Subject: Dallas (Texas)

• Arresting Development

  April 10, 2007

• You Say It's Our Birthday?

  March 1, 2007

• Hamburger Done at DTC

  August 15, 2006

• Starck Club Redux, Without All the Coke

  March 15, 2006

• Full-Court Press Releases

  April 24, 2007

• Why Match.com Hates the Dickless

  August 17, 2007

• Who Needs the Ritz When the Stoneleigh's Weeks Away From Its Reopening?

  August 22, 2007

• Math Problem? No Problem.

  September 26, 2007

• Just Think of All the Free Travel

  March 25, 2008

• Ab-NORML-y Good Music? Well, Maybe. For Once.

  April 28, 2008

• Solo 67, First Class Fever, Other Locals Vie For Warped Tour Gig

  May 6, 2008

• Edward Okpa on Why He's Not on DART Board. A Hint: Um, "Al Lipscomb"?

  May 29, 2008

• Sean Avery Likes to Be Both "Manly As Possible" and "A Little Bit Feminine"

  July 7, 2008

• Idol Records Shows Us It's O's Face

  October 28, 2008

• Like an Episode of Dragnet

  November 6, 2008

• Billboard Names House Of Blues Dallas The Top Club In The Whole Damn Country. No, Seriously.

  Yep. Here's the press release announcing it: Dallas, TX – November 21, 2008: The 2008 Billboard Touring Awards took place last night at the Roosevelt Hotel Ballroom in New York City. House of Blues Dallas came away with the honors in the Top Club category. Other nominees in the category included House of Blues Chicago and The Fillmore in San Francisco. The venue, which opened its doors in May of 2007, has been tirelessly serving up live music for 18 months with over 400 shows to its cr

  November 21, 2008

• Some Appealing Morning Items

  See what I did there? "Appealing"? As in, the City of Dallas, still trying to get its hands on the Neches River water, is sending attorneys to New Orleans this week -- luckies. Specifically, the barristers will be setting up shop in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (there ya go), where, at 9 a.m, tomorrow, three judges will hear oral arguments in the case of City of Dallas, TX, Appellant vs. H. Dale Hall, Etc., Et Al. The city's counting on the Neches, and the long-proposed Fastrill Reservoir

  January 5, 2009

• See, This is How You Change a Street Name in Dallas: Very Quietly.

  First, you pick something short and out of the way -- like, oh, I dunno, Shepherd Road, near Forest Lane and Greenville Avenue. Then you name it for a pastor who, in 2007, got a post office named for him, courtesy Pete Sessions' bill two years earlier. (It's for either that Robert E. Price or the probate judge; more than likely, the former.) Then you get city staff to offer its approval; then you take it to the City Plan Commission, no big whoop. Done deal, more than likely.Or, even better, you

  January 8, 2009

• Services for Trammell Crow Set for Monday

  After the jump, the official Trammell Crow obituary sent to local media today. But first, this information concerning services scheduled for Monday:A public service will be held on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Highland Park United Methodist Church, located at 3300 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75205. If interested in doing a memorial, persons may consider The Margaret and Trammell Crow Chair for Alzheimer's and Geriatric Research at Southwestern Medical Foundation, 2305 Cedar Spri

  January 15, 2009

• Soul Power

  April 25, 1996

• And So It Begins

  A traffic heads-up for tomorrow: Unless you're planning on protesting George W. Bush's move to the '229, you may want to avoid Mockingbird Lane at N. Central Expressway between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m. That's when Code Pink of Greater Dallas is planning on celebrating Inauguration Day by holding a "No War Criminals in my Neighborhood!" rally because, well, "It doesn't seem right that a 'war criminal' will be moving into our neighborhood on Jan, 21, 2008."It was either that or set up a lemonade

  January 19, 2009

• Blues in '97

  January 8, 1998

• Buzz

  March 19, 1998

• That sinking feeling

  The USA Film Festival resembles the highest grossing movie ever. It's been leaking like Titanic for a while, but the 28th Annual schedule suggests it may be going down fast.

  April 9, 1998

• Party like it's 1999

  June 4, 1998

• Officer down

  November 26, 1998

• Anti-Convention Center Hotel Group Files Temporary Restraining Order Against City

  Sam MertenWe've been hearing for some time that the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel would be seeking a temporary restraining order sooner than later to keep the city from proceeding with the convention center hotel without a proper vote. Turns out, sooner was yesterday: Citizens Against the Taxpayer Owned Hotel, et. al. v. The City of Dallas, Texas and Dallas Convention Center Hotel Development Corporation showed up Monday in the 160th District Court; Unfair Park received the petition

  February 17, 2009

• Old times not forgotten

  February 25, 1999

• Bargain Hunting at the City Store

  Some of the amazing, ahem, finds at the City StoreI'm on a tight budget -- but, right, who isn't? So when my boyfriend suggested we check out the inventory of police-confiscated property for sale at a nearby warehouse, I jumped at the opportunity.The City Store, located off Stemmons Freeway on Irving Boulevard, sells seized property, lost junk and city surplus goods to the public on Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. We arrived just after 8 a.m., and I was positive the really good stuff had a

