Speaking of new grocery stores …Last we’d been told, the Central Market replacing the old Borders (which replaced an old Safeway) in Preston Royal would be open come “mid-winter.” But as you can see from the photo I snapped a couple of nights ago, it’s looking awful close to opening…
Well, maybe you don’t, but several Friends of Unfair Park were curious why the Dallas Police Department sent out the vague message that starting at 9 this morning, “there will be street and sidewalk closures at 2014 Main Street [and] both Main and Commerce streets and sidewalks could be coned…
Two questions this morning about Trader Joe’s plans to build its first Dallas location on the site where once the Arcadia stood: Does this kill the food-trailer park Madison Partners had planned for the site, and what does this mean for the old Whole Foods spot everyone thinks is going…
Move along: Another new year — time to take stock, clean the slate, roll out the cliches and take advantage of our editor’s holiday cheer to slip by a few words of drivel about Buzz’s New Year’s resolutions. Now Buzz is just shy of turning 50, so the mind is…
The scene this mid-November night felt more like a clip from Leave It To Beaver than Law and Order. Dale Duke sat with his elderly parents eating dinner in their quiet Dallas home. A crystal vase of red roses decorated the dining room table; soft classical music played in the…
That sound you just heard? That was any and all illogically bloated expectations for the Mavericks’ season hitting the ground with a thud. This isn’t your typical championship defense. The Mavs made it clear in the off-season that they weren’t content to merely bring back all of the components of…
Just checked the calendar and noticed: The Museum of the American Railroad should be rolled outta Fair Park by … well, by Saturday, would you look at that. Except, no: Two years after the city sued the train museum, telling it to chugga-chugga thee to those new digs in Frisco…
A Dallas-based strip-club chain facing a class-action lawsuit tried to compel its dancers not to join that legal action — and even fired a woman who wouldn’t comply, or so the strippers claim. In a motion filed earlier this month, the dancers also claim that the clubs foisted the agreements…
Speaking of historic buildings ….A few days ago a friend of the show sent word that she’d seen workmen inside 108-year-old David Crockett Elementary, which had fallen into a state of grave disrepair in recent years. I reminded her: Back in August, Good Signature Management bought the building from the…
Saw a story in The Wall Street Journal this morning concerning something we’ve written about a couple of times in recent months — how the drought’s causing donkey owners ’round these parts to cut ’em loose, creating what Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Senior Sergeant Patrick Bonner refers to in today’s…
For some — local preservationists, say, or music fans — one of the biggest stories of 2011 was First Presbyterian Church’s purchase of 508 Park Avenue; at last, the long-ago Brunswick Records regional office in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and possibly Charlie Parker recorded no longer had that hellhound…
On Christmas, The Dallas Morning News gifted Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins with a big fat lump of coal in article form, detailing a lawsuit filed against him by Citibank that alleges he owes more than $15,000 on his credit card plus interest. The article, supplemented this morning by…
What you see above is YouPlusDallas’s latest year-end offering: “2011: A Year in Fast-Forward,” which features at least two familiar contributions, Justin Terveen’s sneak-peek at the new-look Reunion Tower and the first few seconds from the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau’s “Moon Over Dallas” promo. There’s trolly-riding, disco-dancing, plane-ticket-buying, hot-air-balloon-inflating,…
Tonight, as we burn the final candle on the menorah, we return to that secret stash of oldies but goodies that knows no end. I’d heard a few minutes from this recording a couple of years back, when a clip made its bow on the great KZEW tribute site. But…
Way back in May we took a long, hard look at HALFF Associates designer Francois de Kock’s Belleview Connector, a proposed bridge — and “dramatic icon” — that might one day link Riverfront Boulevard to Jack Matthews’s South Side of Lamar. One day. Maybe. Last I looked, which was a…
Curious the things that land in the in-box. Like this, for instance: a statement from attorney Larry Friedman on behalf of Pilar Sanders, who, for now at least, is married to Deion Sanders. I say “for now” because not one hour ago TMZ noted that the former Dallas Cowboy has…
In 1989, two years after the attack that left her in a vegetative state, People described Peggy Railey’s existence as “death-in-life.” Our Mark Graham documented as much years later when he visited her in the Tyler nursing home where she has spent the last two decades; today, he told me,…
3700 Ross remains closed for another week, but I did just talk to Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores about something I mentioned last week: DISD’s decision to yank from the City Plan Commission’s docket a zoning request for the proposed Jose “Joe” May Elementary School on Webb Chapel…
In the death penalty debate, Texas has a long-standing reputation for abiding by one guiding principal: an eye for an eye. But the state has increasingly chosen to holster its lethal-injection needles in recent years, with death-penalty sentences decreasing by more than 70 percent since 2003, according to an annual…
This year began with the Dallas City Council passing that ordinance that requires all Lower Greenville businesses to get specific use permits if they want to keep their doors open past midnight. This year ends with the city entangled in two lawsuits over that ordinance: the one brought by Yucatan…
In a New York Times piece this morning, Penn State’s interim head coach Tom Bradley acknowledges: Many of the Lions wanted to skip their trip to Dallas on January 2, when Penn State’s scheduled to play Houston in the TicketCity Bowl at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park. The reason,…
Yet again, I’ve been told the office is closed today, which explains why it’s dark and cold and empty; who knew. Anyway. I’m not big on year-in-reviews; you were there, right? That said: Whilst perusing that musical treasure chest of recent discovery, I came across one blindingly bright offering of…
