Those who can’t do, teach … right? Well, those who don’t have a head for wine can try it on top of their cocktails. Remedy, the remixed, refined soda bar on Lower Greenville has, with veteran barman Máté Hartai at the helm, released a new cocktail menu. One concoction caught...
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Erika Estrada never quite fit in with the moms of White Rock Valley. "It's very Stepford," she says. Estrada got an inkling shortly after she and her husband, Rick, bought a spacious ranch-style house on Highedge Drive in 2004 and they were peppered with invitations to living-room Bible studies. She...
For a while there two years ago, it seemed to Alejandro Escovedo as though it were all crumbling. His legendary rock 'n' roll career. His physical health. His mind. His beloved Austin, a place he had helped create as much as it had created him. About the only thing Alejandro could see...
Did you know that emmental is the state cheese? No? That's because we don't have a state cheese. That's a shame, really, because Texan cheese makers are producing some really fine fromage. Taste six Texan cheeses, two wines and two accompaniments at the Dallas Farmers Market location of Scardello. This...
Touting its made-from-scratch, home-style baked goods, California bakery SusieCakes announced its first location outside of the Golden State: 6100 Luther Lane, at the corner of Luther Lane and Westchester Drive in Preston Center. Along with baked goods, SusieCakes will sell breakfast goods and Cultivar Coffee, according to a press release. Founded...
The lack of hard data available to help predict the effects of Texas' anti-abortion House Bill 2 came up again and again earlier this month when the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether to strike down portions of the law. The most contentious regulation, the one that requires any abortion...
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It’s so hard to get into the swing of things when the week starts out with a holiday. You skip all that Sunday night dread, relish not being in the office all day, and then the rest of the week somehow feels that much lighter. Even if your job still...
Ester Zapata’s sister and brother attended Mount Auburn Elementary. Zapata’s two eldest children, now 24 and 18, went there as well. So when it came time for her youngest, Emily, to enter kindergarten, there was no question that she’d follow in the footsteps of her aunt and uncle and brother...
Drivers who don't pay tickets for getting caught by one of Dallas' hated red-light cameras won't get a bad mark on their credit reports, Dallas police assistant director Donzell Gipson told the City Council's public safety committee Monday. Gipson said the city is being forced to find a new way to...
It's bad enough for a rookie politician to face the Texas Rangers' corruption unit, but it hurts more when it's a friend who set you up. It's the kind of hurt that lingers long after the Rangers' investigation is over. Flower Mound Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Itamar Gelbman found himself...
Every once in a while something sticks in my heart or my craw. This one was heart. Last week, writing about a city-funded program to build houses in central oak Cliff, I quoted Raymond Crawford, who lives in one of the target neighborhoods, as saying, “Everyone knows the city really...
In the fourth grade I voted for George H.W. Bush in a mock election because I had a huge crush on the boy playing him. I didn’t watch the candidates on TV, read the paper or listen to talk radio. Like most kids, the extent of my relationship to politics...
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Vaxxed, the new “documentary” about the alleged connection between vaccines and autism, is directed by Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor responsible for duping untold thousands of parents into believing vaccinations could give their children autism. This may not be news to anyone who’s followed the controversy surrounding the film’s abrupt...
Unless you have been ignoring the Internet over the last few days, you've probably noticed Denton's Kaela Sinclair has entered 2016 with a bang. The Florida-born University of North Texas alumna posted a killer video cover of SOHN's "Artifice" to Facebook last Thursday and the results have been impressive, to...
There was a lot of beer — and a lot of great beer — at Brew Riot, the homebrew fest that took over Bishop Arts on Sunday afternoon. Established breweries shared their goods, homebrewing clubs showed off seriously above average beers (I would like a dozen six-packs of Trunk and...
Do This! For a free and fun Friday night, hit up the Dallas Arts District’s Summer Block Party, which will close off Pearl and Flora streets from 6 p.m. to midnight. The Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Klyde Warren Park and Crow Collection of Asian Art will all open their...
You may never recognize Siamese from one show to the next. The Dallas band is an avant-garde dream-pop experiment whose members try on different personas seasonally. By changing their concept every few live appearances and rotating themes according to their latest inspiration, the band's like a DIY Cirque du Soleil,...
In this week's Dallas food news, two eateries shutter, a nightclub unveils an expensive renovation, Stephan Pyles announces the team for his latest endeavor and local beer comes to the Dallas Farmers Market. Henderson Avenue "upscale dance club" Candleroom is celebrating its 13th birthday by unveiling a massive renovation. They're also...
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The Brothers Grimsby is a movie for those who thought Kingsman: The Secret Service didn’t go far enough. If all the exploding heads and anal-sex jokes and creative impalements of Matthew Vaughn’s tongue-in-cheek spy thriller didn’t do it for you, rest assured: This time, we get to see British super-agent...
Most of Dallas major hospitals look pretty good in the Hospital Safety Score Survey released this week by the Leapfrog Group, a patient safety watchdog organization. Methodist Charlton Medical Center, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and UT Southwestern University Hospital all got A's on their report cards...
Think about what makes a honky tonk, and a few images are likely to come to mind: Cowboys and girls drinking beers, doing some two-stepping, shooting some pool and smoking. Lots of smoking. No honky tonk in North Texas is more iconic than Billy Bob's. But the Fort Worth venue...
Susan Sarich says she fell in love with Dallas immediately. She loves it so much, in fact, that the owner of California bakery chain SusieCakes is house-hunting here while she opens the bakery's first location outside of Cali, on a bustling corner of Preston Center. "The neighborhood here has a...