Texas - OU weekend was a great financial success, despite the lousy economy, as thousands of fans and wanna-be fans crowded restaurants and bars all over the avenue on Friday and Saturday evenings. DPD reported few problems, almost no noise issues and lots of happy patrons.

We did say we're talking about McKinney Avenue in Uptown, right??

On Lowest Greenville, it was a mix of colors - Texas orange, OU maroon, and gangbanger red and blue - as lots of visitors realized they made a wrong turn on Central Expressway, following the advice of their parents who remember when Lowest Greenville was safe, secure and almost all white. This weekend was not a good time to be an urban pioneer on a school project. Based on personal observations, DPD reports and comments from visitors, Uptown was the weekend place to be, while Lowest Greenville was the last place many wanted to be.

For Friday evening, the DPD reports nine public intoxication arrests, 15 parking citations, 15 towed vehicles (almost all for RPO, which makes you wonder about Texas' or OU's reading skills program), gunfire at Richmond and Greenville, and a sexual assault at Ibero's.

Many people told BD it looked like a busy summer evening and not the crowded scene they remembered from the past few years. They blamed this on the lousy economy, pinching pennies and many people putting off their travel plans until Saturday morning.

Saturday night was not much better, and not even close to the thousands of people that crowded the streets last year. One manager blamed the Mavericks home game at American Airlines Center, and the late late arrivals of traffic seemed to prove this. Seven persons were arrested for public intoxication, seven cars were ticketed and 14 were towed, again mostly for RPO violations.

On both evenings, nearly forty DPD officers were dispatched to Lowest Greenville, using barricades to block Alta, Oram, Sears and Prospect. There was not enough traffic to warrant closing Greenville at Ross or Richmond as happened the past few years. The valet service operator at Nandina's, frustrated by the inability of vehicles to go down Alta Street, decided he was going to solicit for business at the entrance of the Taco Cabana - that stupid stunt lasted all of five minutes before he was chased back to his own corner.

The newly-fenced construction zones in front of Bandera and Public House were sources of people congestion all through the evening. As happened on Friday night, the Bandera bar manager attempted to have BD taken into custody just for taking pictures of their messy front door on Saturday night - and was told that if she did not like having her photograph taken on a public street, she just get her butt back inside the bar. The Bandera bouncer pleaded with BD to avoid taking his photo as he walked around the barricades since it might impact his entry into the Dallas Police Academy.

Which makes BD wonder: Does being a 'bar bouncer' for a business that steals city property make a good impression on your resume??

Up the street, Public House owner Adam Siegel was telling anyone who would listen how BD and the City cheated him out of the patio he has had in his lease for five years. The fact that where his patio was supposed to be located is on City property is not an issue for him. He thinks neighbors should be seen drinking in his bar and not heard telling City Hall about the illegal construction activities.

BD's was wandering around with a standard digital camera, not shooting video, and has a few Fuji moments to share with his readers.