Last night, more than 100 folks packed into the dining room at Vickery Towers “senior living community” for a standing-room-only public meeting on the proposed plans to rezone Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue as a Planned Development District — a plan opposed by the Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue Business Association, the…
It’s funny how fast word travels around town when a new coffee shop opens its doors. No sooner had Roasted heard about Mercantile Coffee House than people were telling us — or asking us — about it left and right. The coffee shop, located downtown a stone’s throw from Main…
This week, we’re featuring a flashback of a flashback in which Robert Wilonsky gets to wax poetic about one of his favorite Texas acts: The Judy’s. Though the act hailed from Pearland, The Judy’s had a strong local following thanks to radio play and opening for touring acts like Devo,…
Late Friday afternoon, while we were still sifting through those comments for and against pit bulls (and their owners), Unfair Park HQ received a call from Jill Urban, who said she called 911 on those two “un-collared” pit bulls in the M Streets area some 20 minutes or more before…
[Update: After the jump, further information from city of Dallas spokesman Frank Librio.]If you live in the M Streets and woke up this morning to what you thought might have been gunfire, well, you were right. At approximately 6:30 a.m., according to a Dallas police spokesman, a 63-year-old man was…
Pizza Patron and Little Ceasars may have the market cornered when it comes to the whole hot-and-ready-to-go-pizza-pie thing, but those chains’ pies don’t hold a caper to the savory pizzas you can pick up at both Eatzi’s locations every Friday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.Sure, “Pizza Night” is only…
Late last week, the newly formed Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue Business Association requested a meeting with council member Angela Hunt and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano to discuss their proposed plan to rezone Lower Greenville Avenue as a Planned Development District. The LLGABA and the Greenville Avenue Restaurant Association…
This morning, after hearing very good things about the coffee and espresso at Zaguán Latin Café & Bakery from several of the folks around the bullpen at Observer HQ who regularly visit the establishment, Roasted finally headed across the street for an early-morning coffee break.And, we’re glad we did, because…
If it seemed like The Secret Machines were more than comfortable playing the outdoor stage at the DOMAXXII Showcase on Saturday, well, there’s a good reason for that. It’s not really a secret around town that the New York-based act got its start in right here in Dallas, or that…
In the last few weeks, before and after the early July 4 pepper-balling incident on Lower Greenville, we’ve had many late-night, mostly curbside conversations with folks who manage, own and work at the establishments down under. These bars, clubs and restaurants will be affected by the proposed city ordinance to…
Late yesterday afternoon, John McCall Jr. — the former president of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and its current attorney — sent word that the future of the old Oak Cliff Christian Church is looking bleaker than ever. Not that the building’s fate has been anything but bleak as…
Of all the didn’t-quite-make-it-into-the-story facts I discovered while researching the botánica biz for this week’s cover story on Chango Botánica in Oak Cliff, one of the most interesting discoveries was that many of the candles sold on the shelves of area botánicas are made right in our own backyard at…
Most of us live in a world ruled by science and mathematics, a world without magic or spirits, where things that can’t be seen, known or explained don’t exist. For many, the act of lighting a candle or burning incense paired with saying a few lines from some ancient prayer…
Roasted’s been following the progress of White Rock Coffee’s new kiosk at the northeast corner of Abrams Road and Mockingbird Lane for a while now. After all, the beans have been out of the bag since the beginning of the year. Though the new satellite location’s grand opening festivities still…
Monday morning, Roasted headed to Buzzbrews Kitchen to get our buzz on. And, now that we got that stale caffeine-addled joke out of the way, we really did get pretty jazzed up after repeatedly helping ourselves to the diner’s “Drink ’til you Buzz” self-serve coffee bar. Which at only $2.50…
This week’s pick offers some interesting hindsight at once-emerging technology–like online “forums” where people discuss things like rock music, and new tools like “e-mail”–back when journalists still had to provide definitions and clarifications for things like “electronic mail.”Taken from the July 7, 1994, issue of the Observer, one Robert Wilonsky…
I finally spoke with Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Golbeck, head of the Central Patrol Division, concerning Officer Perry Strickland’s decision to fire off 13 rounds of pepper balls on Lowest Greenville Avenue early Sunday morning, just as clubs were closing. Golbeck has already acknowledged that Strickland, a six-year…
On Monday I recounted my late-night, pepper-spray-scented trip to Lowest Greenville Avenue. Since then, I’ve been trying to get some response from Dallas Police Department. But yesterday DPD spokesperson Janice Crowther said, in short, there was nothing to respond to: She told Unfair Park that if an officer fired pepper…
Well, if you’ve followed my musings or ever heard me reminisce about local music and my teen years over a few drinks, then you knew that, sooner or later, this weekly post about Dallas music history would feature an article on The Grown-Ups, one of my favorite local live bands…
I spent Saturday night — and the wee small hours of Sunday morning — riding shotgun with a certain Barking Dog as he kept watch over his favorite “scumbars,” as he likes to call them. And I got a little more than I’d bargained for: a nose and throat full…
Blame it on the rain or the full parking lot, but just about 30 folks packed into the auditorium at Skillman Southwestern Branch Library last night to hear SMU’s presentation on its plans to expand south of Mockingbird Lane on a seven-acre plot of land that includes not only the…
Yes, It’s A Grind Coffee House is a real coffee franchise and not just a fake coffee shop where the drones on Weeds grab their morning cup to go. But, until this morning, Roasted had yet to visit the It’s A Grind in Deep Ellum. Despite having heard from friends…
