Picture Show: Manny Pacquiao’s Post-Fight Concert in Arlington

Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao followed his Saturday night defeat of Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium with a post-fight concert next door at the Ballpark in Arlington, joined onstage by Journey’s lead singer Arnel Pineda and big-in-the-Philippines singer Lito Camo.Taking the stage around 2 a.m., Pacquiao revved up the crowd…

DC9 Live at El Sibil, Ep. 10: Mount Righteous

And if YouTube is more your flavor, here’s your link.Our weekly video segments here on DC9 tend to be quieter, stripped-down affairs. But there wasn’t a chance our tenth taping over at El Sibil was going to go that way last week–not with nine-piece Mount Righteous armed with with megaphones…

A Change Is Gonna Yeung

Work on the Three Gorges Dam was just getting underway in 1996 when Dallas-based photographer Ka Yeung rode up the Yangtze River. Since then, massive water diversion projects, relocation of entire towns and an intricate series of locks and lifts have given the valley a facelift that rivals Kenny Rogers’…

After the House Comes Down, the Treasure Hunters Come Knocking

Yesterday, we had planned to offer a sort of follow-up on the still-occupied house demolished on city’s orders at Greenville Avenue and Vickery Boulevard in late January. Of course, Wednesday had much bigger news in store for that stretch of Lower Greenville — and it will continue to do so for…

Night Moves: World Banana Day Uptown Pub Crawl

​The second annual World Banana Day pub crawl took over a series of bars from Lemon Bar to the Uptown Bar and Grill Saturday night, in a benefit for the North Texas Food Bank. You can check out more photos of the banana-suited philanthropists in action here in our slideshow…

Review and Gallery: Fish Shack

In this week’s Observer, Jesse ducks into the Fish Shack in Plano, which he says is far better than the name would have you believe. the converted Long John Silver’s has a bright cruise-ship–docked-in-a-parking-lot kind of ambiance, though — get a load of the place yourself, and meet the fish,…

Night Moves: Mods Night Out

The Dallas City Mod Club’s party, The Smoke, at Sons of Hermann Hall had DJs Jason Harris and Marcos Prado spinning 60s Northern Soul and other early 60s hits on Friday night.From there, our nightlife team headed to Zubar for house music with Forrest Avery in the back room, and…

Night Moves: All-Star Hangover Edition

Just as the All-Star weekend crowd filtered back out of Dallas, there were still a few big sports-themed parties going on in town, and just in time for the weekend, we direct your attention to some nightlife photos from those.First off, Terrell Owens and Josh Howard closed out the All-Star…

Review and Gallery: Otaru Nippon Collection Japanese Restaurant and Lounge

In this week’s Observer, Merritt offers her take on Otaru Nippon Collection Japanese Restaurant and Lounge, the Dr. Fish-owned spot where she says the “lounge” vibe pretty quickly takes over.As if to further emphasize the scene over the food, Otaru didn’t want our photographer photographing the food (instead, these artists’…

Night Moves: Fall In Love All Over Again At Fallout

For the third year, Fallout Lounge hosted the Valentine’s Day weekend party “Fall In Love at Fallout Lounge,” this time featuring DJs Killtron (of Hot Flash) and Five Easy Pieces (from Denton). Our photographer Mattie Stafford returned from the night with plenty more shots from the party, which you’ll find…

Review and Gallery: DISH

In this week’s Observer, we take a look at DISH on Cedar Springs Road, a new spot that’s generous with the ambiance and capitalization, but, Elaine says, short on attention to the food.It photographs well, though, as Sara Kerens ably demonstrates in this week’s Dish slideshow…

Night Moves: Big Boots, No Pants

This past weekend, our nightlife photo crew ventured to the Lizard Lounge late in the evening for Dirty South — it was also local DJ Willie Trimmer’s record release party of his remix of Andy Caldwell’s “Scream” — after hitting the Green Elephant for 16 Bit from the UK along…