Carrollton

Tripping On Babe's Chicken-Fried Steak

Well, I finally made it to Babe's. What kind of food critic lives in Dallas for nearly two years and doesn't check out the chicken fried steak blessed by Sam Sifton himself? I didn't stop by the Roanoke location like the former New York Times food critic recommended, but I did follow his direction t ... More >>

Our Favorite Dallas Dishes of 2012

So much food, so little time

Medical Panel Suspends Carrollton Physician Assistant With History of Cocaine-Induced Psychosis

Mark Henry Kett's troubles with the Texas Medical Board began on Feb. 23, 2008, when Carrollton police received a disturbance call at his home. They found Kett armed with a semi-automatic pistol and ranting about assassins who had come to his house to kill his wife. He had fired off a single shot at ... More >>

Weekend Plans, Expensive Pizzas and Jerk: This Week In Dallas Dining

Everyone's talking about the coming cold front, and the weekend is closing in. Sounds like a good time to get outside and explore. We've started offering a list of notable food events here, but before you make plans, we've got a week to wrap up. This week I reviewed Island Spot in Carrollton, notin ... More >>

Omi's Procession

A Korean grill's banchan offers an endless display of flavor.

Cities Are Now Growing Faster Than Suburbs -- Except in Dallas, Of Course

When the U.S. Census Bureau released figures Thursday estimating cities' growth between 2010 and 2011, the big news locally was that eight of the 15 fastest growing cities are in Texas and, of those, five -- Plano, McKinney, Frisco, Denton, Carrollton -- are in our corner of the state. The big new ... More >>

Justice for Justice, the Burned Puppy, is Now Worth $25,000

There's nothing like the sad death of an adorable puppy to stir up the police, animal services and the media. That's certainly the case with Justice, the 4-month-old lab-terrier mix doused in lighter fluid and burned in a Pleasant Grove apartment complex on April 4. Justice suffered through a week o ... More >>

DART Inches Closer to Charging for "Premium Parking" at Parker and Frankford Stations

​Last month we broke the news that Dallas Area Rapid Transit would begin charging for parking at the Parker Road and North Carrollton/Frankford stations, an experiment (or "demonstration," in DART parlance) intended to boost flagging revenues. DART's been eying this for a long while; public hearin ... More >>

Anchía Takes TJ Yearbook to House Floor When Arguing Against "Sanctuary Cities" Bill

Many good Friends of Unfair Park have forwarded me the clip you see above, which District 103's state rep, Rafael Anchía, posted to YouTube last night. In it, the Haynes and Boone attorney and former Dallas ISD school board trustee argues against the passage of Carrollton state Rep. Burt Solomons's ... More >>

TGI Friday's: No More In NorthPark; Yes More in the Middle East

​T.G.I. Friday's, a place known for its red-and-white stripes and flair for shrugging off the work-week, may be feeling the crunch just like everyone else -- or it may just be changing its game. Within the last week, the location at NorthPark Center shuttered its doors amidst numerous T.G.I. ... More >>

Hungry on DART's Green Line? Here's a Big Honkin' List That Might Help

​It took four years and $1.8 million to complete the longest light-rail construction project in U.S. history -- says DART -- but a little more than one month since DART's Green Line opened, it's been for all intents and purposes a success. While the full line was officially opened on December ... More >>

Way to Go, Frisco, You're the 14th-Safest City In the United States of America!

​We can look at CQ Press's just-released City Crime Rankings 2010-2011 two ways: from safest to most dangerous or vice-versa. But either way -- based upon the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports that include "the violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the property crimes of bu ... More >>

Yes, The Polyphonic Spree Did Cover The Same Thunderclap Newman Song Three Times In One Set on Friday Night in Carrollton. Really.

All photos by Stephen MaskerTim DeLaughter was in rare form on Friday night.​ Kind of a crazy scene on Friday night in Carrollton. Even in the face of rain and the Texas Rangers clinching a trip to the World Series, a very respectable couple hundred folks turned up in Carrollton Square for the ina ... More >>

October's Music Offerings Are Unrelenting. And We Likey.

Pete Sessions on Why He Voted Against Stimulus Bill, Then Asked for Stimulus Funds

​A Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along this Center for Public Integrity round-up of Republicans and conservative Democrats who railed against the the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ... then asked for stimulus dough anyhow. For our purposes, the piece begins with none other t ... More >>

Even In The Face Of All These Suburban Efforts To Go Indie, Mall Punk Rages On...

​Once upon a time--a whole 14 months ago--if you were in the suburbs and listening to music, chances were you were listening to mall punk.These days, though, that's a little different, thanks to the efforts of the folks in Frisco, Carrollton and Grand Prairie.But lest you thought that spelled the ... More >>

ICE Says More Than 100 Were Rounded Up During Five-Day Multi-Agency Anti-Gang Sweep

​This just in from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The agency, along with the Office of Homeland Security Investigations National Gang Unit and an alphabet's soup worth of local law enforcement agencies, spent the last five days sweeping Dallas-Fort Worth for gang members and their a ... More >>

DART Sends Word: Sales Tax Drop Will Cause "Indefinite" Delays of Three Significant Projects

​We've known since March that Dallas Area Rapid Transit's $3-billion drop in sales tax receipts would put on hold several key projects, chief among them the second downtown rail line, or D2. But exactly what and for how long? Those are answers we didn't know, not until this evening. DART spokesman ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​Sorry--it's getting on in the afternoon. I should have started this sooner, but I've been working out some statistics.See, last week one of our dozen or so readers, TLS, failed to make our list of non-winners. She then vowed to sprinkle her comments with the word "cougar" until she reached the s ... More >>

Tea Thyme & Tisane offers a taste of ’70s small-town Texas--and a big helping of 2009 Internet promotion

Review and Gallery: Tea Thyme & Tisane

Sara KerensChili Rellenos with shrimp, rice and black beans​ Dave visits Carrollton's Tea Thyme & Tisane this week for the Obsever's Dish review, which combines a shop celebrating tea culture and an all-out restaurant with a down-home menu.For a close-up look at the dishes, the teas and the re ... More >>

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, th ... More >>

The Gospel According To Harry Chapin

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 break ... More >>

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 t ... More >>

Dallas Wants to be a Green City, So Why Not Save Some Trees?

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

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. 7 ... More >>

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

On the Border, Off the Fence

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

Dallas Loves its Apartments

Quiet, Kids. It's the Law.

Back on Its Heelys

Turns Out, Unfair Park Ain't "Christian" Enough for Some Folks

Vanderjoke | Tilting Against Bridges | Sick, Twisted, etc. | The Juan and Only | Hog-huggers | Girl Does Crawford | Bible Bashers

Don't Mess with Texas' A.G.

Call Me

Odds & Ends

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

Sons of Eagles

The Berisha brothers satisfy with Leo's Italian Cuisine

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Letters

Fat City

Does anybody eat low-fat/no-fat ice cream?

Gadfly attack

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

Buzz

Hole-in-the-wall treasure

Tasty Greek is disheveled, but the food cleans up

Letters

Congressional hopeful Jerry Frankel has ideas, brains, and GUTS.

Dick Armey will eat his lunch.

Events for the week

Power of words

Hispanics demand a school-board member's resignation after comments in the Observer