Subject: Oak Lawn

• Free the Fuzz: An Unfair Park Ticket Giveaway!

  March 26, 2007

• Unfair Park Giveaway! (Our First One)

  August 3, 2006

• The Undiscovered City

  May 24, 2006

• My New Job As Lookout

  May 5, 2006

• Day of Inaction

  May 1, 2006

• Walk Away

  April 5, 2006

• They've Done It Again

  March 28, 2006

• This City's on Fire!

  July 25, 2007

• At Least One Car Was Getting Through Dallas Traffic

  July 30, 2007

• Dancing in the Mall? In!

  September 25, 2007

• Where There's Smoke Over Downtown Dallas ... There's What, Exactly?

  October 26, 2007

• Haaaay Ride

  October 31, 2007

• Oak Lawn Band's Take on The Simpsons

  March 4, 2008

• Audubon Place Developer Says He Hasn't Flown the Coop on Swanky, "Modernist" Oak Lawn "Community"

  April 25, 2008

• The Fire This Time: Now What's on Fire? "The Church Without Walls," Turns Out.

  June 16, 2008

• Giveaway: Tickets To Tomorrow's Edgefest 18 At Pizza Hut Park

  October 24, 2008

• Best Men's Consignery

  Gent·ly Owned Men's Consignery

  September 26, 2002

• How 'Bout Them Knockers: Yumi To Go

  Yumi To Go5200 Lemmon Ave.214-528-9864Promised delivery time: 25 minutesDelivered in: 21 minutesThe ScoreCojones of phone order guy: 20Driver beating the odds: 65Degree of difficulty: 9 (no one likes driving on Oak Lawn or Maple)Stoicism of driver: -8Bonus because he had reason for suspicion: 4Thai-style chicken skewer: 9Orange chicken: -1Total Score: 98Overall StandingsYumi To Go 98Picasso's Pizza and Grill 85.5 Angelo & Vito's 77 Bangkok City (on Greenville) 73Chef Chu (North Dallas)

  December 1, 2008

• Coffee And Community

  It's been over two months since Urban Dog Coffee reopened its refurbished doors on Oak Lawn, and the renovated digs are well-worth a visit. The café now includes two rooms of tables, plush chairs and free wireless in a space complete with paintings by local artists and music by local musicians. "We wanted this coffee shop to represent the community that we're in and be a place the community would feel was theirs," says Brady Cottle, who opened the cafe in October with his partners, the owners

  December 26, 2008

• Hot Dish

  August 10, 1995

• In the shadows

  February 29, 1996

• No fizz

  October 3, 1996

• Hot Dish

  May 8, 1997

• Skyscraper chow

  November 27, 1997

• Hash Over

  October 8, 1998

• Drab fab

  October 8, 1998

• Best piano bar

  September 21, 2000

• Best Oak Lawn Restaurant

  September 21, 2000

• Bargain Hunting at the City Store

  Some of the amazing, ahem, finds at the City StoreI'm on a tight budget -- but, right, who isn't? So when my boyfriend suggested we check out the inventory of police-confiscated property for sale at a nearby warehouse, I jumped at the opportunity.The City Store, located off Stemmons Freeway on Irving Boulevard, sells seized property, lost junk and city surplus goods to the public on Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. We arrived just after 8 a.m., and I was positive the really good stuff had a

  February 27, 2009

• Best grocery store for last- minute wine and flowers

  September 21, 2000

• Best fashion shoe store for men and women

  September 21, 2000

• Dallas, a Compare-and-Contrast

  Justin CozartAt left, Lemmon at Oak Lawn avenues circa 1940; at right, how they looked by 1990. Don't worry -- they're much bigger on Justin's page.Yet again, our old friend Justin Cozart has just posted some essential must-sees to the Dallas Urban History page on Flickr -- this time, a series of before-and-after photos featuring some of the city's more recognizable streets and intersections. Among the lot: Blackburn Street and Oak Lawn Avenue (in 1925 and 1990), Elm Street in the late 1930s and

  March 11, 2009

• Best Greeting Cards (Naughty)

