This just in from the Associated Press: “Key advisers to Texas Gov. Rick Perry are beginning to lay the groundwork for a campaign for Iowa’s leadoff GOP presidential caucuses in case the Republican decides to seek the 2012 nomination.” And, this just in from Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s office: He’s…
And here I thought most Friends of Unfair Park were spent from yesterday’s festivities. Apparently not: Several have suggested we post the YouPlusDallas recap from the Mavs’ downtown parade and post-game festivities at the American Airlines Center — and who am I to argue, given that Jun Kang and Justin…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will vote on whether or not to give Jack Matthews’s CCH Lamar Partners that $235,000 economic development grant needed to help finish out a film and television production facility on S. Lamar. (It’s Item No. 98 on the agenda.) As you’ll recall, there was…
“Complete Streets” is a catchphrase that’s been rolling ’round Dallas City Hall since at least October 2009, when the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee was first introduced to the concept . Now, there’s a website: Dallas Complete Streets, which explains right there in the intro:In the past, Dallas’ streets were…
You probably remember this: End of the day Tuesday we posted that video shot during the wee small hours of the morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in which West Coast photographers Joe Ayala and Larry Chen are having a cute, no-harm-no-foul home-alone moment at an American Airlines check-in desk,…
Above is a video just posted by the Dallas Police Department in which two men smash-n-grab the Brook Mays on John Carpenter, stealing as many instruments as they can get their mitts on in the wee small hours of June 7. But it’s a two-parter: A few hours later they’re…
Much has been made about how former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle has raised and spent pennies on the dollar compared to Multi-Millions Mike Rawlings, and most recent docs filed with the City Secretary’s Office show that in the days leading up tomorrow’s run-off election, Kunkle has spent just $53,891.77,…
Oh, right — the Texas Rangers, now but half a game up on Seattle in the American League West after losing five straight and eight of their last 10, three of those to the New York Yankees, including yesterday’s gut-punching 3-2 loss in 12. The local sports spotlight is all…
Pardon the delay — our photographer Mike Mezeul II was among those stranded on DART trying to make his way home from the American Airlines Center following this morning’s parade and the VIP after-party at the AAC. But in just a few we’ll have the entirety of his slide show…
Courthouse News brings us this lawsuit filed two days ago in Dallas County District Court: John Tatum and Mary Ann Tatum v. The Dallas Morning News, inc. and Steve Blow. At issue is this column, which appeared in the paper on July 12, 2010: “Shrouding suicide in secrecy leaves its…
On and off since posting that original item about Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin’s plans to save the Bottle Rocket motel in Hillsboro I’ve spoken with the twosome about…related matters, let’s say. And today, we can officially announce at least one significant bit of breaking news: The Austin-based Alamo…
The tail end of the Mavs parade left the Dallas Convention Center moments ago; more to come from that traffic jam shortly. But till then, this just in from the folks overseeing the LBJ Freeway redo: The second — and final — wave of HOV lane closures is set to…
Pardon me as we take a brief detour from the parade route for just a moment, but Texas Monthly’s just posted its latest list of the best and worst state legislators — and Leo Berman made worst? No way. Anyway. The preview’s here, sans further categories awaiting their print and…
Nick and Patrick are at the convention center; another photographer’s embedded with the Mavs inside the barricades; another is posted at the American Airlines Center. That said, we won’t beat you down with all-day posts from today’s parade; only when it’s appropriate and when it’s over. But here, two hours…
Some of the staff’s already downtown for the parade — along with the thousands already on hand both at Victory Park and behind the barricades stretching back to the Dallas Convention Center starting point. And, this just in from Dallas City Hall:Accommodations will be made for people who are handicap…
The great George Gimarc called yesterday to talk about … look, I forget what. But at some point, the man who introduced me — and a generation of kids who would have otherwise been stuck listening to Boston and Styx and Kansas in the early 1980s — to punk rock…
Since we’re about to get all Dallas City Hall up in this piece, a programming note: We were planning on doing another liveblog from tomorrow’s meeting of the Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee (band name alert!), since yesterday’s was such a big hit. Only: It was just…
Over the last couple of days I’ve received a handful of emails from KERA-FM supporters wondering what the heck happened to 90.1’s lineup in recent days. Because as of Saturday, there’s been a significant shakeup to the programming schedule: Out, for instance, are Tell Me More, To the Point, The…
Last night I finally had the chance to read the new issue of Rolling Stone, which happens to feature a feature by former Observer-er Jesse Hyde, who decamped for his native Utah a couple of years back. The story’s a good one: “America’s Most Twisted Crime Family: Inside a Mormon…
One week ago today the Dallas City Council made good on its promise to rename a small stretch of Cedar Springs — from Mockingbird to Contrail Lane, which is the street just before Love Field’s parking garages — to Herb Kelleher Way, so named, of course, for the founder of…
Down below, a few Friends are arguing the pros and cons of tomorrow’s downtown shutdown courtesy Your Champion Dallas Mavericks. But this surely has to fall into the good-thing column, no? From our friends at Dallas City Hall: “Municipal Court canceled for tomorrow.” The details, such as they are:Due to…
Sure, it sounds like fun — pitching a midnight tent at the corner of Young and Houston, popping a top or 12 and sweating it out till Dirk, Cubes and the rest of the Mavs pass by sometime ’round parade-thirty tomorrow morning. The perfect summer staycation. But don’t even think…
