Since we’re about to get all Dallas City Hall up in this piece, a programming note: We were planning on doing another liveblog from tomorrow’s meeting of the Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee (band name alert!), since yesterday’s was such a big hit. Only: It was just…
Over the last couple of days I’ve received a handful of emails from KERA-FM supporters wondering what the heck happened to 90.1’s lineup in recent days. Because as of Saturday, there’s been a significant shakeup to the programming schedule: Out, for instance, are Tell Me More, To the Point, The…
Starting September 1, if you’re a woman in Texas seeking an abortion, a few new things are going to happen at the doctor’s office. You’re going to be given a sonogram, have the image of the fetus described to you “in detail,” and possibly be asked to listen to a…
Last night I finally had the chance to read the new issue of Rolling Stone, which happens to feature a feature by former Observer-er Jesse Hyde, who decamped for his native Utah a couple of years back. The story’s a good one: “America’s Most Twisted Crime Family: Inside a Mormon…
One week ago today the Dallas City Council made good on its promise to rename a small stretch of Cedar Springs — from Mockingbird to Contrail Lane, which is the street just before Love Field’s parking garages — to Herb Kelleher Way, so named, of course, for the founder of…
Please don’t take this as a complaint. More of an — as I do from time to time, and always — observation. I love my job(s). Getting paid to attend sporting events is all I ever wanted to do since the day I realized I’d grow up to be too short…
Down below, a few Friends are arguing the pros and cons of tomorrow’s downtown shutdown courtesy Your Champion Dallas Mavericks. But this surely has to fall into the good-thing column, no? From our friends at Dallas City Hall: “Municipal Court canceled for tomorrow.” The details, such as they are:Due to…
Interviewed Mavericks’ guard DeShawn Stevenson on 105.3 The Fan yesterday afternoon about 2:45. He sounded happy. But not drunk. Listen for yourself. My first question: “Have you gotten over your Finals’ hangover yet?” His answer: “Not really.” In the wake of the Mavericks’ NBA championship he talked about hating the…
Sure, it sounds like fun — pitching a midnight tent at the corner of Young and Houston, popping a top or 12 and sweating it out till Dirk, Cubes and the rest of the Mavs pass by sometime ’round parade-thirty tomorrow morning. The perfect summer staycation. But don’t even think…
10 All-Star Appearances. 1 NBA MVP. 1 Ring. 1 NBA Finals MVP. 4-time All-NBA First Team 3-Point Shootout Champion Soft. Clutch. With Sunday’s victory over the Miami Heat Dirk Nowitzki filled in the final void of his Hall of Fame resume. Only things potentially left that would improve his legacy…
A couple of times last week we noted that the city’s looking to make some extra coin by selling off naming rights and sponsorship opportunities to private corporations interested in investing in public property. And, sure, we had a suggestion or two. But as City Manager Mary Suhm noted, she…
Shortly after the city council gets its afternoon look at the 2011 Community Survey, where infrastructure concerns and streets needs top the citizenry’s to-do list, it’ll take up the subject of capital improvements — those funded by the ’06 bond election, the biggest in the city’s history, and what’s coming…
The other night, when Mark Cuban was snuggling with his shiny new safety blanket and dreaming about a flyover for Thursday’s parade, this wasn’t likely what he had in mind: The EPA will conduct low, slow fly-bys of Dallas over the next day or so, taking “baseline air samples” so…
‘Round the same time I stumbled across the Kiddrae must-watch you’ll find below I also found “Stuck” by West Coast-based photographer Joe Ayala. As he explains, “While on our way home from Formula Drift Palm Beach, Larry Chen and I found ourselves stranded over night in the Dallas airport as…
MAVS in 6. from Kiddrae on Vimeo.I’ve been sitting on two videos with which I’d planned to end the day. But Dallas Area Rapid Transit just sent its rather lengthy list o’ travel plans for Thursday morning’s Mavs title parade, so I thought I’d share one — Kiddrae’s gorgeous short…
Welcome back to Dallas City Hall for the epic second episode of the gas drilling task force selection process, where the ad hoc committee of city council members will be meeting candidates for face to face interviews. Councilman-elect Scott Griggs is in the audience, taking notes as Carolyn Davis interrupts…
In a moment we’ll get to Patrick’s account of what city officials had to say about Thursday morning’s Dallas Mavericks championship march through downtown Dallas, which kicks off at 10 a.m. at the Dallas Convention Center and winds up at the American Airlines Center about an hour later. But the…
Tough to tell how serious Mark Cuban is about forgoing championship rings and getting something else to commemorate the franchise’s first title. But he seems pretty committed to changing it up. “Rings are old school,” Cuban said, according to The Dallas Morning News. “Rings are done. It’s time to take…
As he gears up for his inevitable run for president, Rick Perry is doing his very best to shield his inner kook and maintain some semblance of populism. But in the last couple days, two Perry allies have taken it upon themselves to paint the Republicans’ Great God-Fearing Hope as…
The Dallas Mavericks’ championship parade — paid for by owner Mark Cuban — will start Thursday at 10 a.m. and travel from City Hall to American Airlines Center. Eff. That. Since Cuban is buds with Jerry Jones (see: 2010 NBA All-Star Game) and seeing that a Mavs’ title parade happens, oh,…
Great. But is it the greatest? When Dirk Nowitzki accessorized his lefty layup in the final minute with private tears of joy and accomplishment last Sunday night in Miami, the Dallas Mavericks symbolically threw Don Carter’s 10-gallon hat in the ring. After years of sheepishly having Brad Davis’ No. 15, A.C…
Patrick’s heading down to City Hall shortly — not just for the noon-thirty all-star press conference on the plaza, during which the mayor and police chief and council members will fill in every last blank concerning Thursday’s 10 a.m. Mavs parade, but for today’s meeting of the ad hoc gas…
