Pleasant Grove

Five Starving Dogs Were Found Eating Their Own Feces in a Pleasant Grove Garage

Just before noon yesterday, police responded to an animal cruelty call in Pleasant Grove. The 911 caller reported that five dogs were being kept in cramped cages in the garage of the house at 10741 Kendall Square. It was worse than that. To reach the dogs, officers had to wade through ankle-deep fe ... More >>

Some Teens Were Playing Football in the Street Last Night, So a Drunken Neighbor Threatened Them With a Gun

At 10:30 last night, a 17-year-old boy and two friends, a 15-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl, were playing some late-night football on a Pleasant Grove street when a neighbor, clearly drunk, emerged from a home nearby. "I've got a dog, too," she shouted at the three teens, which was odd, since no ... More >>

VIDEO: A Convenience Store Clerk Was Brutally Beaten With a Hammer During a Robbery Yesterday

A clerk was working alone at the AZ Mark convenience store on Military Parkway in Pleasant Grove when a man walked in. He was a regular customer, police say, but this time he carried a large knife and demanded cash. When the money didn't immediately appear, the man stabbed the clerk in the neck, th ... More >>

It's Been a Dangerous Week to be a Pizza Delivery Guy

First of all, a salute to all the hard-working pizza men and women out there who show up to strangers' homes in sketchy neighborhoods carrying cash and delicious foodstuffs. It's thankless work, and dangerous. Take last night, for instance. At 10:30 p.m., a Pizza Hut driver was delivering some pies ... More >>

The Relatives, Pleasant Grove, Seryn - Dallas City Performance Hall - 9/14/12

The Relatives, Pleasant Grove, Seryn Dallas City Performance Hall Friday, September 14 See also: More behind-the-scenes photos from opening night There was a moment backstage at the Dallas City Performance Hall on Friday night, when we were being led stage left before the 10 p.m. show started. W ... More >>

In Pleasant Grove, Building A Playground and Bringing an Abandoned Church Back to Life

At dawn yesterday, the lot behind the former New Revelation Missionary Baptist Church was mostly empty, save for dust, rocks and scrubby grass. Although the Pleasant Grove church still looks normal from the street, it too has been empty since going into foreclosure earlier this year. By April, the s ... More >>

This Morning in Pleasant Grove, Man Knocks On Door, Demands Weed, Shoots Resident in Ass

An already freakish weekend just got a bit more bizarre. Police spokesman Warren Mitchell passes along the following note from an incident that apparently happened this morning in Pleasant Grove. Suspect came to a residence in the 800 block of Rose Garden and knocked on the door. The complainant a ... More >>

Farewell to Fallout Lounge

Marina was her name. She had a short, dark mod haircut, and knew how to bring out her blue eyes with layers of teal scarves. We were Myspace friends. Still are, I think. But I never knew what became of her. Last I heard, she went north to try her luck in New York. Some of the best times of my life h ... More >>

More Justice for Justice, The Burned Puppy

Three additional suspects were indicted yesterday for allegedly dousing a puppy in flammable liquid and lighting it on fire at a Pleasant Grove apartment complex in early April. The puppy, named Justice by people who rescued it, ultimately died from the burns that covered most of its body. Darius Ew ... More >>

As Dallas Boarding Homes Struggle, City Hall Sits on its Hands

Texas lawmakers gave cities the power to regulate homes for the mentally ill -- but so far, Dallas hasn't used it.

"Are We Going to Live in a Time Where Your Kid Goes to Red Bull High?" Yeah, Maybe.

