Hey, let’s take this new web site’s block-quote function for a spin. Here’s a memo I sent to the staff a short while ago. If you have any ideas about what we should look for in the next Dallas Observer editor, leave them in the comments. If you suggest fictional…
A little news: On Monday, we will unveil a new and much-improved website that we feel strongly will improve your experience as readers and viewers and admirers and begrudging admirers and straight-up haters. The best way to preview it is to take a spin around the site for our awesome…
Richardson’s City Council election is over. Come Monday when the council meets to canvass the results, Mayor Laura Maczka will no longer be mayor if, as she previously announced, she declines the second term voters had no choice but to elect her to. Surely it’s past time to shut up…
DFW home prices are almost 9 percent higher than this time last year, Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. That’s more than double the average 4.2 percent growth across the country. Dallas is one of just two metro areas where home buyers face prices higher than they were in 2006…
One of The Dallas Morning News’ resident scolds, editorial board member Tod Robberson, is fixated on a hookup-website billboard that was erected over Interstate 345 in Deep Ellum a couple of weeks ago. It’s not so much the implication of hot, dude-on-dude action that bothers Robberson, he tells us, but…
The following is a non-exhaustive list of the pros and cons of building the skybridge Crow Holdings wants to put in Preston Center: Pro: Preston Center is essentially frozen in the 1980s. See also: Preston Center Is Getting a Skybridge, and Maybe a Tom Thumb Con: So are skybridges!…
There was a palpable lethargy around the Observer offices yesterday. Not exactly atypical for Monday, but the fluorescent lights seemed especially harsh because not all quite regained the hour of sleep we lost over the weekend. If state Representative Dan Flynn gets his way, it might be the last time…
The New Republic details claims of abuse at popular tourist spot.
The Continental pedestrian bridge was one of Dallas’ best additions in 2014. It has great views, water features and play equipment for kids and the occasional food truck. Strolling the bridge, assuming the weather isn’t too hot, is genuinely pleasant. Building the Trinity toll road would seriously screw it up…
With the closing of Urban Orchard last August, downtown Dallas was left without a grocery store. Downtown residents with empty pantries are faced with heading to Uptown of Cityplace still, but a requested change in the development agreement between the city and Olympic Property Partners — the firm rehabbing 1401…
Texas Central High-Speed Railway, the private company backing high-speed rail that, potentially, would provide service from DFW to Houston in 90 minutes, announced two preferred sites for its Dallas hub as well as a development partnership Friday morning. The preferred station sites, part of a list of seven submitted to…
As the East Village Association awaits the latest turn in its court fight to keep Trammell Crow from building a Sam’s Club discount store near the intersection of Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75, the developer sent the group, along with the rest of the property’s neighbors, notice of its intent…
WFAA “share” is a community engagement tool that allows users of the ABC affiliate’s website to upload their photos and videos to potentially be featured on an image carousel on the station’s homepage. Typically it features things like cute pictures of dogs and kids in Cowboys gear or user photos…
As Unfair Park looks back and counts the many blessings we’ve received in 2014, one thing we’re especially thankful for is that Glenn Beck, dadaist performance artist extraordinaire, chooses to make his home — and film all the programs for his TV network, The Blaze — in the Dallas area…
Mike Wilson, the managing editor of Nate Silver’s ESPN-owned data journalism project, FiveThirtyEight, will take the reins as The Dallas Morning News’ new editor-in-chief on February 16. He replaces Bob Mong, who is retiring after 13 years at the helm. Wilson is a former managing editor at the Tampa Bay…
Mark Cuban’s curious real estate play at Preston and Northwest Highway — the one where he’s tearing down 80-year-old estates and floating plans to build a couple office buildings — has gone over about as well as if he had littered the earth with the carcasses of a thousand rotting…
One of Unfair Park’s favorite things is all the unsolicited lists we receive that tell us where Dallas ranks when categorized in some completely unverifiable, useless category. Normally, they just languish in our inbox like so many Groupon notifications, but sometimes we’re too weak to resist. Dallas is one of…
Because ours is going back to the UK. Which is sad. He is smart and funny and is easily confused by America, and he makes Chartbeat blush. Remember when we sent him to the NRA convention? Or the time he watched the World Cup — that was that one soccer…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A developer wants to build some apartments on an extremely valuable yet bizarrely underdeveloped major North Dallas intersection. These apartments will be very classy, as evidenced by the slick, full-color brochures zoning/PR consultant Sarah Dodd is distributing as part of a campaign…
On Thursday evening in a spacious meeting hall at University Park United Methodist Church, neighborhood leaders and local bureaucrats, led by City Council member Jennifer Staubach Gates, began the process of puzzling over how to solve Preston Road and Northwest Highway. The intersection, choked with traffic and curiously dumpy given…
A judge asked the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and The Dallas Morning News to salvage their relationship Monday, but instead the two parties will duke it out in court.A lawyer for the Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins says politics is behind a Dallas Morning News lawsuit seeking to…
We have an immediate opening for a copy editor. Until we find one, we’ll continue to let commenters correct our terrible spelling and grammar while we try and fail not to get defensive about it. It’s the Observer way…
