Subject: Highland Park (Brooklyn)

• Forward to the Past

  December 1, 1994

• Buzz

  November 23, 1995

• The price of privilege

  September 26, 1996

• Letters

  October 10, 1996

• Out Here

  November 28, 1996

• Buzz

  January 7, 1999

• Scene, heard

  July 1, 1999

• Lack of confidence

  September 16, 1999

• Best outing with the kids

  September 21, 2000

• Best Exorcism

  September 21, 2000

• Best Place to Take a Tourist

  September 20, 2001

• Best Women's Clothing Store

  September 20, 2001

• Best Art Gallery

  September 20, 2001

• Not So Hot

  August 1, 2002

• Letters

  June 19, 2003

• The AA List

  August 21, 2003

• Best Deal on Roses

  September 25, 2003

• Best Place to Get Caught in a MILF Storm

  September 25, 2003

• Drive-Thru Xmas

  December 25, 2008

• Long May You Run

  December 11, 2008

• Light It Up

  December 20, 2007

• Sob Story

  Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

  January 1, 2004

• Great Scot...Land!

  March 30, 2006

• To See the World

  January 15, 2004

• The Eyes Have It

  May 11, 2006

• Big D’s Book Boy

  August 10, 2006

• Little Lolita

  September 28, 2006

• Get Lost

  October 26, 2006

• Wallerin' and Hollerin'

  Ain't Misbehavin' at DTC; but, oh, they're trying to at Plano Repertory Theatre

  April 15, 2004

• Ruff Stuff

  Unleash yourself for a day of sun, fun and dogs

  April 8, 2004

• We're Watching You

  Want some privacy? Don't leave your house.

  April 8, 2004

• White Rock Gridlock

  Running the rock is hard, but so is driving the rock

  December 11, 2003

• Time Warp

  Believe it or not, it's 2003 in Highland Park, too

  June 5, 2003

• The Observer Regrets...

  Making amends for past wrongs

  May 29, 2003

• No Smoking Gun

  The new smoking ban will work--if no one lights up

  February 27, 2003

• Horton Heard What?

  Find out Who's Who at Romano's latest venture

  November 28, 2002

• Does a Bear Shop in the Woods?

  Don't get malled. This year, do your business al fresco.

  November 15, 2001

• Over the Line

  A GOP state redistricting plan targets a longtime Democrat and others

  August 16, 2001

• Spirits in the material world

  A haunted house with a real ghost of a chance

  September 30, 1999

• 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 civilized meal

  Plano Cafe offers a surprise in a strip mall

  February 22, 1996

• User friendly

  Cafe Highland Park brings The Bubble down to earth

  February 8, 1996

• Short Orders: Who's Who Burgers

  Who's Who Burgers69 Highland Park Village214-522-1980I'm almost certain Laura Bush walked by as I readied to try my first Who's Who burger in about five years. I say "almost," because if it really were the former first lady and only cognizant person in the White House, federal agents would have torn me apart like a pack of NASCAR fans on someone drinking imported beer while praising open-wheel road racing.Besides, it would be difficult to imagine older wealthy women in their everyday finest walk

  June 8, 2009

• Old School Sweets

  One of these guys has been hittin' the sauce...well, the extract, really.Long before these dismal days of gut-busting King Size Snickers and 3 Musketeers Dark Chocolate Mint (an unholy creation, for sure), there were Goo Goo Clusters and Zagnuts and Squirrel Nut Zippers...uh...must...resist...Beavis and Butthead...laugh... Candy used to be cheery and novel, didn't it?--a few bites of fun. Where did our sense of humor go? Seems like we lost our taste for whimsy round about the time certain br

  July 15, 2009

• Sloppy Seconds: Moving On Up

  ​Some places we covered this week are punching above their weight, for better or for worse, and others are aiming purposefully low. The best of City of Ate this week covers a handful of spots toying with a new social place.The Week in Review(s): Your own Dallas Observer: Dave tries slumming it at Rathbun's Blue Plate Kitchen, where the down-home cooking runs up against Highland Park affectation. Dallas Morning News: Si Tapas and Spanish Cuisine gets Leslie Brenner's attention this week, while

  July 25, 2009

• Matthew Stafford > Josh Hamilton

  Deadspin​Former Highland Park star and Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford had himself quite the summer bash recently. Girls in bikinis. Dirty dancing. Some sort of beverages in those same red cups that I serve alcohol in at my pool parties. Who knows, maybe whipped cream made a cameo at some point. But you know why these pics - on the same site that first posted the photos of Josh Hamilton's infamous night - aren't a big deal? *Because Stafford doesn't go around making his "pers

  August 11, 2009

• Hash Over: Comfort Food On The Second Floor, $3 Maredsous 8 Drafts, Farmers Market Is In The Bag And More

  Meredith L. MooreSecond Floor executive chef J. Chastain​The comfort food trend strikes again. Chefs Scott Gottlich and J Chastain have updated the menu at The Second Floor to focus more on contemporary comfort food along with its signature bistro items. But this being the place that claims to have the largest Scotch selection in Dallas, they needed to dress up Mom's staples. So, for example, shrimp and grits becomes Prawns and Grits; pimiento cheese becomes a spread of French Cantalet, piquil

  August 31, 2009

• These Ain't No Disney Streets: Northern Hills Awful Close to Becoming Conservation District

  From the city's Northern Hills Conservation District Conceptual Plan, which notes that "all of the original building stock was constructed between 1920 and 1938."​Speaking of the City Plan Commission ...By all accounts, the 3-year-long battle over designating Northern Hills a conservation district's about to come to an end. (Whassup, Disney streets?) Sources say that 80 percent of the residents in the 61-house neighborhood nestled between Highland Park and the Knox-Henderson shopping district

  September 10, 2009

• Sons of the Shining Star

  October 29, 2009

• Dallas Architecture Porn, Part 281: For Sale, a Photo of Lang and Witchell's Drafting Room

  ​Otto Lang and Frank Witchell built this city, more or less. Let's catalog, shall we: the Dallas Power & Light Building, the Lone Star Gas Company HQ,  the Sanger Bros. Department Store, the Fair Park Music Hall, the Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Catalog Merchandise Center (now known as the Southside on Lamar, of course), the Southland Life Building, Conrad Hilton's very first hotel (now known as Hotel Indigo), not to mention homes in Highland Park and along Swiss Avenue. And that's the

  November 17, 2009