After a trial was postponed (again), the owner of 80-year-old Cole Manor Motel has agreed to sell the place or tear it down if he can find no takers. Designed by a famous architect, Charles Dilbeck, it has long been a crime scene and last-chance housing for many.
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Wait. I was told convention centers had to cost more than $3.5 billion.
The Majestic isn't a money-loser. You can't complain about the quality of the bookings. And no would-be operator will want to maintain a 105-year-old building, which is the whole point of the city manager's fishing expedition. Has an EVERYTHING MUST GO vibe to it.
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The Dallas Times Herald's review of Depeche Mode's March 27, 1985, Bronco Bowl show.
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:
Depeche Mode’s March 27, 1985, stopover in support of "Some Great Reward" at the late Bronco Bowl. All the hits ("People are People," "Everything Counts," "Just Can’t Get Enough," "Master and Servant") and some that shoulda been.
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The very day the public flooded council chambers to protest the demolition of Dallas City Hall, this 1949 Lustron House on Amherst began its path to historic designation. It will likely be Dallas' smallest landmark and may well outlive IM Pei's brutalist colossus.
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In the heart of several neighborhoods along Scyene, adjacent to the soon-to-be-Looped-in Parkdale Lake, a proposal to build “a facility for the manufacture of materials derived from biomass, plastics, tires, and other inputs."
This is called Backward Dallas.
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Michael Stipe the night R.E.M. played Nokia Live in Grand Prairie, Oct. 24, 2008. The Old 97's opened. It was one hell of a 40th birthday present.
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On Oct. 24, 2008, days before its last-ever show, R.E.M. played Nokia Live in Grand Prairie. Michael Stipe said after "Drive" that Peter Buck packed R.E.M.'s ever-changing setlist "with as many protest songs as possible."
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I recommend saving $500m-$5B by not building the convention center at all.
But i'll take keeping the bridge connections to Oak Cliff as a consolation prize.
This morning, Dallas City Council member Chad West and Maxie Johnson sent this memo to City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert. You're welcome.
From White Rock Lake, no less. During the nationwide Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
Wrote about this a few years back.
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Absolutely.
The Edge and Bono at Reunion Arena on April 3, 2001, a week into U2's Elevation Tour. Photo by Barbara Davidson for The Dallas Morning News.
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:
It's the 25th anniversary of U2's Reunion Arena stop one week into the Elevation tour on April 3, 2001. Just yesterday, someone shared a dynamite keepsake from an unforgettable night:
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The Jefferson/Houston viaduct changes started with a convo between me and two asst city managers in 2016 to open up land and downtown views on the Oam Farms site.
The city willing to sacrifice connectivity for a silver bullet is why downtown is in the state it is.
Seems there is nothing Dallas won't sacrifice for the Convention Center.
Everything in this town is a secret until it's a SURPRISE. Including the impact that new convention center is going to have on your favorite Oak Cliff-downtown connections, the Jefferson and Houston viaducts. Doesn't have to be this way. Which is the Dallas way.
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The Garvin Memorial Cemetery on NW Highway is an actual Dallas landmark. James Garvin buried his first wife here in 1875, the first of some 90 -- or more, it's unclear -- people interred here. That hasn't stopped yet another developer from clear-cutting the land.
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Thom Yorke at the Music Hall at Fair Park on March 29, 1998. Dallas Morning News photo by Judy Walgren.
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The first full-band performance of "Nude."
The last-ever performance of "Electioneering."
Here's Radiohead's legendary show at the Music Hall at Fair Park, March 29, 1998. The greatest concert everyone you know says they attended.
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UPDATE: Dallas Mavericks CEO Rick Welts revealed Friday morning, during a Sports Economics panel hosted by the Greater Dallas Planning Council, who first approached the team about the City Hall site.
Dallas City Manager Kim Tolbert. “Over a year ago."
More in the column. And more to come.
The Dallas Mavericks and city officials held their first "official" meeting yesterday.
“Based on the City Council vote," Mavs CEO Rick Welts said this week, "we now have the opportunity to talk to the city about the structure of a deal, and that’s new for us."
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My latest for The New York Times: a look at the life & legacy of the late great D. Boon. Visited San Pedro to talk to the surviving Minutemen, Mike Watt and George Hurley, as they continue to carry forward the spirit of Boon and the band. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...
A brief break from City Hall monitoring to consider the imminent demise of Dallas landmark Hickory House, which opened on Industrial in 1950 and now has an expiration date of May 30 (or sooner) thanks to a landlord jacking up the rent just in time for World Cup.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Matt is one of the best of us. Buy some books from him, friends.
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The March 5 show at Dallas' Memorial Auditorium, long considered a rival to any official release, has been restored + remastered.
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The official website is filled with photos, reviews, ticket stubs, ads, even video (from March 4).
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