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Highland Park Tells Dallas to Make Our Buildings More Predictable in Katy Trail Development Suit

Rich people, we learn time and time again, do not like living near tall buildings or lowlifes who rent their homes, even if those tall buildings are fancy condos, occupied by lowlife renters who are also rich. Of course, the well-to-do usually come up with a better excuse for why they're fighting th ... More >>

Highland Park HS Keeps Genesis on Required Reading List Despite Smut

Last week, Highland Park ISD released its updated high school reading list. The list provided titles required for in-class reading, optional outside reading and the passive aggressive list of "approved" but not taught in the classroom reading. Students will have to get parental permission to read s ... More >>

What Are We So Afraid of? Besides Breasts, Books, Cops, Terrorists and Basically Everything.

Old hippie, nanny-state, fault-finding, problem-centric, negative-minded, knee-jerk liberals -- and I speak only of myself -- were quick enough to jump all over Highland Park school district last week for banning seven books from the high school curriculum. Now I guess we're under some kind of oblig ... More >>

Park Cities Kids Are Already Rich. Why Do We Want Them To Be Smart?

"There's nothing sure. The rich get rich and the poor get poor. In the meantime, in between time, ain't we got fun?" "Ain't We Got Fun," Van and Schenck, 1921 Hate that lyric. Always did. Don't think it's true. The most recent big upward mobility study found that, while mobility in the U.S. isn ... More >>

Highland Park Presbyterian Is Back in the Gay News Again, Surely Not for the Last Time

The saga of Highland Park Presbyterian Church and gaydom reached another milestone last week when the church agreed to pay its too-gay national church body $7.8 million in order to break away and join a new no-gay version of Presbyterianism, a Protestant denomination which traces its name from the G ... More >>

Highland Park May Be Just a Little Jealous of DISD's Bilingual Students

Highland Park ISD plans to launch an elementary-level Spanish learning program next year. It's a project that most in the district are embracing -- after all, multilingualism is linked to dozens of developmental benefits. Bilingual individuals are often smarter, better listeners and in later life m ... More >>

Dallas Will Allow a New Katy Trail Mid-Rise, Highland Park's Objections Be Damned

Over the objections of their Park Cities neighbors, the Dallas City Council voted this afternoon to approve a zoning change that will allow for the construction of a new luxury mid-rise apartment building on Cole Avenue site currently occupied by the Saltillo Apartments. See also: Highland Park, Fi ... More >>

Highland Park, Fighting Luxury Apartment on Katy Trail, Insists It's Not Against Density, Just Tall Buildings

What kind of rich people would be more fun to have living along the Katy Trail -- family-oriented rich people who prefer short buildings, or fast-paced rich people in high-rises? The current property on 4719 Cole Ave. is not habitable for any type of rich people. The Saltillo apartments building w ... More >>

Highland Park Cop Won't Be Charged in Town's First-Ever Fatal Police Shooting

The first Highland Park police officer to fatally shoot a suspect on duty is now also the first Highland Park police officer to be cleared of criminal wrongdoing for shooting a suspect while on duty. The officer, who has not yet been identified but presumably will be at a Highland Park Department o ... More >>

At Highland Park's Number One Coffee, Blue Bottle and Snickerdoodles and Lots O' Juice

One-time barista Liz Goulding drinks coffee around Dallas so her head doesn't hurt and so she can help keep yours from hurting, too. Got a place to suggest? Leave it in the comments. I didn't think I'd like Number One for a few reasons, namely its address in the Park Cities (because I'm a Bizarro S ... More >>

Le First Look at Le Bilboquet: A Spot of France in Uptown

Opening quietly just over two weeks ago, Le Bilboquet has confidence that can only come from experience, which makes sense, since the restaurant is actually a transplant from the Upper East Side in New York City. The original in New York is expanding, and expanding quite far to boot, since it's made ... More >>

Highland Park Police Shooting a Weird One. Weird Ones Need Investigation.

Highland Park police say they shot and killed a man Tuesday after he escaped from handcuffs while locked inside a patrol car, shot out the back window of the car, attempted to escape and got into a gun battle with them on a crowded shopping center parking lot where other cars were hit by cross-fire. ... More >>

Suspect Slips Handcuffs, Shoots Out Window of Highland Park Police SUV, Is Killed Near SMU

So many questions remain unanswered regarding the fatal shooting of a motorcyclist in police custody Tuesday evening. Who is he? How did he manage to bring a gun into the back of a Highland Park police SUV, and to fire it after he'd already been placed in handcuffs? What we do know is incredible. A ... More >>

Amanda Thatcher, Highland Park Grad and the Late Prime Minister's Granddaughter, is the Darling of the British Press

In the wake of Margaret Thatcher's death last week, the Morning News took the opportunity to plumb its archives to remind us of the British prime minister's surprisingly strong ties to Dallas. She was something of a regular here, making frequent trips to Highland Park to visit her son Mark and her t ... More >>

Highland Park Will Be Having None of Your Tacky Artificial Grass, Thank You

Highland Park's city council has decided to ban fake plastic grass from the town's front yards, a scourge which according to one city official has overtaken at least three (3) properties. The Morning News reports that council members voted on the new ordinance on Monday. Artificial turf will stil ... More >>

So Why Did the Dallas Country Club Really Set Off Fireworks Last Night?

Over on the News' ice cream blog, Robert Wilonsky reports that North Dallas was baffled last night by an unexpected firework display, allegedly to help celebrate the new clubhouse at the Dallas Country Club. But we all know that a little clubhouse opening isn't enough to warrant fireworks in the Pa ... More >>

Marquee Grill's Seasonal Affective Disorder

Tomatoes in winter dull the spotlight in Highland Park.

