As you may have heard, the Dallas Housing Authority plans to open 100 apartments at its 180-unit Cliff Manor building on Fort Worth Avenue to longtime homeless people who have mental illnesses and addictions. The agency, which operates public housing throughout Dallas, has 52 vacant units ready at the building and will make the rest of [...]
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Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and District 3 Councilman Dave Neumann will host a town hall meeting on June 21 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the proposed use of Cliff Manor on Fort Worth Avenue as permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless. The meeting will be held in Methodist Dallas Hospital’s Hitt Auditorium. We urge you [...] Cameron Smith’s jazz series at Bishop Arts Theater Center continues May 8 featuring Marc Antione and Brian Simpson with Tom Braxton. Harvey Mason will headline the June 5 concert with Joe McBride. Shows are at 7 and 9:45 p.m. Call 214-948-0716 for [...] The Dallas Symphony will perform a free community concert at 8 p.m. June 1 at Kidd Springs Park, 711 W. Canty St. Conductor Rei Hotoda will lead the following pieces: Williams’ The Cowboys Overture; Anderson’s Fiddle-Faddle; Copland’s “Hoe down” from Rodeo; Rossini’s Overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie); Verdi’s “Anvil Chorus” from Il trovatore; Copland’s An Outdoor Overture; Gliere’s “Russian [...] Dallas goes green on Saturday, April 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with its Spring Recycling Roundup. Simply bring items to one of four locations and they’ll be hauled off for recycling. Recyclables include: Electronic items such as televisions, video games, cellphones, computers, calculators and printers City Councilmember Delia Jasso reports that Oncor representatives will meet with customers from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Kidd Springs Recreation Center, 711 W. Canty St., and from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Kiest Park Recreation Center, 3080 S. Hampton Road. The company’s Mobile Experience Center will be set [...] The city will receive $23 million to build a starter streetcar system that will include a spur into Oak Cliff. Service will likely include stops at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, the Oak Cliff Gateway area and multiple [...] City Manager Mary Suhm said this morning that she expects fallen tree limbs and other debris from last week’s snow storm could take another four or five weeks to clean up. Brush can be put on the curb and will be picked up on normal garbage days. No need to call 311. The city won’t issue any citations [...] The Friends of Oak Cliff Parks and the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League are encouraging residents to contact City Councilmembers about a potential re-allocation of bond funds away from a previously funded restoration project at Kiest Park Memorial Gardens. The Council had previously allocated $250,000 to restore/rebuild the historic WPA (Works Progress Administration) pergola at Kiest [...] If you’re crazy about tacos, check out TacOCliff, a blog dedicated entirely to tacos in Oak Cliff. Bloggers David and Alison Thompson have made it their mission to try a new taqueria every Sunday and report their findings to the hungry [...] |
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