The ad you see above, done for German bank ING DiBa, started running two weeks ago and has been online for a month. In it, as you can see, Your Favorite Dallas Maverick walks into a butcher shop and has a nibble of wurst. Says the woman with the meat:…
Shortly after the clock struck just past midnight Sunday, Erykah Badu, behind the wheel of a matte black Stingray, led a funeral procession down Main Street — not far, mind you, just from Pegasus Plaza at Main and Akard to the front door of PM Nightlife Lounge at The Joule,…
The video’s been making the rounds all morning, first on Busted Coverage, then Deadspin, then everywhere else. Question is: Who owns those beards sitting with the Dallas Mavericks in Detroit last night? The Mavs’ front office said: Dunno, ask Mark Cuban. So I did: “No idea,” he wrote back. But…
Justin Terveen’s already taken his place on the west side of the Continental Avenue Bridge for tonight’s lighting of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, set to begin glowing at 6:15, give or take. He says it’s filling up fast, no joke. I’m about to head that way myself; why not…
Thursday afternoon I met historian Alan Govenar at 508 Park Avenue, future site of the Museum of Street Culture. He was not alone: Joining him were developer Buddy Jordan, chair of the 508 Park Committee and a man who’s been pursuing the building for close to 20 years; Pat Bywaters,…
Yesterday we got word that John McKeon, the president and general manager of The Dallas Morning News since October 2007, was leaving, which publisher Jim Moroney confirmed via email. At which point a press release went out, leading with news of fourth-quarter 2011 earnings (“decrease of four to five percent…
We were reminded just last week: First Presbyterian Church plans not only to install a recording studio inside 508 Park Avenue, a nod to the building’s storied history as one of only two spots where bluesman and myth Robert Johnson recorded the music that serves as rock-and-roll’s backbone, but to…
I met Friend of Unfair Park Noah Jeppson for breakfast this morning and traded him a bagel for a stack of his maps to the downtown tunnels; I got the far better deal. Way back in June, you may recall, we noted that Jeppson was attempting to kickstart efforts to…
Yesterday our new New York Times contributor offered eight ways the Dallas Cowboys can win the NFC East tomorrow night, each one a thoughtful, stat-driven how-to. The New York Daily News counters this morning with one of those (yawn) things-we-hate-about lists, which, as you can see, even graces the the…
As conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here’s one that landed in the inbox late yesterday — a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood Apartments. The address, of course, is familiar:…
Doesn’t seem all that long ago that Edwin Cabaniss first told us about his plans for the old Kessler Theater on W. Davis; sweet fancy mayor, has it really been more than two years since Tom Leppert put his shovel into the dirt? From risky concept to necessity to institution…
We said it before: Downtown Dallas is starting to look a little like Lil’ Las Vegas. The subject spurred a little back-and-forth during a staff dinner last night, during which someone mentioned the story in yesterday’s paper about our even more illuminated skyline. Said urban planner Larry Beasley, it’s not…
Speaking of new grocery stores …Last we’d been told, the Central Market replacing the old Borders (which replaced an old Safeway) in Preston Royal would be open come “mid-winter.” But as you can see from the photo I snapped a couple of nights ago, it’s looking awful close to opening…
Two questions this morning about Trader Joe’s plans to build its first Dallas location on the site where once the Arcadia stood: Does this kill the food-trailer park Madison Partners had planned for the site, and what does this mean for the old Whole Foods spot everyone thinks is going…
Speaking of historic buildings ….A few days ago a friend of the show sent word that she’d seen workmen inside 108-year-old David Crockett Elementary, which had fallen into a state of grave disrepair in recent years. I reminded her: Back in August, Good Signature Management bought the building from the…
For some — local preservationists, say, or music fans — one of the biggest stories of 2011 was First Presbyterian Church’s purchase of 508 Park Avenue; at last, the long-ago Brunswick Records regional office in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and possibly Charlie Parker recorded no longer had that hellhound…
Way back in May we took a long, hard look at HALFF Associates designer Francois de Kock’s Belleview Connector, a proposed bridge — and “dramatic icon” — that might one day link Riverfront Boulevard to Jack Matthews’s South Side of Lamar. One day. Maybe. Last I looked, which was a…
3700 Ross remains closed for another week, but I did just talk to Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores about something I mentioned last week: DISD’s decision to yank from the City Plan Commission’s docket a zoning request for the proposed Jose “Joe” May Elementary School on Webb Chapel…
Ten months ago, Mark Cuban dismissed Bob Ortegel as the Dallas Mavericks’ color commentator, insisting, “Sometimes you’ve just got to freshen things up and try some different things.” Ortegel, who had more or less been the voice of the team for the past 23 years, handled his firing with great…
I seem to recall there was some discussion in October about West Dallasites famous enough to include in that parade of giant puppets scheduled to march across the Margaret Hunt Hill during opening-weekend festivities planned for early March — ah, yes, there it is. So happens the West Dallas Chamber…
If, by some chance, you have not seen Dale Hansen’s annual “Thank God for Kids” segment that aired last on Channel 8, it’s above. It began making the rounds early this morning, in large part because of what Hansen acknowledged a few minutes into his essay about how children who…
Back in June, the plot of land near the Cityplace DART station at Haskell and N. Central Expressway was a vacant lot with a big hole and a big plan. It would be the future site of a trolley turntable, a novelty attraction to be sure, but with the purpose…
