Colleyville

Feds Charge Colleyville Pharmacist and Wife In Mammoth Tax Fraud Scheme [Updated]

Larry Lake lives comfortably in a red brick McMansion in Colleyville with his wife Kathy, enjoying the fruits of a handful of successful businesses he owns. He's a licensed pharmacist and co-owner of the Grapevine Drug Mart. On the side, he established VIP Finance, an auto-title loan business with b ... More >>

Welcome to Colleyville, Home of the Most Scrutinized Fracking Site in North Texas

The thing about air pollution is it doesn't heed county lines or city limits signs. Neither did the shale gas boom, until it moved into the cities and suburbs, where gas producers found themselves navigating a loud, patchwork quilt of municipal regulations that varied from town to town. It happene ... More >>

Trinity Broadcasting Network Property in Colleyville is Getting Fracked, By God, Pesky Southlake Neighbors Be Damned

TBN Newsletter​The denizens of tony Southlake successfully defeated the fracking juggernaut, turning industry leaders like Chesapeake back at the city limit sign. Or maybe it was the low natural gas prices that did it. Tough to say, really. But what can they do when a derrick goes up a stone' ... More >>

Screen Door Chef David McMillan on the Magic of Tei An and the Fall of Alma

​In part one of our interview with Screen Door chef David McMillan, he told us about his youth in Berkeley and explicit calling to cook at an early age. In part two we discuss the Dallas and Colleyville food scenes, including some of his favorite spots. What are some of your favorite restaur ... More >>

Music Video Monday: Demi Lovato, Fungi Girls and Gaston Light Each Release New Clips...

It's been about a month since we wrote off Colleyville's Own Demi Lovato, saying that she'd been officially overtaken as Disney's top starlet by her BFF, Grand Prairie's Own Selena Gomez. Last week, though, Lovato struck back. Well, not really. But she did release the music video for her new single ... More >>

The Ten Best-Selling Musical Soundtracks

Hook 'em.​Today marks a milestone of sorts: On July 8, 1958, the RIAA issued its very first gold record. The recipient of this gold record? The Oklahoma! soundtrack. Not as exciting as other music being produced at the time, but, hey, people liked it. And people bought it. Musical soundtracks we ... More >>

Ready For The Voice's Season Finale? Well, How About Some Local Connections To The Show?

​Confession time, y'all: I've been watching The Voice on NBC all season long. Kind of loving it, too. And why not? It's like the perfect blend of American Idol and Made. (Speaking of Made: I highly recommend trying to catch a re-run of Play-N-Skillz's recently aired episode of that show, especiall ... More >>

Watch: Nick Jonas and Fucked Up's Ben Cook Have A Drum-Off in Camp Rock 2, Even Though Neither Is Really A Drummer. Oh Well.

Westlake's Own Jonas Brothers just wrapped a big weekend, as their Disney Channel original movie, Camp Rock 2, which also features Colleyville's Own Demi Lovato, made its television debut. But, go figure, the DFW Diz Kids weren't the only musicians in the cast: Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook is in the ... More >>

She's All Growns Up and She's All Growns Up: Watch Selena Gomez's New Music Video, "A Year Without Rain." (She's 18, Swear.)

Grand Prairie's Own Selena Gomez has a new album called A Year Without Rain due out later this month, and, late last week, she debuted the new music video for that album's lead single and title track. And, in case there was any doubt as to whether Disney was gonna change up its marketing of is one-t ... More >>

The Busy, Super Interesting Weekend of Disney Superstars Demi Lovato and The Jonas Brothers

The whole Disney gang​It wasn't exactly a slow weekend for local tween pop tarts. For starters, Joe Jonas celebrated his 21st birthday onstage in Pennsylvania. His birthday wish? Not a nice wine glass full of Jagermeister. Rather, he asked for something sure to make his loyal fanbase of tween girl ... More >>

Neon Indian: The Next Big Tween Sensation?

