Every now and then I check to see if the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan website's up and running, because ever since that jam-packed open house in late May it's been little more than a new-site-coming-soon place-holder with a survey. But, sure enough, I clicked over from City Hall's home page...
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Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to...
McCarthy Building Company has built plenty of projects around town in recent years -- everything from the Wyly Theatre to the W Hotel to the Dallas County Detention Center South Tower to the under-construction Dallas City Performance Hall. To that estimable list add another landmark project: the Woodall Rodgers Deck...
SmokeWho wouldn't love a guy who smelled like one of the best restaurants in town?As the mayor of upscale Oak Cliff barbecue joint Smoke on the Foursquare smartphone app, I feel especially qualified to weigh in on the latest sales-science attempt from Axe, the grooming product line for men that...
The Texas Rangers are out of Chapter 11 and Tom Hicks's hands, but that website devoted to the prepackaged bankruptcy remains alive and well weeks later. New filings are being added to Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site every day, including two docs detailing how well the team's doing --...
Moments ago I received from council member Angela Hunt's office a memo that follows, in which Hunt and seven of her colleagues (Delia Jasso, Vonciel Hill, Steve Salazar, Carolyn Davis, Pauline Medrano, Tennell Atkins and Dwaine Caraway) call for a significant tax hike -- 4.91 cents per $100 in valuation...
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Longtime Dallas Love Field Airport food and beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza has accepted the city's offer to extend his lease through the remainder of the new terminal's construction, according to a statement just released by Aranza. As requested by the Dallas City Council, we signed an agreement with the City...
Shiner Rising Star Competition: Semi-Finals, Night One.Hat Tricks, LewisvilleSeptember 23, 2010After eight weeks worth of first-round performances, and then last week's wild-card round, the semi-finals of the annual Shiner Rising Star contest, hosted by KHYI-95.3 FM The Range and Shiner Bock Beer, began in earnest. To open up the semis...
Just as the hot summer months inevitably result in a spike in crime stats, something about the July heat must make people get the urge to collectively rise up against their oppressors. Not only is our own country's independence celebrated in July, but the French (and Oak Cliff bikos) celebrate...
When Baskin-Robbins recently announced it was axing five of its 31 signature flavors, the resultant uproar centered on French Vanilla, a fixture since the company's founding in 1945. More than 1000 people have joined a "Save French Vanilla," group on Facebook, pleading with the company to keep the sundae-suited classic...
It's been a big couple of weeks here for music-related Internet memes. First, two weeks ago, there was that whole slowing a Justin Bieber song down 800 percent to make it sound like a 30-minute, and pretty damn amazing, Sigur Ros song. And then there was the sheer glee we...
Click to embiggen for a look-see at what the Garland Road Vision visionaries envision, per today's council briefingGoing on four years now, residents and stakeholders along and near Garland Road -- at least, the stretch of Texas State Highway 78 between Interstate 635 and where it splits into Gaston and...
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Titus Andronicus, Soft Envirtonmental Collapse, Bizarro KidsSons of Hermann HallAugust 31, 2010Better than: sitting through Shakespeare, even at his goriest. Titus Andronicus may have been the headliners at Sons of Hermann Hall last night, but even that band admitted while on stage last night that the true heroes of the...
Carrie UnderwoodAmerican Airlines CenterOctober 9, 2010Better than: Austin City Limits. OK, not really. But at least she can sing. If you are looking for a concert where you could bring the whole family, including grandma, go to a Carrie Underwood Show. Because it's more family friendly than Miley Cyrus. Nevertheless, her...
An event designed to celebrate tightly corseted wenches and bloodthirsty jousters isn't exactly synonymous with restraint, but organizers of this year's Texas Renaissance Festival are promoting the fair's healthy snacks. The festival, billed as the nation's largest, hasn't leached all the fat and calories from its standard food line-up: Concessionaires...
Ace photographer Kevin Todora trekked on out to the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, which rolled through town for a stop at Superpages.com Center on Friday, so the rest of us wouldn't have to--and he came away with some killer shots of the bands and fans (even the young 'uns) at...
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The Sausage of Texas is Upon You
Rep. Donald Payne, a Democrat from New Jersey, is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation -- which, as you're well aware by now, is where Eddie Bernice Johnson found the $25,000 she gave in scholarships to relatives and her top aide's kids. And Payne's so livid over the...
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When Page Hamilton formed Helmet back in 1989, he just wanted to make music that both punks and metal heads could enjoy. Sure enough, Helmet did find a way to combine punk's DIY spirit with the technical roar of metal, and the band was rewarded when its sophomore effort, Meantime,...
Governor Rick Perry recycled his campaign stump speech and sold it as his State of the State Address to the crowd gathered at the Hyatt Regency this afternoon, as Perry bragged about the economy and railed against Washington for failing to secure the Texas-Mexico border. "In a word, the state...
This weekend will mark two months since the last time Lisa Stone was seen in Dallas, and today a billboard went up at the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Northwest Highway with Stone's photo and information on the $10,000 reward for information regarding her disappearance. The billboard was paid for...
Known for their hybrid mix of alt-country and post-grunge, Athens' Dead Confederate created quite a critical buzz with the release of Wrecking Ball, the band's 2008 debut full-length. That album's bipolar cacophony had many folks comparing the band to both Nirvana and My Morning Jacket. Although that's a lot to...