So, there’s this interesting item on the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda for Tuesday (and the council’s addendum for Wednesday): The Trinity Trust is giving the city a five-year, $2 million grant that makes possible something called the Dallas Urban Design Studio. It will actually create three…
10. Lots to like about Cowboys Stadium tonight. Blue star finally on the field. Ring of Honor unveiled. Rhythm & Blues dancers – in Jetsons-like silver space outfits – dancing on podium poles high above the highest level. But apparently the pre-game guest wasn’t among among the highlights. Former prez…
Every few weeks, it seems, it gets a whole more expensive to tear down Reunion Arena, which, as many Friends of Unfair Park have pointed out, now looks like the world’s largest, grooviest coffee table. (It has joined Traveling Man as locals’ latest favorite photo op.) Originally, council approved paying…
View Larger MapThis morning, Steve Brown mentioned that more than 250 local commercial properties are up for foreclosure next month, including “several vacant tracts of land in Oak Cliff along Davis Street, Kings Highway and Stevens Forest Drive.” But Brown didn’t mention which properties — or who had plans to…
Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Terra Watson spent the last 12 years designing and manufacturing pro-team dance and cheerleader uniforms — including her former teammates’ Christmas presents to Cowboys fans, which are still on Santa’s to-do list. But business isn’t boom-boom-booming the way it used to; one client, the Dallas Desperados,…
For those who missed Part One of Mort Meyerson’s 20-minute doc, made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the concert hall that bears his name, it’s right here. You might want to watch that before you view Part Two, in which things get Curb Your Enthusiasm tense during the construction…
I have some hazy memory of my slightly older cousin going to SMU in March 1977 to see Genesis, then touring behind A Trick Of The TailWind & Wuthering, the band’s second album with Phil Collins as lead singer. My cousin — who, earlier today, threatened a libel suit if…
Turns out Brandon Jacobs was right. Maybe the Dallas Cowboys should’ve picked the Detroit Lions for their nationally televised lid-lifter Sunday night at Cowboys Stadium. But certainly, according to Jerry Jones, they could’ve. Instead, Jones admitted to Newy Scruggs and I minutes ago on 105.3 The Fan that he did indeed pinpoint the…
Seems like forever ago preservationists were fighting to save the Harwood K. Smith-designed office building at 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard — which, at 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning in April 2008, was bulldozed out of existence. As you may recall, Canadian developer Great Gulf Homes bought the property with…
I would like to state, for the record, that I called this week’s Project Runway challenge last week based solely on the previews. Boo. Yah. They teased it with Heidi Klum saying that the challenge’s answers would be in “black and white,” and they showed a quick flash of something…
Thursday morning, in the comments to Belo Garden item, one Friend of Unfair Park asked for updates concerning yet another piece of the downtown-parks puzzle: Pacific Plaza, about which Megan wrote last month, when the Park and Recreation Department’s Planning and Design Committee OK’d acquiring — for $2.5 million or…
Speaking of Cowboys Stadium …In case you missed Today today, here’s Matt Lauer’s interview with Jerry Jones, who talks about what Lauer refers to as his “crowning achievement.” After the jump, Lauer’s tour of the joint with Emmitt Smith, who’s, like, “Wow.”Update: And, while we’re at it, also after the…
At this late date — which is to say, two days before the Dallas Cowboys finally play a meaningful game in Arlington — what’s left to say about Jerry Jones’s $1.15-billion EnormoDome? Enough, clearly, to fill the top of Page B11 and most of Page B13 in this morning’s New…
Mayor Tom Leppert has run quite the lengthy victory lap this week: He took a ride on the Green Line; got off at the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park ground-making; then hustled on over to the convention center hotel groundbreaking. Which brings us to today’s stop: Leppert attended the unveiling of the…
A fine-print-reading Friend of Unfair Park noticed in this morning’s item about Belo Garden that the Park and Rec board was also set to approve a resolution related to the W.W. Samuell Trust and the Samuell park properties over which the city and the Texas Attorney General’s Office have been…
The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center opened its doors in September 1989 — seems like only 18 years ago. Accordingly, there are big doings at I.M. Pei’s palace on September 27 — a free open house that’ll include the intriguingly advertised “instrument petting zoo.” And if you’ve got a few…
There’s an awful nice Associated Press piece floating around about 11-year-old Dallas Environmental Science Academy sixth-grader Dalton Sherman, who, as you no doubt recall, became the Dallas Independent School District most famous motivational speaker after his back-to-school keynote in ’08. There’s a good reason for the follow-up a year later:…
As Don Hill took the stand earlier this month in the City Hall corruption trial, we checked in with his wife’s attorney, Victor Vital, to find out if Sheila would also testify in her defense. Vital told us that she was in fact one of his witnesses, claiming she aimed…
Drew Barrymore was an hour late for our interview this morning to talk Whip It, and couldn’t have been more apologetic; she got waylaid by “studio business,” hence our stunningly in-depth 10-minute chat, ah well. But judging by a comment posted to our heads-up about Barrymore’s appearance at Urban Outfitters…
When last we discussed the Best Movies Ever Made in Dallas, this one somehow missed the list: 1978’s Seniors, a college sex romp filmed on the SMU campus starring Dennis Quaid and a topless Priscilla Barnes. It was on DVD for a while, but seems to be out of print…
Times are tough. Jobs are scarce, money’s tight and our sports teams haven’t lifted a championship trophy since 1999. We temporarily interrupt this recession depression for some good news, wrapped in an employment opportunity. The NBA’s new Frisco Developmental League (D-League) franchise is holding a job fair this afternoon Noon-2 p.m. at…
So, the third-string team is in to cover what will probably be Don Hill’s last day of testimony. Appropriate, then, that the morning’s starting off with technical difficulties with Hill’s mic and computer monitor. Buzz!Hill’s being questioned about $18,000 and $12,000 payments from Brian Potashinik’s Arbor Wood development to his…
