For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Went looking for a local Rage Against the Machine show and found this stick of dynamite: the 49-minute opening set during U2's Popmart stop at the Cotton Bowl, May 12, 1997. Play loud. LOUDER. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1GH... Setlist: ratm.live/artists/rage...

Dallas’ crosswalk removal schedule, as posted tonight in the council’s Friday memo stack:

A broke Dallas threw some of its City Hall -- two I.M. Pei-approved benches, to be exact -- in its junk store. Now, one of those benches is for sale in NYC for $75,000. And another just sold for more than $22,000 to a European architect. Alt head: Son of a BENCH. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

I’ve been so busy I forgot to share this yesterday.

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: 26 years ago last night, Bruce Springsteen's reunion tour with The E Street Band came to Reunion Arena. With no new album to promote, the 26 songs came from 11 records, led by "The River" & "Born to Run." And an epic "Light of Day." archive.org/details/bs20...

Matt is one of the best of us. Buy some books from him, friends.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: March 4-5, 1975, days after Physical Graffiti's release, Led Zeppelin played Memorial Auditorium. Both shows are well documented on the band's website. Then there are recordings. March 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sSO... www.ledzeppelin.com/show/memoria...

The statue of Capt. Jay Banks was booted out of Love Field and banished to Hensley Field six years ago. There was supposed to be "a community discussion" about the man who served as its model. He was meant to go to a museum. Instead, Dallas quietly gave it away. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

"Floors 100 and 101 feature an outdoor pool deck with a cantilevered pool, a 30-foot RoboCop helmet grotto and a ten-story mural of RoboCop on horseback. ... Floor 105 is an observatory themed around Dallas in the year 2100 ... with a robot bartender bar and panoramic views extending to Fort Worth."

After last night's 9-6 City Council vote to begin exploring a City Hall exit strategy, I received a press release from a local architectural firm proposing a "114-story mixed-use tower to be constructed adjacent to Dallas City Hall." Good one. I'd buy that for a dollar. allerior.com/city-hall-to...

If you're bored, or you give a damn, this is JUST starting: Council will vote to explore relocating City Hall staff out of the building, including 311 AND 911, and "explore options for the disposition of the City Hall site." What else ya got to do tonight? Tune in: dallastx.new.swagit.com/views/113

Cool new statue, Texas Rangers! Don't worry, no one will go to the Wikipedia page for it to see why it's not at the airport anymore. www.mlb.com/news/rangers...

After ICE sent her mother back to Mexico, a 17-year-old high school senior was left to care for her younger sisters. bit.ly/4rFk3V7

“My house is one place they let them come because they know they’d have to kill me before I let [ICE] in the door. Unless good people step up and let their voices be heard, nothing is going to change. We can’t let this keep happening, especially to children.” www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

The city of Dallas, which is about to abandon I.M. Pei's City Hall to Miriam Adelson for a casinorena, is very good at wasting time and money to make things worse. Example ∞, the unnecessary rebranding of one of the few things in Dallas people like, Love Field. dallascityhall.com/government/c...

Yesterday/Just now

The most spot-on description of Dallas and Fort Worth I've ever heard. I would read a whole book of this; listen to it, certainly.

This morning, Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua posted to FB this memo from Sports Mayor, which calls for a vote on City Hall's fate next week. The CM adds: "This process is a joke and an insult to our taxpayers. I hope the voters are paying attention to this Mavericks/City Hall boondoggle!!"

i started a new job in this building a few weeks ago…it’s an amazing building and i really hope Council chooses to save it i also hope they would reconsider previous proposals for making the plaza a more vibrant public space…when i walk to grab lunch or coffee, it’s like traversing a wasteland

When the council gives it away, Dallas will lose the one place in town where we gather to celebrate, mourn, shout, reflect. Which, I think, is why so many folks, like me, so quickly took to this idea that the plaza was sacred parkland untouchable without our OK. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

After a briefing about conditions at Dallas City Hall, which was just a recitation of a publicly available PowerPoint, the city council has been hiding from The People for nearly two hours. Most everyone left. Very respectful city council we got here.

How do you get so many people to Dallas City Hall? Propose selling and tearing down Dallas City Hall. (For yet another Mavericks arena.)

