Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission

TABC Dismisses Complaint Against Katy Trail Ice House

Back in January we published a blog post that described some tense negotiations between Park Towers residents and the nearby Katy Trail Ice House. Condominium residents had filed a complaint with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, alleging noise from the outdoor beer garden infringed on their ... More >>

A Former TABC Officer is Charged with Secretly Videotaping His Stepdaughter

Fort Worth Police were mum when Martin Herrmann, a 50-year-old former agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, was arrested late last month on a charge of improper photography/visual recording. The TABC offered only slightly more information, telling the Star-Telegram that Herrmann had b ... More >>

QCinema Fest Celebrates Cowtown Gayness

One of Arlington's Last Remaining Strip Clubs, Flashdancer, Takes City to Federal Court

​For years Flashdancer Cabaret -- the topless joint that sits on E. Randol Mill just across the freeway from Cowboys Stadium and the Ballpark in Arlington, or so I've been told -- has been at odds with the city and state, which have tried their best to shutter the joint. Used to be there were more ... More >>

Greg Koch Preaches To The Choir To Kick Off Ale Week

Jesse HugheyStone Brewing Co. founder Greg Koch, in a typically reflective and subdued moment.​Playing up his audience's Lone Star state of mind, Stone Brewing Co. founder Greg Koch conjured a fire-and-brimstone Baptist evangelizer while doing what can only be described as preaching to the choir a ... More >>

Drink Down The City of Dallas's Response to Dry Side's Motion For Summary Judgment

​The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission continues to dole out those permits to the would-be beer- and wine-sellers of Dallas. The 21-page of list of March sweepstakes winners alone, which follows, includes a handful of Aldi locations (from the one at Forest and Audelia to grocery at Illinois and ... More >>

From the Bud Light Hotel, A Reminder to Drink Responsibly and Take A Yellow Cab Home

Photos by Patrick MichelsDallas County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Gary Lindsey called drunk driving "the largest problem law enforcement faces."Speaking of drinking ...Across an icy stretch of Young Street from City Hall this morning, an intimate media bunch huddled up at the Bud Light Hotel to hear abo ... More >>

If It Please the Court, Can We Have a Beer?

Drink up, Dreamers: As TABC Preps Permits, Judge Sets January 18 for Wet-Dry Hearing

​Swear, this is the last item about the wet-dry legal fight you'll read here for the rest of the year. (Maybe.)But yesterday, reps from the City Attorney's Office, the attorneys fighting to overturn the results of the November 2 election allowing for the citywide sale of beer and wine and the pres ... More >>

Attorney Hoping to Overturn Wet-Dry Vote Asks Judge Not to Delay Hearing Set for Monday

​After this morning's post about Keep the Dollars in Dallas's attempt to intervene in the lawsuit contesting the results of the November 2 wet-dry election, several Friends of Unfair Park wondered: When is the judge slated to rule on Andy Siegel's request to halt the presently ongoing permitting p ... More >>

Caraway Wants to Make It Clear: "The Majority Has Spoken" About Beer, Wine Sales

​Dallas, at least as of this very moment, is all-wet when it comes to the off-premise sale of beer and wine. And as Rudy Bush noted this morning, there hasn't exactly been a rush to the Oak Cliff Municipal Center's permit office -- in large part because of the city and county's hoop-heavy permitti ... More >>

Sure, You Think Dallas is All-Wet. But Some on Council, And Attorney, Still Ain't Having It.

​I've been trying on and off throughout the afternoon to keep up with the city council's attempts to canvass the results of last week's election -- specifically, the votes overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 1 allowing for the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. About half an hour ago, ... More >>

Deep Ellum Revival Soon To Include City's First Microbrewery

​The passing of two wet/dry propositions yesterday isn't the only good news for local beer lovers. Deep Ellum Brewing Company, Dallas' first microbrewery, is on course to open by April or May of next year. In fact, owner John Reardon just had his final conference call with suppliers earlier this m ... More >>

Dallas Is Getting Wet, And It Ain't the Rain

​It was way back in February that Gary Huddleston, the Dallas market's director of consumer affairs at Kroger, first made it known he was leading yet another effort to get Dallas all wet and make it possible to buy beer and wine wherever citywide. Nine months later, the treasurer of Keep the Dolla ... More >>

Come On, Get Happy! We've Found 50 Local Bars That Will Help You Do Just That.

