One of the conceptual sketches for the Second Avenue makeover Four years back, we wrote about Edward “Tex” Harris’ dream of turning Second Avenue, a worn-out stretch of road next to Fair Park, into Dallas’s Beale Street. At the time, the Fair Park-area native guesstimated that such an effort would…
Patrick Michels Somebody’s mighty impressed with himself. Hundreds of runners turned out Saturday morning, many just wearing a pair of shorts, for the Undy 5000, billed as a “brief” run to fight colon cancer. Runners were encouraged to race around White Rock Lake in their underwear for the 5K, a…
View Larger Map The area near the N. Central Expressway-Meadow Road intersection is about to undergo a transformation, for better or worse: Not only is the Circuit City shutting down on New Year’s Eve, but the former Holiday Inn, the closing of which we lamented exactly one year ago, is…
Betty Culbreath Betty Culbreath has served as chair of the City Plan Commission and is currently chair of the Dallas Housing Authority’s board of commissioners — only, the lifelong Dallas resident is fed up and moving away, though she doesn’t say where. At least, that’s what she wrote on her…
View Larger Map This Circuit City at N. Central Expressway and Meadow Road is among the 155 “underperforming” stores being shuttered, as per the company’s announcement this morning that it’s taking several drastic steps to “preserve cash.” The manager with whom Unfair Park spoke this morning said the store, among…
Holy hell, he’s even worse than we thought. Giants Stadium has long been a house of horrors and horseshit for Dallas Cowboys’ quarterbacks. Hall of Famer Troy Aikman threw a career-high five interceptions in New Jersey in 2000. In ’01 backup Clint Stoerner topped that by tossing four picks in…
At the rate this Super Bowl or Bust season’s going for Your Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones has but four opportunities left to bring folks up to the owner’s suite in Texas Stadium before the joint gets bye-byed. It is, alas, a most wonderful treat for the special someones tapped to…
Interesting perspective from the Nielsen Company this morning concerning the upside of a downturned economy. According to the same folks who bring you TV ratings, Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix are the top three fastest-growing markets since 2000. (Not the new news.) And, sure, while foreclosures may be on the rise…
A stricter smoking ban in Dallas appears imminent. The first sip: The city council, which just may reveal the operator of the convention center hotel today, is poised to take a significant step toward strengthening Dallas’ smoking ordinance when it hears a briefing on the issue Wednesday. As Dave Levinthal…
Is it time to see if he can save us? I’m not surprised the Cowboys got their ass kicked today. Doesn’t mean I’m not madder than Mike Singletary about a 21-point loss that felt more like 41. The dismal performance in the Meadowlands doesn’t exactly belong on this list, but…
Patrick Michels Foreign policy, the economy, the Dallas real estate market — there was much to discuss.First Lady Laura Bush teamed up with the Jonas Brothers Sunday, helping dozens of Dallas sixth-graders sort dirt and spread seed at the new Trinity River Audubon Center. The event was a commemoration of…
With early voting wrapping up yesterday, we contacted Kirk McPike, Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s campaign manager and number-cruncher for local Democrats, for the latest on what the party is forecasting. He says Democratic-aligned precincts in general are outvoting the trends in terms of percentage of the vote from 2006 when the…
Yesterday, Vince Leibowitz posted to Burnt Orange Report a flier Republican Bill Keffer sent to would-be voters in Texas House District 107 in East Dallas, in which he attempts to link his opponent, Democratic state Rep. Allen Vaught, to some scary-looking dudes. You can see what Leibowitz brands the “racist…
Josh Howard and the All-Star gala were fantastic. Rest of the night? Bum-mer. Web Ed Patrick Michels has the facts and photos from last night’s big NBA 2010 All-Star Game announcement shindig. Leaves it up to me, I guess, just to fill in some blanks: *For some reason, seeing Mark…
Sam Merten In true lawyerly fashion, Tom Perkins knows nothin’ ‘bout nothin’. If you thought we couldn’t possibly have left anything of interest out of Tuesday’s lengthy post regarding last week’s city council meeting, there’s one tidbit we’ve been following. Turns out Mayor Leppert kept council member Mitchell Rasansky from…
Its passing has thus far gone without much mention, but after 13 seasons, Fox is firing poor ol’ Hank Hill and canceling King of the Hill, created by former Garland resident Mike Judge and set just outside of Dallas, of course, in the fictional ‘burb of Arlen. (Favorite episode? The…
Peter Calvin Laura Miller, planting one on Billy Jack Ludwig way back in the day There was another notable death mentioned in The Dallas Morning News today, though you’d be forgiven for missing it, as it received but a single line in the paid-for obits buried in Metro: Kenneth Ludwig,…
Barack Obama’s already a better shooter than Avery Johnson. Here’s hoping he’s a better leader. Although, I admit, we’d have more fun with Palin As President? – Richie Whitt…
U.S. Geological Survey This map of The Great North Texas Quake of ’08 is referred to as “intensity.” Which is, like, intense. In the comments to the morning’s first cup, former Dallas Morning News-er Bill Marvel suggests the following may be responsible for the morning’s wake-and-shake in Irving and the…
Mark Graham Fred Baron After the jump, Frank Stevenson II, president of the Dallas Bar Association, offers a statement concerning the death of Dallas attorney and Democratic Party fundraiser Fred Baron, who yesterday succumbed at the age of 61 to multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the plasma cell. It…
On Politico.com this morning, Obama spokesman Bill Burton confirms Matt Drudge’s post concerning the campaign’s giving The Dallas Morning News — along with the New York Post and The Washington Times — the heave-ho from the campaign plane. Says Burton: “We’re trying to reach as many swing voters that we…
See, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I’ve recently received several emails curious in Live 105.3 talk-show host Russ Martin. Not in his “situation” per se – we’ve already covered that from incident to indictment – but more so in the fallout, if any, from his July arrest and…
