This just in from the Dallas Police Department: North Central patrol officer are currently pursuing a stolen Chevy pickup that was taken in a carjacking. That is all the information we have at this time. We will not know anything else until the pursuit ends. KDFW-Channel 4, of course, has…
The only person more obsessed with the fate of downtown-based Blockbuster than I is Fast Company’s Austin Carr, who’s spent the last two days posting an extended Q&A with the company’s head of digital strategy, Kevin Lewis. Yesterday’s interview was the more provocative of the two parts: Lewis went after…
This afternoon, City Hall spokesman Frank Librio forwarded a memo City Manager Mary Suhm sent to Mayor Tom Leppert and the council last night, in which Suhm broke some news: She found an extra $1.8 million with which to fund the city’s rec centers, whose hours she’s proposing to drastically…
Had a day off from 105.3 The Fan Wednesday (thank you, Texas Rangers) so – in between writing a Dallas Cowboys-centric Observer cover story that will hit stands September 2 – I caught up on some Tivo. Daily Show = Good. Entourage = Better. True Blood: More better. Family Guy =…
As I said after Mayor Tom Leppert’s huge convention center hotel victory, the man simply knows how to win. So that, combined with a sneak peek at Angela Hunt’s thoughts, didn’t make me fret about missing the big vote on the concessions at Dallas Love Field Airport. However, had I…
Speaking of library branches …Let’s return for a moment to the subject of vacant city buildings, chief among them the branches that have been replaced by new-and-improveds (like, say, boarded-up Walnut Hill and that canvas Casa View). Because when last we spoke with City Manager Mary Suhm about the subject…
When Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo drops back to pass Saturday night he’ll do it behind an offensive line missing 2/5th of its starters. Not. Good. Starting left guard Kyle Kosier is the latest casualty after his right knee was rolled into by a pile on a running play during Wednesday’s…
An intriguing invite just arrived in the Unfair Park in-box: On November 6, the Park and Rec Board is hosting a daylong summit at the Fair Park Music Hall, during which Mayor Tom will deliver a keynote before the limited-to-500-attendees go in their separate directions to learn how to become…
10. Gawd, that was ugly. A three-game sweep – including an 8-6 loss Wednesday – at one of the best teams in baseball isn’t that big of a deal when your injury-riddled lineup looks like the JV, but still … that looked like the same ol’ Rangers of shitty years…
Late last night, a Friend of Unfair Park sent word that this morning Mayor Tom Leppert would be inviting media to the City Hall Flag Room to announce that Comerica will be “adopting” the North Oak Cliff Branch Library with “a large donation.” Said the note, “It will be in…
Late last night, after a long day sluggin’ it out with the council (Carolyn Davis especially) over those Love Field concessions contracts, Mayor Tom Leppert sent out a conciliatory congratulations e-blast with the subject header “Love Field decision will benefit Dallas.” The decision, for those who missed it: The city…
Please, for the love of God and Mike Krzyzewski, it’s David Buehler—pronounced BEE-lurr. I know, the Dallas Cowboys’ kicker hasn’t attempted an NFL regular-season field goal. And no one, including his own teammates, fully trusts him yet from 44 yards with the game on the line. But after last year’s…
Bonnie and Clyde have chewed up the cord that connects their automatic food bowl to its solar-powered battery, which is why they are baaaaa-ing mercilessly at Andrew Howard, the 34-year-old bespectacled goat enthusiast who spends most evenings feeding and watering his two charges in the summer heat. Howard leashes up…
What, no lawsuit?: Civil rights lawyer Mike Daniel didn’t even wait for us to ask a question when he answered the phone. So, he said laughing, the Observer wants to know where’s the lawsuit in the fight over Cliff Manor, the Dallas Housing Authority apartment building at the center of…
We’ve all been hearing for months that upon Dallas Independent School District students’ return to school next week, they’d find among their lunchtime offerings considerably healthier dishes than the slim pickings of yore. But with first bell but days away, and not much time before that ol’ game of “Bring…
‘Round 3 on Monday afternoon, the day after crews coated the hothothothot stainless-steel playground at Main Street Garden, Andrea was supposed meet Park and Rec officials to see if they were satisfied with the cool-down offered by the spray-on. She waited an hour, had a tea at the Lily Pad,…
Following up the Poor People’s March on City Hall in June, activist John Fullinwider (seen above “as” Mayor Tom) and his band of bikini’d protesters took their fight to save the city’s swimming pools to 1500 Marilla at noon sharp today, as promised. Alas, this time ’round no council members…
My old pal Tearlach Hutcheson just called to say the Studio Movie Grill has decided to shutter its first location, the original Addison outpost on Belt Line Road. Matter of fact, after 12 years in operation, it’s closing tomorrow night — right after the last reel of the last screening…
Hold up on that Gilt Groupe purchase you were about to make and take a moment to think of the children — specifically, the five children of Ross Perot, who’ve given $10 million each to the future Perot Museum of Nature and Science expansion, presently under construction at Victory Park…
The great Dave Levinthal decamped from the City Hall beat in the spring of ’09 for the Center for Responsive Politics, where we find this item of some local interest: Emmitt Smith, freshly minted Pro Football Hall of Famer, is also a generous federal-campaign contributor — the only one among…
He’s back. Our hatred never left…
Countless times, Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander has said: The district has no plans to raze W.H. Adamson High School, due for an expansion sooner than later. But the district also doesn’t want the historic Oak Cliff school designated as a city landmark — which, after tonight’s meeting…
