Washington Post writer Hank Stuever begins a three-day sign-and-speak stint in North Texas tomorrow — a sprint compared to the marathon of spending three years, on and off, living in Frisco in order to document how folks spend Christmas up thataways for his book Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas…
Since April, city officials have been pushing — hard — to land the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup, either in 2018 or 2022. Matter of fact, they’re even asking locals to sign a petition demanding FIFA bring the soccer matches to Dallas; so far, looks like 6,556 have…
Ran into bcWORKSHOP and Re:Vision Dallas’s Brent Brown Friday night at the opening of Main Street Garden, and during a lengthy chat that spilled over into a downtown dinner with our families, not once did he mention a pending trip to Washington, D.C. But the Dallas Institute this morning sent…
Our Danny Fulgencio happened by the Dallas Rocks benefit Saturday night at Union Station, where Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons gathered quite the hodgepodge of celebrities for his African empowerment-through-education fundraiser: Smokey Robinson (who performed), Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush-Hager, Veronica Webb, former Houston Rocket Dikembe Mutombo, ex Duncanville High…
Tyrone Ellis’s pro basketball career in the U.S. didn’t amount to much: 10 pre-season minutes played for the Minnesota Timberwolves in October 2006, during which he didn’t score a single point. Also on his resume: a single-season stint, in 2001-’02, in the NBA’s D-League, during which his Huntsville Flight went…
The city of Dallas has till December 11 to submit to the Texas Department of Transportation a list of projects it thinks worthy of the Transportation Enhancement Program, through which TxDOT doles out federal funds for so-called “non-traditional transportation related activities.” Which would be what, exactly? Well, bicycle and pedestrian…
Seven months after its theatrical release in the U.K., and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a different title (it was formerly known as The Boat That Rocked) and most of its better bits excised. Writer-director Richard Curtis, paying homage to…
We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you’ll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon’s FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 — some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig?…
That headline, though, isn’t the real takeaway from this Transportation and Environment Committee briefing prepped for next week’s meeting, during which assistant city manager Jill Jordan will suggest how to make $12,000 this year and $20,000 annually after that by going after delinquent cemetery owners who owe stormwater fees. Nope…
The council’s Public Safety Committee’s got a noon meeting on Monday, and even before Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s surprise retirement announcement yesterday, they had plenty on their plates, including a look at the car burglary stats. There’s even a Top 10 List, with the truck stop at 7425 Bonnie…
Just drove by Main Street Garden to see how it was shaping up in advance of tonight’s Official Grand Opening (promises the media release, there will be “a pyrotechnic ribbon cutting,” which I think has something to do with the mayor, laser beams and his eyes … not sure). And…
Speaking of old Observer stories …Back in 2000, now-editor Mark Donald wrote about “The Resurrection of Sandy Kress: Or, how a Democrat and reviled former DISD board president found a happy home pushing ‘educational acoountability’ for the GOP.” Which seems worth a read this morning given yesterday’s announcement that Kress…
Back in 2005, Keven McAlester wrote one hell of a fine story for the paper version of Unfair Park about former Texas Rangers pitcher Dock Ellis’s immortal acid-drenched no-hitter, done, of course, while he was a Pittsburgh Pirate. Piece wasn’t just about the feat, of course; if memory serves, it…
View Larger MapThe owners of 2525 McKinnon Street, home of The Retail Connection, and Gateway Tower on LBJ Freeway claim in court documents that they’re being harassed by picketers — and by picketers, they mean “homeless persons being paid to protest” by Alex Ornelas of Arlington, who’s listed in court…
On Thursday, the owners of 508 Park Avenue will ask the City Plan Commission for permission to demolish the building in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and Charlie Parker once recorded. Two months ago, the Landmark Commission denied the application, upholding the Central Business District Task…
Blockbuster sent word at the end of the day Thursday: It had a terrible third quarter — profits again down by double digits, millions hemorrhaged even after adjusting for debt refinancing and the sale of its European operations. And yesterday came word, per the release, that the Elm Street-based videotailer…
HOME? from Willie Baronet on Vimeo.I hate that I couldn’t make the first night of the final show in Hal Samples Gallery on Main Street — it’s become a sort-of home-away-from for my family and me in recent months. Alas, Willie Baronet’s HOME? will be there till November 28, available…
Arrowhead Pride, a fanblog for the Kansas City Chiefs, provides a vaguely intriguing item this afternoon that reveals running back and bad Twitterer Larry Johnson, cut from KC Monday and now a free agent, is in Dallas at this very moment. And how do they know this? “Larry Johnson’s reported…
Dallas’s official John F. Kennedy Collection has always been on the city’s Web site — a little hidden on the City Secretary’s Office home page, but right here nonetheless. I’ve used it in the past, despite the fact it’s a bit of a mess — photos and files kept in…
Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, breaks the big news: “We have landed the Fox TV Studios production Jack and Dan.” Which, for those who don’t read The Hollywood Reporter, is the latest series from Burn Notice creator and exec producer Matt Nix. And it’s set to star…
Several members of the Dallas City Council are in San Antonio at a National League of Cities conference. Angela Hunt is not, which is why, like most of the city, she found out that DPD Chief David Kunkle was retiring by turning on the local news at 10 last night…
Sam sends news that moments ago, in the middle of Police Chief David Kunkle’s farewell press conference, Jack Hammack, who was standing behind Kunkle, collapsed. Those standing around him, including former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, tried to help him up, while officers called for a defibrillator and an ambulance before…
