If you find yourself downtown today, sharing a street corner with a blue-wigged Marie Antoinette, a dude in spandex and two-foot spiked hair, and a girl with go-go boots, fishnets and a purple rubber glove, you’re probably not losing it.More likely, you’ve wandered over near the Sheraton Hotel, where A-Kon…
Back in February, Alexa wrote about the pending transport of Hudson River sludge to West Texas, where Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons’s Waste Control Specialists will turn one state’s trash into one man’s treasure. That trash in question are millions of cubic yards of PCBs — or polychlorinated biphenyls, a carcinogenic…
That’s Steve Kudlow above — otherwise known as “Lips,” frontman for Canadian metal band Anvil, subject of an eponymous rockumentary now showing at the Magnolia. Last night, on opening night, the band came to Dallas for what its members (Lips, drummer Robb Reiner, bassist Glenn Five) refer to as “The…
When Mayor Tom Leppert testified last week on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he conveniently failed to mention his own agenda while lobbying the U.S. House Financial Services Committee to loosen the municipal bond market. Instead of arguing the merits of the convention center hotel, he mentioned “building…
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Jim Truitt, Forest City’s vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday’s meeting of the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Building and the former Dallas National Bank Building, now The Joule. Forest…
Perhaps you have an idea how the city can cut, oh, $100 million in order to fix its busted-up budget. Or, just maybe, you’re really not terribly keen on the idea of City Manager Mary Suhm leaving 12 code enforcement positions unfilled in order to make up the ever-expanding deficit…
The Friends of Unfair Park concerned with the state — and fate — of the newspaper business are no doubt aware that in a Chicago suburb yesterday, bigwigs, honchos and major-domos from most of the country’s biggest news-gathering organizations huddled together to chat about monetizing online content. There’s been much…
Blockbuster held is annual shareholders meeting yesterday, and the presentation was chock-a-block with sneak peeks at the Dallas company’s future — or, at the very least, its plans for the future. After the jump you’ll find the complete 31-page presentation offered to shareholders, who were also treated with the video-…
Okay, I admit, I’ve bungee-jumped and dived out of an airplane and dared to criticize Mark Cuban and I might even like to run with bulls some day. But I’ll be damned if I ever chase a wheel of cheese down one of the steepest pasture on God’s green Earth. Wow…
Check out our slide show for a look behind the scenes on race day.Now in its eighth running, Dallas’ 24 Hour Video Race is built on harnessing that special brand of creativity that only surfaces under extreme deadlines. This year’s racers had no idea what theme or elements will be…
The Texas Senate yesterday refused to send to Governor Rick Perry a bill that included an amendment that would allow law enforcement officers to draw blood from folks suspected of driving under the influence — otherwise known as the no-refusal initiative for which the Dallas Police Department is pushing. Instead,…
To keep this brief, here’s the takeaway from this morning’s New York Times profile of former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who’s now “the unlikely new U.S. trade representative,” as the paper puts it. The gist of the story is this: Everybody likes Ron Kirk. Everybody. So far. Because, well, they…
The Cowboys unveiled their humongous new home in Arlington this week, with owner Jerry Jones delivering a keynote address about how the $1.15 billion stadium is a sign for struggling Americans that times will get better.Not sure how much of that stadium cost was invested in pyrotechnics, skydivers or marching…
Rick Ericson at The LeMaster Group forwards along the latest in a short line of Official Tom Hicks Media Releases — though, as you’re no doubt aware, this is by far the most interesting one yet. Because as the owner of the Texas Rangers told Randy Galloway yesterday, yup, he’s…
View Larger MapNoticed something interesting on the Landmark Commission Designation Committee’s agenda for today’s 5:45 p.m. confab: the re-initiation of historic designation proceedings for two downtown buildings, the Mercantile Continental Building on Commerce Street and the Dallas National Bank Building on Main Street (otherwise known as The Joule). That’s re-initiation…
It was quite the confab at Dallas City Hall on December 8, when Mayor Tom Leppert welcomed to a fourth-floor conference room about three dozen urban planners, architects and city officials who’d come downtown on a chilly morning to discuss turning a parking lot behind City Hall into a “self-sustaining…
I’ve hinted at this name a couple of times in the wake of Tom Hicks defaulting on a loan, selling Mesquite Rodeo and generally looking for a bailout. But now let’s blurt it out unequivocally: David McDavid is interested in buying controlling interest of the Texas Rangers. “I have the ability and I have…
More scenes from yesterday’s Cowboys Stadium ribbon-cutting, including this debonair turn by Mayor TomLeppert, who cruised the VIP section — you know, around Arlington mayor Robert Cluck’s front-row seat — before moseying to the back of the crowd.Not sure if party guru Steve Kemble was behind this over-the-top affair, but…
Based on preliminary calculations and TAKS results, a record number of Dallas Independent School District campuses are poised to be classified as “recognized” or “exemplary” by the Texas Education Agency. Until now, not one non-magnet high school in the district has been deemed recognized, and this year six are slated…
Last year, Jesse Hyde wrote several stories for the Dallas Observer and Unfair Park about Farhat Chishty’s quest for justice for her son Haseeb, who, till last fall, had been one of 630 residents at Denton State School — where, in 2002, Haseeb was savagely beaten by a caregiver who…
Sure the field isn’t as strong as this week’s Colonial and its reputation in PGA Tour circles is crumbling, but from what I witnessed last week the HP Byron Nelson Classic is alive, well and oblivious to any economic downturn or reluctance to party hearty. Thanks to The Pavilion, of course…
