New Orleans native, current Austinite Chris Trew is a crazyperson, and I mean that in the most loving, admiring way possible. I guess you could call him a comedian, or an actor, or a writer, or a musician, or an artist, but none of those really gets at the meat…
Holding signs depicting graphic photos of abused chickens in factory farm cages and dressed in HAZMAT uniforms, vegan activists spent the lunch hour — as promised — holding up signs that read “RECALL ALL EGGS” outside the Albertsons at McKinney and Lemmon. Mercy for Animals, led by Texas campaign coordinator…
For the past several weeks, Brunch Drunk Love has sampled many and various brunch menus, from Lakewood to Uptown to Deep Ellum to Oak Cliff and even south to Austin. And in each, Brunch Drunk Love has turned its critical eye to that most difficult to perfect of brunch drinks,…
“I got a hit on the K2!”Heard a fair bit of that last night at the Pride House Bed and Breakfast out in Jefferson. Get a big enough hit on your K2, and you might feel like you were having a heart attack. But we weren’t smoking the illegal potpourri…
If you’re not presently a Cliffdweller, here’s hoping you really like where you live before you read this week’s feature, “Greener Acres,” about the biking, gardening and quality-of-life-obsessed activists Jim Schutze christened “bikos” earlier this year. Most every moment I spent writing and reporting the story was also a moment…
Bonnie and Clyde have chewed up the cord that connects their automatic food bowl to its solar-powered battery, which is why they are baaaaa-ing mercilessly at Andrew Howard, the 34-year-old bespectacled goat enthusiast who spends most evenings feeding and watering his two charges in the summer heat. Howard leashes up…
Hold up on that Gilt Groupe purchase you were about to make and take a moment to think of the children — specifically, the five children of Ross Perot, who’ve given $10 million each to the future Perot Museum of Nature and Science expansion, presently under construction at Victory Park…
The very top of the very morning to you, Friends. Here I am at City Hall once again (still haven’t regained my Foursquare mayorship, very upset about it) to bring you live updates from the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting. Maybe you have heard about this thing, where the…
At around 8 a.m. on Saturday, Tina Wiley was on Facebook messaging members of the now-1,821-member-strong Looking for Lisa group: A reward is now being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whomever’s responsible for the disappearance of 51-year-old Dallas woman Lisa Stone. Wiley and her…
Would we go south of the border, or would we sail ‘cross the pond? You probably read the headline to this blog entry, so I won’t pretend toward some surprise ending. The Man O’ The Hour and I labored for several long minutes over the decision to go for charro…
Green Room manager Taylor Allday’s been a regular fixture at the Black Swan Saloon on Elm Street for the past few months while readying the storied Deep Ellum restaurant for reopening this week. It was nice, taking the Swan’s signature Jameson and pickle shots with Allday and a loose cohort…
The City’s slow move against community gardening continues, as evidenced by the latest set of do’s-and-don’ts — the sixth try at this — given the green-thumbs-up by the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee on Monday. The so-called Option 6 will now take root at the Zoning Ordinance Committee. To summarize…
The new “Light Up Oak Lawn” campaign isn’t a reaction against the city’s official-today ban on phony cannabinoids — it’s an initiative spearheaded by the Dallas Stonewall Young Democrats and Oak Lawn residents who are tired of crime in their neighborhood being encouraged by, they say, a significant lack of…
Welcome back to Wednesdays at City Hall, Friends. It’s the full council’s first voting session at the horseshoe after their summer vacation, and no doubt all of them labored for hours last night trying to figure out what they were going to wear this morning to show their friends how…
Good afternoon, Friends. Here we gather in City Hall’s icy 6ES to commence the Transportation and Environment Committee Meeting, at which is promised discussion of both transportation and environment: street cars and community gardens are both on the agenda, with a bonus presentation on the North Central Texas Council of…
As the Dallas Police Department struggles to find clues, friends of missing Dallas woman Lisa Stone gathered Friday night to pray, sing and remember the Mesquite native whom they haven’t seen or heard from since June 4. Clustered in small groups, they hugged and passed out bracelets and ribbons, all…
Friday night, it was Busch Light and a basket of chicken tenders with gravy at one of Old East Dallas’ premiere dives, The Dallasite Club, for karaoke. Pop-country was sung, dances were dunced, and all was well until the bartender advised Man O’ The Hour that a spirit we’d never…
Organizers of last night’s public hearing on the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study at Methodist Hospital in Oak Cliff tried to head off any contentious quarreling and outbursts from the get-go. “Be respectful to everyone. There really isn’t any reason to not be,” organizers said. Play nice, or stay…
There is a magical land filled with sun and alcoholic beverages and easy living. A place with ready-made campsites where all you have to do is pay an exorbitant rental fee, build your fire and spend the rest of your life riding bikes, listening to alt-country and checking out new…
Both Dwaine Caraway and I hope you had a fantastic summer vacation, but it is now time to get down to business at today’s Public Safety Committee meeting. First up, Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s crime report, wherein he is happy to report that overall crime is down 6.1%, due…
As the women’s editor for the Dallas Times Herald for nearly 30 years, from the 1950s to the ’80s, Vivian Castleberry revolutionized the section’s coverage — addressing domestic violence, for example, in addition to lifestyle pieces on decor and fashion — and became the first woman named to the paper’s…
If you like talking about women in terms that make it sound like you’re discussing a game of Risk with all the delicate spoken nuances of a redneck buck hunter, I’m guessing I don’t have to tell you who The Asian Playboy is. No doubt you have already abandoned all…
