Aw, nuts: Exactly what information is mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings waiting to hear before he passes judgment on whether Dallas should continue its futile effort to build a toll road between the Trinity River levees near downtown? Give us a hint, Mike, about what it’s gonna take, ’cause between this…
I want this NBA championship. Selfishly? You bet. As a shaggy-haired 16-year-old who wanted to grow up to be Pete Maravich, I attended the Mavericks’ first game back at old Reunion Arena. Not the regular-season debut victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Oct. 11, 1980, but the inaugural preseason…
From the outside, nothing about Eddie Wilson’s near-north Austin bungalow would indicate that a prime architect of the city’s mystique lives inside. Once through the door, though, the whole fantastic story becomes plain as a giant javelina sucking on a six-story jug of tequila. Over the fireplace, in the living…
Since we caught up with him last, not a whole lot has changed for Michael Manos, the aspiring nightlife starlet and entertainer who threw extravagant parties back in those halcyon days of Bella and Billy Zane in 2009. Then, not a whole changes after three more months at Lew Sterrett…
The photo you see above was taken and sent our way today by, who else, Jason Roberts, for whom I happened to have many questions. So, good timing. As always.First thing’s first: That’s Three Sheets’s double-decker, which will be rolled out at the end of the month as part of…
Last month, we mentioned a far-reaching University of Texas at Austin study of complaints about gas drilling operations that’s just now getting underway. Meant to connect the dots between air, soil and water quality complaints from the Barnett to the Marcellus Shale, the nine-month project from the university’s Energy Institute…
Oak Cliff Metals’ move, which was on the council’s to-do list last month, returned this afternoon, with Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway once again squaring off against Vonciel Jones Hill over the site that’s in her district near S. Central Expressway and Loop 12 and across the train tracks from his. This,…
With any luck we’ll be re-writing this list in the coming week. But for now, last night’s pulsating win at American Airlines Center certainly is among the best in Dallas Mavericks franchise history: 10. 6.2.88 — Mavs 105, Lakers 103: Led by Sixth Man of the Year Roy Tarpley’s 20-point,…
In case you hadn’t heard, the state and county redistricting processes have already gotten a tad … heated, let’s say, what with all the threats of lawsuits and the temper tantrums. The city of Dallas’s Redistricting Commission is trying to avoid the same fate on the local level: Its members…
That headline comes from the request for proposals mentioned yesterday — the one where the city’s looking for marketing pros to “generate additional income for the City through naming, sponsorship, advertisement, and marketing partnerships with private corporations.” And if you’re a marketing professional interested in the gig, well, you’d best…
The morning after every game of The Finals, The Association posts a slow-mo, Bruckheimer-esque recap. Last night’s short just became available. And it’s worth a look-see. Or several. Especially that part at the 3:14 mark…
At some point this morning, the city council will vote to pay something called 11900 Marsh Lane, L.P. out of Houston a little more than $800,000 for a piece of land currently on the tax rolls for around $458,000. That’s a piece of property near Marsh and Forest where once…
Fittingly, sitting courtside at American Airlines Center last night: Emmitt Smith. What he witnessed was perhaps Dallas-Fort Worth’s gutsiest individual performance since, well, his own masterpiece 17 years ago. Yep, on a night when he fought a 101-degree fever, Dirk Nowitzki willed the Mavericks to a heart-stopping, gut-wrenching victory that yanked the…
The city council’s last big day before going on summer vacation is June 22, when the agenda will be action-packed. On the hefty to-do list: voting on the makeup of the gas drilling task force in advance of its first meeting some time in July, as task force head Lois…
First, an apology: Patrick’s all out of good photos of Maurine Dickey, Clay Jenkins and John Wiley Price at that very first media what-for during which the unholy trinity acknowledged that mistakes had been made and that many Dallas County deputy constables had lied about serving papers to, among others,…
10. Could tell something wasn’t right with Dirk Nowitzki early in the second quarter. He didn’t look good on the bench. Piqued, even. Towel over head. Two warm-up jackets draped over him. Gulping liquid out of two water bottles. Not involved in coach Rick Carlisle’s huddle. Then at half it was…
Let’s go back to City Manager Mary Suhm’s budget Q&A memo for just a moment, because there was one Q that had me at A:What is being done to generate revenue by marketing the City? A Request for Proposal was advertised on May 12 and 19, 2011 seeking proposals from…
Last night in Austin, state Rep. Sid Miller laid out a novel solution for Texas’s troubled school budget: the Taxpayer Savings Grants Program, a reward of nearly $5,000 for any parents who’ll do us all a solid and take their kids out of public school. Under Miller’s plan, parents would…
Must be the day for getting rid of lawsuits involving the city of Dallas. The feds already sent their heads-up that the city’s going to fork over $2.5 million related to ambulance over-billing, and now the Institute for Justice sends word that that lawsuit over the 2008 sign ordinance prohibiting…
No doubt you’ve heard by now that this morning’s meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court was interrupted by a Dallas County Commissioner who threw a tantrum that included name-calling (you … you … bobos!) and the ol’ take-me-to-jail-I-effin’-dare-you gambit. Mauine Dickey’s outburst, captured by Channel 8, is after the…
No doubt some of you are aware that for the last couple of years or so, the city of Dallas has been entangled in a federal whistle-blower suit instigated by a former auditor at City Hall. Douglas Moore revealed that he’d discovered the city and Southwest General Services of Dallas…
This Friday, shortly before the council goes on summer vacation, we’ll get our latest peek at City Manager Mary Suhm’s FY2011-12 budget “snapshot,” following the mid-May look-see that said she’s still around $60 million short of funding the need-to’s. Speaking of: Last Friday Suhm sent to council a lengthy memo…
