Alas, it’s just the title of one of two briefings the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will consider this morning. I’ll leave it to Sam and Schutze to crunch the numbers and see if they add up — Sam especially has a thing for the Texas Horse Park — but…
If nothing else, this’ll be the last Southwest Center Mall item of the day — only because there’ll be nothing left to talk about till after the council returns from its summer recess. But Ron Natinksky, head of the city council’s Economic Development Committee, called Unfair Park to discuss the…
The Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will receive yet another briefing on the 2010-’11 budget Thursday — here’s that PowerPoint for those who like to get head starts on such things. But today, the district sends word that this year’s budget wraps up with a … this can’t…
What it do, Friends? Today’s Housing Committee meeting, which Robert warned you I’d be liveblogging, got a late start because of the overflow of the previous Public Safety Committee meeting, which I caught the tail end of, while they were discussing agenda item Mild Panic Over Not Having Enough Police…
Back to Southwest Center Mall for a moment — or, more specifically, the city’s plans to keep the “dead mall,” per the Urban Land Institute, alive. Karl Zavitkovsky kept the council’s Economic Development Committee behind closed doors for almost an hour this morning, during which point it was mentioned that…
I pulled into the parking lot of the Dallas Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Cathedral, Library & Museum at Harwood and Young Streets at 6:40 this morning; right behind me was Mayor Tom Leppert. The lot was already jam-packed with trucks and trailers and catering tables for today’s Good Guys shoot,…
Why did the Los Angeles Lakers lose Game 2 of the NBA Finals Sunday night? Because they turned their back on Jesus. Boston Celtics’ guard Ray Allen – who played “Jesus Shuttlesworth” in Spike Lee’s He Got Game – went off on L.A. He hit a Finals-record eight 3-pointers, scored…
Now that school’s out for summer, the city council’s Public Safety Committee is set to be briefed in a few minutes on the one-year-ish anniversary of the 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. curfew ordinance, passed by council on May 13, 2009, following some debate on whether or not it turned kids into…
Tommy Hunter is a bulldog. A scrappy fighter of a pitcher who throws strikes and in his first start of the season hurled a complete game at the Tampa Bay Rays in Saturday’s sweltering heat. Rich Harden is a, well, I dunno honestly. I never seem to have the patience…
The long war over Gaza played out in miniature down at Dealey Plaza Friday, with supporters of Israel and Palestine facing off across Elm Street, separated by rush hour traffic and a temporary fence. Hundreds of people turned up around 6 p.m. in a show of support for the nine…
Of course you know what goes real good with real Dr Pepper, more or less speaking of — barbecue. Which brings us to this piece from QSR Magazine this morning: “Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Expands Across the Nation.” It’s been a long time coming: Back in October ’07 we pointed out…
That’s the word out of Plano this morning: Legacy Drive-HQ’d Dr Pepper Snapple Group issued a press release moments ago announcing that The Coca-Cola Company is paying $715 million for the rights to license and distribute Dr Pepper products throughout North America. That’s because Coca-Cola Company is buying its bottling…
Just a programming note for those a fan of the Girl on Top at City Hall: Andrea’s liveblogging the council’s Housing Committee meeting — specifically, the 4,293rd hearing involving the Demolition Process for Urban Nuisances in Existing and Proposed Historic Districts. So do stay tuned — she could use the…
R.I.P, Big 12? Certainly looks so, as the Pac 10 over the weekend empowered commissioner Larry Scott to proceed with plans for expansion. In other words, let the raiding of the Big 12 Conference commence. Last week, news surfaced of the Pac 10’s plans, which center on adding Texas, Texas…
I’m sitting here doing what I do every Saturday — catching up on my Texas Rangers bankruptcy docs — when I notice this buried in a hearing order filed by the court at week’s end: “Copies of the Prepackaged Plan and Disclosure Statement, as well as any other document that…
When it comes to sexual assault, victim-blaming is rampant on college campuses (and, well, elsewhere — remember when it was this 15-year-old girl’s fault she was gang raped in California last year?). Girls who wear certain clothing, drink too much alcohol or travel alone to parties are often believed to…
Been thinkin’ about Waylon Jennings quite a bit this week; can’t imagine why. Even went home Wednesday night and dug out the re-release of the 1976 classic Waylon Live, fleshed out years later to 42 tracks of can’t-beat-it country music recorded in Austin and at The Western Place, “a classy,…
It was less than a month ago the city council’s Economic Development Committee went behind closed doors with, among others, Office of Economic Development Director Karl Zavitkovsky to discuss what the what to do with Southwest Center Mall. They confabbed for more than an hour and emerged without ever mentioning…
Vibe’s touting the cover of its June/July issue as “controversial” and “iconic.” Not hardly. There have been plenty more naked magazine covers than the one seen here. Like this. And, this. And, all of these. Still, the Lady of the Lake continues to reap the benefits of a nude springtime…
Late yesterday, Jim was standing at an Observer newsroom window staring, yet again, at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction site as crews began putting in place the opposite side of the center arch. Jim was eating from a plate of ginger snaps resting on the windowsill, one after the…
Yesterday, good Friend of Unfair Park IgnoreLander shot me a link to the Flickr photostream of one “davidfromdallas.” He also included this note: “Not sure if Dave really is from Dallas, but I came across this guy during some random Web surfing. Might be someone to watch out for in…
The Dallas Police Department sends along this video taken from a bait car that did its job — says Sgt. Andy Harvey, the man involved in this particular smash-and-grab was arrested not long after he concluded his bad business. The point of this pass-along, says Harvey, is to remind the…
