Preston Hollow

Texas Monthly's Barbecue Editor Daniel Vaughn Hosting Book Signing at Four Corners Brewery on Saturday

This past Friday amidst the mansions of Preston Hollow, Steven Stodghill (you might have heard of the burger named after the prominent lawyer at The Porch) hosted one heck of a party to mark the release of Daniel Vaughn's new book, The Prophets of Smoked Meat. Justin and Diane Fortune brought smoked ... More >>

To Help Save Vickery Meadows, Advocates Look to Boost Neighborhood's Abysmal Voter Turnout

Vickery Meadow sits just across Central Expressway from Preston Hollow, but it's a world away. One is home to multi-million dollar houses owned by the city's business and civil elite. The other is a mind-blowingly diverse pocket of 25,000 people living in low-rent, crime-plagued apartments. Both pla ... More >>

Weatherford State Rep. Phil King Wants to Crack Down on Handicapped Parking Fraud

A couple years back when I was on the Preston Hollow beat, I accompanied Dallas police on what just might go down as the most boring ride-along in history. This wasn't some Cops-style chronicle of the dangerous work of Dallas' finest, but a plodding search for cars illegally parked in handicapped sp ... More >>

It's Hard To Argue With El Paisa's 75 Cent Taco

The best part of researching Soleo, the subject of this week's review, was ducking into El Paisa, the tiny taqueria tucked into the back of a liquor store next to the Harry Hines Bazaar. This is where Maria and Roberto Velasquez started their first restaurant. Nine locations later they made their mo ... More >>

Meso Maya To Open This Monday

Last night, Meso Maya's neon signs cast an indecent glow into the shadows of the nearby Perot Museum. Photographers hung outside the restaurant snapping pictures of guests, and inside a soft opening meal was followed by copious amounts of tequila drinking at the bar. I ducked my head in quickly to ... More >>

RIP Ed Landrum, the Man Who Founded McKinney Avenue Trolley

It was while pounding the pavement of Old Preston Hollow in search of a certain lost chicken that I noticed some train tracks running through the back yard of a an aging but stately house on Park Lane. For those of you who aren't familiar with Preston Hollow, that isn't normal. No one was home, bu ... More >>

Meso Maya Number Two May Finally Be Opening

Remember when I reviewed Meso Maya in Preston Hollow last December? It was nearly a year ago that I interviewed chef Nico Sanchez and learned about the plans for a second Meso Maya location in the old Luna Tortilla building purchased by Mike Karns and the Firebird Restaurant Group LLC two years befo ... More >>

Tom Leppert is Moving, We're Just Not Sure to Where

Tom Leppert, you might have notice, did not do terribly well in his quest for U.S. Senate. He lost. Got trounced, even. Not Craig James trounced, but defeated rather handily. So he's not going to Washington, but he is going somewhere. On the same day voters go to the polls to choose between one of L ... More >>

Richard Malouf, the Dentist Accused of Millions in Medicaid Fraud, is Building a Private Water Park

For the past year, WFAA has been digging into Richard Malouf and All Smiles Dental and Orthodontics, the chain of pediatric clinics he owns (used to own, actually) with his wife. What the station found was what appeared to be a massive case of Medicaid fraud in which he bilked the state for unnecess ... More >>

Celebrate Mom

Mimi's Pizza is Open in Preston Hollow

As of January 2, the strip mall at Northwest Highway and Hillcrest, on the northern edge of Preston Hollow, has another has another fast-casual food option: Mimi's "New York-style" pizza. The small storefront near El Fenix and Mooyah Burger, a spin-off of the Joe's Pizza and Pasta chain, has been un ... More >>

Meso Maya is Better Than Authentic. It's Good.

Sara KerensAuthentic chile relleno? Nope. And you should be happy about that.​Does authenticity matter? What the hell is authenticity, anyway? Look it up in a dictionary and words like "real" and "genuine" stab at a definition. Framed this way, authentic seems a prefect descriptor for a Topps ... More >>

Italian Eats, Stackhouse Love, and a Cheap-Ass Sandwich: This Week in Dallas Grubbing

​Ugh. On the heels of a massive bowl of Pho with a Dallas Super Yelper (more on that next week), I'm ready for a quiet night at home. I wonder how many minutes I'll last alone on my couch before I get the bug to get out and look for something to interesting to eat. I give myself till 7:30 tops ... More >>

Princi Italia's Tuscan Trip Up

Princi Italia tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing -- everyone but us, it seems.

