With all the feel-good talk recently celebrating Dallas’ hesitant but progressing embrace of cycling (Painted bike lanes! A don’t-be-a-dick-to-cyclists ordinance!), it’s easy to forget about the concerns of the driver. Never fear. Morning News editorial writer Tod Robberson is here to champion their cause. In a post yesterday, Robberson, after…
Fairfield Residential is being very quiet about its plans to build apartments at 406 Houston Street in the West End. Vice president Scott Jackson said he will be happy to talk about the project just as soon as it clears the Landmark Commission, which could happen in November. Until then,…
Museum Tower’s PR team has really been stepping up their efforts lately to persuade people to live there, which sources familiar with the development told us in late August has been an uphill battle. The charm campaign began with an exuberant full-page ad in The Dallas Morning News a couple…
Last week, we told you about Cody Wilson and his group Defense Distributed, which would very much like to create a printable gun using a 3D printer. Not so much because Wilson plans on stockpiling weapons in his dorm room, but because, as he told us, he’s trying to make…
When Brandon Castillo first told people he was going to set up an open-air bazaar in Deep Ellum, he got a lot of crazy looks. “You’re going to do what where?” people asked, doubtfully. Deep Ellum was in the early stages of its renaissance and besides, this is Dallas, where…
For as long as I can remember — which admittedly is only about 20 years — Duncan’s Liquor has held down the northwest corner of Northwest Highway and Lawther Lane a stone’s throw from White Rock Lake. That won’t be the case for much longer. The property still belongs to…
There weren’t supposed to be many kids at CityWalk@Akard. The 200 units at the downtown office building-turned subsidized apartment complex were small, closet-less studios and one-bedroom units, and half were set aside for the formerly homeless or those at risk of becoming so. But there they are: 38 kids, from…
The longtime owners of the Dallas Observer have sold the paper and its 12 Village Voice Media sister publications to a group of VVM executives, creating a new holding company and cutting ties with Backpage.com, the controversial classified advertising company. So: We have new owners, but the same old bosses…
First, the good news. The Dallas Fed’s most recent economic numbers show that Texas’ economy is growing. That growth is moderate, 2.4 percent for the year, but it’s better than in the country as a whole. Energy is booming; so is construction. Even the government sector is expanding slightly, in…
Even as the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System (DPFP) tries to deflect media attention from its shiny, shiny Museum Tower project, Courthouse News reports that it’s also fighting to avoid releasing information on a different luxury developer, one that it wholly owns. The pension system filed a lawsuit in…
Every year, the wealth fetishists over at Forbes compile an exhaustive list of the 400 richest Americans. It’s a rarefied club, whose admittance requires an aggregate worth in the billions. Not surprisingly, a number of Dallasites made the cut — 16 in fact. They range from oldies-but-goodies like Ross Perot,…
Patriot Tower, the I.M. Pei & Associates-designed skyscraper at St. Paul and Bryan Street that opened in 1979, has not been well loved of late. The property changed hands several times before it was sold at a foreclosure auction last year. There are 30 stories of office space that are…
If you’ve driven south on I-35 — or if you’ve ever turned onto Lawther from Northwest Highway — you’ve seen the Bucee’s billboards. The ones with the buck-toothed beaver in a red cap hawking some mysterious concoction called beaver nuggets. It’s an obnoxious marketing campaign, but it gets your attention…
Earlier this week we told you about John Jay Myers, the Libertarian Senate candidate who believes he’ll be unfairly excluded from WFAA’s planned October 2 debate. He promised to bring protesters to the station’s headquarters on Young Street, which he did today around 11. When we got there, there were…
As odious a human being as Glenn Beck is, the man is brilliant in his way. His decision a year ago to break with Fox News, move from New York to North Texas, and launch an Internet-only TV station seemed a dubious bet. The cable network is, after all, the…
The Dallas Observer: You built that. Or you can, anyway, if one of the following opportunities suits you. Clubs Editor The clubs editor researches, reports, writes and maintains the Observer’s clubs and concert listings, helping ensure that our newspaper and web site offer the city’s most comprehensive, liveliest and most…
John Jay Myers owns the Free Man, a Cajun joint in Deep Ellum. He also runs a wholesale embroidery business, has a “deep, deep mistrust of the government,” would like to legalize medical marijuana, and thinks we should bring all the U.S. troops home. And he believes Texans are being…
When Jeff Medici was a financial advisor for Fidelity in Boston, he took his corporate team to a place called F1 Boston, a sort of racing-themed conference center where they learned to work together and trust each other by doing things like changing tires on Formula 1 race cars. When…
When Debbie Denmon parted ways with WFAA last month, it wasn’t on the best of terms. The anchor/reporter had sued the station for discrimination after being passed over for a promotion in favor Shelly Slater, a thinner, white reporter. A few months after she lost, the station opted not to…
The Nasher Sculpture Center has been feuding with Museum Tower, its shiny new neighbor in the Arts District, over light, heat and reflectivity for going on six months now. At the end of July, we published a story showing that the tower isn’t the only risky real estate project the…
The Dallas Morning News’ Tumblr page is “hand-picked from among our most fascinating, interesting news and photography.” I’ll say. The photo you see here was posted there this morning, twice, along with the original poster’s description: “beautiful and classy.” The photo was reblogged from a Tumblr user named “washrangers,” whose…
It didn’t take long after the news came out for Stonelake Capital Partners to abandon an attempt to transform the short stub of La Vista Drive between Skillman and Live Oak in Lakewood into a pedestrian mall. Neighbors, it turns out, were none too happy with the proposal. Pat Carr,…
