Two months ago, TXI made a big deal out of shutting down four wet-process cement kilns in Midlothian — a move hailed by Jim Schermbeck, head of Dallas-based Downwinders at Risk, as “the culmination of a 21-year fight that began in 1989 by a group of residents who found that…
Click to embiggen for a look-see at what the Garland Road Vision visionaries envision, per today’s council briefingGoing on four years now, residents and stakeholders along and near Garland Road — at least, the stretch of Texas State Highway 78 between Interstate 635 and where it splits into Gaston and…
Just wanted to get your day off to a kick-ass start. Find yourself dragging? Remember, the stage is set and, yes, the lights are indeed on. Wait, the guy in his face and seemingly most hypnotized by Reverend Brooking is none other than Tashard Choice. Did Brooking shout some marching orders…
Photo by Andrea GrimesA finished garden planter is born in Deep Ellum last Saturday.More than 30 folks came out to the Deep Ellum Community Day on Saturday, many of whom Deep Ellum Community Association president Randee Smith didn’t know from Adam (Hats). Which, for Smith, is saying something: She spends…
Tom CaseyIf that Los Angeles Times piece at the end of August is to be believed, Elm Street-based Blockbuster should be filing a prepackaged bankruptcy, oh, any day now. Question is: Does the latest bit of big news outta Renaissance Tower suggest Chapter 11’s forthcoming sooner than later? In a…
Saturday evening marked a big finish to Ella Garrett’s long, tough summer, with a party full of neighbors and friends outside her new house — the sixth home built by bcWorkshop’s Congo Street Initiative along Jubilee Park’s historic, improbably narrow stretch of road. June was the hardest for Garrett, who…
SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership — a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that’ll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in SMU’s Lyle School…
As Robert pointed out below, Go Oak Cliff hosted the inaugural Blues, Bandits and Barbecue street party and Better Block Redux this weekend around the Kessler, where a clay conceptual model of Stevie Ray Vaughan was on display. While I didn’t see Anderson Cooper roaming around, there were plenty of…
Lots of blame to go around for Redskins 13, Cowboys 7. As he tends to do, offensive coordinator Jason Garrett got too cute. Felix Jones touches the ball only 10 times. In the Red Zone the Cowboys try a halfback pass with Marion Barber. On special teams David Buehler misses…
So, back on Wednesday, when it was, ya know, raining, more than a few Friends of Unfair Park wondered: Why, whenever it rains, does the city’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction-cam revert to a dry, sunny day — in this instance, August 29? I asked Frank Librio at Dallas City…
Below, Andrea’s still liveblogging today’s tax-hike showdown at City Hall — and Dwaine Caraway just wrapped up his prolonged, passionate north-vs.-south speech, which was accompanied by a video presentation filled with boarded-up, burned-down houses and trash-and-weed-strewn lawns in the southern sector. At some point today the council members will also…
Same as we shouldn’t get too low with the Dallas Cowboys, let’s not get too high with the Texas Rangers. Because, well … oh eff it. You know what, let’s do get high. I know the Rangers didn’t face C.C. Sabathia or Andy Pettite, but sweeping the New York Yankees…
Barry KoodaAs I was otherwise occupied yesterday, my wife and the 7-year-old who lives in our house made it over to Oak Cliff for the Blues, Bandits and Barbeque wingding, from which our own Kevin Todora returned with this slide show. But the weekend’s event also marked the return of…
Bon matin, Mes Amis de le Parc Qui Est Unfair. Overflow crowd this morning at the City Council Budget Meeting in 6ES, and Tom Leppert, pin-striped as ever, has just told the packed house to sit tight while they figure out what to do with everyone. Atmosphere is stuffy and…
Some killer filler this early a.m. before the showdown at City Hall: Speaking of: Ann Margolin has posted to her website “10 Reasons Why a Tax Increase is a Terrible Idea.” (And by “terrible,” I assume she means terrrrrrible. Anyway.) Margolin, of course, is among the handful of council members…
10. Cruel. The Cowboys fans in my house erupted in ecstasy as Roy Williams caught what appeared to be the game-winning touchdown, only to seconds later be stabbed in the heart by agony in the form of Alex Barron’s game-ending holding penalty. Cruel, but fair. Lots of crap to talk…
Mayor Tom Leppert has said it time and again: No tax hike. No way, no how. But in case you missed it the first 29 times, his e-vite to tomorrow morning’s council budget briefing serves as yet another just-say-no note in which he takes aim at Angela Hunt and the…
We’re but days away from the due-by date for the FY2010-11 budget, which will dominate much of the council’s time this week and next; City Hall expects so many speakers at Monday’s budget briefing that the mayor will convene the council in chambers at 9 a.m. before moving everyone upstairs…
Back in April I interviewed Ray Manzarek for When You’re Strange, Tom DiCillo’s doc about The Doors. I thought I’d lost the transcript till earlier this week, when I stumbled across it in a virtual file folder buried amongst the clutter kept in this creaky computer’s dark, musty recesses. There…
Dallas CountyGreg KitchenOn January 22, a 32-year-old Dallas County Jail inmate named Gregory Kitchen was pepper-sprayed — twice, in the face — by guards who, according to a report released in March, also choked him from behind while kneeling on his back. Less than a minute later, he stopped breathing…
Perhaps you’ve heard of Tiffany Lonsdale, who counts among her stage-and-screen credits Bedroom Farce at Theatre Three, several commercials and a few indie productions. Clearly, she has plenty of friends: Many of them have e-mailed in recent days begging us to push her attempt to land a walk-on role on…
Speaking of conceptual renderings …Just because the Downtown Connection TIF District Review Committee canceled its meeting yesterday for lack of a quorum doesn’t mean you can’t look at the Grand Ricchi Dallas design docs that were passed out ahead of time. Whenever the committee finally does get together, it’ll discuss…
