Yesterday, our Danny Hurley was among the media members granted sneak-peek access the Grapevine Mills LEGOLAND Discovery Center, which officially opens Wednesday. I’m not saying Danny’s influenced by the work of a certain then-6-year-old photographer, but without a doubt the most intriguing items on display are the LEGO’d local landmarks…
Spencer Barasch is a partner at the downtown Dallas law firm Andrews Kurth, where he is in charge of the corporate governance and securities enforcement team. But before that, and for close to 20 years, he worked for the Fort Worth office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including a…
This morning, there’s Big News out of England: CBS Drama — “the home of drama classics from the US,” it proudly proclaims, meaning … Medium and Touched by an Angel — will, come fall, begin running all 357 episodes of Dallas in the order in which they originally aired. Says…
Yesterday, in the comments accompanying the item about the old central library on Commerce, George Gimarc asked this of the sculpture Dallasites once knew as Youth in the Hands of God: “Anyone recall the gigantic statue on the face of the building of the two open hands holding up a…
Allow me to introduce you to The Company’s Best Of app for the iPhone, which has just launched to great acclaim. Long story short: Need to know best place to get a strong drink? Done. Best convenience store in which to eat a meatball sub? Boom. Best record store? Click…
John Crawford and I just had a long talk about downtown — since, ya know, it is his thing. And later today I’ll get to some of newsier items he revealed during the course of our chitchat. But I’d originally phoned the president and CEO of Downtown Dallas Inc. to…
We’ve known for two months that the Metro Diner on Gaston Avenue is closing, but till today we never had a solid date — just “end of March.” Not so fast: Owner Wayne Adams, whose just-turned-90 dad James originally started the landmark diner, just called to say that last supper…
Over on Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, council member Delia Jasso’s recapping her spring break trip to Spain, where she and Pauline Medrano want to ride their bicycles, want to ride their bikes, want to ride their bicycles, want to ride them where they like — Seville, specifically. That’s where the…
Below, in the comments accompanying Sam’s recap of Tuesday night’s mayoral debate at the Fairmont Hotel, several readers wanted — nay, demanded — a fuller accounting of who said what. To that end, one Friend of Unfair Park pointed out that the debate’s sponsor, The Real Estate Council, did indeed…
Above is a few minutes’ worth of the lengthy back-and-forth that took place down in Austin yesterday (and last night), as D’s and R’s fought over SB 14 — which, of course, demands that a voter present photo identification before being allowed to cast a ballot. Among the most vocal…
From the looks of the bare-bones agenda, the Board of Trustees Budget Workshop doesn’t appear to be all that exciting, especially when you consider that tangible answers about the budget-cutting to come are still a couple of months off. But this evening I called Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon…
Even before the AT&T Performing Arts Center was finished, we were told: “Dallas might have to accept the arts district as a successful destination, not a way of life.” That was more than two years ago. After that, the hits kept on coming, with the most recent being this deep…
That T-Bone Walker set from ’67 I posted on Friday has been a constant companion ever since; so too this collection featuring his debut single (1929’s “Trinity River Blues”) and one of the greatest best-ofs ever released for any artist. That Monterey Jazz Fest appearance, matter of fact, proved to…
Over the last five, six years, Southern Methodist University has slowly, surely expanded its presence along N. Central Expressway — beginning with the purchase of Expressway Tower, once the home of the Dallas Cowboys corporate offices; 6200 N. Central Expressway, which now houses Development and External Affairs’ administrative offices; and…
Below, of course, you can listen to Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s account of what happened between him and his wife on the night of January 2, per a recording made by Dallas Police after Chief David Brown sent officers — including Deputy Chief Craig Miller — to his and state Rep…
On Friday we were introduced to the Dallas Independent School District’s Citizens Budget Review Commission, a 10-member group selected by the school board and Superintendent Michael Hinojosa that’s been tasked with helping the administration find places to slash and burn the budget — without losing teachers, at least as far…
Last night, a Dallas Police Department spokesman sent an e-mail to media members containing three thing: recaps of weekend incidents involving Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant and corner Bryan McCann, along with incident reports detailing what led to McCann’s arrest downtown in the wee small hours of the 19th…
We’ve already gotten former Dallas Police Chief-turned-Dallas mayoral candidate David Kunkle’s response to Mike Rawlings’s latest campaign mailer. Now, it’s Ron Natinsky’s turn to respond to the flier, which says — without naming him — that Natinsky served as chair of the city council’s Economic Development Committee “while the tax…
[Update at 8:09 p.m.: Jim sends word from the courthouse that Judge Snelson has denied that request for an injunction, leaving the temporary restraining order to dissolve at midnight — and the records will be released after all. Tomorrow, maybe, no word yet on when.] Jim’s at the George Allen…
A couple of weeks back we got Mike Rawlings’s first big-money mailer — a slick meet-the-candidate flier highlighted by quite the ’70s ‘stache — accompanied by the first of what’s proved to be a series of good-looking short films starring the mayoral candidate. (The most recent follows.) The latest four-pager…
[Update at 3:52 p.m.: Jim sends word that Mayor Dwaine Caraway has just taken the stand during the evidentiary hearing now expected to stretch into the evening. More to come.][Update at 1:41 p.m.: Jim reports that Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson has denied Caraway’s request to extend the temporary restraining order…
Two weeks ago Bill Zedler, state rep for District 96 in Arlington, tossed into the legislative heap House Bill 2454, which would prohibit “discrimination by public institutions of higher education against faculty members and students based on their conduct of research relating to intelligent design.” It was referred to the…
