Arcadia

New Green Grocer to Quietly Open on Lower Greenville This Week; Big Grand Opening Party This Saturday

The new Greenville Avenue specialty grocer, Green Grocer (3614 Greenville Ave.), will host grand opening festivities from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. this coming Saturday with lots of vendor samples and merriment. They also announced via their Facebook page the store is open all week, although not at full cap ... More >>

Five Dallas Music Venues We Wish Were Still Open

In any major city, musical venues come and go. Some closures are well-deserved: bad sound, weak promotions, etc. But other times, a place shutting its doors is a kick in the teeth for any local music fan. Here is my list of five long-gone musical establishments I wish were still open. Agora Ballroo ... More >>

Green Grocer, an Independent Specialty Grocer, is Moving to Lower Greenville

Green Grocer, a Chicago-based specialty-grocer, announced today it's opening a second location (and first outside of Chicago) at 3614 Greenville Ave. The 4,000-square-foot retail space is five blocks south of Mockingbird Lane across from Café Izmir. Green Grocer is a one-stop specialty market for ... More >>

More Grocery Store News: Sprouts Begins Takeover of Sunflower Farmers Market

Back in March, Phoenix-based Sprouts Farmers Markets announced the purchase of Sunflower Farmers Markets. They officially closed on the deal about a month ago and now Sprouts-labeled products are beginning to trickle onto the shelves of the Sunflower at 1800 N. Henderson Ave. Eventually all the Su ... More >>

In Today's Least Surprising News Ever, Yes, a Walmart Grocery Is Coming to Lower Greenville

​Speaking of Walmart (told you) ...In the end, turns out, I didn't need Mitchell Rasansky to tell me what everyone already knew -- or guessed, anyhow. Because, as I discovered this morning, the permits were filed with the city two months ago and approved December 29. So, yes, brace yourself, Lower ... More >>

Plans Remain For Food Trailer Court Parked Next to Trader Joe's on Old Arcadia Site

​Two questions this morning about Trader Joe's plans to build its first Dallas location on the site where once the Arcadia stood: Does this kill the food-trailer park Madison Partners had planned for the site, and what does this mean for the old Whole Foods spot everyone thinks is going to Walmart ... More >>

News & Notes: Atlanta vs. Dallas, Tilton's Comeback, Recalling Taylors Books and More

​For those who found this morning's paper particularly dissatisfying, here are some other Sunday stories with that taste particularly local:The Atlanta Journal-Constitution begins its "Atlanta Forward" series this morning by comparing and contrasting that city with ours, a not-uncommon occurrence, ... More >>

Madison Partners a Little "Surprised" By Opposition to Greenville Ave. Bowling Alley

Click to embiggen Madison Partners and Brooke Humphries's vision for a bowling alley next door to Good Records.​Late Tuesday I got an email from Jonathon Hetzel of Madison Partners, which is trying to roll out that bowling alley on Lowest Greenville that once more goes in front of the City Plan Co ... More >>

CNN Beams Up Preview of Weekend's Comic Con With Mr. Spock, Princess Leia and Stan Lee

​I knew where I'd be tomorrow back in January, when we first mentioned that, oh, some guys named Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy would be attending the Dallas Comic Con, which makes its move to the newly opened Irving Convention Center after years in Richardson and Plano. Figure we'll get there 'round ... More >>

It's Coming Up Cupcakes: The Shape (and Taste!) of Things to Come on Lower Greenville

LakewooderThe scene on Lower Greenville last night​Last night, good Friend of Unfair Park Lakewooder sent the photo you see at right -- a couple of food trucks parked in the lot where once the Arcadia proudly stood till it was claimed by fire in June 2006. He asked of this mobile food court: "Is t ... More >>

My First Show: True Widow's Dan Phillips Saw A Decapitated Alice Cooper At The Bronco Bowl

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.That's Dan over there on the couch.​As impressive as their 2008 self-titled debut was, expect plenty of good things to come from Tru ... More >>

Park and Rec Assistant Director Willis Winters Talks About His Fair Park History

Old Dallas Stuff​Willis Winters, assistant director of the city's Park and Recreation Department, says, with a laugh, that it took him all of 30 days to write his forthcoming Fair Park history. He signed the contract with Arcadia Publishing in March, under the assumption that it wanted the book in ... More >>

