Manny Pacquiao double-booked himself Saturday night, and while he may have had a bigger audience at Cowboys Stadium for his 12-round decision over Joshua Clottey, he spent more time onstage at his post-fight concert in the Ballpark in Arlington’s Diamond Club.Pacman’s getting mixed reviews in the boxing world (like Gigli,…
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…
Of council members Dwaine Caraway, Jerry Allen or Tennell Atkins, we’re not sure who’s a bigger fan of the high school drumline, but this morning in the plaza outside City Hall, the three city officials sure looked ready to wrestle for it.Speaking to a few rows of guests and flanked…
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…
Po-Bill’s Cafe 2933 Commerce St. (214) 741-6601 Dude Factor: 8, or “Cold Souls” on a scale of 1, (“Soul Man” or “Heart and Souls”) to 10, (“Soul Plane”) Deep Ellum may have more dude-worthy food choices than anywhere else in town, but most favor the downtown end of the neighborhood,…
A year ago, Ron White from Euless stormed the USA Memory Championship, drawing on years of delivering memory seminars and a training regimen that involved memorizing cards underwater, a story Megan Feldman related in the May cover story “Mind Games.”On Saturday, White was back in New York to defend his…
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’…
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…
A four-alarm fire that started a little before 6 a.m. has claimed a popular stretch of Lower Greenville this morning, the longtime home of Terilli’s, as well as Mick’s, Hurricane Grill and Greenville Bar & Grill. Within hours, the roof over the four businesses had collapsed, and smoke from the blaze had…
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…
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,…
Sammy’s Bar-B-Q2126 Leonard St.214-880-9064Dude Factor: 4 (figure skating) on a scale of 1 (opening ceremony background dancing) to 10 (biathlon)A buddy’s birthday lunch provided the occasion for a small invasion of a barbecue joint last week, and we settled on Sammy’s Bar-B-Q. It’s a well-hidden spot along the Maple-Routh Connection,…
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…
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…
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’…
If you haven’t swung past Avila’s on Maple Avenue in the last week or so, you might be surprised by the sudden turn that’s left the time-honored Mexican spot looking more This Old House than Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.It’s a stirring cautionary tale of what can happen when you let…
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…
Last weekend’s all-star party lineup was obviously a see-and-be-seen kind of deal. But now that it’s all over, you get to sit at your computer and just look at everyone else.It’s all thanks to our team of photographers who waited around along the freezing red carpets all night for the…
The weekend’s big event may be out in Arlington, but the American Airlines Center’s still hosting the rookie challenge and the slam dunk contest tonight and Saturday, and the arena’s catering crew — who figured prominently in our list of DFW’s stadium-food surprises — are turning out a new menu…
Blanketed by a fresh coat of snow, the hole three hilltop at Stevens Park loomed like an Oak Cliff Matterhorn this morning, and for the lucky ones in the neighborhood with nowhere else to be, it was home to the sweetest sledding in town.A few kids got to show off…
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…
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…
