When Unfair Park across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Gallery guesstimated that a copy of Detective Comics No. 27 — featuring the first-ever appearance of Batman — would sell for upwards of $425,000, folks thought that was awful high. Because last time a copy of the comic in this near-near-mint condition sold…
Only Tuesday we wondered how much longer the Dallas Independent School District — and, for that matter, the city and its code enforcement officers — would allow the boarded-up 107-year-old Davy Crockett School in East Dallas to fall to pieces. The district no longer has offices there; it hasn’t been…
From across the street and seven stories up, we’ve had a bird’s-eye view of Harlan Crow’s redo of the original Parkland Hospital, now the HQ for Crow Holdings. We’ve heard tales of extraordinary doings in, on and around the ever-expanding campus (which now includes a new building, Woodlawn Hall), and…
The great Lauren Bacall’s speaking at the Nasher Sculpture Garden on the evening of March 11 — though, sorry, her NasherSALON appearance sold out long ago. But the Nasher’s peoples send word, and this visual reminder, that a “limited number of tickets are available” for “an opportunity for an even…
Went to Leonard Davis’ house last week and – let me confirm – his dwelling suits him. As in, gigantic. Davis, a Pro Bowl lineman for your Dallas Cowboys, is getting serious about music and his skyrocketing group Free Reign. This off-season he’s taking bass guitar lessons from veteran Dallas musician…
My wife just dropped by our son’s Northwest Dallas DISD elementary school to do some volunteer work in the library. But as soon as she arrived, best I can tell, the principal put Everette Lee DeGolyer on lockdown. Why? I called the front office as soon as I got my…
Speaking of downtown Dallas …Marketplace, which earlier this week took in the art show held in that abandoned WaMu box on Greenville Avenue, today takes a look at downtown’s vacant office buildings — specifically, the shuttering of Elm Place at the end of January. The question is: Will the former…
We already knew Blockbuster’s fourth quarter was a disaster — CEO Jim Keyes warned as much a month ago, when, ahead of yesterday’s release of FY2009 financials, he said “our performance during the holidays was well below expectations.” But the entire year proved a disappointment, as the Dallas-based videotailer said…
This afternoon at 2, the council’s Economic Development Committee will finally get around to discussing the need for a downtown parking study that will supplement the Downtown Dallas 360 plan due to the council by summer’s end. (The committee never got around to it last week, after bogging down on…
Was that a statement game? Or merely one of 82? Playing without Caron Butler (who missed the game after an adverse reaction to medication, not because he ran out of Mountain Dew or straws), the Dallas Mavericks beat the Los Angeles Lakers in a playoff-intense game at American Airlines Center…
At 6 feet 6 inches, 365 pounds and one of the strongest dudes to ever play in the National Football League, Dallas Cowboys’ Pro Bowl offensive lineman Leonard “Bigg” Davis could crush me with his thumb. Instead, he’s going to play me a lullaby. “This puts my daughters right to…
Trend surfing: You might as well start practicing right now, so you can get used to it. Say these words: Governor Rick Perry, four more years. Why is Buzz predicting the return of Mr. Hot Hair to office? Well, he’s leading the polls in his primary race and, so far,…
Can an entire city reverse field? From World War II until now, the beckoning horizon in Dallas has been the cool, air-conditioned neighborhoods north, where houses are new and low-slung, lawns are pool-table smooth and garage doors open by themselves. But if North Dallas has been the city’s field of…
Before I head out for the day, a little housekeeping …First off, if you live near Hillcrest and Alpha Roads, mazel tov! Not only do you live next to Temple Shalom and the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, but according to this list, you also reside in Dallas’s safest neighborhood…
Maybe you heard: Former Dallas city council member Diane Ragsdale still wants voters in Texas House District 100 to cast their ballots for Terri Hodge — guilty plea be damned. Said Ragsdale last week, nothing against Eric Johnson, “it’s about enhancing participation and preventing a situation where we have representation…
As Dallas County Judge Jim Foster told us February 15, after releasing the first of three reports as part of former FBI agent Danny Defenbaugh’s investigation of the constables, the second report regarding Kwanzaa Fest alleges that approximately 49 deputy constables under Jaime Cortes and Derick Evans earned more than…
SMU just sent word: Its first TED event, held last October on the Hilltop, was such a smash success that the university’s bringing it back to Dallas October 15 and 16. Alas, it won’t take place on the SMU campus: It’s moving to the Wyly Theatre, whose architect, Joshua Prince…
OK, so Sam’s still working on his John Wiley press conference piece. But here’s something even better, if I do say so myself: Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes’s lawsuit, just filed in Dallas County District Court, in which he calls for the removal of Dallas County Judge Jim Foster. We’d…
WFAA-Channel 8 trailed along yesterday as the Institute for Justice’s Matt Miller went door to door along Jefferson Boulevard asking business owners to put in their windows the sign you see here. Maybe you recall: Back in November, the Institute for Justice sued the city, claiming the 2008 city ordinance…
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told me late in the season on 105.3 The Fan that he never thought kicker Nick Folk was fully healthy. The dude has off-season hip surgery. There was that thing with his holder, etc. Kickers are a quirky lot. I get that. I figured – being…
Sam’s just returned from Dallas County Commissioners Court, where John Wiley Price called a press conference to refute the allegations made in the latest Danny Defenbaugh report, which alleges that “at least 22 Dallas County Precinct 1 and 5 Deputy Constables were intimidated and coerced to provide security services for…
Over on Living Car-Free in Big D, Patrick Kennedy directs our attention to an essay by Russ Sikes, a board member of the North Texas Chapter of the Congress of New Urbanism. The title: “Dallas: Syn City,” as in “synthetic.” Which, Sikes insists, isn’t as bad as it sounds, especially…
