The guilt Dallas once felt over the Kennedy assassination has mostly faded. For most Dallasites, the “city of hate” label is an abstraction, useful to riff on for local food blog titles but otherwise bearing no resemblance to the modern city. That’s not to say that it’s not worth marveling…
Last night, developers officially flipped the switch on 9,000 feet of new LED lights on downtown’s Bank of America Plaza they’ve been testing for the past few weeks. What followed was a lively–some might say gaudy–light show, a rapid-fire showcase of some of the fancy new colors (256 million of…
November 22 is still nine days away, but the eyes of the world are already turning toward Dallas in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy being gunned down in Dealey Plaza. City leaders knew this would happen. It’s why Mayor Mike Rawlings has been working on his…
Mireya Villareal burst onto the local media scene this past spring with a CBS 11 I-team story revealing that people, some of whom live right here in North Texas, are doing naughty things on the Internet. It was a high bar for Villareal to set for herself, almost recklessly so,…
In Richardson, along the booming Central Expressway corridor, architecture firm Good Fulton and Farrell and developer JP Partners have teamed up on the Palisades project, a large mixed-use development they plan to put on 58 mostly vacant acres across the freeway from DART’s Galatyn Park light rail station. The folks…
Green building in Dallas isn’t just green anymore! It changes! What!? pic.twitter.com/zcaBiyZFfa— Cody (@Codyhp91) October 30, 2013 The official unveiling of the new lights on Bank of America Plaza (aka that green building downtown) isn’t for another two weeks. But those fortunate enough to be traversing downtown in the predawn…
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Video Archive On Tuesday, we brought you news that the Dallas Safari Club is going to help save the endangered black rhino by auctioning off the chance to shoot one.. Stephen Colbert for one thinks that’s a fantastic idea. He said so…
When I wrote D magazine’s mini-chain of community newspapers, for all of a year in 2009 and 2010, Oak Cliff People was the plum assignment. (Stuff was happening in North Oak Cliff — stuff that wasn’t the absurd residential zoning disputes of Preston Hollow or round 1,038 of the Snider…
Reports of young kids being bullied to the point of suicide are distressingly common. The most recent case to grab the nation’s attention happened last month in Lakeland, Florida, where 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick jumped to her death from a concrete silo after being mercilessly ridiculed by two classmates on Facebook…
Mavs fans know Chris Arnold as the vaguely obnoxious guy who appears during timeouts and halftime to emcee some ridiculous half-court shooting contest so spectators’ attention won’t drift too far away from the court. Listeners to KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan know him as the host of GBag Nation, a midday…
This afternoon in Fort Worth, a “parade of dignitaries” will mark the opening of the new West 7th Street, and good for them. It’s a fully competent work of civil engineering and a pleasant enough way to get to downtown Fort Worth, if get to downtown Fort Worth you must…
Say what you will about the name, with its puzzlingly random capitalization and apparent allusion to mathematical theory. The GeO-Deck, as Reunion Tower’s observation deck is now called, is a rite of passage for anyone who spends any serious amount of time in Dallas — at least it was until…
In an interview with Unfair Park yesterday, and in a slew of postings on social media, recently ousted Dallas Voice Editor John Wright said he was fired for “doing journalism” by reporting on a nudity ban at this year’s Dallas Pride parade. His bosses disagree. “He’s been saying a lot…
The controversy surrounding the dress code at this year’s Dallas Pride parade was never really about nudity. It was about whether the LGBT community should voluntarily adhere to the norms of a mass culture that remains unrelentingly heteronormative, or whether it’s better to flout those standards as a form of…
Coverage of the serial rapist targeting South Dallas has dominated local news for the past week. First came the revelation of the attacks, then questions about the speed of the police department’s response, then the search for and capture of a suspect, Van Dralan Dixson. All of the major local…
The Dallas Morning News has already made clear where it stands on the question of Syria. In an editorial last week, the paper decried the “egregious act of mass murder” currently taking place there and urged the the U.S. to launch a “series of cruise missile or drone strikes on…
Occasionally our long-time managing editor, Patrick Williams, sends emails to the staff lauding their prose, gently encouraging them, and otherwise helping them along in their journeys as reporters, writers and, well, people. Today was one of those days. I share this with you because you, as readers and commenters, deserve…
Fat Texas residents are slowly realizing that they should bike more, according to a Texas Tribune article co-published in The New York Times this weekend. Sourcing mostly “city officials,” the report comes to the conclusion that fat Texans are biking more thanks to the efforts of — you guessed it…
We’ll probably never know why a recently acquitted George Zimmerman was speeding through North Texas on Sunday afternoon with a gun in his glove compartment, not that it matters much. He was the subject of a run-of-the-mill traffic stop. That it happened in Forney and there was a gun involved…
When people in Far North Dallas set out to fight a Walmart Supercenter planned for the corner of Coit and Arapaho roads, you could tell City Councilwoman Sandy Greyson wanted to help. There just wasn’t anything she could do, save for meet with company representatives and convince them to conduct…
Journalism is dangerous work. One never knows who — or what — one might encounter. In the case of Fox 4’s Latoya Silmon, it was a rodent. She described her reaction on Facebook: Omg just screamed to the top if my lungs!!! A rat just crawled by us. We are…
The Lewisville City Council voted unanimously last night to redefine the city’s official definition of nudity, thereby outlawing the body paint, gumballs and various other non-clothes occasionally used to cover the lady parts of servers at Redneck Heaven. We covered this way too extensively yesterday. The whole episode was instructive,…
