Meant to mention this the last time I took Lemmon to work a few weeks back: Avoid it at all costs. But not for the usual reasons; not because it’s “the road to Fallujah,” as one Friend of Unfair Park called it a few months back. Well, OK, maybe it…
Clear Channel owns and operates six radio stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth market: KDGE-FM, KDGE-FM, KEGL-FM, KFXR-AM, KHKS-FM and KZPS-FM. But several times this morning, Friends of Unfair Park have sent this piece from Time Out Chicago that says at any moment, any or all of them could lose their…
Well, we had planned on following up this afternoon on two items of interest: Developer Craig Hall’s plans to fill the Arts District with giant signs attached to his Hall Arts Center, which we told you about Monday, and that much-debated, and that proposed Lower Greenville bowling alley next to…
Speaking of fashion statements printed on tees …Last year, round this time, Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington’s face graced many an unlicensed T-shirt, most of which also featured his then-inescapable catchphrase. But for whatever reason — the threat of cease-and-desists from the ball club and Major League Baseball, the ol’…
New Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is in for the first serious grassroots challenge to his leadership — a march on City Hall announced today by a broad-based coalition of young Southern Dallas leaders, Latino groups and the Dallas County Democratic Party. It’s that trash thing, back again to bite him…
Woke up this morning to find the in-box filled with missives from friends and fans of a man named Nathan Winograd — “the de-facto face of the ‘No Kill’ movement,” as Huffington Post called him last year, referring to efforts to stop animal shelters from euthanizing strays. Winograd, an attorney…
Maybe you remember: Back in June of last year, Vince Young — former Longhorn great, current Eagles not-great — got into it with a gentleman named Creiton Kinchen at the strip club Onyx off of Northwest Highway. At the time, story was Young didn’t take kindly to Kinchen’s flashing him…
A couple of weeks back we noted: The Deep Ellum Community Association is in desperate need of seed money to plant a long-in-the-works urban garden at Canton and Good-Latimer — $25,000, to be precise, for such things as benches, fences, tools and, ya know, plants. Hence their fund-raising efforts via…
Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to the Village Voice, the Observer’s New York sister paper, and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal,…
Several news outlets have reported in recent days that the Dallas Police Department is investigating the possible sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl at the Occupy Dallas camp near City Hall. The original report, from KTVT-Channel 11, cited an anonymous source within the police department who said that a 14-year-old…
Livin’ The Dream: Derek Holland from MLB Players on Vimeo.Found these on Vimeo this morning: behind-the-scenes glimpses into the lives of Mike Na-po-li! and Derek Holland. They were produced by the Major League Baseball Players Association, part of a post-season web series titled “Livin’ the Dream,” but appear to have…
Last night was a bit of a tease. Just after 5:30 p.m., Browder Plaza (outside the Dallas Power and Light Flats on Commerce Street) was packed with pedestrians mingling, snacking on street vendor food and enjoying drinks purchased at a kiosk on the square. City planners transformed the plaza into…
In the early days of the mayoral race, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle quietly proclaimed on his website that he wanted Dallas to become “No-Kill City,” meaning: With significant tweaks to its policies and procedures, Dallas Animal Services should be able to stop euthanizing strays. Six months later, the…
City Hall just sent word: At long last the city has submitted to the Department of Justice the new council districts map approved by the council on October 5. But that is hardly the entirety of the package sent to the DoJ yesterday: If you click here you’ll find the…
This morning’s New York Times looks at the NBA lockout and wonders whether all the owners — those from small markets, those with big payrolls, those losing money, those winning titles — are on the same page when it comes to demanding givebacks from their players. Long story short: Yes…
In February, you may recall, 34-year-old Henry Clay Glaspell walked into federal court in Fort Worth and admitted: He was the man who, on July 25, 2010, set fire to the playground equipment and spray-painted “explicit images” and “obscene anti-Muslim graffiti” in the parking lot at the Dar El-Eman Islamic…
I expected Derek Holland to finally realize his potential as a top-of-the-rotation arm in the American League Championship Series. That, of course, didn’t happen. But it turned out the Rangers didn’t need him to be great to win his Game 2 and Game 6 starts, as the Texas offense racked…
According to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Trinity Parkway will cost around $1.8 billion, give or take a few million. That money’s not there. But, hey, what’s the rush: As we mentioned this morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental impact statement on the Dallas Floodway…
Since we started catching rain in pans and writing down measurements, Texas has never gotten so little rainfall as we have this year. As we reported in our recent story on the cattle industry, we’re in uncharted territory. That’s why, in August, experts were anticipating another huge wave of cows…
So happened that Anna was hanging out at Chase Tower earlier today awaiting Occupy Dallasites who said they were going to parade, two by two, into the bank to close their accounts and transfer their dough into a credit union. Which is why Anna was joined by two very bored…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from or thought about Anna Fermanova, the so-called “sexy Russian spy” from Plano who said she wasn’t (well, at least the spy part) but nevertheless pleaded guilty in January to a single count of violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. Today, though,…
You may have noticed in recent days that Elm Street downtown is missing another one of its old buildings: the 70-year-old-or-so 1600 Elm, which was razed last week as part of the Joule expansion. We knew it was coming down; we just didn’t know when. Also on the chopping block:…
