Santa Fe

Watch the Spectacular Collapse of a Flaming Texas Railroad Bridge

If you've ever been curious what it would be like to watch a century-old railroad trestle go down in flames, the video above should give you an idea. The bridge, which spans 900 feet over the Colorado River near San Saba, Texas, was built in 1910 on a spur of the Santa Fe Railroad. The video, per Ya ... More >>

The LOT Opens, J. Pepe's Tex Mex Closes and More Restaurant Happenings from February

Another busy month has come and gone and with it a handful of restaurants have opened and closed. Read on for the full list of restaurants happenings in February, and be sure to share tips about new and/or dead restaurants in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Openings: The ... More >>

The LOT is Now Open in East Dallas

The LOT (7530 E. Grand Ave.), located off the Santa Fe Trail in the enormous space that once housed the Backyard Beach Bar, opens its doors to the public today. The East Dallas restaurant and beer garden is the product of some serious teamwork; restauranteur John McBride (El Fenix), food consultan ... More >>

City Council Delays Vote On The Don't-Throw-Things-At-Bikers Ordinance

The city's proposed rules for drivers operating motor vehicles near cyclists -- that they must pass at a safe distance, can't turn right into their path, and, last but not least, aren't allowed to pelt them with things from car windows -- seem like no-brainers. Anyone who doesn't think they are a go ... More >>

While Dallas Chokes on the Trinity, the Suburbs Show Us How It's Done

Hop in the canoe with Schutze as he cries himself down the river.

Tomorrow, the Museum of the American Railroad Begins Rolling Some Pieces to Frisco

​Couple of months back we noticed that the Museum of the American Railroad hadn't pulled out of Fair Park as planned -- or as stipulated by its agreement with the city of Dallas following the resolution of the lawsuit brought by the city in January 2010. Still not sure when the trains roll out -- ... More >>

Our Anaconda Don't Want None Unless It's Plush Art, Hun

Oh. My. God. Becky, look at this art. It's just so big and so small. It's just, like, opposites, like, a study in "differences in scale and color." < /valleygirl > A vocab word you may have missed on the GRE, "Dimorphism" is a biology term referring to dual variations within a species. There are ... More >>

Celestial Art

Hit the Trail

Talking a Walk Along the Calatrava

​Speaking of walking along bridges over the Trinity River ...Yesterday, members of The Trinity Trust, the Trinity Commons Foundation's board and a few city officials were invited to take a walk along the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, which is scheduled to have its grand opening during a three-day-lon ... More >>

You'll Want To Look Back

The Keg: It's Like a Canadian Outback Steakhouse

Each week, Happy Eating highlights a restaurant happy hour food menu. This week, we migrate to Las Colinas to see how the IT folk and corporate types like to party. Send this back to Santa Fe.​Where: The Keg, 859 West John Carpenter Freeway, Irving. When: 4-7 p.m. Monday-Friday. The Sce ... More >>

Getting Wet on The Dallas Wave

Photos by Harry Wilonsky​For the moment, at least, it isn't easy to access The Former Trinity Standing Wave, known, for now, as The Dallas Wave -- though that's but an unofficial working title being floated out there (see what I did?). Willis Winters, assistant director of Parks and Rec, offered t ... More >>

Wave Hello(ish) to the Standing Wave

​Between court hearings and cover stories, we couldn't spare a warm body to attend this morning's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee, the first since December 7. On the agenda: an update on the Standing Wave and Santa Fe Trestle projects, about which a Friend of Unfair Park will occasionally ... More >>

TxDOT to Help Dallas Pay for "Enhancing the Safety of the City's Shared-Use Pathways"

Click to embiggen one of the suggestions for improviing safety standards along the Katy Trail​Not far from the Harvard Street-Cole Avenue stretch of the Katy Trail where a cyclist and motorist recently had their head-on how-do is the Knox Street intersection, which city planners have long identifi ... More >>

Santa Fe's Geronimo Set to Raid Dallas

No, no. Not that Geronimo.​One of Santa Fe's most highly rated restaurants is readying to open in Dallas. Chef Eric DiStefano, co-owner of Geronimo, confirmed two versions of the 18-year-old restaurant -- which touts itself as "New Mexico's only Mobil four-star, AAA four-diamond restaurant" - ... More >>

Stereotyping a Dining Scene is Faster,
But What Do You Miss?

