Subject: Carrollton

• Suburban Shoutout

  January 22, 2009

• Call Me

  March 23, 2006

• Dallas Loves its Apartments

  February 29, 2008

• Soon, Everyone in the Country Will Know the Ballad of Becky Miller

  May 7, 2008

• Get Your Mind In The Gutterth

  July 22, 2008

• Woot: Now Part of "the American Vernacular." Also: Makin' Lots of Money.

  August 22, 2008

• Hash Over: The Pits, Pizza for the Soul And Free Wings

  Clay Pit in Addison expected miracles from chef Vijay Sadhu when they hired him in June. Five months later—or “awhile ago,” according to a manager—they tired of his antics and unceremoniously canned the one time savior.

  November 19, 2008

• Allen's the Ninth Safest City in U.S. Dallas? Um. Um. Well, You See...

  Yup, says so right here on CQ Press' 2008 City Crime Rate Rankings: The fine, fair city of Allen's a Top 10'er when it comes to safety among 385 cities in the country -- and not far below, why, you'll find the likes of Frisco (at No. 16) and Plano (No. 51) and McKinney (No. 60) and Carrollton (No. 72) and even RIchardson (still in the Top 100). But Dallas, well, we're ... lessee ... 33 spots above last-place New Orleans! And still better than Flint, Oakland and Chicago, so take that. As for how

  November 25, 2008

• Taster's choice

  November 17, 1994

• Power of words

  May 2, 1996

• Events for the week

  November 28, 1996

• Events for the week

  November 27, 1997

• Hole-in-the-wall treasure

  February 19, 1998

• Hash Over

  December 10, 1998

• Buzz

  June 3, 1999

• Fat City

  November 16, 2000

• Review and Gallery: Agave Azul

  Sara KerensAmid the tequila and the ornery boss, Dave finds salvation in sauces at Agave Azul, in this week's Dish column.For a close-up look at their offerings, and the scene around the Carrollton restaurant, check out our slideshow here.

  March 5, 2009

• Where There's Smoke

  April 25, 2002

• Last Night in Austin, a Sneak Peek at Bruno's Bad Behavior in Carrollton Last Summer

  Sacha Baron Cohen as BrunoBack in June, Michael Granberry wrote in The Dallas Morning News that "at one of those big office parks on International Parkway" in Carrollton, "a whole bunch of people got really mad" and stormed out of the taping of a television show. His 23-year-old son related the story to Granberry: Sacha Baron Cohen -- as alter-ego Bruno, a gay fashion-TV correspondent who fancies himself the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler -- had come back to the Dallas-Fort Worth

  March 16, 2009

• Letters

  April 17, 2003

• Revolving Doors: The (Sometimes) Merry Month Of May

  The Dallas area has been hitting better than even in the openings and closings department. But when one closes...This month the new, well-reviewed "gastro-pub" on lower Greenville, Zymology, shut down. Suddenly and quietly. From all accounts, the venue proved too good for its neighborhood. The breakdown:EnteringVapiano--The German-based, Italian-kinda-themed chain in Mockingbird Station.La Calle Doce--Reopened after a devastating fire.Cobb Switch BBQ--Big names are behind this Carrollton venture

  May 29, 2009

• Sexy Time With Bruno

  Cohen and "adopted child" in Carrollton last JuneAt last, you can finally see for yourself at least a little bit of the bit Sacha Baron Cohen shot in Carrollton last summer, as the so awfully NSFW red-band Bruno trailer's now making the rounds. As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the local stuff comes from the phony Richard Bey talk show sequence that makes a couple of appearances in the 2:35 clip. Great success? You decide after the jump.

  April 3, 2009

• At Agave Azul, Tequila and Ornery Old Men Bring a New Look to Old Town Carrollton

  March 5, 2009

• Money for Nothing|Attention Must Be Paid|Free at Last|Welcome Home, George

  January 15, 2009

• Trash Ain't Nothin' but Cash

  July 24, 2008

• Potential Johns, The Wax Museums, Koji Kondo, Pools, Icarus Crane, Rocket For Ethiopia

  Sunday, March 23, at Carrollton Arts Plaza, Carrollton

  March 20, 2008

• Tribes of Suburbia

  June 8, 2006

• Dog Days

  October 12, 2006

• Will Fetch for Cash

  April 12, 2007

• On The Range: Cabrito

  Goats helped settle America. Not kidding: According to Robb Walsh, author of The Tex-Mex Cookbook, goats were the preferred diet of common folk in Europe, so when Columbus sailed to the New World on his second voyage in 1493 he brought goats for meat, cheese, and milk--along with Spanish shepherds to make it all happen. They brought sheep, as well, but they were raised for wool, not eaten at dinnertime. In his memoir, Are You Really Going to Eat That?, Walsh describes a memorable cabrito

  June 3, 2009

• Odds & Ends

  Arm your lyrical swords and prepare your Suge Knight jokes--it's rap battle time at TexasGigs.com

