Audio By Carbonatix
Keep Dallas Observer Free
We’re aiming to raise $10,000 by April 26. Your support ensures Dallas Observer can continue watching out for you and our community. No paywall. Always accessible. Daily online and weekly in print.
Skip to Page 98 of The New York Times Style Magazine that came with this morning’s paper — that’s where you’ll find “Tex Mix” by Sandra Ballentine, a single page of what’s in in Dallas, “this much-misunderstood town” where “most fillies wouldn’t be caught dead with big hair.” Ballentine sorts through eight “buzzy nightspots” and “interesting shops,” which are: Grange Hall, Ceylone et Cie, The Joule, Cabana, Forty Five Ten, Tei-An, V.O.D. and Park, where “you haven’t lived until you’ve tasted the chicken-fried steak.”I wouldn’t go that far, but, still, one of the more thorough and thoughtful to-do-Dallas lists offered by an outsider (Ballentine is the magazine’s beauty and style director — fancy).