There was a small wingding at Dallas City Hall this afternoon at which it was announced that the Rotary Club of Dallas is kicking in $500,000 for the under-construction Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. For its donation, the Rotary International logo will be etched into the so-called Learning Tree Deck in…
Speaking of big, bright signs …Today the Landmark Commission will take a long, hard look at a proposal from the Adolphus Hotel, which is concerned that the Rodeo Bar & Grill is languishing at the corner of Commerce and Akard due to the absence of significant signage. There’s also one…
On Thursday, Jim Moroney paid a visit to Austin, where he told an audience of University of Texas journalism students and professors: Only The Major Metropolitan Newspaper can preserve, protect and defend democracy … or something like that. The Dallas Morning News’s publisher spoke of rapidly shrinking ad revenues (half…
A couple of readers have asked: What’s become of that newish neon sign at the corner of Main and Good-Latimer? That’s it at right, the wayfinder that offended Pete so much he decided to quit and head back east. Because it’s gone, only a few months after its installation. Ah,…
The ongoing fee fight between DirecTV and Fox — which is threatening to yank Fox Sports Southwest and FX and its myriad other cable networks off the satellite provider — isn’t settled yet; and, who knows, it may not before the midnight hour. Also unresolved: DirecTV’s battle with Belo, which,…
Friday afternoon Uncle Barky noted that KXAS-Channel 5’s made a new hire: reporter Ben Russell, fresh off a five-year stint at a CBS affiliate in Harrisburg, PA. His first day’s today. But if reports out of New York today are true, Russell won’t be the last hire made at the…
Last night, during the 10th inning of Game 6, Steve Busby handed the mic to his Rangers broadcast partner — Eric Nadel, Frick Award finalist and a man whose voice has gotten us through countless seasons in hell. Buzz wanted to make sure Eric had the opportunity to call the…
I didn’t sleep a wink last night — kept replaying over and over the myriad mistakes made by Ron Washington and the Texas Rangers last night, twice one strike away from Winning It All. They’re recounted below, blow by painful blow; how Sam gets it up for tonight’s Do-or-Die preview…
Clear Channel owns and operates six radio stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth market: KDGE-FM, KDGE-FM, KEGL-FM, KFXR-AM, KHKS-FM and KZPS-FM. But several times this morning, Friends of Unfair Park have sent this piece from Time Out Chicago that says at any moment, any or all of them could lose their…
A couple of weeks back we noted: The Deep Ellum Community Association is in desperate need of seed money to plant a long-in-the-works urban garden at Canton and Good-Latimer — $25,000, to be precise, for such things as benches, fences, tools and, ya know, plants. Hence their fund-raising efforts via…
Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to the Village Voice, the Observer’s New York sister paper, and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal,…
Last night was a bit of a tease. Just after 5:30 p.m., Browder Plaza (outside the Dallas Power and Light Flats on Commerce Street) was packed with pedestrians mingling, snacking on street vendor food and enjoying drinks purchased at a kiosk on the square. City planners transformed the plaza into…
You may have noticed in recent days that Elm Street downtown is missing another one of its old buildings: the 70-year-old-or-so 1600 Elm, which was razed last week as part of the Joule expansion. We knew it was coming down; we just didn’t know when. Also on the chopping block:…
I called Mitchell Rasansky Friday — because, you may remember, I was supposed to. Last month, the former council member and co-owner of the former Whole Foods on Lower Greenville said that come October 21, we should know to whom he was leasing that space — be it a Walmart…
In moments, till 1 this afternoon, you’ll be able to laze across the Cedar Crest Bridge — yet another temporary installation from Team Better Block, in conjunction with the city and others trying to best determine how to turn a seldom-used thoroughfare into A Destination. There’s a schedule of events…
You remember Craig Hall, right? He’s the developer who’s been talking since forever about building something fancy in the Arts District — like, say, that stalled-out tower where presently there sits a parking garage on Ross. Only, remember, he and the city got sideways over unpaid lease monies and TIF-for-tats,…
A rig in ArlingtonThe New York Times ran an interesting story Thursday on the growing reluctance of banks to grant mortgages to owners of properties that have been leased for gas drilling in the northeast. Landowners often aren’t giving banks a heads up before signing on the dotted line, and…
This morning, we received word of a new report released yesterday: the American Express OPEN Independent Retail Index, which was done in conjunction with Austin- and Chicago-based Civic Economics and looked at 15 big cities, Dallas among them, ranking each based upon the number of independent restaurants and retailers in…
As a bulldozer chipped away at the sides of a hideously blighted cinder-block building in South Dallas this morning — forward, reverse, forward, reverse — a crowd of community members and Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity employees and supporters stared ahead with childlike gazes. And then, finally, the ‘dozer delivered…
Perhaps by now you’ve seen Rudy Bush’s item about Frank Luntz, one of two speakers lined up to address the city council at its Arboretum retreat today. Among pols and media folks, Luntz is a pretty well-known guy — after all, he’s the man who, in 2003, told George W…
I was in the KERA studios earlier this week, the guest of station contributor and Friend of Unfair Park Rawlins Gilliland as he bravely plowed through a 10-hour marathon pledge drive on behalf of the station. We did our segments in the KXT studios, where, for the first time, I…
Speaking of Southlake …Huffington Post this afternoon directs our attention to something called the Southlake Journal, which, turns out, is actually the Star-Telegram, which pointed out on Monday that Glenn Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts production company, which employs ’round 100, is eying the former Gateway Church building on Southlake, which…
