According to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Trinity Parkway will cost around $1.8 billion, give or take a few million. That money’s not there. But, hey, what’s the rush: As we mentioned this morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental impact statement on the Dallas Floodway…
So happened that Anna was hanging out at Chase Tower earlier today awaiting Occupy Dallasites who said they were going to parade, two by two, into the bank to close their accounts and transfer their dough into a credit union. Which is why Anna was joined by two very bored…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from or thought about Anna Fermanova, the so-called “sexy Russian spy” from Plano who said she wasn’t (well, at least the spy part) but nevertheless pleaded guilty in January to a single count of violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. Today, though,…
You may have noticed in recent days that Elm Street downtown is missing another one of its old buildings: the 70-year-old-or-so 1600 Elm, which was razed last week as part of the Joule expansion. We knew it was coming down; we just didn’t know when. Also on the chopping block:…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown sent a sub to address the city council’s Public Safety Committee this morning: Assistant Chief Charles Cato, who explained the crime-stat summary you see above. Said Cato: Crime’s down 4 percent overall citywide, but when pressed by council member Delia Jasso later, he predicted that…
I called Mitchell Rasansky Friday — because, you may remember, I was supposed to. Last month, the former council member and co-owner of the former Whole Foods on Lower Greenville said that come October 21, we should know to whom he was leasing that space — be it a Walmart…
Your World Champion Dallas Mavericks were supposed to take on the Indiana Pacers tonight at the American Airlines Center, the sixth of eight preseason games leading to November 1’s regular-season opener against Chicago at the AAC. But with each passing day, it’s looking more and more like the lockout will…
Speaking of transportation projects across and around the Trinity River …Saturday’s hike-n-bike installation perched atop the Cedar Crest Bridge is one of myriad items about which the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will hear this afternoon, following its field trip to and walk across the Margaret Hunt Hill…
First there was a Better Block; then, a Better Boulevard; then, just yesterday, a Better Bridge. Of all the efforts to temporarily transform a piece of the city into something other than what it is, yesterday’s brief installation atop the Cedar Crest Bridge, which connects Oak Cliff to South Dallas…
In moments, till 1 this afternoon, you’ll be able to laze across the Cedar Crest Bridge — yet another temporary installation from Team Better Block, in conjunction with the city and others trying to best determine how to turn a seldom-used thoroughfare into A Destination. There’s a schedule of events…
I’ve taken one spin through Tom Waits’s forthcoming Bad as Me, which is every bit as good as they say — Rain Dogs redux times 10, turned up to 11. Hear for yourself: Anti- Records is streaming the lit-with-a-torch “Back in the Crowd” and the titular trash-can growl. Record’s out…
You remember Craig Hall, right? He’s the developer who’s been talking since forever about building something fancy in the Arts District — like, say, that stalled-out tower where presently there sits a parking garage on Ross. Only, remember, he and the city got sideways over unpaid lease monies and TIF-for-tats,…
Michael Signoretto is 73, and as of today the Dallas man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for his role in defrauding two British telecommunications companies out of of more than $60 million. Signoretto, who was just found guilty by a federal jury, didn’t do this alone. He…
One years ago, when Mayor Mike Rawlings was merely Park Board President Mike Rawlings, the city held its first-ever Dallas Parks Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. By way of invite in 2010, ad man Rawlings said this:”Walt Disney once said he didn’t want the public to see…
From time to time, as we noted in August, Dallas County takes to the Internet to auction off stray animals — donkeys and mules, mostly, and the occasional horse — found wandering roadways, usually after their owners have cut ’em loose. Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Paul Stroud explained that…
This morning, we received word of a new report released yesterday: the American Express OPEN Independent Retail Index, which was done in conjunction with Austin- and Chicago-based Civic Economics and looked at 15 big cities, Dallas among them, ranking each based upon the number of independent restaurants and retailers in…
A friend directed my attention to something entirely unrelated on Kickstarter, where I stumbled across this intriguing item: Square Dance: A Community Project, which the organizers — Leila Grothe and Cynthia Mulcahy — are billing as a “public art project.” Which is how you have to bill an event just…
The video you’ll find after the jump was posted two days ago by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. So far it’s been viewed 60 times. In it, John O’Dell, curator of history and research, provides a brief tour of Rangers artifacts in the…
In early April of last year, word went out that Realtor Allie Beth Allman was listing H.L. Hunt’s sprawling 10-acre Mount Vernon estate overlooking White Rock Lake on Lawther for $32.5 million — a steal! Then, not so much: Allman rescinded the listing, insisting that John and Teresa Amend weren’t…
Back in June, some two dozen educators, religious leaders and activists — among them The Rev. Zan Holmes, John Fullinwider, Frederick Haynes III, Diane Ragsdale and Beverly Mitchell-Brooks — urged the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees to appoint former DISD Superintendent Nolan Estes as the interim super following…
Perhaps by now you’ve seen Rudy Bush’s item about Frank Luntz, one of two speakers lined up to address the city council at its Arboretum retreat today. Among pols and media folks, Luntz is a pretty well-known guy — after all, he’s the man who, in 2003, told George W…
Back in January, an online petition appeared asking that Bexar Street in South Dallas be renamed to Rev. Carlton Garrett Street in honor of the founding pastor of The Lord’s Missionary Baptist Church. Six people signed it. But on August 19, council members Dwaine Caraway, Carolyn Davis and Tennell Atkins…
