…and the YouTube.Pete’s got plenty to say about Dustin Cavazos in this week’s paper–so do yourself a favor and check out his take on the Oak Cliff hip-hop artist’s upward trajectory of late. Check out this week’s video from El Sibil, though, to hear it all direct from Cavazos–between cuts…
That’s a look at the ongoing cleanup effort in the Dallas County Records Building, where a couple dozen rubber-gloved workers in smeared uniforms spent the day passing sludge-filled buckets to bail out the basement. By 4 p.m. they’d already filled up four tanker trucks, and were working on a fifth…
Sam and Bradley Chmelar, hulking twin terrors of the Ennis eating world, were ready to dominate the National Polka Festival’s team kolache eating contest, and with college pal Larry Clem — a veteran of the Don Juan breakfast taco challenge down in Austin — there’d be no stopping them. With…
The Dallas Independent School District’s designs on land around O.M. Roberts Elementary School may be on a time-out for the next six months, but the folks who stand to lose their homes and jobs aren’t stepping down their protest. They staged yet another protest outside 3700 Ross Ave. last night…
In a sweltering outdoor ceremony that would have slowed down a lesser showman, Mayor Tom Leppert reveled in his latest ribbon-cutting duties this morning, unveiling the Dallas Zoo’s new Giants of the Savanna exhibit. He’s been through the routine more times than we can count, but Leppert was enthused at…
Now that we’ve marveled at your lunch plate, laughed at your cat in a pumpkin costume and been rocked by the blurry, blown-out shot of the band you saw last night, one thing’s for certain: The last thing this world needs is another photograph. Now that a snapshot’s as simple…
YouTube, and so can we.Can call them country if you really want, but don’t expect The Orbans to agree. The description might have fit better with these guys’ past incarnations–as the Lifters and Thief–but even with a slide guitar and a banjo behind him, frontman Peter Black says no way…
The Great Outdoors Sub Shop 6918 Greenville Avenue 214-739-1928Dude Factor: 7 (or Smokey the Bear) on a scale of 1 (Winnie the Pooh) to 10 (this guy)In 1988, John Candy and Dan Aykroyd finally united for one of the great collaborations in ’80s comedy, with The Great Outdoors. It’s the…
Sure, when the Windpower 2010 expo wraps up tomorrow, it’s back home to the bummers: stubborn transmission bottlenecks, a slow first quarter for new wind projects and the likelihood that development is going to keep slowing down. But for the next day and a half, there has never been a…
Here’s a competitive eating tip: When settling in for a contest, shoulder-to-shoulder with your competition, far from the nearest bucket, avoid considering that your food looks like a plateful of fat, fried caterpillars. That’s one of a few lessons I took home Saturday afternoon, after the first annual Margarita Ranch stuffed jalapeño…
Texas is already king of the hill when it comes to turning wind into electricity, and for folks who work in the industry around the world, Dallas is the place to be for the next three days. There’ll be 23,000 people here for the party at this year’s Windpower Expo,…
As it has each year since 2003, Dallas’s bike community gathered last night for the Ride of Silence around White Rock Lake, honoring the many cyclists who’ve been killed on roads they shared with cars and trucks. Chris Moreno nearly ended up on that list last July when a hit-and-run…
Last we mentioned Uplift Education’s planned “museum” school, the growing charter school network already had the name and start date all picked out, and was even inviting students to apply online. Only one big question mark left to sort out before Laureate Preparatory’s Fall 2010 debut: where to put the…
One of the greatest thrills of interleague play is the chance to relive rare World Series match-ups of long ago: Cardinals-Yankees! Blue Jays-Phillies! Cubs…and the Rangers. OK, no high-stakes rivalry here, but Arlington may be the last place on earth where an honest Cubs fan can talk a little trash…
This week’s paper version of Unfair Park includes the story of Armadillo Aerospace, the eight-man team of rocket builders that’s grown into one of the country’s leading NewSpace start-ups. From their first days tinkering in a North Dallas loading dock a decade ago to their new home in a Caddo…
Anyone who’s watched Leonardo DiCaprio sketch Kate Winslet naked on a couch or dared to look under their meth-addicted roommate’s trap door knows the artistic highs and lows that can come from an hours-long flurry of single-minded inspiration. Could be art, could be a bicycle tire wrapped in unbent paperclips,…
Play it in slow motion, cue the orchestra and cut to a fluttering flag, and this scene could beat the richest Hollywood cliché. The rocket men are returning from their mission, seven of them in matching blue jumpsuits, mission patches on their sleeves. Riding on a massive flatbed truck, they…
A Vietnam veteran accused of forcing a 6-year-old girl into his car to ride on his lap became the first to sign on for Dallas County’s new veterans court program on Tuesday, with a chance to avoid having a conviction on his record if he completes a six-month treatment program…
If you ask Phil Collins, Mexican colonel and Battle of the Alamo memoirist José Enrique de la Peña has been getting a raw deal in the press. There’s plenty of good history in the officer’s records, Collins told his audience at the Hall of State in Fair Park last night,…
Well, soon as the Trash-Attack Code Compliance crew cleared out, this afternoon’s party at City Hall sure died fast. Blame it on this bummer of a PowerPoint from DART, explaining the long-term impact of having flat sales tax revenues over the last 10 years, referred to simply as “The Lost…
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…
This year’s Cinco de Mattito’s party featured a mechanical bull, a live band that played “Smooth” at least twice in 20 minutes, and the first annual Bob Armstrong queso eating contest. The storied dip, a mix of queso, ground beef, guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo, was served up…
