NorthPark Center

Someone Called in a Bomb Threat to NorthPark Yesterday

Yesterday, a bit after 3 o'clock, police were dispatched to NorthPark Center where employees reported receiving a threatening phone call. Threatening how, the police report didn't say. One had to assume that some crafty 17-year-old had phoned to say he would be in the mall after the 6 p.m. curfew un ... More >>

Buy That Dress Or Puppies Will Go Homeless

Lombardi Family Restaurants Annouce Newest Offspring: Cafe Des Artistes

Lots of changes for the Lombardi's this month. Last week we heard that the Screen Door was closing and Lombardi Family Restaurants would be taking over the space to open a bistro concept. This week the group released details about the new spot. Cafe Des Artistes will focus on a culinary mix of Frenc ... More >>

Spring Into Art

Three Years Later, Billy Reid Brings the Warehouse Sale Back to Deep Ellum. Like, Now.

​Three long years ago the frugally fashionable bid farewell to the Billy Reid corporate offices on Canton, which adiosed to Alabama with one last warehouse-purging sale offering Best-of-Dallas-winning bargains. After that the sale moved to its NorthPark Center shoppe, and things were never the sam ... More >>

Scrooge: Better Late than Never

Cans Do It

This Week in Council Memos: The State o' N. Central, Fire Trucks, Flow Control and More!

​Probably should have broken this week's stack into about 12 different items, seeing as how one of the docs is 178 pages (many redundant) just on flow control, which involves forcing all solid-waste collectors in the city to dump everything at the city's McCommas Bluff Landfill or other city trans ... More >>

C.J. Wilson and Supermodel Chanel Iman Will Get Your Rangers Panties in a Twist

​Meant to get to this two days ago, when Texas Rangers Executive Vice President of Communications John Blake sent out the announcement, but it's not too late to make it to NorthPark Center by 1 p.m. That's when C.J. Wilson and Chanel Iman (well, hello) are scheduled to stop by Victoria's Secret to ... More >>

Shop a Century of History

Dallas Police Department Explains "Weekend Incidents Involving Dallas Cowboy Players"

​Last night, a Dallas Police Department spokesman sent an e-mail to media members containing three thing: recaps of weekend incidents involving Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant and corner Bryan McCann, along with incident reports detailing what led to McCann's arrest downtown in the wee sma ... More >>

Fast Food, Anyone?

Breaking News: Uptown Popcorn Bitch-Slaps Orville Redenbacher

​Uptown Popcorn recently opened in NorthPark mall with more than 70 popcorn flavors that are way more tasty than that microwavable Orville Redenbacher's you have in your pantry. A mini bag of most of Uptown Popcorn's flavors will only set you back $1.75 and holds about three cups of crazy awes ... More >>

Cibus: For When You and Your Wallet Need
A Break from Shopping

Fried calamari at half price? Double good.​Each week, Happy Eating will highlight a restaurant happy hour food menu, keeping you informed of what deals there are out there. Because it's safe to return to the mall again, (and really, because you need to exchange that gift you politely said yo ... More >>

Ho, Ho Yourself, Tubby

All Aboard the Holiday Express

Scrooged

Dollar Off Beers (Or Biers, Rather) At Gordon Biersch Happy Hour

​Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin' Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn't take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Gordon Biersch, 8060 Park Lane, 214-369-2739When: 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 11 p.m ... More >>

Any Moment Now, H&M to Make a "Surprise" Debut at NorthPark With "Preview" Store

​Back in October, after so much breath-holding and finger-crossing by those in desperate need of hip-n-affordable togs, H&M finally announced it would be opening its first Texas outpost at NorthPark Center in "the second half of 2011" -- second half meaning October 2011, per NorthPark's coming ... More >>

Told You: H&M Is Coming to Dallas.

​OK, so the announcement didn't come "early next week," as I wrote in September. And the opening date's a few months away. Still. The hip-n-affordable clothier's a-comin'. To NorthPark Center, specifically. (You were right!) No one's saying just where in the mall, but you can guess. The just-sent ... More >>

Is Bookmarks at NorthPark Center the Future of Libraries Nationwide?

​A couple of weeks back we took at look at City Manager Mary Suhm's proposed cuts for the Dallas Public Library system -- fewer workers at the branches, shorter hours downtown and more, meaning, of course, less. But libraries are in trouble nationwide, besieged by budget cuts and encroaching techn ... More >>

LEGO My Dallas Cityscape

Photos by Harry WilonskyThe American Airlines Center and Victory Park​I did indeed let the boy loose with our in-need-of-replacing Canon PowerShot in the Dallas Cityscapes exhibit at NorthPark Center Saturday. We walked right past it at first -- it's tucked away inside the old Robb & Stucky ne ... More >>

The Annual Billy Reid Warehouse Sale Event Has Returned. Kind Of. Not Really.

