East Texas

OpenTable Lists 100 Most Romantic U.S. Restaurants, Including The French Room and a Spot in Arlington (Obviously)

Lists are fun. The categorize our lives, serve as reminders of things to do, stack favorites and remind us of people we're mad at. The fun part of listing is that they often serve as a launch pad for conversation and debate. Because half the fun of a list is arguing about what's not on it, right? Ri ... More >>

Protesters Are in the East Texas Trees Again to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

As of around 2:30 yesterday afternoon, two Keystone XL pipeline protesters were perched atop platforms strung through the trees in East Texas, aiming to block construction of what may soon become the longest pipeline in the Western Hemisphere. The controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which could be ... More >>

Zombies, Whorehouses, Strip Clubs and Killer Sasquatches: The Greatest Movie Pitch Ever Hits Dallas Court

Brian Jaynes has made something of a name for himself in the world of low-budget horror films. Over the past three years, the East Texas filmmaker has helmed a string of cult successes, starting with Boggy Creek, about a bloodthirsty Sasquatch. That was followed last year by Humans vs Zombies. Compl ... More >>

Andrew Lostetter of Marquee Grill on Snowboarding, Trees and Recovering

In "Dancing in the Light" off the Rolling Stone's re-release of Exile on Main Street, Keith Richards' guitar has a pronounced Southern drawl and Mick Jagger sounds like he was born in East Texas while he complains of a "sinking feeling"... "You really hit the big time, I really took a dive
 I'm r ... More >>

Keystone Pipeline Protesters Tie Themselves to Construction Equipment, Halt Work

Three protesters tied themselves to logging equipment clearing trees for the southern portion of the Keystone pipeline early Wednesday morning. A representative of the group, which calls itself the Tar Sands Blockade, says work on the East Texas site is currently halted. "A caravan of between seven ... More >>

Won't You Be My Neighbor, Goodfriend?

Sara Kerens​When is a burger joint more than a burger joint? When it's a damn good bar, too. While burger restaurants have been popping up around town like meth labs in East Texas, many aren't the type of place you can put in a solid session on a bar stool. Not so at Goodfriend, the new beer ... More >>

Dithering Inside an Addison Dealmaking Expo For Oilmen, Where It's a Shale of a Good Time

​Haven't you heard? There's gas in them thar shale formations. And if the parking lot outside of the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison was any indication this morning, a goodly number of the players are in town, looking to make fat deals. You could tell because parking was spilling out into th ... More >>

UT Researcher Leading Fracking Study: "We're Gonna Look at Every Claim We Can Find."

UT-Austin geology professor Chip Groat​A week ago today, as you may recall, the University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute announced they'd be joining the growing ranks of universities with major studies of hydraulic fracturing, with a $300,000, nine-month project of their own. Today, thank ... More >>

New Study From Gas Drilling Activists Gathers Decade of Industrial Woes in the Barnett Shale

​Natural gas activist and blogger Sharon Wilson was among the environmentalists out at Earth Day last weekend -- not far from the EPA's six-foot cardboard Al Armendariz -- and she was passing out copies of a new report she'd helped produce on gas drilling in the Barnett Shale. Produced by the Fort ... More >>

Bake Sale Bandits

Local Movement Fights for Cottage Food Bill.

Dude Food Has Beer For Breakfast

Noah W. BaileyBeats your hippie bowl of Kashi, huh?​Barbec's8949 Garland Road214-321-5597Dude Factor: 10, or The Hangover, on a scale of 1 (Very Bad Things) to 10.  A good friend of mine describes Barbec's as "where East Dallas meets East Texas." Walk in any morning and you'll see what he mea ... More >>

Crawfish Season Off to Slow Start Thanks to Winter Storms

​I grew up in East Texas in a predominantly Cajun family, so crawfish season always makes me nostalgic for the days of sitting in the back seat of my dad's truck with a wiggling 20 pound burlap sack of mudbugs. At first, I was horrified for being responsible for sending countless crawdads to t ... More >>

Los Pinos Ranch Chardonnay: Less Oak,
More Turpentine

​Wine from Pittsburgh? Surely you jest. After all, Pittsburgh is Steel City, known for its dominating football teams, brawling blue-collar identity and Primanti's, a famous hangout where the cooks are known to stuff French fries inside their burgers. Of course you would want to wash down such ... More >>

Craft's Jeff Harris: A Chef you Can Bank On

Photos by Robert BostickCraft's Jeff Harris​(This is the first part of a three-part look at Jeff Harris, executive chef at Craft. Tune in tomorrow for a Q&A with Harris and Friday as he demonstrates how to prepare one of the restaurant's dishes.) Jeff Harris was raised in a small town in East ... More >>

Ten Historic Texas Town Names Good Enough to Eat

​The still-current trend in menu-writing is to append a place name to every dish, proclaiming its local origins. But back when Texas was largely unsettled, folks did it the other way around: They named their towns after food. Dozens of Texan towns have shared their names with fruits and nuts. ... More >>

