It’s been a long while since we’ve looked at a historic photo of the city for sale on eBay, and since there are just two days left in the auction, we’d best hustle. Besides, this is an intriguing offering: a beautiful, expansive aerial look-see at Cedar Springs Place when the…
Someone once asked: “Which Neil Young shows would you like to see officially released?” To which one of the answers was: Neil Young & The Restless at the Bronco Bowl on January 14, 1989 — “My personal Neil holy grail.” And without a doubt, this is among the most adored…
On November 2, City Manager Mary Suhm told Unfair Park that the city would initiate Stage 1 water restrictions sooner than later; but exactly when, she would not say, only that the council would be briefed on the subject November 16. But in a memo sent to council moments ago,…
This morning, Brantley spoke with Stephen Benavides, the protester who spent several days in jail on charges that he assaulted a police officer and resisted arrest. We also posted that video now making the rounds in which Benavides can clearly be seen being shoved off a planter by an off-duty…
I’ve been regretting all day we didn’t have a warm body to spare to send to the ribbon-cutting of The People’s Hotel, aka the downtown Omni. Then this arrived, courtesy the good folks at Weber Shandwick: Larry Hagman and Linda Gray — in town shooting Dallas, of course — joining…
Our Stephen Masker was at City Hall today for the annual Dallas Veterans Day Parade — an “emotional” event, Stephen reports, no surprise there. “And a proud moment too,” he notes, “to see so many vets pass by, waving to the crowd. Everyone was holding American flags — smiling, waving,…
Yesterday we confirmed the existence of council member Delia Jasso’s amended council-districts map she hopes will replace the version the city submitted to the Department of Justice at the end of October. Actually, we were told, it wasn’t really a map, more like a redo of District 1, with Jasso…
Tomorrow morning, I expect, we’ll post the PowerPoint that goes along with a simply titled but nonetheless intriguing item that appears on the council’s Quality of Life Committee agenda for Monday morning: “Downtown Vending.” Rumor’s been circulating for a long while now that efforts are underway to rewrite the section…
Back in February, City Hall proudly announced that Walmart was going to build, build, build all ’round town — “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas,” said the release, with a Supercenter at R.L. Thornton and Ledbetter Drive at the very tippy-top of that list. And…
Above, of course, is Rick Perry’s appearance on last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, where he attempted to yuck-yuck it past Wednesday’s night James Stockdale moment. But Our Governor dominated the airwaves yesterday, from sun-up till the midnight hour: On the other side are two of his morning-show appearances…
The video you see above was taken by surveillance cameras at St. Cecilia Catholic School on Mary Cliff, just off Davis and Hampton in Oak Cliff. It’s a couple of months old — from September 17, according to the Dallas Police — and was shot during the early-morning hours that…
I was born and raised here, like my daddy before me. Left only twice — to attend the University of Texas at Austin in ’86, then again, 10 years later, to help launch a sister paper in Los Angeles. Both times I came back as soon as I could, the…
Four long years ago we wrote about two local ministries — Big Hart Ministries and the Rip Parker Memorial Homeless Ministry– that filed suit against the city of Dallas in federal court over an ordinance that they say kept them from serving food to the homeless and violated their religious…
Don’t think for a second this small attempt to resurrect a sports blog is an afterthought. We’ll get there … sooner than later. But on a day like today: Where to begin? Penn State, no doubt, far from home for most but not for all, and certain top of mind…
So far, there’s been little indication that the council has any interest in reopening the debate over the new council-districts map approved (barely) on October 5 and dispatched to the Department of Justice three weeks later. As you may recall, six council members did ask Mayor Mike Rawlings to add…
A couple of weeks back we noted that the city’s Animal Shelter Commission has created the Dallas Companion Animal Project, a task force “charged with developing a blueprint for ending the killing of adoptable animals.” And while Nathan Winograd may not be the biggest fan, the project proceeds apace: This…
Below you’ll find the original agreement the city of Dallas and Occupy Dallas entered into last month after that trip to the courthouse that was all fist-bumps and high-fives. Problem is, the agreement is affixed as an exhibit to even more legal docs Occupy Dallas’s attorneys took to the courthouse…
OK, so just below this item is last night’s Saturday Night Live sketch starring the best Rick Perry impersonator yet, Rick Perry. But a lot’s happened since then as the Perry camp attempts to salvage the campaign. Like that tweet from the gov you see above. And: the hastily popped-up…
I was sitting down to watch some teevee when the bossman emailed: “Rick Perry just shit the bed.” Ah. Yes. Tonight’s debate, otherwise known as: The Night Rick Perry’s Campaign Ended when he couldn’t remember … couldn’t remember … something … oops. Shame too, though at least Bill Hader should…
I was about to write up a little something about the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s “new business plan,” announced via press release moments ago, when I espied this report from KERA’s Jerome Weeks, which says that the DSO will tap out its line of credit by February at the latest and…
At least, that’s what the star-studded cast of bold-faced names says in the video you see above, which was just posted to YouTube by the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation. This is the short film being used to raise money for the capital campaign — which, as we noted only yesterday,…
At the end of business yesterday City Hall sent that memo from City Manager Mary Suhm and that letter from First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers. Both said more or less the same thing: Occupy Dallas has till 5 p.m. Saturday to clean up its mess behind Dallas City Hall,…
