Robert Wilonsky

Wilonsky: Rodeo Dallas to reopen in Deep Ellum Wednesday night after brief lockout This has to be a first in Deep Ellum, where bad actors come and go like in a soap opera. As long as I’ve been going to and writing about Deep Ellum, which...

Rodeo Dallas got themselves a writ of reentry this afternoon. Which means the lockout was just the beginning.

Interesting sidenote: The Deep Ellum club's owner, with whom I've had many conversations in recent weeks, had me call his attorney today. So here we go.

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Just spoke to Rodeo Dallas' co-owner, who said they're actually planning to open another venue right across Elm Street called Trophy Lounge. He described it as a "high-energy cocktail lounge with a full menu."

They also have another venue in the works on Peak Street near Elm.

Wilonsky: Following City Hall’s threats, Deep Ellum landlord locks out Rodeo Dallas This has to be a first in Deep Ellum, where bad actors come and go like in a soap opera. As long as I’ve been going to and writing about Deep Ellum, which...

I can't remember a Deep Ellum landlord ever locking out a profitable, rent-paying tenant. Till today. "Think of how bad you have to be for that to happen,” says Gavin Mulloy. Adds Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Jesse Moreno, "Everyone saw this coming, one way or the other."

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Or The Bone.

Wilonsky: Rodeo Dallas, City Hall tussle over Deep Ellum’s latest rise in violence As promised, Dallas’ City Attorney Office on Wednesday told the owners of Deep Ellum’s Rodeo Dallas to either clean up their act or get sued. Turns out it...

City attorney: Deep Ellum's Rodeo Dallas "has a documented history of public intoxication, inadequate crowd control and repeated violent altercations." Owner responds: "Trying to attribute the dangers of an area and the criminality of an area to my bar is insane."

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Years ago, the DA's office gave me access to the original case files. Took a while to recover.

Jetstar Records - The Rock Sides, by Jetstar Records 20 track album

Here's the rock side of Jetstar:

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And the soul sides:

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The (first) label of Bobby Patterson!

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Long ago I wrote an Observer feature on John Abdnor Sr. and his DEEPLY troubled son, which is alluded to above.

Sundazed owns the Abnak/Jetstar catalog. Includes "Dance, Franny, Dance"!

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Wilonsky: Baptist church finds salvation for one of Jewish Dallas’ most significant homes The Linz Cultural Heritage Center is, simply, the next step in Cornerstone’s remaking of South Dallas. Something that connects the neighborhood to its past...

The Linz House is one of the few South Boulevard mansions to survive the highway that tore through South Dallas in the mid-1950s. Crossroads Baptist Church now hopes to turn it into a cultural heritage center that tells the story of Black and Jewish Dallas.

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Billy Joel Celebrates Billy Joel: And So It Goes With Digital Only Companion Piece Featuring Unreleased Audio Highlighted in Two-Part Documentary - Sony Music The 100 Song Collection Arrives Saturday July 26th Featuring Eight Never-Before-Released Songs, including “December Theme (December Song)” from the Cold Spring HarborSessions, “My Life (From The 100th...

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"Just the Way You Are," also credited to the late, great KZEW, is among the extras on the documentary soundtrack. For the Zoo Freaks.

YouTube video by Billy Joel Lost Tapes Billy Joel - Live At: McFarlin Auditorium, Texas (October 14, 1977) | Pro-Shot

Track 2 on the 100-song Billy Joel doc companion compilation: "The Stranger (Live at KZEW)." He was in Dallas October 1977 and played on the SMU campus. Footage from that night was unearthed last year: a COMPLETE "Stranger" and "Just the Way You Are." So where's the rest?

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YouTube video by Lena K Elliott Smith live at Trees, Dallas 2000-05-05 (Full Show)

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:

Speaking of Deep Ellum and better times, here's a 25-year-old treasured memory: Someone filmed Elliott Smith's May 5, 2000, show at Trees. Just a few weeks after the release of "Figure 8." Features the never-released "Living in a Cage"

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Wilonsky: What to do about the latest ‘state of emergency’ in Deep Ellum A little after noon Monday, some 100 members of the Angry Deep Ellum Business Owners Association (not an official name) gathered for a righteous spleen-venting ...

I can't believe it took me five whole months back on the beat to write about Deep Ellum. Come for the serious talk about serious stuff. But also, find out what's going into the building my great-uncle erected on Elm Street in 1926. I wish Dad were here to see it.

