It wasn’t Kevin Smith’s proudly rude series of films-as-dick-jokes that brought him fame among the masses. It was a bad customer service experience. You remember: Southwest Airlines designated him a “passenger of size” and kicked him off an Oakland-to-Burbank flight. One assumes the Southwest staff had not seen much of…
Yesterday, I made love to Don Draper.He was gentle when he needed to be gentle, and he was rough in all the right places. We talked. We caressed. And as I laid there in his 3,000-thread count sheets and watched him pour me another Scotch, I knew that I would…
Typically, us Observer peeps keep our ever-simmering hearts of hate hidden behind the gentle curtain of the written word. But, tonight, we are coming out from behind our mixed metaphor to make an exception for you, our readers, whosoever of you are foolish enough to get drunk and sing in…
The Boiler Room2723 Elm St.214-758-0104Today, during a quick lunch at the newly opened Boiler Room on Elm Street in Deep Ellum, I had a conversation about actually, actively moving to the neighborhood as soon as possible, instead of meandering through hopeful speculation about how Deep Ellum is maybe, kind of,…
One of my most vivid junior high memories from Mansfield’s Worley Middle School comes from seventh-grade health class, wherein it was Coach T.’s job to teach us about the birds and bees — without mentioning trees, hives, wings, honey, feathers, queens or anything else related to birds and/or bees. The…
Sunday brunch was likely a bigger deal than usual for the multitude of music-loving Dallasites who came out to the DOMA showcase this weekend in Deep Ellum — the whole thing had the feel of a holiday street party, and the drinking was done with this in mind. Surprisingly, when…
Can we quit being surprised about Deep Ellum being kind of awesome yet? Because between the group of excellent new bars and restaurants opening in the neighborhood, last Saturday’s downright packed Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and the first-ever Deep Ellum Outdoor Market, it appears as though the ‘Ellum is…
If you think vegetables deserve to die and be consumed without mercy and are also a particular fan of George Harrison, no doubt you recognized the source of the offerings on this plate. A pair of stony felines invite diners — and others with less gastronomical intentions — to step…
Texas Supreme Court Judge Harriet O’Neill told 560 of her fellow lawyers at the Dallas Bar Association today that she’d rather be called “hon” than “ho.” She was referring to the use of her initials when she was appointed to the court, and her quip set the tone for the…
We’d just pulled up to the corner of Kiest Boulevard and Polk Street in Southwest Dallas this afternoon when a guy in a black Ford Escort rolled down his window to talk to a pony-tailed undercover vice cop. She’d been milling around outside a car wash in a swimsuit and…
Here’s hoping your relationship with Big Chief White Cloud, the god of parking, isn’t just one of those Christmas-and-Easter things, because if you intended to get to last night’s Bastille Day celebration in Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District, having him on your side was a major plus.Organizers and Francophiles Jason…
Earlier today I drove up to the home of the deceased mayor of Coppell, Jayne Peters, and her daughter, Corinne, who were found dead in their home last night after Mayor Peters failed to show up for a council meeting. No doubt you’ve read much of the coverage already, but…
I don’t know if Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is a smart man. I don’t know if he’s an honest man. But I know Dwaine Caraway loves to hear Dwaine Caraway talk, and for some reason, people love to watch Dwaine Caraway loving to hear himself talk. Which maybe explains…
There is a massive (like, so big you kind of can’t even imagine it) difference between what we often imagine sex work to be, based on romanticized programs like Secret Diary of a Call Girl and a whole host of other hooker-with-a-heart-and-wallet-full-of-gold stories, and what sex work actually is, which…
When your Saturday morning dawns late, accompanied by a face-assaulting headache, puffy eyes and a stomach that writes checks its proverbial ass is pretty intent on cashing, brunch offers a ray of shimmering hope through the hangover cloud. If you want — actually, if you need — to eat the…
Hop on the Green Line train tonight and hop off when you see every restaurateur in Dallas — it’ll be the Fair Park stop, where the 24th annual Taste of Dallas kicks off this evening and continues throughout the weekend. Some of the Big Dizzle’s best-known chefs will be in…
Lisa Stone disappeared on June 4, and her friends in the Dallas LGBT community are disseminating a flier and have created a Facebook page, according to the Dallas Voice’s InstantTea blog. Photographs and Stone’s birth certificate were found in a dumpster near her home, while Stone’s purse and pets were…
Competition: bad for girls, good for boys. Girls, delicate flowers that they are, get sad and mopey when they don’t play nice, while boys become robust like bear. This is science, per SiFy News (which is I think where Stephen Hawking gets most of his science news), not to be…
Having gotten most of my holiday-related drinking done at an East Texas lake between Friday night and Sunday afternoon, I awoke Monday morning refreshed and ready to eat something that hadn’t been half-dumped in a camp fire. A cruise through Deep Ellum left few options — not only was it…
Falling. Off. The. Bone.OFF. THE. BONE.That is what the red-wine braised chicken I ate for lunch was doing. The bone it was on, it was falling off of that bone. So tender. So braised. So totally what you would expect from ex-Libertine chef Roseanne “Ro” DiLeo, poached by Deep Ellum’s…
“Life’s too short to be serious.” Printed on a tiny, squishy yellow pillow. For sale at the Sixth Floor Museum Store + Cafe. You know, the one that caters to patrons of the Sixth Floor Museum, the museum that features exhibits about the untimely death-by-assassination of our 35th President, John…
Cops approach domestic disturbance calls with an abundance of caution, knowing that these situations are highly unpredictable and can escalate quickly, turning dangerous, even deadly. When an officer pulls up to a residence, they don’t know who’s armed. Who’s on drugs. Who’s been drinking. And who’s so pissed off they…
