Last month, you no doubt recall, Walmart announced its $200-million expansion said to involve “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas,” though only a handful were announced at the time. Since then I’ve learned of at least one more on the to-do list: Right next to…
As I write this my farewell post, I keep hearing in my head the lyrics to a song from the Marx Brothers classic film Animal Crackers: “Hello, I must be going/ I cannot stay, I came to say/I must be going.” Similar to Groucho’s character, Captain Spaulding, it seems as…
I picked exactly one team of March Madness’ Elite Eight and I long ago lost all of my Final Four (Pittsburgh, Louisville, San Diego State and Washington). But after a weekend of shocking upsets don’t tell me your bracket isn’t likewise busted. CBS cherishes a Cinderella and Americans love the underdog,…
Talked to former Texas Rangers’ CEO and managing general partner Chuck Greenberg yesterday. You know, the guy who helped usher Tom Hicks out of the franchise, who dragged the team out of bankruptcy, who spearheaded the out-bidding of Mark Cuban in court and who hand-picked Nolan Ryan as a crucial…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that the great Bobby Jack Pack, a Best of Dallas winner and local film-making institution, is this close to wrapping a documentary on Dealey Plaza and, more specifically, those populate the site where President John Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. He describes…
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission continues to dole out those permits to the would-be beer and wine sellers of Dallas. The 21-page of list of March sweepstakes winners alone, which follows, includes a handful of Aldi locations (from the one at Forest and Audelia to the grocery at Illinois and…
And you thought Dez Bryant getting booted from the mall was trouble? After a March 21 altercation involving his sister, his mother, his sister’s boyfriend, two guns and at least five shots fired, former local high school football star and Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ cornerback Aqib Talib is a “person of interest”…
In case you haven’t seen the updates to Friday’s item about tomorrow’s mayoral debate at Thomas Jefferson High School, Dallas Chapter of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly chair Jason Villalba late Friday sent out an apology for excluding Edward Okpa from the forum and said Okpa had been extended an…
State Sen. Royce West was there; so too Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, former mayoral candidate and “homeless czar” Tom Dunning, Arts District exec director Veletta Lill and an Alan Peppard’s column worth of bold-faced bigwigs with deep pockets. The affair, spread over the Booker T. Washington High School for the…
There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who’s-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She…
So back to my conversation with Downtown Dallas, Inc.’s John Crawford. I’d called yesterday to talk about those big empty buildings. But Crawford loves to spread the good news about downtown, so our brief chat got the extended dance remix treatment once he began talking about the small empty buildings…
[Update at 7:34 a.m. Saturday: Okpa has been invited, per a letter Villalba sent to “friends and members” at 10:52 p.m. yesterday. You can read the whole letter after the jump.] [Update at 5:50 p.m.: We just heard from Kunkle, who says our item was the first he’d heard of…
Dallas County Commissioner Clay Jenkins rounded up reporters this morning to help spread the good word about the county’s plan to help owners get reunited with cars impounded at Dowdy Ferry Auto Services. The county had an auction planned this week for the 1,400 cars still sitting in the lot,…
She spoke at former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s retirement press conference. She appointed Mike Rawlings to be the city’s homeless czar. She was mayor when Ron Natinsky replaced Sandy Greyson on the city council and served with him for two years. Edward Okpa finished third on the ballot the…
The strange, sordid story of Carlos Ortiz Jr., a longtime FBI Special Agent in the Dallas Division, was well documented last August following his arrest for plotting to kill Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge, Robert E. Casey Jr. Long story short: The 49-year-old Red Oak resident, accused by his…
Seems like only yesterdayfour years ago that ex-WFAA-er Scott Sams was rescued from exile in Sherman (following this incident) and returned to the comforting embrace of Dallas, courtesy KTVT-Channel 11. Ed Bark told D at the time that despite Sam’s bad rep when he left town, it was a smart…
Yesterday, our Danny Hurley was among the media members granted sneak-peek access the Grapevine Mills LEGOLAND Discovery Center, which officially opens Wednesday. I’m not saying Danny’s influenced by the work of a certain then-6-year-old photographer, but without a doubt the most intriguing items on display are the LEGO’d local landmarks…
Spencer Barasch is a partner at the downtown Dallas law firm Andrews Kurth, where he is in charge of the corporate governance and securities enforcement team. But before that, and for close to 20 years, he worked for the Fort Worth office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including a…
This morning, there’s Big News out of England: CBS Drama — “the home of drama classics from the US,” it proudly proclaims, meaning … Medium and Touched by an Angel — will, come fall, begin running all 357 episodes of Dallas in the order in which they originally aired. Says…
Yesterday, in the comments accompanying the item about the old central library on Commerce, George Gimarc asked this of the sculpture Dallasites once knew as Youth in the Hands of God: “Anyone recall the gigantic statue on the face of the building of the two open hands holding up a…
Allow me to introduce you to The Company’s Best Of app for the iPhone, which has just launched to great acclaim. Long story short: Need to know best place to get a strong drink? Done. Best convenience store in which to eat a meatball sub? Boom. Best record store? Click…
Last night, Robert teased us all with the news that Lynn Moak, from Dallas ISD’s lobbyist-consultant group Moak Casey & Associates, would be taking a seat before trustees this afternoon with an update from Austin on the Legislature’s attempts to finesse away the state’s budget shortfall. Earlier estimates, you’ll recall,…
