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Snow fell this morning in downtown Dallas beginning just after 8 a.m. Heavy, wet flakes caught in folks’ hair and soaked their business suits. While the flakes turned to puddles on the ground, there was a special feeling this morning — something, well, a bit like Christmas,  maybe? Jump for…

View Larger MapAs one door reopens in Deep Ellum, another quietly shuts: Three weeks ago, Daddy Jack’s Elm Street location turned out the lights for good, ending a long run in the former home of the Buffalo Club (anyone? anyone?). The Web site’s dead; the phone’s been disconnected. Which isn’t…

Supporters of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge breathed a collective sigh of relief this afternoon at the Trinity Trust as Mayor Tom Leppert announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved levee remediation plans submitted by the Texas Department of Transportation. The plans ensure that construction on the approaches…

Maybe you heard: Texas Ballet Theater debuted its Nutcracker at the Winspear on Friday, much to the displeasure of the Dallas-Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association, since the TBT isn’t using, you know, musicians. It’s a money-saving move necessitated by TBT’s being close to broke, and, truth is, it’s been going…

Maybe there’s a very good reason KTVT-Channel 11 has the top nightly newscast in town — like, oh, I dunno, because it’s the lone network affiliate smart enough to send a cameraman down to the Dallas County Commissioners Court? Today, the CBS affiliate returned with a mighty powerful short film…

Gray Kinney tells Unfair Park he was out shooting the debris formerly known as Reunion Arena a few days ago when he stumbled across this scene, which is obscured to drivers by the small retaining wall where S. Houston Street becomes the Houston Street Viaduct over the railroad tracks between…

Back in November 2008, Oak Cliff activist Jason Roberts wondered about the absence of bicycle lanes in Dallas. His curiosity led him to become the city’s foremost bicycle lane and cycling infrastructure advocate. Roberts took on that role when he discovered that the reason Dallas had no bicycle lanes was…

In the end, anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to the bankruptcy of Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue thought that the eatery would most likely wind up in the hands of Bob Sambol’s former partner, Bill Lenox. He made no secret of his desire to buy…

It’s been almost seven months since Dallas voters agreed to build a convention-center hotel, and almost three months since the groundbreaking. And while the rancorous battle over Mayor Tom’s pet project may be a thing of the past, we’re a long ways off from finding out whether or not it…

In the December 14 issue of ForbesLife, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s music director conducts a tour of his Dallas, which may not be your Dallas. Unless, that is, you tend arrive at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport after an 11-hour business-class flight from Amsterdam on KLM, drive to your digs at…

That’s more or less the question being posed over on Beliefnet, where readers are being asked to vote for “The Most Inspiring Person of 2009.” Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and the former Alex P. Keaton are among the nominees, but so too is University of Texas at Arlington grad Tobin…

View Larger MapSpeaking of Dallas Farmers Market …It was exactly one year ago that the Dallas City Council agreed to give Trammell Crow Residential $2,687,500 out of the Farmers Market TIF to expedite the construction of what was then known as the Alexan Farmers Market Project. The city also agreed…