View Larger MapLike I said earlier, interesting fare on deck for the City Plan Commission this week — including yet another stab at running a club called 2826 at, um, 2826 Elm Street. Pete’s hinted at the rebirth before; ’bout an hour ago, he posted a follow-up regarding Frank Maldonado’s…
Our man Eli Luna was out at the Dallas Comic Con yesterday, where he espied Doctor Wellington Yueh, Brad Majors and other familiar faces amongst the grown-ups playing mid-August dress-up. Here’s his slide show, where you’ll find that oddest of sights — a certain Blue Velvet co-star quantum leaping into…
Angela Hunt’s been on a bit of a tear today, having posted to her Web site three items: one concerning the proposed rules changes for council meetings; one about the city’s turning over the keys to the Dallas Zoo to the Dallas Zoological Society; and one concerning the city budget…
View Larger MapI was taking a sneak peek at the City Plan Commission’s agenda for Thursday and noticed a few items of intrigue — sent one to Pete, which he’ll no doubt get to shortly, concerning an application for a specific use permit for a new joint down in Deep…
Even the 6-year-old who lives in my house has noticed it: “There’s a new bank on every corner.” To which the Associated Press responds: Yup, you’re damn right, little man. The AP reports today that per its investigation of the invasion of the money-snatchers, 10,000 bank branches have popped up…
As promised, The Trinity Trust today debuted its new campaign to build interest in the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, and there’s an accompanying Web site: Discover the Trinity. You’ll also find a second, jazz-scored site pitching the previously mentioned September 25 Bridging the Trinity shindig, tickets for which are selling…
Five months ago, Tom Hicks’s Hicks Sports Group defaulted on a $525 million loan; at the same time, he acknowledged that, yes, he was looking for someone who might be interested in buying some of the Texas Rangers offa him for the right price. Then, at the end of May,…
Now that the city council’s had two months to digest the Urban Land Institute’s 99-page report on Southwest Center Mall, formerly known as Red Bird, the Economic Development Committee is tasked with figuring out how involved the city’s going to be in keeping the doors open. Far as the committee…
The first time we wrote about Southern Skates on E. Ledbetter Road was a month after Europe agreed go with the euro, a month before Saving Private Ryan opened and six months before the House impeached Bill Clinton. In other words, a million years ago. Back then, former Black Panther…
There are probably a million more important things with which to begin the work week — like, oh, a passel of Hicks Sports Group creditors asking the National Hockey League whether the beleaguered owner of the Texas Rangers has dough enough to keep the Dallas Stars — but this breaking,…
A few days ago, The Trinity Trust posted to YouTube the video above, in which some of the steel for the never-say-die Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge takes a tour of the city on its way to the construction site. The city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will see it…
Just got back to the computer to find a note from U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn’s courtroom deputy, who says that since last we were in the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse, the judge met with prosecutors and defense attorneys — separately — to see about picking up the…
Shortly after Elm Street-based Blockbuster reported its second-quarter stats Thursday evening, chairman and CEO Jim Keyes hopped on an investors’ conference call to explain, yet again, what ails the former video-rental giant. The usual, of course: Netflix, shitty movies, the used-DVD and gaming market, slow transitions to digital delivery and…
Six years ago, Cynthia Fitzgerald filed in Dallas federal court a complaint that The New York Times predicted in 2007 “could become one of the largest whistle-blower lawsuits on record.” The suit stemmed from Fitzgerald’s tenure at Novation — a company HQ’d on John Carpenter Freeway that sells medical supplies…
A few afternoon follow-ups to some morning items, plus a note from City Hall, where pink slips are going out in advance of tomorrow’s scheduled layoffs. (Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm says she’s laying off 840, with the hopes of hiring back 500.) Rudy has word about some losses at…
On the drive home from the office Tuesday, ’round 7 p.m., I got struck in a sudden snarl on the Dallas North Tollway between Oak Lawn and Mockingbird. Turned out, the cause of the logjam was a familiar one: a few stunt riderz on motorcycles zigging and zagging through traffic…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: Why isn’t Dallas participating in National GoTopless Protest Day on August 23, to which I replied, “Apparently, it’s not too late.” Nudge, nudge. ‘Round the same time, a Queer Liberaction member sent a reminder concerning The Great Nationwide Kiss-In scheduled for Saturday — Dallas’s…
Missed this one yesterday, mostly because Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger doesn’t post to her blog as often as she used to. But one thing’s got her attention: Fellow trustee Ron Price’s proposal to rename schools for President Barack Obama and Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of…
The item on today’s City Plan Commission agenda reads as dry as stale Melba toast: “An application to create 7 lots from 259.199 acres located in several tracts of land in City Blocks 8298, 8299, 8300, 8303, 8304 and 8305, on Telephone Road, east of Dallas Avenue.” The applicant is…
After trading today, Elm Street-based Blockbuster will released its second-quarter financials — “and the numbers are expected to be ugly,” notes Investor’s Business Daily in this pre-game warm-up that also wonders if the video-rental business’s days aren’t, gulp, “numbered.” The cause for alarm? As usual, of late, a big hunk…
Hard to say who’s the bigger draw at this weekend’s Dallas Comic Con at the Richardson Civic Center: Dean Stockwell, the 64-year acting vet who’s got the sci-fi skins on the wall (Battlestar Galactica, Quantum Leap and Dune — quite the trifecta) to go along with the critical cred (Blue…
Seems like we’ll never be done with Reunion Arena or Texas Stadium, which is still loaded with shit the city of Irving would love to sell you for pennies on the penny. Like, oh, this scoreboard — which, believe it or not, can be yours for the low, low price…
