On Friday, we broke the news that the owners of 508 Park Avenue have decided to tear down the building in which blues and country history was made. The Glazers, longtime liquor distributors in Dallas, have their reasons: The former Warner Bros. Picture storage facility, built in the 1920s, has…

That’s it at left: Jaume Plensa’s Sho, which stands 13 feet tall by 10 feet wide and weighs 660 pounds and appears to enjoy traveling in its spare time. The university announced the acquisition yesterday, noting that it’s “the most important acquisition of a work by a living artist into…

Yesterday afternoon, I spoke briefly with Dallas Animal Services manager Kent Robertson, who says in his latest “Pet of the Week” video, posted below, that if you’re interested in adopting from the city pound, you’d best hustle: “We’ve had over 40 adoptions every week for the last couple of weeks…

Late this afternoon, Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, called to discuss those proposed changes to council meetings, which would put stricter limits on public speakers at City Hall and put a deadline on when council members can remove consent agenda items for individual consideration. Heinbaugh insisted that…

On Friday, The New York Times got a sneak preview of North Texas’s largest art gallery, that intimate EnormoDone known as Cowboys Stadium. Today, it was our turn to tour, and seeing as Patrick Michels never misses a chance to dash out to Arlington, he has returned with a small…

When last we saw Reunion Arena, it looked like “a coffee table from 1974.” Or, “that carport thingie that’s going up in the Arts District.” Turns out, it’ll stay that way a while longer — like, oh, till at least January of next year. How come?Under the arena’s exterior plaster…

Speaking of old business … At 2 today, the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee will yet again take up the business of how to regulate parking-lot owners who wanna boot patrons who they claim ain’t paid up. Seems months of meetings and complaints from Deep Ellum and downtown patrons…

Now that everyone on the Dallas City Council’s more or less okee-doke with Mary Suhm’s proposed budget — Suhm and city CFO Dave Cook were damn near feted during yesterday’s briefing — it’s apparently back to old business, of which there’s plenty planned for today. At noon, the Quality of…

This morning, The Wall Street Journal goes to church — Bent Tree Bible Fellowship Church, specifically, on International Parkway in Carrollton, where membership is high (4,000-plus pray at the arena-rock-sized megachurch) and shekels are low. Which has necessitated a few cuts superficial (lawn care, daily cleaning crew) and profoundly deep…

Perhaps you’ve heard: The North Texas Tollway Authority will, come September 1, most likely raise the speed limit on most area toll roads to 70 miles per hour following a full board vote one week from Wednesday. There will be some exceptions: For instance the Dallas North Tollway between Oak…

On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will more than likely vote to approve turning over management of the Dallas Zoo to the Dallas Zoological Society — and, more specifically, its management arm, Dallas Zoo Management, Inc. Further details concerning the transfer of power can be found in Item No. 9…

As the council begins commenting on the proposed FY2009-2010 budget, one issue comes up time and again: the layoff of 840 city employees, which will begin on Friday. Moments ago, the city manager further explained how the process will work: When the reduction-in-force notices are sent out at the end…

This is but a sample of Hal Samples’s photos taken Saturday afternoon and evening, as Frank Campagna and his band of artists were wrapping up the Deep Ellum Mural Project just a few weeks after kick-off. (The tunnel’s gone; long live the tunnel!) Patrick M. is compiling the whole wingding…

At this very moment, the Dallas City Council is being briefed by Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm, chief financial officer Dave Cook and others on the proposed FY2009-1010 budget, which the council will approve on September 23. But before Suhm and Cook took control of the meeting, Mayor Tom Leppert…

During the waning days of the ’08 presidential election, a piece of Photoshop made the rounds featuring Barack Obama shining Sarah Palin’s shoes. Collin County man Roger Baker, an eight-year J.C. Penney veteran at its Plano HQ, says he printed out the photo and taped it to a co-worker’s computer…

So many pages of Mary Suhm’s FY2009-2010 budget left to sort through, and so little time left till tomorrow’s council budget briefing. But several Friends of Unfair Park worry about an item they found at the very bottom of the page devoted to the Central Library’s line-item breakdown: the amount…

Occasional Dallas Observer photographer Allison V. Smith and the namesake of the Barry Whistler Gallery on Canton Street were hitched Saturday evening at Allison’s family vacationland in Maine. Just read all about it in The New York Times, which has a lovely photo of the couple as well as a…

The city has posted the entirety of Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY2009-2010 budget, including a searchable breakdown of line-item details. (Look — the demolition of Reunion Arena, which will now be finished come January 2010 per this week’s council agenda, saves the city $3.6 million.) Here too is…