Andrea Grimes

Texas Women's Health Program Still Says it Has Enough Docs, Even As It's Forced To Take Down Its Error-Riddled Provider Database

On January 1, Texas took over the Women's Health Program, booted Planned Parenthood out and dyed the website several shades of Pepto Bismol pink. Despite quite a bit of evidence to the contrary, Health and Human Services Commission officials continue to claim there'll be more than enough doctors for ... More >>

Your Memorial Day Weekend Food Porn

Last week, we asked you to send in your Memorial Day Weekend food dishes. Holy lime-infused guacamole people!: you delivered. From gorgeous steaks to fancy tacos, Dallasites (and beyond) ate well this weekend. We have a slide show showing off the full-round of shots, and below you'll find a few sh ... More >>

Wintertime is "Hammertime" at the Anvil Pub

Andrea GrimesStop. It's Hammertime.​There's not much ice left on the streets, but "cold" still seems an inadequate word to describe the weather outside. You can coat your outsides with scarves and mittens, but where does that leave your shivering insides? Dallasites cannot survive on hot toddies a ... More >>

Deep Ellum's Starting to Get Covered With Memorial Frankie 45 Graffiti...

Andrea GrimesTaken this morning on Elm Street.​ The above image shows but one of many Frankie 45 tags that have popped up around Deep Ellum over the past few days. I imagine the next few days will see a few more show up -- probably even tonight, as the Frankie 45 memorial concert goes down at Club ... More >>

Is It Better To Be Virgin or Take American from DFW to San Francisco? A Taste Test.

We tested out the new Virgin-American rivalry from D/FW to the West Coast so you don't have to.​Andrea Grimes: A month ago, Virgin America began flying direct out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to the West Coast -- specifically, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To announce their small- ... More >>

Apparently, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez Needs to Remind Some of You: Don't Be a Jerk

Photos by Andrea GrimesT.J. Griffin, of Lift-Aids demonstrates the extra room many disabled parkers need to get in and out of their vehicles.​Nothing like the holiday season to bring out the best in all of us, right? Notsomuch, says the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, which held a press confer ... More >>

Anvil Pub's Hammering Down A Heavyweight Menu

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourAnvil Pub's take on sweet and savory pizza pie.​Since it opened one week ago today, there's hardly been a moment when the Anvil Pub's "OPEN" sign wasn't on that I didn't pass by and see the place brimming ever fuller with enthusiastic patrons overjoyed to ... More >>

Menudo, Menudon't at the Hill Country's Las Comadres

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourMenudo! Donde esta Ricky Martin? Il n'est pas ici. Nein.​Like many of my fellow Dallasites, I spent this weekend in Central Texas. But I never gave a single Flo-Max laden Eagles fan directions to the Port-A-Potties. Nor did I cut any rugs to LCD Soundsyst ... More >>

Chase-ing a Cup Of Coffee In Deep Ellum

Photo by Andrea GrimesI'll be honest, I was kind of hoping for a Bradley Whitford sighting. But Cole Hauser will do.​Had to idle on Elm Street in Deep Ellum for a while this morning as cops shut the street down for a Chase filming. Such is the life of an Ellumite these days -- celebrities, doing t ... More >>

Some of Us Got Totally Hammered and Nailed in Deep Ellum on Saturday

Photo by Andrea GrimesA finished garden planter is born in Deep Ellum last Saturday.​More than 30 folks came out to the Deep Ellum Community Day on Saturday, many of whom Deep Ellum Community Association president Randee Smith didn't know from Adam (Hats). Which, for Smith, is saying something: Sh ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Root Beer Creme Brulee
At the Green Room

Photo by Andrea Grimes​As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, othe ... More >>

Jury's Still Out on Whether Main Street Garden Playground's Still a Child-Sized Frying Pan

Photos by Andrea GrimesA look at the new coating that crews spent the weekend spraying all over the playground equipment at Main Street Garden​'Round 3 on Monday afternoon, the day after crews coated the hothothothot stainless-steel playground at Main Street Garden, Andrea was supposed meet Park a ... More >>

Trying to Understand What Led to DPD Chief's Comments About Drinking and Date Rape

Illustration by Andrea Grimes​Update at 8:35 p.m.: The Dallas Police Department has sent a statement from Chief David Brown regarding his comments about the increase in the number of reported sexual assaults this year -- and the reaction to them. It reads, in full:Chief Brown wants to emphasize, " ... More >>

Riding With the Vice Squad As "Operation Triangle" Nets John With Infant Child In Car

Photos by Andrea GrimesEscort seeks escort. Wonder if she also babysits?​We'd just pulled up to the corner of Kiest Boulevard and Polk Street in Southwest Dallas this afternoon when a guy in a black Ford Escort rolled down his window to talk to a pony-tailed undercover vice cop. She'd been milling ... More >>

Sure, a Downtown March Won't Solve Gay Community's Problems. Still, It's Fun to March.

Photos by Andrea Grimes​Folks started showing up at Founder's Square downtown even before 6 last night, carrying Harvey Milk posters, rainbow flags and equal rights stickers. The Texas Evangelical Republican Caucus And Barn-Stomping Jesus Revival was in full swing. Elizabeth Pax, one of last night ... More >>

Taking a Bike-Riding Tour of Oak Cliff's Community Gardens, No Permits Necessary

Andrea GrimesThe St. Cecilia's Community Garden was on yesterday's tour​Sunday afternoon, a horde of be-SPF'd cyclists gathered outside Eno's in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District to launch an extremely polite two-wheeled assault on Oak Cliff. The "Spring Has Sprung Garden Ride" was more of a summer ... More >>

Deuces Out, Dallas

The Last Word on the White Rock Marathon, From Our 17th-Place Finisher

Awww, The Beautiful Room Is No Longer Beautiful. That's a Shame.

Hip-Hop Holsta Hooray!

Calling Minor Foodies

Havnt Heard Frm U, TXStudlyHottie4U83. Where R U?

Junius Heights Could Use Some Hot Fuzz

Half Price, All Green

Well, We Don't Know If It's "Beautiful," But It Is How Babies Are Made

Light Sabers at the Ready!

Open Letter To The Jerks Who Broke Into My Car Last Night

Kings For A Night

Sounds Spooky. Ish.

Deep Ellum Blues

The Reverend Pimp

You're Fired

MILF Police Come To Town

The Place To B Tonight

Go Deep

A Maple Falls

That Kid Keeps Going and Going and Going...

Do the 'Do

Maple Terror

Show Up, 4/28/06

Dive In

Hot Toddy

Walk Away

Single Barrel Theory

Freeze Frame

All About Me | Easy on Erick | HP, Blah, Blah | Hiding in Plain View

Play Pretties

Like Mike

Trespassers