Yet Another Reason to Avoid the Tollway

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…

Go Inside the Mighty Mercantile Back in ’58

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…

Talking Trash and Carrying Water at City Hall

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…

It’s Curtains For the AMC Grand 24

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…

SLANT 45, The Movie

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…

Dueling Southforks

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…

Dallas, Get Ready for Chaos! (Maybe.)

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:…

Meanwhile, Back at the Colony Club …

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,…

Oncor Powers Up Power-Outage Web Site

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…