I spent Saturday afternoon walking and photographing the clean-up along the McCommas Bluff. Because earlier last week, the Dallas man authorities say is responsible for that illegal dump was again arrested -- this time, for stealing the land with forged deeds. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Wilonsky: Dallas cleared the illegal dump on the Trinity River. A mess remains

For a second time, the man authorities say was responsible for desecrating – and stealing – the McCommas Bluff has been arrested.

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For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: This soundboard keepsake from Genesis' Aug. 13, 1982, visit to Reunion Arena surfaced a year ago. From "Foxtrot" to "Abacab." Or, as Phil Collins says, some of our new shit and some of our old shit. tinyurl.com/5n77ndx6 Super 8 footage! tinyurl.com/5bcb75kf

Dallas ISD fought efforts to landmark the 1915 Adamson campus. It then let the former Oak Cliff High School fall into ruin; then DISD tried to raze it. Now, there's an RFP to see if anyone can repurpose Dallas' second-oldest high school. A last chance, feels like. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Wilonsky: Anyone want a free 111-year-old Dallas landmark?

Dallas ISD has issued a request for proposals in the hopes someone can salvage the former W.H. Adamson building.

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Man. I forgot all about those tennis tournaments at Market Hall.

Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · last wk.

Trammell Crow's Market Hall has long been "the world's largest privately owned exhibition hall." It was Dallas' OTHER convention center, but it was for locals, not out-of-towners. Come week's end, the days of boat shows, guitar fests & political rallies are over. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

I will always fondly remember this place as where my wife got her first COVID jab. She walked out crying tears of happiness.

Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · last wk.

Trammell Crow's Market Hall has long been "the world's largest privately owned exhibition hall." It was Dallas' OTHER convention center, but it was for locals, not out-of-towners. Come week's end, the days of boat shows, guitar fests & political rallies are over. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

now where will I go to see the coors light prototype enclosed motorcycle?!

Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · last wk.

Trammell Crow's Market Hall has long been "the world's largest privately owned exhibition hall." It was Dallas' OTHER convention center, but it was for locals, not out-of-towners. Come week's end, the days of boat shows, guitar fests & political rallies are over. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

This sucks for a whole host of reasons. Market Hall was a place where I could go for a huge book clearance and was also where I got my first (or second?) pandemic vaccine. It served lots of purposes.

Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · last wk.

Trammell Crow's Market Hall has long been "the world's largest privately owned exhibition hall." It was Dallas' OTHER convention center, but it was for locals, not out-of-towners. Come week's end, the days of boat shows, guitar fests & political rallies are over. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

The Half-Price Books clearance sale and Reptile Breeder's Conference were held here. I'll miss this humble space with its quirky events.

Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · last wk.

Trammell Crow's Market Hall has long been "the world's largest privately owned exhibition hall." It was Dallas' OTHER convention center, but it was for locals, not out-of-towners. Come week's end, the days of boat shows, guitar fests & political rallies are over. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Played this version on my Christmas Eve show just last year. A staggering loss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvlv...

Glen Hansard & Imelda May perform Fairytale of New York | The Late Late Show | RTÉ One

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last wk.

Can’t believe Glen Hansard is gone. What an unbelievable tragedy. I loved his and Lisa O’Neill’s rendition of Fairytale of New York at Shane MacGowan’s funeral: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptay...

Trammell Crow's Market Hall has long been "the world's largest privately owned exhibition hall." It was Dallas' OTHER convention center, but it was for locals, not out-of-towners. Come week's end, the days of boat shows, guitar fests & political rallies are over. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Wilonsky: Dallas’ Market Hall to close and likely become a data center. Bleh

Trammell Crow built the “the world’s largest privately owned exhibition hall” in 1960 to compete with the city’s convention center.

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For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: On July 29, 1978, the Kinks brought The Misfits Tour (and Blondie) to SMU for a rare local visit. Plenty of "Sleepwalker" + "Misfits," my 1st two Kinks records, with a sidecar of "Alcohol" + All The Klassics. tinyurl.com/mryveujm Setlist: tinyurl.com/4stdu74m

While I have access (!): In 1980 the Urban Institute published a book about why Dallas was the nation's model city. I spent a LONG time at the central library looking for that tome so I could bring you this report about my new favorite work of historical fiction. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Wilonsky: What ever became of the Dallas once hailed as ‘a city that works’?

