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May 16, 2012
Former Pink Slime Beef Processors are Dropping Ammonia and Picking Up Their Knives
When the pink slime fervor began, Beef Products Inc, the largest national producer of what it prefers to call Lean Finely Textured Beef, halted production at a few of its plants. They claimed that free-falling demand, caused by Kroger, McDonald's and other large scale retailers' rejection of the amm ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Maple Avenue's New Kroger Fresh Fare Store Channels HEB in One of Dallas' Food Deserts
Recently a new 73,000 square foot Kroger Fresh Fare grocery store opened at 4901 Maple Avenue in what is considered an "economically distressed Census tract." It is also adjacent to two food deserts as defined by the USDA, a designation that indicates limited access to groceries, particularly fresh ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Where Is All This Pink Slime Anyway?
A number of articles have been published in the last few days as Safeway and Kroger have announced their intentions to stop selling ground beef products that contain lean finely textured beef. The ammonia treated additive has gotten significant attention after receiving the nickname "pink slime." I ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
One More Reason to Drink in the New Year: Suit Over Citywide Beer, Wine Sales Is Dead.
Have I told you how much I love Spec's? No? Well, I do.Whilst you drink in the news that new-to-town Spec's (where a 1.75L bottle of Old Fitzgerald runs $21.46, cheaper if you pay cash) is looking to buy Sigel's (where the same bottle of Old Fitz costs $32), allow me to pour you another tall one ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Cow Peas For New Year's: You Gonna Eat That?
FlickrYesterday I wrote about a New Year's tradition based on German heritage, which is applicable considering the strong German population in the Dallas area. (Remember when Oktoberfest blew my mind a little?) But this post considers a tradition a little more native to Texas, and perhaps al ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
Taste-Testing Two Pumpkin Beers: One's a Treat, The Other Must Be A Trick
Jesse HugheyWe've already mentioned a handful of them, but today being Halloween, perhaps reading about one particularly excellent pumpkin beer will inspire some of you homebrewers not to waste the chunks of gourd left behind from carving your jack-o-lantern.On the other hand, the scary results o ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
After Mayor Dwaine Caraway's Tirade, an End For Now to the Ongoing Scrap Over Scrapyard
Mayor Caraway's new togs look summertime comfy!Oak Cliff Metals' move, which was on the council's to-do list last month, returned this afternoon, with Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway once again squaring off against Vonciel Jones Hill over the site that's in her district near S. Central Expressway an ... More >>
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April 18, 2011
City Wants Cityville at Cityplace Back on Track
Perhaps you recall: We had a pretty good back-and-forth back in December '09 over city staff's thoughts on Cityville at Cityplace, the mammoth mixed-use development that's been planned for the former Loews Cityplace site since forever. After Kroger asked for that variance to sell beer and wine cl ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Lower Greenville to Lose Its Blockbuster
Avi Adelman's just posted over on Barking Dogs that Lower Greenville's losing its longtime Blockbuster on Richmond Avenue -- which probably comes as no surprise, given the state of the bankrupt downtown-based videos-n-such rentalist that could be in the hands of new owners as early as next week. ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Six Ways to Super Bowl Rickroll Party Guests With Appetizers
Patrick MichelsThe Taco Bell Six Ply Appetizer.Super Bowl parties are awesome -- unless you're a fan of the team the host hates. You're a Packers fan but you're headed to a party that'll mostly be Steelers fans. Or you're a Steelers fan headed to a party that's going to be Packers-heavy. And ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Dallas Is Now a Whole Lot Wetter
For the hell of it, I ran a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission report this morning to see how the off-premise beer-and-wine permitting process was going -- seeing as how on New Year's Eve, only a handful of applicants could sell spirits in formerly dry parts of town. And as you'll see from the r ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Kroger Seeks Federal Dough to Redo Elliott's Hardware; Lancaster Project Nabs $3.3 Million, Heads to Council Committee for Approval
City of DallasA model of the Lancaster Urban Village proposed development at the corner of Ann Arbor Avenue and South Lancaster Road in South Dallas. If you're not familiar with the Dallas Development Fund, well, neither were we until we discovered it would be spending this afternoon in the base ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Apparently, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez Needs to Remind Some of You: Don't Be a Jerk
