Avi Adelman was out early Sunday morning (2:35 Sunday morning, to be precise) doing what he normally does in the wee small hours of the weekend: videotaping the goings-on on Lower Greenville Avenue. Only this time, he came away with something extra: a ticket accusing him of misdemeanor assault.Adelman declines…
Mayor Tom Leppert’s made it quite clear in recent months: West Dallas sits high atop his to-do list. To the checklist, add this item: weather-stripping, caulking and insulating some 400 homes that aren’t terribly energy efficient. The city council’s Housing Committee will get the full details today at 2 p.m.,…
Two words sure to get the month off to a yip-uh-dee-doo-dah start: Free. Tickets. I have in my slimy lil’ hands four (4) tickets to any Grand Prairie AirHogs game this week. They host the hated Fort Worth Cats Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and, if I’m not mistaken, Saturday is Fireworks…
The Dallas County Community College District board meets tomorrow at 4 p.m. at 1601 S. Lamar Street, and the confab should be livelier than most. In our in-box this morning, we were among those who received an invite to “Stand in Solidarity for Carla Ranger,” the Dallas Independent School District…
Last week we showed you the three winners and three finalists chosen in the Re:Vision Dallas competition that called for folks to design a self-sustaining block on what’s not a parking lot behind Dallas City Hall. Turns out, that was but a sneak preview.Today, Urban Re:Vision — the folks behind…
It was shaping up to be a busy day at Dallas City Hall even before the Trinity River press conference was added into the mix yesterday; if nothing else, we should get some idea today where the city council stands on the proposed private parking lot booting ordinance, kicked to…
Since two girlfriends = one problem, the Dallas Stars have abruptly ended their dual general managers experiement. Out: Brett Hull/Les Jackson. In: Joe Nieuwendyk. Strange as it is to be talking hockey in June – unless, of course, you live in Detroit – the fact that owner Tom Hicks tried a…
Earlier tonight, a few of us local media members found in our respective in-boxes a draft of remarks Mayor Tom Leppert is expected to deliver Monday during a 10 a.m. press conference in the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall. He’s expected to announce that the city will “invest approximately…
If you find yourself downtown today, sharing a street corner with a blue-wigged Marie Antoinette, a dude in spandex and two-foot spiked hair, and a girl with go-go boots, fishnets and a purple rubber glove, you’re probably not losing it.More likely, you’ve wandered over near the Sheraton Hotel, where A-Kon…
Back in February, Alexa wrote about the pending transport of Hudson River sludge to West Texas, where Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons’s Waste Control Specialists will turn one state’s trash into one man’s treasure. That trash in question are millions of cubic yards of PCBs — or polychlorinated biphenyls, a carcinogenic…
That’s Steve Kudlow above — otherwise known as “Lips,” frontman for Canadian metal band Anvil, subject of an eponymous rockumentary now showing at the Magnolia. Last night, on opening night, the band came to Dallas for what its members (Lips, drummer Robb Reiner, bassist Glenn Five) refer to as “The…
When Mayor Tom Leppert testified last week on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he conveniently failed to mention his own agenda while lobbying the U.S. House Financial Services Committee to loosen the municipal bond market. Instead of arguing the merits of the convention center hotel, he mentioned “building…
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Jim Truitt, Forest City’s vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday’s meeting of the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Building and the former Dallas National Bank Building, now The Joule. Forest…
Perhaps you have an idea how the city can cut, oh, $100 million in order to fix its busted-up budget. Or, just maybe, you’re really not terribly keen on the idea of City Manager Mary Suhm leaving 12 code enforcement positions unfilled in order to make up the ever-expanding deficit…
The Friends of Unfair Park concerned with the state — and fate — of the newspaper business are no doubt aware that in a Chicago suburb yesterday, bigwigs, honchos and major-domos from most of the country’s biggest news-gathering organizations huddled together to chat about monetizing online content. There’s been much…
Blockbuster held is annual shareholders meeting yesterday, and the presentation was chock-a-block with sneak peeks at the Dallas company’s future — or, at the very least, its plans for the future. After the jump you’ll find the complete 31-page presentation offered to shareholders, who were also treated with the video-…
Okay, I admit, I’ve bungee-jumped and dived out of an airplane and dared to criticize Mark Cuban and I might even like to run with bulls some day. But I’ll be damned if I ever chase a wheel of cheese down one of the steepest pasture on God’s green Earth. Wow…
Check out our slide show for a look behind the scenes on race day.Now in its eighth running, Dallas’ 24 Hour Video Race is built on harnessing that special brand of creativity that only surfaces under extreme deadlines. This year’s racers had no idea what theme or elements will be…
The Texas Senate yesterday refused to send to Governor Rick Perry a bill that included an amendment that would allow law enforcement officers to draw blood from folks suspected of driving under the influence — otherwise known as the no-refusal initiative for which the Dallas Police Department is pushing. Instead,…
To keep this brief, here’s the takeaway from this morning’s New York Times profile of former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who’s now “the unlikely new U.S. trade representative,” as the paper puts it. The gist of the story is this: Everybody likes Ron Kirk. Everybody. So far. Because, well, they…
The Cowboys unveiled their humongous new home in Arlington this week, with owner Jerry Jones delivering a keynote address about how the $1.15 billion stadium is a sign for struggling Americans that times will get better.Not sure how much of that stadium cost was invested in pyrotechnics, skydivers or marching…
