Moments ago, the Dallas City Council voted on the 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.daytime curfew ordinance — and, not surprisingly, it passed almost overwhelmingly, by a vote of 12-2. The vote was taken shortly after Mayor Tom Leppert stressed that the ordinance (which you can read here, beginning on Page…
In a ceremony outside the old landmark at the very end of Dallas’s West End, the original staff of the Starck Club gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the club’s 25th anniversary, and to witness the start of a new venture built on the club’s legacy.The Starck Project, led by Michael…
If nothing else, the debate over the daytime curfew sure did get more than a few kiddos active in city politics. The Dallas City Council just got through hearing from a parade of folks opposed to the 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. curfew, about which Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle…
Since we’re too skeered to be in Denver’s volatile Pepsi Center tonight, noted Mavs expert Mike Fisher and I decided it’d be a good idea to watch the game “together”. Just the four of us: Him, me and our computers. The result: Live Mavs-Thuggets Game 5 in-game blogging commencing right here on this…
I didn’t know till I looked at the Dallas City Council’s addenda for this week that for the last couple of months, the city’s been the proud owner of the Delux Inn on Stemmons Freeway. (The expenditure was approved last September, for $3.18 million in 1998 bond money.) Alas, don’t…
Late into last night, there erupted at the bottom of Schutze’s Tuesday post — concerning the Dallas Independent School District board’s threat to needlessly gut the magnets and learning centers — a discussion about “commitments and covenants.” Those are what the district adopted in ’03 to get out from under…
About a year ago, the North Texas Tollway Authority announced that it had chosen a new “trailblazer” design for its signs — that’s one of them at right, matter of fact, in a photo taken over the weekend by friend of the show Justin Cozart. But till Justin mentioned it…
Clearly, 2009 is The Year of Bonnie and Clyde. Seventy-five years after their deaths by ambush, you’ve got two new books on shelves at this very moment: former Star-Telegram books editor Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Schneider’s Bonnie and Clyde:…
Sometime this morning, we expect the Dallas City Council to approve a daytime curfew for minors under the age of 17, which, according to the ordinance, will “help combat truancy, thereby reducing juvenile crime, juvenile violence, and juvenile gang activity occurring in the city during school hours.” Despite opposition from…
This weekend, Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries holds yet another of its dino-bone and space-rock sales, a fairly regular occurrence over there. But this one got the attention of National Public Radio: All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel can’t understand why someone will likely pay more than $50,000…
Let’s keep this short and sweet, as I’m scurrying off to Las Vegas this morning to accept a CLIO Award. (No, check that, they’re whispering in my ear that my schedule actually calls for an Observer staff meeting in Uptown.) Guess the awards will have to live with appearances from Mavs…
Looks like Mavs fans didn’t waste all their creative venom on Kenyon Martin’s mom last night…
In fast-food news, this note out of Denver: A burger chain called Smashburger announced today that it’s expanding from one Texas location (a corporate-owned joint in Houston) to 75 locations in the coming five years, including 10 just-announced franchises in East Texas. A little digging on the burger chain’s site…
The Austin American-Statesman reports this afternoon that the state Senate has given its unanimous OK to new-and-improved legislation that revamps the contentious “pole tax” imposed upon, ya know, gentleman’s establishments a couple of years back. The original legislation, which imposed a $5-per-customer charge, wasn’t a big hit with topless bar…
Seems we missed this rather significant media release yesterday — significant, that is, if you’re a Texas Ex in need of, oh, I dunno, a PINK University of Texas Bling T-Shirt or a Longhorn Pet Sweater right pronto. Because after opening outposts in Houston and San Antonio, the University of…
I was waiting for Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to apologize. But to CBS 11 camerman Bill Ellis, not Kenyon Martin’s mom. He issued an “I’m sorry” to her? For what exactly?! As you probably know by now, I detest peer-pressure, politically correct apologies. I’m not suggesting Cuban’s cyber-sorry to Lydia…
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, American Airlines pocketed $278 million in bag fees last year, putting it at the top of the list of airlines making extra scratch by charging to lose your luggage. But Dallas-based Southwest Airlines insists it still won’t go there: Southwest CEO Gary Kelly…
Phillip Jones, president of the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau, and some tourism-toutin’ pals went on Chilean television to sell Dallas. The result? Magic and chaos…
The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee this morning issued this joint media release, along with the National Football League, announcing venue selections for “16 key events” that’ll be associated with Super Bowl XLV. Dallas and Fort Worth each get five; Arlington, four (including, ahem, the game); Irving, two…
Three years ago, The Dallas Morning News took the city of Dallas to court over e-mails reporters Dave Levinthal and Reese Dunklin had wanted from then-Mayor Laura Miller’s BlackBerry. The city contended that Miller’s BlackBerry was her own, not paid for by taxpayers, and, therefore, not subject to state open…
This morning, the Toronto Star finds an economics prof who specializes in moneyball tomes to speculate that Your Dallas Stars may well wind up in Chapter 11. Because, after all, it was but one month ago that Tom Hicks willingly defaulted on $525 million in loans related to the Texas…
Now that, my friends, was a basketball game. A playoff basketball game, with everything on it. Delicious. Considering they still won’t win this series, the Mavericks had every reason to fold. And after the week he’s had, Dirk Nowitzki had every reason to pout. Instead? Dirk produced one of the grittiest…
