Moments ago — and that is no exaggeration — James “Big Bucks” Burnett finally signed the lease that will allow him to set up the Eight Track Museum that’s been in the works ever since the October 2009 exhibition at the Barry Whistler Gallery. As proof, Bucks sends this lease-signing…
Back in April, we told you about Angela Hunt’s decision to reconsider her August 2008 vote to shut down Woodard Paint & Body Shop and develop a compromise to allow the family-owned business to remain at its location on Ross Avenue where it opened 90 years ago. The dozens of…
Tom Hicks is friends with Brian Mulroney, who served as Canadian prime minister from September 1984 to June 1993 — and was, at one time, a senior counselor to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Anyway. In the you-gotta-pay-to-read-it UK Times today, Mulroney op-eds about Liverpool fans’ vilification of Hicks. Long…
Andrea’s headed back from Dallas City Hall, where she stopped by the 21st Century City Shindig to katch some Kotkin. But before she left, she caught City Manager Mary Suhm’s noontime announcements concerning big doings down on the Trinity. This is what Andrea just posted in the comments:ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. “I…
Feliz morning, Unfair Amigos! I rolled into City Hall a few minutes ago and found myself standing amid many trendily slacks-ed, bottle-rim bespectacled folks up here in the sixth-floor council chambers. Those New Urbanists, they are a good-looking, if easily spotted, bunch. We’re here for the 21st Century City Conference…
So says Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff Chris Heinbaugh in this just-posted Gay Travel look-see at the city. It accompanies these out-and-abouts on Cedar Springs, at Fair Park, the W Hotel in Victory Park, Gay Bingo, Cyclone Anaya’s, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the original Sonny Bryan’s.Just don’t try…
About a month ago we gave you the heads-up that Dallas City Hall would be overrun all day today with planners and politicians looking for a home in the heart of the 21st Century city. Fingers crossed a few of us’ll have time enough to slip in and out during…
Back in ’08, federal agents snatched up Melvis “Ty” Denman and several others charged with being part of a ginormous pot-selling operation; Denman pleaded guilty a year later and is presently serving a lengthy stint in the pokey. But the U.S. Marshals Service still had in its possession one of…
Back in August, I drove out east to Jefferson to get a lesson in paranormal investigation at the Pride House, Texas’ first bed and breakfast and noted haunt spot favored by Southern Paranormal Investigations and Upshur Paranormal. I’m not sure if the house is inhabited by ghosts, but I do…
Our own Danny Fulgencio was downtown this afternoon for the Veterans Day parade. He sends back these images, with (Update) many more in a slide show.May I also recommend this touching tribute by good friend of the show Bill Holston that appeared in this morning’s paper…
Dallas, at least as of this very moment, is all-wet when it comes to the off-premise sale of beer and wine. And as Rudy Bush noted this morning, there hasn’t exactly been a rush to the Oak Cliff Municipal Center’s permit office — in large part because of the city…
Danny Cain does not and never has worked for the Dallas Independent School District. He does not and never has worked for Hewlett Packard. And yet yesterday, two federal agencies announced that he was awarded a chunk of HP’s $16.25-million settlement over wrongdoing at the district having to do with…
Back on October 21, you’ll recall that the City Plan Commission narrowly voted to deny XTO Energy’s application to set up gas drilling along Mountain Creek Lake. The City Council’s likely to have their final say sometime next month, but in the meantime, XTO’s gearing up for yet another day…
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a crowd of pro-life advocates gathered at the Majestic Theatre last night that the largest advance in the abortion industry has been the passage of Obamacare and called Barack Obama “the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy the White House.” Palin, introduced…
Couple virgin voyages for me this week. Last weekend I went to a motorcycle gang party. (Scary.) And Saturday night I’m going to a championship fight. As in big-time boxing. (Psyched.) I’m more into UFC these days, but I’m looking forward to Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito at Cowboys Stadium. Supposed to be…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department: It’s asking for the public’s help in finding 85-year-old Schley Ervin and 84-year-old wife Elsie. According to the Critical Missing Persons bulletin just sent to media, yesterday afternoon — sometime between 1:45 and 5:45 — the couple left their home in the…
On Veterans Day we stop — if only for a minute — to thank all those who have served in our military and fought to provide us the freedom to do things like vote, drink beer, sleep in if we want and, of course, blog insanely and/or sharply and anonymously criticize those…
The new/interim head coach of the Dallas Cowboys made some changes on his first day in charge at Valley Ranch. Mostly, players were met by this message — in all caps, and in red — on the daily grease board when they arrived: FULL PADS. “I was like ‘Whoa’,” says linebacker DeMarcus Ware. “That…
Back in February, we took a long, hard look at the 107-year-old Davy Crockett School on Carroll Avenue, a designated city historic landmark since 1993. Long story short: The Dallas Independent School District shipped its students to Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary in ’89, repurposed the building as administrative offices, and, about…
On Tuesday we got a couple of sneak peeks at the Lower Greenville of the future — meaning, the end of next year, all things go according to plan. Late yesterday, council member Angela Hunt, who’s spearheading the streetscaping with Pauline Medrano, posted to her blog a recap of this…
Frank Campagna Many a young artist’s career has been launched from the walls of Frank Campagna’s Kettle Art Gallery since it opened on Elm Street in November 2005. Campagna, 54, has an open-door policy for unknown, un-shown artists. Drop in, and if he likes your stuff, you’re up in the…
Get this Tea Party started: Well, that didn’t take long. If you wanted a hint of how next year’s session of the new tea-soaked Texas Legislature is going to go, then consider this: State Representative Debbie Riddle camped out at the Statehouse over the weekend to be the first in…
