West End

Now That the Omni's Officially a Success, the City Hopes to Build Shops and Restaurants

Downtown's city-owned Omni Hotel has been a roaring success since it opened a year-and-a-half ago, routinely filling up and helping score such convention-business coups as the annual gathering of the American Meat Institute and the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Expo. But the Omni was ... More >>

Dallas Wants to Turn These Downtown Parking Lots into Urban Parkland (Photos/Renderings)

Yesterday, the city of Dallas presented its new vision for downtown Dallas parks. As the Morning News pointed out, the plan calls for the amount of green space in and around the Central Business District to roughly double over the next several years. That includes four "priority parks" -- Pacific P ... More >>

Breakfast Tacos, Mustaches and Steak: This Week in Dallas Dining

If you haven't noticed, after a few days of doom and gloom the sun was shining outside. It's a good day for some patio drinking, if you know what I'm saying. Don't get out there too soon though. We've got a week to wrap up, first, and this has been a really good one for City of Ate. This week I rev ... More >>

Rock of Ages Posits Tom Cruise as a Hair-Metal God and Hair-Metal as Something Un-Awful

Mike Nesmith's Farewell to Davy Jones

​By now you're no doubt well aware that Monkees lead singer Davy Jones died today at the age of 66 following a heart attack. His bandmates have each posted their goodbyes: Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith, the Monkee with deep Dallas roots.The Thomas Jefferson High School graduate didn't ... More >>

Uplift Education's CEO: "We Do Not Want To Be a Roadblock" to Development in Deep Ellum

​Anna's attending tonight's meeting of Deep Ellum property owners and city officials concerning Uplift Education's latest charter school -- which, Uplift CEO Yasmin Bhatia just told me, is very definitely going to take the former Baylor building on Elm Street. As Bhatia put it: "All systems go" fo ... More >>

Dallas PD's New Year's Eve, By the Numbers

WFAA​The Dallas Police Department sends word this morning: It guesstimates 30,000 turned out for last night's Big D NYE in Victory Plaza, otherwise known as the Dallas Stars' post-game party that filled a few hours of Channel 8 airtime in between all that Dick Clarking. And while DWI numbers aren' ... More >>

Adding Carpenter Plaza Park to Cause a Redo of the City's Downtown Parks Master Plan

From the Downtown Parks Master PlanJust seven years ago, Carpenter Plaza Park was supposed to be part of a larger gateway to the Arts District.​We've known for a long while now that the upcoming expansion of expansion of César Chávez Boulevard and Pearl Expressway downtown, from Commerce Street ... More >>

City, Occupy Dallas at Odds Over Who Began Melee That Ended With Eight Arrested

Photos by Anna Merlan, more in the slide show​An Occupy Dallas march and protest turned ugly this afternoon when police used pepper spray to subdue the crowd outside of the Bank of America building on Main and Lamar, protesters told Unfair Park. Eight people were arrested from the crowd of abo ... More >>

Heart Attack Grill Continues Death Spasms

Alex Fine​The News' Bruce Tomaso reported this afternoon that Heart Attack Grill, the controversial burger joint in the West End, may be on its death bed: On Wednesday, a new sign went up, this one a notice that the landlord has changed the locks "because of delinquent rent payment or violati ... More >>

Kiddrae's Beautiful Video of Mavericks Fans Celebrating a Title. And: DART's Parade Plans.

MAVS in 6. from Kiddrae on Vimeo.I've been sitting on two videos with which I'd planned to end the day. But Dallas Area Rapid Transit just sent its rather lengthy list o' travel plans for Thursday morning's Mavs title parade, so I thought I'd share one -- Kiddrae's gorgeous short "MAVS in 6.," set t ... More >>

City's Ready to Part, Properly, With Its Surplus Property. And: Look Out, Payday Lenders.

The city needs to auction off this slice of Greenville Avenue.​We've long wondered, including just last month, why the city can't (won't?) unload its old libraries and other so-called surplus properties, and time after time City Manager Mary Suhm has said: The market's just not right. But in just ... More >>

Oklahoma City: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Regrettably, I didn't go to the Oklahoma City National Museum, but apparently Jason Kidd did. Can't believe that tragedy was 16 years ago all the sudden. 9. Stayed in a hip, happening part of OKC called "Bricktown." Think of it as Dallas' West End, with a canal running through it. Part S ... More >>

Heart Attack Grill Opens In May. Yay?

