One week after turning the front of Dallas City Hall into the Living Plaza, Jason Roberts — who’ll sleep when he’s dead — sends word of yet another project: the 72-Hour Challenge to turn a stretch of Ross Avenue downtown into a complete street. There are some details on the…
A couple of weeks back we talked to Realtor Newt Walker about Cali-based Robert Yu’s decision to put the old Dallas High School, more commonly known as Crozier Tech, on the market after all these years. Said Walker, “Time cures a lot of things,” referring to Yu’s long-held grudge against…
That copy of Dallas Notes you see above was loaned to me yesterday by one Mike Rhyner, who, as it turns out, was a contributor to the late Stoney Burns’s Buddy magazine way back when. Its pages are brittle; it falls apart when you just look at it. Contained within,…
Angus Wynne just called with the sad news: Stoney Burns — who, in 1967 co-founded The Dallas Notes and then The Iconoclast and would go on to publish Buddy Magazine — died early this morning at Baylor of a heart attack.For those who didn’t know the Hillcrest grad, there was…
It was a Wednesday afternoon, so I traded my neighbor’s vintage Fender Telecaster for an eight ball and locked myself in the hallway bathroom. I pulled out the dirty mirror from underneath the sink and chopped up some lines that spelled out the word “WINNING.” This was an important night…
Perhaps you’ve heard: President Obama didn’t issue an Easter proclamation, and that has some folks in a tizzy (which I believe is some kind of religious headgear?). Anyway. First Baptist Church of Dallas’s Robert Jeffress, who is now a FOX News regular, went on FOX & Friends this morning to…
A few weeks ago, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 was moving Chris Flanagan, co-host of its morning-news show Daybreak, to Good Morning Texas, whatever that is. His replacement: Ron Corning, who’s leaving Kabletown’s Long Island affiliate to pair up with Cynthia Izaguirre, the sixth-most famous graduate of Thomas Jefferson…
If you’re headed down to Earth Day Dallas, which begins right about now in downtown and runs through tomorrow, you’re invited to check out the mammoth map of the Trinity River Corridor Project that’ll be on display between Booker T. and the AT&T Performing Arts Center. (Above, that’s just a…
Perhaps you’ve heard: The Moody Foundation is putting $20 million toward giving the great Moody Coliseum an extreme makeover, as evidenced by the conceptuals provided by SMU (more follow after the jump). But that’s but half of what the Hilltop needs to fund the project, expected to run closer to…
In our cover story about the mayoral race, perhaps you read the section about council member Ron Natinsky and noticed a glossing over of sorts when it came to his public comments during the contentious 2007 Trinity River toll road referendum. As is often the case, space constraints kept us…
KERA’s teevee side sends word: In order to “remain fiscally responsible and to move the organization forward in an ever-changing media landscape,” the public broadcaster has canceled the Friday-night version of Krys Boyd’s chat show Think, which also features the great Jerome Weeks. It is also laying off six employees,…
While writing all those items about the old Dallas High School (or Crozier Tech) at the beginning of 2010, and long after, I heard, time and again, the same thing: The owner will never, ever sell. Those with whom I spoke — city officials, preservationists, even those who worked for…
Below, unhappy Friend of Unfair Park Ben notes in the comments that the Dallas Wave (formerly known as the Standing Wave) is off-limits — meaning, you can wave adios to that May 7 dedication ceremony that’s been on the books since last fall. Willis Winters, second-in-command at Park and Rec,…
What you see above is a 47-second sneak peek at a sneak peek of a film Wired.com shot at the Hilton Anatole during the installation of Reuben Margolin’s “kinetic sculpture” Nebula, which was hung at Harlan Crow’s hotel back in October. Reason I mention it: Wired shot about 100 hours’…
Yesterday President Obama gave four brief interviews to local television stations, among them WFAA-Channel 8, which sent Brad Watson to Washington. Their chat has become something of a national news item — not because of what was said during the interview, during which Obama scolded Gov. Rick Perry for being…
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department sends word: May 10 is Texas Travel Rally Day, during which the TPWD will officially launch seven paddling trails in North Texas, beginning with the 8 a.m. shove-off from the Walnut Creek Paddling Trail at Joe Pool Lake. I’ll put the whole release after…
Yesterday, the Congressional Progressive Caucus released what it calls The People’s Budget, which insists it would eliminate the deficit by 2021 by eliminating the Bush tax cuts, creating “fair tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires while maintaining credits for the middle class and students” and bringing home the troops “because…
As evidenced by the photo above, Friend of Unfair Park Noah Jeppson espied quite the light show last night coming from Our Convention Center Hotel downtown. Wrote Noah in his midnight-thirty email, “I saw that Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel was testing their LED lights on the back side of…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews Sidney Lumet for “The Morning After” from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Shortly after news broke of director Sidney Lumet’s death at the age of 86 on Saturday morning, our pal Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth-based keeper of The Bobbie Wygant Archive, sent word: He had in his possession an…
At this very moment, more than 350 biz journalists, members all of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, are on the Hilltop for a star-studded afternoon of speeches and panels set to feature the likes of Elizabeth Warren, tasked by President Obama with creating the Consumer Financial Protection…
While I finish up what’s sure to be the most scintillating story you read all day about a famously failed real estate development, allow me to direct your attention to a vintage clip I discovered a few days ago on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image website. It’s of…
Wuh-oh. Hang on. Looks like you can forget that Downtown Dallas 360 plan. Why? Well, says right here: “North of Ross is the new downtown. South of Ross is a problem.” At least, that’s what Billinglsey Co. President and Chief Operating Officer Michael O’Hanlon says today in a National Real…
