On a lunchtime errand, I tool down Hall Street, look over at the field across from Lee Park and notice there’s a sign I haven’t seen before. I immediately flip on the hazards, pull over and grab my phone to snap this photo of what is, quite possibly, the worst…
Andrea Buchanan didn’t know when she began writing Note to Self two years ago that the book would be released during the country’s darkest hour in decades. Not bad timing for a compilation of tales about women transcending tough times. The award-winning writer, producer and director — best known for…
Courtesy our historian Justin Cozart, yet another page out of history — this one from 1930, to be exact. He explains:This is an early map of Dallas displaying the belt parkways from the first city plan in 1911 along with parkland designated for the new levees being built. It seems…
Few days back we peeked at Carolyn Davis and Dwaine Caraway’s what-updates as served up on Dallas Delivers, the city’s riotous no-holds-barred talk show served up on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. Alas, some of us don’t have the cables, so the city’s been posting throughout the week the entire…
When the pro-hotel group kicked off its campaign at City Hall, they touted the 195,000 room nights and more than $200 million in economic impact booked by the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau resulting from the city council moving forward with plans to build a convention center hotel. Led by…
I remember seeing this live, then rewinding the TiVo over and over and over again until I was in tears. It’s old, but it never gets old. Ya know? Staged racks on America’s Funniest Videos: Insulting. Raw, real racks: Priceless. The Mavs are yucking it up on the bench, just seconds…
The Ninth Annual Texas Film Hall of Fame induction ceremony, held last night on the site of the old Austin airport, was quite the damp, frigid shindig — part all-star love-in, part call to arms. Amidst the inducting — and feted this year were the likes of Powers Booth (SMU’s…
Pardon, but light of yesterday’s announcement that American Eagle has flown the coop at Dallas Love Field till the dust settles, city officials would like to clear up any misconceptions concerning the forthcoming extreme makeover scheduled at the airport. Construction’s scheduled to occur sooner than later and end just in…
The Enclave at Arlington apartment complex touts itself as “within walking distance of the Texas Rangers Ballpark, Hurricane Harbor, and Six Flags,” and is now more or less a next-door neighbor of Jerry Jones’s Enormodome. And, courtesy the Courthouse News Service, we find that the owners of the complex filed…
Saturday is one of my favorite days of the year. A day when you can drink beer in public without threat of a ticket. A day when you can demand ask random gals to flash their assets without threat of a sexual harassment lawsuit. A day when you can mix,…
Just arrived in Austin, only to find in my in-box, oh, ’bout a dozen Friends’ links to either Governor Rick Perry’s speech down in Houston or the Burnt Orange Report’s compendium of reactions to said speech. As you may know by now, the governor is saying no to more than…
Yesterday, in the comments to the item about Neiman Marcus’s latest bit of bad news, noted man of letters Rawlins Gilliland deposited a comment intended to gently shoosh those experiencing even the slightest twinge of schadenfreude at the luxury retailer’s misfortune. I had intended only to highlight the essay-in-miniature in…
What you see above is the cover to a slim 1962 tome published by Reinhold in conjunction with the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Clearly, the copy I picked up this week at the Forestwood Antique Mall was a downright steal: $25, or $100 less than the…
The latest non-development in Russ Martin’s assault case in Tarrant County is actually a development. After a couple of time-wasting, docket-management appearances in Fort Worth over the last three months, Martin showed up again this morning and got the word: His trial date is July 27. By that time it will be more than…
Bernie Madoff’s in jail after pleading guilty to all charges. Closer to home, Allen Stanford’s pleading the Fifth. So better now than never, seemed like a good time to catch up with Randy Johnston, a Dallas financial malpractice lawyer and the author of Robbed at Pen Point — and a…
Reason senior editor Jacob Sullum, who has a daughter in kindergarten in the Dallas Independent School District, has a big ol’ problem with, at the very least, this part of President Barack Obama’s speech on education delivered earlier this week:That’s why I’m calling for us not only to expand effective…
And, in other airline news … In April of last year, American Eagle dropped its Kansas City and Austin flights out of Dallas Love Field and opted instead to fly to Chicago’s O’Hare. Only, for now, that too is a no-go: AMR announced today that beginning June 11, American Eagle…
Says Bloomberg this morning, Southwest Airlines may do the unthinkable and … sell food! The Dallas-based carrier doesn’t know what it’ll sell or when it’ll begin selling it, but as the airline industry seeks new ways to make money (cough … charging for checked luggage … cough), Southwest figures that…
Wick Allison’s had some to say in recent days about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s battle with the county commissioners over a 10-percent across-the-board budget cut the commissioners demanded in order to deal with an expected $58 million shortfall for the next fiscal year. Watkins told the D publisher…
A story yesterday about Dallas-based Blockbuster’s attempt to get its landlords to knock 30 percent off rent (or give them early lease termination deals) leads to this follow-up today, in which some landlords balk at the idea of reduced rent — especially if Blockbuster isn’t willing to open the books…
Till Mayor Tom Leppert decides to talk for himself about his thinking about maybe one day possibly taking over the Dallas Independent School District we’ll see not sure for sure who knows, it’s all one big guessing game. Which doesn’t stop the Dallas mayor’s name from appearing in this morning’s…
“The Fall Guy,” by Jim Schutze, February 26 Start making sense Jim Schutze highlights what was a blatantly ridiculous stance by The Dallas Morning News editorial board. This is, of course, the same board that had a problem with Farmers Branch holding landlords accountable to renting to illegal aliens. Irrational,…
