This just in from Parkland: Bank of America Charitable Foundation is contributing $1 million toward the $1.27-billion new Parkland Hospital, which held its groundbreaking, oh, about a month ago. Which is nice, but it reminds me: Yesterday the mailman delivered the Winter 2010 issue of Columns, AIA Dallas’s quarterly arts-and-architecture…
Most marriages take work — in the months and years after the wedding ceremony. But for Mark and Dante Walkup, just getting their marriage recognized has been an exercise in legal and logistical hoop-jumping. The virally famous couple, who married over Skype to sidestep Texas’s ban on same-sex marriages, found…
Got a most curious e-mail over the weekend from a publicist wanting to invite the Unfair Park-ers to a press preview on December 11, when “former Starck Club reopens as Zouk.” Say wha? But, sure enough: Zouk has a website (ish) and Facebook page (announcing a Friday-night “sneak preview,” matter…
Yesterday, the highly debatable Walk Score posted to its site so-called “heat maps” for most of the nation’s biggest cities and their surrounding neighborhoods. You’ll find Dallas here — along with a ranking of 26 neighborhoods from highest (Main Street Districts, which scores a near-perfect 98) to lowest (South Dallas,…
On the other side is the announcement from Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor, which is about to scoot to Victory Park. Long story short: Cumulus Media is moving its four local radio stations, including The Ticket and KLIF, into 20,248 square feet of empty next door to the American Airlines Center…
Fort Worth city council member Joel Burns’s “It Gets Better” speech, delivered in front of the city council last month, proved an inspiration to countless picked-on gay kids across the country — Ellen DeGeneres too. Turns out, there was at least one person who didn’t dig it: KLIF’s Chris Krok,…
In the video below you get a fleeting glimpse of Sean Fitzgerald’s Grand Prize winner in the second annual Trinity River Corridor Project Photo Contest. City Hall spokesman Frank Librio was kind enough to send the real thing.Update at 11:30 a.m.: Librio has posted all 61 winning images to the…
This morning, a reader wondered: Has the state decided if it’s going to renew its contract with Corrections Corporation of America regarding operations of the Jesse R. Dawson State Jail on the Trinity River? When last we looked at the issue, the contract was set to expire January 15, only…
Of course you’ve heard that George W. Bush has a new book out in stores, and this morning, you couldn’t help but hear he was getting started building his new library, too. Onstage under a big tent on the Southern Methodist University campus, Bush was shifting excitedly from one foot…
As you may recall, the city sent word last month that it needed to meet with Trinity River property owners to discuss those revised Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, due to debut in February before the final ones are drawn up in December 2011 and go into effect in…
At the end of August there was that report noting that The Dallas Morning News was about to put much of its staff-written content behind a paywall, leaving only Associated Press pieces and 150-word breaking-news briefs as gratis offerings. Publisher and CEO Jim Moroney told us that wasn’t quite accurate,…
New Campus Fountain Animation from First Dallas on Vimeo.A couple of weeks back, First Baptist Dallas ‘sploded some of downtown to make way for its $115-million campus makeover. Yesterday, Robert Jeffress debuted a more detailed look at one of the centerpieces of the redo — the towering fountain that’s part…
Moments ago — and that is no exaggeration — James “Big Bucks” Burnett finally signed the lease that will allow him to set up the Eight Track Museum that’s been in the works ever since the October 2009 exhibition at the Barry Whistler Gallery. As proof, Bucks sends this lease-signing…
My dad was over this morning, and we got to talking about the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. One thing leads to another, and we’re watching the construction cam, which now tops the Calatrava cam on my must-watch list. Impressive. I called Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, to…
On May 20, the City Plan Commission gave Bruce Heydarian the okee-doke to plant an enormous scrap yard on Singleton Boulevard and Pluto Street, not terribly far from the Trinity River. Only two commissioners voted against the plan, among them Michael Davis; the rest had no problem with giving Heydarian…
On Wednesday, word was the Dallas Independent School District was this close to backing off efforts to snatch, for pennies on the dollar or none at all, several Jubilee Park homes in order to make way for the new-and-improved O.M. Roberts Elementary, promised as part of the 2008 bond package…
On Friday we took a look at the Texas Park and Wildlife Department’s proposed land swap with Dallas’s Rod Sanders, co-founder of Huntington Homes. The states offering to swap the 20,000-acre Devils River State Natural Area in Val Verde County for Sanders’s 17,638 acres further downriver. Sanders would also take…
We began the day by taking a look back at yesterday’s Arts District Better Block, an edible experiment augmented by the goings-on up and down Flora. But Grimes reminded me earlier: Saturday was also Deep Ellum’s turn up to the Better Block chopping block, courtesy organizer Brandon Castillo’s attempt to…
Jason Roberts has a few thoughts about how well yesterday’s Arts District Better Block-ing went; there’s a highlight below. But long story short: It wasn’t just about the food trucks (ate from three, only one of which I’d visit again — and then, just for the salted-melon snow cone) and…
With a mighty set of booms that echoed throughout downtown, Mayor Tom Leppert and his pastor Robert Jeffress made room for the opulent new face of First Baptist Dallas this morning, reducing four buildings to a heap of rubble at the foot of the old 120-year-old sanctuary. As a crowd…
That’s the word from the Dish Network, which just sent word that, nope, it’s not gonna drop regular ol’ FOX from its line-up after all. And, matter of fact, those 19 regional sports nets axed on October 1, including Fox Sports Southwest, are back; so too FX and the National…
Yesterday — thanks to Gordon Keith, thanks to Midwest Sports Fans, thanks to Deadspin, geez — we met Lil’ Ron Washington, otherwise known as Liam Roybal of Keller, poor feller. Turns out, the 7-year-old had no intention whatsoever of going as the Rangers’ skipper’s Mini-Me for Halloween. He was just…