Dough Pizzeria Napoletana: VPNot

Preston Hollow's newest Pizzeria makes decent pizza, but it's not as authentic as the menu claims

Quiet Dough Pizzeria Opens Quietly in Preston Hollow

​Speaking of Preston Hollow pizza ... For a place so reluctant to give interviews leading up to its opening yesterday, Dough Pizzeria managed no shortage of coverage on its first day. That may have something to do with the strong reputation of its original location, in San Antonio, which is ... More >>

Going Against the Flow: McCommas Bluff Plan Really About a Different Kind of Green

​I wince. I wish. I need to give up reading. Nature writer Diane Ackerman (The Zookeeper's Wife, 2008 Orion Award for nonfiction) has an op-ed piece in The New York Times today telling a wonderful story about cities that have turned wastewater treatment operations into nature preserves. I rea ... More >>

Sushi Star: Just a Happy Little Neighborhood Sushi Bar

​Happy Eating highlights restaurant happy hour food menus, pointing you to the best deals out there. This week, we're doing happy hour neighborhood restaurant-style at Sushi Star. Where: 5956 Royal Lane When: 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday The Scene: This is Preston Hollow's quiet neighbo ... More >>

Outside Dubya's House, the Late-Night Celebration Following Bin Laden's Death

Late last night and into the wee small hours of the morning, as news spread of the death of Osama bin Laden, revelers gathered at the White House, at Ground Zero ... and outside the gate of the 10141 Daria Place near Preston Hollow. That, of course, is the home of Laura and George Bush, who posted h ... More >>

Now That September Trial Date Has Been Set in Wet-Dry Case, What About Existing Permits?

​On the other side is a brief filed on Friday by the attorneys trying to overturn the November referendum that allows the citywide sale of beer and wine. In it, attorneys Leland de la Garza and Andy Siegel argue that the vote to "wet up" Dallas was invalid because it included Preston Hollow, which ... More >>

NYTimes Takes Long, Loving Look Philip Johnson House Built in Dallas in '64

​The New York Times has just posted a tribute to the Preston Hollow manse Philip Johnson designed in the early 1960s for Henry and Patricia Beck -- which, for those interested in a lengthy history-of, is prominently featured in the book Philip Johnson & Texas by Frank Welch. Patty put the plac ... More >>

Henpecked: Schutze's New Journalism Hero

Eric Nicholson, Jim's hero​Well, as usual, The Dallas Morning News prints stuff, and then it's up to me to come along behind them and do clean-up on the story. What am I? Their journalistic janitor? Mariana Greene, The News's garden editor and author of a column called "Gardening Fool," has a stor ... More >>

Peace, Man

Wider Than A Mile

In Dallas District Court, that Preston Hollow Elementary Lawsuit You Forgot All About

Illustration by Brian StaufferWith little fanfare and hardly any spectators, the trial in the case of Graciela McKay vs. DISD wraps up this week in U.S. District Court, with a verdict expected as early as tomorrow. McKay is the Preston Hollow teacher who filed a federal lawsuit against the district ... More >>

Dallas, Yet Again, Amuses the British

The UK Guardian has an oh-those-crazy-Yanks piece about locals spending $20 on those "Welcome Home, George and Laura" signs. Better still is the accompanying artwork by the great Nan Coulter -- a homemade banner from "the Maloufs," among the eight photos included in the sidebar slideshow (or, as I l ... More >>

Mother Jones Welcomes Homes Dubya

Well, actually, that'd be San Francisco-based Mother Jones writer Josh Harkinson, a Preston Hollow native (his parents still live here) who today posted an essay about what it's like to grow up in the neighborhood populated by the likes of Ross Perot, Tom Hicks, AT&T CEO Rayford Wilkins Jr. and, ... More >>

New York Post Columnist Cindy Adams Too Busy to Talk, Fact Check

Fancy Fiddle

The DSO throws a Gala

Wheels? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Wheels.

Newsweek Goes House-Hunting, So Laura Bush Doesn't Have To

Park Cities Home Ownership? Feh.

Conflict? What Conflict?

Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow

Oh, Please, Bring it On. Pretty Please.

Bring It On

Wherein Pulle Pulls a Lupe

Split Decision

A judge says Preston Hollow Elementary segregated white kids to please parents. The reality is deeper and maybe more troubling.

Kickin' it Out of School

News Hard on Preston Hollow. Finally.

Preston Hollow: Do the White Thing

Wherein the Judge Finds Segregation at Preston Hollow After All

Re: Hollow News

Hollow News

PID on You

Preston Hollow fight showed rich palefaces at their worst

Peep Show

Voyeurism, with appetizers, during Around the Table home tour

The Little-People Tax

Dallas tax appraisers can't keep up with Ross Perot. But if you're Average Joe, they've got your number.

Getting the lead out

A troublesome painting contract raises a new worry at DISD--lead contamination

Rough waters

It hasn't been smooth sailing for the Voyager after-school program

What's in a name?

Hunky's serves up a great burger--hot buns, too

No place like home

Dieter Paul's Cafe Expresso comforts the Park Cities crowd