Hunt for Green March

Probably need to workshop that headline. Till then, here’s Angela Hunt’s perspective on Saturday’s festivities along Greenville Avenue: “better than last year.” And she’s got the video and photos to prove it.2009.03.14 – St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party from Angela Hunt on Vimeo…

The Maddening Mavericks

I give up. I admit, I expected the Dallas Mavericks to lose at Phoenix, lose at Portland, beat Golden State and get blown out by the Lakers. I went 0-4. In typically unpredictable, unsettling fashion, they went 2-2. I’ll go on Channel 52 tonight at 6:30 – fingers crossed -…

So, Just How Happy is Dallas With Dallas?

Just noticed this on the Dallas City Hall Web site: the results of a recently taken survey of more than 1,600 Dallas households, who were asked about their thoughts about the city — everything from “Perception of the Overall Quality of Life in Dallas” to “Ratings of Dallas As a…

Mom, You’ll Love This Place. It’s … Scary?

On a lunchtime errand, I tool down Hall Street, look over at the field across from Lee Park and notice there’s a sign I haven’t seen before. I immediately flip on the hazards, pull over and grab my phone to snap this photo of what is, quite possibly, the worst…

Ah, The More Things Change

Courtesy our historian Justin Cozart, yet another page out of history — this one from 1930, to be exact. He explains:This is an early map of Dallas displaying the belt parkways from the first city plan in 1911 along with parkland designated for the new levees being built. It seems…

For the Mavs: A Better Time. For Josh Howard: Much, Much Worse.

I remember seeing this live, then rewinding the TiVo over and over and over again until I was in tears. It’s old, but it never gets old. Ya know? Staged racks on America’s Funniest Videos: Insulting. Raw, real racks: Priceless. The Mavs are yucking it up on the bench, just seconds…