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Oak Cliff Mercantile building leased to garden store

Rachel Stone — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:13:27 +0000

The store is called Repotted, and owners Jamie Laws and Elizabeth Cummings are focused on selling Texas grown plants and natural gardening supplies.

They expect to open Sept. 18 in the old Oak Cliff Mercantile building, a converted Conoco station that was Oak Cliff real estate maven Ruth Chenoweth’s office… more

This weekend: parties, yard sale, music

Rachel Stone — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:01:54 +0000

Tonight, Sept. 2, is First Thursday in the Bishop Arts District, and there are a couple of celebrations. DIRT Design Studio, which took over the space that used to house Decorazon Gallery, is having an opening party. And ONLi is celebrating its one-year anniversary.

The women who own Oil and… more

Update: Texas Theatre under new management

Rachel Stone — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:05:17 +0000

The guys who are now operating the Texas Theatre — filmmaker Barak Epstein, film producer Adam Donaghey and composer/filmmaker Jason Reimer — are renovating the theater and expect to have a grand reopening in January. But there is still a lineup of weekly films starting Sept. 30.

Their renovation plans… more

Flower shop and design studio open in Bishop Arts

Rachel Stone — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:37:54 +0000

The shop is called DIRT Design Studio, and it’s in the former Decorazon gallery space. Owners Sonya and Chris Eudaley, who were living in a rental house at Bishop and Fifth, scooped up the space before it was even listed.

Even though the shop’s website is dirtflowers.com, it is more… more

Is air quality important or not?

Rick Wamre — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:51:50 +0000

Here’s an interesting juxtaposition of headlines from this morning’s DMN:

“Natural gas taxis going to the front of the line at Love Field.”

“Solo drivers may be able to buy way onto Dallas HOV lanes.”

On the one hand, our government leaders are busting the chops of small, individual-owned taxis… more

Oak Cliff’s 9/11 commemoration starts today

Rachel Stone — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:37:58 +0000

The Bank Tower at Oak Cliff’s annual 9/11 commemoration normally begins and ends the morning of Sept. 11. But this year, the remembrance will last 10 days.

The building’s managing partner, Ralph Isenberg, who collects 9/11-related art, has installed clear acrylic likenesses of the Twin Towers in the building’s lobby.… more

Wine review: Château l’Ermitage Rosé 2009

Jeff Siegel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:49:22 +0000

I was drinking rose the other day, and a question came up. Why, if so many roses are supposed to be dry, do some California roses seem sweet?

Two reasons. One is the idea of perception of sweetness, in which our brains assume that something that tastes fruity is going… more

The first upscale restaurant in Dallas was in Oak Cliff

Rachel Stone — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:58:22 +0000

Here’s one for the didja know file. In doing some research for an upcoming story, I came across one of Stanley Marcus’s old guest columns in the Dallas Morning News, where he’s talking about the “notable Dallas restaurants of the midcentury period”.

In the 1996 column, he says there wasn’t… more

Digital edition: August 2010

Christy Robinson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:31:49 +0000

Read the August digital edition here.

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Texas Theatre under new management

Rachel Stone — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:28:00 +0000

Dallas-based filmmaker Barak Epstein announced today on Twitter that his new company, Aviation Cinemas, is taking over operations of the Texas Theatre.

A message on the Texas Theatre’s website says the historic theater is undergoing renovations and will reopen with showings in October.

We rang Epstein this morning, but he… more