Just noticed this on the Dallas City Hall Web site: the results of a recently taken survey of more than 1,600 Dallas households, who were asked about their thoughts about the city — everything from “Perception of the Overall Quality of Life in Dallas” to “Ratings of Dallas As a…
Friend of the show and local photographer Danny Hurley spent the day at the Dallas All-Con 2009 at the Crowne Plaza, where it’s been quite the hodgepodge of sci-fi fans wee, womens and way otherwise since yesterday’s kickoff. The caper wraps tomorrow but goes all night till then, which is…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have gotten the jump on their Sunday New York Times and found within two stories with local ties. Chief among them: the magazine story about George W. Bush’s Freedom Institute on the SMU campus. Much of it rehashes the last two-plus years’ worth of controversy,…
As promised this morning, here’s Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore — though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke’s in the thing for all of the one scene, so how’d he get…
Courtesy our historian Justin Cozart, yet another page out of history — this one from 1930, to be exact. He explains:This is an early map of Dallas displaying the belt parkways from the first city plan in 1911 along with parkland designated for the new levees being built. It seems…
Few days back we peeked at Carolyn Davis and Dwaine Caraway’s what-updates as served up on Dallas Delivers, the city’s riotous no-holds-barred talk show served up on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. Alas, some of us don’t have the cables, so the city’s been posting throughout the week the entire…
The Ninth Annual Texas Film Hall of Fame induction ceremony, held last night on the site of the old Austin airport, was quite the damp, frigid shindig — part all-star love-in, part call to arms. Amidst the inducting — and feted this year were the likes of Powers Booth (SMU’s…
Pardon, but light of yesterday’s announcement that American Eagle has flown the coop at Dallas Love Field till the dust settles, city officials would like to clear up any misconceptions concerning the forthcoming extreme makeover scheduled at the airport. Construction’s scheduled to occur sooner than later and end just in…
The Enclave at Arlington apartment complex touts itself as “within walking distance of the Texas Rangers Ballpark, Hurricane Harbor, and Six Flags,” and is now more or less a next-door neighbor of Jerry Jones’s Enormodome. And, courtesy the Courthouse News Service, we find that the owners of the complex filed…
Just arrived in Austin, only to find in my in-box, oh, ’bout a dozen Friends’ links to either Governor Rick Perry’s speech down in Houston or the Burnt Orange Report’s compendium of reactions to said speech. As you may know by now, the governor is saying no to more than…
Yesterday, in the comments to the item about Neiman Marcus’s latest bit of bad news, noted man of letters Rawlins Gilliland deposited a comment intended to gently shoosh those experiencing even the slightest twinge of schadenfreude at the luxury retailer’s misfortune. I had intended only to highlight the essay-in-miniature in…
What you see above is the cover to a slim 1962 tome published by Reinhold in conjunction with the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Clearly, the copy I picked up this week at the Forestwood Antique Mall was a downright steal: $25, or $100 less than the…
Reason senior editor Jacob Sullum, who has a daughter in kindergarten in the Dallas Independent School District, has a big ol’ problem with, at the very least, this part of President Barack Obama’s speech on education delivered earlier this week:That’s why I’m calling for us not only to expand effective…
And, in other airline news … In April of last year, American Eagle dropped its Kansas City and Austin flights out of Dallas Love Field and opted instead to fly to Chicago’s O’Hare. Only, for now, that too is a no-go: AMR announced today that beginning June 11, American Eagle…
Says Bloomberg this morning, Southwest Airlines may do the unthinkable and … sell food! The Dallas-based carrier doesn’t know what it’ll sell or when it’ll begin selling it, but as the airline industry seeks new ways to make money (cough … charging for checked luggage … cough), Southwest figures that…
Wick Allison’s had some to say in recent days about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s battle with the county commissioners over a 10-percent across-the-board budget cut the commissioners demanded in order to deal with an expected $58 million shortfall for the next fiscal year. Watkins told the D publisher…
A story yesterday about Dallas-based Blockbuster’s attempt to get its landlords to knock 30 percent off rent (or give them early lease termination deals) leads to this follow-up today, in which some landlords balk at the idea of reduced rent — especially if Blockbuster isn’t willing to open the books…
Till Mayor Tom Leppert decides to talk for himself about his thinking about maybe one day possibly taking over the Dallas Independent School District we’ll see not sure for sure who knows, it’s all one big guessing game. Which doesn’t stop the Dallas mayor’s name from appearing in this morning’s…
Quincy Jones does not go to funerals—hasn’t for a long, long time. He turns 76 on March 14, and at his age, there’s no time for backward-glancing, not when every day is “like starting all over again.” He does not stand still, certainly not by a graveside—not when “I’ve almost…
What you see below is a time-lapse video of Los Angeles-based Steven Lopez painting Erykah Badu’s portrait — something the artist did for his “After Midnight” series that also includes the likes of Tina Turner, Minnie Ripperton and Aretha Franklin. Comes word today, via Paul Levatino, that Lopez and Badu…
Yet again, our old friend Justin Cozart has just posted some essential must-sees to the Dallas Urban History page on Flickr — this time, a series of before-and-after photos featuring some of the city’s more recognizable streets and intersections. Among the lot: Blackburn Street and Oak Lawn Avenue (in 1925…
In light of Neiman Marcus reporting a quarterly net loss of $509.2 million this morning, The Wall Street Journal takes a look at how the high-end Dallas-based retailer is attempting to survive what remains of the economy — besides laying off employees, reducing its inventory and writing down the value…