Train Museum Lawsuit Kept A-Rollin': City's About to Stop Paying For Water, Power

​I called council member and Economic Development Committee chair Ron Natinsky late last week about the downtown parking study agenda item, which the council didn't get around to discussing yesterday. (An hour was spent instead on talking about how to create a revolving fund from which to make loa ... More >>

An Over-Served, Highly Questionable, Ponzi Schemed Monday Morning Grab Bag

University of Texas at DallasYou know what'll make this picture more action packed? Beer. And wine.​According to the University of Texas at Dallas's own press release, more than 80 percent of students surveyed want the school to sell beer and wine at The PUB in the student union -- which seems sho ... More >>

Hophead: Beer Across Texas Guides Brew Lovers To The Lone Star State

​Fort Worth's Paul Hightower may make his living as a technical writer, copywriter and indexer, but one of the great passions in his life is beer. On his Dallas Craft Beer Examiner blog, he is a relentless and well-informed cheerleader for the best beers available in North Texas, whether they're b ... More >>

Lounge On Elm Street To Remain A BYOB Venue For Next Few Shows.

​Remember last month when The Lounge On Elm Street co-owner Glenn Jackson said his bar would be getting back its liquor license in a week or so? That's still the case, as the payment and paperwork for the club's late renewal are seemingly ensnared in the bureaucracy of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage ... More >>

On the Bob's Steak & Chop House Hotline, Bankruptcy and Criminal Cases Collide

​A couple of weeks back, we mentioned that the U.S. Trustee handling Bob's Steak & Chop House's Chapter 11 reorganization wanted Judge Harlin D. Hale to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee to replace owner Bob Sambol. Because, see, as far as Willliam Neary's concerned, Sambol -- operating here as Sil ... More >>

Club Dada's Open For Business. Has Been, Actually. Uh, Nevermind?

A quick look around Club Dada last night, and you wouldn't necessarily know that anything crazy had been going on at the venue in recent weeks. Indeed, there were bands on stage, patrons listening to the music and bartenders whipping up drinks as fast as they could."We're open," Club Dada co-owner ... More >>

On 40th Anniversary of Stonewall Raid, Anger Over Arrests at Fort Worth's Rainbow Lounge

Chuck Potter, via Instant TeaOne of the few photos taken from last night's police raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort WorthForty years to the day after the raid on the Stonewall Inn, the unofficial birthplace of the gay-rights movement, the Dallas Voice's Instant Tea blog has been full of updates Sun ... More >>

Next Month, Preston Royal Gets Taco Mundo'd

Haven't seen much work being done in the former Baby Gap in Preston Royal Shopping Center, where, back in November, the missus espied a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission private-club permit application hanging in the window for something called Taco Mundo. But on the occasion of tonight's official ... More >>

Not Far from Mi Cocina on Preston, El Taco Mundo's Awaiting Its TABC Permit

The missus reports this afternoon that the Preston Royal Shopping Center is getting a new tenant, according to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission private-club permit application hanging in the window of the former Gap Kids in the Border's parking lot. The name on the handwritten application: "T ... More >>

Nick Badovinus Does His Own Thing

Galaxy Club Owes A Bunch of People a Bunch of Money. Whoops.

C'mon Get Happy

Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

Statute Stomp

Drink Up!

Deep Easy

N'awlins reborn in Deep Ellum

Guest-Mex

Cafe San Miguel to open in June

Youthful Indiscretions

How do bartenders spot underage drinkers?

Missile Crisis?

Nikita is sticking around

Chicken-Fried Infamy

It's a batter battle as Texas faces Oklahoma

Test Case

The verdict is in: City Plan Commissioner David Spence had an ethical lapse

Dinner in a Pinch

It's hard to fill in the gaps at Lalibela

Food Foolery

Shenanigans' sleight of hand is all thumbs

The Waiting

Rubber Gloves in Denton was supposed to be the ultimate indie-cool club. That was three years ago. Today, its owner is still trying to complete his dream.

Handmade Booze

Dallas succumbs to the lure of Tito's, Texas' only hand-distilled vodka

Clubland

Rubber Gloves finally brings its own alcohol, and the Gypsy Tea Room tackles That Hip Hop Genre

Hash Over

Bizu kisses off

Sex, drugs, and city council

Federal court records reveal the connection between city council ethics and dry-humping

Hash Over

Hot spot goes to pot; Mixed hash

Bugged Club

The Dragonfly tries to take wing again amid claims of fraud and mismanagement

The preacher and the Prophet

Why can't we all just get along? The history, or not, of Russell and Jeff's Deep Ellum

Buzz

A is for avarice

Chef Avner Samuel and Bistro A fingered for filching tips

Running hooch

Quick, someone call Walker, Texas Ranger -- there may be bootlegging going on

Rock out

Mr. Gatti's in Denton ain't delivering its basement music anymore

Honky-tonk from Hell

Liquor and lawsuits keep flowing at the legendary Crystal Chandelier