Inwood

Man, I Used to Really Love Dave Matthews Band

In September 2000, a few days before Dave Matthews Band played with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at Coca-Cola Starplex, I got into a car accident turning onto Inwood Road from Walnut Hill. My '99 Explorer was crunched, and the woman I hit injured her arm. I sat on the curb, waiting for my parents ... More >>

How To Start a Record Collection, Part III (Record Store Day Edition)

I thought it would be a private relationship between me and my record player. Music collections, no matter what they are made of, can be so intimate they border on embarrassing. Not sure what to buy, I clicked on review after review, talking myself into and out of nearly every purchase. But the thin ... More >>

New Location of Goghee To Go Closed

When I wrote of Korean fusion in Dallas last year, I spent considerable time with Janice and Terry Song. The two couldn't seem to get a break in terms of restaurant location as their first, on Inwood Road, was plagued panhandlers who would harass their customers as they waited in line in the drive-t ... More >>

It's National Pie Day! Here are Some Alternative Pie Options in Dallas

Yes, there's pie. Lots of really really good pie. But, we want to embrace National Pie Day for every flake of crust it's worth, including doing a little math, listening to great old Dean Martin songs and arguing about the metaphor of that tiger in Life of Pi. In a culinary sense, however, we'd lik ... More >>

Inwood Whips One Out

Elderly People in Dallas Gave Ricky Carr $100,000, Probably Shouldn't Have, Police Say

Meet Ricky Carr. He's 53, from Fort Worth, and a regular visitor to both the Dallas and Tarrant County jails. One's first impression upon looking at his picture is probably not "Hey, he looks just like a police officer!" or "Finally! Someone who can tell me if this pile of cash I have is real." But ... More >>

To Build Joppa Gateway Park, the City Will Have to Battle One of Its Most Notorious Slumlords

The Joppa Gateway is one of those half dozen parks included in the city's Trinity River Corridor Project that will provide access to the wetlands and horse parks and other amenities that are being built. Located near the junction of Interstate 45 and Loop 12 ... er, ahem ... Great Trinity Forest Way ... More >>

Dallas: Curable Through Creativity?

Tomorrow Night at Iron Fork, Whiskey Cake Chef TJ Lengnick Challenges Reigning Champ Scott Romano

Tomorrow night Dallas will gather at the Fashion Industry Gallery for the Observer's second annual Iron Fork competition. While many will focus on the food and booze sampling, the backdrop for the event is a cooking competition between former Joule chef and reigning Iron Fork Champion Scott Romano, ... More >>

Dallas County Does a Three-Fer in Exonerations

The number of convicts being freed after serving prison time for crimes they didn't commit keeps mounting in Dallas County, with Friday bringing a rare triple exoneration for three men wrongly accused of robbery. On November 17, 1994, five teenagers roamed the parking lot near the Eckerd drugstore ... More >>

Tagged, City Hall. You're It!

​Can't say for sure how long the former fire station on Walnut Hill Lane near Marsh has looked like this, only because I haven't taken Walnut Hill to work since Monday, when it did not look like this. (I've been taking Marsh to Lemmon to Inwood to Maple, if you must know -- for tacos, delicious ta ... More >>

Sore Losers & Marty B at Trees and the Rest of Your Weekend

Colin McDermottSore Losers​This weekend is a big one for Sore Losers, who are celebrating the release of their new EP, We Are Sore Losers, at Trees on Saturday night. Joining them on the bill is Dallas Cowboy Martellus "I Love Cap N Crunch" Bennett, as well as a host of other local hip-hop acts.If ... More >>

Sundown Rises, Lumi Goes Dark and More Openings and Closings from a Busy January

January proved to be a busy month in the Dallas food scene. The highly anticipated Sundown at Granada opened its doors, along with a handful of other eateries. Read on for the full opening and closing slate, and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section be ... More >>

Opening Credits: Today's Cinematic Releases for Jan. 13

Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

The Master List: The Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, January 13-15

If there's ever a zombie attack or outbreak of some mutated virus that turns most of the population into blood-thirsty cannibals, we hope we don't survive because we're not equipped to kill the undead. Plus we've learned from movies that no one usually lasts too long. Who knows how many people will ... More >>

Coldplay and Tool Announce 2nd Shows and This Week's Show Announcements

Get a double dose of Coldplay next summer.​This week, we learned that ticket demand for two shows we recently wrote about (Coldplay and Tool) was so overwhelming a second show has been added for each. On Saturday, June 23, Coldplay will perform a second show at American Airlines Center. Tickets fo ... More >>

Have a Soufflé in Your PJs at Rise No. 1

FacebookRise: The land of souffles.​Food comas are an inherit part of the holidays. Gluttonous meals planned weeks in advance are devoured in less than 20 minutes, and all that's left is the amazing mess to clean up while fighting through food fog and heavy lethargy. Excited? Yeah, me too. T ... More >>

Drue Mitchell Rides the Airwaves From DFW to L.A.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. ​ Drue Mitchell has worked for 97.1 KEGL in promotions, as on-air jock at (old frequency) 94.5 KDGE and 89.7 KVRK, and now does television for a Christian music network in Los Angele ... More >>

For Sale: A Mural Study For Frisco Done in '59 By Famed Member of Dallas Nine, Perry Nichols

eBay seller "wpa_fan"Perry Nichols' The Game, which once decorated the side of the Frisco Community Center, as you can see below​Even if the name Perry Nichols escapes you, and it likely does, the work does not. The Woodrow grad's art surrounds us even now, some two decades after his death -- at t ... More >>

At Last, One Very Good Reason to Avoid Lemmon Avenue: They're Finally Repaving It

​Meant to mention this the last time I took Lemmon to work a few weeks back: Avoid it at all costs. But not for the usual reasons; not because it's "the road to Fallujah," as one Friend of Unfair Park called it a few months back. Well, OK, maybe it is now. But that's only because crews are out the ... More >>

Eddie V's Chef Brad Albers on the Fickle Dallas Dining Scene and its Need for More Indian Food

Endicott & Co.​Yesterday, in Part 1 of our interview with Chef Brad Albers, we learned about his band "It," a tiny town in Switzerland and his new big boss. Today we talk more about the fickle Dallas food scene. Where do you eat when you're not at Eddie V's? I actually don't eat out a lot. I ... More >>

You Call That Sick?

