Is Dallas Primed for a Revolution?
On the first full week of every month, I get the pleasure of broadcasting with Adriana Bate on WRR for about a half hour from One Arts. Now that we’ve moved our offices downtown, that means I get to walk down Flora Street for our 11 o’clock date every day. My trip takes me past the Nasher, the Meyerson, the Winspear, and the Wyly. It’s lovely, especially when the weather is as nice as it is today. But I’ve been studying something on my walk that has caught my eye before: the cobblestones (or bricks, really) that pave the sidewalk. In front of the Meyerson, they are a wreck. Some are missing. Many have become dislodged. We don’t get much practice here in the United States, but over in Europe, where they’ve been at it a bit longer, they know that cobblestones make perfect projectiles to throw in times of revolution. All I’m saying is, if the workers rise up and clash with the police down in the Arts District, the police are in for a tough fight.
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If you don’t like missing and dislodged cobblestones/bricks, then you don’t want Dallas to be a world class city.
You forgot to mention the high school you walked by on your way to One Arts. It too is part of the neighborhood.
Looks like the cobblestone version of our roads! The state of our roads – also an indicator of Dallas’ “world class city” status.
’cause November’s* here and the time is right for fighting in the streets, boy.
(* ’cause Dallas summers are too hot for a street fighin’ man.)
tree roots + cobblestones = trouble
Looks like the City is doing another one of it’s quality maintenance jobs, can’t wait to see what the rest of the Arts District will look like in 18 months.
Budget cuts. Expect lots more of same all over the city.
Okay, I’m the one who did it. Hey — I was just lookin’ for fun and feelin’ grooovy.
I’ve been to the City Arts festival there for the past two years, and that area was just as bad two years ago as it is now. Evidently it will never be fixed until someone trips and sues the city. Right?