Looking back at the 1980 Urban Institute study that hailed our town as “municipal success story” once quick to fix everything.

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Greg Bibb basically said what needed to be said months ago… and his words are pretty much say everything about that shitshow of a city council.

Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why the Dallas Wings haven't yet flown away -- I dunno, to Plano, let's say -- is a mystery for the ages. Also, the team's CEO, Greg Bibb, might be the most patient man this side of Job. A cautionary tale for anyone looking to do business with the city of Dallas. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Why the Dallas Wings haven't yet flown away -- I dunno, to Plano, let's say -- is a mystery for the ages. Also, the team's CEO, Greg Bibb, might be the most patient man this side of Job. A cautionary tale for anyone looking to do business with the city of Dallas. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Wilonsky: The city’s in foul trouble, but the Dallas Wings refuse to fly away

City officials promised the WNBA team a new downtown home by now, but they can barely get a meeting.

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Might be a good time for Warstic to reissue those long-sold-out Dallas Rats jerseys. "Designed by One Fast Buffalo, these jerseys were created for the 'Dallas Rats' to wear as they played the Warstic Woodmen at Reverchon Park in Dallas on October 8, 2019." warstic.com/products/dal...

The front pages of The Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald from July 4, 1976.

This is for Dallas. The video shows the racial impact as the highways progressed sine 1940s. www.segregationbydesign.com/dallas/highw...

Dallas: Highway Planning and Construction — SEGREGATION BY DESIGN

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For Your Holiday Weekend Listening Pleasure: Prequel! "American Girl" was recorded on July 4, 1976. It was also the first song Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played at Reunion Arena on July 5, 1985, on the "Southern Accents" tour. With horns. tinyurl.com/3d393wtr Setlist: tinyurl.com/4cynw7hs

Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Dallas Water Utilities, code compliance, sanitation and more are clearing the illegal dump that buried the McCommas Bluff. But the criminal investigation has only just begun.

Wilonsky: An army of Dallas workers undo one man’s damage to the Trinity River

Dallas Water Utilities, code compliance, sanitation and more are clearing the illegal dump that buried the McCommas Bluff. But the criminal investigation has only just begun.

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My second visit to the McCommas Bluff in the last two months. Dozens of city workers from several departments have descended on the site of the massive illegal dump that took root here, leading to numerous criminal investigations. But the damage has been done. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Wilonsky: An army of Dallas workers undo one man’s damage to the Trinity River

Dallas Water Utilities, code compliance, sanitation and more are clearing the illegal dump that buried the McCommas Bluff. But the criminal investigation has only just begun.

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Candice Frederick@candicefrederick.bsky.social · last mo.

What Is the Definitive Movie About America? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/m...

“A dump,” says one of the few council members to tour the Southeast Service Center. The nicest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say about a place that's been waiting since 2006 for a lousy $1 million in bond money the council voted to spend (checks notes) last week. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Wilonsky: Dallas took 20 years to spend $1 million on its ‘worst building'

And no one can explain why the city’s only now spending 2006 bond money on a squalid service center in South Dallas.

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I think about this 37 times a day. Every day.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · last mo.

The bicentennial made such a tremendous impact on American *pop* culture--I remember the Barney Miller episode about it!--there were tricorner hats everywhere, hit songs, a movie, and the logo and local parades all year long. This year it feels as empty as the mall.

A parody of a city.

J. Blake@jblakedtx.bsky.social · last mo.

Just saw this on Instagram and thought you'd appreciate the irony.

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Rush is in Fort Worth through July 2, so, of course, here's a Reunion Arena keepsake from March 1, 1990. From the "Presto" tour. Not bad except for the guy who keeps yelling at someone in front of him to sit down. Relatable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYR...

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...

Wilonsky: The kids are all right at Dallas City Hall. The grown-ups, not so much

Oak Cliff viaducts and tennis centers help make a long City Council meeting much longer and more unpleasant than necessary. I know, shocking.

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Today in Most Dallas Headlines Ever®.

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A DART bus accident sent 15 people to Dallas hospitals after driving into "a hole" on Harry Hines Boulevard at about 5:53 a.m. Thursday.

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...

Wilonsky: Dallas’ landmark Concrete House, a state senator and no concrete plan

The Kovandovitch House in Oak Cliff,  owned by Royce West, makes Preservation Dallas’ latest list of most-endangered places.

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