Speaking of vacant downtown landmarks …Two weeks ago, a City Hall employee asked if we knew what was up with 500 South Ervay, which sits in ruin right next door to City Hall and but a block away from 508 Park Avenue. It came up again last week when, during…
Neftali Feliz will pitch Wednesday night in Frisco. But if it’s up to him, he’ll never pitch in the Rangers’ starting rotation. While Texas continues to blow games — yesterday it was Darren Oliver allowing Hideki Matsui’s 10th-inning homer in a 5-4 loss — and erase the warm-n-fuzzies from the…
The marble-and-concrete building at 508 Park Avenue, once the Warner Bros. Film Exchange and Brunswick Records’s regional office, will get a much needed face lift after all, now that the Landmark Commission unanimously approved First Presbyterian Church’s plans for that address and the property next door at 1900 Young Street.”We…
10. Don’t lie, you thought it was over. When the Lakers started the second half on a 7-0 run — thanks to some bone-headed play by DeShawn Stevenson — and pushed the lead to 16 you went to bed, didn’t you? Dallas’ comeback last night might have been even more improbable that…
I was digging through our old photo archives Friday afternoon — I think I’m the only one left ’round here who knows we even have such a thing — looking for a photo that, turns out, I remembered wrong. I thought it was a picture of R.E.M.’s visit to Clearview…
Not sure if there’s more fun to be had this election season than at the North Texas GLBT Chamber’s mayoral forum tonight, moderated by both Robert and Schutze — but tomorrow night in far western Oak Cliff sure might come close. That’s where all four candidates for mayor, plus District…
I saw a piece Friday in Variety that said the long-promised, never-delivered Charley Pride biopic is back on again — only, without Terrence Howard or Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan writer-director Craig Brewer, who announced their intention to make a movie about Pride way back in the fall…
A couple of weeks back we talked to Realtor Newt Walker about Cali-based Robert Yu’s decision to put the old Dallas High School, more commonly known as Crozier Tech, on the market after all these years. Said Walker, “Time cures a lot of things,” referring to Yu’s long-held grudge against…
Some of us have waited 23 years to “Beat L.A.!” Sorry, I don’t see it happening in 2011 either. When the Lakers and Mavs begin their best-of-seven Western Conference Semifinal series tonight at 9:30 in Staples Center, there is an undeniable fact that overrides any and all X’s and O’s: The…
On Wednesday, the full council will get that economic development update that never made it to committee two weeks ago (time was not on its side). Which is just as well: When we spoke two weeks ago, I’d completely forgotten to ask Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the Office of Economic…
Terry Southern — novelist, screenwriter, journalist, provocateur — would have turned 87 yesterday, had he not died of a heart attack in October 1995. And so, last night, council member Delia Jasson proclaimed May 1, 2011, Terry Southern Day — thanks to filmmaker Kirby Warnock, who has partnered with the…
10. The pick of Southern Cal offensive lineman Tyron Smith isn’t sexy, but it’s savvy. Thumbs up. And he says he doesn’t like jewelry. Two thumbs up. 9. Fifth-rounder and former Cedar Hill star Josh Thomas is physical and a good tackler in the secondary, but you wonder about a four-year…
Schutze and I have a date tonight: the North Texas GLBT Chamber’s mayoral forum at the Cityplace Conference Center on Haskell, where he and I have been asked to serve as moderators. (Because asking us to serve on the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Dallas Candidate Forum would have…
Late last night and into the wee small hours of the morning, as news spread of the death of Osama bin Laden, revelers gathered at the White House, at Ground Zero … and outside the gate of the 10141 Daria Place near Preston Hollow. That, of course, is the home…
Superintendent Media Availability (4/29/2011) from Dallas Independent School Dist on Vimeo.As the Dallas Independent School District was sending word Friday that it had just laid off 203 from central administration, and eliminating another 247 presently unfilled positions, Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa was holding a press conference at 3700…
That copy of Dallas Notes you see above was loaned to me yesterday by one Mike Rhyner, who, as it turns out, was a contributor to the late Stoney Burns’s Buddy magazine way back when. Its pages are brittle; it falls apart when you just look at it. Contained within,…
Back in January 1987, if memory serves, Club Redux stood at the site of the present-day Taco Cabana on Lower Greenville, and that old Observer ad you see at right more or less hints at the kinds of acts that played there back when — a little bit of this,…
Perhaps you recall: Back in February of last year, The News ran a piece on Shea Fragoso, who spent three years and $1.5 million converting the century-old St. John’s United Methodist Church on East Side Avenue into a house. At the time, Fragoso had the house on the market for…
That young man you see at right is 21-year-old Cameron Mitchell of Fort Worth, the latest local to get his shot at fame courtesy the warm glow of reality television. This afternoon, we received word that Mitchell is among the lucky dozen vying for a shot on Glee next season…
A couple of hours ago, Tawnell Hobbs wrote that she’d heard 250 central staffers at the Dallas Independent School District were being laid off today. Matter of fact, says the district in a release made available moments ago, the total number of central staff positions cut today is almost twice…
Natural gas activist and blogger Sharon Wilson was among the environmentalists out at Earth Day last weekend — not far from the EPA’s six-foot cardboard Al Armendariz — and she was passing out copies of a new report she’d helped produce on gas drilling in the Barnett Shale. Produced by…
Only four months ago we were at the Meyerson when Roger Staubach and Tom Leppert gleefully introduced Bill Lively as the incoming president and CEO of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. But only days after officially taking the reins part-time on April 1, Lively has stepped down: The DSO sends word…
