When Brandon Castillo first told people he was going to set up an open-air bazaar in Deep Ellum, he got a lot of crazy looks. “You’re going to do what where?” people asked, doubtfully. Deep Ellum was in the early stages of its renaissance and besides, this is Dallas, where…
Vickery Meadows, is a hard-bitten but vibrant neighborhood, teeming with a dense mix of cultures and languages unique in the city. It’s also very poor, and with poverty comes obesity. With obesity comes corresponding health problems like diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension. Enter an empty plot of land off Park…
After more or less single-handedly propelling the Rangers past the Angels last night with two home runs and six RBIs, thus securing a playoff berth, it would take something extraordinary Mike Napoli to fall from a Rangers fan’s good graces. But dear Lord, Napoli came close. See also: Photos: The…
The website for the Bikini Basketball League is a bare-bones affair, little more than a clock ticking down the seconds to…well, it doesn’t really say exactly what is happening in a shade over 35 days, but one can make an educated guess, particularly with the help of the accompanying blurb…
We’ve known for a while now that the Cotton Bowl is getting an $82 million facelift. We’ve also known for a while that New York-based artist James Carpenter will be the one to bring that tired art deco facade into the 21st century. What we haven’t known is what exactly…
For as long as I can remember — which admittedly is only about 20 years — Duncan’s Liquor has held down the northwest corner of Northwest Highway and Lawther Lane a stone’s throw from White Rock Lake. That won’t be the case for much longer. The property still belongs to…
Dequinte Flournoy played on the offensive line for Richardson High School. Alton Franklin was a linebacker at James Madison. Neither got offered the chance to play big-time college football program, so, when they graduated in 2011, they wound up as teammates at Kansas’ tiny McPherson College. Their college careers, even…
The Sylvan Avenue Bridge is a humble thing, an unlovable, low-lying stretch of concrete over the Trinity that tends to flood a handful of times per year. That’s why the city and TxDOT have been planning, what seems like forever planning a newer, wider, taller, $42.3 million replacement. Work on…
Cowboys Stadium has pretty much everything Jerry Jones could imagine packing into a single building, but if there’s one thing it lacks, it’s a certain feminine touch. No longer. The Cowboys announced yesterday that Victoria’s Secret will open a PINK store at JerryWorld on Monday, just a few hours before…
SMU has traditionally handled cases of alleged sexual assault involving students through closed, “non-adversarial” hearings in which a panel of faculty and students, rather than, say, a grand jury, weigh evidence and testimony and render a confidential verdict. That was how the school handled more than 100 such cases over…
Chuck’s Car Wash has long been a fixture on the Morning News’ 10 Drops in the Bucket campaign, the compilation of the eye-soreiest eye sores in southern Dallas that Tod Robberson drives past and tsk-tsks at. Chuck’s, which sits near the corner of Sunnyvale and Ledbetter, does seem to be…
The Joppa Gateway is one of those half dozen parks included in the city’s Trinity River Corridor Project that will provide access to the wetlands and horse parks and other amenities that are being built. Located near the junction of Interstate 45 and Loop 12 … er, ahem … Great…
Imagine for a second that there were no more lists. Nothing to say that a certain city has the best pectoral muscles or the worst selection of vuvuzelas. We obviously would have no idea that Dallas is full of lardassed squares who don’t take showers but nevertheless have great career…
Pamela Kay Cobb was systematic about how she stole. The branch manager of the Bank of America in Red Oak targeted only those customers with whom she had a longstanding relationship. When she took money from their accounts, she would fill out a fake withdrawal slip, sometimes forging a customer’s…
It’s been more than two years now since Laurie Evans stepped down as director of the Dallas Public Library. Since then, the operation has been steered by a pair of interim directors: first Corinne Hill, who set off for Tennessee earlier this year at least in part because the search…
If you’ve ever wondered who controls any given parking lot downtown, the answer is probably either Central Parking Corporation or Standard Parking Corporation. Central owns more than a dozen locations there, according to its website. Standard owns several more, though its website doesn’t say exactly how many. The same thing…
Until recently, Dr. Wayne Soignier worked out of his office on Royal Lane, primarily providing medical evaluations for the Texas workers’ compensation system. At some point, the Texas Department of Insurance became concerned about his professional conduct and called him to appear before a two-member panel of physicians. The meeting…
A few months ago, Joan Walne, chair of the city’s Park and Recreation Board, sent a letter to the City Council to let them know that the board was not happy with a rock crushing plant right across the street from the $38 million Elm Fork Soccer Complex, which is…
The Cowboys nabbed Martellus Bennett in the second round of the 2008 draft with hopes that the 6-foot-6 tight end would be good to have on the other side of the formation from Pro Bowler Jason Witten. That never really came to pass, and Bennett was written off as a…
The record-breaking drought that Texas endured in 2011 wasn’t good for much of anything. Farmers and ranchers suffered, as did the people in towns whose water supplies ran dry. And let’s not forget the owners of lakefront property whose lots fronted an empty stretches of parched earth. See also: A…
Via Over at Mavs Moneyball, Andrew Tobolowsky (who, in the interest of full disclosure, I routinely destroyed during pickup basketball when we were at Richardson High) stumbled upon something of a mystery yesterday. The Mavericks, it seems, have set up a bare-bones web page with a floating Dirk bobblehead and…
Joel Schulman is not on the North Texas Tollway Authority’s list of top toll scofflaws. In fact, he lives in Bossier City, Louisiana, three hours east of the nearest NTTA-controlled roadway. That hasn’t stopped the agency from sending notice after notice demanding payment for tolls racked up by a certain…
