Kim Jong Il will never get to see implementation of the Dallas Bike Plan; neither will Václav Havel. Whether you will remains to be seen: Last we looked it’s going to take 10 years for the city to roll out a maze of bike paths — despite what council members…
That record you see at right, signed by Warren Zevon, was given to me by Craig DePoi the night Warren played Club Dada — July 27, 1992, to be exact. I remember it like it was yesterday. Craig, then working behind the bar at Trees, knew of my fondness for…
A quick look-see reveals efforts to sell the 1964 Cadillac Hearse that transported President John Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field have failed at least once before — in 2007, when Arrdeen Vaughan, the Alvarado funeral-home owner who’d had it for decades, came up $100,000 of the million-dollar…
Back in May, you may recall, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners John Wiley Price and Maurine Dickey went before the media to deeply, sincerely and profoundly apologize to all those citizens who may have been evicted without a heads-up in recent years. After a five-month internal audit, the…
In recent days we’ve seen a video in which the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau sells the city to conventioneers and tourists, and a short film in which the Dallas Citizens Council sells the city to … um, the citizens council? But after the jump, here’s a real, honest-to-God pitch…
Went to the city’s website to look for something — oh, what an exciting life it is — and came across this freshly minted item: “City clarifies Dallas Bike Plan implementation status and outlook.” Well, now. Looks like someone (cough) would like to rebut a law-practicing council member’s argument that…
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months — though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and … not bad — I can’t argue with this year’s list…
Seems like forever ago, but it was just last month that Stephen Benavides spent a few days in county lock-up on charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest during that Occupy Dallas protest at the downtown Bank of America. But then, a few days and one YouTube clip…
Speaking of your deep-felt desire for retro arcading …Well, I was going to give Steve Brown the credit, till a quick search reveals it was former Observer-er Merritt Martin (sniff) who actually broke the news two days ago that Austin-based Kung Fu Saloon is due to take over the former…
Meanwhile, back at the courthouse, this just in: Don Carter, last seen receiving the Larry O’Brien trophy as the Dallas Mavericks’ original owner, has sued Tom Hicks over millions Carter says he’s sunk into real estate around the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington and Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco — millions…
No doubt you’ve heard by now that former Dallas Cowboy Sam Hurd’s in federal custody, having been popped by authorities in Chicago last night for trying to buy “five to 10 kilograms of cocaine, at $25,000 per kilogram, and 1,000 pounds of marijuana, at $450 per pound, per week for…
Only yesterday we noted the Dallas Area Rapid Transit is ready to go on that final leg of the Orange Line that’ll connect with Terminal A at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The price tag’s steep: $149,750,000 for the third section of the Orange Line, from Belt Line Station to DFW…
One month ago, after a lengthy discussion, the Dallas City Council voted not to give a late-night specific use permit to a bowling alley being proposed for the old Lucky’s Roadhouse space, next to Good Records on Greenville Avenue. Pauline Medrano — who, with Angela Hunt, co-wrote the Planned Development…
The reason I called Park and Rec’s second-in-command Willis Winters the other day wasn’t about downtown parks. Rather, I was curious about an $869,465 item on the Park Board’s agenda for today: “Consider a professional services contract with Good, Fulton & Farrell Architects for schematic design through construction administration services…
On the eve of the final school board meeting of the year, I had a long talk with Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn, who expects tonight’s adios to 2011 will be a lengthy one: “We’ve got a long list of people who want to speak about the…
For eight years Youlanda Rochelle Wright worked for Radio Shack as a customer service rep in its Fort Worth call center. Day after day she fielded complaint after complaint about a defective this and a busted that and how do I return an oversized item and what do you mean…
Speaking of Dwaine Caraway …The city council just voted on that Walmart Supercenter proposed for Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton, and though it ultimately passed unanimously it was no simple thing — far from. It was quite the discussion — heated at times, thoughtful at others. On the surface it was…
Since every Cowboys game is a Game 6 these days, it’s time to look to the 2012 baseball season, when Your Texas Rangers will celebrate 40 years in Arlington. And for those of us who’ve been going to games since first pitch at Arlington Stadium (thanks, Dad), today’s announcement is…
Last night Dallas Area Rapid Transit sent word that its board of directors signed off on the design-build contract that’ll push the under-construction Orange Line the final 5.2 miles that’ll get it to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport’s Terminal A. Long story short: You’ll be able to light-rail it from DART to…
We’ve known for a long while now that the upcoming expansion of expansion of César Chávez Boulevard and Pearl Expressway downtown, from Commerce Street to Live Oak Street, would create a new downtown park — Carpenter Plaza Park, to be specific, which will unite those three separate parcels into a…
This is not the first time Dwaine Caraway has stood up for Skyline High School. Three years ago, back when the Dallas ISD first toyed with tinkering with its magnets, the District Four council member — and Roosevelt grad — went to the board of trustees and demanded they keep…
Been waiting all day for a call-back for an item I’ll post in the morning, regardless. So while we keep waiting, here’s this ultimate time-kill: My Morning Jacket taped last week at the Verizon Theatre. First MMJ show I’ve missed in a long while; those ’02 shows really did me…
