Bachman Lake

Lucia, Seafood and Offensive Tacos: This Week In Dallas Dining

Hey there, Aters. Hope you're ready for the weekend. If you don't have any foodie plans yet, you should check out our list of things to do, specially curated by LDD. Pick your favorite food inspired event (the Craft and Growler grand opening looks great) and get out there and eat, but not before we ... More >>

Bachman Lake Taqueria Makes Some Brightly Colored Pork

While I've been searching for hand-built gyros in vain, the trompo, a vertical spit stacked with a cone of marinated pork, has been spinning in a handful of taquerias all over Dallas. The best part is most of them are made by hand. My favorite so far is served at Bachman Lake Taqueria. The small re ... More >>

Meet Juan Salazar, the Man Who Allegedly Ran Over a 7-Year-Old Girl and Drove Away

Over the weekend, two pedestrians were struck and killed as they crossed Dallas streets. One was 71-year-old James Sadler, who apparently stepped into traffic on Illinois in Oak Cliff just before 8 p.m. on Saturday. Around the same time, Devora Lopez, 7, was walking across Northwest Highway near Ba ... More >>

When Innocent Prisoners Finally Go Free, Their Prosecutors Do, Too

On the trail for justice with Texas' exonerees.

Cannibal Corpse: Why They Tore Down the Whirly Ball And Put in a Sam's (And a Walmart)

In my day, this was also the site of the best Sound Warehouse in town. In my day.​Over the weekend I espied the deconstruction site you see here, across from Bachman Lake at Northwest Highway and Marsh. The new Sam's right there took me by surprise -- so too did the disappearance of the landmark W ... More >>

As Walmart Moves In Across From Bachman Lake, Al's Pizzeria Sent Looking For New Home

​A panicked reader asks this morning about the fate of his beloved Al's Pizzeria on Northwest Highway, which opened in '74 and is there no more. "Tried to order a pizza at my favorite NW Dallas joint on Monday -- phone rang with no answer. Went by yesterday. They closed in August and said they wer ... More >>

Dallas PD Takes a Walk on the DarkSide and Discovers, Why, That Ain't No Church

A flier for a DarkSide event as its new location​According to the Dallas City Attorney's Office, a self-proclaimed church near Northwest Highway and Webb Chapel Road is anything but. Says a complaint filed today in advance of a late-afternoon hearing, whatever Glen Hudson says he's operating a ... More >>

Boxed In, or: Once Again, From Oak Cliff, the Call for All of Dallas to "Think Small"

​Since it's Follow-Up Wednesday here, may I direct your attention to a piece Jason Roberts posted this morning on Go Oak Cliff, which is more or less a response-slash-reaction-to Schutze's piece yesterday about that Oak Cliff Walmart planned for Fort Worth Ave. Not to reopen Tuesday's still-fresh ... More >>

Walmart Puts Sam's Club Spot Up for Sale As It Preps Two Bachman Lake Locations

The original Northwest Highway Sam's Club​Last month, you no doubt recall, Walmart announced its $200-million expansion said to involve "more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas," though only a handful were announced at the time. Since then I've learned of at least one more on the to-d ... More >>

From the Southern Sector to the Northwest, Walmart Plans $200-Million Dallas Takeover

​There is no shortage of Walmarts in and around Dallas. But City Hall sends word this afternoon: More are a-coming -- "more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas," per the release that follows, including three in the southern sector and one across the street from Bachman Lake, as I promi ... More >>

Famous Faces' Local Choices, or: Wherein Kent Rathbun Spills the Bachman Lake Taco Secret

S&D Oyster CompanyIs it lunch-thirty already?​Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal rounded up some bold-faced locals -- including Luke Wilson, who I guess counts -- and asked 'em to pick a few recommendations each for out-of-towners and those natives who don't venture far from their comfo ... More >>

Football and strippers: You can't say you've done Dallas till you see a little of both

Battle for the Fanboy: Comics Retailers, Publishers Will Meet in Dallas in February to Discuss the Future of Their Business

Flickr user: tribaliciousInside Titan Comics, across from Bachman Lake​Yesterday, the Comics Professional Retail Organization -- which is the trade organization for comic-book retailers -- announced that for the first time in its history, it's meeting in Dallas in February, at the Doubletree near ... More >>

Dallas Taco Tour: Noxious Fumes, (Mostly) Yummy Grub and the Best Taco in Town

Photos by Jose Ralat MaldanadoRollout (and Rolaids) for the magical mystery taco tour.​Dallas is a taco wonderland. When questions of the best local culinary offerings are raised, the taco is among the first victuals mentioned by the celebrity chef and vagrant alike. That being so, on Saturday ... More >>

Legendary Dallas Skateboarders, Rebuffed By The City In Their Efforts To Build A Public Skatepark, Go Underground And Build Their Own.