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Wilonsky: Wandering Dallas’ Hensley Field, waiting to find out how bad the land is I drove out to Hensley Field Wednesday afternoon expecting to drive around through the homes and warehouses that surround the 738-acre campus on Mountain...

23 years after they first settled, Dallas and the Army remain at war over the former Naval Air Station. I went out there after reading the latest legal filings. The Navy has taken 1,000 samples from the contaminated land, and a report is due to the TCEQ in August.

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Two Neil Young shows for the price of (n)one from Reunion Arena on July 15, 1983: A nearly 2-hour acoustic best-of set, followed by a preview of "Everybody's Rockin'." DMN review by KZEW's own Old Grey Wolf.

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Wilonsky: He came to Texas seeking asylum. He landed in the world’s most notorious prison Neri Jose Alvarado Borges, a Lewisville resident and Venezuelan immigrant, fled his homeland after receiving death threats because of his involvement in...

I was just informed that Neri Jose Alvarado Borges, who I wrote about in April, is being sent home to Venezuela in the prisoner swap. His family was told this morning that he's being sent from CECOT to Caracas, where he's scheduled to meet his parents tonight.

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Wilonsky: In West Dallas, protecting graves of the immigrants who created this city I’ve spent several hours over the last few days walking around La Réunion Cemetery in West Dallas, which, by all rights, should have been impossible. Since...

Last week I noticed the fence around La Reunion Cemetery was down -- for months, turned out. So I walked the historic burial ground filled with French, Swiss & Belgian settlers who came to Dallas in 1855 and the Mexican immigrants who later toiled in Cement City.

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I always forget Dallas has a mayor.

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.

The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

Wilonsky: In Dallas, food banks have reason to worry that politics will empty pantries It was supposed to be one of the few things we all agreed on, that we didn’t want to see our neighbors starve. It’s a bar so low you could trip over it. Yet,...

In my notebook, I circled something Wes Keyes, CEO of Brother Bill’s Helping Hand in West Dallas, told me before I left one day last week: “If we lose the ability to take care of the least of these, as Jesus said, we will be cast into hellfire."

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I was at both. REM and Joe Jackson, too, among others. Band shell and coliseum are woefully underutilized.

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41 years ago tonight, just 2 months after the release of his second album, Stevie Ray Vaughan came home to play Dallas' most underrated, underutilized venue, the Fair Park Band Shell.

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Sound is good. Setlist is great: tinyurl.com/w8wm9wfe

A dead hospital has become a Dallas neighborhood's 'nightmare' in need of a wrecking ball — or a miracle Thrice in two weeks I've visited the old Tri-City Hospital on Scyene Road, otherwise known as the boarded-up squatters' retreat and shooting...

This column ran seven years ago.

I just received a media release from Dallas City Hall that says demolition will begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, "after more than two decades of abandonment and legal proceedings."

Dallas, the can-do-eventually city, maybe, depends.

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Yesterday, Dallas plan commissioners punted further discussion about this proposed high-rise to October 9. The property owners and their consultant, oft-former Dallas mayoral candidate Ed Okpa, didn't even attend the meeting. Said one commissioner, the "current ask for 25 stories boggles my mind."

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.” The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

aaron parsley’s incredible, horrifying, somehow beautiful essay about what happened to him and his family last weekend on the guadalupe river is one of the best and most moving things you will read this year (content note: child loss) www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Wilonsky: An unfathomable tragedy in the Hill Country carries its grief to Dallas Monday morning, one of my dearest friends – and my son’s pediatrician – told me his group treats three of the children claimed by the floodwaters. He told me...

I spent all morning talking with so many Dallas friends with so many connections to those lost or missing in the Hill Country floodwaters. That includes my son's pediatrician, whose group took care of three of the girls killed or presumed dead. So I wrote this.

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Wilonsky: So, about that proposed luxury South Dallas condo-hotel helipad tower A few days ago, I walked up and down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard showing people two renderings of a proposed 25-story tower that would swallow the block...

This is *supposed* to be Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Colonial Avenue near Fair Park. You could never tell from the rendering.

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For Your Long Weekend Listening Pleasure:

If nothing else, it's also the 50th anniversary of the night Peter Frampton came alive for KZEW at the Electric Ballroom. Features "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Show Me the Way" and a 14-minute "Do You Feel"

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