The city's Dallas Convention Center Hotel Development Corporation unanimously agreed this afternoon to issue $479.8 million in revenue bonds for the hotel project, locking in an interest yield of 4.69 percent -- well below the parameters of $514 million and 5.5 percent authorized by the city council. Most of the...
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If the discussion at Dallas City Hall today is any indication, that outta-nowhere proposal to privatize the Dallas Zoo and the Aquarium at Fair Park is all but a done deal. Expect the city to turn over the keys to the Dallas Zoological Society by October 1 following a vote...
The annual study detailing America's growing girth came out this week--and guess what? Once again, more buttons popped again this year.Well, I only glanced at the piece. Really, the numbers seem hollow after repeated startling claims that 60 plus percent of this country's adult population really tipped the scales, issued...
In this week's paper, you'll see a profile of Bonnie "Prince" Billy (nee Will Oldham) penned by my LA Weekly counterpart Randall Roberts, who had the pleasure of joining the reclusive Mr. Oldham for drinks a few weeks back at an LA hotel. The result? Some incredible quotes, that's for...
So we stole this idea from Jay Jerrier. A Neapolitan pizza guy himself, he wondered in a comment posted on our site this week whether the cracker crust was the city's favorite.Pizza crust comes in many styles. For the purposes of this week's question, however, we'll assume that marginal versions--rustica,...
More than two weeks after Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Administrator Alan Steen acknowledged an internal investigation following the raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth -- which left Chad Gibson hospitalized with serious head injuries -- Steen finally gave an interview concerning what might have gone wrong that night...
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Remember the cigar craze of the late 90s? Even President Clinton got into the act.Sorry, couldn't resist. But for stodgy old timers, there's nothing so civilized as a cigar and refined drink after a big meal. Of course, we're not allowed to indulge in Dallas these days--at least not within...
Back, for a moment, to that item about concrete-maker Ash Grove suing the city of Plano for refusing to buy its cement, made with the dirty, antiquated wet-kiln method. I do need to clarify a few things: Yes, Plano was originally sued by Ash Grove -- along with Dallas and...
At last: KERA just sent word that its announced-in-June all-music radio station, now known as KKXT-FM (91.7), will officially makes its bow November 9 at 7 a.m. Also announced this morning were the nationally syndicated programs KXT, as it'll be known, will air: Acoustic Café, American Routes, Mountain Stage, Putumayo...
On this bargain-hunting Wednesday, a note concerning one hell of a steal for art collectors: From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on August 16, Jeff Scott's going to unload a major hunk of his Elvis Presley artwork at Studio 1019. One reason: Scott had been showing in Gerald Peters Gallery,...
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Long story short for those without short- or long-term memories: After Garland-based video game developer Apogee Software/3D Realms took forever developing and never delivering Duke Nukem Forever (12 years, to be precise), the company funding the project -- Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., responsible for Grand Theft Auto and the millions...
There we were, sipping drinks on a lush patio behind some sketchy 7-Eleven when a sudden, sharp spurt of maniacal laughter interrupted our spell. Just another Saturday night in the 'hood, except in this case, the setting was a well-worn patch of far North Dallas and the commotion began when...
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Top 10 Food Lines In Film
...and for the more Youtube-inclined, here's your link.Last week, a real treat for those who've been making the weekly trek to SPACE Studio for our DC9 in SPACE tapings: Indie hip-hop and freestyle mindblower, Astronautalis dropped by for, well, what turned out to be quite the paean to all things...
As the city's hotel development corporation prepares to sell what is now $505,230,000 in revenue bonds to build the convention center hotel, Moody's Investors Service has issued an A2 rating to the financing -- a decent, but unspectacular rating -- which will be funded by more than $459 million in...
It's fitting, perhaps, that the first sound heard on the new Telegraph Canyon record, The Tide and the Current, is the faint whisper of a buzzsaw churning in the distance, humming behind the introductory piano chords of opening track "Into the Woods" as the song teases its audience with an...
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Based on preliminary calculations and TAKS results, a record number of Dallas Independent School District campuses are poised to be classified as "recognized" or "exemplary" by the Texas Education Agency. Until now, not one non-magnet high school in the district has been deemed recognized, and this year six are slated...
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The Texas Strangers No More
A recent late-spring clean-up resulted in the discovery of a stash of Dallas-related 78s I'd collected back when I was music editor, which was some time between the switchover from cylinder recordings to reel-to-reel. Most are the scratchy leftovers of forgotten footnotes; one or two sound like sandpaper rubbing against...
Gabriela Pataro was just trying to follow the rules. In return she got dirty looks and arguments from a bunch of angry dog-lovers. "It wasn't a very positive thing for us," says the owner of Café Lago of her struggle to keep dogs off the property. Open since 2000 just...