Belmont (New York)

Is Council Candidate Philip Kingston a Neighborhood Advocate or a Bully?

After this month's city elections, we repeated a quote that District 14 candidate Bobby Abtahi gave to the Morning News alluding to Philip Kingston, his opponent in next month's runoff, as "someone who sues their neighbors." Kingston wasn't pleased. He called shortly after to offer a barbed response ... More >>

It's Gonna Be A Real Barn-Burner

The Overserved's Guide To Hotel Bar Season

Here at The Overserved, we love a hotel bar. It's a special island. The best ones are places you can simultaneously take your family or witness the beginning of an affair. That they are occupied by the ghosts traveling though town only adds to their allure. Here is our guide to the wilds of Dallas' ... More >>

For Four Days This Month, Knox Will Become Dallas' First "Complete Street"

In June, the city of Dallas unveiled its Complete Streets Design Manual, a rather dense set of guidelines for the city as it dabbles with the idea of building certain roadways less as places that cars blow through en route from Point A to Point B and more as boulevards that are at least as accommoda ... More >>

Have Cocktails With Marilyn Monroe

Stanley's Fine Mess

Trinity Toll Road Doesn't Add Up

However you slice the numbers, it's still baloney.

An Artful Oasis

Your Cinematic Tryst Just Got Hot and Heavy

Restaurant Owner Chris Jeffers Has a Music Venue. What Will He Do With It?

Ten of This Weekend's Top Shows: Jane's Addiction, Marilyn Manson, Memoryhouse and More

Jane's Addiction, The Duke SpiritThursday, May 10, at McFarlin AuditoriumAfter seeing Perry Farrell (who is strangely older than my parents) perform a really bad set at South By Southwest a few years ago, seeing Jane's Addiction doesn't pique my interest as much as opening psych-tinged act The Duke ... More >>

Dirty Projectors, Wye Oak, Mark Kozelek and More Show Announcements

Dirty Projectors have a lot to live up with their forthcoming 2012 album Swing Lo Magellan. Past efforts include an album of Black Flag songs recorded only from memory, and a concept album about Don Henley's life. The band's output has slowed since 2010, when they peaked as blogosphere darlings ... More >>

Brent Best Talks About Going Solo, The Legacy of Slobberbone and Having Rachel Maddow As a Fan

On and off, for nearly three decades, Brent Best has fronted Slobberbone, arguably the best alt-country act to emerge from the local scene. Beginning in the mid-'90s, the group produced a series of albums that culminated in 2000's Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today, which remains a lan ... More >>

Let's Ride

Coldplay and Tool Announce 2nd Shows and This Week's Show Announcements

Get a double dose of Coldplay next summer.​This week, we learned that ticket demand for two shows we recently wrote about (Coldplay and Tool) was so overwhelming a second show has been added for each. On Saturday, June 23, Coldplay will perform a second show at American Airlines Center. Tickets fo ... More >>

How Will Dallas Roll Out New Bike Plan? Just Look at the Plan For Fort Worth Avenue.

Click to enlarge for a better look at a proposed plan to redo Fort Worth Ave.​By 2021 the city of Dallas hopes to have 1,296 miles of here-to-there dedicated to cyclists, 456 of which would be off-road -- trails, let's say. Which leaves the rest, 840 miles, spread up and down the cracked concrete, ... More >>

As Council Prepares to Vote on Sylvan Thirty Plan, Bike Lanes Proposed Along Sylvan Ave.

Click to expand for a better look at what may land at Sylvan and Fort Worth Ave. One day.​Last I looked, Sylvan Thirty -- the proposed mixed-use development across the street from the Belmont -- was closer to conceptual than actual. As in: Short a few million, developer Brent Jackson more than lik ... More >>

Texas Theatre Announces the Oak Cliff Film Festival, Which Will Hit Big Screens June 2012

​About six months ago, says Eric Steele, one of the partners in the Texas Theatre on Jefferson, he and his comrades decided that in a city full of film festivals, it was time for one more. But this one, they vowed, would be different. This one would have "a fringe flavor," its roster full of title ... More >>

