The view from Museum Tower in, give or take, three yearsBack in June, you no doubt recall, Brook Partners announced that the long-in-the-works Museum Tower would finally sprout in the Arts District, courtesy the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System’s $200 million investment in the 42-floor condolith. Just one week…
If you woke up this morning respecting your local news broadcasters a little too much, well, witness the healing power of the KDFW-produced video after the jump. Since it hit the station’s Facebook page yesterday morning, it’s been drawing raves from ROFL’ing commenters, but if, like us, you missed last…
A month ago we noted that Park and Rec had picked McCarthy Building Company to build the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park; yesterday, the city council added its okee-doke. Which is why, late last night, park officials sent word: The first batch of the 316 110-foot-long, Waco-made beams needed to constructify…
About a month ago, Patrick Michels sat in on the planning session for Deep Ellum’s attempt to build a Better Block, a la Oak Cliff’s two experiments with taking back the streets. Today, organizer Brandon Castillo sends more details — as in, when and where. Castillo had hoped to stage…
One of these men ain’t coming back next season.Me, I’m all set for the Texas Rangers to exit the post-season tomorrow — heartbreak and frustration and despair are prerequisites for being a lifelong fan of a franchise yet to sniff a post-season series win. So, then, I consider this release…
Just found this on eBay — an old postcard going for 99 cents sent from the HQ of the company that would eventually become Trinity Industries. A real steel. (Heh.)…
Back at the big kick-off lunch for Dallas Justice Revival’s Homes for Our Neighbors campaign, we heard about plans to build a community garden for Cliff Manor residents — an olive branch of sorts between the apartment complex and its neighbors, built in the image of other nearby gardens organized…
Well, well, well. I just found this interesting clip posted to YouTube this morning: H. Ross Perot giving some Dell Services associates a guided tour of his office — specifically, the myriad pieces of memorabilia he keeps in the hallway outside his santuary. And on the wall, right next to…
Back in November, WFAA-Channel 8’s Byron Harris went down to the Margaret Hunt Hill construction site and discovered it was being constructified by Italians who were brought to the U.S. and A. by Italian steel provider Cimolai without the proper work visas. Nobody, including TxDOT, seemed to mind till Harris…
If you don’t want to miss The Razor, DISH-watchers, might wanna switch services now.Speaking of FOX …By now even non-Dish Network-ers are aware of the ongoing spat between FOX and Dish over carriage fees, which resulted in FOX’s yanking off the Dish its 19 regional sports nets on October 1,…
On Monday, FOX News’s Gretchen “Still on MySpace” Carlson — a former KXAS’er, for those who’ve forgotten and how could you? — reported that the Los Angeles Police Department has ordered 10,000 jetpacks, which sounds totally … what’s the opposite of reasonable? Problem is, as Raw Story and Gawker have…
From time to time (to time to time) we write about Jason Roberts, who’s become synonymous in recent months with efforts to rejuvenate North Oak Cliff — without City Hall’s assistance (or, occasionally, OK). Hence this just-posted You+Dallas piece, from TEDxSMU, about the self-described community activist, in which he explains…
What the friggin’ what?! Last time I saw Jimmy Johnson on Survivor he was ordering her to fetch water and him to cut down trees and those guys to catch some fish and the rest to build a bridge from Nicaragua to Key West so he could home and drink some cold…
Last night, as expected, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board signed off on that $1.25-billion budget and 20-year financial plan, which eliminates 150 positions and some rail service, as trains will now run every 15 minutes instead of every 10. The good news-bad news details follow for those who follow such…
Carla Main says she did everything she could to sit down with Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall while reporting her book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land. She finally got in the same room with him today, though, in a morning hearing over Royall’s defamation…
Carla MainWe were first introduced to Highland Park developer, Humble Oil heir and Hiram Walker distant relation Hiram Walker Royall in December 2008, when he became national news for suing everyone connected to the 2007 tome Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land. And by everyone, I…
A little bit o’ this and a little bit o’ that while admiring that picture taken yesterday by Best of Dallas-certified Justin Terveen:A Friend of Unfair Park whose name rhymes with “Jason Roberts” forwards along this Washington Post piece in which Oak Cliff’s Better Block Project inspires a faraway woman,…
I hate you, Jimmy Johnson. Not for winning two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys and then up and leaving in a huff, but for luring me into watching reality TV. I really despise reality TV. And, I admit, I’m really hooked on Survivor: Nicaragua. On CBS’ hit show they…
All the sudden it’s been four months since Greg Williams launched his radio comeback by landing a gig at 105.3 The Fan alongside yours truly. Since mid-May I’ve found him to be: *On time. *Thoroughly prepared. *Unequivocally lucid/coherent. *And, well, his old self. He’s come a long way from the…
A 2008 rendering of the new Sylvan Avenue bridge, which will be discussed at another public meeting on October 7Feels like it’s been forever since last we heard of plans to replace the low-lying, flood-prone Sylvan Avenue bridge — almost two years to the month, matter of fact. Back in…
On July 9 Your Texas Rangers acquired Cliff Lee from the Seattle Mariners. Which was great. Very exciting. But, just maybe, something just as interesting was taking place in the chambers of Judge Michael Lynn, the Fort Worth bankruptcy judge who, on July 9, gathered behind closed doors several of…
It was all hands on stage this morning at Jubilee Park, where the new community center’s dedication drew the city’s best and the brightest for an hour of speeches, dancing kids and cookies. Just a block from the new homes along Congo Street, which bcWorkshop celebrated last weekend with a…
