During the weekend, I exchanged a few e-mails with David Yearsley, the Cornell University associate music professor who, as you’ll no doubt recall, attacked the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with all the subtlety of a Longhorn bull mounting a comely heifer. Turns out, more than a few Friends…

Speaking of conceptual renderings and community gardens …Couple of weeks back, we got our first look at the six Re:Vision Dallas finalists, and among the honorable mentions was the decidedly kick-ass Co-Op Canyon, which didn’t make the cut. But today, Inhabitat nonetheless offers us a closer look at one of…

If you’re headed downtown for the CityArts Celebration this weekend and have also considered a career in reality-television humiliation, then someone has dipped their chocolate in your peanut butter. And by someone, I mean NBC, which has just sent word that Friday (from 6 to 9 p.m.) and Saturday (from…

We’ll have much more on this as we inch closer to Friday, when the city council’s Economic Development Committee holds a specially called meeting to discuss a number of hot topics, among them how to tackle the old LTV Tower, whose would-be developers just went into Chapter 11. But one…

The missus, in conjunction with the 5-year-old who lives in our house, recently dug up a hunk of backyard to grow a garden — because, look, the boy will eat green only if he can personally yank it out of the dirt, whatever works. And a few other folks in…

Over the weekend, council member Angela Hunt posted to her blog a Schutze-quoting essay in which, yet again, she calls for a Trinity River Corridor Project Plan B that allows the city to fix the levees while moving forward with Project Pegasus and straightening out S.M. Wright’s Dead Man’s Curve, one…

Taking an early glance at the 72-page budget briefing that the city council’s Quality of Life Committee will thumb through today, we glean these few randomly highlighted cuts presented in no particular order of importance. Keep in mind, of course, that till City Manager Mary Suhm submits her final budget…

Every now and then folks like to subject Dallas to an F5 tornado for the sake of a terrifying what-if short film. The first in line remains the best: the Discovery Channel’s Perfect Disaster “Supertornado” episode, which is only missing Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton; if that’s what’ll happen to…

Yup, stole that headline from the poetry of one David Yearsley, the Cornell U. prof soon to be the subject of our newly christened interview series “Dude, Seriously, What the Fuck.” Till then, we send you into the weekend with this freshly minted image courtesy our old friend Justin Terveen…

A recent late-spring clean-up resulted in the discovery of a stash of Dallas-related 78s I’d collected back when I was music editor, which was some time between the switchover from cylinder recordings to reel-to-reel. Most are the scratchy leftovers of forgotten footnotes; one or two sound like sandpaper rubbing against…

That somebody is Cornell University associate music professor David Yearsley, whose university bio says that during the past two decades, he’s “immersed himself in the musical culture of the German Baroque.” He’s certainly going for baroque with this intriguingly punctuated essay posted to Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair’s CounterPunch,…

It’s been a year since the word “streetcar” started circulating through the halls of City Hall; as Jim noted upon his return from a so-called “streetcar workshop” in May ’08, “It looks like the best idea since Mad Max Goldblatt’s scheme for a downtown monorail.” In January of this year,…

Saw a “story” in the no-relation New York Observer this morning concerning the “yanking” of a “racy” movie ad from the side of Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses, and I thought it might be a good idea to ask DART spokesman Morgan Lyons the ol’ what-the-what. Dutifully, he researched the…

We’ve written a couple of times in recent months about developer Curtis Lockey’s plans to redevelop the old LTV Tower on Pacific Avenue, but, truth is, the city’s been working on making this a go project since at least 2007. And it hasn’t been easy: Plans and proposals changed so…

In May we mentioned that the city council’s Quality of Life Committee was looking at doling out so-called Loving My Community Neighborhood Improvement Grants worth up to $10,000 each, with the money going neighborhood groups, homeowner associations, crime-watch and community garden groups, PTAs, Scout troops and so forth savvy enough…

On Monday, Central Dallas Community Development Corporation exec director John Greenan told Unfair Park that there were several entries among the 96 sent in to the Re:Vision Dallas competition worth building, even those that didn’t finish among the top six. Today, we get a very detailed look at one of…

Be careful what you ask for, Butch Aycock. Just four months ago, in a piece about how a dry spell’s turning to out-and-out drought, the Collin County farmer was in The Dallas Morning News fretting about evaporating stock tanks and withering wheat and about how he needed water pronto. But…