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BevoOne @bevowon.bsky.social · 15h

"Roberts is a vestige of a time when Dallas radio stations didn’t just have audiences, but created communities."

Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 16h

iHeartMedia is in the midst of mass layoffs (again). One casualty was Bo Roberts, who's been on Dallas radio since Q102 in 1982 and was fired Tuesday without a chance to say goodbye. He called today to discuss what happened on Tuesday and to bid the farewell he was denied.

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Wilonsky: Dallas radio icon Bo Roberts offers the goodbye he wasn’t allowed to say on air

Bo Roberts was on the radio Tuesday morning, as he had been almost every weekday morning since the second year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, when he received...

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 16h

iHeartMedia is in the midst of mass layoffs (again). One casualty was Bo Roberts, who's been on Dallas radio since Q102 in 1982 and was fired Tuesday without a chance to say goodbye. He called today to discuss what happened on Tuesday and to bid the farewell he was denied.

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Wilonsky: Dallas radio icon Bo Roberts offers the goodbye he wasn’t allowed to say on air

Bo Roberts was on the radio Tuesday morning, as he had been almost every weekday morning since the second year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, when he received...

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to know what his pal The Sports Mayor™ has to say about this.

The Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 1d

Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to withhold funding for roads from Dallas and other Texas cities if they do not remove rainbow crosswalks.

Abbott orders Dallas and other Texas cities to remove rainbow crosswalks or lose funding

Dallas is among the Texas cities that risk losing money if it does not remove a rainbow crosswalk.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 1d

I still have my keychain from the Unfair Park days that says, "Never read the comments." I am glad I made an exception for those that appear with this column, including this one:

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 1d

This would include Dallas, too. What in the absolute hell.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 1d

I used to have a stack of these tokens. From when we were a proper city.

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Nathaniel Barrett @ncoxbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

I came across the pauper's cemetery while doing industrial leasing. I thought it was so wild to find this nestled among some of the seedier Dallas warehouses.

I'm so glad there is someone who takes time to honor the lives and history of the least of our society's past.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 1d

Daniel Babb has spent years caring for the 2,080 often-unmarked dead buried in a pauper's cemetery behind NW Dallas warehouses. Last week, he finally began ordering headstones to mark their graves. Said the head of the Parks department, he "has done this city a great service.”

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Wilonsky: Finally, restoring the names to the forgotten dead in a Dallas paupers’ cemetery

“I spend more time with the dead than the living,” Daniel Babb said Saturday afternoon as we sat beneath a tree in a pauper’s cemetery stashed behind...

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Neil Alan Willard @neilwillard.bsky.social · 5d

“A woman approached the rector and told him that if an event like this had existed when her son was younger, he might not have died by suicide. ‘That’s why I’m doing this,’ Bentrup said. ‘My hope is that there is a kid who will still be alive in 10 years because we did this today.’” ⚓️

Amid protests, church hosts Southlake-Keller’s first Pride festival

A Pride festival at a church on the Southlake-Keller border drew hundreds of attendees in support of the LGBTQ community Saturday.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 5d

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:

Spent years looking for the Kinks' July 29, 1978, show at SMU's McFarlin Auditorium. Well, I found it -- 84 minutes of greatest hits (& some that should have been) in support of "Misfits," my 1st Kinks record.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 6d

Dallas City Hall would greatly appreciate it if you could take this financial fiasco off its hands. I walked around 7800 N. Stemmons so you don't have to. And I really don't think the likely teardown is worth $29 million. Or $14 million. Or 20 bucks.

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Wilonsky: Now you can own Dallas City Hall’s $29M (and counting) blunder on Stemmons

City Hall is finally selling The Worst Building in Dallas — and, no, I don’t mean the decaying, leaking, sinking Dallas City Hall. Not yet, anyway. No, I’m...

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 8d

I'd intended to stay for a longer visit. But I wound up walking to Scyene and visiting with some folks along Spring. Eager to return for a beer on Blues Monday. Happy to meet you there. First round's on me.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 8d

I was driving around South Dallas Friday afternoon when I spotted this along Spring Avenue in Mill City. I made a quick U-turn, noticed a familiar name on the permits posted in the window, and then spent a couple of days walking a neighborhood in transition.

