We began the day by looking at old photos of Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan courtesy Kirby Warnock, who’s bringing Jimmie to the Texas Theatre for a very special homecoming show and chitchat. So, then, it’s only appropriate to end it with this recent find from 1986: Jimmie, Kim Wilson,…
On Tuesday we noted that the Texas Department of Transportation is looking for a firm to ID would-be routes for a high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth, using $15 million in Federal Railway Administration High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program funds awarded over the summer. Shortly after that, this…
I do not look forward to the day when the boy’s too old to crawl through whatever contraption the downtown Neiman Marcus installs as its Christmas window display; the last couple of years’ worth of tubes and tunnels have been particularly … magical? Sure, why not. Absolutely. And I can…
Used to be, a business situated too close to a school, church, hospital or daycare center that wanted to sell booze couldn’t, except as a private club. But in the fall of ’09, those rules shifted slightly, when the council said businesses bigger than 50,000 square feet could try to…
WFAA ran a piece last night about Child Protective Services taking an 11-month-old from the Occupy Dallas encampment behind Dallas City Hall yesterday; per Rebecca Lopez, investigators “already had an existing case.” But between that and the news about a registered sex offender occupying one of the more than 60…
Leslie’s up shortly with a recap of yesterday discussion about expanding the Dallas Independent School District’s calendar, which got further with the trustees than some of the Friends of Unfair Park predicted earlier. I sat through the rest of the meeting to see how the board would handle that $40-million…
I noted this a few weeks back, but for those who’ve forgotten: Jimmie Vaughan will make his Oak Cliff homecoming on Thursday with a show at the Texas Theatre, part of the ongoing “Soul of Oak Cliff” series organized by Kirby Warnock. And leading up to that momentous occasion, Warnock…
A couple of readers have asked: What’s become of that newish neon sign at the corner of Main and Good-Latimer? That’s it at right, the wayfinder that offended Pete so much he decided to quit and head back east. Because it’s gone, only a few months after its installation. Ah,…
On April 30, 1992, Dale Lincoln Duke was indicted by a Dallas County grand jury on the charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Four months later, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and its Conviction Integrity Unit, Duke waived his right to a jury trial and…
From what I can tell, Jessica Huseman and Shawn Williams were the sole media members to attend Eddie Bernice Johnson’s campaign kick-off held yesterday at the beleaguered Southwest Center Mall. The event was also attended by three council members: Pauline Medrano, Vonciel Jones Hill and Tennell Atkins, who referred to…
One week ago today … you know, I can’t even. So. I’ll just say this: Moments ago the Texas Rangers sent word detailing $11.5 million in improvements that’ll be made to the Ballpark in Arlington over the off-season, beginning immediately. They’re detailed after the jump, for those who can bear…
In August, we broke the news that Lewisville-based Delcom Group filed a $40 million suit against the Dallas Independent School District over a massive technology contract awarded by the board in May and then yanked, without explanation, a month later. Turned out, according to a subsequent filing, that former DISD…
Speaking of the downtown farmers market …When last we looked at that cache of old photos of the market stored in the city’s Municipal Archives and posted to the University of North Texas Libraries’ Portal to Texas History invaluable website, there were a few dozen, give or take. But I…
On May 10, 2010, Hillwood Investment Properties’ Ross Perot Jr. got the bright idea to sue Mark Cuban in Dallas County District Court, hoping to prove that the “reckless and careless” Dallas Mavericks owner had put the team $200-and-some-odd million in debt and “in imminent danger of insolvency.” Perot, who…
In case you didn’t already know this — and I didn’t — at 1 p.m. Wednesday will be the first-ever nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. Should last three minutes, so, no, this isn’t your standard test, but part of what the feds refer to as the Integrated Public…
Wrestling fans ’round these parts remember the song “Badstreet U.S.A.” — and if you don’t, you will. Riiiight — it was the theme song for Michael Hayes (who handles the, um, vocals?) and The Fabulous Freebirds, hated rivals of Kevin, David and Kerry Von Erich back in the glory days…
Speaking of items out for bid by the City o’ Dallas …Over the summer we noticed that the city was looking for someone to snap up the naming rights to the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill and Stemmons — you know, that 138-acre, 20-field soccer complex behind Malibu…
I hear Pete’s gone; wonder if I can be music editor aga … excuse me, I’ve just been told: No, no way. Ah. Anyway. Doesn’t mean I can’t post this playlist that’s been sitting on my desktop for way too long: a complete-ish collection of covers performed by St. Vincent,…
Yesterday I couldn’t get anybody on the phone to talk about the city’s plans to raze La Marketa Cafe in the downtown farmers market plaza; this morning, everyone has something to say on the subject.Chief among them: Troy Thorn, assistant director for the Dallas Convention Center, which, for now, oversees…
About six months ago, says Eric Steele, one of the partners in the Texas Theatre on Jefferson, he and his comrades decided that in a city full of film festivals, it was time for one more. But this one, they vowed, would be different. This one would have “a fringe…
Yesterday, after posting this item that asked when Dallas would finally implement mandatory watering restrictions in the midst of this historic drought, I spoke further with City Manager Mary Suhm, who reiterated: The city may indeed go to mandatory twice-a-week watering sooner than expected. But she won’t say exactly when…
For those who haven’t seen the full exchange between Dallas County Commissioners Maurine Dickey and John Wiley Price and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins over the termination of former Homeland Security director Lisa Chambers, here ’tis courtesy KTVT-Channel 11. Jenkins, for those who missed it, says he fired Chambers for…
