Even if the name Perry Nichols escapes you, and it likely does, the work does not. The Woodrow grad’s art surrounds us even now, some two decades after his death — at the Inwood and Lakewood theaters, in the lobby of The Dallas Morning News, at the Dallas Museum of…
Yesterday afternoon the Arts Culture and Libraries Committee took its quick tour of the construction site that will soon be the City Performance Hall, which they hope somebody might want to rent out at some point. City council members Ann Margolin, Jerry Allen and Delia Jasso called their committee meeting…
At present, the Hall of State in Fair Park is closed to the public whilst it breaks down the “Texas!” exhibit that went up in time for, and lingered well after, the State Fair of Texas and attracted some 120,000 visitors during its run. But when it reopens at the…
It’s been nearly six months since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton issued a memo to his subordinates, which we’ll translate from bureaucrat-speak for you: Look, we got scarce resources, so don’t head out into the field looking to pop every Tomas, Diego and Enrique you find without…
Yesterday the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation sent word: The deck park would be receiving its first trees this morning, at ’round 10:30. I was told that despite the cold temperatures, the timing was good: “This season is the preferred time to plant because leaves are gone so the trees will…
About 100 Iraqi men gathered at the Imam Ali Islamic Center in Grand Prairie yesterday. Some crowded beneath a big white party tent, grilling meat and eating, or relaxed inside the mosque; others were inside the big blue Carter BloodCare van, doing what they’d all come to do — give…
The answer is no, the question being: Will we ever stop writing about the city redistricting process? But it’s been a little while, so let’s review. Then we can discuss the dueling delegations who apparently met with the Department of Justice last week to discuss the (barely) council-approved map forwarded…
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will go behind closed doors to meet with city attorneys about a host of legal issues staring down City Hall, among them: a long-going federal wrongful arrest suit about to get even more expensive (council will vote next week to pay Brown & Hofmeister an…
David Abbey is the principal of Kingswood Park Public School in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia, considered a suburb of Sydney. Kingswood Park has its familiar issues — a “socio-economic disadvantage” in large part because of a dwindling student body, “a significant Aboriginal population” and many of its students hailing…
One month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board member, former Dallas Housing Authority chair, ’07 Dallas City Council candidate, one-time chair of the City Plan Commission and longtime Friend of Unfair Park Betty Culbreath wrote on her blog that it’s time for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price to go…
At this very moment, the Dallas independent School District’s Citizens Budget Review Commission — assembled in March to bring fresh eyes to a district budget in need of gutting, thanks in large part to Gov. Rick Perry and the state Legislature — is meeting to discuss two proposals on the…
Back in June, Schutze laid out his case against the under-construction City Performance Hall in the Arts District, which is set to open in September 2012 and serve as a home for six tiers’ worth of small- to mid-sized arts orgs in need of fancier digs. Today the council’s newly…
She had a first name: Eva. But you’d never know it. The myriad mentions of “the first regularly commissioned woman police officer in the United States,” as she was referred to in the January-June 1913 edition of Municipal Works, only refer to her as “Mrs. J.J. Farley.” As in: Dallas…
This holiday season, City Hall, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office would like to remind you not to buy your gifts out of the trunks of cars or through sketchy-seeming eBay sellers. At a packed press conference at City Hall this morning, Mayor Mike Rawlings,…
A couple of months back the council’s Economic Development Committee got a look at Dallas’s workforce and jobs courtesy the Office of Economic Development, which asked: Does the city have the “wrong workforce or the wrong jobs?” Said the briefing, reiterating a familiar catchphrase uttered in recent years, the city’s…
Schutze’s must-read of the winter has finally arrived: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Dallas Floodway Environmental Assessment, in which we finally get a good look at the city and HNTB’s $30 million in proposed fixes for the Trinity River’s levees. Not sure when Jim will turn in his report;…
Likely bracing for the departure of free-agent hurler C.J. Wilson, the Texas Rangers have already inked former Minnesota Twins closer Joe Nathan to a two-year, $14.5 million contract and announced Neftali Feliz’s move to the starting rotation. But the efforts of general manager Jon Daniels and his staff to improve…
Far as lower-tier bowl games go, the second-ever TicketCity Bowl — to be played January 2 at 11 a.m. at the Cotton Bowl — is about as intriguing as it gets: The University of Houston (so, so, so close — a one-loss team, thanks to Southern Miss over the weekend)…
Alex Cox’s nutty, brilliant, baffling, beguiling, weird, wild, wonderful Walker’s at the Texas Theatre tonight, following a 35mm screening of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly; a good day for a double feature, no doubt. Cox, maker of Sid and Nancy and Repo Man, has actually been ’round town…
As it turns out, the United States Postal Service is looking at shuttering several post offices in the city — not just the main processing facility on IH-30, but also its locations in the Earle Cabell Federal Building (known as “Station C”), the Belmont Finance Station on Greenville Avenue and…
The most embarrassed I ever felt at a live show was April 16, 1993, at the old Bomb Factory in Deep Ellum — otherwise known as The Night Those Assholes Up Front Wouldn’t Leave Fugazi The Fuck Alone. I just relived it again, courtesy the Fugazi Live Series slowly rolling…
I just stumbled across an item of intrigue that’s presently for sale on eBay for the whopping buy-it-now price of $499. And it’s not just any ol’ auction item: This vintage photo, which comes on a 38″-by-58″ “ready-to-hang stretched canvas,” pulls in via the fine folks at the Ford Motor…
