Santa Fe

DISD Trustees Are Ready to Fight for Principals

Too bad they won’t do that for the students

A Carrollton Woman Wandered into the New Mexican Wilderness in Search of Treasure, Barely Came Out Alive

Chanon Thompson, a 33-year-old woman from Carrollton, traveled to New Mexico last week and wandered into the Santa Fe National Forest. She made it six or seven miles in, then she realized she couldn't find her way back, according to ABC News. She spent two nights in freezing temperatures before she ... More >>

Nathan Adamson's Vision for Music Utopia: No More Traditional Schools, Banks or Mayors

Nathan Adamson owns and operates a small recording facility and label: FourReelz Records, and Ferralog http://ferralog.com/ Studios in Deep Ellum. What caught our attention was the spotlight feature he does for new artists: "Catch & http://www.facebook.com/pages/Catch-Release/540478972638088 Rel ... More >>

Council Gets Specific About New Bike Ordinance

First, let's clear up once and for all the notion that cyclists in Dallas are renegade scofflaws whose disregard for traffic safety endangers the lives of the unfailingly law-abiding drivers everywhere: In the 89 car-on-bike accidents reported in the city so far this year, 58 percent were the fault ... More >>

US News Says Fast Food Is Good For You. Kinda.

A news story on US News suggests that fast food could actually be good for your health, but before you run off to McDonald's and pound a double Filet-O-Fish with fries and a large Coke, super-sized, you should read the fine print. The article describes a generic "Sharon's" choice to go to Chili's i ... More >>

Endless Winter: A Beautiful Thing

Here's a Tip: If You Need to Outrun Johnny Law Along the Trinity Levees, Use a Dirt Bike

Came across this video posted to YouTube yesterday by the friend of the show who maintains the essential Dallas Trinity Trails blog. I'll let Ben describe what he captured:Dallas County Sheriff Deputy cornering and chasing dirt bike motorcycle on the Trinity River levees near Industrial Blvd and Cor ... More >>

The Problem With... Train's "Drive By"

When reviewing previous Train songs in my column, I imagined lead singer Pat Monahan as one of those guitar-playing guys on college campuses who hasn't grown out of it. A few years later, I'm starting to understand Train's target demographic might be the women who were captivated by these jerks when ... More >>

On October 22, Take a Walk, Ride Your Bike or Just Hang Out on the Cedar Crest Bridge

​In December of last year, the city of Dallas put out the call: Design firm needed to draw up pedestrian and bicycle enhancements for the Cedar Crest Bridge over the Trinity River. In May, the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee was told that 13 firms had stepped forward with proposals for th ... More >>

Fox & The Bird's Road to Tonight's Album Release Show at Sons of Hermann Hall

Sara KerensOn the road with Fox & The Bird...​For the past few weeks, the Family Band-ers in Dallas' Fox & The Bird have been on the road, taking part in their largest tour to date, all of which is meant to promote Floating Feather, the band's long-awaited debut release, which formally com ... More >>

Breckenridge Brewery Dinner Slams Screen Door, Holy Grail Gets Smoked Out, Urban Crust Hosts Dinner and More Beer Events

A rare chance to enjoy 120 Minute IPA Saturday.​Busy week for Breckenridge Brewery in Dallas: After a cask-tapping of 471 yesterday at the Meddlesome Moth and a Brewsday Tuesday at the Common Table the day before, Breckenridge Brewery is featured tonight in a 7 p.m. beer dinner at the Screen Door. ... More >>

No Paddling Allowed on Trinity River Paddling Trail. Which, Come to Think of It, Is So Dallas.

​Thank goodness. Finally reached Judy Schmidt, marketing director for the city's Trinity River Corridor Project, to ask about tomorrow's grand opening of the Trinity River Paddling Trail. I had been trying to reach her since last week to ask if she was going to warn people they might be killed. Bu ... More >>

Scratch That May 7 Dedication Off To-Do List, As Dallas Wave Is Closed Till Further Notice

Photo by Harry Wilonsky​Below, unhappy Friend of Unfair Park Ben notes in the comments that the Dallas Wave (formerly known as the Standing Wave) is off-limits -- meaning, you can wave adios to that May 7 dedication ceremony that's been on the books since last fall. Willis Winters, second-in-comma ... More >>

A Few Words With Nonna's Julian Barsotti

​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Julian Barsotti, owner and executive chef at Nonna. Today, we asked Barsotti to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares a recipe for one of his favorite Italian dishes. I was raised in...Dallas and Santa Fe. Mostly Dallas though. My friends ... More >>

The Billion-Dollar Question: If Mayor Tom Leppert's Really About to Ditch, Why?

