Hahahahahahahahahahaha this is the visiting media’s view of Dallas outside the World Cup media center

I spent a very long, miserable, inspiring, infuriating, depressing Wednesday at Dallas City Hall, where cops were called on a former council member for going five whole seconds over his speaking time and a bunch of kids waited HOURS to save their tennis center. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Today in Most Dallas Headlines Ever®.

A landmark I'd never written about lands on Preservation Dallas' Most Endangered Places list. Owned by state Sen. Royce West. And one possible future for Dallas City Hall, which, like the Oak Cliff villa built in 1914 by Joseph Kovandovitch, is made of concrete. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

*Arlington. Only because the Cowboys left Dallas in 1971. Before it became fashionable.

Jerryworld has never looked better. Or sounded louder. Just leave it like this.

Robert Wilonsky writes, "I got tired of dealing with the living Wednesday, after the City Council took another step toward a Dallas City Hall exit, so I went to visit the dead. Except I couldn’t find them behind the tall grass behind the locked chain-link fence." bit.ly/4vXYocp

Forgot Bobby Ewing and Cliff Barnes shot an episode of "Dallas" in front of (the now-imperiled thanks to the mayor, city manager and eight council members) Dallas City Hall in June 1981 until I stumbled across this last night. The "RoboCop" prequel, obviously. No sound. texasarchive.org/2024AC06461

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Not the *best* recording, but I'm thankful it exists at all: U2 at the Bronco Bowl, June 13, 1983. "War" tour, tho "Boy" got more play: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-S... Setlist: tinyurl.com/2a6rc8zt Views from the Golden Horseshoe: u2start.com/shows/608#!p...

Every so often since the 1950s, one of the local papers would run a story on the sorry state of the Old Letot Cemetery, named for the only Crimean War veteran to settle in Dallas. I guess it's my turn. I went out there Wednesday and found this on city-owned land. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

I stopped by the Cole Manor last week, where the security guard, on his last day, let me in to see the place one last time before its demolition -- which Dallas PD just confirmed. On Preservation Dallas' most-endangered list since 2018, it will be gone in two weeks. dpdbeat.com/2026/06/18/n...

The city manager confirmed late Tuesday night that the $3.8-billion development won't be ready until at least 2030.

Mayor J. Erik Jonsson built Dallas City Hall. Just so Eric Johnson could abandon it less than 50 years later.

"[the Transportation Committee's motion] "recommends a full redesign of the convention center expansion." That, Tolbert wrote, will "cost approximately $597 million and will result in further delays beyond 2030." The most fiscally sound option continues to be cancelling the convention center.

Last night, after the print edition went to bed, the city manager sent a memo to council making official what we long suspected: "The convention center expansion will push into 2030, rather than being completed at the end of 2029, as originally anticipated." www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

I’m gonna need a minute to recover.

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Breaking: University of Texas at Austin leaders fired KUT General Manager Debbie Hiott on Monday, a little more than a month after she publicly challenged safety as the reason why much of the public radio station’s inaugural festival was forced off campus.

Spotted while walking over to Dallas City Hall

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The summer of '86, the Fabulous Thunderbirds were Texas' most ubiquitous band. So Q102 had the band play a free show at Memorial Auditorium on June 14. All the hits + Bobby Patterson's "How Do You Spell Love" tinyurl.com/evjeexza Setlist: tinyurl.com/y7u8ez5w

New $400 million police training facility is on the way though. I honestly don't know what to say about the city's leadership at this point. Just horrifying decisions, left and right.

Nobody hates Dallas more than it's own city council.

Dallas has decided to stop funding the nonprofit responsible for the three-acre, sunken downtown haven designed by architect Philip Johnson, Thanks-Giving Square.

It's such dark days at council: neglecting or despoiling our civic and cultural assets at every turn.

This is infuriating and incredible.

Thanks-Giving Square was created in the 1960s by a lot of people for whom this city would eventually name streets and highways. The foundation was among Dallas' first public-private partnerships. And the city ended it after 53 years. Without warning. In secret. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Thanks for the reminder.

“I am very pleased with the court’s ruling,” says Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua, one of the two plaintiffs.

Breaking: There will be no vote tomorrow on the future of Dallas City Hall, as Judge Eric Moyé, unconvinced by city’s outside counsel that the vote is just fact-finding and not the beginning of the IM Pei building’s end, grants two councilmembers’ request for a TRO.

After a week of bad news for Dallas, I spent Saturday mapping the annual intern tour. Bad time to pull into Fair Park and realize FIFA's fan fest is behind chain link in a Starplex parking lot. Thought about moving. Then I was told to head over to the Old Mill Inn www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Today in art law:

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: "You're listening to Little Feat live from the Dallas Convention Center Theater on The Zoo." Seven songs, anyway, from the band's June 2, 1978, Dallas stop recorded for KZEW. Don't bogart this recording. archive.org/details/lf19... A tale of two reviews:

mood.

"Roberts, the last man standing in the sinkhole, has fallen from the front page to the footnotes to the forgotten. Which is what happens in this town, where the arms are long and the memories are short."

Sherman Roberts, indicted in 2020, pleaded guilty in 2024 to bribing Dallas City Council members Dwaine Caraway and Carolyn Davis. A year later, he filed a motion to withdraw his plea. Yesterday, a federal judge gave him probation and told him, "You’ll be fine." www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Rough few hours.

And the hits just keep on comin' ... www.dallasnews.com/sports/stars...

Learn a new acronym, FIFA: VARA.

I have watched them steal the Enterprise out of space dock, like, 2,489 times. Conservatively.

“…suggested the Whaling Wall because it was nearly 30 years old, fading and “past its useful life.” Basically sums up the Dallas approach for EVERYTHING in that city.

Some more breaking local news: Wyland (and his local attorneys) just made good on his threat to file a federal suit over that downtown Dallas whale mural under the 1990 Visual Artists Rights Act. Also: "Wyland seeks actual damages of not less than $25,000,000." www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Now re-read today's column again ... www.dallasnews.com/sports/maver...

Two fave slides from Wednesday's "Proposed City Hall Repair Program" briefing, which says fixing the building won't cost $1 billion after all. Triggered Scope set off the Band Name Alert. And "The Domino Effect of Complex Renovations" is the working title of my autobiography. tinyurl.com/4a3kt85x

There was a lot of AI slopping around those Dallas City Hall proposals sent to officials who likely never even looked at them. But some intriguing ones asked: What if I.M. Pei's brutalist colossus were the centerpiece to downtown revitalization, not the roadblock? www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Prequel! Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at Reunion Arena, June 1, 1987, weeks after someone torched his home. All the hits with Clash, Byrds + Buffalo Springfield covers. "These days you better trust yourself." tinyurl.com/4juwfc2w Setlist: tinyurl.com/mr46x4uk

Perseverance, plus a whole lot of talent, is what got the Dallas hip-hop collective to our space after submitting to the Tiny Desk Contest four years in a row. n.pr/4fd9W6E

Album cover or eyesore? Or both? Looks like the middle of the country. But this is in Oak Cliff, just off Ledbetter. An old church the city sold to a man the city's suing because, well, look at it. I went looking for one dead church and found two. And lawsuits. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Most Texas thing I’ve heard in a long-ass time.