​This morning, yours truly and a few other well-known media cheapskates were at NorthPark Center for the 9 a.m. opening bell of the annual Billy Reid 75-percent-off warehouse sale, which we'd thought was no mas following Reid's decision exactly one year ago today to shutter the corporate office on ... More >>

By Month's End, Robb & Stucky Will Move Its Furniture Out of NorthPark Center

​Never did understand why Robb & Stucky opened a NorthPark Center location -- it just didn't seem to fit, especially sandwiched between Barney's and other clothing retailers, and the few times I went in to peek at pieces well out of my price range, the sprawling, two-story furniture store was ... More >>

Here Comes Santa Claus

Yes, But Will a Heavier Police Presence at Local Malls Encourage More Spending?

Toothpaste for Dinner​Scared to flash your wallet this holiday season at the mall for fear somebody might nab it? Hate leaving your goodie bags in the car will result in a smashed-in window? (No, we're not talking to you, NorthPark Center. Why do you ask? Oh ... right.) Look, don't worry: The ... More >>

Your Up-to-Date Murder and Car Burglary Statistics. And One of Them Ain't Dropping.

​The council's Public Safety Committee's got a noon meeting on Monday, and even before Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle's surprise retirement announcement yesterday, they had plenty on their plates, including a look at the car burglary stats. There's even a Top 10 List, with the truck stop at 7425 ... More >>

Put Your Breast Foot Forward

Hash Over: Rum Causes Gas (And Fire), Chuy's Honors Fire, Free Pancakes For Kids And More

Jeff McInnis​You've mastered the mojito, drubbed the daiquiri and conquered the Cuba libre. You're ready to take your rum "mixology" to the next level. How about tossing in a dash of liquid nitrogen? Former Top Chef contestant Jeff McInnis will be slinging liquid nitrogen-infused Don Q rum cocktai ... More >>

Mall Mats

Project Runway's Tim Gunn Dishes Fashion Wisdom at the Galleria

Patrick Michels Fashion designer Tim Gunn -- of Project Runway super-fame -- has a new book out, and to honor the occasion he dropped by the Kate Spade New York shop in the Galleria last night. It was the man's second stop in Dallas in as many days, after his visit to NorthPark Center Wednesday.A pa ... More >>

Robert Towne's Coming to Town to Get AFI Dallas Award. Also, More Films Added.

AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year's AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits in ... More >>

AFI Dallas Announces Its First 15 Films

Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in Gigantic, which premiered in Toronto last year and screens this year at AFI DallasThe AFI Dallas International Film Festival just released its first list of films selected for this year's shindig, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as noted last month, most ... More >>

AFI Dallas Moves to NorthPark

Meant to mention this yesterday, when the press released landed in the Unfair Park in-box, but got otherwise sidetracked: The AFI Dallas International Film Festival has a new presenting sponsor, NorthPark Center. Which is a big deal because? Well, according to the release, the AMC NorthPark 15 -- wh ... More >>

That's All Carjacked Up, or: How the NorthPark Hoax Made the E-Rounds

About half an hour ago, Allen Gwinn alerted us media types to this Dallas.org item concerning a hoax e-mail being sent 'round concerning the harmful hustle that wasn't: folks taping fliers to the back windows of cars at NorthPark Center, which they use to lure would-be victims from their vehicles. N ... More >>

Those Strobe Lights on the Park Lane Tower Aren't Distracting At All

Whilst out and about Saturday night, the missus and I were hypnotized to the point of distraction by the strobe-light twinklings coming from the new Park Lane development off N. Central Expressway. After the jump, a brief video from the residential high-rise under construction across the expressway ... More >>

With Georgina Chapman, But Without Trash Bags, Like Project Runway

All Aboard

The trains are winding through NorthPark

Fashion Blitz

Get tipsy with Milly

Lo! How a Rose E’er Blooming in Highland Park

Annie, Don't Get Your Gun

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Gross Out

Choo Choo

The little trains that can

Seasonal Changes

Best Italian Restaurant

Il Mulino New York

C'mon Ride the Train

Join the babes in train land

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Dining Out

Eat out this holiday season

Little wooden men

Puppetmasters pull a Beauty