Afternoon, Friends. I’m up here in City Hall’s good old room 6ES for the council’s Public Safety Committee meeting we told you about earlier today — on the menu are that upcoming police women reality-docu show and the Dallas Police Department’s pursuit policy. The cameras and media types are here…
The Unfair Park in-box has been filling up all morning with missives from local nonprofits requesting we visit the Donor Bridge TX website tomorrow — because yet again Communities Foundation of Texas is going to match donations made between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, otherwise known as “Get Up…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews Harrison Ford for Star Wars 1977 from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.First it appeared on The New York Times’s Web site this morning, courtesy fellow nostalgist Dave Itzkoff (who actually stumbled across it on The Daily Wh.at); then, MTV’s. This six-minute clip of Channel 5’s Bobbie Wygant interviewing Harrison…
Haven’t thought about Dan Hampton in a while. Some of you may not have ever heard of him. Hampton, a defensive tackle, played at Arkansas and then was a member of the famed 1985 Chicago Bears and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He’s always had a…
For months Theresa O’Donnell, director of the city’s Sustainable Development and Construction department, has been meeting with contractors and developers about how to loosen up the permit-granting, inspection-making logjam caused in recent months by departmental layoffs and other budget-busters. Says O’Donnell, TEXO, which reps most of the major commercial contractors…
Back in May, you may recall, JP Morgan analyst Jamie Baker kinda gave it to American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey during a first-quarter earnings conference call. Said Baker to Arpey, following a discussion of dwindling earnings and a vague “flight plan” for the future, “I guess you just don’t sound…
This afternoon’s meeting of the council’s Public Safety Committee should be a particularly good one; its agenda, covering everything from reality teevee shows to neighborhood crime watch groups to the latest crime stats, is action-packed. Andrea, but of course, will liveblog. But the item most likely to generate interest is…
On Saturday the Nasher Sculpture Center debuted its latest exhibit: Revelation: The Art of James Magee, the first time in almost 20 years the El Paso-based sculptor’s work has been collected and shown publicly. For the past quarter century, the lawyer-turned-cabbie-turned-artist has been hard at work on his hill –…
The Texas Rangers haven’t won a game since last Wednesday. They’ve dropped four in a row – including a 7-2 Labor Day thrashing at the hands of the Blue Jays in Toronto and one of the wildest, worst endings to a game you ever did see on Sunday in Minnesota…
As promised, photographer Carissa Byers and many others spent yesterday afternoon cleaning up the trash wasteland Dylan Hollingsworth discovered along White Rock Creek last week. KXAS-Channel 5 documented their doings — and interviewed the photographer for the story without ever ID’ing her. So I asked Carissa for her account of…
Labor Day, Schmabor Day. Yeah, I’m flying my flag today. But I’m also in here and on the radio at 105.3 The Fan. At work. And not complaining. Considering I’ve got friends who’ve been on unemployment going on a year now, I feel fortunate to have a gig – much…
Been telling anyone who would listen all summer that – stop the insanity – Sam Hurd would make the Dallas Cowboys’ final roster over Jesse Holley. Reasoning? Holley did nothing better than Hurd and owner Jerry Jones, in this “all in” season, would not let financial implications dilute his team’s talent. So there…
That’s 807 Elm Street at right, captured last month in a photo taken by our old pal Justin Terveen. Built in 1925, the building occupies 20,025 square feet in a parking lot between N. Austin and N. Lamar Streets facing El Centro. It was, once, among the assemblage of buildings…
To the list of Dallas-set-or-shot series airing in the fall — The Good Guys, Chase and Lone Star — add another heretofore unknown to us till it appeared on the city council Public Safety Committee’s agenda for Tuesday: Police Women of Dallas. It’ll air on the network formerly known as…
As we stroll from the ruins of the Baker Hotel lobby into what’s left of the dining room, Mark Rawlings points his flashlight through a hole in the paster ceiling, lighting an ornate stretch of the original moulding hidden underneath. Back in the ’50s, he tells me, an attempt to…
When I first met Angus Wynne some 20 years ago, when I was at the Dallas Times Herald, this photo was on his desk — a most impressive introduction. I remember asking him: “Were you friends with Jimi Hendrix?” But I didn’t remember his answer. So I called him this…
Every now and then I check to see if the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan website’s up and running, because ever since that jam-packed open house in late May it’s been little more than a new-site-coming-soon place-holder with a survey. But, sure enough, I clicked over from City Hall’s home page…
This weekend will mark two months since the last time Lisa Stone was seen in Dallas, and today a billboard went up at the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Northwest Highway with Stone’s photo and information on the $10,000 reward for information regarding her disappearance. The billboard was paid for…
OK. Back to the greenery — or brownery — along N. Central Expressway. I’ll keep it brief, but I did want to answer some Friends’ follow-ups questions from yesterday.This morning I got a call from Assistant Public Works Director Alan Hendrix, who knows more about this subject than anyone. He…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sent hizzoner’s weekly sked this morning, and it says that Wednesday night and Thursday morning (and, like, early Thursday morning) he’s got a date with the FIFA World Cup Soccer Site Selection Committee. Remember: Dallas is among the 18 cities that made…
The Oak Cliff spirit of urban development and community outreach, which we are physically incapable of not writing about here in the paper and online, continues — this time, with an urban planning storefront that’s the result of a partnership between the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce and the University…
Local private spaceflight player Armadillo Aerospace has always had a complex relationship with NASA. Like other NewSpace teams, they pretty much define themselves against the glacial pace and dense bureaucracy of government spaceflight — but at least until there’s a real market for space tourism and commercial cargo, NASA’s going…