Photos by Andrea GrimesT.J. Griffin, of Lift-Aids demonstrates the extra room many disabled parkers need to get in and out of their vehicles.Nothing like the holiday season to bring out the best in all of us, right? Notsomuch, says the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, which held a press confer ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Dallas PD, Sheriff Roll Out Holiday Initiatives
Local law enforcement agencies have scheduled two press conferences this week -- one at the Jack Evans this morning, another at the Kroger on Mockingbird at Greenville Wednesday. Long story short: DPD wants to get the word out two programs coming down your chimney at this, the most wonderful time ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
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 >>
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October 13, 2010
North Texas Food Bank Looks to Set Can Collection Record
The North Texas Food Bank is on track to set a record for most cans collected during the State Fair of Texas. Canstruction 2010Today's the third "It's a Fair Deal" Wednesday, on which three canned food items are redeemable for $2 admission. The food bank's haul last week was a record-breaking 64 ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Drink in the End of "Dry America" In Advance of Keep the Dollars in Dallas's Press Conference
Tomorrow Keep the Dollars in Dallas, the Kroger-led group hoping to get Dallas wet, will hold a press conference and lunch, during which it'll announce some endorsements and hand out Ray Perryman's study insisting, among myriad other things, that allowing off-premise sale of beer and wine citywid ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
Another Effort to do Away With Some Antiquated Dry Laws Gets Under Way
Tomorrow Keep the Dollars in Dallas, the Kroger-led group hoping to get Dallas wet, will hold a press conference and lunch, during which it'll announce some endorsements and hand out Ray Perryman's study insisting, among myriad other things, that allowing off-premise sale of beer and wine citywid ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
So, Are You Wet or Are You Dry? Because Here's That Map You Asked For.
Daniel will be along shortly to recap the morning's doings at Kroger on Mockingbird, where Progress Dallas kicked off the petition drive to flood the dry parts of town with beer and wine. But some of the Friends have asked: Where's the map showing the dry parts of Dallas? And though one "Dave Whippe ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
Progress Dallas Says Let's Get Wet and Spend the 10 Million Bucks in Extra Tax Dough on Fixing Potholes
Daniel RodrigueToday, in the foyer of the Kroger at 5665 E. Mockingbird Lane, Progress Dallas officially launched its effort to collect the 68,846 signatures needed to call a local option election giving residents the chance to vote for the elimination the dry areas of Dallas, as well as endi ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Drink Up, For Tomorrow Progress Dallas Begins Petition Drive to End Booze Ban
I've been trying to find out for days when Progress Dallas was going to kick off its petition drive -- you know, the one that would ultimately lead to Dallas getting rid of its those "dry" parts of town. Turns out, all I needed to do was call Sarah Dodd, wife of the No. 1 cop, the commissioner, t ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
Hash Over: Kroger Gets Into The North Texas Furniture And Jewelry Market And Three Restaurants Offer Wine Dinners
If this is on your grocery list and you live in Frisco, you're in luck. Just the other day, we were in a supermarket in Frisco and thought, "You know, all this food is nice, but it sure would be great if we could pick up a diamond pendant for the wife and maybe an end table and some throw pillows ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
Bowl Game
If this is on your grocery list and you live in Frisco, you're in luck. Just the other day, we were in a supermarket in Frisco and thought, "You know, all this food is nice, but it sure would be great if we could pick up a diamond pendant for the wife and maybe an end table and some throw pillows ... More >>
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December 16, 2009
Days Gone Bite: Fruitcake
Andra DuRee Martin/Manitou Springs COCA fruitcake tossing competition.Everyone's heard the doorstop joke, as well as the one about a single fruitcake being regifted over the centuries. Yes, and if you blast through the outer layer, you find strata that would fascinate geologists.And they are anci ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
Hash Over: Little Debbie Does Dallas, Tillman's Goes West, Smashburger Donates And More
Tomorrow, UNT students with the munchies are going to have, like, the best day ever, man. The Little Debbie Cupcake Cars arrived in the Dallas area today, and will be giving out free samples of Little Debbies as part of the Share-A-Thon Tour. They'll be in various Dallas locations today through W ... More >>
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December 4, 2009
For Many Reasons, the City Staff Is Not Fond of Proposed Cityville at Cityplace. At All.