​The official participant packet for the Association of Food Journalists' annual conference in Santa Fe this week includes a list of restaurant suggestions to supplement the included meals from more than a dozen local eateries. All of them specialize in chiles and blue corn. That makes sense, ... More >>

Am I Blue: Stumbling Across the Best Cheese
For a New Mex Burger

​Spending Hatch chile season in Santa Fe means eating plenty of green chile cheeseburgers, a topic of intense debate among New Mexican food lovers. Who makes the best version? Is green chile really a better burger condiment than red chile? And should there be anything on a burger besides gree ... More >>

Railroad Museum in Fair Park Gets a Prized Piece, And It's Headed Straight to Frisco

​Once upon a time, the City Attorney's Office had hoped to get the Museum of the American Railroad outta Fair Park by August 1. But that was way back in February -- before the myriad court hearings and legal filings that ultimately led to Judge Martin Hoffman setting a January 2011 trial date in t ... More >>

Why Does San Antonio's Fiesta Celebrate White Girls?

Burguesa Burgers Gets Kudos for Shaking up Shakes

​A leading chronicler of culinary trends has singled out Burguesa Burgers' milkshake presentation as a leading example of one of the nation's top 10 dessert trends. According to The Food Channel, the Dallas-based chain helped excite diners' suddenly insatiable desire for reconfigured sweets by ri ... More >>

The City Expects That By December 2012, You'll Be Able to Hike n' Bike the Santa Fe Trestle

​Sam's at the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting -- lucky! (Too bad he don't liveblog like Andrea.) But whilst on the subject, let's look ahead to next week's council meeting, when the city will finally move forward on a project that been years in the making: construction of the Sant ... More >>

And the Winner(s) For Best Historic Preservation Project in Dallas Goes To ...

Courtesy Preservation Dallas311 N. Edgefield Avenue in Oak Cliff, before and after its restoration​We're still waiting for Preservation Dallas's list of endangered properties -- that should be ready by the end of the month. But till then, it has announced the winners of its Eleventh Annual Preserv ... More >>

Council's on the TxDOT Money Trail to Fund "Non-Traditional" Transportation Projects

For years the city's been trying to find a way to convert the Santa Fe Trestle into part of a trail that would include a Trinity River overlook.​The city of Dallas has till December 11 to submit to the Texas Department of Transportation a list of projects it thinks worthy of the Transportation Enh ... More >>

Riding Somewhere South of Heaven, Heading Back to the Newly Opened Santa Fe Trail

Alexa SchirtzingerWhere the Santa Fe Trail ends ... at Hill AvenueThis weekend marked a quiet little victory for East Dallas: the opening of a section of raised street crossings on the Santa Fe Trail, from South Carroll Avenue southwest to Hill Avenue, which means cyclists can now ride from Woodrow ... More >>

Nic of Time

Alien Images

George W. Bush, Texas' Prodigal Son, Returns

Given any thought to how you're going to react when you encounter George W. on the streets of Dallas?

Mount Righteous Dispatches From The Road: Days Four and Five, The Kindness of Strangers

Mount Righteous Dispatches From The Road: Day Three, Ohhhhh (New) Mexico

Sydney Confirm, D Numbers, Sunward

Friday, March 14, at Club Dada

American Toxic

The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

Opposites Attract

Two worlds collide, then coincide

Napoleon the Great

See a French view of Egypt at Beaux Arts

Blind Musician Accused of Being a Peeping Tom

Tribes of Suburbia

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Best Big Salad

Baker Bros. American Deli

Zzzzz

Order the coffee black; you'll need it at the dull Z'Tejas Southwestern Grill

Chef Joe

Voltaire's search for a head cook finally comes to a close

Letters

We Oui? Non Non!; Outing Myself; Comic Tragedy

Faked out

Art maven Gerald Peters tries to get to the bottom of the "Canyon Suite"

Global lukewarming

Las Colinas' Via Real promises heat but doesn't deliver

Unfinished business

The Gerald Peters Gallery finds itself fending off a lawsuit and possibly its own demise

Hot Damnations

Leave it to two Yankee sisters to kick it TX style

Lady of mystery

The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe, but its appearance is just the start of the puzzle

Letters

See Yvonne. See Yvonne run. See Yvonne run from the truth.

She's the toughest superintendent DISD has ever had. But Yvonne Gonzalez's administration has already developed a dangerous tendency for bulldozing the facts.

TV diners

Big Shots makes eating in front of the tube a guilty pleasure

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX