Good afternoon from the hoppin’est club in Downtown Dallas, Room 6ES inside City Hall, where the Transportation and Environment Committee is presently meeting, as Bobsky told you earlier today, about issues related to transportation, the environment and committees. On the agenda: air quality, water conservation and long-range transit planning.First up…
Sunday afternoon, a horde of be-SPF’d cyclists gathered outside Eno’s in Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District to launch an extremely polite two-wheeled assault on Oak Cliff. The “Spring Has Sprung Garden Ride” was more of a summer-is-in-your-face ride, but it didn’t stop the pack of riders (and their kids) from…
Vanilla IceMay 21, 2010TreesBetter than: watching Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader? reruns while loaded up on whippets. Friday night, all the popular kids you wished you knew in high school but who never left whatever crappy suburb you’re from found a babysitter, got dressed up for their bimonthly big…
Honor system: It’s reasonable to assume that your coupled friends and neighbors are engaging in a certain amount of consensual adult behavior. But if you’re friends or neighbors with one Granbury couple, you don’t need to assume. You just need to log on to the CW33’s website or watch its…
In the post-Beatlemania era, it’s perhaps true to say that a hard day’s night usually involves ordering in and falling asleep during Letterman, whereas a hard night’s day involves a handful of Ibuprofen, a gallon of Gatorade and asking everyone to talk a little quieter. But this Friday, A Hard…
Lower Greenville, Knox-Henderson or Deep Ellum? That’s the question I asked all kinds of folks before moving back to Dallas this month to re-join the Observer. Two and a half years gone while in grad school in Austin, and all kinds of things change in this town. Somebody set off…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Ruth Goldway, chair of the Postal Regulatory Commission, opened today’s meeting deep in the bowels of Dallas City Hall thusly: “We’re hoping to get as much input as we can, from a wide cross-section” of people who care (or don’t) about their Saturday delivery. The commission held its first hearing…
After an hour spent in exile while the city council’s Economic Development Committee spent an hour talking about The Mall Formerly Known as Red Bird, we’re finally down to business — and, no mention of what they decided to do about Southwest Center Mall. It’s like it never happened. I…
From the department of Who Could Possibly Give The Tiniest, Most Diminutive, Maximally Petite and Demure of Shits: A Granbury couple will have sex every day for the next 30 days and report back to CW33 about how it went. This “news” story features photos of the couple for your…
This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s spent any time on the Craigslist Rants And Raves forum (what can I say — it goes good with a glass of Franzia Sunset Blush), but science has now proved that Craigslist posters are — and this is my own…
Greetings, Friends! I’m the only person wearing jeans in the Dallas City Council Chamber today for the Texas Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations meeting starring state Sen. Royce West and an ensemble cast of local government officials talking about the effect and implementation of state legislation passed during the last…
Celebrated local chef Tim Byres is en route to New York City as we speak with a hell of a carry-on: dinner for 80, plus booze. Executive chef of the Belmont Hotel’s posh barbecue outfit Smoke, Byres will cook a sold-out $165/plate dinner this Friday night for the Beard Foundation,…
Along with oversized bangles, rompers and feathered headbands, cheating on your spouse is a new supertrend … if, that is, you’re a lady! Press the moral panic button and make sure the smelling salts are close at hand, for demure sensibilities may be offended by a press release sent to…
[Editor’s note: Well, look who’s returned to Unfair Park, none other than former Girl on Top Andrea Grimes. And, for some reason, she’s decided to reintroduce herself with … a liveblog from the Quality of Life Committee meeting at Dallas City Hall, where they’re covering big changes in code compliance…
Lucky for us, just because SMU will be host to the George W. Bush Presidential Library doesn’t mean the entire university has to join up with the Bush brand of conservative, head-in-the-sand politics. Glory, glory: Several SMU departments have partnered with the Veteran Feminists of America (that’s a group for…
While the upcoming Depravities of War exhibit at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Uptown will no doubt be moving, disturbing and powerful, it is also an art exhibit about, well, the depravities of war. With the death and the rape and the pillaging and what-have-you. Which is why I’ve decided…
Our last trip to Vegas was filled with the usual adult-Disneyland lights ‘n’ breasts ‘n’ booze, but also shiny new casino construction. Sadly, highway billboards indicate this awesome new space will be filled with the likes of Carrot Top and the winner of America’s Got Talent. Go to Vegas for…
If you believe Valentine’s Day is anything other than a capitalism-fueled holiday of cliche-ridden pap, you are probably going out to dinner at a somewhat overpriced dining establishment this weekend, then hopping in your mid-sized sedan to drive down to the multiplex to see the Garry Marshall film Valentine’s Day,…
To some people, a Monte Cristo sandwich doesn’t sound so great. It’s a deep-fried sandwich, served with turkey and sweet jelly and a side of cream. Not, it would seem, a match made in heaven. And yet the Monte Cristo is very delicious. And so we challenge you to think…
Perhaps the most inane colloquialism these days is the mopey, just-give-up phraseology of “It is what it is.” It is? What? It is. Oh my, how thought-provoking. So we hope that the Thornwood Gallery’s Paint Is Paint exhibit goes a little deeper in content than in title. Then again, it…
Is there something you love doing as a hobby? Would you like to do it on national television, in competition form, to be judged by professionals and generally be used and abused for all to see? Would you like your full human personality to be whittled down via a cutthroat…