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Wilonsky: What the what is Ourbucks Coffee, and how did it wind up in South Dallas?

When I first drove past Friday afternoon I thought maybe this was some art installation, like the Prada storefront in Marfa. But when I U-turned and got out...

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 11d

Spotted a moment ago along the Northaven Trail. It has been here for five weeks and counting.

A utilities pole leading to an alley along the Northaven Trail in Northwest Dallas spray-painted “EPSTEIN.” It has been here for five weeks. A few weeks earlier someone painted EPSTEIN on the trail. That was erased. This appeared the following week.

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 12d

Kudos to Dallas Morning News for not centering the victims' criminal histories the way CNN did in its initial reporting, which read like a lightly edited DHS press release.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 12d

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:

When you're out at the State Fair of Texas and notice that no one's using the Fair Park Band Shell these days, remember: On Sept. 20, 1986, R.E.M. played there on the Pageantry Tour. Someone recorded the whole thing. (Songs in FLAC.)

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 13d

We're in the midst of our series about what's gone wrong at Fair Park. Here's the rare thing that's gone right: Texas Discovery Gardens, where a former City Council member has spent $1 million turning the Hall of Horticulture into one of Dallas' brightest gems.

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Wilonsky: How the Texas Discovery Gardens became one of Fair Park’s few success stories

Ron Natinsky does not excuse nor apologize for the mess in his office in the Texas Discovery Gardens on the Fair Park grounds. It just is what it is – chaos...

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 14d

I came back to the office after Rosh Hashanah services Tuesday. I then saw this sticker on a light pole outside our office; then another Wednesday at the back door. @ericfolkerth.bsky.social then shared with me another near Lake Cliff Park. So I wrote this.

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Wilonsky: Searching for hope and humanity amid so much hate tearing at Dallas

I saw it as soon as I walked out of the office Tuesday evening – a sticker affixed to a traffic-light pole at Harwood and Jackson streets behind The Dallas...

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 19d

A much-needed bright spot: Bird’s Bookstore just opened next to Royal China in Preston Royal. Crowded. Bigger than I expected. Cafe and couches. Was just sitting next to the mom of the doc who wrote this op-ed, which she was discussing with friends. Love it here.

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The interior of Bird’s Bookstore in Preston Royal in Dallas, across from the cafe.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 19d

Because it twice said “poker” on the CO application, which they were granted after a six-month process before permitting officials yanked it six days later.

Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 19d

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:

40 years ago tomorrow, Neil Young and the International Harvesters pulled into Reunion Arena to promote the new, country-scented "Old Ways." But the setlist was a Neil career retrospective. And it got LOUD.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20d

Terrific piece, especially this part.

I see no reason why you and I won’t be next on the list, because well-resourced opposition is all but nonexistent. All this country needs is one leader of industry, just one, to tell this administration to go f—k itself. To date, not a single one of them has. Not even Disney chair Bob Iger, whose company has willingly defied MAGA persecution in years past. Iger is the most powerful man in Hollywood, and Trump still found a way to cow him anyway.

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The Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 21d

Wilonsky | Champions Social Club got its certificate of occupancy, but not before a wild hearing where a council member made herself the star attraction.

Wilonsky: How a hearing involving a Dallas poker room’s permit put City Hall on trial

I’ve sat through plenty of off-the-rails meetings at City Hall. But I’ve never seen a council member take the podium during a hearing of an independent quasi-ju...

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Nathaniel Barrett @ncoxbarrett.bsky.social · 21d

An embarrassing farce.

Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 21d

The old III Forks on the Dallas North Tollway got its certificate of occupancy Tuesday after an 8-hour hearing that devolved into one of the more ridiculous nights I've ever spent covering Dallas City Hall. To sum up: “Mistakes happen on a regular basis." Nawwwww.

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Wilonsky: How a hearing involving a Dallas poker room’s permit put City Hall on trial

I’ve sat through plenty of off-the-rails meetings at City Hall. But I’ve never seen a council member take the podium during a hearing of an independent quasi-ju...

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