Tomorrow, the Farewell to Jerry Haynes

​Many Friends of Unfair Park have asked when Jerry Haynes's funeral will take place. It will be tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church at Northwest Highway and Inwood. Initially, Haynes's family had considered two services -- a private one for family, and a public memorial la ... More >>

Redneck Redemption

The City's Transpo To-Do List, 2011-'12 Edition

Click to enlarge, or go here for a much bigger version.​Speaking of those new city council committees ...This afternoon the Transportation and Environment Committee will meet for the first time since returning from summer break, and on its agenda you'll find Transportation and Environment Committe ... More >>

Return of the Gelfings

A Mod Revival

See Fear, Smell Popcorn

Christmas Comes At Midnight

New Food Truck Ain't Nothin' but a Chowhound

​Food trucks have been popping up all around town, from the Green House Truck, to the Good Luck Food Truck, and the ever-so-kitschy Grillenium Falcon. Now, expect to spot another four-wheeled culinary wagon cruising around Dallas, as Jack's Chowhound is set to hit the road in the next week or two. ... More >>

He Never Was a Bad Boy: While Kids Are Away, NBA Great Bob Lanier Paints a Dallas School

Leslie MinoraBob Lanier (right) works his extreme-school-makeover magic in West Dallas.​An oddly interesting scene unfolded on Inwood Road earlier today: NBA legend Bob Lanier and Key Coker, Executive Vice President of BBVA Compass Bank, chatting about banking globalization, financial diversificat ... More >>

La Paloma Taco-Taco: Can a Taco Joint Ever be Redundant? Sometimes.

Night of Noir

Goghee To Go Brings a Sweet (and Spicy) Promise to the Medical District

​Foodies were all aflutter when news broke that Goghee To Go, a Korean-Mexican fusion taquería, was opening in Dallas proper. While I was excited as well, I was disappointed by the lack of perspective. Goghee was heralded as a pioneer in the area, proving once again that only when it is conve ... 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 >>

They Done Tore Down Sue Ellen Ewing's House

Photos courtesy Scott Dorn​Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention this morning to a just-posted Flickr set from friend of the show Scott Dorn, a photographer who has spent the last several years documenting this teardown town. Turns out, Scott got a last-minute call late last week from ... More >>

What's in Store for the Taco in 2011?

​Having looked back at how the taco has fared in Dallas and across the country in 2010, Taco Trail now is looking toward the horizon and to what's next for our favorite food. What is clear from the beginning is that regionalism, whether Mexican state, foreign state or Lone Star State, will be ... More >>

Lots of Folks Object to Blockbuster's Store Closure Plan. Like Dallas County, For Starters.

The Blockbuster outlet at Lovers and Inwood closed shortly before the end of 2010.​As you'll recall, Blockbuster ended the year by announcing it's looking over all its leases and planning on breaking many of them, after which it'll shutter stores, dump inventory for pennies on the dollar and turn ... More >>

Blockbuster Bankruptcy Suit Asks: What Did Carl Icahn Know and When Did He Know It?

​Blockbuster's slouching toward bankruptcy was easily one of the biggest local business stories of the year; from giant to joke, how the mighty had fallen. But since its Chapter 11 filing early on the morning of September 23, there'd been little to report during its reorganization, save for a noti ... More >>

The Burger Stampede Grows Bigger

​National chains are apparently racing to win over area burger eaters before In-N-Out reaches Dallas. Elevation Burger, which bills itself as the "only organic burger franchise in the U.S.," is readying to open an outlet at the Hillcrest Crossing shopping center. And, according to Business Jo ... More >>

Ming's Place: Great Fried Rice in the Heart
Of a Tex-Mex Zone

​A couple of weeks ago, on an otherwise familiar route home from the gym, an unfamiliar sign caught my eye. There, next to the Potbelly and Starbucks on the corner of Lemmon Avenue and Inwood Road, was a Grand Opening sign for Ming's Place China Bistro. Hmm... While I will admit that a high ... More >>

Grocery Wars: Fight to Expand Simon David Moves Into City Council Chambers on Monday

View Larger MapWe first told you about Randall's plans to expand Simon David on Inwood Road back in August, shortly before the grocer took its case to the City Plan Commission. Randall's says the 25,225 square foot store, which has been perched on the property since 1984, is just too small -- needs ... More >>

Temple Tempest

Buddha Bar gets a new name

Who am I this time?

The Bistro inches through incremental evolution

Swat it!

Dragonfly darts with a tedious buzz

Transcendent Tex-Mex

Casa Rosa defends its turf with an exceptional take on Dallas' favorite cuisine

Adjusted expectations

The best dishes at Deep Sushi aren't Japanese or American; they're a lucky hybrid

Taco of the town

Tupinamba deserves its spot in Tex-Metroplex history

Chinese quackers

Joe Chow's May Dragon serves first-rate Peking Duck in stylish surroundings