Seems like forever ago preservationists were fighting to save the Harwood K. Smith-designed office building at 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard — which, at 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning in April 2008, was bulldozed out of existence. As you may recall, Canadian developer Great Gulf Homes bought the property with…
I would like to state, for the record, that I called this week’s Project Runway challenge last week based solely on the previews. Boo. Yah. They teased it with Heidi Klum saying that the challenge’s answers would be in “black and white,” and they showed a quick flash of something…
Thursday morning, in the comments to Belo Garden item, one Friend of Unfair Park asked for updates concerning yet another piece of the downtown-parks puzzle: Pacific Plaza, about which Megan wrote last month, when the Park and Recreation Department’s Planning and Design Committee OK’d acquiring — for $2.5 million or…
Speaking of Cowboys Stadium …In case you missed Today today, here’s Matt Lauer’s interview with Jerry Jones, who talks about what Lauer refers to as his “crowning achievement.” After the jump, Lauer’s tour of the joint with Emmitt Smith, who’s, like, “Wow.”Update: And, while we’re at it, also after the…
At this late date — which is to say, two days before the Dallas Cowboys finally play a meaningful game in Arlington — what’s left to say about Jerry Jones’s $1.15-billion EnormoDome? Enough, clearly, to fill the top of Page B11 and most of Page B13 in this morning’s New…
Mayor Tom Leppert has run quite the lengthy victory lap this week: He took a ride on the Green Line; got off at the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park ground-making; then hustled on over to the convention center hotel groundbreaking. Which brings us to today’s stop: Leppert attended the unveiling of the…
A fine-print-reading Friend of Unfair Park noticed in this morning’s item about Belo Garden that the Park and Rec board was also set to approve a resolution related to the W.W. Samuell Trust and the Samuell park properties over which the city and the Texas Attorney General’s Office have been…
The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center opened its doors in September 1989 — seems like only 18 years ago. Accordingly, there are big doings at I.M. Pei’s palace on September 27 — a free open house that’ll include the intriguingly advertised “instrument petting zoo.” And if you’ve got a few…
There’s an awful nice Associated Press piece floating around about 11-year-old Dallas Environmental Science Academy sixth-grader Dalton Sherman, who, as you no doubt recall, became the Dallas Independent School District most famous motivational speaker after his back-to-school keynote in ’08. There’s a good reason for the follow-up a year later:…
As Don Hill took the stand earlier this month in the City Hall corruption trial, we checked in with his wife’s attorney, Victor Vital, to find out if Sheila would also testify in her defense. Vital told us that she was in fact one of his witnesses, claiming she aimed…
Drew Barrymore was an hour late for our interview this morning to talk Whip It, and couldn’t have been more apologetic; she got waylaid by “studio business,” hence our stunningly in-depth 10-minute chat, ah well. But judging by a comment posted to our heads-up about Barrymore’s appearance at Urban Outfitters…
When last we discussed the Best Movies Ever Made in Dallas, this one somehow missed the list: 1978’s Seniors, a college sex romp filmed on the SMU campus starring Dennis Quaid and a topless Priscilla Barnes. It was on DVD for a while, but seems to be out of print…
Times are tough. Jobs are scarce, money’s tight and our sports teams haven’t lifted a championship trophy since 1999. We temporarily interrupt this recession depression for some good news, wrapped in an employment opportunity. The NBA’s new Frisco Developmental League (D-League) franchise is holding a job fair this afternoon Noon-2 p.m. at…
So, the third-string team is in to cover what will probably be Don Hill’s last day of testimony. Appropriate, then, that the morning’s starting off with technical difficulties with Hill’s mic and computer monitor. Buzz!Hill’s being questioned about $18,000 and $12,000 payments from Brian Potashinik’s Arbor Wood development to his…
Said the city’s own time line back in ’07, the Belo Garden downtown should have been completed by … let’s see … last month, matter of fact. And revised guesstimates last summer set the start date for construction at this summer. But there have been myriad reasons for the delay…
Okay, I’m sucked in. Not to the point of eating Creatine cupcakes, stocking my closet with Affliction T-shirts and putting Newy Scruggs in an arm bar, but I’m intrigued enough by the sport of Mixed Martial Arts that I’m journeying to American Airlines Center Saturday night for UFC 103. I know…
In a word: Well, that answers that. Sort of. On Tuesday, Dallas Morning News reporter Rudy Bush attempted to answer a straightforward question: Would all the rain the city’s been having lately have flooded the toll road that City Hall wants to build alongside the Trinity River, between the levees?…
“The Mayor’s Retainers,” by Jim Schutze, September 3 Devil in Details Toward the end of “The Mayor’s Retainers” article Jim writes: “The real tragedy of the federal corruption trial, no matter what the verdict it produces, is that the behavior of the defendants has sullied and squandered the promise of…
Terrell who? After last year’s season opener, the Dallas Cowboys were 1-0, coming off a road win at Cleveland and defending their egomaniacal receiver, Terrell Owens, who had drawn a fine from the NFL for his track star touchdown celebration. After this year’s opener the Cowboys are 1-0, coming off…
Anyone who’s followed Food Network’s Opening Soon, a program documenting the furious ups and downs of bringing a restaurant to life, expects to see chaos. Fixtures break, code inspection reveals hidden flaws, contractors fail to show—and if they do, it’s with the wrong materials. Park opened on Henderson Avenue this…
A month ago today we told you about The Trinity Trust’s “Suspense is Building” campaign, which is intended to get the locals hot and bothered for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in advance of Santiago Calatrava’s $150-a-ticket victory toddle on September 25. I finally saw one of the billboards this…
Anthony Daniels was in Dallas yesterday to promote the Star Wars: In Concert megavent scheduled for October 23 at Cowboys Stadium, where two hours’ worth of Star Wars clips will get a screening on Jerry Jones’s high-def wall of voodoo. Patrick Michels recorded my lengthy chitchat with C-3PO’s alter ego…
