Mayor Tom Leppert hasn’t formally announced his candidacy for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s gig just yet, but he hired Republican fund-raiser Shelly Carson last year as his finance director and paid her nearly $75,000, according to campaign finance reports. Carson has yet to return a phone call placed to her office…
Yesterday ESPN and Texas agree to a 20-year, $300 million deal to launch a 24-hour Longhorn network in September. Planned programming includes sports, original series, studio shows, historical programming and academic and cultural events. More precisely ESPN/UT hopes to televise at least one exclusive football game, eight men’s basketball games,…
This morning’s Denver Post details the relationship between our West Village and Denver’s Larimer Square, its sister shopping center — a love affair that began 12 years ago, turns out, when Denver developers came to Dallas and hired Urban Partners’ David Levine (Director of Vision and Vibe, best title ever)…
At the stroke of midnight this morning, the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M released its annual Urban Mobility Report, which promises a look at “the most accurate picture yet of traffic congestion in the 439 U.S. urban areas.” Long story short, after two years of slight declines in the…
Musical chairs: Here Buzz was, ready to weigh in on The Very Important Issue of where D Magazine editor Tim Rogers sends his kid to pre-kindergarten, when our own Jim Schutze, who had already filed a column this week, decided HE wanted to write about Rogers instead. Damn. But Buzz…
Surveying the current sports landscape dominated by Jason Garrett’s staff, Dirk Nowtizki’s knee, Michael Young’s role and, oh yeah, the imminent arrival of Super Bowl XLV, it’s difficult to fathom a time when hockey mattered. But there was a period—back when Garrett was a quarterback, Nowitzki was a rookie, Young…
Before it starved to death last May, the cat could be heard by shelter workers, crying and clawing, trying to escape the confines of the break room wall behind which it had become trapped at Dallas Animal Services. Cats do especially badly in animal shelters, naturally preferring dark, quite repose…
Last week came word: The Old Monk and The Dallasite had been robbed at gunpoint. Dallas police did not think the two were related — the former was violently robbed by three men who came in through the back door after hours; the latter, by a lone gunman who, moments…
We’re back in not-so-executive session, breezing through the rest of the council’s agenda so Mayor-For-Now Tom Bailey Leppert can hop a flight for his swan song at the US Council of Mayors. First, though, Dave Neumann apologizes for his last motion to defer the gas drilling applications till October 12…
Back in September, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it had arrested several alleged members of “violent local street gangs,” which included the Highland Hills Posse and the NFL Boyz. Among those snapped up during “Operation Greedy Grove” was 31-year-old Ronald Alexander, otherwise known as “Ron Don,” who today pleaded…
Everybody who lives to be 100 years old should get a party in their honor at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. That should simply be a fact of life. It isn’t, though, and for now we’ll have to settle with celebrating the centennials of only the most influential of…
John Rhadigan. Great guy. Good voice. Only question marks are: 1. He’s funny, which we’ve learned team president Nolan Ryan doesn’t necessarily appreciate. 2. He’s never done baseball play-by-play. Ever…
I’m wedged into the corner of the briefing room at City Hall — no complaints, because really, Brad Watson needs his legroom. The council’s running through its various opening proclamations — Delia Jasso just introduced Oak Cliff’s Better Block Bunch right now, including Jason Roberts and council challenger Scott Griggs,…
My cell phone is still packed with photos I took of my dad and son in front of the Preston Center Metro Grill on its final day of operations in August 2008. And now this? Teresa Gubbins breaks the news that the Gaston Avenue Metro, an institution since ’68, is…
The rumor’s been circulating for days that John Rhadigan would replace ousted-in-October Josh Lewin as the teevee play-by-play man for the Texas Rangers, pairing him with analyst Tom Grieve. The team just made it official in a release that follows in full. But long story short: Chuck Greenberg and Nolan…
Was pondering the disappointing Dallas Cowboys season and I decided to come up with one of my patented Top 10 lists that you guys are so fond of despise. Looking for the season’s crossroads plays, I got out my schedule and started thinking about the opener in Washington Sunday night,…
On Monday we took a couple of looks at bcWORKSHOP’s public-art installation known as 5750Dallas, intended to spark a conversation about homelessness and consumption and so forth. It certainly got noticed — by Dallas Code Compliance, which wants ’em vanished by week’s end, per last night’s WFAA lead-off piece. Shouldn’t…
The Dallas Police Department just sent word: Yesterday, a DPD detective arrested 36-year-old Michael D’Spain on a warrant for an improper relationship with a student. D’Spain was arrested at Farine Elementary School in Irving, where, according to his Linkedin profile, he’s been teaching since August. But DPD says the arrest…
Something I thought I’d never write in 2011: Todd Dodge is the new quarterbacks coach at Pitt. By now I figured Dodge — who ascended from historic success at Southlake Carroll High School to a gig at North Texas — would be choosing from primo Division I jobs in the wake of…
It wasn’t so long ago that Lily Tomlin, Bea Arthur, Ruth Buzzi and Emmylou Harris were among those demanding that the city of Dallas move Jenny the Elephant to the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee. But the city resisted, insisting that its then-forthcoming Giants of the Savanna habitat would quell all…
Last time we saw Tony Romo in action he was sprawled out on his back October 25 at Cowboys Stadium, victim of a vicious sack that resulted in a broken collar bone. Eventually placed on injured reserve, Romo missed the Cowboys’ final 10 games of the disastrous season. Even though he’s…
Big high-five for Westlake this morning: That tiny town in Tarrant (and Denton) County, once the playground of Nelson Bunker Hunt, has been named by Forbes as The Most Affluent Neighborhood in America, based upon the recently released U.S. Census Bureau Community Survey. The annual median income in Westlake is…
