Lewisville

Loving Shacks: Hold the Pretentions, Just Gimme BBQ

I am back from a recent lunch at a run-down tiny shack in Lewisville, and I am still delighted at barbecue. I mean, it's just amazing. How does it taste that good? Is it magic? Do they put LSD in it? Why is it that the grimier and smaller the shack, the better the barbecue? How ill am I going to get ... More >>

There Was a Massive Gas Explosion on Main Street in Lewisville

Update at 2:12 p.m.: The owner of the leveled house, Christian Community Actions, told NBC 5 that at least one man is in the hospital with injuries Fire and police officials have not confirmed the number of injuries. Original post: Police are so far releasing few details, but there was a massive ex ... More >>

An Englishman Says Dat Really is Some Good BBQ Up in Lewisville, By Jove.

This week, recently re-documented alien Gavin rolls with the chaps in Lewisville, where he recovers from his Dickey's experience with some deliciousness at Dat's Good BBQ. For those of you who haven't ventured up into the frozen northern reaches of the metro area (it's like how I imagine life is no ... More >>

A Tamer, More Tethered Adventure

New 6,000 Square Foot RaceTrac Opens in Little Elm Today Replete with Walk-In Beer Cooler

If you're looking for a place to holdout during the impending zombie apocalypse, a gas station in Little Elm may be the place. RaceTrac is opening a new 6,000-square-foot compound in the burgeoning city just on the northeast side of Lake Lewisville. The gas station, which, again, has 6,000 square ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Sunday's Float Event with Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry and More

The first of three planned holiday weekend concerts on Lake Lewisville goes down this Sunday, May 27, with Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry, Wayne Hancock, Michael Donner & the Southern Renaissance, Grant Jones & the Pistol Grip Lassos and The O's. The concept of Float: You'll be able to swim, enjo ... More >>

Go Colorblind at The Frequency of Death!

​For 26 years, Pegasus Theatre has been taking the color out of stage comedy. They do it in "Living Black and White," a trade-secret method of makeup, costume and scenery that strips all the color away onstage -- except for the slip of an actor's pink tongue or a glimpse of blue eyes. Pegasus' cu ... More >>

New Year, New Psychic Prowess

A new year is often seen as a chance for reinvention. Maybe this will be the year you move out of the friend-zone with your "pal" across the hall. Maybe this will be the year that you don't overdraft while buying a two dollar Miller High Life. Maybe this will be the year you can finally wear white c ... More >>

Dance of the Pious Penguins

Lewisville Basketball Coach Calls Cops to His Apartment, Winds Up Accused of Trafficking

A Fighting Farmers basketball coach is accused to farming for talent in Mexico, and then fighting the talent.​Today's lesson, boys and girls, courtesy of WFAA's Craig Civale and the Lewisville police: When you appear to be running a racket that involves importing a high school basketball playe ... More >>

"Eater X" Dominates Again at the Lewisville's Tamale Eating Championship

​Behind the counter of every Taco Bell, there's a slew of people who fancy themselves champions of food, but once a year in Lewisville, the real champions arrive, ready to relieve suburban Dallas of its tamale population. Last Saturday was yet another such occasion, with a healthy roster of new T ... More >>

At Long Last, Texas International Pop Festival In Lewisville to Receive a State Historical Marker

The scene in Lewisville during Labor Day weekend 1969​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park are by now well aware of my lifetime obsession with the Texas International Pop Festival, held during Labor Day weekend in 1969 in a Lewisville field. The roster, put together by, among others, Angus Wynne, was l ... More >>

With a Little Help From Hat Tricks' Friends...

What Ales You?

Is There a Heart-Shaped Asana?

Way to Go, Frisco, You're the 14th-Safest City In the United States of America!

​We can look at CQ Press's just-released City Crime Rankings 2010-2011 two ways: from safest to most dangerous or vice-versa. But either way -- based upon the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports that include "the violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the property crimes of bu ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Texas International Pop Festival "Box Set"

​Richard Hayner, keeper of the Texas International Pop Festival website, maintains he's still -- still -- writing a book about that Labor Day Weekend when Angus Wynne brought Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Ten Years After, Santana, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone and on and on and ... More >>

If You've Ever Wanted to Live On -- Or In -- Lake Lewisville, Here's Your House Sub

​Friend of Unfair Park Holy Sheet (got that right) forwards this most astounding real estate listing just perfect for, say, a James Bond villain: The SubHome! It's by renowned (no, seriously) sub-home designer Jonathan Owen Pearson, who spent eight years building this aquatic gem (from the looks o ... More >>

No Mysteries, No Surprises as "Eater X" Edges Sonya Thomas for Lewisville Tamale Title

Photos by Patrick MichelsSonya "the Black Widow" Thomas puts away one of 56 tamales she ate Saturday -- good enough for second place.He set the world tamale-eating record here three years ago, downing 71 in a 12-minute bout on the steps of Lewisville City Hall, and even with a dozen fewer tamales la ... More >>

Hash Over: Texas/OU Weekend Watch Parties, Urban Crust Wine Tasting, Espelette Chili Dinner at Cadot, and more.