Sign of the Times on Lowest Greenville: No Southbound Traffic Till November 26

Courtesy Chris Penn​Ran into Chris Penn of Good Records yesterday, at which point he told me about the sign planted in the middle of Greenville Avenue yesterday by the city's Public Works department -- the one that says southbound Greenville between Bell and Alta will be closed from September 26 t ... More >>

Tag, We're It: Ben Eine, Renowned Graffiti Artist, Leaves His Mark on Dallas Today

Photos by Jim Schutze​Ben Eine, the international street-art star and former graffiti fugitive, was out on Fort Worth Avenue this afternoon painting a mammoth graffiti-style mural based on his tag -- EYN -- on the side of a building. Listen: This is huge.Earlier this year Eine was given a big wall ... More >>

Let's Say Sylvan Thirty Passes Plan Commission. Is There Enough Money to Actually Build It?

Between the Alamo Plaza and Sylvan Thirty, a blank canvas​At some point this morning, Anna will be along with her account of last night's Sylvan Thirty town hall, which, by all accounts, was civil enough. After that, you probably won't read much about the proposed mixed-use development catty-corne ... More >>

And Now, the Sylvan Thirty Town Hall

Via.​We're still a good month away from the Sylvan Thirty development coming before the City Plan Commission, since, as we noted last month, it was pushed back to the October 6 agenda following Belmont's owner Monte Alexander's letter to the city insisting that "more time is needed to evaluate the ... More >>

The New Editor Of the New Eater Dallas Really Likes Smoke. And Texans. Awkward.

Patrick MichelsAndrea Grimes slides right into her new role at Eater Dallas​Eater Dallas, the local arm of the Curbed Network's popular restaurant blog, went live today. Only officially a few hours old, the site already contains plenty of content to catch up on. We put down our PBR-stained M ... More >>

Good Friday: Steve Earle at Billy Bob's Texas, Plus The Rest of This Weekend's Shows

Steve Earle​There are some pretty big shows coming to town this weekend -- massive ones, actually. But you'll be hard-pressed to find a more important singer than Americana legend Steve Earle, who will perform at Billy Bob's Texas on Saturday night.He's not the only legend playing in town this wee ... More >>

By Way of Joe Ely, Rhett Miller Helps Remind Us How This Blog Got Its Name.

What do you say we go and print some of these suckers up now that we're famous?​Every few months or so, it just so happens that someone will pop up on our radar and ask us how this here blog got its name. To be honest: We're not quite sure who picked it. Our memories here in the music department t ... More >>

Tonight Is Crazy Busy. Nights Like These Make Us Wish Teleportation Were Possible.

What a busy musical evening we have on our hands tonight! The only problem? Making a decision on where to go. Anybody got a coin?

A Trailer Park Shopping Area? Coming Soon. Local Craftsman Helps "Make It Happen."

Photos by Leslie MinoraGary Buckner sits on the filing cabinet of the Airstream he refurbished as an office.​Old trailers fill the lot in front of Gary Buckner's West Dallas workshop. Two are almost completely gutted and ready for refurbishing, and one silver Airstream is nearly ready for the move ... More >>

2011 Barefoot at the Belmont Series Includes Rhett Miller, Jason Isbell, Mike Doughty

​Not sure when it started being specifically "KXT 91.7's annual summer concert series," as the National Public Radio-backed music-centric station KKXT-91.7 is so proudly calling it today on its website, but, hey, here we are, heading into another summer, and, as has been the case for a few years n ... More >>

On Oncor's Super Bowl To-Do List: Get Those Commerce St. Bridge Lights Back On (Finally)

Red Oak Kid​Driving home from the Kessler Theater Friday night, I was reminded yet again of how drab and shabby the Commerce Street bridge over the Trinity River looks in the dark, what with more than a dozen of the old streetlights inoperable since who can remember when. I made a note to call the ... More >>

Before Tomorrow's CPC Hearing, Hunt Offers "A Few Facts" About Lower Greenville Ordinance

Patrick MichelsAngela Hunt and Pauline Medrano when they debuted plans for the new-n-improved Lower Greenville last month ​We mentioned this yesterday: The City Plan Commission will hold a public hearing tomorrow to discuss Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano's proposed ordinance requiring businesses ... More >>

An "Impatient" Hunt on Lower Greenville Redo

Patrick Michels​On Tuesday we got a couple of sneak peeks at the Lower Greenville of the future -- meaning, the end of next year, all things go according to plan. Late yesterday, council member Angela Hunt, who's spearheading the streetscaping with Pauline Medrano, posted to her blog a recap of th ... More >>

Dallas City Council Members Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano Have A Plan To Help Rid Lowest Greenville Avenue Of Crime. If Only They Can Get Neighborhood Businesses To Cooperate.

Chef Tim Byres Goes in Search of Himself and Finds Smoke

​Walk into Smoke early on any Saturday afternoon and you'll get the sense that the year-old restaurant hums along effortlessly. Simple preparations, a small, amiable kitchen crew, a mastery of the menu. Truth is, the food takes hours to prepare and there is meticulous care in the execution of wh ... More >>

Oak Cliff Activists--Between Their Bikes And Gardens And Chickens And Goats--Seek To Redefine Their Community Without Destroying It

News & Notes: DPD Sends a Warning, Groups Win City Grants and a Ticket Ticker Tryout

Click to embiggen to see where cars have been broken into in DPD Beat 142 during the last month​Whilst I await some call-backs, some loose ends, odds and sods and other desiderata with which to end the work day:The Dallas Police Department sends word: Car break-ins are up -- way up -- in Beat 142, ... More >>

Angela Hunt Talks About What She Hopes Proposed Ordinance Will Do For Greenville Ave.

Angela Hunt DPD Deputy Chief Vince Golbeck and Hunt atop Stan's Blue Note during the St. Patrick's Day festivities in 2009​Angela Hunt wants to make one thing clear: That proposed ordinance that would rezone Lower Greenville Avenue as a Planned Development District isn't "Area 51, black hel ... More >>

Tonight at the Belmont, Larry Beasley to Update Plans for That West Dallas Makeover

Click to enlarge: Sketches resulting from February's two-day design charrette concerning West Dallas and Oak Cliff development​Back in October, the Trinity Trust ponied up $2 mil for the creation of the City Design Studio, to be based out of Dallas City Hall and run by, among others, bcWORKSHOP's ... More >>

Show Announcements: Summer Series, Wildflower Festival

Patrick MichelsThe King Bucks at last year's Barefoot At The Belmont Series​We are standing on the brink of the summer season, and with the unbearable heat comes the obligatory summer outdoor live music series. The heat is inevitable, but the Belmont Hotel and the AT&T Performing Arts Center a ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Flaming Lips' History of Freaky

​So much to do this weekend -- like, oh, I dunno, that St. Patrick's Day Parade we co-sponsor. But before you go, here are Angela Hunt's do's and don'ts, not only for the parade but the daylong after-party (and after-after-party, and after-after-after-after-party) on Lower Greenville. Do keep in m ... More >>

Oak Cliff Becomes Cool Embracing What Other Parts Of Dallas Have Fought: Builders, Bikes And Immigrants

Show Announcements: Brave Combo Family Christmas Bash, More

​Denton's own Grammy-winning, Simpsons-appearing, Bob Dylan-inspiring, nuclear polka-creating Brave Combo will brave the elements 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, December 12, for an outdoor poolside performance at the Belmont Hotel. But the real star of the Belmont and Smoke Family Christmas Bash will ... More >>

Barefoot At The Belmont Shows Return Thursday With Kevin Welch

Kevin Welch​Good news for those who miss shows at Bend Studio: "Barefoot At The Belmont," a series of weekly concerts at The Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff, returns Thursday with an 8:30 p.m. performance by Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Welch. The shows feature many of the same singer-songwriters ... More >>

Let My Cameron Go

How Do You Make a City Walkable? By Making Lower Greenville No-Parkable, Maybe?

Courtesy Avi AdelmanLast week, our favorite Barking Dog pointed out the latest Resident Parking Only zone in the Lower Greenville area -- the seventh such RPO zone to take effect in the last year, Avi notes. To that list, add an eighth: Avi sent Unfair Park an e-mail last night in which he says that ... More >>

The Screen Is Spinning

The Battle of the Bulge

Bowie prevails against Lycra in Labyrinth

View Finder

Visit the OC that wasn't canceled

Blondie

Consolidated Restaurants falls for a stone cold Fox

Skyline Views

The Belmont Hotel puts up some art

Expunge Him

Plus: Tudor Mania