Archive for December, 2010
By Bruce Felps And here’s to the brighter prospects of 2011. Have fun.
By Bruce Felps Like last night’s offering, this appeared earlier today at NBCDFW.com pretty much as it is here. But boy, does it apply here in East Dallas, where celebratory bullets tend to rain down at midnight like so many meteors in a shower. For God’s sake, people, please don’t fire off guns at the [...]
By Bruce Felps The Common Era turns 2011 at the midnight stroke tonight. Café Lago turned 10 years old at the stroke of Sunday. The café, which opened Dec. 26, 2000, celebrated its decade of delectables with free birthday cake for its customers and some heartfelt visits to see owner Gabriela Kovacic.
By Bruce Felps As one Ohio writer put it, “New Year’s resolutions are as much a part of the holiday as watching the ball drop on television and having pork and sauerkraut.” Amen to that, broth… wait, what? Black-eyed peas, man. [lowering voice a half-octave] Pork and sauerkraut … [raising it again to normal, slightly [...]
By Bruce Felps Taste of Greenville Avenue Oct. 23 provided more than some good eats, good times, and a good way to bring together the community. The event also provided some needed funds to neighborhood schools. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee elementary schools, and Woodrow Wilson High School — hmm, something seems to be [...]
By Bruce Felps Management of Blue Goose Cantina went above and beyond during the course of the year to set aside a percentage of sales realized from its quesadilla of the month specials. The proceeds accumulated to $10,230, which Blue Goose representatives presented last week to the beneficiary of the charitable drive — Empower Your [...]
By Bruce Felps Promise of Peace Community Garden stages a benefit concert early February to help fund its ongoing mission of reducing, perhaps eliminating, teen pregnancy and gang involvement among students at Woodrow Wilson High School. The show, featuring Hollywood-Santa Monica resident Kelly Brown and Local Honey along with The Complications, takes place Feb. 3 [...]
By Bruce Felps Remember Thursday, as we bade each other a fond and happy Christmas, when I said the weekend forecast called for “holiday with intermittent postings”? Yeah, well, given the lack of frenzied activity here, and elsewhere, today, that forecast now officially applies to the balance of this week and through the weekend.
By Bruce Felps The city remains intent on cleaning house before out-of-town guests arrive early February for a friendly little football game. The latest effort takes aim at graffiti, and the new push comes in the form of a soda blaster used in lieu of a sandblaster to remove scrawl on walls. The official run [...]
By Bruce Felps Now that the gift-wrap is gift-shred and the bows have been stashed away for reuse next year, here’s one last bow to tie up the season. Michael Davis, vice chairman of the Dallas City Plan Commission, explained why he opposes fee waivers for existing businesses along Lower Greenville Avenue when and if [...]