​ All right, folks, it's that time of the year again for die-hard college football fans to take over Fair Park with their crimson red or burnt orange-painted bodies. Yes, it's Texas/OU weekend. We're sure there's about gazillion watch parties from which fans can choose to watch the Red River Shoot ... More >>

A View From The Judges Table: Night One of the Shiner Rising Star Semi-Finals

​Shiner Rising Star Competition: Semi-Finals, Night One.Hat Tricks, LewisvilleSeptember 23, 2010After eight weeks worth of first-round performances, and then last week's wild-card round, the semi-finals of the annual Shiner Rising Star contest, hosted by KHYI-95.3 FM The Range and Shiner Bock Beer ... More >>

This Saturday, Competitive Eating's Top Ranks Tackle Lewsville's Hot Tamales

Patrick Michels"Nasty" Nate Biller, Texas' top-ranked eater, will try and keep the tamale title in-state this weekend.​If you're planning on packing on a few extra pounds of fat and grease this weekend, odds are you're headed to the state fair. But up in Lewisville Saturday afternoon, a chosen few ... More >>

Flapjack Flap: Mimi's Cafe vs. The Original Pancake House

Mimi's Cafe Pancakes​In one of those slow motion, cinematic moments that history brings us, a pancake went flying through the air as Napoleon (the impish emperor of France not the nunchuck wielding dweeb from the 2004 indie film, Napoleon Dynamite) attempted an intervention between his sausage ... More >>

Dallas MasterChef Hopefuls Queue Up for A Shot at Reality Stardom

Photos by Patrick MichelsThis cheesecake dreamed of L.A. every minute it spent baking in Lewisville.​The first one showed up around 6 a.m. Sunday, and by noon the line stretched down Travis Street and into the Sur La Table parking lot: hundreds of homemakers, grillmasters and amateur chefs waiting ... More >>

A Triple Order of Frank 'N' Furters Makes for a Rocky Horror Halloween on Area Stages.

Power House

Razzle Dazzle

George W. Bush Sure Has a Lot of Stuff

Two days after The New York Times singled out Saddam Hussein's unloaded spider-hole pistol (band name alert) among the possible trophies to be displayed in George W. Bush's SMU library, and a week after Pulle's piece on the joint, comes this Associated Press report about the contents of the Lewisvil ... More >>

Place, Show, Win

Bartenders will tell you that floor space in any of the city's up-market lounges is tantamount to real estate.Well, they might not say "tantamount" and "real estate," but they recognize the value of a prime bar spot, high-visibility table, dark corner or bit of ground in between--value that wavers a ... More >>

Gig Alert: Blessed By A Curse At Club Dada

Ah, the joys of an unfinished basement.  (Kevin Reynolds Diomampo)What could be a better pre-Christmas gift than hearing a little Christian/hardcore/death metal? Hailing from Lewisville, the five chipper young fellows who ply their craft under the moniker Blessed by a Curse will bring their bra ... More >>

All He Can Be

After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes

Hear Odis' 'Breakin' Me Down'

Lewisville Think Tank Unhappy Hillary Clinton Won't RSVP, Dang It

NPR Has the Bump Keys to Your Heart

Special Olympics' "Renegade" Coach

Up in Denton County, Another Fight Over a Road Project

Rent Control

Off the Short Bus

Steve Fleming fought to make his Special Olympians equal, and that got him torched

Wait -- Schutze Asks For Calm?

Don't Mound If You Do

Gym Dandy

Go back to PE with Dodgeball--Round Two

Best Reason to Book It to Denton

Recycled Books Records CDs

Wild West

Lewisville's dashing dogs and fighting cowboys

Hot Stuff

Highland Village is full of hot air

Take a Jump at the Lakers

Kobe Bryant does his dunk and cover

Best Men's Shoe Store

DSW Shoe Warehouse

Beer Bust

It's better to come to BJ's with a thirst than an appetite

The Hole in the Doughnut

Carrollton missed the boom, but still hopes to attract restaurant business

Out Here

Tastes Like Love Records Summer '00 Sampler

Holiday Highlights