A few Dallas Cowboys quick hits, apropos on a morning blanketed with a freezing fog. We begin, where else, with MartyB — which is to say, tight (not bright) end Martellus Bennett, who follows his now-vanished rap video (“Romo, homo, etc.”) with the apology below. FOXSports.com is reporting that the…
View Larger MapThis council meeting leftover, which is no small morsel: Mayor Tom Leppert was vehemently against granting Augustine Ekukpe a specific use permit to open a bar called Neighborhood Sports Cafe on South Lamar Street, between Starks Avenue and Haven Street. Said the mayor during the council’s Wednesday meeting,…
“For Whom the Toll Bells,” by Jim Schutze, January 15 Pay Up, Dummy Has intelligence in America come to an all-time low? I will agree with anyone concerned that NTTA should not wait to send out citations when a sizable bill exists, but the cash-taking booth vs. no-cash-taking booth scenario…
“They treated us like we suck,and we’re the ones who’ve supported them through all these losing seasons.” They come bundled in coats, wrapped in hope and stuffed with gullibility. An annual rite of another cold, bleak winter, 5,000 stubborn baseball fans arrive at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington last Saturday for…
“When you analyze and evaluate something, by definition you are also looking at any strengths and any weaknesses.” The recent debate about how evolution should be taught in public schools revealed two things about the Texas State Board of Education. First, it showed that the board will listen to its…
BUZZ Never forget: Give actress and comedienne Lily Tomlin some credit. She’s coming to understand that the best way to reach Dallas’ heart is through its wallet. Tomlin last year took up the cause of Jenny the psychologically scarred elephant at the Dallas Zoo, joining in a communitywide effort to…
In October 2007, Dallas businessman Ross Perot Jr. was featured in a USA Today story about the unlikely rise of urban living in Texas. Photographed on the balcony of the towering Ghostbar, at the apex of the posh W Hotel, Perot looked confident as he discussed why developments such as…
There are still plenty of folks a little puzzled by RE:Vision Dallas, which, as we’ve mentioned before, is an effort to turn a couple of parking lots behind Dallas City Hall into a self-sustaining mixed-income “community.” Though some city officials have done some cheerleading for the effort, it’s really the…
The city council won’t take up Dwaine Caraway’s proposal to outlaw single-cigar sales in the city of Dallas today. But if you think this is the end of it, you’re dead wrong. Caraway vowed today during the council’s meeting to take the issue to “Mr. Obama, to Ms. Hutchison, to…
View Larger MapThe Dallas City Council just voted on an agenda item in Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s wheelhouse: permanently shuttering a South Dallas motel surrounded by “ladies of the evening at all times of the day and night,” as Caraway put it before begging Carolyn Davis to continue…
Don’t know how I missed it – maybe it’s because I’m from Duncanville – but Monday was the Chinese New Year. And 2009, as if you didn’t know, is the Year of the Ox. In the name of Wang Zhi-Zhi, what could that possibly mean for our Dallas Mavericks? *So…
Speaking of Angela Hunt and how Dallas goes about, um, planning a city (?) — as we were this morning — you might wanna click on over to Hunt’s blog. There, she just posted a very lengthy essay concerning last week’s council confab with four noted urban planners. The same…
Gawker has “Jessica Simpson’s Forbidden Workout Video,” for those so interested. And it comes with a commentary track courtesy Mrs. Romo’s business manager — allegedly. Seems awfully, ah, erm, coincidental that this four-year-old vid leaks today; Ashlee will not be happy. You, on the other hand? Dunno. Still, better late…
As the Dallas City Council goes into executive session before breaking for lunch, a few notes. As Dave Levinthal mentions, the Dallas City Council postponed till next month votes on two downtown projects seeking tax increment financing money. One of them is 1400 Main Street (better known as Plush), which,…
Humor me for a minute. Imagine you’re a city council member on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee. You walk into yesterday’s meeting and Page Six of this schematic is on the screen as Dan Chapman, project manager of the Trinity Turnpike for the North Texas Tollway Authority, is in…
Came across this photo of Mavs’ press row (circa 199 … 5?) recently and it made me: 1. Laugh hysterically. 2. Miss Reunion Arena. 3. Realize, “Hey, not a bad pic.” Free subscriptions to the Dallas Observer and Sportatorium for anyone correctly identifying four people. Free use of my ice…
Fascinatingish little story this morning in the Northumberland Gazette concerning a rare coin and a faraway country club — the Lakewood Country Club, to be a wee bit more specific. A hospice in Northumberland was sifting through some coins donated for a fund-raising auction when it discovered a particularly odd…
The 5-year-old who lives in my house woke up earlier than usual, ’round 6 a.m., only to discover school had been canceled on account of skating-rink conditions. Which means that after a few hours spent reading the collected works of John Updike and reproducing Georges-Pierre Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à…
One of our football coaches is headed to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. Surprise, he has nothing to do with your Dallas Cowboys. I blogged, oh-so briefly, about Grapevine Faith’s Nov. 7 high-school game against the Gainesville State Tornadoes. Ring a bell? Rick Reilly’s terriffic ESPN The Magazine column is here. For…
More than likely, the Dallas City Council will spend at least the next month re-examining the plan to expand Central Expressway downtown. Council member Angela Hunt called Unfair Park with the news late last night: She has spoken with Ricardo Galceran, head of the city’s Public Works and Transportation department,…
As mentioned earlier, John Updike’s last visit to Dallas was exactly one year ago, when he visited with WFAA-Channel 8’s John McCaa at the NasherSalon 2008 Lecture Series. After the jump, a wonderful photo of the two men on the Nasher stage courtesy Kristen Gibbins, communications manager at the Nasher…
As Schutze mentioned earlier, the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee met this morning to get an update on the Trinity Turnpike, with reps from the North Texas Tollway Authority and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on hand to walk everyone through the PowerPoint presentation. Of most interest was how…
