Posts Tagged ‘lots’
Stop Digging
StaticWhen staffers proposed three years ago that the city build a $30 million, 1,100-space parking garage near the Will Rogers Memorial Center, they emphasized that the area was in dire need of parking, especially on Saturdays when ...
Bring On the Hate — With Pink Sauce and Fries
Chow, BabyIt’s odd, and oddly disappointing, that the Chow, Baby web page gets only the very occasional e-comment accusing its namesake of bragging on itself, most recently for having attended a cheap state university and for driving a...
Tough Nut To Crack
Can yet another developer dent the Near Southeast's housing woes?ERIC GRIFFEY AND BETTY BRINK, PHOTOS BY NAOMI VAUGHAN
There’s a new developer on the block in Fort Worth’s Near Southeast Side who is confident he can do what dozens of other home builders and community leaders have not been able to do in spite of decades of effort: tu...
Between Nothingness and Eternity
HearsayOther than the annual Bertha Coolidge show, there’s little to zero jazz fusion in the Fort. I guess most local musos are too time-strapped (or lazy) to spend the time rehearsing to get the inherently complex music right. ...
Round Ones
KEN SHIMAMOTOWas it really seven years ago — an eon in restaurant years — that my oldest daughter had her wedding reception in the very same room as Chubby’s Burger Shack? (It was called something else back then.) One cons...
Falling Down, Getting Back Up
BETTY BRINK AND ERIC GRIFFEY PHOTOS BY ALYSSA BANTAOn an October morning, the 900 block of East Leuda Street on the city’s Near Southeast Side is awash in gentle rain and cultural disconnects. On the north side of the street, an old man in overalls stands on the sagging, ...
‘Tween a Rock and a Parking Lot
JEFF PRINCEResidents on Roosevelt Street felt like they’d been blindsided by a burly linebacker after Arlington city officials announced in August that they would begin charging $25 a car for parking on city-owned lots during Dallas...
Remote Locations
Chow, BabyThis is a plea to a certain television network to stop running all those “Do You Have the Travel Bug?” commercials. Having seen the ads a million times now, Chow, Baby is convinced it is seriously afflicted with thi...
Mick Medew & the Rumours
Ken ShimamotoAmong Australian rock ‘n’ rollers, Mick Medew is a name to conjure with. Starting in 1981, he fronted the Screaming Tribesmen, a band that hit big Down Under and even got a shot at U.S. MTV with 1987′s Bones a...