A few days ago I was offered at a rather reasonable price a small but estimable stash of local relics, dating as far back as a thick, musty scrapbook of 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition newspaper clippings that belonged to Otto Herald, its general manager. (We’ll get to that, oh, next…
Residents of Jubilee Park, the neighborhood of modest single-family homes just north of Fair Park, have become conditioned to distrust, if not fear, the Dallas Independent School District. For as long as we can recall, DISD has grappled with plans for a new O.M. Elementary school in the area, and…
Three months ago we looked at a plan to bail out Denton’s beleaguered Golden Triangle Mall, which just last year fell into foreclosure and went up for auction. That plan: Give The MGHerring Group (developer of The Village at Fairview and The Village at Allen) and Cencor Realty Services (an…
What you see above is the second part of a Dallas Mavericks history-of posted on RetroMavs, the team’s official throwback site, only yesterday. Hunh. Don’t recall Reunion Arena ever being that empty … but I also don’t recall Ollie Mack possessing “NBA-class moves.” Anyway. That reminds me: In about an…
Not so long ago we looked at Noah Jeppson’s plan to map out the downtown tunnels — which he did get funded, with $30 to spare. But Jeppson, a designer and downtown denizen, has found yet another way to brighten up downtown — by turning 20 metered parking parking spaces…
This morning, MediaBistro directs our attention to Uncle Barky’s item from yesterday about former KXAS’er Grant Stinchfield, who, after seven years on the job, left the NBC owned-and-operated in April so he could run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Stinchfield, whose wife Amy Vanderoef co-hosts WFAA’s Good Morning Texas,…
Speaking of the Trinity River … Perhaps I didn’t end up visiting the under-construction Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge on the best day for our ongoing Unfair Park series, “Sweaty Dispatches From a Sweltering City.” While I was out on the pavement girded with Italian steel early Thursday afternoon, there were…
Don’t tell the bossman, but the University of North Texas done found someone to pony up puh-lenty for the naming rights to the new football stadium. Per a press release just sent out, Apogee will spend $20 million over the next 20 years to rebrand the new $79-million Mean Green…
This morning, as expected, Turkish developer Mukemmel “Mike” Sarimsakci sat among city officials in charge of downtown development at a meeting table flanked by colorful posters representing the future of 1401 Elm, the 1.3-million-square-foot office building that’s been vacant since January of 2010. The developer’s contract to purchase the property…
The video below, in which Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price explains the hard way to WFAA’s Brett Shipp that his office isn’t public property, has been updated; it’s the piece that ran on Channel 8 last night at 10, in which you do hear Price tell Shipp, in a…
Just came across this video on Vimeo, posted yesterday by Texas A&M environmental-design grad Katie Ogden, who’s spending the summer interning at the LBJ offices of architectural firm Gensler. It begins as a history of Deep Ellum, then rolls out current stats — as in, how much of the neighborhood’s…
And here we thought we’d have to wait till 5. Not hardly. Let’s take a look. At some point, surely, Maurine Dickey regretted not getting back into the barbecue business sooner.Update at 3:59 p.m.: KTVT’s Bud Gillett piggybacked on Shipp’s story and was also there for this morning’s altercation and…
While I was writing the item below, which I am sure you’re all reading at this very moment, several Friends of Unfair Park asked if we were going to follow up on Brett Shipp’s tweet concerning allegations that Dallas County Commission John Wiley Price assaulted him and threatened to “split…
Late last week, in the comments to some item, a Friend of Unfair Park asked about if the Tower Petroleum Building had come off the market, since its web listing had disappeared. I called Colliers International’s David Glasscock, who’s repping that building and the mammoth 1401 Elm, which was once…
I’m waiting on a phone call. Could be something good. Something big. Or not. But while we wait for that, let’s kill time with this: a series of meet-the-cast videos from Most Eligible Dallas, which premieres one week from tonight on the Bravo. Only reason I remembered was a weekend…
The University of North Texas unveiled its shiny new football stadium last week, a $79 million complex designed to bring some juice to Denton come college football season. By big-time college sports’ standards, $80 million for a new stadium isn’t a ton of money. University of Michigan spent three times…
Yesterday afternoon, the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce hosted what was essentially a baby shower for the nascent neighborhood on the other side of Dallas’s ballyhooed architectural statement, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. The luncheon at Salon Las Americas — across Fort Worth Avenue from Smoke, which catered the affair…
Speaking of downtown fun …I see on the City Plan Commission’s agenda for tomorrow that downtown ultra-lounge Plush is hoping to get its specific use permit reupped — and that the CPC, at the moment, is recommending denial. Long story short: Its two-year SUP expired in September of last year…
Yesterday Bloomberg noted that high-end American hotels are being sold to buyers from Hong King, Singapore and China in the hopes of catering to “a growing number of affluent Asians traveling abroad.” Among those sold: the Rosewood Crescent Hotel and the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, now in the possession…
For the second time in as many days, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution pits The ATL against The City of Hate — a common occurrence — and rules in favor of Dallas, in part because we have toll roads to help pay for regional light rail projects that run to the suburbs,…
For those who found this morning’s paper particularly dissatisfying, here are some other Sunday stories with that taste particularly local:The Atlanta Journal-Constitution begins its “Atlanta Forward” series this morning by comparing and contrasting that city with ours, a not-uncommon occurrence, and concluding: We win. Since it’s available solely to subscribers,…
MediaBistro has picked up on KXAS-Channel 5’s video taken from one of its traffic cams earlier in the week, in which an illuminated something-or-nother can be seen falling from the sky before taking a sharp turn to the right. The NBC owned-and-operated says UFO investigators (?) have been asked “to…