Heart Attack Grill is scheduled to open in the West End on May 13. This video, posted in 2010, features Blair River -- the 575-pound guy who used to be the spokesperson for Heart Attack Grill's location in Arizona until he died in March at the age of 29. And here's a clip from Nightline. My favo ... More >>

The Funniest April Fools' Day Pranks In The Local Music Scene

This Will Destroy You calls it quits?​Everybody loves a good prank on April Fools' Day. Everybody, that is, except the person on the receiving end of said prank. Which is to say the people like us here at DC9 HQ, who spend our days looking for pertinent local music news and information to pass alo ... More >>

Walk for Choice Rallies Support for Women's Reproductive Rights, Squares Off Against Religious Counter-Protest

Photos by Patrick MichelsPro-choice demonstrators shout it out with religious abortion opponents downtown Saturday at the Walk for Choice. A slide show is here.​Some 200 pro-choice demonstrators -- some college-age, others old enough to recall protesting for abortion rights before Roe v. Wade -- t ... More >>

Texas-OU's Five Months Away, And DART Wants to Work Out the Kinks Way Early

​Speaking of Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Green Line ...You won't be able to catch it at the Victory Park or MLK Jr. stations Sunday between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. DART's got a very good reason: It's trying to see if it can reconfigure the Green Line in order to avoid the clusterfudge that ... More >>

Financial Times on the Good, the Bad and the "Omnivorous" Dallas Architecture

Justin TerveenDallas City Hall​Woke up this morning all prepared to direct your attention to Monday's Transportation and Environment Committee briefing involving neighborhood farmers markets, in which the key city-staff recommendation reads, "Neighborhood Farmers Markets may operate 24 non-consecu ... More >>

Half As Good

375mlbottles.co.ukSize matters​It's rather difficult to drink wine responsibly when dining out--a point that was driven home a couple weeks ago when I scanned the menu at York Street. For those who've never visited this tiny, brilliant institution, chef-owner Sharon Hage recommends a wine select ... More >>

"If They Go Ahead and Create It or If They Don't, It Don't Make No Difference."

After pestering would-be voters in the West End last week for their opinions on Proposition 1, Megan and Patrick headed over to Fair Park yesterday to see how folks were feeling about the city getting into the convention center hotel business. Patrick's video's here; Megan's wrap-up follows. If noth ... More >>

Stories Of Misconduct

Every once in awhile I wonder just why some people are keen to lavish praise on restaurant owners. Yeah, I know--the Food Network and those in the media who promote the celebrity chef idea share a portion of the blame. But many of the folks who dine regularly simply don't wish to peer behind the cur ... More >>

CNN Discovers Deep Ellum...A Little Late

Sport Eating

The Taste of Dallas returns

Random Notes

Hot Bites

Taste of Dallas celebrates two decades

The End of the West End (Marketplace)

Starck Club Redux, Without All the Coke

Garland Rogue

Sub Pop rocker Gram LeBron descends upon his hometown once more

Farm Fresh

Fresh Fruit

Boustani imports Moroccan flavors

Load of Bull

Best Hands-on Kids Experience

The Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park

Funny Business

West End Comedy Theatre's laugh riot

Ticket Takers

Foodie culture cooks in the West End

What She Is Now

A New Bohemian's new sound

Make a Run for It

Bikers give kids some toy joy

Red River

Orange you glad this is Texas?

Best Urban Rain Forest

Dallas World Aquarium

Let Freedom Run

And then party with Jack Ingram

Cheap Thrills

Movies in Motion are movies for gratis

Bomb Shelter

You can have an Atomic time at this West End sushi joint

Feel the Heat

Two events highlight Latin culture

Gotta Have Faith

Can two new clubs and a restaurant kick-start the nightlife in downtown Dallas?

Belo Bashing

The News' parent levels a historic building as the paper opines for a new hotel

Wet kiss

Bizu needs to tighten its menu before Dallas will pucker up

Night & Day

September 24 - 30, 1998

Night & Day

July 9 - 15, 1998

It's a fiasco

It's a Veritable Feast! fumbles into famine

Roadshows

Unconventional wisdom

Going Gourmet created itself in the image of its customers