A Look Back at a Time When State Fair-Goers Wore Ties to the Midway and Shot the Chute

​Back in June, upon the occasion of the release of City Archivist John Slate's Historic Dallas Parks, I mentioned yet another history book was forthcoming from Arcadia Publishing: Willis Winters's Fair Park. At the time there was no release date set, only "closer to the State Fair of Texas," but a ... More >>

Quite the Two-Fer: A Book on Dallas's Historic Parks And a Fund-Raiser for City's Archives

Photos Courtesy Dallas Municipal Archives, City Secretary's OfficeFrom John Slate: "Lake Cliff Park's pool in 1947. The pool was shut down in 1959."​As I mentioned in January -- upon the publication of Historic Dallas Hotels and its accompanying postcard set and Park and Rec historian Sally Rodrig ... More >>

Massive Fire Claims Block That, Till Hours Ago, Was Home to Terilli's, Hurricane Grill, Mick's and Greenville Bar & Grill

Jim SchutzeMore photos from Jim follow after the jump. Here's a slide show featuring photos from Jim and Patrick Michels.​At this very moment, Schutze is down on Lower Greenville, where the block that once housed Terilli's, Hurricane Grill, Mick's and the Greenville Bar & Grill is now a memory ... More >>

On Shelves: Pictured-Packed Histories of Dallas's Famous Hotels and White Rock Lake

One of the 15 postcards contained in the Historic Dallas Hotels set available in stores Monday​Given all the money I've spent on Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" books about Ye Olden Dallas, it was mighty nice of the company to mail Unfair Park its two latest titles: Historic Dallas Hotels ... More >>

Hophead: Uncannily Good Beer From Oskar Blues

Jesse HugheyLast year, Oskar Blues added five 100-gallon tanks and increased its brewing by more 64 percent over 2007 in order to keep up with increased demand. That the Lyons, Colorado, brewery experienced such a rapid growth probably wouldn't surprise anyone who has tasted its excellent flagship b ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.

They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>

Muddy Waters Has Dried Up. But Something "Exciting" Is Taking its Place.

Back at the Washarama

Deep Ellum's "Home Movie" Maker Revealed

The Sounds of Deep Ellum

Cabin Fever

Stuff to do till the deluge subsides

Fire Sale

Arcadia Fire Sale

The Theater Fire

Shalom, Arcadia

Arcadia Fire, Part II

Arcadia Fire

Black Power

Badass or just bad, blaxploitation gets its day

Butt Fires

Crime taking toll on Deep Ellum dining

Being Avi Adelman

One man fights bars on Lower Greenville, while others urge compromise

The shallow end

Personal vendettas drain Dallas' wading pools for poor kids

Hash Over

Buck naked saint

Hash Over

Under new management; Mixed hash

Hash Over

Kent's count; Mixed hash

Hash Over

Theater of the absurd?
Pumping prime

The preacher and the Prophet

Why can't we all just get along? The history, or not, of Russell and Jeff's Deep Ellum

The brothers Kahn

Nightclub owners Steve and Bruce Kahn have fought off partners, vendors, and contractors to stay in business. Now the state of Texas wants its turn.

Lord of the Fly

Investors in the Dragonfly Bar & Restaurant say they were fleeced by partner Steve Kahn, but he claims his accusers had him framed

Why, baby, why?

In other words, the return of ? and the Mysterians

Kingdom of uncool

Homeowners near Lower Greenville find new Palace music club an intolerably noisy neighbor

All the catchy songs

There was no bigger or better Texas band in the 1980s than The Judy's, who are long gone but not forgotten

Houses of blues

Homeowners near Lower Greenville had seen enough of drunken nightclubbers; then they met their new neighbor

Rapt in a rat's brain

Dionysus & Apollo explores Possible Worlds with aplomb

Events for the week

Bronco hole

Dallas' last great concert hall suffers growing pains

Mexican standout

Cenaduria is exceptional in a sea of Tex-Mex

Thug life

A new stage version of A Clockwork Orange resounds with prophecy

Events for the week