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On his way into the office this morning, downtown dweller Patrick Michels stopped by the Nasher Sculpture Center, where he espied crews with cranes in the process of removing the final piece of a signature sculpture, Jonathan Borofsky’s Walking to the Sky. But fear not: One of the most photographed…

Lord knows how many times I’ve driven over Turtle Creek on Lemmon Avenue: Hundreds? Thousands? Katrillions? Never really wondered what it looked like beneath Lemmon. But you know who did? Our old pal Justin Terveen, who’s clearly working on his Bodies of Water series…

Schutze wrote the other day that Oak Cliff gets stuff done despite Dallas City Hall. Which is fine, until City Hall does get involved: The Friends of Oak Cliff Parks have been out and about in recent weeks warning groups, such as the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and the…

I’m not much of a Grateful Dead fan, if I may end the week with an understatement; I pretty much start and finish with American Beauty, depending on the hour and the herb, though the missus was once known a long while ago to follow a tour or two. Lord…

That banner you see on the old Showcase Chevrolet dealership on LBJ Freeway, near the Dallas North Tollway intersection, just went up this week. I can’t tell you the asking price, but I do know this: When Apartment Realty Advisors sold the property the first go-round in November 2006, it…

Carolyn Beck, the director of Communications and Governmental Relations at the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, sends word: The Fort Worth outpost of the TABC is shutting down today and reopening on Tuesday in Arlington at 2225 E. Randol Mill Road. Also getting adiosed immediately: the Dallas Licensing Division on Stemmons…

“Heartbreaking.” “Painful.” That is how Anita Avila describes the fight over the restaurant on Maple Avenue she and her husband opened in January 1986. In the end, she says, all she wants is for the restaurant to reopen with her once more running the operation, as she’d done before her…

Must be a legal matter Friday, a legal matter from now on. Because next up on the docket is that suit against Dallas County we’ve told you about a couple of times before — the one involving that $17.5 million contract with a Virginia-based company called GTSI, which the commissioners…

With less than a month until Earthling’s world premiere at SXSW 2010, the indie sci-fi film, by Dallas-based writer-director Clay Liford, is already garnering plenty of positive buzz in the movie-blogosphere based on the film’s two trailers alone.But with descriptions such as “haunting,” “magical, and “strangely beautiful,” it’s no wonder…

The legal wrangling over the fate of Avila’s on Maple Avenue will continue this afternoon at the George Allen Courts Building: Judge Ken Molberg has ordered Ricardo Avila appear in his courtroom at 1:30 p.m. To many, Ricardo’s the public face of the beloved 25-year-old Mexican restaurant; he’s also the…

Thus far I’ve seen a ton of conceptual renderings of the downtown Omni — or, as it’s still referred to on the city’s Web site, the Dallas Convention Center Headquarters Hotel. And, last week, we saw how it looks whilst under construction. But not till today had I seen it…

As we mentioned yesterday, members of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and John McCall Jr., its attorney and former president, met on the sidewalk in front of the Oak Cliff Christian Church on 10th Street this morning to provide more specifics on the agreement reached following its court-ordered mediation…

I’ve been trying to keep up with the dramatic doings at Avila’s on Maple Avenue via SideDish for the past week, which hasn’t been easy — especially following today’s item concerning the beloved restaurant’s shuttering as family friends and members and other concerned parties weigh in with conflicting accounts. And…

By which I mean: D.B. Sweeney, who played Shoeless Joe Jackson in John Sayles’s 1988 adaptation of Eliot Asinof’s book Eight Men Out, and Leonard, Texas, a tiny town up in Fannin County. So happens that just as we were writing about all the TV shows shooting around town, locally…