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: On July 12, 1978, Springsteen & E Street Band played an even smaller venue, to just 1,600 people, after failing to fill Memorial Auditorium 5 weeks after Darkness on the Edge of Town's release. The perfect set from a legendary tour. archive.org/details/bs19...

The State of City Hall report is out. Read it here: dallascityhall.com/government/c... Takeaway: The fix is in.

While going through the archives for this piece, I found my favorite photo of Dallas City Hall. Taken while it was under construction in 1975.

David Voss worked for Dallas 3 times. As a maintenance man who kept the old City Hall in one piece. As manager of all city-owned buildings in NW Dallas. Then, as the man in charge of keeping I.M. Pei's City Hall shining. Now, he just wants to keep it standing. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Traffic from the Paris parking lot often spills into Harry Hines. But weeks ago, I asked city attorneys about Pandora's, as a couple of guys who live in Harry Hines' storm-drain tunnels said they'd seen cops busting folks there. Turns out the place is a "brothel." www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

More: "We’re grateful for the long-term relationship we have with Mayor Mario Vasquez and the City of Hutchins and look forward to continuing our work to find a buyer or lease tenant that will help drive economic growth.”

Was just texted a statement from a PR rep that says despite being contacted about selling its warehouse in Hutchins, "Majestic Realty Co. has not and will not enter into any agreement for the purchase or lease of any building to the Department of Homeland Security for use as a detention facility."

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: “I think I’ll be playing only bowling alleys from here on out. There’s something to it." -- Bruce Springsteen on Jan. 26, 1996, when he played Oak Cliff's Bronco Bowl. Can't stop listening to a show I thought I'd never hear again. archive.org/details/bs19...

“I learned more life lessons in that week than if I’d gone to class that Monday." In 2006, Gustavo Jimenez used MySpace to organize a student walkout & march on Dallas City Hall. "I was very proud of them," says former Dallas ISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Um, Meat Loaf.

I enjoy Robert's column and agree that random gunfire is a problem. However, among the solutions discussed here (i.e., in-person police responses vs. new policing technology), I couldn't help but notice one that wasn't mentioned at all: Making fewer guns accessible to Texas residents.

"This half-baked vision may be the nation’s worst downtown-revival strategy, and not only because it would destroy the city’s one-of-a-kind Brutalist colossus. [It's] based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes downtowns worthy ... in the first place." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Random gunfire is just something my NW Dallas neighborhood has gotten used to. It takes something like Saturday night's outburst -- some 30 shots fired over a 10-minute span -- to even get everyone's attention. Even then, Dallas PD couldn't do anything about it. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Just walked over to Dallas City Hall.

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: This recording was long thought lost: Peter Frampton at the January Sound Studios on Feb. 6, 1975, which was aired later that week on KZEW-FM. It turned up complete with the "Do You Feel Like We Do" Dallas couldn't escape in '75. archive.org/details/1975...

Reupping for International Clash Day.

"Everyone’s nervous. Everyone’s scared." The biggest ICE detention center in the country would be just 10 minutes from downtown Dallas. That's how long it took me on Wednesday to drive from the office to Hutchins, where that warehouse is the first thing you see. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Long column short: If Dallas City Hall will let a contributing, 110-year-old home in a landmark district in the heart of old East Dallas -- on Gaston Avenue, no less -- go to hell, what chance do those tucked-away districts in South Dallas and Oak Cliff stand? www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Using several sources, including soundboard recording and FM broadcast, someone assembled The Cleanest, Loudest Possible Version of Metallica's Feb. 5, 1989, show at Reunion Arena. Perfect for (waves arms wildly) days like these. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB1Y...

I'm just gonna leave this here. RIP to one of the greats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

“hundreds” youtu.be/Imyqnop6grY?...

Because (waves arms wildly) everything else wasn’t already bad enough.

A truly unacceptable assault on the First Amendment.

Outside the Texas family detention center where U.S. Representatives Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett went to check on five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, a quiet protest found its voice. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/dilley-detention-jasmine-crockett-joaquin-castro/

"As a prosecutor and a lawyer it’s unacceptable that a branch of our government creates a different set of facts about what’s very obvious." Which is why this week John Creuzot signed on to the Fight Against Federal Overreach. Or, as the founders call it, FAFO. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...