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…
We took the long way to Oak Cliff last weekend, turning off the Houston Street Viaduct on to Greenbriar Lane, which runs parallel to the Trinity River. No particular reason, just in no particular rush. It was at that point we found ourselves amongst a forest of sleek metal-n-wood townhomes,…
A couple of days ago, Candy Evans posted a pic of the asbestos remediation taking place inside everybody’s favorite downtown obsession, the Statler Hilton, which is now in the possession of Leobardo Trevino. And just as Trevino promised last month, the place already looks much different than it did when…
Speaking of the Trinity River Corridor Project …When the boy and I visited the Standing Wave — or The Dallas Wave, as it’ll be known — about a month ago, it had been a long while since it had rained. Kayakers said the Trinity was as low as they’d seen…
Sam’s bringing bagels and coffee to this morning’s meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee; he’s got questions, many questions, specifically about the second Calatrava bridge that was all but dead a month ago till, well, it wasn’t no more. There’s another bridge on the agenda — the Sylvan…
Don’t tell Dallas Morning News bigwigs that the newspaper business is in trouble: The A.H. Belo-owned Providence Journal reports this afternoon that Chairman Robert Decherd, Publisher Jim Moroney, President John McKeon and Chief Financial Officer Alison Engel made out pretty, pretty well during 2010. The paper added up some figures…
Earlier this morning, Jason Roberts posted to his Facebook page the photo you see here, along with the note: “Zac & his non profit are taking former school portable buildings & making them into amazing homes in S Dallas.” Turns out, Zac is Zac Lytle, co-founder of Bike Friendly Oak…
As we mentioned below, city and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials have called a 1:30 p.m. press conference to announce that more than likely, the Corps will sooner than later sign off on plans to repair the Trinity River levees by pouring those concrete seepage cutoff walls guesstimated to…
Joe Tone, a Village Voice Media veteran and former editor of the Pitch Weekly in Kansas City, was named editor of the Observer today. His first day on the job is Monday. Tone brings a broad mix of reporting, editing and web experience to the post. He previously worked as…
Yes, 105.3 The Fan is tweaking again. But this time it’s not merely another shuffling of the deck, but more so a commitment to talk sports in the morning. Out at The Fan as of April 8 are long-time radio veterans Jagger and Gregg Henson, to be replaced Monday, April 11,…
Last month, you no doubt recall, Walmart announced its $200-million expansion said to involve “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas,” though only a handful were announced at the time. Since then I’ve learned of at least one more on the to-do list: Right next to…
As I write this my farewell post, I keep hearing in my head the lyrics to a song from the Marx Brothers classic film Animal Crackers: “Hello, I must be going/ I cannot stay, I came to say/I must be going.” Similar to Groucho’s character, Captain Spaulding, it seems as…
