Assistant City Manager Jill Jordan called back late yesterday to discuss those still-in-place plans to widen César Chávez Boulevard from Live Oak to Commerce — plans that call for the demolition of one of the oldest buildings downtown. The project’s been in the planning stages for years, but Jordan says…
I’ve been playing phone tag with Keith Manoy, the city’s senior transportation planner and the point man for all things streetcar. It’s understandable. He’s been a little busy.”We’re not in the streetcar business,” Manoy says this morning. “But we’re learning.” He’s doing his best to play catch-up. Not a lot…
No, they didn’t sign Josh Hamilton long-term or acquire Cliff Lee in a trade from the Phillies. But during last weekend’s mid-winter banquet out at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine your Texas Rangers went out of their way to put a smile on the face of manager Ron Washington. During…
Speaking of books … Yesterday, Yale University Press sent word that Bonnie Pitman’s Ignite the Power of Art Advancing Visitor Engagement in Museums is now available at Your Finer Booksellers. (Well … it’s supposed to be — the Borders and Barnes & Noble in Preston Royal, at least, don’t yet…
Wasn’t so long ago that the Dallas Public Library system appeared to be on life support, a victim of yet another round of city budget cuts. But at City Hall yesterday, during the council’s Quality of Life Committee meeting, Interim Director of Libraries Corrine Hill insisted: Quite the contrary. Said…
Peja Stojakovic? Sure, he’ll help the Dallas Mavericks. With the way their offense has bogged lately anyone that can shoot is going to be a bonus. But he’s a small, perhaps minuscule step in the right direction. He’s no solution. No final piece to the puzzle that is currently scattered…
We’ve documented developer Jack Matthews’s plans for a hotel next door to his South Side on Lamar ever since we stumbled across it on the Landmark Commission’s agenda last July. Back then, Matthews’s subsidiary, CCH Lamar Partners I LP, told the commission: It had big plans to restore the old…
In between phone calls and Unfair Park posts today I was goofing around on Heritage Auction Galleries’ website, where I espied this item set to go up for bids on Sunday: the Dallas Cowboys’s itinerary for Super Bowl VI, which was played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans on January…
I’ve already seen council member Ron Natinsky’s for-mayor website — though, at the moment, it’s little more than an under-construction placeholder. But says here that on Thursday, he filed with the City Secretary’s Office his official paperwork naming his campaign finance treasurer, which makes it official: He’s a-runnin’ — along…
Earlier this afternoon, over on the DISD Blog, Matthew Haag posted a memo Dallas Independent School District sent to district employees Friday, in which the super warned: The state’s mammoth budget shortfall could result in “a staggering $180-$200 million” being excised from the district’s budget during the next two years…
A few months back the National Hockey League announced it was partnering with Stan Lee — the man who helped birth, oh, I dunno, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk and a few other make-mine-Marvel-ous comic-book heroes — on something called The Guardian Project. Long story short:…
No doubt you’ve forgotten all about plans to widen and two-way The Expressway Formerly Known As Central downtown — a plan that’s been around since ’05 but didn’t get really rolling till January 2009. But City Hall hasn’t put it aside; far from it.This week the council’s consent agenda includes…
The Cowboys have a history with both Super Bowl teams, the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers. Even after all these years some of the memories sting. But which one more than the other? Is it Jerry Kramer’s block in The Ice Bowl? (Grab a hanky and go to the 8:45…
A day after WFAA-Channel 8 spread the word that the enormous Ultimate Super Bowl party planned in the Southwest Center Mall parking lot was no more — folded at the last minute amidst dirty politics and safety concerns — council member Tennell Atkins held court this morning in the atrium…
The National Football League and FOX just made it official: The star of Burlesque will perform the National Anthem as part of Super Bowl XLV pregame festivities at Cowboys Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday. Says Christina Aguilera in the press release that just popped up in the in-box: “I have…
10. Some of us said all week that with the way the Jets celebrated wildly in New England, it was if they’d already won their Super Bowl. Proved astute right out of the gate as the Steelers set the tone with a 15-play, 66-yard touchdown drive to open the game. The Jets…
The Dallas City Council and Dallas Area Rapid Transit board will hold a joint meeting this morning during which they’ll discuss, among other things, DART’s long-term expansion plans, the planned Blue Line extension to the University of North Texas at Dallas campus and that second downtown light-rail line that’s been…
Driving home from the Kessler Theater Friday night, I was reminded yet again of how drab and shabby the Commerce Street bridge over the Trinity River looks in the dark, what with more than a dozen of the old streetlights inoperable since who can remember when. I made a note…
10. Awesome. In this microwaved society of information, I learned Bears’ third-string quarterback Caleb Hanie — thanks, Twitter — was a former Forney Jackrabbit before Fox TV viewers. 9. Personally, I don’t find Pam Oliver attractive. But when it’s like 15 degrees outside and she’s wearing a blue, knit doily…
Amazing the things you find when you’re not looking for them. Take this morning’s accidental stumbled-across, for instance: The Gourds recorded in the old Barley House parking lot on June 1, 1997, during the third then-annual Barleypalooza musical marathon on N. Henderson. (Here’s some video, for those in need of…
This morning, the 7-year-old who lives in my house and I got way tangled in downtown traffic — hundreds, if not thousands, of anti-choice protesters filled the streets, with Dallas police officers blocking off every other intersection between the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Earle Cabell…
Speaking of the Standing Wave …Yesterday, a fellow named David Morring sent me the following note, which accompanied a link to the video you see above:I saw your recent post in your blog. Myself and several other whitewater paddlers have been following this project and in fact received permission to…
