Those interested in the future of downtown Dallas may wanna carve out some time on Friday — like, all day Friday. Because from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., City Hall will play host to a daylong “design charrette” during which city officials; architect Brent Brown, founder of bcWORKSHOP; and folks…
What happens when one Vancouver Sun columnist and her aunt decide to see the great state of Texas from a car, a Greyhound bus and a train? Well, nothing terribly exciting, though Susan Riley’s recounting of her trip through Texas, including stops in Dallas and Austin and elsewhere, provides a…
This morning, Roger Friedman of FOX News has cobbled together a series of old newspaper clips and federal tax returns in an effort to make sense of the Oprah Winfrey-Harold Simmons love affair. Because, after all, Winfrey was chief among Barack Obama’s backers, while the Dallas billionaire and Swift Boat…
So, this is the future of Blockbuster — as a seller of concert tickets? Which would make it, what, CD World? This morning comes the official word: The Dallas-based videotailer, whose set-top box is supposed to keep you out of the stores, is looking to bring folks back to the…
An interesting case to keep an eye on this a.m. in 192nd Civil District Court Judge Craig Smith’s courtroom: Amanda Ward v. ACS State and Local Solutions Inc., in which a local attorney has taken Affiliated Computer Services to court for mailing to the house a traffic ticket the attorney…
Homer this. Despite missing three games with a broken pinkie, Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo leads all NFL quarterbacks in: *QB Rating (103.2) *Average yards per pass attempt (8.5) *TD-Interception ratio (+13) If you watched his 331-yard, three-touchdown performance on Thanksgiving, there’s no doubt Romo is back to being…
Friend of Unfair Park “Rhinosaur” sends us this early review of Blockbuster’s OnDemand set-top box — and so far … so-so?Unlike the Netflix streaming experience, Blockbuster permits you to browse their entire catalog from the couch… although they charge per rental, like typical video on demand services. Which raises the…
Texas Motor Speedway announced today it’s ditching some 21,022 seats on the backstretch, which’ll put the track’s total number of butts allowed at right around 138,000. ESPN says it’s because of “the economic recession that has affected most tracks which play host to NASCAR events.” But TMS president Eddie Gossage…
Whilst out and about Saturday night, the missus and I were hypnotized to the point of distraction by the strobe-light twinklings coming from the new Park Lane development off N. Central Expressway. After the jump, a brief video from the residential high-rise under construction across the expressway from NorthPark Center;…
Regrets, he’s had a few: President Bush has done a lot of navel-gazing in recent days — on CNN earlier this month, followed by a sit-down with his sister Doro Bush Koch on behalf of StoryCorps, excerpts from which began appearing Friday. Tonight comes the former and future Dallas resident’s…
This just in from City Hall, a reminder: In exactly one month, drivers stopped for traffic violations who can’t prove they have insurance will find their rides getting a free trip to the Dallas Auto Pound. (The return trip will, of course, cost ya. And them some.) Right now, the…
Tomorrow, don’t be surprised if you start hearing radio ads advocating an open-carry policy for handgun owners with the proper permits. The folks behind OpenCarry.org are attempting to get some spots on the Dallas-Fort Worth airwaves in which they demand the Texas Legislature allow folks to wear their pistols in…
Friend of Unfair Park “Peterk,” who two weeks back brought to Life these old photos of Dallas, sends word of the latest and greatest in confusing time-killers: Boundaries. (Click the image above to enlarge Dallas’s boundaries.) It’s the brainchild of English Web developer Tom Taylor, who’s dipped Flickr’s geotags into…
The Dallas Cowboys have already sold 85 percent of the tickets to their new stadium in Arlington. Go ahead, act surprised. But, deep down, did you really think Jerry Jones would have trouble selling out his new Jonestown Coliseum? I didn’t. I went to Circuit City last week…
Schutze has already mentioned what a big fan he is of the Raptor scanner recently installed at Dallas Independent School District HQ on Ross Ave., along with a handful of other district campuses. The point of the device, which scans a person’s driver’s license before they’re allowed in the building,…
Things haven’t been good in the fast-casual dining business for a long while, as the slowdown in the semi-fancy burger biz started well before The Artist Formerly Known as the Economy went into the crapper — right, Bennigan’s? Today, CFO magazine looks to see what’s on the menu in coming…
In today’s breaking news about the scarcity of kosher beef around the country, this local connection: Dallas-based A.D. Rosenblatt Kosher Meats, run by COO Yaakov Rosenblatt, has had to up its production to meet the meat demand, going from three days a week to five. Also contained within the piece…
The day before Thanksgiving, Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company filed a suit against, among others, the City of Dallas, claiming that the city’s desire to go green will take the green right out of Ash Grove’s wallet. The lawsuit, which also names Plano and Fort Worth and Arlington and Tarrant…
I don’t love Texas. I don’t hate Oklahoma. But what transpired yesterday in the Big 12 is absolute bullshit. I know life ain’t fair, but college football should be. Or at least it should use common sense trying. Let me apologize to Texas. I posted some of the best…
The bleakest of Black Fridays at a New York Wal-Mart, where a temporary employee was trampled to death by bargain-hunters who didn’t so much as slow down while rescue workers tried to save the man’s life. Not so savage a scene at a Dallas Best Buy, where the Associated Press…
You’ve probably seen Twilight. You likely watched at least some of HBO’s TrueBlood. And, considering it’s suddenly trendy to be all vampirey, you’ve at least tinkered with the idea of checking out the new Vampire Lounge over on Harry Hines. But, have you ever seen a real vampire?…
What you see at top is the apartment structure at 104 S. Edgefield in Oak Cliff — or what remains of it, following a fire in 2005. Twice the city has tried to demo the building, for obvious reasons; it’s the very definition of what staff calls “an imminent threat…
