Seems like forever ago preservationists were fighting to save the Harwood K. Smith-designed office building at 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard — which, at 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning in April 2008, was bulldozed out of existence. As you may recall, Canadian developer Great Gulf Homes bought the property with…
Thursday morning, in the comments to Belo Garden item, one Friend of Unfair Park asked for updates concerning yet another piece of the downtown-parks puzzle: Pacific Plaza, about which Megan wrote last month, when the Park and Recreation Department’s Planning and Design Committee OK’d acquiring — for $2.5 million or…
Speaking of Cowboys Stadium …In case you missed Today today, here’s Matt Lauer’s interview with Jerry Jones, who talks about what Lauer refers to as his “crowning achievement.” After the jump, Lauer’s tour of the joint with Emmitt Smith, who’s, like, “Wow.”Update: And, while we’re at it, also after the…
At this late date — which is to say, two days before the Dallas Cowboys finally play a meaningful game in Arlington — what’s left to say about Jerry Jones’s $1.15-billion EnormoDome? Enough, clearly, to fill the top of Page B11 and most of Page B13 in this morning’s New…
A fine-print-reading Friend of Unfair Park noticed in this morning’s item about Belo Garden that the Park and Rec board was also set to approve a resolution related to the W.W. Samuell Trust and the Samuell park properties over which the city and the Texas Attorney General’s Office have been…
The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center opened its doors in September 1989 — seems like only 18 years ago. Accordingly, there are big doings at I.M. Pei’s palace on September 27 — a free open house that’ll include the intriguingly advertised “instrument petting zoo.” And if you’ve got a few…
There’s an awful nice Associated Press piece floating around about 11-year-old Dallas Environmental Science Academy sixth-grader Dalton Sherman, who, as you no doubt recall, became the Dallas Independent School District most famous motivational speaker after his back-to-school keynote in ’08. There’s a good reason for the follow-up a year later:…
Drew Barrymore was an hour late for our interview this morning to talk Whip It, and couldn’t have been more apologetic; she got waylaid by “studio business,” hence our stunningly in-depth 10-minute chat, ah well. But judging by a comment posted to our heads-up about Barrymore’s appearance at Urban Outfitters…
When last we discussed the Best Movies Ever Made in Dallas, this one somehow missed the list: 1978’s Seniors, a college sex romp filmed on the SMU campus starring Dennis Quaid and a topless Priscilla Barnes. It was on DVD for a while, but seems to be out of print…
Said the city’s own time line back in ’07, the Belo Garden downtown should have been completed by … let’s see … last month, matter of fact. And revised guesstimates last summer set the start date for construction at this summer. But there have been myriad reasons for the delay…
As evidenced by The Informant!, it’s a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland biochemist-exec-turned-crooked-federal-snitch Mark Whitacre is a tragicomedy. Journalist Kurt Eichenwald spent five years trailing the bipolar fuck-up, and his 2000 book, The Informant, is so densely, richly…
A month ago today we told you about The Trinity Trust’s “Suspense is Building” campaign, which is intended to get the locals hot and bothered for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in advance of Santiago Calatrava’s $150-a-ticket victory toddle on September 25. I finally saw one of the billboards this…
Anthony Daniels was in Dallas yesterday to promote the Star Wars: In Concert megavent scheduled for October 23 at Cowboys Stadium, where two hours’ worth of Star Wars clips will get a screening on Jerry Jones’s high-def wall of voodoo. Patrick Michels recorded my lengthy chitchat with C-3PO’s alter ego…
It’s been two months since Texas Monthly’s president, Evan Smith, announced he was leaving the magazine to go into the virtual newspaper business as CEO of Texas Tribune. In the October issue of the Monthly, Smith offers his adios: “What I’ve Learned.” And among those myriad lessons is this one:…
Speaking of the council and the budget and fees versus taxes …As we mentioned yesterday, Tennell Atkins’s budget amendment called for a 1-cent property tax increase — which I didn’t think would get terribly far, given council members, the mayor and the city manager’s oft-repeated vows not to raise taxes…
Just when the budget process couldn’t get more interesting …Yesterday we noted that some on the council, and City Manager Mary Suhm, have pointed out that at the end of the year, the city’s franchise fee contract with Atmos Energy is set to expire. Suhm notes, on Page 24 of…
If you’ve got some time this afternoon, you may wanna tune into the city council’s budget amendment briefing, which has turned its attention to the council members’ proposal to cut their own budget. As you may know, the council’s modest proposal got more modest last week. But the council –…
Yesterday came the big announcement: AT&T done bought itself the naming rights to the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. But there was one glaring omission in the press release’s fine print: How much did the company pay? That troubles New York Times arts and business writer Judith Dobrzynski, who…
Unfair Park’s about to get a new down-the-street neighbor, as evidenced by this coming-soon banner I espied on the drive to work this morning. And, no, this is not the Hot Klub reunion scheduled for October 9 — though, funny thing, it’s but blocks down Maple Avenue from Mark Lee’s…
At last: KERA just sent word that its announced-in-June all-music radio station, now known as KKXT-FM (91.7), will officially makes its bow November 9 at 7 a.m. Also announced this morning were the nationally syndicated programs KXT, as it’ll be known, will air: Acoustic Café, American Routes, Mountain Stage, Putumayo…
Courthouse News this morning draws our attention to the plight of Brwa Aziz, a dentist in Iraq for whom the mission has not been accomplished. Aziz, you see, enjoys sinking his teeth into North American fast food. He’s already serving up smoothies, as a franchisee of Canada-based Juice Zone, and…
Kim’s wrapping up her piece from Mayor Tom’s State of the City address at the downtown Sheraton this afternoon. And she’s got a nice photo of Leppert holding one of those nifty iPhones he’s sending to corporate honchos across the country in the hopes of convincing them to relocate to…