What gives, Alan?​Yesterday afternoon, lead JoBro Joe Jonas, like his Colleyville-bred girlfriend before him, gave Neon Indian an official Twitter endorsement, calling the band "a good listen."Unsurprisingly, Hipster Runoff sister site The Alt Report is all over the news, asking the important ques ... More >>

Pho From Home: Tien Giang Restaurant

​Bombarded with work and handicapped by a restrictive schedule for the past few weeks, the blog writer had been subsisting on a diet of pizza and Subway. Nights consisted of depressing jogs on treadmills in artificially lit fat labs, followed by nightly visits to her local chain deli. Cold, wet, ... More >>

Whattup, Colleyville: Demi Lovato's Here We Go Again Tops The Billboard 200

​As expected, Colleyville's own Demi Lovato has the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week, after selling 108,000 copies of the disc in its debut week of sales. (Last year, Lovato's debut disc, Don't Forget, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart with 89,000 discs sold in its first wee ... More >>

Demi Lovato's Sophomore Disc Could Possibly Stand Atop Next Week's Billboard 200 Chart, Maybe.

Billboard is reporting today that Colleyville's own Demi Lovato stands a damn fine fighting chance to debut atop next week's Billboard 200 chart when the numbers all come in on the sales for her sophomore release, Here We Go Again. Last year, Lovato's debut, Don't Forget, debuted at No. 2 on the cha ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: Less Than Jake, Beyonce, Demi Lovato, Rhett Butler

Warped Tour at Superpages.com Center on Sunday, July 5Anti-Flag, Bad Religion and Less Than Jake headlined the 15th annual Warped Tour. For $40, it offered something for all types of Hot Topic-clad teenage rockers, from the roots of punk to the MySpace man of glamour, Jeffree Star. That's fierce... ... More >>

Genealogy With Icing

In Barely Music-Related Local Music News: George Steel Ditches Dallas Opera, Erykah Badu Backs Out Of Black Forest Theater, The Jonas Brothers Continue To Exist...

A few brief notes to pass along that some DC9 maybe, kinda, sorta, might, could possibly be interested in...Over on Unfair Park, Robert's got the goods on an item that the New York Times and others are all over: George Steel, the man who was tapped to lead the Dallas Opera five months ago, has alrea ... More >>

Links And Clinks

Toast the holidays and have a brat

Rabbis Give Texas State Board of Education the Hebrew Hammer

The Texas State Board of Education's meeting in Austin about, among other things, whether the board ought to revise the state’s science curriculum to allow for, ya know, the teaching of creationism alongside evolution. Which is why three rabbis, two from 'round these parts and one of whom hail ... More >>

Forget Disney: Demi Lovato Is Now Appearing On An MTV Station Near You

No Big Surprise Here: Disney Channel Movie Camp Rock Has Already Been Tapped For A Sequel

Catching Up with "The Rock Star of the Bee," Samir Patel

Gosh, There Sure are a Lotta Bricks in That Pyramid Scheme

Life Without Debt Leaves Jimmy Phipps Owing Society

A Dallas Best of '07 List, Seems Legit Enough

Rocket Summer Wins Yahoo! Music Contest

Bryce Got Next

Hard Ball in the Courtroom

A Warped Sense of Accomplishment

Wednesday P.M. Throat-Clearing

Bee the Ball, Samir

Tasting Colleyville

62 Main brings the wine

Sometin's Fishy

Colleyville goes the way of the koi

Life's a Strip

Apple- or hickory-smoked bacon: Is there a difference?

Very Little Italy

Bravo Italia offers nothing offensive, nothing spectacular

Landscape Lens

Shakin' the Junk

The Bellydance Superstars inspire us to get physical

Odds & Ends

Get in on The Rocket Summer's next music video before his major label deal kicks in

The Name Game

"Fine Dining" when they don't try too hard

Wild Child

For Quinn Eaker, a son of the radical "unschooling" movement, school's out forever

Better In The 'Burbs

Plano restaurant delights with authentic Italian

Remember the Main

62 Main has a wood-burning oven, and they're not afraid to use it

Sad Tail

Bradley's is one turf that doesn't surf

Urban Turban

Colleyville eatery strikes a pose

Mercy Mercy

New wine bar to open in late January

Seeing Red

Green Pepper touches on fare from Japan to Vietnam

Letters

Killer Raisin Stem, Church and State Pen, Still No. 3

Cola kids

Public school students become a captive audience for corporate advertisers

Hash Over

Big men, big houses

For one sports star, home is where the bowling alley is