Speaking of Quality of Life …At the end of January, the council committee debuted a short film titled The Shopping Cart Menace!, which tallied up the number of abandoned carts in and around Vickery Meadow (spoiler alert: 40 espied during a 20-minute look-see) and demanded the council “pass an ordinance…
10. As of this morning, the Dallas Observer is out of the sports business, at least on a full-time basis. Though I’m not technically being fired (“laid off” is supposedly less damning), the paper and its owner, Village Voice Media, have decided to eliminate its full-time sportswriting position. It’s called downsizing. And yes,…
There are a couple of council committee meetings worth keeping an eye on today; we’re spending lunch with Transportation and Environment at 1, matter of fact, where the North Texas Clean Air Steering Committee’s Oil and Gas Task Force, LBJ Express and Complete Streets are on the action-packed agenda. Ah,…
As the redistricting process goes on (and on and on), you might expect the public to become less involved, especially when a meeting takes place late on a college-football Saturday afternoon. But, in fact, the opposite seems to be true: Yesterday’s public forum, like the one in August, was packed,…
Yes, as a matter of fact, they did close the 7-Eleven on Lowest Greenville this morning — at midnight, almost to the second. And, at just past midnight, the sidewalks — which, moments before, had been thick with club-goers shuffling from drink special to drink special at the Pussycat Lounge,…
Probably should have broken this week’s stack into about 12 different items, seeing as how one of the docs is 178 pages (many redundant) just on flow control, which involves forcing all solid-waste collectors in the city to dump everything at the city’s McCommas Bluff Landfill or other city transfer…
Way back in April of last year we revisited The Greatest Concert Ever, or so they say: The Clash at the Bronco Bowl on June 6, 1982. But tonight, we go back even further than that — to the old Palladium on October 6, 1979, when Joes Strummer and Ely…
Once more, we return to Lowest Greenville Avenue, which tonight will see cops and code out in force to enforce the planned development district ordinance that officially kicks in at one second after midnight. Which, of course, you already knew.Since last we addressed this issue this morning, there have been…
Mike Modano, the highest-scoring American-born player in the history of the National Hockey League and the face of the Dallas Stars even after he signed to Detroit for a final season, stifled a sob as he bade farewell to those who shaped his legendary career, which included 12 70-point seasons,…
Given the standing-room-only turnout for the Redistricting Commission’s August 20 public hearing, I have no doubt the council chambers will again be jam-packed tomorrow, when the city council meets to discuss those 10 proposed amendments to the commission’s submission(s). I mean, after yesterday’s preview performance, that’s going to be some…
That beer and wine lawsuit’s never going away. But the city’s lawsuit against the Museum of the American Railroad in Fair Park, which first pulled on to the tracks in January 2010, is officially over. As of yesterday, matter of fact, which I discovered when pulling up that court jacket…
You knew this was coming; you were warned.While searching the Dallas County Civil District Court’s website for something unrelated, I took a look at the virtual case jacket concerning the lawsuit over the citywide sale of beer and wine — a suit brought by attorneys Andy Siegel and Leland de…
To the pile of reality series making camp in Dallas (Most Eligible Dallas , The A-List: Dallas, Storage Wars: Dallas featuring Roy Williams and on and on), add at least two more: HGTV’s My First Place and Lifetime’s America’s Supernanny. Sooner or later, you will wind up in front of…
Now then, back to the continuing saga of Lowest Greenville …Last night, a certain Barking Dog tagged along as officers from the city’s Code Compliance were out warning business owners that if they don’t have one of those specific use permits allowing them to stay open after midnight, they’ll be…
By now you’ve likely come across the line Republican strategist Mike Murphy dropped on the Twittersphere a while back, in which he likened listening to Rick Perry talk to “watching a chimp play with a locked suitcase.” Well, last night Perry got another chance to play with the suitcase, as…
Came across this on the city’s website: an invite to an open house at R.L. Turner on Tuesday, during which Texas Department of Transportation officials will discuss a project that, as Jim noted only yesterday, the North Texas Tollway Authority wants no part of — the expansion of IH35 from…
Turns out, Rick Perry was right after all.What you see at right is a slide I received last night from a fellow Dallas Independent School District parent. It was, until this morning, available on the district’s Curriculum Central website, accessible only to teachers and administration and a resource for instructors…
It’s been all of three years, almost to the day, since then-Mayor Tom Leppert and Tennell Atkins played a game of catch on the Cotton Bowl field to formally commemorate the end of $57 million worth of redos, $30 million of which was paid for out of the 2006 bond…
Most Friends of Unfair Park know John Slate as Dallas’s Official City Archivist working out of the City Secretary’s Office in City Hall. The man’s a treasure. But, of course, he’s a movie star too, by which I mean he starred in one movie: Richard Linklater’s Slacker, which celebrates its…
The Census Bureau released a lot of data this morning, including the 2010 American Community Survey Single Year Estimates; we’ll get to that once we look over the charts and graphs — fun! But among the docs dumped is Commuting in the United States: 2009, which says, among other things,…
Yesterday, upon the occasion of Mike Modano’s retirement announcement, several Friends of Unfair Park asked if the Dallas Stars would sign him to a short-lived contract so the single-season Detroit Red Wing could exit the National Hockey League with the team that first signed him. When I asked Stars spokesman…
Some are good. Some are getting better. But only a select few are the best. When it comes to our annual Best of Dallas issue I’ve made it easy this year. For those of you too cheap to “buy” a paper that’s absolutely free, just sit back in your boxers and click,…
