Terry Southern — novelist, screenwriter, journalist, provocateur — would have turned 87 yesterday, had he not died of a heart attack in October 1995. And so, last night, council member Delia Jasson proclaimed May 1, 2011, Terry Southern Day — thanks to filmmaker Kirby Warnock, who has partnered with the…
Schutze and I have a date tonight: the North Texas GLBT Chamber’s mayoral forum at the Cityplace Conference Center on Haskell, where he and I have been asked to serve as moderators. (Because asking us to serve on the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Dallas Candidate Forum would have…
The timing, if nothing else, is remarkable. May 8 marks the 100th birthday of Robert Johnson, the Mississippi bluesman who cut half his influential body of work — perhaps the most influential in all of popular music — at 508 Park Avenue downtown in June 1937. The building, once the…
The NCAA’s Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee met today in New Orleans, where it okee-doke’d bowl licenses through 2013-’14 for 32 out of the 35 game played during college football’s postseason. (Really? Only 35? Coulda swore it was more like 98.) Anyway. Two of the no-go’s were already fo-sho’s: the Fiesta…
I was on the City Secretary Office’s website looking for something the other day when I noticed a new addition in bright red letters: “NOTICE: PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.” It goes on to quote Section 3-1(a) of the Dallas City Code, which says that it’s … “… unlawful…
Like Sam said: Mike Rawlings has raised more than $1 million in his quest to become the next mayor of Dallas — or “nearly three times the combined haul of Ron Natinksy and David Kunkle.” And he’s determined to spend that dough: Moments ago his campaign posted Rawlings’s latest ad…
In recent weeks, the YouPlusDallas gang has been out recording some of the more intriguing mayoral debates and forums, like the arts-and-crafts showdown at the Nasher last week and the Faith and Public Policy Forum held Monday at the Gospel Lighthouse Church on W. Illinois. That event was sponsored by…
I’d intended to spend, oh, maybe half an hour in front of Dallas City Hall today, where, decades after William H. Whyte first proposed the idea of making that expanse of concrete habitable for humans, Brent Brown and Jason Roberts and Andrew Howard and many more breathed life into what…
By now you’re likely well aware of Ralph Isenberg’s ongoing efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, after the the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad was sent to Bangladesh last year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials — after Saad’s parents’ application for political asylum was denied and…
So. David Leininger, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s chief financial officer, and council member Linda Koop just called to talk — what else? — streetcars, on both the DART board and city council’s to-do lists tonight and tomorrow. And Leininger made it very clear: While rider revenues for the next few…
Wade Emmert’s no longer on the fence about attempting to succeed Jonathan Neerman as Dallas County Republican Party chair. After telling us last week that he was interested in the position, he’s now committed to running against current vice chair Debbie Georgatos (pronounced Jor-jah-tos). Precinct chairs will choose between the…
Two weeks ago, Schutze noted that the city council — very quietly, very nonchalantly, very consent-agenda-y — loosened up its own restrictions governing when and how developers with zoning cases at City Hall could slide council members some dough-re-mi.When the original ordinance passed two long years ago, it prohibited “applicants…
During our 90-mintute interview with Mike Rawlings at CIC Partners inside Crescent Court for last week’s piece about the mayor’s race, Rawlings repeated a statement about the campaign that he’s made at countless debates: “It’s not about personalities.” We argued the opposite in our story. Since all four candidates agree…
Last week, we revisited the Trinity River toll road and convention center hotel referendums with mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky because, well, there just wasn’t enough space to explain it all in last week’s cover story. Much like we quickly glossed over those issues, there was also a brief mention in…
If nothing else, the timing’s certainly good: Just three days after Mayor Dwaine Caraway branded mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings the “Payday Loan King” in a series of ads to which Rawlings later responded, the city council’s Budget, Finance & Audit Committee is about to take up the subject of how…
We spent much of Saturday in the Arts District, where the 7-year-old who lives in my house went trick-or-treating amongst the hundreds of Earth Day Dallas vendors handing out an ironic number of non-biodegradable goodies. At which point the boy pointed to the under-construction building across the street from Booker…
By now construction crews were supposed to have hung several Calatrava cables, or what Schutze calls “Margaret Hunt Hill’s Gee Strings.” But wind gusts in recent weeks have grounded construction workers; hence, but the two at present. And so it falls to Chris Heinbaugh to finish the task: During yesterday’s…
Mike Rawlings called this evening to discuss, sort of, those ads in which Mayor Dwaine Caraway blasts the mayoral candidate as the “Payday Loan King,” a reference to Rawlings’s six-year stint on the board of directors of Ace Cash Express — the very sort of high-interest, short-term lender that local…
I was cleaning out the office last weekend and came across my copy of the 166-page indictment that eventually led a parade of people to the Earle Cabell thanks to that low-income housing development corruption case at Dallas City Hall. I didn’t know what to do with it, so I…
Repealing verified response quickly rose to the top of Tom Leppert’s to-do list shortly after he become mayor in June 2007. The controversial program required business owners to have someone at the scene of a burglar alarm to verify that a break-in had actually occurred before police would respond. Not…
Moments ago, during Robert Ashley’s show on KHVN-AM, an ad ran attacking mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings and his ties to Ace Cash Express — though it never mentions Rawlings by name. The speaker: none other than Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway, who is supporting legislative efforts to exclude payday lenders as…
On Monday the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee will devote its entire meeting to the subject of streetcars. In fact, there’s a field trip involved, as council members will bus out to Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Northwest Rail Operating Facility to once again get a good look at that…
