No, but he’s close. Not that the Washington Wizard-turned-Maverick hasn’t played impressively in his first four games in Dallas (10.8 points, 8.8 rebounds), but it says more about our sad history than his play, doesn’t it? Haywood, part of last week’s trade that sent Josh Howard packing and made Caron Butler…
On his way into the office this morning, downtown dweller Patrick Michels stopped by the Nasher Sculpture Center, where he espied crews with cranes in the process of removing the final piece of a signature sculpture, Jonathan Borofsky’s Walking to the Sky. But fear not: One of the most photographed…
Lord knows how many times I’ve driven over Turtle Creek on Lemmon Avenue: Hundreds? Thousands? Katrillions? Never really wondered what it looked like beneath Lemmon. But you know who did? Our old pal Justin Terveen, who’s clearly working on his Bodies of Water series…
Schutze wrote the other day that Oak Cliff gets stuff done despite Dallas City Hall. Which is fine, until City Hall does get involved: The Friends of Oak Cliff Parks have been out and about in recent weeks warning groups, such as the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and the…
I was playing catch on a lazy Friday afternoon, warming up for a chilly practice as a sophomore second baseman on Duncanville High School’s baseball team when our coach came running out of the field house: “We did it! We beat the Russians!!” Was an upset last night when the…
Still no word on what will “ROCK” Fair Park — though White Rock Marathon chairman Phil Baker swears his organization isn’t up and leaving Victory Park as the starting point and finish line for this year’s race. Yes, the marathon board did meet Thursday, but Baker says, nope, not it…
I’m not much of a Grateful Dead fan, if I may end the week with an understatement; I pretty much start and finish with American Beauty, depending on the hour and the herb, though the missus was once known a long while ago to follow a tour or two. Lord…
That banner you see on the old Showcase Chevrolet dealership on LBJ Freeway, near the Dallas North Tollway intersection, just went up this week. I can’t tell you the asking price, but I do know this: When Apartment Realty Advisors sold the property the first go-round in November 2006, it…
Carolyn Beck, the director of Communications and Governmental Relations at the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, sends word: The Fort Worth outpost of the TABC is shutting down today and reopening on Tuesday in Arlington at 2225 E. Randol Mill Road. Also getting adiosed immediately: the Dallas Licensing Division on Stemmons…
“Heartbreaking.” “Painful.” That is how Anita Avila describes the fight over the restaurant on Maple Avenue she and her husband opened in January 1986. In the end, she says, all she wants is for the restaurant to reopen with her once more running the operation, as she’d done before her…
Must be a legal matter Friday, a legal matter from now on. Because next up on the docket is that suit against Dallas County we’ve told you about a couple of times before — the one involving that $17.5 million contract with a Virginia-based company called GTSI, which the commissioners…
The great George Gimarc has been extremely generous with his estimable collection of goodies — so much so he’s agreed to partner with Unfair Park on a North Texas Food Bank fund-raiser a la Danny Hurley’s Mods vs Rockers book we auctioned off at Christmas. More details to come next…
With less than a month until Earthling’s world premiere at SXSW 2010, the indie sci-fi film, by Dallas-based writer-director Clay Liford, is already garnering plenty of positive buzz in the movie-blogosphere based on the film’s two trailers alone.But with descriptions such as “haunting,” “magical, and “strangely beautiful,” it’s no wonder…
The legal wrangling over the fate of Avila’s on Maple Avenue will continue this afternoon at the George Allen Courts Building: Judge Ken Molberg has ordered Ricardo Avila appear in his courtroom at 1:30 p.m. To many, Ricardo’s the public face of the beloved 25-year-old Mexican restaurant; he’s also the…
Back in July 2007, the tale of Dallas Area Rapid Transit police officer Susan Craig merited but a few sentences in the regional roundup. The story then: “Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials said Officer Susan Craig falsely claimed that a rider she arrested Monday had kicked her in the head…
Thus far I’ve seen a ton of conceptual renderings of the downtown Omni — or, as it’s still referred to on the city’s Web site, the Dallas Convention Center Headquarters Hotel. And, last week, we saw how it looks whilst under construction. But not till today had I seen it…
As we mentioned yesterday, members of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and John McCall Jr., its attorney and former president, met on the sidewalk in front of the Oak Cliff Christian Church on 10th Street this morning to provide more specifics on the agreement reached following its court-ordered mediation…
It’s been almost three years since we first told you the sordid story of Anand Jon Alexander, the one-time designer to the stars who came to town promising women, many of them under-age, modeling jobs right before he sexually assaulted them. Women would come forward telling the exact same story…
I’ve been trying to keep up with the dramatic doings at Avila’s on Maple Avenue via SideDish for the past week, which hasn’t been easy — especially following today’s item concerning the beloved restaurant’s shuttering as family friends and members and other concerned parties weigh in with conflicting accounts. And…
By which I mean: D.B. Sweeney, who played Shoeless Joe Jackson in John Sayles’s 1988 adaptation of Eliot Asinof’s book Eight Men Out, and Leonard, Texas, a tiny town up in Fannin County. So happens that just as we were writing about all the TV shows shooting around town, locally…
The Cowboys have a couple needs this off-season, one of which is no longer a linebackers coach since yesterday they hired West Texas A&M assistant Bob King to replace the departed Dat Nguyen. Head coach Wade Phillips (who knew he had a fun, playful side?) and staff are off to the…
Prior to his gig tonight at the Granada, Kinky Friedman made a campaign stop at Urban Dog Coffee as he continues his bid for the Democratic nomination for agriculture commissioner. Given his close relationship with gubernatorial candidate Farouk Shami, who had five key campaign aides resign yesterday, we wanted to…
