Jay Novacek was always a unique dude. Okay, I’ll say it, he was a little weird. During my time covering the Dallas Cowboys for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he was always friendly, yet sorta edgy. For example, one year on the eve of training camp at St. Edward’s University in Austin Novacek…
Tomorrow, the city council will take a long, hard look at how federal community development block grants are spent — or, in this case, not. According to the briefing document, there are 109 already approved projects and programs still sitting on $7 million in federal money that was supposed to…
So sorry. As you can clearly see below, naming rights for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park won’t be going to 7-Eleven or Ray Hunt or Southwest or American Airlines. Syd Nancy, though, was spot-on: Chase is spending $3 million for the crescent-moon-shaped, 15-foot-wide Promenade that will span the length of…
A $3 million donation announced minutes ago will affix the JPMorgan Chase name onto the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park’s Promenade, in a big score for one of the city’s biggest public-private construction partnerships (worth $56-plus million).Park chairman Jody Grant called it a “momentous” gift during the press conference at the park’s…
Below you’ll find the lawsuit an architectural firm and a construction company filed today against Tom Hicks, Steiner + Associated and pretty much everyone in the upper management at the Texas Rangers over the so-very-dead Glorypark development, which was to devour 75 acres next to the Ballpark in Arlington. According…
More than one Friend of Unfair Park has suggested it in the past: What if the city closed off Main Street downtown to cars and made it pedestrian-only? If you’re among those, what a friend you have in Ron Natinsky, who brought that very same suggestion to this morning’s Economic…
I went over to Southwest Airlines’ blog to read more about Friday’s Wi-Fi announcement — as in, it’ll be available on all planes by early 2012. Just don’t ask how much the service will cost: “We don’t have an answer to that quite yet.”But while there, I saw the airline’s…
We all know Jerry Jones’ grandiose vision: For the Dallas Cowboys to play in Super Bowl XLV. Furthermore, to be the first team in NFL history to play in a Super Bowl in its own city. Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the dreams. But odds – and next season’s schedule -…
RTKL — the architecture firm hired by Hicks Holdings, Steiner + Associates and myriad other companies to develop the dead-since-’08 Glorypark development next to the Ballpark in Arlington — just sued pretty much everyone associated with the project. And when I say “just,” I mean: The commercial dispute and fraud…
Here’s the most up-to-date list of NBA All-Star Weekend parties I’ve seen to date — though there are some notable no-shows, among them John Singleton’s “Black Hollywood Red Carpet” throwdown with Vivica A. Fox at the Fashion Industry Gallery on February 14. That’s because that particular event isn’t included on…
Didn’t see much at’tall of The Grammys. But I see that Beyonce won six awards and Lady Gaga is an alien and Taylor Swift took the evening’s biggest prize: Album of the Year. Swift also, however, apparently sang horribly on a “Rhiannon” duet with Stevie Nicks. Which conjures a question …..
Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall sends word this morning: Max Kalhammer, the city’s new bike coordinator, is looking for folks to help the city rewrite the outdated Dallas Bike Plan, which hasn’t been touched since 1985, more or less. As Kalhammer told Kim in December, the ultimate goal of…
Trying (but, so far, failing) to get down to Dallas City Hall this morning for the Economic Development Committee meeting this morning; so many interesting items on the agenda. We’ve covered some, but not all — like, for instance, this review of the city’s public-private partnership program that allows for…
It was 28 degrees. Sky was gray. Grass was morose mustard. Calendar said Super Bowl more than Opening Day. But, hey, it was baseball. Spring can’t be far behind. I’ve been to several Rangers Fan Fests out in Arlington and Saturdays certainly had a different feel. As in, positive. Gone…
At 2:22 this afternoon, we turned west on Northaven Road off the N. Central service road headed toward the Jewish Community Center. In the distance, police lights and a traffic snarl — must be quite the accident ahead, said the missus. Only, no: The boy, in the backseat and on…
The Dallas City Council gets a glimpse at the future on Wednesday, when it’ll be briefed on the Fair Park aquarium redo and the new slogan that’s supposed to soothe the public during Love Field’s extreme airport makeover.As you’re no doubt aware, the aquarium, due to be rebranded the Children’s…
For no other reason than sheer curiosity, I spent last night at WFAA studios for the taping of The Belo Debate featuring Republican gubernatorial primary candidates Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Debra Medina. I just had to know why dozens of journalists would pack themselves into a storage room…
I think we’ll make this a regular feature at the end of the working week — a little rock-and-roll-and somethin-somethin to get you through the weekend. Feel free to offer your suggestions as you stumble across the homegrown during your travels, but this week we go all the way back…
John McCall, the former president of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League who last week took the Dallas Independent School District to court over the imminent demolition of the Oak Cliff Christian Church, sends word: Per the agreement with DISD attorneys, he did receive the financial documents concerning the district’s…
Only time my dad ever wanted to attend a comic-book convention was when he heard Adam West was signing photos. And this was, oh, two years ago maybe? Batman returns Saturday and Sunday to the Dallas Comic Con at the Richardson Civic Center, where he’ll be joined by some dude…
Neighbors say the house on the corner of Greenville Avenue and Vickery Boulevard has been needing some serious repairs for years, but now, as you can see from the photo above, the place is a genuine fixer-upper.We checked out the place Wednesday night because word was someone had still been…
Dallas city council member Ron Natinsky says, sure, he was “a little PO’d” to read last night that he was being portrayed as the bad guy in the city’s legal dust-up with the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park. Because, see, Natinsky’s a train guy — has “1,200…
