Yesterday, we sneak-peeked a couple of the big-ticket items on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda. Question is: How’d they sit with council members? First up, let’s visit that Belleview Connector, the estimated $9.5- to $11-million hike-n-bike bridge described by HALFF Associates designer Francois de Kock this morning as…
I saw one of these signs on a Bishop Arts sidewalk over the weekend and thought nothing of it — that is till today, when I was looking for something unrelated on the Dallas CityDesign Studio, which led me to its Facebook page, which led me to this: Urban Design…
Those lightweights at Dallas City Hall didn’t go full-frat with, say, a blue-painted bare chest workday to support the Mavericks before tonight’s big game. But with a few gallon jugs of pond water-tint technology, the city’s taking care of business today atop a shimmering pool of deep Mavs blue.At 10…
The Mavericks haven’t lost an NBA Western Conference Finals series in five years. Of course we all know what happened last time Dallas advanced this far — in the 2006 NBA Finals. The come-from-ahead loss to the Heat sent the franchise into a psychological spiral from which it is just now recovering…
OK, now we’re really curious. We’re talking to you, Dallas City Hall, about those Trinity River project emails and memos you’re fighting to keep us from seeing. What, has someone been unduly candid in his or her assessment of the city’s plans to put a toll road between the levees?…
Execution vs. Explosion. Savvy vs. Speed. Aptitude vs. Athleticism. You get the picture. Mavs vs. Thunder. While — yeah, I know — I shoulda took my Mavs-over-Blazers first-round pick and quit while I was ahead, I predicted a Lakers’ win the West semis and, happily, sheepishly, here we are in…
It’s been almost a year since Mark Nerenhausen suddenly stepped down as CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center after less than two years on the job. But this morning, the AT&T PAC made it official: Mark Weinstein, ex of the Washington National Opera and the Pittsburgh Opera, is his…
Ron Springs’ fight is dead. His litigation, however, lives on. While former Cowboys teammates Roger Staubach and Everson Walls prepare to speak at Springs’ funeral in Carrollton on Thursday, the ex-running back, who died of a heart attack while in a 3 1/2-year coma last week, is still being represented furiously…
On the other side is the entirety of ABC-TV’s fall schedule, sent by the network first thing this morning in advance of this afternoon’s upfront announcement in New York. But, of course, there is that one show with local ties — the one formerly known as Good Christian Bitches, till…
Over the weekend, media folk were invited to ride around in Dallas Police cars with officers of the Southwest Patrol Division in Oak Cliff to witness a summer crime-curbing program called Operation Heat Wave. It’s designed to improve police-citizen relations in the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where, at the behest…
It would seem 508 Park Avenue’s been heavy on my mind of late, even more than usual, what with Robert Johnson’s just-passed 100th birthday and First Presby’s not-just-yet-sealed-deal purchase and Friday’s flashback to the sounds of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys cut at that very same spot two years…
While we await some Important Documents, let me distract you with this.No doubt you recall last week’s Greatest Video Ever (as opposed to this week’s), in which German musicmaker Flula Borg pays homage to his “most favorite Basketballer from all times,” one Dirk Nowitzki. Well, so happens that Borg –…
A week ago today, as you may recall, the University of Texas at Austin’s Energy Institute announced they’d be joining the growing ranks of universities with major studies of hydraulic fracturing, with a $300,000, nine-month project of their own. Today, thanks to the Texas Tribune and KUT News, you can…
More than once during my occasional visits to the Library of Congress’s treasure trove of Dallas-related artifacts, I’ve come across this stereograph: “Night view of Elks’ Court of Honor, at intersection of Main and Akard Streets, Dallas, Texas–Grand Lodge meeting, July 1908.” (A couple of years back, it was “animated”…
Remember back in February, when council member Ann Margolin said, sorry, but she just couldn’t support spending $1.5 mil in bond funds on a dog park, which the city couldn’t afford to maintain in the first place? No. Of course you don’t. Anyway. On Saturday, we skipped out of the…
That LBJ Freeway overhaul we’ve been warning you about gets underway today as crews begin the first phase of the HOV-lane shut-down, between Luna Road and Midway Road. But, hey, look at it this way, says Andy Rittler, spokesman for the LBJ Express: “We anticipate there is going to be…
OK. So. About that Belleview Connector below.The reason it’s on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda tomorrow is because that bridge — which, as more than a few Friends of Unfair Park have pointed out, doesn’t really seem to go anywhere at the moment — is part of the…
As I’ve said before, new Rangers TV play-by-play voice John Rhadigan is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Love him as a friend. Be honored to have him as a neighbor. Or a role model. Whatever. Great dude. But as the voice of my baseball? Um, let’s see…
By the way they reacted at their fog-machine introduction last summer and their tearful over-reaction last week, you’d think the Miami Heat already had won two championships this season. But no, after last night’s drubbing in Chicago they trail the Eastern Conference Finals, 1-0. And for those of us who…
It’s a big day for 30-year-old SMU grad Brady Knowlton, who graces the front page of this morning’s Wall Street Journal — and, now, Gawker. All because Knowlton, a Dallas oilman and new dad and world-traveling big-game hunter (per his Facebook page), likes to stick his arm into dark, wet…
I’ll have my position-by-position breakdown complete with, yes, the highly (smirk) coveted prediction tomorrow, but let’s get this party started pronto. Back in 1994 I covered the Mavericks for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a team that featured point guards Jason Kidd and J.J. Barea. Well, not exactly. But funny how sports works. Kidd…
We’re going to begin this morning with two Trinity-related items — the first of which you see above. That, Friends of Unfair Park, is the Belleview Connector, a proposed bridge that would link Riverfront Boulevard to the Cedars — specifically, Jack Matthews’s South Side of Lamar and the attendant development…
