Sure, this week’s selection from the June 17-23 edition of the Observer is a bit of a calendar stretch that would have been better suited for last week, but, whatever, these archived issues don’t tend to fall on the right weeks anyway. And, in light of Deep Ellum’s recent rejuvenation,…
Based on the comments, shouts and full-on screams erupting from the standing-room-only crowd gathered in Methodist Medical Center’s Hitt Auditorium last night, it’s a wonder that the town hall meeting to discuss the Dallas Housing Authority and Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance’s plan to turn 100 units of Cliff Manor in…
Well Dallas, there’s a new Dallas-based coffee roasting company that we’ve been meaning to tell you about for a few weeks now. Hopefully, thanks to Cultivar Coffee & Tea Co., beans are about to get a lot more interesting around town. That’s why, despite having never tasted a drop of…
When this article appeared in the June 15, 1995, edition of the Observer, London Records was just weeks away from releasing Hagfish’s major label-debut, Rocks Your Lame Ass–which also means that the band was just about two years away from being dropped by London Records, and about three years away…
Florene’s Homemade Extacy may be a dark, dense listen filled with savage industrial beats, ominous icy synths and echoing primal-scream vocals, but the album is exactly the intense, mind-blowing debut one hopes to see from a experimental electronic band known for its raw, energetic live shows. And it’s a full-length…
Unless someone knows exactly where to find the Dunn Bros Coffee in Dallas, then the first time they visit that branch of the award-winning coffee franchise there’s a good chance they’ll drive right past the drive-through coffee house and coffee roaster — even Dunn Bros’ baristas say that they often…
At 10:30 this morning, the Riverside Branch of the Fort Worth Library played host to Slappy and Monday — two clowns from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus who treated some 43 kids to Reading with Ringling Bros. While one librarian who overheard the two clowns reading during this…
Ah, Denton. So many years of music, so many articles that set the scene by mentioning Morrison’s Corn-Kits’ 186-foot grain elevators or the impressive Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum. Well, this week’s Denton-based blast from the past from the June 10, 1999 edition of the Observer mentions both skyline landmarks while setting the…
If you didn’t already know by now, Kara Howell of Darktown Strutters has become quite the local booking maven. But, in case you haven’t heard about the recent kefuffle, Howell’s no longer booking for Tradewinds Social Club. Many of the bands Howell had booked for the Oak Cliff dive bar…
If you grew up watching Mr. Peppermint wave his candy-striped magic cane in syndication on the telly or watching Pep’s son Gibby Haynes wave his megaphone (and, on occasion, his willy) onstage as the frontman of Butthole Surfers, then this article from the June 6, 1996 edition of the Observer–for…
Not everybody had a Memorial Day spent reveling in work-free, care-free bliss; for many of us the holiday was pretty close to the same ol’ daily grind. And, not naming names, but a handful of us showed up at Observer HQ on Monday. By noon, Roasted had already finished off…
When Patrick checked in with the Jubilee Park residents last week, we reported that just because the Dallas Independent School District had called for a “time-out” of sorts while it looks at other possible alternative sites for a new site for O.M. Roberts Elementary, one group of home- and business-owners…
When we pulled this outta the archives on Friday afternoon, we’d just heard word about Gary Coleman–something about him being critically ill and on life support or in a coma. His name was just starting to trend on Twitter. Then we heard word of his passing.So, with a certain TV…
Ten minutes before the 5 o’clock kick-off of last night’s 2011 Dallas Bike Plan Open House, there were already some 100 folks milling about City Hall’s 6th Floor Flag Room. And by the time officials busted out the PowerPoint at 6, all but a handful of the seats in the…
This Memorial Day weekend, Ennis plays host to the 44th Annual National Polka Festival celebrating the city’s Czech heritage through traditional polka music, elaborate brightly-colored costumes, folk dancing and Czech food…as well as some less than traditional things like clowns on motorcycles and rock bands on floats taking part in…
After an early pre-breakfast trip on Saturday to the behemoth that is Northwest Highway Half Price Books, Roasted couldn’t resist walking across the street to Henk’s European Deli & Black Forest Bakery. It was just after 9, and the tables in the quaint restaurant/bakery/deli and European market were packed with…
For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been trying to chat with Jeannie Terilli, namesake of Terilli’s Restaurant & Bar, and Jon DuPerier, owner of the burned-out block on Greenville Ave., about what the future holds for the building’s remains. So far, no luck — for the most part because…
It’s hard to believe how “cutting edge” Club Clearview (R.I.P.) was striving to be in the early 1990s. Because plopping down $80,000 for a virtual reality machine and a re-model in the middle of a recession? That sure seems like a bold move on the part of then-Clearview owners Jeff…
With of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes in Los Angeles, hard at work on False Priest, the band’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2008 album Skeletal Lamping, and his band set to head out on tour in a week, the band’s tour press responsibilities have fallen to founding member and Elephant…
Minutes after the Dallas Independent School District adjourned the town hall meeting over at O.M. Roberts, I headed the two miles north to my neck of the woods for a meeting of the Lower Greenville Neighborhood Association at the recently opened Watel’s World Piece Café. According to the May/June newsletter…
Last night, the Dallas Independent School District played host more than 150 folks in a heated — though comfortably air-conditioned — town hall meeting at the century-old O.M. Roberts Elementary School building meant to bring the Jubilee Park neighborhood together to discuss the “past, present and future” of the elementary…
After reading yesterday’s editorial in The Dallas Morning News about the Dallas Independent School District’s use of eminent domain to shore up land for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary School in the southeast Dallas neighborhood of Jubilee Park, we fired off about a half dozen questions to district spokesperson Jon…