Photo Courtesy StarterTony Romo and Candice Crawford at the snowbound unveiling of Starter Field at Pleasant Grove in February​In April director Morgan Spurlock came to the Dallas International Film Festival to show his sponsored-from-start-to-finish documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, after ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: The Best Local Records of 1999

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, the Dallas Observer was just days away from saying good-bye to 1999, and, to ring in the new year, former music editor Zac Crain asked the question: "Will this year's best local records survive the millennium?"In retrospect, the question proba ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Pleasant Grove at the Kessler Theatre

​Pleasant GroveKessler TheatreAugust 7, 2010Better than: Ignoring the past.The trend of bands booking a show for the purpose of playing a seminal album in entirety hit home this past weekend, as the revered, but, for the most part, dormant, local heroes in Pleasant Grove took to the Kessler Theatr ... More >>

Pleasant Grove To Play Auscultation of the Heart In Full at The Kessler Theatre in August

Pleasant Grove​This morning, the Kessler Theater quietly created an event on facebook for a Pleasant Grove concert on Saturday, August 7. Just another Pleasant Grove show, right? Not quite: Apparently the band will be performing their seminal album Auscultation of the Heart all the way through. Th ... More >>

At Bachman Station Today, DART Announces Greenlight for the Green Line

Somebody really shoulda brought Mayor Tom his shades. Awful bright at the Bachman Station today. And, hey, there's Farmers Branch mayor Tim O'Hare smack in the middle!​December 6 -- that's when Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials said the Green Line would be good to go with the completion of the f ... More >>

Yesterday at NX35: The Boom Boom Box at The Boiler Room

Holly Jefferson BAND: The Boom Boom BoxVENUE: The Boiler RoomTIME: 10:30ish... Born from the ashes of Baboon and Pleasant Grove, among other well-respected area acts, the players in The Boom Boom Box are no doubt talented players. And at the band's incredibly loud performance at the Boiler Ro ... More >>

Pleasant Grove Rapper Anonymous May Not Live Up To His Name Much Longer

New Tracks From Pleasant Grove...

Lots of Locals Land on SXSW Schedule

Bless the Child by Rocking Out

Do a good deed by attending Orphange Second Annual Christmas Benefit

Barley House's Cheesy Tots Leave Us Gooey

Video: 'Underground' MC Jimbo Jenkens

We're in for Pleasant Grove, Whittenburg and booze tonight

Back in Time

While Centro-matic revisited the past, Sarah Jaffe showed us the future

A Spune Christmas 2006

Saturday, December 9, at Hailey's, in Denton

It Was the Art!

See a vast Conspiracy at the Longhorn Ballroom

Lost Generation Concert Series

Saturday, July 22, at the Double Wide

Another Brick in the Wall of Sound Preview

Show Up

Midlake, Radiant, Pleasant Grove

Saturday, February 19, at the Granada

Tsunami Benefit Concert

Saturday, January 15, at the Granada

Milton Mapes, Magnolia Summer, Pleasant Grove

Friday, July 30 & Saturday, July 31

Only a Mountain

Pleasant Grove prepares for its next challenge: the rest of the country

Pleasantly Surprised

A Dallas fave looks forward to the release of a new album

Trash Pickup

Double Wide, Dallas' newest live-music venue, ready for grand opening

Best Alternative Club

Trees

2002 Dallas Observer Music Awards

These are your choices, not ours, for the best musicians in town

Listen Up, Write In

We say listen to Deadman, but what do we know? We're screwing up everything.

Heart to Heart

On its new album, Pleasant Grove is happy to be sad

Totally Hits

A great year for local music gets better

Best evidence that the local music scene is better than Austin's (Despite what Texas Monthly says)

Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire (Part II)

Last Beat music complex

Out Here

Merge Local Access Sessions: Vol. 1

Brown-out

The problems at Silberstein Elementary--too few bilingual teachers, a PTA divided, tensions between black administrators and Hispanic parents--are a microcosm of the issues DISD faces districtwide

Scene, heard

Cheap tricks, SXSW, record releases, and lots of words in bold type

Home groans

Will this year's best local records survive the millennium?

Out Here

Pleasant Grove

Direct miss

Pleasant Grove takes its time, even when it doesn't want to

More Top 10 lists, sort of

Slow and low

Pleasant Grove--they make rock better, so you don't have to