This weather update from Unfair Park HQ: Yes it’s still snowing. Walking through downtown this morning was like taking a stroll around Minneapolis: steaming, snow-caked trucks kicking up road slush and huddled smokers hiding under umbrellas and office building overhangs.In a Dallas kind of way, though, the sidewalks this morning…
Dr. Bell’s BBQ1404 Main St214-741-4552Dude Factor: 9, or Dr. House, on a scale of 1 (Dr. Phil) to 10 (Hawkeye)If you’re looking for a meal of substance in the middle of the workday around Main and Akard Streets, your options are pretty limited.There are plenty of places to find a…
The Fox and The Bird folked up the House of Blues Cambridge Room on Friday night, opening for Bowerbirds, and our photographer Sara Kerens was there to cover the set.You can check out more shots from the show here in our slideshow…
Mardi Gras Texas Style drew thousands of fans to Fair Park on Saturday, for a bill of 20 country acts including the Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Cory Morrow and more. As if you needed an excuse to throw a beer-can necklace over your “Girls Gone Wild Film…
Oceans rise, rock legends fall, time marches on, and somehow, inexplicably, the Snuggie persists. Almost a year after we covered a Snuggie night at the Quarter Bar for charity, our photographer Gloria Levario headed out to the Snuggie Pub Crawl in Uptown, where a cadre of bar-hoppers braved the cold…
G. Love & Special Sauce played the House of Blues on Friday night, and our photographer Caity Colvard was there to catch shots of the band, the crowd and the souvenir underwear assortment at the merch table.Check out the rest of the shots here in our slideshow…
In this week’s Observer, Dave’s search for an English pub in North Texas is finally satisfied, with his stop at Plano’s Holy Grail.Check out shots of their short ribs and fried goat cheese, and more scenes from around the pub, in this week’s Dish slideshow from Sara Kerens…
The Number Six UnwichLettuce wrap stuffed with lettuce, sprouts, tomato and avocadoIt’s funny how what we call a food can change the way we think about eating it.”Champagne,” when misapplied, lends a respectable, continental air to that sparkling white California wine, and “tapas” helps make the prospect of less food…
A $3 million donation announced minutes ago will affix the JPMorgan Chase name onto the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park’s Promenade, in a big score for one of the city’s biggest public-private construction partnerships (worth $56-plus million).Park chairman Jody Grant called it a “momentous” gift during the press conference at the park’s…
While a good slice of the Dallas party scene hunkered down to stay out of last weekend’s brutal cold, our undaunted nightlife photo team caught up with Kelle Marie, spinning at The Cavern Saturday night.After that, the Brothers Lek ventured on to Zubar for Lunar Tunes with JV & Eric…
Neighbors say the house on the corner of Greenville Avenue and Vickery Boulevard has been needing some serious repairs for years, but now, as you can see from the photo above, the place is a genuine fixer-upper.We checked out the place Wednesday night because word was someone had still been…
Closing out a four-act revue of downtown’s political keepers last night, DowntownDallas CEO John Crawford promised good news, a “unique experience” of a town hall meeting and a look at the latest “vibrancy and excitement” in the heart of Dallas. That the big news included five new video boards, a dozen Supergraphics…
In this week’s Observer, Dave visits India West in Addison, where he finds the kitchen fine at times, underwhelming at others, and generally filling the more upscale, less cutely named void for the Kebab N Kurry crowd.Check out more photos from the restaurant, and what you’d find to eat there,…
Walt Whitman fans turning up for Leaves of Grass will be reassured to find, yes, a few bearded young men in this new photo exhibition, but they may be surprised to find that it’s about Afghanistan. Documentary photographer Jared Moossy helps connect the show’s title to his work by referencing…
A little after 9 this morning, the man neighbors know only as “J.B.” walked out his back door and took his daily stroll up Lower Greenville. When he came back eight hours later, the house was gone.Wood scraps were heaped over the cement foundation at the corner of Greenville Avenue and…
DJs Woody Rosen, Micah B and Richard Thomas spun classic House music to celebrate DJ Big Snax’s birthday last Friday night, and our nightlife photo crew was there to shoot the rare dance party at the Windmill Lounge.Next up, they caught Infected Mushroom at the Lizard Lounge on Saturday night,…
Each week Out Of Order challenges restaurants to defend their dishes against someone trying desperately to mess things up. We hope to find a few who say the customer isn’t always right. Ensalada de Meat Four WaysBowl of lettuce with chicken, barbacoa, carnitas and steak with jalapeño Tabasco sauce.I was…
Reverend Horton Heat took the Granada Theater stage Saturday night, along their tour supporting the band’s latest release, Laughin’ & Cryin’ With The Reverend Horton Heat.The band kept the energy running high, joined onstage for a few songs by Eleven Hundred Springs’ Matt Hillyer. Our photographer Gloria Levario was there,…
On a weekend stacked with Haiti benefit shows around the country, the Prophet Bar played host to a local fund-raising effort, the “Heartbeats for Haiti” show with Brave Combo, Spoonfed Tribe, and a grab bag of world music acts from reggae to meringue.Our Spike Johnson was there for the party,…
As if to underscore the fact that he’s a guy who can do it all for the team, Dirk Nowitzki took a seat in the American Airlines Center ticket booth this afternoon to sell the first tickets to next month’s NBA All-Star Jam Session.After contributing 20 points to the Mavs’…
Earlier today on DC9, Darryl related his thoughts on the show Everclear III put on at the House of Blues last night. Though he wasn’t too enamored of the performance, his sizing up of the scene, where guys cowered in the corner to avoid the “Volvo Driving Soccer Moms” on…
This week Dave checks in with The Mansion’s new rising star chef Bruno Davaillon, who’s given new direction to the storied kitchen’s recent wandering ways.For more shots of creekside elegance and dessert, check out this week’s Dish slideshow from Sara Kerens…