Mayor Tom and Ron Natinsky​Gromer Jeffers is saying this afternoon it's "all but certain" Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert won't run for reelection in May, although he doesn't quite say how he's so certain. I certainly have been picking up a lot of ground clutter in the last week, mainly about various hop ... More >>

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 >>

Prepare for a Journey...

Warning: If You Plan on Paddling Down the Trinity, Be Prepared to Catch a Standing Wave, Which, For Now, Isn't As Much Fun As It Sounds

Photo by Elliot KaiserA narrow diversion channel on the Trinity where the city is building a whitewater park​When David Driskill, his son and three buddies decided to canoe and kayak down the Trinity River on August 7, they were prepared for any challenge the river might throw at them. What they w ... More >>

Match Game: Before Council Takes NCTCOG Development Funds, a Peek at the Projects

Angela HuntThere was a competition to redo the Routh Street underpass that serves as an Arts District gateway. That was in '06.​At its August 25 meeting, the city council will be asked to sign off on taking close to $14 million from the North Central Texas Council of Governments, which, in June, a ... More >>

"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 >>

Oh, OK. You Say You Want a Guide to Downtown's Buildings? Well, Then.

This guide to downtown may be a little out of date, but it's certainly the right price.​OK, so by now we're all clear on one thing: The Business Council for the Arts' downloadable downtown tour was always intended to be focused on one thing and one thing only: public art. That, says Greg Brown, pr ... More >>

What's On the Council's To-Do List Today?

​Here, to start your morning, a few highlights from today's 858-page council agenda, which we'll begin with a shout-out to Brad Kirby. Surely you remember him? Back in January, Kirby went down to Dallas City Hall to tell the horseshoe about his stolen dogs. He proposed an ordinance that would make ... More >>

Expo Park and Deep Ellum Residents Made It Very Clear How They Feel About Low-Income Housing Development

Photos by Daniel RodrigueKen Maxwell of the Exposition Park Association, behind the podium, was among last night's speakers.​Last night, at that public hearing we previewed about yesterday, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs heard feedback on some applications for Competitive H ... More >>

Dude Food: Noah's Year In Review

​Another year, another 10 to 15 pounds gained in pursuit of the best burgers, pizza and Tex-Mex I can find. Sure, I do it for you, dear readers, but mostly I do it for me. Culled from some 25 entries, here are my five favorite Dude Food moments of 2009.5. El Fenix Dude Factor: 10, or Jerry Ha ... More >>

Catch a Trinity Standing Wave, and You're Sittin' On Top of the World

This morning's quiz: a conceptual rendering of the Standing Wave project in the Trinity River, or a hotel-room painting?​The city wasn't kidding around about fast-tracking the Trinity Standing Wave whitewater-maker: Less than two months after the $3-million project resurfaced in a Trinity River Co ... More >>

Boston Burger Has Little to Do Wth Boston and Everything to Do With Burgers: Delicious, Sloppy and On the Cheap

Veggie Guy: Sweet Tomatoes

The minestrone at Sweet Tomatoes in Irving.​Our Lisa Petty likes to poke fun at me about my avoidance of salads. "Do you EVER eat salads?" she snarks. But I do eat my fair share...only I'm not usually happy about it. Allow me to explain where I'm coming from. I was a Golden Corral kid. There wa ... More >>

Wrinkled Old Lizard

See the fake Doors at HOB

Bengal Tiger

Spice and everything is nice at a new Indian eatery

Mount Righteous Dispatches From The Road: Day 13, The Short Road Home

¡Ask a Mexican!

Nic Fit

Nicosia's new work is exciting and different

Uganda Get Outta This Place

Lucky 13

Artful Lodgings

J. Boles Peña and Amado Peña Jr. are working for Art Weekend

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Better Off Red

Rouge is taking baby steps

Boxcar Willies

Increasing train traffic rattles nerves and homes in Fort Worth

Sunken Island

Gozo gets shuttered up

Suze cruze

He finally did it

Letters

Leavin' on a jet plane; Crummy teachers; Learning experience

Flower power

Too cool

If only the warmth of Suze's restaurant could heat up its fine food

Tin tongue

Tin Star's "salsa, smoke, and sizzle" fizzle

Terry saves

Lubbock-born sculptor-songwriter finally finds a little Salivation

Hash Over

Questions of taste

Generic Harper's seems to have an answer to just about everything

Tasting the rainbow

Even if its service is Dallas monochrome--Lavendou offers a superb palette of Provencal

Pure delight

At Majella's and Palayok, you'll get your Filipino of fine imported flavors

Breaking all the rules

At the Flying Burro, ignorance leads to good food