On Wednesdays I keep the city council broadcasts dialed up in the office for the high irritainment value. Besides, you never know what’ll happen. Take yesterday, for instance. There were a few things I wanted to keep an eye on, but at the bottom of the bottom of the list…
There’s every chance today’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees could last till the wee small hours of tomorrow morning. Because in addition to all the previously mentioned public hearings and hot-button items scheduled for today — everything from school consolidations to longer workday hours for…
The place: the north side of the George Allen Courts Building, below the overhang. The date: February 7. The time: between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.That’s your invite to the foreclosure auction for Valley View Center, which, since August 2010, has been in the hands of LNR Partners out of…
Lawrence Smith has what you might call a bit of a beef with Cowboys great Deion Sanders. And he just took that beef — what’s that phrase? Ah yes. Priiiime tiiiime. A few years back, Smith went into business with Sanders and a businessman named D.L. Wallace on a high-school…
Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her car — a weathered Honda Civic with “Nobama,” Marco Rubio and Tea Party bumper stickers — smells like it’s been fumigated with sweet incense…
The saga of Texas’s brand-new, Rick-Perry approved sonogram law continues. First, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction issued by Judge Sam Sparks and allowed the law to go into effect. (That law, just to refresh, requires women seeking an abortion to look at a sonogram,…
If anyone would know the answer to the question, “Has there ever been an all-comedy radio station in Dallas?” it would be George Gimarc, who has spent most of a lifetime on Dallas radio whilst also collecting its related ephemera. No, he says. “Not that I’m aware of.” Not till…
Tomorrow is C-Day, the day we find out if the Dallas Independent School District will consolidate nine elementary schools and two middle schools in order to grapple with its looming $38-million budget gap. Months of public hearings, protests in front of 3700 Ross and staking signs in front of schools…
Best I can tell using our half-baked search engine, we began writing about Jubilee Park-ers’ battle with the Dallas Independent School District over a new-and-improved O.M. Roberts in April 2010, when residents told Dallas County commissioners they were terrified of losing their homes in an eminent domain tug-of-war with the…
OK, let’s get this straight: If a natural gas company wants to sink a well within 1,000 feet of your Dallas home, that would be bad. Not healthy. Not safe. Stop it. But what if you don’t care whether your neighbor is a drilling rig? Or, perhaps you’re a developer…
Well, here it is — at least HKS’s conceptual rendering of the “approximately 170,000 square feet, the six-story Jeffersonian-style building” that’ll be built on Crow Holdings’ Maple Ave. property across from Unfair Park HQ. And, no, the accompanying press release doesn’t mention, as many of you have, that Harlan Crow…
Someone asked yesterday if and when Omni’s going to move its HQ to the city of Dallas. Well … if you’ll look at the council’s agenda for today, it’s right there: items No. 54 and 55. The first one’s for a mammoth tax abatement agreement for 10 years; the second,…
Throughout the week the in-box has been filling up with complaints from Dallas Independent School District teachers who insist they were given no advance warning that trustees would be voting tomorrow on extending their workday hours from seven hours and 45 minutes to eight and a half hour. Writes one:…
The sign still says “Articles,” but I’ll always remember the three-story storefront on Elm and Good-Latimer as Chumley’s, located at the acoustic end of Deep Ellum on the heels of Charles Francis “Chumley” Hawkins’s late, great Dave’s Art Pawn Shop. Everyone played there, from Aimee Mann to Cafe Noir, Lisa…
Speaking of energizing downtown Dallas ….The storms that moved through, oh, an hour ago are but a prelude of the downpour to come. And if there’s electricity in the air, Justin Terveen’s there to catch it, as always. He just sent this freshly minted postcard, along with the note that…
This morning Schutze wrote about John Wiley Price’s stalled re-appointment of New Black Panther Aaron Michaels to Dallas County’s Homeland Security Advisory Committee — “whatever the hell that’s supposed to be,” as Jim put it. Now comes word that Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins is about to indefinitely retire that…
A little before 1 today reports began circulating about a manhunt near Lake June and Buckner — something to do with an armored-car heist and police officers putting nearby schools on lockdown. One station even said it saw two men being taken off in handcuffs. Maybe so. But not for…
Around lunchtime at the Omni today, a crew was dismantling those enormous red Christmas balls that have been heaped up on the lawn for the past couple months, while in the Dallas Ballroom upstairs, Downtown Dallas Inc. was holding its annual meeting. It was a $100-per-head affair ($125 for non-members)…
I’ve been trying since daybreak to reach Max Kalhammer, the city’s bike coordinator, to talk about the not-at-all-surprising results of the Alliance for Biking & Walking’s 2012 Benchmarking Report, which says we’re one of the worst big cities in the entire country when it comes to people riding their bikes…
A few weeks ago, following City Manager Mary Suhm’s sneak peek at the 2012 bond program that will be but a fraction of a fraction of its mammoth $1.35-billion ’06 predecessor, I asked City Hall spokesman Frank Librio if there’s a doc listing all the things that have and haven’t…
Sometimes all you can do is take the win and move on. The Mavs were at home Monday night against the Suns, winning 93-87 in an ugly game in front of a seemingly disinterested crowd. It was the Mavs’ second straight game without Dirk Nowitzki, who is sitting out at…
While browsing this morning’s list of Academy Award nominees, I came across one very familiar name: Brandon Oldenburg, beneath the heading Short Film (Animated). For years, of course, he was best known as one of the bright young minds behind Deep Ellum-based Reel FX. Then he became known as the…