  February 27, 2009

• Six Locals Named As Finalists In International Songwriting Competition

  Salim NourallahYep. An international songwriting competition quite cleverly named the International Songwriting Competition, in fact. Anyway, as the header implies, six locals made the cut to get a "finalist" nod from the ISC. Who? For what songs? In what categories? And, just for good measure, where are these people from? Funny you should ask, as that's exactly the information I happen to have on this front:AAA: "1978" by Salim Nourallah from Dallas, TXDance/Electronica: "This Is A Test" by Rob

  March 3, 2009

• Echoes and Reverberations: Our Radio Heads Are Waxing Nostalgic

  The staff of the Zoo, as seen on Liles' bedroom wall poster.I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called "The Zoo". A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles' White Album called "Revolution #9", which had no guitars, drums, verses or choruses--just ten minutes of psychedelic backwards tape loops and abstract sound collage. In 1974, Dallas rock radio was a tr

  March 6, 2009

• The Real "Goofball"

  March 28, 2002

• The Anti-Dittohead

  Hey, Mr. King of Talk Radio, meet the queen

  September 4, 2008

• César Chávez, Texas

  Forget about renaming Industrial Boulevard or Ross Avenue or the Dallas North Tollway. The city should go all the way.

  August 28, 2008

• The Dirt Doctor

  July 17, 2008

• Bushwhacked

  Let's just say Bush gets charged with war crimes. Will Dallas be guilty by association with his library?

  June 5, 2008

• Wanna See Inside the Church of Scientology's New Las Colinas Digs? Here Ya Go.

  A scene from the Dallas Scientology Center's making-of, not the way Tom Cruise intended. L.R.H. would so not be amused.Courtesy the very Vimeo "retriever" comes the most breathless making-of ever made documenting the construction of the new Church of Scientology Center in Las Colinas, which opened over the weekend. This most likely comes from the L. Ron Hubbard birthday bash in Los Angeles at the end of March, but this is far from official -- more like a wiseguy's art project mash-up, complete w

  April 15, 2009

• A Killer F5 Tornado Rips Through Dallas County -- How Ready Are We for this Nightmare Scenario?

  April 16, 2009

• What’s Wrong With This Picture?

  For Hal Samples, who uses photos to help the homeless, nothing—and everything

  January 15, 2004

• Eye Candy

  It's overpriced, it's gaudy and we have to put it on a credit card. Yep, that Calatrava bridge says Dallas all over.

  August 31, 2006

• 2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards

  May 11, 2006

• Get Your Wild On

  Behind the scenes of E!'s Dallas shoot

  September 2, 2004

• Stepford Mayor

  Laura Miller's husband orders a shift for City Hall

  July 1, 2004

• Color Bind

  Who says the mayor is a racist? You'll be surprised by the answer.

  October 2, 2003

• Bottle Rockets Downtown

  A lawsuit complaining about election fraud could bust things wide open

  July 26, 2001

• A woman's touch

  Dawn Rizos never wanted to get in the gentleman's club business. When she did, she tried to dress it up as best she could

  September 9, 1999

• The United States Postal Service Swears It's Not Shutting Down the Dallas Main Post Office

  After the jump you'll find a copy of a letter sent on July 10 "to the citizens of Dallas, TX" by the local chapter of the American Postal Workers Union, in which union president Larry Crawford warns of the United States Postal Service's plan to close the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30, just west of downtown. In the missive, sent to me this morning by a panicked Friend of Unfair Park, Crawford asks residents to contact their elected officials before today, which is the final day of public commen

  July 16, 2009

• Two 115-Year-Old Dallas Souvenirs

  ​I was looking for ... something. I forget what now. (This maybe?) But my late-night quest brought me to this book from 1894: Souvenir guide of Dallas: A sketch of Dallas and Dallas county, their resources, business enterprises, manufacturing and agricultural advantages. It's where this ad comes from, of course -- another image for the imaginary Unfair Park line of tees we'll never make. The book's full of such historical gems and available for reading in its entirety after the jump, if you ha

  October 7, 2009

• Pho From Home: Vietnam

  In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.​As a little Vietnamese kid in a primarily white world, I never thought these three letters would one day evoke such a craze in the West, particularly Dallas, Texas. Don't get me wrong. Dallas/Fort Worth has the third highest population of Vietnamese people in the United States, right behind

  November 10, 2009

• Ousted Kansas City Chiefs RB Larry Johnson Is In Dallas. Why? "Social Business." Whatever.

  Kansas City Chiefs​Arrowhead Pride, a fanblog for the Kansas City Chiefs, provides a vaguely intriguing item this afternoon that reveals running back and bad Twitterer Larry Johnson, cut from KC Monday and now a free agent, is in Dallas at this very moment. And how do they know this? "Larry Johnson's reported location on his Twitter page -- which is updated automatically via the GPS on a cell phone -- is Downtown Dallas, TX." Commenters' theories abound: a visit with Jerry Jones, maybe; or pe

  November 12, 2009