You Want Updates? Here Ya Go.

So, you want to know if Avila’s opened, per Judge Ken Molberg’s order last Friday that Ricardo Avila restore the Maple Avenue restaurant by no later than yesterday morning. The short answer: Nope. Not even close. I went by this morning and was greeted by a new sign that replaced…

Making Lemonade Out of Lemmon Ave.

Lord knows how many times I’ve driven over Turtle Creek on Lemmon Avenue: Hundreds? Thousands? Katrillions? Never really wondered what it looked like beneath Lemmon. But you know who did? Our old pal Justin Terveen, who’s clearly working on his Bodies of Water series…

Arlington Takes One More Thing From Dallas (and Fort Worth): The TABC!

Carolyn Beck, the director of Communications and Governmental Relations at the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, sends word: The Fort Worth outpost of the TABC is shutting down today and reopening on Tuesday in Arlington at 2225 E. Randol Mill Road. Also getting adiosed immediately: the Dallas Licensing Division on Stemmons…

In the Matter of Avila v. Avila

“Heartbreaking.” “Painful.” That is how Anita Avila describes the fight over the restaurant on Maple Avenue she and her husband opened in January 1986. In the end, she says, all she wants is for the restaurant to reopen with her once more running the operation, as she’d done before her…