, who…
The city’s more or less shut down till Tuesday, what with a furlough day and Memorial Day on the schedule. Which is why City Hall has early-posted its Wednesday council briefing agendas on two subjects near and dear to every citizen: water and trash. At least one of ’em is…
Just returned to the office from an interview to find three press releases in the Unfair Park in-box worth noting. As always, let’s start with the unusually chatty Tom Hicks, who spoke today with, among other media outlets, Business Week and the UK Guardian. To the former he reiterates what…
A little while ago AMC Entertainment Inc. sent out a press release announcing that come November 30, it will “vacate the premises” at the 24-screen AMC Grand off Stemmons Freeway and W. Northwest Highway. But it’ll be dead long before that, as AMC has to get 24 screens and 15…
So, if you’ve got a child in the Dallas Independent School District, as I do, and he or she comes home this afternoon with the wowee-zowee good news that their campus has been ranked, oh, let’s just say exemplary by the Texas Education Agency, don’t get too excited just yet…
Surely you need no reminder to attend the Dallas Bike Plan Open House this evening at City Hall — 5 to 8 p.m., if you haven’t already written it on the cover of your Trapper Keeper. By way of a ramp-up, I direct your attention to Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy’s Web…
Back in September, at Cowboys Stadium, the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee debut its educational outreach initiative called Service Learning Adventures in North Texas — or, SLANT 45 for short. Long story short, it’s what Daryl “Mooooooooose” Johnston called “the largest service-learning project in our nation’s history.” Any…
Look at it this way — come June 24, when Blockbuster holds its annual shareholders meeting downtown, we’ll be all done with this particular, and particularly ugly, chapter in the life of the “American icon.” Till then, though, this latest development in Greg Meyer’s attempt to snag a seat on…
Quick — spot the real Southfork Ranch, the one in Parker. Good for you. (It’s the one on the left.) The other one’s a replica built in the mid-’90s by “corrupt Romanian billionaire Ilie Alexandru,” as he’s described on Ultimate Dallas. The only real difference, aside from a few exterior…
First person I saw at City Hall yesterday was Katherine Seale, exec director of Preservation Dallas, who’d come to council in an attempt to stall a vote on the historic demolition ordinance we’ve been discussing since, oh, August ’08 and the one that, as currently written, would allow the city…
Where to begin? Let’s go with Your Texas Rangers, who were back in bankruptcy court in Fort Worth for the second day of “first day” proceedings following Monday’s voluntary Chapter 11 filing. Reports the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge D. Michael Lynn finally decided after a bidding war between Major…
So. Patrick and I just returned from the press conference in the Flag Room at City Hall, where quite the bold-faced crowd gathered for Coyote Slim’s big announcement with Mayor Tom Leppert, state Sen. Royce West and various Fox execs, including exec veep Jim Sharp. Only, we left not quite…
Patrick Michels and I are at City Hall for this afternoon’s big ol’ teevee announcement with the mayor and Pistol Pete. And we’ll return shortly with a few choice quotes and, better still, photos. But here’s the big announcement, which I tried to tease yesterday without spilling all the beans:…
To date we’ve shared a few pops with sailors and their dates at Frank Nick’s The Nite Spot in ’45 and pulled up a chair at the old Plantation on Greenville. Next stop on our eBay tour of legendary Dallas nightspots: Abe Weinstein’s Colony Club, which, at this late date,…
This morning I had to go to the Oncor site to look for something that may or may not be related to the myriad tree limbs still intertwined with the power lines behind my house. Whilst there, I figured I’d take a look at the recent press releases, see if…
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department only recently, and very quietly, began posting videos to the YouTube — like this promo video we mentioned a few weeks back, and Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s very brief inaugural Webcast (in which, right off the bat, she says “this was done with little to no…
Below you’ll find one of many docs submitted to the federal bankruptcy court this week concerning Your Texas Rangers’ voluntary Chapter 11 filing, done with the intention of finally sealing the deal with Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. William Neary, the U.S. Trustee for the Northern and…
