Sunday’s supposed to be my last day ’round here, but I just may stick around till Monday. The reason: The just-posted agenda for Monday’s meeting of the council’s Economic Development Committee promises that Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, will walk council through a PowerPoint titled…
The Dallas Morning News has a big shocker headline — a World-War-II-typeface, breathless, this-just-in, oh-my-God headline — on the front of today’s newspaper: “True Cost of Dallas’ Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge: $182 million.” The News tells us: “The new Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge will cost far more than the $117…
Yes, you read that correctly: Robert Wilonsky, the longtime editor of this blog, is going behind the paywall. Or maybe he’s becoming the paywall. We can’t be sure. But we know this: He’s leaving the Observer for The Dallas Morning News, where he’ll officially be known as the digital managing…
At the risk of turning this into Uplift Park …At long last, peace has been made between Uplift Education and those business operators and property owners in Deep Ellum worried that a charter school in the neighborhood would spell the beginning of its end as an entertainment district. It’s the…
Long before the downtown Omni opened we were treated to a sneak peek of its light show, which folks either think is the right shade of shiny or plain tacky, a debate that becomes especially heated when you add in the new-look Reunion Tower and all the other lite-brites decorating…
A week ago Monday, two people picketed outside Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. “Don’t Stop, Don’t Shop,” and “They’re Using the ‘N’ Word,” their signs read. The day after that, there were three. One snapped my picture for crossing the picket line and entering the…
Mark Elfenbein’s known for a good month that Josh Lewin would be taking a spot in the New York Mets’ radio booth this season. His cousin told him. Says the longtime sports-radio fixture known as Elf, he was sitting at a pre-show production meeting ’round the beginning of the year…
Just dialed into Josh & Elf on The Fan (or, as they’re billing it this a.m., “Two Jews and the Flu”) to see if there’d be any mention of this morning’s news out of New York, where Josh Lewin’s been named to the New York Mets’ radio broadcast team. But,…
If you’ve got time this afternoon you may want to dial up the meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee, which will hear from Dallas CityDesign Studio second-in-command David Whitley about “community and economic development” around the river. Not sure how much Whitley’s going to get to talk about…
Maybe you saw KXAS-Channel 5 last night — why, yes, that was Jason Roberts and wife Andrea seated next to First Lady Michelle Obama at a Fort Worth Olive Garden last night. But, but … how’d the would-be congressional candidate and the missus land the seats? And what did they…
The video you seesaw above till it was unceremoniously yanked this afternoon was made by Michael Marco on behalf of Tracy Locke on behalf of Downtown Dallas Inc., which had intended to show downtown’s makeover at its annual meeting held at the Omni a couple of weeks ago. Alas, it…
Amongst all the maybes, could-bes and one-days downtown, one development’s as close as it gets to a Sure Thing: 508 Park Avenue, which First Presbyterian is in the process of turning into The Museum of Street Culture to be curated by blues historian Alan Govenar. At this very moment, in…
As I’ve noted a few times, Mike Shropshire’s Seasons in Hell, about the “worst team in baseball history” (the ’73-’75 Texas Rangers), is my favorite sports book; probably has something to do with being raised on the ’73-’75 Texas Rangers. Anyway.On a very related note, a Friend of Unfair Park…
When we joined, which is to say “stumbled,” into Erykah Badu and the Rebirth Brass Band’s 407-foot-long drive-n-dance down Main Street a few weeks ago, we noted the many cameras on hand to film the brief trek; word was, per Badu’s business partner Paul Levatino, they were there for a…
A couple of years back we virtually toured the Mercantile Bank Building as it looked following its 1958 redo, when Heritage Auctions made available 17 never-before-seen photos of R.L. Thornton’s skyscraper taken by legendary Chicago-based architectural-photo firm Hedrich Blessing. Those photos, offered in a single package initially guesstimated to be…
Schutze broke the story a while back about a group of black people in South Dallas picketing the Diamond Shamrock gas station on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. People in the neighborhood claimed the station’s Korean owner had called black customers “broke-ass niggers,” imposed a $10 minimum on debit card…
A Perot Museum of Nature & Science curator wound us through the fourth floor of the partially completed space, calling upon visitors to imagine the 80-foot-long dinosaur that would soon occupy where he was standing. Next to that prehistoric giant will be the 25-foot Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, that horned dino named…
Spent a few hours today with Phil Romano, Stuart Fitts and Larry “Butch” MacGregor at their Singleton Boulevard HQ at the foot of the Calatrava bridge. It’s the brick building painted red — one of three on that side of the bridge now decorated with Shepard Fairey’s handiwork. When I…
When The Ambrose and DART’s Baylor University Medical Center Station on the Green Line finally, formally married three short years ago, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hailed it as the “consummate example of the new transit-oriented lifestyle.” After all, the complex at Indiana and Malcolm X consisted of 325 apartments and…
Last night, I got a text from Peter Schmidt, who could not believe I’ve never written about a short-lived 1966 TV show called The !!!! Beat, hosted by iconic Nashville deejay Bill “Hoss” Allen. Wrote Peter, who’d come across it yesterday after a lunchtime discussion about Etta James turned up…
Like I need to tell you, even if there were no photo credit, this is a Justin Terveen photo — one in a series of extraordinary photos of the rain-soaked city he’s taken in the past 24 hours. This one was taken earlier this evening, just west of the Houston…
For a long while now, the old Baylor offices at 2625 Elm Street in Deep Ellum have been on the market — for $5.5 million. And word was that a would-be buyer was eying the space for offices, which greatly pleased restaurant and bar owners, since it would have meant…
