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A couple of things …First, Sam has relieved Jim at the Earle Cabell, and he says sentencing could drag on till the end of the day … if not even later. The live blog’s back open for business now that lunch recess is over … And Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy offers…

The City Hall Public Information Office sends word: You’re now free to take care of your traffic citations on Saturdays starting tomorrow, matter of fact. It’s called a Proof or Plea Court and will be held at the Municipal Court Building at 106 S. Harwood from 9 a.m. to 1…

Been a long while since we’ve heard anything about Dallas City Hall’s plans to grow community gardens. Every now and then the words “community garden” will show up on a Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee agenda, since it’s a zoning issue (oy), but nothing concrete yet — word is the city…

Oak Cliff’s all the rage these days — I done seen it in the paper and everything. So, then, what better gift for the Cliffdweller real or wannabe than these classic scoreboards the Dallas Independent School District just put up for auction — available as a pair at present for…

As we noted first thing this morning, the city council’s Economic Development Committee finally got around to hashing out the need for a downtown parking study, which was presented as a supplement to the Downtown Dallas 360 plan. And it passed the committee unanimously on its way to the full…

When Unfair Park across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Gallery guesstimated that a copy of Detective Comics No. 27 — featuring the first-ever appearance of Batman — would sell for upwards of $425,000, folks thought that was awful high. Because last time a copy of the comic in this near-near-mint condition sold…

From across the street and seven stories up, we’ve had a bird’s-eye view of Harlan Crow’s redo of the original Parkland Hospital, now the HQ for Crow Holdings. We’ve heard tales of extraordinary doings in, on and around the ever-expanding campus (which now includes a new building, Woodlawn Hall), and…

The great Lauren Bacall’s speaking at the Nasher Sculpture Garden on the evening of March 11 — though, sorry, her NasherSALON appearance sold out long ago. But the Nasher’s peoples send word, and this visual reminder, that a “limited number of tickets are available” for “an opportunity for an even…

Speaking of downtown Dallas …Marketplace, which earlier this week took in the art show held in that abandoned WaMu box on Greenville Avenue, today takes a look at downtown’s vacant office buildings — specifically, the shuttering of Elm Place at the end of January. The question is: Will the former…

We already knew Blockbuster’s fourth quarter was a disaster — CEO Jim Keyes warned as much a month ago, when, ahead of yesterday’s release of FY2009 financials, he said “our performance during the holidays was well below expectations.” But the entire year proved a disappointment, as the Dallas-based videotailer said…

This afternoon at 2, the council’s Economic Development Committee will finally get around to discussing the need for a downtown parking study that will supplement the Downtown Dallas 360 plan due to the council by summer’s end. (The committee never got around to it last week, after bogging down on…

Trend surfing: You might as well start practicing right now, so you can get used to it. Say these words: Governor Rick Perry, four more years. Why is Buzz predicting the return of Mr. Hot Hair to office? Well, he’s leading the polls in his primary race and, so far,…

Can an entire city reverse field? From World War II until now, the beckoning horizon in Dallas has been the cool, air-conditioned neighborhoods north, where houses are new and low-slung, lawns are pool-table smooth and garage doors open by themselves. But if North Dallas has been the city’s field of…