Drink in the End of "Dry America" In Advance of Keep the Dollars in Dallas's Press Conference

​Tomorrow Keep the Dollars in Dallas, the Kroger-led group hoping to get Dallas wet, will hold a press conference and lunch, during which it'll announce some endorsements and hand out Ray Perryman's study insisting, among myriad other things, that allowing off-premise sale of beer and wine citywid ... More >>

Black Pearl Sings

Dallas International Film Festival Serves Up a Tasty Helping of Flicks From the Lone Star State

U.S. Supreme Court Drowns City of Dallas's Hopes for Taking Water From Neches River

Schutze, unlike the city, is not up the Neches River without a paddle.​The U.S. Supreme Court today has ruled against the city of Dallas in its lawsuit over the proposed Neches River Reservoir -- an 11th hour reprieve for the state's last wild river. It's a two-word ruling - "certiorari denied" - ... More >>

Review and Gallery: York Street

Sara KerensYork Street's windy meadows chicken, thyme-roasted on East Texas pinto beans stew​ This week Dave visits York Street in East Dallas, where Sharon Hage bucks tradition across the board, from the restaurant's location and signage, right on into the kitchen.For a three-course feast for the ... More >>

Art Major, Biology Minor

Get Your Hot Rocks Off: SMU Prof Has Found a Way to Get Texas Off the Grid

SMU's been tapped by the State Energy Conservation Office to study clean, renewable energy sources throughout the state of Texas -- and danged if Maria Richards, program coordinator for the SMU Geothermal Laboratory, doesn't think she's found one. Today, the university posted a preview of its assess ... More >>

Finally, Reunion Arena's an Open-Air Venue

Don JohnsonFriend of the show Don Johnson, who maintains East Texas Photo, happened by Reunion Arena yesterday, where the demolition's in full swing. And he snapped a handful of terrific photos that he's posted to his Flickr page. But this one in particular stands out -- "Reunion Inside-Out," Don ca ... More >>

Schutze Shirts: A Contest in the Making

Schutze is on an East Texas retreat with Dallas administrative judge C. Victor Lander this week, so he won't mind me posting this T-shirt suggested by Friend of Unfair Park "ericthegardener." It all started in the comments section of yesterday's item about the May 5 Trinity Parkway Public Hearing at ... More >>

Texas Rangers Swear the New FM Broadcast Won't Leave Outlying Areas Without Their Ball

Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked why the Rangers would broadcast a majority of their games on The Fan, when KRLD-AM has such a mammoth signal, especially at night. Which is why I called John Blake, the team's recently returned exec vice president of communications, to discuss the decision b ... More >>

As Attorneys Argue Over Neches River's Future, Some Suggested Reading About Its Storied Past

In our editorial meeting this morning, Schutze offered a book report concerning his holiday reading: Paddling the Wild Neches by Richard Donovan, which was published by the Texas A&M University Press in May 2006. Says Jim about the book documenting one man's canoe trip through East Texas, it's e ... More >>

Austin's Well Represented At The Chattahippie Festival. Dallas? Not So Much.

Bill Clinton's Gonna Be Relatively Close to Dallas on Friday

Huzzah!

A rousing tale from the land of Dorkus Malorkus

Neches River Makes a Top 10 List. Just Not in a Good Way.

Don't Go Bust

A turncoat narc offers tips on how to move your weed

Dark Day

Ricardo Ainslie takes the Long Dark Road back to Jasper

Give Peace and Peppers a Chance

Chili cooks score one for multilateralism

Catch a Ride

The Artrain rolls into Fair Park

Type Cast

Texas authors talk about their state and the arts

White Heat

As a white player on a black baseball team, C.C. Risenhoover saw both sides of the racial divide

Selling Ron

A pro-business black Democrat who appeals to white voters, Ron Kirk is the sport utility vehicle of Senate candidates. But will voters buy him?

Webb Sights

Make a new holiday tradition

Price He's Paid

Ray Price has seen it all, from bucket-of-blood joints out on the Jacksboro Highway to Hank Williams' surgery scars

Best neighborhood

Little Forest Hills

Blink

Commerce gets the cash

Hash Over

Deep tapas; Dale Wamstad's revisionist history; Donkey kong

Bully Pulpit

Pushy, driven, and fearless, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer is Bush's big man on the border. But is he tough enough to cut through the red tape snarling efforts to help the poor people living in the colonias?

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Chemical Warrior

When Phyllis Glazer learned a chemical plant was making her East Texas neighbors sick, the wealthy Dallas homemaker could have cut and run. Instead, she chose to stay, fight, and win.

The pickup artist

It's arty and low-budget, but don't be fooled--Hands on a Hard Body swims in the mainstream

The haunting

To the grief of his children and his wife's family, Walker Railey is resurrecting his story

Fouled nest

Chicken king Bo Pilgrim meets his critics on his home turf

The Crow-Qadhafi Connection

How a mythic Texas family won the gratitude of a dictator