Don’t take it literally: the Eat Me-Drink Me exhibition opening this month at the Goss-Michael Foundation is more about whimsy and imagination than about actually ingesting anything. Take Ian Dawson’s imaginative, brightly-colored “Henri and Henrietta”–a charming, toothy pair of hippo-esque creatures perched on white blocks, their heads thrown back and…
Most people know Diego Rivera for his calming depictions of earthy, wide-bodied women selling bundles of lilies, or possibly for his intricate, Hieronymus Bosch-like murals of Mexican history. (You most certainly do not know him by his full name, which is astounding: Diego Maria de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao…
Veggie Girl finds vegan and vegetarian options at Dallas establishments of all kinds. The column appears Tuesdays and Thursdays. I love a good storm. So when I woke up last Thursday to howling winds and sheets of furious rain, I resisted the urge to crawl back into bed and instead…
Monday’s public hearing on changes to Dallas’s tree ordinance — Article X of the Dallas City Code, to be specific — was quiet, cordial, and borderline erudite. Every commenter seemed as well-informed as he or she was passionate, and the breadth of experience — from two former city council members…
With the cash-strapped city of Dallas ready to shell out more than $750,000 to build a new dog park and spruce up an old one, there’s also news concerning changes at the city’s privately owned indoor dog park. At Unleashed Indoor Dog Park, size no longer matters: Instead of dividing…
On Tuesday, some of Temple Emanu-El’s best and brightest — plus a few outliers, among them a city employee, a builder, a developer and the Rev. B.L. Smith of the Jericho Road Community Development Corporation — gathered to brainstorm what their group has in mind for affordable housing in the…
In April, public ire rose when Texas Industries scored a 10-year air permit renewal — no public comment period required — for its notoriously toxic Midlothian cement operation. The renewal came with one condition: TXI’s cement kilns, the only ones in North Texas authorized to burn hazardous waste, couldn’t increase…
The first thing that drew me to Villa O was the exterior, where a line of nautically themed blue and white couches and rocking chairs wait invitingly for the odd passerby to recline and stay awhile. (This, of course, was before today’s storm-of-biblical-proportions rolled in.) Assuming I couldn’t eat the…
Decades before Michelle Obama took a trowel to the White House lawn, Lady Bird Johnson was heading up the beautify-the-world campaign by planting flowers and preserving wild spaces all over the country. And long before Bush 43 started mysteriously vanishing from the White House to do whatever it is that…
Cork is that lovely little wine place in the West Village that’s pioneering the new genre of recession chic–hobnobbing high-style without spending more than a few dollars to taste the best French and Spanish wines–but on Saturday, Cork expands its reach to aficionados of all things Deutsch. Ten dollars at…
This morning, the Dallas City Council’s likely to approve spending $718,803 in 2003 and 2006 bond money to build the proposed Wagging Tail Dog Park near Preston Road and Keller Springs; it’s Addendum Item No. 4, for those playing along at home. As mentioned last week, though, that was but…
In a small, bright room at the Center for Community Cooperation this morning, Katy Hubener, the grant coordinator for the Sue Pope Fund, officially announced $1 million available in funding for new clean air projects in North Texas. The fund was established in 2005 in honor of Sue Pope, a…
After a weekend spent swimming hazily through a NyQuil-induced fog and eating the only thing that didn’t come back up (Ak-Mak crackers), I was primed and ready for a good vegan lunch buffet–someplace where I wouldn’t have to ask any questions about ingredients or wonder whether they had really removed…
In honor of our president’s ambitious trip to the Middle East this week , I’ve decided to undertake my own (and decidedly less ambitious) Middle-East-themed balancing act: ferreting out some good food from the region here in Dallas. Herewith, two of Dallas’ better Middle Eastern restaurants go head-to-head, with ratings…
Back in 1998, I pulled on my tight jeans and skimpiest halter top and headed out to Texas Stadium to indulge my alter ego as one of a posse of screaming high-school girls at the George Strait concert. We spent the evening shouting the words to “Blue Clear Sky” and…
Given that there are only a limited number of places that combine the all-you-can-eat-meat ethic of a Texas de Brazil-type churrascaria with the opportunity to restrict your meal to negative-calorie watery vegetables while still appearing to eat dinner, Genghis Grill–as the marriage of those two extremes–attracts the perfect mix of…
After the recent post on my not-so-great experience at Pizza By Marco, I received an e-mail from the restaurant’s owner, Frank Nuccio, who wrote that he was disappointed and offered to personally deliver a re-try. Now, I’ve written some unfavorable blogs in my day (OK…not as many as any self-respecting…
At last night’s “Day of Decision Rally,” timed to coincide with the California Supreme Court’s ruling on Proposition 8, the cries of “We’re here! We’re queer! Get used to it!” rang out above the roar of traffic at the corner of Cedar Springs Road and Oak Lawn Avenue. “Se-pa-rate, church…
The Katy Trail’s morning exercise contingent saw something new today: a series of musings on the meaning of marriage. Every few yards, there was a message scribbled in sidewalk chalk, among them: “What is marriage worth?” and “What are marriage values?” There was one in Spanish: “Que es valor de…
Taco Diner doesn’t do a bad job. In fact, their guacamole’s downright delicious–fresh, simple, a platform for the avocado itself to shine. The staff is reasonably courteous. Our server, in fact, was happy to make me an order of veggie tacos (which aren’t on the menu). It’s not always cheap,…
This morning, in the press room at Dallas Police Department headquarters, a cadre of video cameras recorded the ceremony to induct Charles Terrell as Dallas’ first-ever “re-entry czar.” In his introduction, Mayor Tom Leppert described Terrell’s new position as one “designed to look at the big picture” — of crime,…
We finally spoke with Municipal Library Board chair Suzanne Charriere concerning the Dallas Public Library Foundation, which was voted into existence earlier this week. Turns out, it won’t do much of anything until a year from now. If then.”Rather than try to do something right now with the economy in…
