Robert Wilonsky

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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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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...

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Wilonsky: How ‘One Riot, One Ranger’ went from Dallas Love Field to left field To quote a great archeologist: That belongs in a museum. And by that, I mean One Riot, One Ranger, the statue of Texas Rangers Capt. E.J. “Jay” Banks that was...

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.

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"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."

Oh, same. And the "ten-story mural of RoboCop on horseback."

Allerior Architects Turning Dallas into a city by building community through design that expresses individuality.

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.

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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

Oh, I have asked the city spokesperson many questions about this. MANY.

Rangers unveil 'One Riot, One Ranger' statue addition at Globe Life Field The Texas Rangers on Monday announced a permanent statue addition to the left field concourse at Globe Life Field. The “One Riot, One Ranger” statue, which has a lengthy history in Dallas-Fort Worth, ...

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

Wilonsky: A mom deported, 4 kids left behind and an 80-year-old Dallas Girl Scout troop leader’s good deeds After ICE sent her mother back to Mexico, a 17-year-old high school senior was left to care for her younger sisters.

“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.”

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Nobody asked for this cheap-ass shit.

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.

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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.

Dallas wants to shift responsibility for Wings’ new practice facility to the WNBA team The City Council on Wednesday delayed a vote on a revised deal, citing unanswered questions about why the planned Oak Cliff practice facility is now $27...

Ah, yes. The Wings. Related to this cluster?

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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

Along with the rest of me, a heap of ashes.

I left this under your FB comment, as well, but I did turn up that one piece of paper that refers to the plaza as “Municipal Complex not Park Property," But as one former city attorney told me Monday, well, this could all be settled by a lawsuit.

Thanks. Somehow missed this, and it didn't come up during several interviews this week with current and past Park Department leadership. Now, of course, Palomino refuses to weigh in, while Parks folks seem resigned to the fact that a sports facility can go on parkland (Cotton Bowl, Wings at Joey G).

Wilonsky: Dallas City Hall’s plaza likely isn’t parkland, but it is The People’s Front Porch It appears after doing some digging that a voter referendum on the sale of Dallas City Hall Plaza won’t be a roadblock the keep-it crowd has hoped for. And,...

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.

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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.

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I said the very same thing to someone else.

The State of City Hall report is out.

Read it here:

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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.

Wilonsky: The man who tended to Dallas City Hall in 1978 on why it shouldn’t be torn down “That place is an embarrassment to the city of Dallas,” David Voss told me Wednesday. Not the building, he said. Never the building or the council chambers,...

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.

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