Click to expand for a better view of the proposed development on the former Loews Cityplace site.One month ago we broke the news that Kroger is looking to set up shop on the desolate site formerly occupied by the former Loews Cityplace. Only, well, there's one small problem: Kroger wants to sell ... More >>
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November 2, 2009
Former Loews Cityplace to Become a Kroger. With or Without Booze, That is the Question.
View Larger MapWell, at least now we know what they're planning to build on the site of the former Loews Cityplace, which has been shuttered for almost two years: It's slated to become a Kroger. So says this morning's briefing to the council's Economic Development committee, which now has to wrestle ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
Veggie Guy: Soy Milk
Truth be told, not all soy milks are created equal. I still remember my first experience drinking a brand purchased from a bio-shop in Spain that almost resulted in me losing my lunch...or breakfast, as it were. Granted, I was very much a fan of dairy at the time. But I'm willing to bet my exp ... More >>
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October 7, 2009
Pairing Off: Pork Rinds
Patrick Michels/foodistablogEach week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.There's gonna be a moment when you think "this is the low point--it can't get any worse." Of course, intellectually you know it can get much worse. But the little speech, how ... More >>
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August 17, 2009
Weekend Roundup: SonsStock, Rob Hunt and a Fight (No, Really!)
Jenni and the Hi Lifers at Sons of Hermann Hall's SonsStock on Saturday, August 15. This video is 40 seconds of stage and two minutes of a tour of Sons. Kinda makes you feel like you were there in all that tie-dye majesty. And, uh, Jenni: Singing folk music does make you a folk singer. Just sayin'. ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
Pairing Off: Apple Pie
Patrick MichelsThere was an advertising jingle back in the 70s proclaiming Americans love for "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet."Slogan writers often take some liberties, of course. I mean, football was already the nation's number one sport by then. And clearly this was before Miley Cyrus ... More >>
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June 2, 2009
Not Taking The Cake
Patrick MichelsThe 33 KDAF's Rebecca Miller dresses up her cake.In a scandal very much like the one where French and Russian figure skating judges fixed Olympics results, I was robbed this morning of a cake decorating crown that was--by at least one account--rightfully mine.But first, the important ... More >>
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February 26, 2009
Gun Crazy
City of Springfield, IllinoisDid not see that coming. Yesterday, first thing, I pointed out Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's call to arms -- meaning, of course, his call for folks to part with their firearms in exchange for 50 bucks' worth of Kroger groceries Saturday morning at Reunion. Shortl ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
Guns N' Groceries
City of Springfield, IllinoisThat's Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's plan, anyway: Folks who bring an "operational, unloaded firearm" (oh, and an ID) to Reunion Arena on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon will receive in exchange a $50 grocery card -- from Kroger, sounds like, courtesy such spons ... More >>
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October 1, 2008
The State Fair? So Far, Fairly Empty.
City of Springfield, IllinoisThat's Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's plan, anyway: Folks who bring an "operational, unloaded firearm" (oh, and an ID) to Reunion Arena on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon will receive in exchange a $50 grocery card -- from Kroger, sounds like, courtesy such spons ... More >>
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August 28, 2008
Meat Avi Adelman
City of Springfield, IllinoisThat's Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's plan, anyway: Folks who bring an "operational, unloaded firearm" (oh, and an ID) to Reunion Arena on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon will receive in exchange a $50 grocery card -- from Kroger, sounds like, courtesy such spons ... More >>
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July 23, 2007
A Harried Evening
City of Springfield, IllinoisThat's Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's plan, anyway: Folks who bring an "operational, unloaded firearm" (oh, and an ID) to Reunion Arena on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon will receive in exchange a $50 grocery card -- from Kroger, sounds like, courtesy such spons ... More >>
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May 17, 2007
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October 17, 2006
Kroger: Take That, Central Market
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August 18, 2005
Fair Play
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July 14, 2005
This Week's Day-By-Day Picks
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