A couple of things …First, Sam has relieved Jim at the Earle Cabell, and he says sentencing could drag on till the end of the day … if not even later. The live blog’s back open for business now that lunch recess is over … And Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy offers…
Terri Hodge has already asked voters in House District 100 to stop taking Diane Ragsdale’s robocalls. Now, per a good Friend of Unfair Park, the guilty-plea-taking state representative has a message for precinct chairs:I just got a Fed Ex from Terri Hodge, and it’s a form letter regarding precinct chairs…
The City Hall Public Information Office sends word: You’re now free to take care of your traffic citations on Saturdays starting tomorrow, matter of fact. It’s called a Proof or Plea Court and will be held at the Municipal Court Building at 106 S. Harwood from 9 a.m. to 1…
Been a long while since we’ve heard anything about Dallas City Hall’s plans to grow community gardens. Every now and then the words “community garden” will show up on a Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee agenda, since it’s a zoning issue (oy), but nothing concrete yet — word is the city…
Oak Cliff’s all the rage these days — I done seen it in the paper and everything. So, then, what better gift for the Cliffdweller real or wannabe than these classic scoreboards the Dallas Independent School District just put up for auction — available as a pair at present for…
When Unfair Park across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Gallery guesstimated that a copy of Detective Comics No. 27 — featuring the first-ever appearance of Batman — would sell for upwards of $425,000, folks thought that was awful high. Because last time a copy of the comic in this near-near-mint condition sold…
Only Tuesday we wondered how much longer the Dallas Independent School District — and, for that matter, the city and its code enforcement officers — would allow the boarded-up 107-year-old Davy Crockett School in East Dallas to fall to pieces. The district no longer has offices there; it hasn’t been…
From across the street and seven stories up, we’ve had a bird’s-eye view of Harlan Crow’s redo of the original Parkland Hospital, now the HQ for Crow Holdings. We’ve heard tales of extraordinary doings in, on and around the ever-expanding campus (which now includes a new building, Woodlawn Hall), and…
The great Lauren Bacall’s speaking at the Nasher Sculpture Garden on the evening of March 11 — though, sorry, her NasherSALON appearance sold out long ago. But the Nasher’s peoples send word, and this visual reminder, that a “limited number of tickets are available” for “an opportunity for an even…
My wife just dropped by our son’s Northwest Dallas DISD elementary school to do some volunteer work in the library. But as soon as she arrived, best I can tell, the principal put Everette Lee DeGolyer on lockdown. Why? I called the front office as soon as I got my…
Speaking of downtown Dallas …Marketplace, which earlier this week took in the art show held in that abandoned WaMu box on Greenville Avenue, today takes a look at downtown’s vacant office buildings — specifically, the shuttering of Elm Place at the end of January. The question is: Will the former…
We already knew Blockbuster’s fourth quarter was a disaster — CEO Jim Keyes warned as much a month ago, when, ahead of yesterday’s release of FY2009 financials, he said “our performance during the holidays was well below expectations.” But the entire year proved a disappointment, as the Dallas-based videotailer said…
This afternoon at 2, the council’s Economic Development Committee will finally get around to discussing the need for a downtown parking study that will supplement the Downtown Dallas 360 plan due to the council by summer’s end. (The committee never got around to it last week, after bogging down on…
Before I head out for the day, a little housekeeping …First off, if you live near Hillcrest and Alpha Roads, mazel tov! Not only do you live next to Temple Shalom and the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, but according to this list, you also reside in Dallas’s safest neighborhood…
Maybe you heard: Former Dallas city council member Diane Ragsdale still wants voters in Texas House District 100 to cast their ballots for Terri Hodge — guilty plea be damned. Said Ragsdale last week, nothing against Eric Johnson, “it’s about enhancing participation and preventing a situation where we have representation…
SMU just sent word: Its first TED event, held last October on the Hilltop, was such a smash success that the university’s bringing it back to Dallas October 15 and 16. Alas, it won’t take place on the SMU campus: It’s moving to the Wyly Theatre, whose architect, Joshua Prince…
OK, so Sam’s still working on his John Wiley press conference piece. But here’s something even better, if I do say so myself: Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes’s lawsuit, just filed in Dallas County District Court, in which he calls for the removal of Dallas County Judge Jim Foster. We’d…
WFAA-Channel 8 trailed along yesterday as the Institute for Justice’s Matt Miller went door to door along Jefferson Boulevard asking business owners to put in their windows the sign you see here. Maybe you recall: Back in November, the Institute for Justice sued the city, claiming the 2008 city ordinance…
Sam’s just returned from Dallas County Commissioners Court, where John Wiley Price called a press conference to refute the allegations made in the latest Danny Defenbaugh report, which alleges that “at least 22 Dallas County Precinct 1 and 5 Deputy Constables were intimidated and coerced to provide security services for…
Over on Living Car-Free in Big D, Patrick Kennedy directs our attention to an essay by Russ Sikes, a board member of the North Texas Chapter of the Congress of New Urbanism. The title: “Dallas: Syn City,” as in “synthetic.” Which, Sikes insists, isn’t as bad as it sounds, especially…
Found this this morning: a trip up N. Central Expressway scored to the strains of Menkena, which counts among its members our former colleague Mike Simmons. Debuted during the band’s performance at La Grange over the weekend. Too bad you can’t roll down the windows. Also: When they get off…
Some folks are tickled by Aldi’s impending arrival; others wait for H-E-B; still more clamor for a Trader Joe’s. But in North Oak Cliff, the opening of a Save-A-Lot on March 4 is big news — so much so that when the company sent out its press release this morning…
