Welcome, Friends of Unfair Park, to the Dallas Of Tomorrow. We’re still waiting for tonight’s panelists — Mayor Tom Leppert, chief among them — to take their seats inside the Belo Mansion auditorium, but the cash bar is open while the public considers what wonders the future may hold. Monorails…
They came in striped ties and checkered ties, sport coats and shirtsleeves and the beard stubble of Washington operators on the road. The four white-collar grunts from the Environmental Protection Agency were greeted in Arlington last night by townsfolk who drove in from around the Barnett Shale to woo them…
We all know how hard it is to remember what it’s like to be up-close in a room with plants, so Dallas-based Frito-Lay’s doing us a solid this summer, along with lucky folks in five other cities, trucking around a 70-foot mobile greenhouse through the thick of our urban core…
Twenty years after Mother Teresa visited Dallas to found a local order of her Missionaries of Charity, a choice selection of her personal effects returned to Oak Cliff’s St. James Catholic Church last night, drawing a fair-sized crowd to a special evening mass. Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas Mark Seitz presided…
If you’ve been looking forward to the Dream Wedding Bridal Expo slated for mid-December at the Gaylord Texan, well, bad news this morning from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.While Karen Tucker, the 47-year-old Pittsburgh woman behind the Gaylord event, is indeed a veteran convention planner with experience from Miami to Las…
City Hall’s all parked up, and when I told the garage guard where I was headed, he assured me “everyone’s going to the red light camera meeting.” It’s hard to tell who “everyone,” might have been, because I’m joined in the public seating area by one KTVT reporter in the…
While the publishers of our local mug shot magazines keep scrapping for gas station counter space, Mugly!’s J. Martin Ward has been battling on a second front: a slow-motion rumble with police departments in Arlington and Irving over access to their mug shots and jail records. Mugly! runs on a…
A little more than two months since Dallas County held its first veterans’ court docket, the diversion program has grown to include nine former service members — six Vietnam vets and three veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq — who’ll complete two years of treatment and mentoring to keep a clean…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Dallas County constables had been watching Star Auto Sales, a North Dallas used car dealer, for nearly 10 months before they made their move on February 18; bearing a search warrant, officers from both agencies flipped through the dealership’s financial records and searched…
In 2007, ex-offender support groups in a handful of states began huddling together under a national faith-based umbrella called Out4Life, combining efforts to help prisoners find work and housing, break old drug and alcohol habits, and generally do what it takes to keep out of prison. For life. Texas became…
As Warbeast, Akkolyte and others had their way with Reno’s Chop Shop Saloon on Saturday night, those of us sardine-packed and sweating inside La Grange caught Glen Farris, The Naptime Shake, The O’s, Boys Named Sue, The Fox & The Bird and Seryn.For sheer boil-your-mercury heat, though, nothing compared to…
Last year, the anniversary was a big one: 40 years since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and for Dallas’s sizable network space industry alums, Moon Day was a reunion of sorts at Love Field’s Frontiers of Flight Museum. The turnout was so good, in fact, museum director Bruce…
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I’d probably just start calling out letters. Before he grappled with Important Things on Comedy Central, even before he took The Daily Show Trendspotting, Demetri Martin was an NYU Law dropout working off a hunch that he’d rather spend time writing quick…
Yesterday Luke Metzger at Environment Texas passed along the group’s latest look at the good things DART’s doing for the air. The most interesting nugget’s right there in the lead: the group calculated that DART’s annual ridership accounts for 8.8 million gallons of gasoline saved — as much as 15,000…
In 1997, Jacob Whitt was a 21-year-old anxious to get out of his tiny Central Florida hometown and start a life somewhere new. Truckers passing through told him Dallas was the place to move if he wanted to make some money, so that August he headed west, moving in with…
After they leave Saturday Night Live, most comedians can only trot out the same old comic persona for so long before the time comes to find a new gag. Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, Al Franken–all eventually reinvented themselves years after they left. Don’t hold your breath for Jon Lovitz to…
Taqueria El Atoron 2023 Henderson Ave. 214-887-8846 Dude Factor: 7, or Jolly Green Giant, on a scale of 1 (My Giant) to 10 (Andre the Giant) Searching for my second Sunday greaseball last weekend, I was in the midst of one of those precipitous hunger spirals — in which you’re…
The football field’s already given way to a Pepsi-sponsored urban farm at Paul Quinn College, and today the school began clearing room for a few new additions to the South Dallas campus: lacrosse and soccer fields, new student dorms and a botanical garden.To clear up the space, the school’s tearing…
Each year Taste of Dallas gives everyday working Joes a chance to rub elbows with some of the best chefs in town and sample the fanciest food in the city out of paper trays from a carnival booth. Friday night in the Automobile Building, Bolla chef David Bull treated a…
“I feel it right inside my head somewhere.””I feel like I’ve been shot.”Maybe you already forgot. It’s cool — it’s been almost a year. But yeah, this Sunday’s another July 11 — 7/11, right — so just like last year and the year before that, 7-Eleven is celebrating with free…
Paul Woodfield doesn’t remember what he was doing on April 8 — but to help jog his memory, the city of Dallas sent a deputy city marshal to his door yesterday with a subpoena. According to the complaint he was handed, Woodfield was riding his bike around White Rock Lake…
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…
