Straw dogs: If you see a roomful of opposing politicians pointing fingers at one another and shouting “liar” and “disingenuous” and “snake-oil salesman,” rest assured you’re witnessing one of those rare instances when they’re all telling the truth. So it was at Monday’s Dallas City Council meeting, when the council…
Jeanne Robertson is absolutely not a comedian. Says so in her bio and in the press release for her upcoming appearance at the Lakewood Theater, where many comedians–but not Robertson, because she isn’t one–often perform. Couldn’t be clearer: “Jeanne Robertson is a professional speaker who specializes in hilarious humor based…
Just got back from Jack Evans Police Headquarters for Chief David Brown’s press conference accompanying the release of dash-cam video in which several officers assaulted Andrew Collins on September 5th. On the video, officers can be seen doing what Chief Brown called “making contact” with Collins — kicking, punching and…
Blog Cabin VillageI used to have a blast as a kid going to the Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth. Dad and I would load up in his lumbering, early ’90s model Chevy “Suburbasaurus” and head out to Fort Worth for a woodsy day of living history. Of course, my…
Photo by Andrea GrimesI’ll be honest, I was kind of hoping for a Bradley Whitford sighting. But Cole Hauser will do.Had to idle on Elm Street in Deep Ellum for a while this morning as cops shut the street down for a Chase filming. Such is the life of an…
Allegations from inside — and independent studies conducted from outside — Dallas Fire-Rescue over the past four or so years have painted a disturbing picture of what it’s like to be a female employee of DFR and fueled a costly, ongoing lawsuit in 2009. But as of last week, the…
Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O’ The HourMolly’s Mary.One expects that when one travels cross-counties to spend a Friday evening at North Texas’ finest honky-tonk, where $5 pitchers of Coors Light are on offer all day every day, one will wake up the next morning in need of some…
Photo by Andrea GrimesA finished garden planter is born in Deep Ellum last Saturday.More than 30 folks came out to the Deep Ellum Community Day on Saturday, many of whom Deep Ellum Community Association president Randee Smith didn’t know from Adam (Hats). Which, for Smith, is saying something: She spends…
Bon matin, Mes Amis de le Parc Qui Est Unfair. Overflow crowd this morning at the City Council Budget Meeting in 6ES, and Tom Leppert, pin-striped as ever, has just told the packed house to sit tight while they figure out what to do with everyone. Atmosphere is stuffy and…
Preston Hollow Democrats get a kick out of a couple of things — firstly, being Preston Hollow Democrats, and secondly, Andrea White, wife of Bill, he of the running for governor of Texas. The PHD was formed in the wake of the March ’08 primaries during which Obama fever was…
And now, two excellent opportunities to see (and participate in!) community activism this weekend in Deep Ellum. Tucked into doors of many neighborhood residences this week are fliers for Saturday’s Deep Ellum Community Day, wherein members of the Deep Ellum Community Association and friends are asking Ellumites to help build…
Mineko Grimmer isn’t screwing around with existential quandaries when it comes to naming her latest exhibit at the Irving Arts Center. No, sir. It’s called Gongs.Wires.Bamboo. Guess what it’s made of. Grimmer’s work is an aural and a visual experience, with ice pyramids suspended above bronze, bamboo and wire (ahem)…
Afternoon, Friends. I’m up here in City Hall’s good old room 6ES for the council’s Public Safety Committee meeting we told you about earlier today — on the menu are that upcoming police women reality-docu show and the Dallas Police Department’s pursuit policy. The cameras and media types are here…
Waterfront dining is one of the great mysteries of the universe. For reasons unknown to us mortals, the Great and Powerful Spiritual Being of Oneness and Things of the Like has decreed that all restaurants within 20 feet of a body of water will serve mediocre food at ridiculous prices…
This weekend will mark two months since the last time Lisa Stone was seen in Dallas, and today a billboard went up at the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Northwest Highway with Stone’s photo and information on the $10,000 reward for information regarding her disappearance. The billboard was paid for…
The Oak Cliff spirit of urban development and community outreach, which we are physically incapable of not writing about here in the paper and online, continues — this time, with an urban planning storefront that’s the result of a partnership between the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce and the University…
Led by Councilwoman Delia Jasso, a group of sexual assault resource centers and the Dallas Police Department held a press conference today at City Hall announcing the sexual assault awareness campaign that’s been launched in response to a 25% increase in sexual assault offenses this year. Officially, we didn’t hear…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
It’s hard to say if anyone anywhere really gets to have his or her cake and eat it too, but it’s especially frustrating to me when women are asked to support good causes that also ask them to get behind demeaning stereotypes and objectification. (Looking at you, PETA.) This often…
There are only four items on the Mextopia brunch menu. The restaurant itself sits on the presently blighted block of Lower Greenville Avenue, the block where after the apocalypse, it’ll just be that 7-Eleven and the Simply Fondue and maybe one guy with a keg in the burned ruins of…
An invisible lion, an invisible cow, and a whole cornucopia of simulated human partners got the go-rounds of their lives last night at Trees for Dallas’ first-ever turn at the Air Sex World Championships. The fauxnication was graphic, titillating, and at times, a little bit disturbing. No, let’s be fair:…
Irving-based Kimberly-Clark, they of the toilet paper and tampons and whatnot, are already in the business of being in your business, as it were, so maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised that they’re currently looking for 250-word essays on how your underwear got to be so nasty.”Project Makeunder,” for which…
