The Dallas Watersports Complex — which, as we mentioned back in May 2009 and again in February, will be located on Fish Trap Lake in West Dallas — says on its Web site that it’s “coming Summer 2010.” Not quite, according to an item in front of the council’s Economic…
Back in November came news that 7-Eleven was getting into the private-label wine business with Yosemite Road, which sold for $3.99. Dave Faries, alas, was not impressed — “somewhat palatable” is hardly a viable slogan. So, then, how to greet news of this latest pour: The One Arts Plaza-based chain…
I’ll leave it to Dr. James IIsaac Bashevis Levee Singer Schutze to parse through Mary Suhm’s 88-page Dallas Floodway System Update Briefing presented to the council last night and covered in this morning’s paper. Maybe when he’s freed from the coop Jim can tell us why the city’s only willing…
Whenever we old sonsabitches (early 40s, say) sit around to talk about the best shows ever at our favorite venues ever, this one always comes up: The Clash at the Bronco Bowl on June 6, 1982 (scroll down, you’ll find it). I’ve got the previous night’s tour poster framed and…
I’ve been trying to dig up some of Lewis Wickes Hine’s reports written during his sojourn to Dallas in 1913 on behalf of the National Child Labor Commission, when he met 6-year-old newsie Louis Shuman and 15-year-old cotton spinner Rosy Phillips. So far, no luck — they reside deep within…
Some news and notes on this thank-God-it’s-Friday:I’ve been told that everyone loves lists. So, then, with that in mind: Mazel tov, Dallas! Last year, we came in at No. 24 on the America’s Least Wasteful Cities list — 24 out of 25, shameful. This year, though, we’re all the way…
You’re probably well aware that the Texas Motor Speedway’s open for business this weekend, culminating with the running of the NSCS Samsung Mobile 500 at 2 p.m. Sunday. And if you’re not, well, no matter — this photo of Governor Rick Perry, snapped by our Rachel Parker yesterday during kick-off…
Paul Quinn College, which celebrated its 138th birthday one week ago today, remains without accreditation almost one year after Southern Association of Colleges and Schools removed the school from its membership list. Which is why it’s now seeking accreditation status elsewhere: the significantly smaller Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and…
Significant dates in Liverpool break-up history:April 17, 1970: Paul McCartney releases first solo album in the United Kingdom. It is accompanied by a self-interview, in which McCartney acknowledges, after much speculation, that the Beatles have broken up. He attributes his departure from the band to, among other things, “personal differences,…
A hearty mazel tov this morning to Alan Govenar — president and founder of Documentary Arts on Columbia Ave. in East Dallas; author of some two dozen books, among them the history of Deep Ellum; renowned playwright and filmmaker whose collected works were just shown at South by Southwest in…
Sure. You’ve seen the implosion of Texas Stadium from the parking lot. And in super-slow-mo. But thanks to the heads-up from USA Today, you can now witness it … from inside Texas Stadium…
The Dallas International Film Festival wraps up Sunday. But tomorrow morning, tickets for the USA Film Festival will go on sale via Ticketmaster, according to the fest’s publicist in the release that just landed in our in-box. That, right there, that’s a double feature — especially considering the fact that…
Maybe you’ve noticed: Over on the right-hand side of the page, we’ve got a few sneak peek at Mark Cuban’s proposed Wonderview development in Oak Cliff. They were sent to us by the great Ashley Claborn, director of marketing at downtown-based Merriman Associates — the very same folks responsible for…
Word’s been circulating throughout the local radio community today that Greg Davis, who has been general manager at WRR-FM (101.1) since 1993, has been fired. That’s not true, according to WRR employees to whom I spoke today. Instead, they say, he is retiring effective May 6. He announced his decision…
1972 – The HERD – Side 2 : Track 4 – “Oye Como Va” from Carter Cowboy on Vimeo.My favorite doc in the about-to-wrap Dallas International Film Festival was Thunder Soul, about the Kashmere Stage Band straight outta Houston in the can-you-dig-it 1970s. Perhaps a sequel, then, about the David…
Patrick Kennedy, the professional urban designer behind Walkable Dallas-Fort Worth, likes what he sees in Mark Cuban’s proposed Wonderview development near Kiest Boulevard and Southerland Avenue. Only, he writes, it doesn’t exactly have “easy access to public transit,” as it says in last month’s briefing to the City Plan Commission:…
Still no official word on Tom Hicks hiring Barclays Capital to find a buyer for Liverpool FC. But last night, Bloomberg News posted a story that says creditors, led by Monarch Alternative Capital, may throw up a legal roadblock as Hicks tries to complete the sale of the first-place Texas…
That ad you see at right — that’s on Page 13A of this morning’s Morning News courtesy the Transport Workers Union of America, which wants you, dear reader, to text “EXCESS” to a number that will “register” you for upcoming protests. Like the one planned today at Terminal D of…
The Joneses: For a while, at least, a pitch-black tale of our times: Four business partners masquerading as a happy family move into suburbia and sell their friends and neighbors on their early-adopter, newer-than-brand-new layaway lifestyle. David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Heard and Ben Hollingsworth are the client-sponsored grifters; they…
Steve Thompson’s been kind enough throughout the afternoon to offer Dallas City New Network video highlights from today’s council meeting — specifically, the part dealing with Mark Cuban’s proposed Wonderview development in Oak Cliff. Here’s what Mayor Tom Leppert had to say; Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway also has high…
At the very end of 2009, we discovered that the Crate & Barrel anchoring the Galleria North shopping strip on Alpha Road was heading further north up the Dallas North Tollway to The Shops of Willow Bend in January 2011, leaving a rather gaping hole in the development across the…
One of the first cover stories I wrote for the Dallas Observer was a profile of writer Terry Southern — same guy who wrote Dr. Strangelove, The Magic Christian, Easy Rider, Barbarella, Candy. Same guy who shows up amongst the immortals splashed upon the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover. Same guy…
