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March 20, 2013The Lakewood Advocate has reported that a thirdLiberty Burger location will open in the Lakewood Shopping center where the old Catalina 5G Boutique (1904 Abrams Road) and the School of Contemporary Ballet used to live. Proprietor Mariel Street has signed a lease on both those spots and will tear dow ... More >>
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December 28, 2012Update: I told you I'd find more bars that wont kill your finances.
If you really want to throw down on New Year's Eve, The Loon is offering up their deadly-strong drinks with no cover in Uptown. While over on the East Side of Dallas Ships Lounge is ringing in the New Year with free champagne.
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December 20, 2012This Will Destroy You, True Widow, The Angelus
Friday, December 21, at Granada Theater, $19-$30
Texas' cinematic rock group This Will Destroy You will headline a show at Granada this apocalyptic weekend with local stonegaze band True Widow and dark folk ensemble The Angelus. The San Marcos foursome ... More >>
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December 6, 2012Blogs
August 14, 2012Best case scenario: The world's largest retailer builds a spaceship that allows humanity to flee a trash-choked planet and spend several centuries growing ever fatter and lazier on an interstellar cruise, unwitting captives to a self-aware computer, until an oddly adorable trash-compacting robot uns ... More >>
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June 27, 2012A few weeks ago, a freak hailstorm hit the East Dallas neighborhood I live in, taking out nearly every windshield on my street, including my own. It was one of those events that makes you snap out of whatever haze you're in and go, "OK, nature, I get it. It's not supposed to hail in mid-June. Noted. ... More >>
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June 13, 2012Reports of smashed car windows, skylights and pretty-expensive-art exhibits rolled on Twitter this evening, as egg-to-baseball sized hail fell in Dallas. The storm hit right around the time the Dallas reboot kicked in on TNT, which meteorologists said was due to Mother Nature's hatred for Patrick Du ... More >>
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March 9, 2012We love dives. It's the feel of these places: the flaking-away booth chair, the wobbly stool, the Exile on Main Street on the juke box. And, oh sweet yes: late-night corn dogs. So, eat this Food Network: we sent our contributing photographer Jay Barker to capture one of Dallas' most lovable drunk ch ... More >>
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January 6, 2012Editor's note: If you're thinking this item looks familiar, it is. I was talking with Rallo about how today's weather demanded an outdoor lunch, and like idiots we sat there for five minutes trying to think of good patios. Then we realized that we run a web site that exists solely to solve these qua ... More >>
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September 1, 2011Got a note a little while ago that said Tommy Stanco is having trouble keeping the doors of the Balcony Club open -- so much so that come September 14, that might be that. Which is ... unthinkable. But true, says Tommy, who bought the joint in '91, three years after it first took its place in the ... More >>
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December 22, 2010Two You Dallas offerings this morning, both guaranteed to put a smile on Robert Jeffress's face. At top is our pal Justin Terveen's Crèche Crawl -- "from Lakewood to Baylor Hospital to Highland Park," and points in between. Prematurely aged for your pleasure. And on the other side: the bright Chris ... More >>
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May 28, 2010 A few weeks ago, when Conan O'Brien rolled through town, he said to the packed crowd: "You people know how to drink." Turns out, as Robert Wilonsky reported over on Unfair Park, Esquire is thinking the same thing. Well, at least they liked some of our bars. Featured in the June/July big honking ... More >>
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March 12, 2010Maybe I'm still high on the release of the new TRON Legacy trailer earlier this week, but our Poster Of The Week definitely conjures images of Light Cycles and Recognizers in my head.
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October 22, 2009David Cross can work a room, and work over a heckler.I met with girl drinkers Marla, Melissa and my sis Tracy for a night of comedy and cheesy appetizers. And drinks. Of course there were drinks. We were all geared up to see the partly-cloudy comic with a side of soapbox, David Cross. Unfortunate ... More >>
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March 5, 2009"Consumer awareness for natural and organic foods is so much stronger now that more retailers want to imitate what we do." (Mark Dixon, southwest region president for Whole Foods, staking a trendsetting claim. As quoted in a Dallas Morning News story on the opening of a new Lakewood branch of the gr ... More >>
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January 7, 2009Over on DC9, some required reading in advance of the Loco Gringos reunion Saturday night at the Lakewood Bar & Grill. Jeff Liles, whose weekly "Echoes & Reverberations" pieces are my favorite items on any Observer blog, has assembled quite the local all-star cast (Jim Heath, Mike Dillon, Tex ... More >>
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September 22, 2005Who are the best bartenders in Dallas?
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August 11, 2005Go back to school with Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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October 3, 2002Cheapskates unite and go to the movies
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November 4, 1999La Calle Doce conquers a new neighborhood
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