Surely there’s no need to relive the events of 21 years ago today. Besides, we revisited that tragic tale exactly one year ago, when rewinding the “lost” Stevie Ray Vaughan and Triple Threat Revue sessions cut in Nashville in ’78. Still, it’s hard to believe we’ve been without the Oak…
True to his word, Jason Roberts just posted to Better Block more info about his plans for a trail connecting the Katy Trail to the Bishop Arts District, which we first mentioned in late June. But, of course, Roberts isn’t doing this alone: It’s a massive operation involving, among others,…
[Update at 4:53 p.m.: As far as the district is concerned, Carla Ranger has not formally resigned because has not delivered “written notice, signed by the Board member, to the presiding officer of the Board,” per resignation policy. An email is not considered a resignation letter. There will also need…
I was looking for something very unrelated this afternoon, and came across this quite-the-surprising for-sale find: the original cover art to the June 1981 Mad, which contained the magazine’s Dallas parody “Dullus.” Drawn by Sam Viviano, that’s quite the timely offering, what with Larry Hagman set to return to Dallas…
After the jump is a video just posted by SMU and the school’s Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility in which student Christina Rancke, Class of 2013, talks about losing her father in the collapse of the World Trade Center’s south tower on September 11, 2001. She was in…
About a month back we espied the winning entries in the CityDesign Studio’s competition intended to find someone to artistically hide that Oncor power station at the western foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill lest those headed to Ray’s come spring find it unpalatable. (Keeping in mind, of course, that…
In an email headlined “A sad day for all Texans,” a law-practicing Friend of Unfair Park forwards along a just-posted opinion from the state Supremes, who have decided that the state Legislature’s so-called “pole tax,” which collects $5 from each admission paid to a topless joint and directs those dollars…
After our back-to-back items about redistricting last night — one involving the city of Dallas, one concerning the Dallas Independent School District — I received a missive from Bill Betzen, about whom Anna wrote a couple of weeks back as his proposed map for the city’s new council districts worked…
We came in late to the fight over 600 Elsbeth: Back in October, we discovered that Jane Bryant was selling, through Heritage, a door to Lee Harvey Oswald’s old Oak Cliff apartment, on Elsbeth and Davis. The apartment building itself is mentioned here in the Warren Commission Report; Lee and…
Speaking of contentious redistricting …A little while ago, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees was treated to its own redistricting drama courtesy the public speakers lined up, for the most part, behind trustee Carla Ranger, who has accused board president Lew Blackburn of wanting “to take by force”…
Seven months ago was when we got our last comment on this item about Rebecca Miller’s post-Channel 5 cake-makin’ plans following her unceremonious dismissal from the NBC owned-and-operated — and it ran in March of ’08. Of course, can still be seen delivering the weather on local TV — as…
Corinne Hill has been the interim director of libraries for the city of Dallas since June of last year. That, she says, will change soon enough: Either she will be made the permanent director, or the city will install someone else in that position. City Manager Mary Suhm acknowledges as…
Upcoming is a chat I had this morning with Corinne Hill, the interim director of the Dallas Public Library system. I called her to talk about the new Arts, Culture & Libraries Committee debuted on Tuesday when Mayor Mike Rawlings sent word of his new council committee appointments. She said…
Theresa O’Donnell, director of Sustainable Development and Construction for the city of Dallas, confirms: Sylvan Thirty’s zoning ordinance won’t go before the City Plan Commission till October 6, a month later than originally scheduled. The delay is due, in part, to a request made by the Belmont’s Monte Alexander on…
Observer’er Daniel Rodrigue espied this offering on Craigslist: “kennedy assassination morning news printing plate.” Then, he asked, “Shouldn’t this be in a museum or something?” Sure, along with most everything Heritage auctions. That’s the way historic artifacts go. Still, curious, I called the owner to ask about their provenance. The…
Been watching Gawker’s mini-series The Worst 50 States in America solely to see where The Great State of Texas landed up — figured surely it would rate Top 10, if only because of a certain presidential candidate who’s now the GOP’s front-runner. But, no. Texas comes in today at No…
So, back to that Sylvan Thirty item from earlier in the week. Got an email this morning from Monte Anderson, the man who resurrected the Belmont. Said he wanted to talk about the development going in catty-corner from his — one he’s long supported. Matter of fact, says Anderson, he…
As The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal note today, President Obama will give a speech some time after Labor Day in which he will unveil “a plan to create jobs, stimulate the economy and reduce the federal deficit.” (Tom Leppert beat him to it!) But the president won’t…
Below, in yesterday’s item about Dallas ISD finding a buyer for Davy Crockett, a Friend of Unfair Park brought up another historically designated city landmark: the old Dallas High School (or Main High School or Bryan Street High School or, most recently, Crozier Tech) at Pearl and Bryan, which opened…
What you see is the video just posted by the Tom Leppert for Senate campaign in which the former Dallas mayor pitches his “ambitious” plan to “rebuild our nation’s economy,” which you’ll find here: “A New Direction for America.” To sum up: flat tax, reduce corporate taxes, eliminate earmarks, cut…
Since last we mentioned those country club suits filed against the Dallas Central Appraisal District over their respective valuations, dozens more have popped up, including complaints filed in recent days by the owners of the Ritz-Carlton on McKinney, Schepps Dairy and myriad other strip centers and big boxes. But this…
A couple of months back we mentioned Jason Roberts’s plan to connect North Oak Cliff with the southernmost tip of the Katy Trail via a nine-mile trail along and across the Trinity River — one he’d hoped to have wrapped within 90 days. And, lookie here, says the Better Blocker:…
