Fort Worth city council member Joel Burns’s “It Gets Better” speech, delivered in front of the city council last month, proved an inspiration to countless picked-on gay kids across the country — Ellen DeGeneres too. Turns out, there was at least one person who didn’t dig it: KLIF’s Chris Krok,…
In the video below you get a fleeting glimpse of Sean Fitzgerald’s Grand Prize winner in the second annual Trinity River Corridor Project Photo Contest. City Hall spokesman Frank Librio was kind enough to send the real thing.Update at 11:30 a.m.: Librio has posted all 61 winning images to the…
This morning, a reader wondered: Has the state decided if it’s going to renew its contract with Corrections Corporation of America regarding operations of the Jesse R. Dawson State Jail on the Trinity River? When last we looked at the issue, the contract was set to expire January 15, only…
Of course you’ve heard that George W. Bush has a new book out in stores, and this morning, you couldn’t help but hear he was getting started building his new library, too. Onstage under a big tent on the Southern Methodist University campus, Bush was shifting excitedly from one foot…
As you may recall, the city sent word last month that it needed to meet with Trinity River property owners to discuss those revised Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, due to debut in February before the final ones are drawn up in December 2011 and go into effect in…
At the end of August there was that report noting that The Dallas Morning News was about to put much of its staff-written content behind a paywall, leaving only Associated Press pieces and 150-word breaking-news briefs as gratis offerings. Publisher and CEO Jim Moroney told us that wasn’t quite accurate,…
New Campus Fountain Animation from First Dallas on Vimeo.A couple of weeks back, First Baptist Dallas ‘sploded some of downtown to make way for its $115-million campus makeover. Yesterday, Robert Jeffress debuted a more detailed look at one of the centerpieces of the redo — the towering fountain that’s part…
Moments ago — and that is no exaggeration — James “Big Bucks” Burnett finally signed the lease that will allow him to set up the Eight Track Museum that’s been in the works ever since the October 2009 exhibition at the Barry Whistler Gallery. As proof, Bucks sends this lease-signing…
My dad was over this morning, and we got to talking about the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. One thing leads to another, and we’re watching the construction cam, which now tops the Calatrava cam on my must-watch list. Impressive. I called Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, to…
On May 20, the City Plan Commission gave Bruce Heydarian the okee-doke to plant an enormous scrap yard on Singleton Boulevard and Pluto Street, not terribly far from the Trinity River. Only two commissioners voted against the plan, among them Michael Davis; the rest had no problem with giving Heydarian…
On Wednesday, word was the Dallas Independent School District was this close to backing off efforts to snatch, for pennies on the dollar or none at all, several Jubilee Park homes in order to make way for the new-and-improved O.M. Roberts Elementary, promised as part of the 2008 bond package…
On Friday we took a look at the Texas Park and Wildlife Department’s proposed land swap with Dallas’s Rod Sanders, co-founder of Huntington Homes. The states offering to swap the 20,000-acre Devils River State Natural Area in Val Verde County for Sanders’s 17,638 acres further downriver. Sanders would also take…
We began the day by taking a look back at yesterday’s Arts District Better Block, an edible experiment augmented by the goings-on up and down Flora. But Grimes reminded me earlier: Saturday was also Deep Ellum’s turn up to the Better Block chopping block, courtesy organizer Brandon Castillo’s attempt to…
Jason Roberts has a few thoughts about how well yesterday’s Arts District Better Block-ing went; there’s a highlight below. But long story short: It wasn’t just about the food trucks (ate from three, only one of which I’d visit again — and then, just for the salted-melon snow cone) and…
With a mighty set of booms that echoed throughout downtown, Mayor Tom Leppert and his pastor Robert Jeffress made room for the opulent new face of First Baptist Dallas this morning, reducing four buildings to a heap of rubble at the foot of the old 120-year-old sanctuary. As a crowd…
That’s the word from the Dish Network, which just sent word that, nope, it’s not gonna drop regular ol’ FOX from its line-up after all. And, matter of fact, those 19 regional sports nets axed on October 1, including Fox Sports Southwest, are back; so too FX and the National…
Yesterday — thanks to Gordon Keith, thanks to Midwest Sports Fans, thanks to Deadspin, geez — we met Lil’ Ron Washington, otherwise known as Liam Roybal of Keller, poor feller. Turns out, the 7-year-old had no intention whatsoever of going as the Rangers’ skipper’s Mini-Me for Halloween. He was just…
On October 12, the Texas Park and Wildlife Department issued a press release that went virtually unnoticed at the time: The state’s offering to swap the 20,000-acre Devils River State Natural Area in Val Verde County for 17,638 acres further downriver, which are presently owned by Dallas’s Rod Sanders, co-founder…
Yesterday we took a long, hard, glassy-eyed look at KXAS-Channel 5’s Newy Scruggs’s run-in with the denizens of Weed Rock. This morning, after the jump, we turn to FOX 4’s Steve Eagar, who, whilst stationed outside AT&T Park following last night’s Rangers loss, runs into some folks showing off “their…
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a month after his nine-year relationship with the Texas Rangers ended, Josh Lewin has been hired by 105.3 The Fan to host a midday sports talk show. Lewin will debut in the 11 a.m.-2 p.m. time slot Monday, November 1 as The Fan unveils…
–>–>First thing Wednesday morning down in Austin, Mayor Tom Leppert visited with Texas Tribune editor Evan Smith about a whole host of subjects — among them, right off the bat, why Leppert endorsed Gov. Rick Perry earlier this month, despite the fact his is supposed to be a nonpartisan position…
Couldn’t make the new Parkland groundbreaking this morning, during which conceptual renderings of the $1.27-billion facility were debuted to press and public. But a note that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box from Parkland CEO Ron Anderson, which you can read here in full, reminds me: The new Parkland…
