Irving

City of Dallas Looking for Someone to Turn its Feral Hog Problem Into Delicious Bacon

In recent years, as North Texas' feral hog population has exploded, Arlington, Irving and other suburbs have taken to rounding up the swine and selling them for bacon. Now, it's Dallas' turn. Robert Wilonsky brings news this morning that the city is looking for someone to harvest its feral hogs.

NOOOOOOOOOO! Crystal's Pizza is Closing

I heard a rumor that they were closing. Instantly, all the best pizza parties of my youth flashed before my eyes and I said, "Bullshit." It was bad enough when the Crystal's Pizza across the street from Jesuit closed, but the one in Irving was supposed to exist forever. Forever and ever and ever. In ... More >>

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the "Death of the Twinkie" Photo Shoot

In this week's news feature, Observer staff writer Brantley Hargrove takes an in-depth look at the demise of Irving-based snack food company Hostess. The photos that accompany the story feature Hostess products strategically places in CSI-type scenarios. Below are a few of my favorite photos from th ... More >>

Is Irving Ahead of Dallas in Preparing for Global Trade When the Panama Canal Expands?

Time to read the tea leaves. Avi Selk at The Dallas Morning News is report-tweeting this morning that the Irving City Council has slapped its mayor by voting to pay transportation consultant David Dean all of the two hundred grand he billed the city after his contract with the city expired last Sept ... More >>

Call Me When DART's Orange Line Gets to the Airport

DART already had the longest light rail system in the country before the $1.3 billion Orange Line added another three stations and several miles with its debut this morning. Sure, DART's soon-to-be 90 miles of track are dwarfed by the subway system in New York City, the L in Chicago, and Washington ... More >>

One Hundred Million Tacos With A Side Of Burlesque: This Week In Where The Hell Is My Lipator

Summer is picking up and that means the arrival of tomatoes that taste like nature intended. Not those lifeless cottony numbers picked while green and sprayed with ethylene, but those glorious summer orbs ripened right on the vine and delicious enough to be eaten all on their own. It's a good time t ... More >>

Chop House, OcaTaco and More Openings and Closings in February

February was a busy month in the Dallas food scene. The highly anticipated Off-site Kitchen finally 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 below ... More >>

Be Water, My Friend

What's Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett Most Concerned About? Let's Find Out.

​Late yesterday I got a call back from Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett, for whom I'd left a message about Irving and the North Texas Municipal Water District's need to buy water from the city. We set up a time to chat this morning, and just got through visiting for a little while abou ... More >>

Name That Legume: Guess The Bizarre Produce, Win a Bizarre Prize

​I was out in Irving last night, sleuthing for ethnic eats, when I saw a grocery chain I recognized. If you haven't explored some of the big ethnic groceries around town, you're missing out. They have consistently competitive prices, a zillion condiments that are otherwise hard to find, and th ... More >>

It's Not Cheap to Mask Your Bank Robbery

​On the other side is the Richardson PD bulletin mentioned here this morning, in which police say they're looking for the "Handsome Guy" bandit who's hit six area banks, including ones in Dallas, Irving, Plano and Richardson beginning April 19. Says RPD, his most recent stick-em-up was July 14, wh ... More >>

Lettuce Wrap Up: Crappy Burgers, NOSH, and Dad

Sara Kerens​Now that Dallas has cooled off from the In-N-Out craze (and Irving has cooled off from T.G.I. Fridays - forever), we're ready to start thinking about other foods, such as the rare Texas peach, brunch at NOSH, and burgers that are quite, er, innovative. Read on. City of Ate Jose Ralat ... More >>

The Music Angle in Irving's Mayoral Race

Supersized McDonald's Perfect
For Supersized Kids

A whopping 65 percent of McDonald's sales are transacted through the drive-through window. So why is the company opening a store with seating for 180 in Irving tomorrow? letsknowabout.comAn after-school snack in Irving. ​The fast-food chain long ago accepted the majority of its customers woul ... More >>

Want a Taste of Japan? Go West, Young Diner.

Photo by Hanna RaskinUdon worth a trip to Irving​Japanese celebrities locate the DFW's epicenter at the crossing of Belt Line and Rochelle roads in Irving. That's the intersection that's home to three authentic-leaning Japanese restaurants, including Mr. Max, an izakaya around which traveling ... More >>

AG's Office Rules Irving PD Must Release Mug Shots to Magazine Publishers

While the publishers of our local mug shot magazines keep scrapping for gas station counter space, Mugly!'s J. Martin Ward has been battling on a second front: a slow-motion rumble with police departments in Arlington and Irving over access to their mug shots and jail records. Mugly! runs on a stea ... More >>

DART Sends Word: Sales Tax Drop Will Cause "Indefinite" Delays of Three Significant Projects

​We've known since March that Dallas Area Rapid Transit's $3-billion drop in sales tax receipts would put on hold several key projects, chief among them the second downtown rail line, or D2. But exactly what and for how long? Those are answers we didn't know, not until this evening. DART spokesman ... More >>

After the Explosion: How Irving Might Wind Up Using Texas Stadium Site

One of the early conceptual renderings for the Texas Stadium site, before officials decided to blow it up real good​Patrick will be along shortly with some photos and observations from today's final final media tour of what remains of Texas Stadium before the big blow-em-up on April 11. (Hey, ther ... More >>

At Texas Stadium Today, A Few Former Dallas Cowboys Paid Their Last Respects

Patrick MichelsNate Newton remembered his time at Texas Stadium: "I lived in an unreal world for 13 years."​A couple weeks ago, you may recall, we brought you a look inside what's left of Texas Stadium, which, to our eyes, looked just about ready to come down.Not about to let the stadium go quietl ... More >>

Clearly, It's Time to Dust Off Your Parka and Vespa. Or, Leather Jacket and Norton.

