In the Absence of a Trinity River Project, Fun and Fascinating Meetings

As mentioned earlier, I spent this afternoon at City Hall digesting PowerPoint presentations during the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting in hopes of getting to the bottom of some possible delays in the Dallas Floodway Extension outlined here. But having been to enough of these get-togethers, I should’ve…

Actual Cubbies Love Cubes

Over the weekend, Jan Hubbard found plenty of Chicago Cubs praying Mark Cuban will become the team’s next owner — unless I misunderstood first baseman Derrek Lee’s pronouncement, “I hope he gets the team.” John Cusack was a little more skeptical: “I think what he has to do is convince…

Star-Studded Tuesday

The DASA awards make for the most, um, interesting pairings. Right, Scott? If you have $200 – or perhaps $5,000 – burning a hole in your jorts, make plans to be at the Fairmont Hotel tonight for the 43rd annual Dallas All-Sports Association Awards Banquet. It’s the one chance a…

Craig Watkins, TV Star

For those so interested, the agenda for today’s Dallas County Commissioners Court meeting includes the county’s contract with Touch Productions, which will produce a documentary series for the Discovery Channel about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and efforts to exonerate innocent prisoners using DNA evidence. The county’s all for…

At Least the Ross Ave. Renaming Thing Gives Folks Something To Do

Merritt Martin Pete Freedman spotted the freshly painted sign this a.m., and Merritt Martin photographed it — that’s teamwork. Only, there is no such Web site, only SaveRoss.com; whatever. After the jump another photo — and, turns out, there was already a blank spot on the wall at Ross Avenue…

That ’70s Show

Squint real hard and see the similarities. At long last, the ’70s are back. Women are again wearing Halston. Television viewers are glued to CBS’ hit Swingtown. Two movies founded on the old decade’s staples of Star Wars and ABBA – The Clone Wars and Mamma Mia – were among…

Defecting from the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office

Just a few months after we launched Unfair Park, we profiled Dallas public defender Mike Howard, then running the tell-all site Wretched of the Earth, on which he’d write about counseling the indigent on the county’s dime. But Howard yesterday sent out a virtual change-of-address notice: He has left the…

The Sidney Lumet of Lower Greenville

Sure, it’s a day-off Monday, but that doesn’t mean we can’t kick off the week with an Avi Adelman Production. Because, sure enough, the Antoine Fuqua of Lower Greenville was yet again stalking the mean streets with his trusty video camera to prove that nothing good ever happens after 2…

Gustav Isn’t Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

National Weather Service About an hour ago, city officials gave local media members a tour of the Dallas Convention Center, in which Dallas expects to hold folks fleeing Hurricane Gustav, which is close to reaching Category 5 status as it approaches the Louisiana coastline. Only, the city keeps insisting in…

Not Officially Part of the DISD Uniform

I’m wearing mine right now — a little uncomfortable but otherwise manageable. For those desiring other, safer options — a hat, say, or a saddle bag or just a plain old white tee — they’re available here at The Nice Price. Note to Superintendent Michael Hinojosa: Fund-raiser? Better than a…

The West Nile Hits East Dallas

Which is to say: “A resident of east Dallas has become the season’s first victim of mosquito carried West Nile Virus.” That’s according to the City of Dallas media release that just dropped in our in-box in advance of an extensive mosquito spray-down scheduled for Tuesday night beginning at 10…

Harlan Crow PACs a Punch in His Fight Against Convention Center Hotel

Anne Raymond Harlan Crow, owner of the Hilton Anatole and longtime critic of a publicly owned convention center hotel, upped the ante Wednesday afternoon in his quest to kill the project. Turns out, he’s spearheading a political action committee called Citizens Against a Taxpayer Owned Hotel, which was formed by…