If you were born the year that they dreamed up the idea for an Art Exchange downtown–and you were a guy–your voice would be changing, if it hadn’t already.
You’d be breaking out, looking at dames, thinking about driving–maybe even growing a cheesy mustache. You’d be turning 15 this year–that’s how long the Art Exchange concept [...]

In the first 90 minutes of its first meeting this month, the city Redevelopment Agency board tackled more projects than it’s seen in … well, at least a month.
“This is what happens when you leave us alone for a month and we don’t have to have a meeting in January,” joked RDA Assistant Executive Director [...]

The Smith family’s sale of its soon-to-be 75-year-old bookstore Acres of Books to the city was accomplished a few weeks ago. Yesterday’s Redevelopment Agency meeting merely made it official, putting an exact price and terms on the deal: $2,854,000–which includes closing costs, relocation costs and cost costs.
We kid; there are no cost costs. But

TV’s Dr. Phil wants to hug it out with the Second District’s convicted sex offenders
Britney Spears: so yesterday! Dr. Phil McGraw–television’s Oprah-approved, magnolia-mouthed mother hen–has a new cause celebre: the convicted sex offenders who live in that vintage Streamline Moderne apartment complex in the 1100 block of East First Street.