​Good Friend of Unfair Park Mark Roberts sent word last night: The full schedule for this weekend's Rockers vs. Mods shindig is up and running -- from the Belmont Hotel to Trees to the Dubliner, with myriad rest stops in between. And, yes, our Danny Hurley will be riding shotgun yet again, so do y ... More >>

Clearly, Everything Gets a Logo These Days, Even Stuff About to Get Blowed Up

​Impossible to retrace the myriad steps that led me here this morning: to The Official Texas Stadium Implosion Web site, where you'll find a lengthy video shot inside the joint during Tuesday's media show-and-tell. I must say: This is a logo I can get behind: The artwork's playfully retro (like fe ... More >>

Hey, Kids, Does Kraft Mac & Cheese Give You a Cheddar Explosion? Then You're in Luck.

​No doubt you've already heard: On New Year's Eve the Irving city council voted to let Kraft Macaroni & Cheese blow up Texas Stadium in exchange for $75,000 cash money. And now, Kraft's NYC-based publicist sends word that "one lucky kid (ages 9-12) who has made a positive, explosive impact to ... More >>

O, Tannenbaum

Arlington PD Says It Doesn't Want to Be in the Business of Enforcing Immigration Laws

CopShop.com​While Irving makes the occasional headline with its use of the Criminal Alien Program -- which involves turning over to federal immigration officials people detained for any reason, even traffic violations --  top cops in Arlington have taken a stand against that approach. Instead ... More >>

Well, Somebody Clearly Needed 25,000 Texas Stadium Seats. And Two Big Ol' Video Screens.

​Christopher Moore, the prof quoted in today's paper about the physics of punting as it relates, to, oh, I dunno, low-hanging video screens in overwrought football domes, offers plenty more info on his blog concerning hang time and kicking angles; rrrrrrriveting stuff. But, for a moment, back to t ... More >>

This Morning, a Quick Trip to Irving

The new Irving Convention Center, which is not being built on a five-acre deck park​To Irving we go this morning, as the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau asked us, via e-mail, to pretty please check out the new Web site for its convention center opening "in late 2010." Hunh. Not bad. Not bad ... More >>

"Bravo to the Daring Dallasites!"

Casey KelbaughDavid DenbyWork precluded me from listening to today's Think on KERA-FM (90.1), which I swear I'll listen to one of these days. So until the local NPR affiliate posts its podcast, I'll just have to take Wonkette's word that New Yorker film critic David Denby, Think-ing today in Dallas ... More >>

Today at Texas Stadium, the Dallas Cowboys Deliver to the Highest Bidders

Patrick MichelsYep, there goes the Dallas Cowboys star off the Texas Stadium 50-yard line. That happened just a few hours ago, on this first day for online auction winners to pick up their treasures.More coming soon from Intern Kelly on the scene in Irving, now that the entire stadium has turned int ... More >>

Now This is More Like It? Irving Mayor to Shut Down Texas Stadium.

Guess the City of Irving didn't think much of the Dallas Cowboys' adios to Texas Stadium. Because, according to this notice sent by a Friend of Unfair Park, Irving's reserved the joint for yet another farewell: Mayor Herb Gears's State of the City Address, which'll take place January 15. And your op ... More >>

Good Call: Nokia Siemens Is Actually Adding R&D Jobs in the DFW

Amidst all the gloomy news of local business shutterings of late, this ray of sunshine for folks in the telecom industry: Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the opening of a research-and-development facility in the area that the company's calling "another significant step in further accelerating t ... More >>

Poetic License

The Only Incentive Dallas Can Offer Filmmakers: Blow Us Up, Please?

Mi Corazón

Radio Salaam Namaste Signals the Growth of Irving's Desi Community

Downtown Suburb

Queen for a Day?

What's It Feel Like to Pocket $40 Billion In a Year? Dunno. Ask ExxonMobil.

The Reason for DART's Sudden Billion-Dollar Shortfall? "Bad People."

More Better Badness

Domingo Garcia's Back -- So, Ya Know, Look Out, Irving!

Not Really a Hispanic Heritage Month Feel-Good Story

Those DNA Lawsuits Just Keep on Coming

Not on Our Summer Reading List

What Would Darrell Ankarlo Do?

Tia's Tex-Nixed

Fire on the Mountain

Irving

Friday, April 21, at Hailey's Club

Think Tha New Law About Hispanics is Stupid?

Blink

That championship season; A league of their own

Buzz