Representatives from Preservation Dallas and the Landmark Commission met yesterday morning with the Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee and first assistant city attorney Chris Bowers to hammer out the details of a proposed ordinance aimed at expediting the demolition of historic structures, but once again, the committee voted to delay the…
Much thanks to Kevin in the comments down below for spotting this gem amongst Angela Hunt’s photos from her trip to Long Beach. Michael who? Tom wha?…
Speaking of the city and technological advancements involving one’s talking box …This morning on her ever-active Web site, Angela Hunt wonders why in the heck Dallas doesn’t have an iPhone app that lets residents “snap photos of nuisances and code violations and send them off to city hall (geo-tagged, no…
This week, the city of Dallas is pushing — hard — its Reverse 911 Emergency Notification System, which thus far has been used twice to notify folks of, um, an emergency (the most recent event necessitating the calls was the June 11 flooding near the Trinity River in West Dallas)…
Last night the Old 97’s officially welcomed Dallas’s second attempt at a Hard Rock Cafe to what I believe is called Victory Park. So too did a host of other dignitaries, among them Dancing With the Stars star Michael Irvin, a former football player of some renown who kindly offered…
Dear Lifetime, thank you. I’ve really, truly missed Project Runway. Last night I was visibly excited to have it back. One thing though: Go high-def, for crying out loud. Not being able to see ruching and contrast stitching puts me in a teeny rage black-out. I realize you cater to…
Late yesterday, the Texas Senate issued a summary of sorts of the Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security’s public hearing in Arlington on Thursday, during which everything from drought to driving was on the agenda. Of course, Rosemary Miramontes’s testimony, concerning her son’s accident in an HOV lane on I-35E…
We began Thursday morning with the news that Brian Dennehy would be writing and directing the story of Joyce Ann Brown, a then-Koslow’s Furs employee who, in 1980, was convicted of robbery and murder based almost solely on the testimony of a single eyewitness — the wife of the slain…
Finally, Project Runway returns tonight at 9 on its new home at Lifetime — and, if nothing else, Jon Stewart shares my enthusiasm. Of course, locals have two good reasons to take note of this dramatically long-delayed season: And as we’ve mentioned a couple of times, Shirin Askari of Richardson…
Angela Hunt just called with the bad news: The National Fraternal Order of Police voted not to hold their 2013 convention in Dallas after all. Says Hunt, who returned from Long Beach, California — site of this year’s confab — at 1 this morning, the organization’s members voted 1,100 to…
This morning at City Hall, the Park and Recreation Department’s Planning and Design Committee authorized the acquisition of the last piece of land the city needs for the long-planned, $9 million Pacific Plaza Park project. Right now, it’s just a parking lot west of Live Oak and St. Paul streets…
No Terrell Owens. No Pacman Jones. No Michael Vick or Brett Favre or Michael Crabtree. No drama. To which I say … Yes! Last summer the Dallas Cowboys broke camp fat ‘n happy and consumed with personal agendas. After a successful training camp at San Antonio’s Alamodome in which the focus…
View Larger MapEarlier this week, we made mention of plans afoot to raze Simon David on Inwood Road and replace it with an even larger grocery store. Turns out, some in the neighborhood are absolutely opposed to Randall’s Food & Drugs’ proposal, which is about to be discussed by the…
Rick Perry came to Dallas yesterday for a bill-signing — two months after he’d signed the bill.Then he swung by Opening Bell on South Lamar for some coffee-talk with campaign workers, which was closed to the media but open to YouTube. Drink up…
When Walter Cronkite punted the bucket recently, the title of “Most Trusted Man in America” fell to – believe it or not – Jon Stewart. While this news made me, a Daily Show devotee, click my heels, it also got me to thinking: Who’s the Most Trusted Sportscaster in the Metroplex?…
To Irving we go this morning, as the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau asked us, via e-mail, to pretty please check out the new Web site for its convention center opening “in late 2010.” Hunh. Not bad. Not bad at all. Better than this, anyhow. But you know me –…
“Did Kay Bailey Hutchison cross an ethical line by supporting a rail line that is a payday for her husband?” That’s the question addressed in this morning’s Texas Watchdog piece written by former Observer-er Matt Pulle, who examines the Texas gubernatorial candidate’s involvement in procuring funds for Dallas Area Rapid…
We’ve written extensively about the yearlong battle between city attorneys and preservationists over a proposed ordinance that would expedite the demolition of historic structures, both residential and commercial. Last time we got to this was a whole two weeks ago, when the Landmark Commission raised a host of new objections…
At long last — which is to say, close to 20 years since Joyce Ann Brown was freed from prison for a robbery and murder she did not commit — the South Dallas woman’s story will become a movie. So reports The Hollywood Reporter, which makes special note of the…
Unless you consider the Dallas Stars’ 1999 Stanley Cup a lifetime pardon, we’ve all got one. That is, that moment when Tom Hicks did/said something so outrageously inane that you WTF’d him onto your permament shit list. For me it was the Texas Rangers’ owner offering the bassackward philosophy of…
Josh I has 26 tattoos, some of which are demons. Belying a stable, middle-class upbringing, he has a résumé littered with revolving-door drug and alcohol rehab stints. He’s a former crackhead who’s admitted to driving drunk, getting high and not having the faintest idea what he might have done or…
Smoke ’em if you got ’em: Craig Johnson, executive director of ProtectYouth.org, a Dallas-based nonprofit and lobbying group, doesn’t smoke marijuana himself, he says. He doesn’t think your kids should be smoking it either. No drug dealings in the neighborhood; none in the schoolyard either. But he and his group…
