Don’t Just Stand There, Adopt Something!

Time after time, when I showed up at Dallas Animal Services over the course of the winter, Lieutenant Scott Walton would razz me about taking home a kitten. I’d outed myself as a cat person in our first interview, and this guy went for the hard sell every time after…

Ebby Halliday Knows How to Turn 100

Everybody who lives to be 100 years old should get a party in their honor at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. That should simply be a fact of life. It isn’t, though, and for now we’ll have to settle with celebrating the centennials of only the most influential of…

Rise Early for Irish Breakfast At Trinity Hall

Our table yesterday morning at Trinity “an Irish pub” Hall in Mockingbird Station had the advantage of being as far away as we could get from a long booth full of kids and their tantrum-inured parents, but had the disadvantage of being out of the direct line of sight of…

Dallas PD Trainee Goes a TASER Too Far

A Dallas Police Department officer filed suit last week against Taser International, alleging that during training exercises, he was Tased to the point of breaking his back. According to court documents, Andrew Keith Butler received a five-second Tasing from the electronic stun guns during a January 2009 training session, and…

Nothing Middling About The Meridian Room Brunch

Saturday night ended with a glass of “buttershops,” the beverage I make when things look really, really dire on the home bar front. It’s brandy and butterscotch liquer, and generally by the time I get around to making it, “buttershops” is about all I can verbally muster. But we’d been…

A Bueno Brunch At Buena Vista Cafe, Home of Irish Coffee

Generally speaking, I don’t recommend visiting restaurants that have attached gift shops if you are over the age of 10. And really, if you’re under the age of 10 believe me when I tell you: Absolutely nobody gives a shit about your Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt collection, least of all…

We’re Crawling With Excitement

Typically, seeing the word “BUGS” in all capital letters would be a warning to us vertebrates that it is time to turn around, speed up and take cover. That’s what all-caps is for: to warn you that something’s about to go down, and it is your responsibility as a human…