To Avoid "Costly Duplications," DART Wants You to Know About Big Route Changes A-Comin' By Year's End

The Southwestern Medical District/Parkland Station, scheduled to open in December​When Dallas Area Rapid Transit completes the Green Line by year's end, it anticipates making dozens of changes to its bus service, among them: discontinuing service to the Bachman Lake area, shifting downtown pick-up ... More >>

Happier, Safer Trails

​Apparently we have a stack of photos from yesterday's running of the White Rock Marathon forthcoming; till then, then, this is, for obvious reasons, an early front-runner for kosher fan favorite (speaking of, Happy Hanukkah!). And speaking of White Rock, more or less, users of Dallas's trails net ... More >>

Friday Flashback: High Above Dallas, 1958

Courtesy Justin Cozart​We end the work week with this awfully golden oldie. Seems our photo-loving, history-having pal Justin Cozart's been digging in his grandpa's box of photos again, and this time 'round he's come up with something particularly fascinating: slides from the 1950s-era study "docu ... More >>

Short Orders: Bongos Cantina

Bongos Cantina3625 W. Northwest Hwy.214-484-9384No apostrophe in the name, as far as I can tell. The new-ish spot draws its moniker either from the string of bongos doubling as bar stools or the rhythm of a Latin American beach or...something.Maybe the owners just like the name.I should have asked, ... More >>

Jerry Allen and the Former Dallas City Council ... All-Stars? Sure. Go With That.

Bill Blayes, Alan Walne and Donna Halstead -- The Ex-Council Members out of costume!Few days back we peeked at Carolyn Davis and Dwaine Caraway's what-updates as served up on Dallas Delivers, the city's riotous no-holds-barred talk show served up on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. Alas, some of us don ... More >>

Real-Estaters Deliver the Bad News: "The Market Has Us Surrounded."

The photo above is of the planned $300-million "sophisticated, euro-urban" Glen at Preston Hollow development at Walnut Hill Lane and N. Central Expressway, which was announced exactly one year ago and which, at present, looks like a lunar landscape dotted with the random bulldozer and tree. Now ... More >>

Ed Barks, Tracy Bites Back

Hulk Smash, But Greg Pak Sign

Lo! How a Rose E’er Blooming in Highland Park

Odds & Ends

What good would a 20-year punk scene reunion be without a scuffle?

Hearts and Bones

Meetcha at the Blue Ramp

Cleaning Up the Filth

Lone Bull

Steak and solitude at the lakeside

Better Than Nothing

Best Place to Buy Comic Books...Sorry, Graphic Novels

Titan Comics

EU Brew

Old Coppertank space in Deep Ellum to get new life

Welcome to Full Frontal, Bitch

Plus: Dear Mr. Cuban; Revealed!; Discover Dallas with the Mayor

Best Place to Get Your Geek On

Titan Comics

Best Pizza

Al's Pizza

The Nutria Are Here

The scourge of Louisiana has found a happy home in Dallas' man-made lakes

Best Comic-book Store

Titan Comics

Bare Knuckles and Bare Breasts

Forget talk of a settlement. Bachman Lake homeowners vow to fight their war against bare nipples to the bitter end.

Flock Together

Get a "birding briefing" this weekend

Letters

On the Money; Go, Snob Sister, Go; Yes to Titty Bars

White Rampage

Police Chief Terrell Bolton threatens a riot, but he's got the wrong folks in mind

Night Moves

Bachman Lake residents say a new business is moving into their neighborhood--hookers

Blowing it

Was it a conspiracy or city bungling that let Baby Dolls keep its license? Guess.

Buzz

Mr. Conflict; Not easy getting green

Letters

Jailbreak; More nudity, please; Pothole queen; Eye of the beholder

Hot and bothered

The city's ordinance governing topless clubs is a joke. But Bachman Lake-area residents are determined to get rid of the clubs by any means necessary.

It's the money

And it's nowhere near enough to attract a slate of decent city council candidates in southern Dallas

Dead ducks

Despite woman's battle with city, wildlife carnage continues

Who killed April Dabney?

Parents of retarded adults blame city's failure to heed plea for sidewalks

Sex and city hall

How strip bars have their way with the Dallas city council