I saw one of these signs on a Bishop Arts sidewalk over the weekend and thought nothing of it — that is till today, when I was looking for something unrelated on the Dallas CityDesign Studio, which led me to its Facebook page, which led me to this: Urban Design…
It’s been almost a year since Mark Nerenhausen suddenly stepped down as CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center after less than two years on the job. But this morning, the AT&T PAC made it official: Mark Weinstein, ex of the Washington National Opera and the Pittsburgh Opera, is his…
On the other side is the entirety of ABC-TV’s fall schedule, sent by the network first thing this morning in advance of this afternoon’s upfront announcement in New York. But, of course, there is that one show with local ties — the one formerly known as Good Christian Bitches, till…
It would seem 508 Park Avenue’s been heavy on my mind of late, even more than usual, what with Robert Johnson’s just-passed 100th birthday and First Presby’s not-just-yet-sealed-deal purchase and Friday’s flashback to the sounds of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys cut at that very same spot two years…
While we await some Important Documents, let me distract you with this.No doubt you recall last week’s Greatest Video Ever (as opposed to this week’s), in which German musicmaker Flula Borg pays homage to his “most favorite Basketballer from all times,” one Dirk Nowitzki. Well, so happens that Borg –…
More than once during my occasional visits to the Library of Congress’s treasure trove of Dallas-related artifacts, I’ve come across this stereograph: “Night view of Elks’ Court of Honor, at intersection of Main and Akard Streets, Dallas, Texas–Grand Lodge meeting, July 1908.” (A couple of years back, it was “animated”…
Remember back in February, when council member Ann Margolin said, sorry, but she just couldn’t support spending $1.5 mil in bond funds on a dog park, which the city couldn’t afford to maintain in the first place? No. Of course you don’t. Anyway. On Saturday, we skipped out of the…
That LBJ Freeway overhaul we’ve been warning you about gets underway today as crews begin the first phase of the HOV-lane shut-down, between Luna Road and Midway Road. But, hey, look at it this way, says Andy Rittler, spokesman for the LBJ Express: “We anticipate there is going to be…
OK. So. About that Belleview Connector below.The reason it’s on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda tomorrow is because that bridge — which, as more than a few Friends of Unfair Park have pointed out, doesn’t really seem to go anywhere at the moment — is part of the…
It’s a big day for 30-year-old SMU grad Brady Knowlton, who graces the front page of this morning’s Wall Street Journal — and, now, Gawker. All because Knowlton, a Dallas oilman and new dad and world-traveling big-game hunter (per his Facebook page), likes to stick his arm into dark, wet…
We’re going to begin this morning with two Trinity-related items — the first of which you see above. That, Friends of Unfair Park, is the Belleview Connector, a proposed bridge that would link Riverfront Boulevard to the Cedars — specifically, Jack Matthews’s South Side of Lamar and the attendant development…
At several points last night I was distracted from election results by the video you see above, sent again and again and again by Friends of Unfair Park amazed and astonished at its content. As you will see, Debbie Georgatos emerges not necessarily as the front-runner in the race to…
It’s all over but the drinking: Mike Rawlings, who will wind up with around 41 percent of the vote, and David Kunkle, who will claim around 32 percent, will face off June 18 in the runoff to see who will become the next mayor of Dallas. But truth told, Kunkle…
It was awful hard to hear Scott Griggs over the phone from the watch party that turned into a victory party. But with all but four out of 56 precincts reporting in from District 3, Griggs has ousted incumbent Dave Neumann — 2,654 to 2,003, giving Griggs 57 percent of…
If you care at all about the latest vote counts in the Dallas mayoral and council races, you’re either refreshing the DalCo Elections site or at a candidate’s watch party. So this’ll be the last update till the final numbers are in — and we know for sure whether it’s…
Back when we covered the ’07 mayoral election we had a small army of writers out and about, because who doesn’t like drinking at a watch party and calling it “work.” Now, with Merten gone and Schutze on vacation and Patrick Michels covering a small-town race for a cover story,…
The county just posted its early-voting numbers, and it’s Mike Rawlings with the early lead — and quite the lead at that. Of the 29,688 votes cast during early voting, the ex-Pizza Hut CEO got 42.75 percent of ’em — which translates to 12,693 votes, for those bad at math…
Sam says it below, “The budget is easily the biggest issue.” In the race for Dallas mayor, he means, which comes to its thrilling (?) conclusion, though probably not, beginning at 7 tonight, when we’ll reconvene here for The World’s Loneliest Watch Party. If he’s right, if it all comes…
Kosse, down in Limestone County, is known as the “Little Town With a Big Heart” — and as the birthplace of Bob Wills, who was born to John Tompkins Wills (“a hard-drinking sharecropper-fiddler”) and wife Emmaline on March 6, 1905. Thirty years after that, Brunswick Record Corporation’s Don Law –…
I received a press release yesterday about which I have enormously mixed emotions. Because on the one hand, The Who is my Favorite Rock and Roll Band of All Time, precariously perched just one rung above The Clash. I’ve experienced The Who in myriad iterations — at Reunion in the…
Speaking of tomorrow’s to-do list …It’s true — Sam Merten doesn’t live here anymore. He up and split a couple of weeks back, all on his own. He can now be found wandering the countryside playing the role of George Armstrong Custer in Civil War re-enactments; he recently wrote from…
I got a call yesterday from the mighty Robbie Brenner, one of the producers of the fingers-crossed film The Dallas Buyer’s Club, which, as you’re surely aware by now, is the long-in-the-works adaptation of the true-life tale of Dallas electrician Ron Woodroof and his journey from homophobe to AIDS sufferer…
