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February 22, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
January 13, 2012
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 >>
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December 8, 2011
Celestial Art
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 >>
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October 13, 2011
Hit the Trail
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 >>
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October 7, 2011
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 >>
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June 16, 2011
You'll Want To Look Back
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 >>
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March 31, 2011
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 >>
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March 9, 2011
Getting Wet on The Dallas Wave
Photos by Harry WilonskyFor 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 >>
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January 18, 2011
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 >>
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November 22, 2010
A Deep Thought for the Late Hugh Prather III
On January 10 of this year The Dallas Morning News ran a lengthy obituary for Hugh E. Prather Jr.: "one of the last surviving icons of the early 20th-century Dallas real estate industry, a former civic leader and a longtime Highland Park resident," wrote Steve Brown. Hugh Jr., who died the first ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
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 TrailNot 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 >>
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September 7, 2010
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 >>
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September 2, 2010
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 >>
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September 2, 2010
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 >>
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August 20, 2010
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 >>
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July 8, 2010
Why Does San Antonio's Fiesta Celebrate White Girls?
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 >>
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June 15, 2010
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 >>
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June 8, 2010
"Great Trinity Forest Funding Breakdown" Sounds Like One Hell of a Bluegrass Jam
Alas, it's just the title of one of two briefings the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will consider this morning. I'll leave it to Sam and Schutze to crunch the numbers and see if they add up -- Sam especially has a thing for the Texas Horse Park -- but according to the briefing, of the ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
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 >>
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May 13, 2010
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 restorationWe'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 >>
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November 16, 2009
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 >>
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June 22, 2009
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 >>
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June 18, 2009
Nic of Time
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 >>
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June 18, 2009
Alien Images
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 >>
News
January 8, 2009
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?
Blogs
May 21, 2008
Mount Righteous Dispatches From The Road: Days Four and Five, The Kindness of Strangers
Given any thought to how you're going to react when you encounter George W. on the streets of Dallas?
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May 19, 2008
Mount Righteous Dispatches From The Road: Day Three, Ohhhhh (New) Mexico
Given any thought to how you're going to react when you encounter George W. on the streets of Dallas?
Music
March 13, 2008
Sydney Confirm, D Numbers, Sunward
Friday, March 14, at Club Dada
News
December 6, 2007
American Toxic
The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim
Music
October 25, 2007
Opposites Attract
Two worlds collide, then coincide
Calendar
May 24, 2007
Napoleon the Great
See a French view of Egypt at Beaux Arts
Blogs
February 20, 2007
Blind Musician Accused of Being a Peeping Tom
See a French view of Egypt at Beaux Arts
Calendar
June 8, 2006
Tribes of Suburbia
See a French view of Egypt at Beaux Arts
Calendar
March 11, 2004
This Week's Day-By-Day Picks
See a French view of Egypt at Beaux Arts
Best of Dallas
September 25, 2003
Best Big Salad
Baker Bros. American Deli
Dining
January 10, 2002
Zzzzz
Order the coffee black; you'll need it at the dull Z'Tejas Southwestern Grill
Dining
November 29, 2001
Chef Joe
Voltaire's search for a head cook finally comes to a close
News
March 15, 2001
A Jolt to the System
This small electrical device may be the last hope for the chronically depressed
News
August 31, 2000
Letters
We Oui? Non Non!; Outing Myself; Comic Tragedy
News
February 17, 2000
Faked out
Art maven Gerald Peters tries to get to the bottom of the "Canyon Suite"
Dining
January 20, 2000
Global lukewarming
Las Colinas' Via Real promises heat but doesn't deliver
Culture
September 9, 1999
Unfinished business
The Gerald Peters Gallery finds itself fending off a lawsuit and possibly its own demise
Music
February 11, 1999
Hot Damnations
Leave it to two Yankee sisters to kick it TX style
News
December 24, 1998
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
Dining
December 17, 1998
Hash Over
The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe, but its appearance is just the start of the puzzle
News
January 1, 1998
Letters
The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe, but its appearance is just the start of the puzzle
News
September 11, 1997
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.
Dining
October 24, 1996
TV diners
Big Shots makes eating in front of the tube a guilty pleasure
Dining
October 10, 1996
Tasting the rainbow
Even if its service is Dallas monochrome--Lavendou offers a superb palette of Provencal
Film
October 26, 1995
Joe Bob Briggs
Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX
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