  March 16, 2006

• Sons of Eagles

  The Berisha brothers satisfy with Leo's Italian Cuisine

  March 24, 2005

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  February 24, 2005

• Know the Ropes

  Indoor rock climbers go over the wall

  August 21, 2003

• A Slice of Pizza Face

  School lunch competes for student tastes, government dollars

  March 7, 2002

• Double Oops

  Carrollton takes one step backward as it tries to make amends with Mother Nature

  December 6, 2001

• The Hole in the Doughnut

  Carrollton missed the boom, but still hopes to attract restaurant business

  August 23, 2001

• La Cage Aux Folles

  Yet another bird bloodbath strikes Carrollton

  June 21, 2001

• Cloudy Issue

  Bill proposes to ban smoking in Texas restaurants

  March 1, 2001

• Dry Spell

  At Piccola Italia, the only hooch is in the rigatoni.

  February 8, 2001

• Gadfly attack

  A lawyer-bashing Fort Worth man challenges Texas' municipal court system

  September 16, 1999

• Inca's serves up down-home food from way, way down south

  April 30, 2009

• Sloppy Seconds: Summertime, and the Living's Easy

  Even these dark, ominous skies looming all around us, don't make it less true: today is May 1, and summer's right around the corner. That means patios, pools and mint juleps (or Cheladas) -- and another week of highlights from City of Ate.The Week in Review(s):Your own Dallas Observer: A few trips to a Carrollton strip mall transport Dave to a Peruvian family kitchen, or something close to it, a trip he recommends in his review of Inca's.Dallas Morning News: The gloves come off in Leslie Brenner

  May 1, 2009

• Cowboys' New Video Board is Big. But Is It High Enough?

  While the Dallas Cowboys held this week's minicamp at their temporary home (Carrollton's Standridge Stadium), their new home is about to become a really cool home. Cowboys Stadium will today officially debut as the world's biggest media room. This afternoon owner Jerry Jones will press the power button on Jonestown Coliseum's 60-yard video boards. (Having just bought a new 1080p HDTV, I'm guessing that baby runs at least $3,000 at Best Buy.) It weighs 600 tons, wi

  May 21, 2009

• The Gospel According To Harry Chapin

  June 11, 2009

• What's In My Closet: Rodent-Free Edition

  Gonna trek out to Carrollton this morning for some Cowboys' minicamp, so I'll leave you with a feel-good story. $13,000 my ass. In the end, getting rid of the furry, friggin' squirrel tresspassers in my attic and walls cost a whopping $275. That's $70 for two giant mousetraps, $5 for sheet metal and $200 to repair the air-conditioner wires the little effers gnawed through. After initially thinking I needed a loan to battle what a professional exterminator told me was "10 families"

  June 17, 2009

• Short Orders: I Orchid

  I Orchid1837 W. FrankfordCarrollton972-242-4955Stripped bare of its old Agave Azul comfort, the space housing I Orchid now looks like a warehouse which several unimaginative factory laborers engaged in a design on a dime feud, one intent on setting up a pub, another a white tablecloth restaurant, the third interested in the lounge scene and a guy who just wants performances. To wit: there's the blank industrial floor, empty walls and open rafters. Into this, they've fitted a wood-finished bar wi

  June 18, 2009

• Tithe is Tight

  ​This morning, The Wall Street Journal goes to church -- Bent Tree Bible Fellowship Church, specifically, on International Parkway in Carrollton, where membership is high (4,000-plus pray at the arena-rock-sized megachurch) and shekels are low. Which has necessitated a few cuts superficial (lawn care, daily cleaning crew) and profoundly deep (wage freezes, layoffs -- the latter considered an "unusual step" at houses of worship). It's a common theme amongst all denominations' houses of worship,

  August 11, 2009

• Top 10 Reasons The Dallas Suburbs Rule

  austrini, via FlickrAllen at its most scenic​Take a look at that grid of little boxes. Just like East Dallas, really--with newer homes and fewer trees. And no backyard chicken farming.Just this afternoon we received a note from Brian Rudolph, urging us to visit his Holy Grail Pub (an Old Monk spin-off), located somewhere in the 'burbs. "I know that it is a long hike from inside the loop," he wrote apologetically. Clearly he expected some sort of negative grunt in response.Oh, well--urban provi

  August 27, 2009

• Revolving Doors: Where There's Smoke...

  ​August is generally a slow restaurant month and this year was no exception. Aside from KRLD Restaurant Week madness, the surprise revelation about Lola, crowds piling into Marc Cassel's Park and the buzz about Smoke, it was one lackluster stretch.September should be even more interesting, what with a grand opening shindig planned at the much anticipated Oak Cliff barbecue joint and ribbon cuttings at two very upscale palaces.Meanwhile, here's a rundown of opening and closings over the past 31

  September 1, 2009