  September 26, 2002

• Veggie Girl: Cosmic Cafe

  Fill in the blank: The best thing about Cosmic Café is... ...a deck of Tarot cards at every table. ...free yoga. ...unlimited mugs of soy chai. ...delicious plates of all-veggie food, whose prices all add up to multiples of nine. (We don't know why. We asked our waitress, and neither did she...but in Tarot, nine symbolizes completion of a cycle.) ...vegan cake! If you've been there, you know the answer: All of the above. At first, I didn't want to write about Cosmic Café because it seems f

  March 31, 2009

• Veggie Girl: Eatzi's

  A hat tip to the writers of Dude Food, who this February ensured that good ol' meat-eatin' men could dine successfully at Eatzi's. So, it turns out, can veggie-eating types. Eatzi's is one of those Oak Lawn institutions whose charming perks have given it staying power. It could be the outdoor patio with piped-in opera music, the surprisingly broad wine and bread selections, or simply the fact that it's one of few places where you feel European enough to kick back and have a glass of wine o

  April 2, 2009

• Bread and circus

  Despite upscale pretensions, Eatzi's aims for a lowbrow market. Will it fly?

  February 15, 1996

• Ring Tone

  July 13, 2006

• Save This City

  June 1, 2006

• Kitty Has Two Daddies

  Intrepid journalist sets out to resolve feline custody dispute

  November 17, 2005

• Face Lift

  Station 4's drag queens aren't the only things made over

  February 10, 2005

• Best Frozen Drinks (Tie)

  Republic

  October 14, 2004

• Tiny Bubbles

  Jeroboam hosts a taste test

  December 25, 2003

• Best Place to See a Man in Leather Hot Pants Enjoying a Down-Home Dinner

  Good Eats

  September 26, 2002

• The Lady Vanishes

  Saying goodbye to Priscilla Davis, the non-socialite

  March 1, 2001

• Making the rule

  Cosmic Cup is one giant exception to everything Dallas

  February 29, 1996

• On Sunday Afternoon, Pride and Anger Along Oak Lawn's Million Gay March of Texas

  Patrick MichelsMike McKay, of the Resource Center of Dallas, tells the crowd it's time to get angry.Sunday's Million Gay March of Texas struck a different tone than that of the annual Dallas Pride Parade or other celebrations in Oak Lawn. Folks marched with hands raised in fists instead of waves to the crowd, chanted at those in open bars to join them in the streets, and arrived at Robert E. Lee Park for speeches on the need for anger at the current state of the gay rights movement.From Saturday

  June 29, 2009

• Sloppy Seconds: Moving On Up

  ​Some places we covered this week are punching above their weight, for better or for worse, and others are aiming purposefully low. The best of City of Ate this week covers a handful of spots toying with a new social place.The Week in Review(s): Your own Dallas Observer: Dave tries slumming it at Rathbun's Blue Plate Kitchen, where the down-home cooking runs up against Highland Park affectation. Dallas Morning News: Si Tapas and Spanish Cuisine gets Leslie Brenner's attention this week, while

  July 25, 2009

• Short Orders: Green Papaya

  Eddie Garza​Green Papaya 3211 Oak Lawn 214-521-4811This much is obvious: few people care whether or not Green Papaya trots out traditional Vietnamese dishes or Texafied facsimiles. It's not even an issue. The place has been so consistent over a long term that when they home in on authenticity or when the drift away, guests still appear to drive away happy about the experience.A decade of life on Oak Lawn--that's quite an achievement.

  August 10, 2009

• Oh, Wheelie?

  ​On the drive home from the office Tuesday, 'round 7 p.m., I got struck in a sudden snarl on the Dallas North Tollway between Oak Lawn and Mockingbird. Turned out, the cause of the logjam was a familiar one: a few stunt riderz on motorcycles zigging and zagging through traffic so they could find room enough to pop a wheelie at 65 miles per hour. It's hardly a new phenomenon -- the Internets are filled with videos. But the sightings seem more frequent of late: One minute you're driving to the g

  August 13, 2009

• A Halloween Party Retrospective, In Two Parts

  Justin TerveenZombies, take a seat.​Gloria LevarioA relatively tame moment from Oak Lawn Saturday night.​Halloween's still a few days off, but last weekend there were plenty of chances to take the costume for a spin, especially for zombies in Deep Ellum last night, and for every other thing you can imagine (and a few you might rather not) Saturday night in Oak Lawn.Get a double dose of Halloween spirit in our pair of slide shows from the weekend's festivities -- the Oak Lawn Halloween Street

  October 26, 2009