The black-and-white sign went up in the window of 2638 Elm St. in Deep Ellum last week — “Anvil Pub coming soon.” Hey, guess what, there’s an anvil on it. And the word “pub,” which should verily perk up the ears of fellow East Dallasites clamoring for our very own…
Steve Blow is exceedingly good at his job, which is to reach new heights in daily journo banality as a columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He has seriously got it down. There is real talent in saying absolutely nothing of interest or consequence for years on end. Which is…
Brunch is filled with marvelous B’s. Let the alliteration begin — bacon, biscuits, Benedict, baked goods, and naturally, the king of all B’s: booze and its highest incarnation, the Bloody Mary. Brunch is the only meal of the day where no one looks sideways at you when you’re on your…
Folks started showing up at Founder’s Square downtown even before 6 last night, carrying Harvey Milk posters, rainbow flags and equal rights stickers. The Texas Evangelical Republican Caucus And Barn-Stomping Jesus Revival was in full swing. Ha ha! Just kidding! Last night, gay rights activists and allies gathered for the…
Here’s what happened: I recently read a review of some book written by some guy from Dallas called Men Don’t Heal, We Ho on Dallas South News. I was intrigued by the healing and the ho’ing. I wanted to know more. So I asked the writer and publisher of the…
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…
Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway opened today’s Public Safety Committee meeting with a gift to his fellow committee members — what appear to be candy-scented, hold the phone, rolling papers. As the city council members bumbled with tearing open what looked like metallic Airhead wrappers, Caraway name-dropped K2, the herbal…
It would probably take some kind of seizure disorder to set in before most Texans, or anyone else, would agree to camp outside during a June heatwave for a week straight on a patch of concrete. But Justin Wagoner actually does have a seizure disorder, as he wrote in his…
All kinds of folks are crammed up in City Hall’s sixth-floor Parks and Rec meeting room — ladies who lunch, guys in suits, city officials and, of course, some dude who stinks pretty bad. It’s so full some people are actually standing in a storage closet.Plenty of stuff to cover…
For most folks, dancing happens all too rarely–maybe the DJ finally plays ‘Don’t Stop Believin'” and you and your friends with banal musical taste finally get to cut loose at the bar after downing several Miller Lites. Or someone gets married and the rare opportunity to shake an ass or…
Conventional thinking: Perhaps the best word to describe the 2010 Republican Party of Texas Convention, held last weekend at the Dallas Convention Center, is “magical,” and not just because of the multitude of sequined, shiny stars and stripes plastered on every available surface—including, blessedly, the seat of at least one…
Happy Sunday, Friends! While you were out having a nice, relaxing weekend full of neighbors and sun and beers and loveliness, I was at the 2010 Texas Republican Party Convention having a blast talking about ‘Murka and stuff. It was a fun- and camo-filled two days, but I’ve managed to…
I got pretty excited last night when I heard a couple of women were attempting to knife each other in a parking lot in Pleasant Grove. Not, you know, because ladies knifing each other is my thing, but because I really wanted to crank up the sirens, throw on the…
Eighty-two comments on this blog entry later, looks like friends and foes of Evans Wright, the man who was shot last week in a Lower Greenville parking lot, have finally said their various pieces. Figured so much interest deserves an update: The U.S. marshals have arrested a man named Maleek…
What it do, Friends? Today’s Housing Committee meeting, which Robert warned you I’d be liveblogging, got a late start because of the overflow of the previous Public Safety Committee meeting, which I caught the tail end of, while they were discussing agenda item Mild Panic Over Not Having Enough Police…
When it comes to sexual assault, victim-blaming is rampant on college campuses (and, well, elsewhere — remember when it was this 15-year-old girl’s fault she was gang raped in California last year?). Girls who wear certain clothing, drink too much alcohol or travel alone to parties are often believed to…
The Dallas Marketing Group has released a study wherein their findings reveal the tragic and seedy underbelly of local nightlife: more and more women are out there drinking, and–wait for it–they are having fun while doing it.But please, don’t worry. With just a little infantilizing hand-wringing and old-fashioned sexism, you…
According to various reports from the Dallas Police Department and the Lower Greenville Self-Appointed Civilian Police Department Comprised Mainly of Avi Adelman, a man was shot and killed after an altercation early this morning in the Char Bar parking lot on Lower Greenville. I’ve pieced together some of what appears…
Walked into today’s city council briefing a couple minutes late to catch Tennell Atkins talking about how Dallas needs “classy,” and then they gave a long and lengthily introduced award to Wal-Mart wherein everybody was really enthusiastic and in no way embarrassed that they were giving an award to Wal-Mart…
Maybe everyone who attended the National Polka Festival over the weekend in Ennis is too hungover from copious amounts of kolache and Czechvar to hop straight on the Craigslist to post their missed connections. Maybe that’s why there’s only this one lonely missed polka connection, which is a joke anyway…
I bet the attendees of the May 22 Homegrown Festival thought they were pretty freaking special. Not only did they listen to a day full of awesome local music, but they also got to enjoy the icy deliciousness of La Grange’s top-notch sno-cone machine, carted down the block for the…
Don’t be surprised if you see Jacquielynn Floyd’s latest column pop up on Passive Aggressive Notes, because her take on that whole 30-days-of-sex thing turns “I told you so” into “I would have told you so, but you done told yerself.”Let’s recap: A local married couple (we’ll call them Schmauren…
