Oklahoma native G.D. Spradlin was many things before he became an actor: attorney, oilman, politico, scholar, wealthy. But at some point he decided all of that wasn’t enough, and turned to his greatest passion: acting. And so his became, in a short time, an estimable body of work that spanned…
After we broke the story about the Dallas City Attorney’s Office going after The Playground, a Harry Hines swingers club operating with a house-o’-worship certificate of occupancy, Glenn Hudson or someone working for him had some of the club’s websites taken down, among them the one featuring interior photos while…
I was sure Cash Sirois was behind RetroMavs.com. But, no: He sends word that Ken Bonzon and Steve Chavera, the webmasters for Your Dallas Mavericks, are behind the champs’ new flashback site, which made its bow yesterday and, so far, features a few video flashbacks (including Popeye Jones and Tony…
In December 2007 we said farewell to R.C. Hickman, the Mineola native who became the staff photographer at the Dallas Star Post and whose astonishing body of work tells the story of black Dallas in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Most of his photos reside in the Dolph Briscoe Center…
Mayor Mike Rawlings’s office confirms: From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on August 2 he’s throwing a dinner for the city council — a sort-of get-to-know-me BBQ-flavored wingding in advance of the council getting back to work. Problem is, that conflicts with one of only two public hearings on the gas…
Like I said Friday, when we looked at Dwaine Caraway and Carolyn Davis’s messed-up maps, Anna’s heading to that Redistricting Commission meeting this evening at City Hall — sooooo lucky. (Tell Sandra Crenshaw that Schutze sends his warmest regards.) In advance of that wingding, I went to the commission’s site…
This morning the United States Postal Services announced it’s looking at some 3,700 retail offices that may be in need of shuttering to save dough. Because, per the release, “As more customers choose to conduct their postal business online, on their smart phones and at their favorite shopping destinations, the…
In February 2010, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced that the downtown Dallas streetcar project, then expected to run around $58 million, would get a huge hunk of its funding from the feds — $23 million, to be precise, courtesy Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds, otherwise known as TIGER…
No doubt you remember well the glory days of December 2007, which is when the city of Dallas convened its Green Building Task Force consisting of real estaters (including The Real Estate Council) and city staffers with the intention of rewriting the City Code to pave the way for happier,…
At this late date I won’t detail the case pitting Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall against author Carla Main, which we’ve been following for the past three years. Let’s just put it like this: Royall, who was involved in an eminent domain case down in Freeport, became the subject…
In hotels all across the country this morning, folks are rising and shining to that bit of advice courtesy this state of the state, which, like everyone else, is just waiting for Rick Perry to jump into the pool of GOP candidates and begin talking about how The Great State…
Well, I was looking for something else on the county’s website. But this’ll do: Moments ago, the City Attorney’s Office filed yet another lawsuit against Glenn Hudson — the same guy the city’s going after for operating that underage-sex-illegal-drugs-and-late-night-danceteria on Northwest Highway and Webb Chapel that Hudson and his acolytes…
This morning, KDFW ran a piece on Dallas Police Officer Andrew Litz, a 30-year-old assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division who came this close recently to having his utilities cut off. The reason: Litz hasn’t been able to work for weeks, and, according to the department, he’s exhausted all of…
Back when Dallas was on the air, the series barely shot in Dallas — maybe two months out of the season, tops, which was “crazy-making,” as Linda Gray told Unfair Park back in April. That said, an old friend did have his folks’ house used in a few episodes –…
Three years back Realtor Jeff Duffy wondered how in the hell could the Dallas Country Club, more than 100 acres nestled within Highland Park, be worth a mere $10 million according to the Dallas Central Appraisal District: “Do country clubs fall under the church and school categories when it comes…
View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com.Surely you didn’t think you’d heard the last about the homeless sleeping in Main Street Garden …A few weeks after council member Angela Hunt tweeted about the “bums” in the downtown park, KXAS-Channel 5 sent its cameras to see what was what during the pre-dawn hours…
This morning, stock talk revolved not only ’round the stalled-out D.C. debt-ceiling discussions, but what might the Dallas Fed say when it released its Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey, especially following last month’s not-such-good-news accounting. What analysts were particularly concerned about was the general business conditions piece of the fiscal puzzle:…
Prohibition, the latest doc from Ken Burns, doesn’t premiere on PBS till October 2. But if you’re hankerin’ for a sneak peek at the five-and-a-half-hour three-parter, which the The Civil Wars and Baseball maker directed with Lynn Novick, look no further than the Belo Mansion on August 17: The Dallas…
And speaking of redistricting …The Dallas Independent School District will begin holding hearings tonight during which the public will finally get a long, hard look at the draft maps on the table, courtesy San Antonio attorney Rolando Rios (who Carla Ranger initially didn’t want to hire) and the law firm…
Of all the books written about Dallas, it’s easily the one most often cited: Warren Leslie’s 1964 Dallas Public and Private, with a later edition underscoring its heretofore subtle subtitle “Aspects of an American City.” Subsequent histories-of — from Patricia Evridge Hill’s Dallas: The Making of a Modern City to…
In March we screened one of the greatest films made in or about Dallas, director Blaine Dunlap’s 1973 Sometimes I Run, about Stanley Maupin, who worked for the city’s Public Works Department flushing downtown’s streets in the wee small hours of the morning. Some Friends of Unfair Park said they’d…
So far on this apparently never-ending jaunt down Amnesia Lane we’ve visited the Bronco Bowl a handful of times, dropping in on the Clash, Squeeze, the Cure, the Replacements and Bruce Springsteen. But there are still myriad memories from the Fort Worth Ave. haunt I’d like to chase down, among…
