Right on schedule, City Hall’s Thoroughfare Committee next Thursday will finally get around to something that’s been on Downtown Dallas’s to-do list since ’06: converting several downtown streets from one-way to two-way. The ’06 bond program funded, among others, the overhauls of Akard from Pacific to Commerce; Federal from Field…
Texas Rangers fans know, sooner or later, Tom Hicks will no longer own the club — probably not before the trade deadline, not in time to get Cliff Lee, but some day. Soon. Ish. And besides, for now, there’s an 11-game win streak to cushion the blow; even better when…
For the last couple of days — in the comments, via e-mail and even voice mail — I’ve been hearing that toward the end of Progress Dallas’s petition drive to get the wet-dry vote on the ballot, some signature-gatherers were also gathering names on behalf of the Green Party’s GOP-funded…
Dunno if you heard but they broke ground on Museum Tower in the Arts District today — only took several years and $200 million from the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System. They should be done building the 42-story, 122-unit, nothing-under-a-million tower in, oh, ’round two years, give or take…
Here’s what happened: I recently read a review of some book written by some guy from Dallas called Men Don’t Heal, We Ho on Dallas South News. I was intrigued by the healing and the ho’ing. I wanted to know more. So I asked the writer and publisher of the…
So, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn just — and I mean just — ordered mediation in the Texas Rangers’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Which means …? Long story short: The sale of Your Texas Rangers won’t wrap in early July, which was the best-case scenario following Judge Lynn’s ruling earlier…
Hard to say when Andy Siegel’s going to file his lawsuit against the city of Dallas in which he will claim that the city council called an illegal local option election concerning the sale of beer and wine citywide. He told me last night it should be today; I’ve also…
Just returned from the Blockbuster shareholder meeting downtown, where a most curious thing happened: CEO Jim Keyes, whose company has spent the better part of a month slapping down so-called “dissident shareholder” Greg Meyer, announced that after a “colorful proxy fight,” Meyer has been added to the board of directors…
Of course Jerry Jones would never diddle with the most sacred star in sports, but you might be seeing a tweaked Dallas Cowboys’ uniform this season. Why? Hi-Definition TV, that’s why. For years and years and years me and my brother have wondered why the Cowboys’ home pants looked -…
Steve Lundeen of Seattle sent me an e-mail. Said he’d posted more photos of Dallas to the NickDeWolf archives on Flickr. When last we looked, there were 76. But that was last week. Today, the number’s up to a few hundred. And they’re not just of Nick’s trip to the…
After a week of previews, tomorrow night the Dallas Theater Center officially debuts its revisal of the 1966 Broadway smash flop musical It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman! — maybe you’ve heard. And, as I noted, Patrick Cassidy reprises the role of villainous Max Mencken originally…
Not expecting a lot from the Dallas Mavericks in tonight’s NBA Draft. They don’t have a first-round pick – Jason Kidd-for-Devin Harris ring a bell? – and own only the 50th overall selection, which, as we know, is about as valuable these days as mittens in Mesquite. The Mavericks haven’t hit…
A 1998 Washington Post story about Krandel Lee Newton, electrical engineer turned West End Marketplace artist, described his technique thusly:Not since Masaccio birthed the Italian Renaissance by realistically depicting a three-dimensional scene upon a flat canvas has an artist emerged with such transformational potential as Krandel Lee Newton. Newton …..
Dan Beebe is David Blaine. With the boxed body of the Big 12 Conference seemingly sawed into pieces and displaced from coast to coast, the embattled commissioner of our state’s prestigious football fraternity last week dramatically, magically reassembled the body parts into a living, breathing, working whole. Presto! The result…
With the temperatures rising just as sharply as discretionary income is falling, we could all use a drink. Preferably cold. Definitely cheap. Thankfully, they’re pretty easy to find. Happy hours have become all but mandatory at bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. “I’m not sure happy hours necessarily drive business,…
Insane in the membrane: It’s gotta be a brain tumor. What else can explain the words our tree-hugging fingers are about to type? To wit: U.S. Representative Joe Barton might have had a (garbled) point when he apologized last week to BP chief Tony Hayward. His first apology, we mean,…
[Update at 9:14 p.m.: So, for those still with us at this late hour (and, really, why?), the council’s back — and City Secretary Deborah Watkins has just announced that Progress Dallas did indeed gather “a sufficient number of signatures” to trigger a November 2 election regarding the sale of…
Mayor Tom Leppert just stopped down the city council’s meeting to announce that, yes indeed, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and Ron Natinsky and Friends of Fair Park’s Craig Holcomb have managed to resurrect the Fair Park Fourth … on July 5. And they’ve done so with the donations of…
About 75 people gathered outside Dallas City Hall today — accompanied by a 20-foot banner that said, “To Redeem the Soul of America” — and accused city leaders of waging ideological war on the poor. The Poor People’s March on City Hall Plaza didn’t march anywhere but did aim a…
Tweak it. Or trash it. That’s the charge from the bankruptcy judge in the Texas Rangers’ proposed sale from Tom Hicks to Chuck Greenberg. When the judge decries that the Rangers have to modify their current plan – but not add more money to the deal – it seems like…
Jim returned a short while ago from the Poor People’s March. Drenched in sweat, grime, fury, he saw, through our office window, the Calatrava bridge’s center arch now, suddenly, this close to completion. He shrugged, sighed.Said he hoped that garish monstrosity wouldn’t close the Continental Avenue Bridge between now and…
It’s been a long while since we’ve made mention of the New LBJ Freeway — like, since February 2009, when the Texas Department of Transportation announced that an international consortium called LBJ Development Partners — which includes Spanish-based Cintra, French-based Meridiam Infrastructure Finance and other local firms — would be…