Bistro 31 Sets Highland Park Buzzing

Simple Mediterranean-inspired plates designed for Park Cities palates.

How Restaurants Should Fight Dallas' Dining ADD

​In this week's paper I tackle Bistro 31, the new Highland Park restaurant by Lombdardi Family Concepts. While researching the story, I spent time reading about Bistro 31 and the other restaurants in the group on well designed websites for each location. One line on Bistro 31's website stood out: ... More >>

Federal Judge Unseals Suit That Asks: Did Dallas Screw HUD Out of Hundreds of Millions?

​On June 10, 2010, I wrote a column for the newspaper about an official complaint brought to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by two Dallas developers alleging a decades-old pattern of racial discrimination and fraud by the city of Dallas, the county and other local entit ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Plus Halloween: My Cunning Plan for a Little Political Compassion

​Great trick-or-treaters last night on my street. Some years we just get kids from the block. They're great. But last night we got spillover from the Halloween gala on Swiss Avenue a block away. When that happens, we get an even bigger window on the festival. Got me thinking. Check me on this ... More >>

How Much Do Packers Like Highland Park?

​The Green Bay Packers were supposed to practice at SMU. Yeah, not so much. Instead, they wound up using the Highland Park Scots' relatively new indoor practice facility, which, from the looks of this glowing press pack, is worth every penny of the $4.5 million spent. From The Packers' Official Te ... More >>

Watch Hard: Christmas in Oak Cliff, and a Tour of Some of Your Finer Dallas Nativity Scenes

Two You Dallas offerings this morning, both guaranteed to put a smile on Robert Jeffress's face. At top is our pal Justin Terveen's Crèche Crawl -- "from Lakewood to Baylor Hospital to Highland Park," and points in between. Prematurely aged for your pleasure. And on the other side: the bright Chris ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Moving On Up

​Some places we covered this week are punching above their weight, for better or for worse, and others are aiming purposefully low. The best of City of Ate this week covers a handful of spots toying with a new social place.The Week in Review(s): Your own Dallas Observer: Dave tries slumming it at ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.24.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Barring a trade, the Cowboys won't make their first pick (51st overall) in tomorrow's NFL Draft until around 9:30 p.m., a good six hours after the thing kicks off. But it's worth it to tune in early.  ... More >>

And So It Begins

A traffic heads-up for tomorrow: Unless you're planning on protesting George W. Bush's move to the '229, you may want to avoid Mockingbird Lane at N. Central Expressway between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m. That's when Code Pink of Greater Dallas is planning on celebrating Inauguration Day by holding a ... More >>

Long May You Run

Athletes tackle the White Rock Marathon

Our Dallas Dynasty

When you think Highland Park, think wealth. And butlers. And Matthew Stafford. And, apparently, tennis. The Cowboys of the ’90s? Southlake Carroll of the ‘00s? They have nothing, and I mean nothing, on this local sports dynasty. Five state championships in six years. A record of 138-1 si ... More >>

The Mint is Heavy on Fusion and Light on Spice

Now, Where's My HazMat Uniform?

If you live between Lemmon Avenue, Kings Road, Maple Avenue, the Denton Drive cut-off and Inwood Road, the city has a favor to ask you. Like, could you please, pretty please, stay inside tomorrow night -- say, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 3 a.m.? Swell. Nothing big -- just a mosquito spray-down ... More >>

The Bubble Has Been Breached!

Begin panicking ... now. Because, according to the City of Dallas' Web site: Dallas County announces West Nile Virus found in Highland Park: The City will increase collections and urges residents to take precautions Don't worry, though. Mosquitoes are only .... Man's Deadliest Foe! --Robert Wilonsky

Angela Hunt to Highland Park: Take Your Toll Road and Stick It

You could always go to this "blog for the Park Cities," but we might have to charge you first. Park Cities peeps like to keep their distance from Dallasites. This much, we know. But who would have ever guessed that Highland Park would discuss tolling Mockingbird Lane in order to keep the “outsider ... More >>

Why We Miss Sarah Hepola

Hey, Grimes -- looks like another former Dallas Observer-er likes absinthe: Sarah Hepola. And not only does our ex-music editor write today about the Green Fairy for Salon, where she's now the deputy Life editor, she's also appears in a taste-testing video. Looks like Sarah's putting her Highland Pa ... More >>

Harmonic Convergence

We were debating on whether or not to wish Highland Park native Angie Harmon a "Happy 35th Birthday" today, till we saw this way too detailed item celebrating the momentous occasion. Like, her politics don't really do much for us -- she's been the GOP Babe of the Week, at least in Joisy -- but, like ... More >>

Get Lost

A reason to like Ron Perlman

Yeah, Absolutely, Highland Park Sucks

Of course they're putting up nothing but "towering structures" in Highland Park. It's easier to crap on the rest of us when you're higher up. There's an Associated Press story from this afternoon about how some folks in Oxford, Mississippi, are trying to get their neighborhood designated as a histor ... More >>

The Eyes Have It

From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk

When I was in high school, the school participated in a program called Shattered Dreams just before prom season. It's meant to instill fear of drunk driving in the hearts of binge-drinking high schoolers who may imbibe on their magical evening. The point is to create a shockingly real, disturbing ca ... More >>

Waterworld

Cafe Pacific may not resemble San Francisco much, but it's still pretty good

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Letters

Time Warp

Believe it or not, it's 2003 in Highland Park, too

Best Place to Take a Tourist

Highland Park Christmas lights tour

Best Art Gallery

Plush, Purple Orchid

Best outing with the kids

Dallas Museum of Art

Lack of confidence

Highland Park officers would like to get rid of their chief, if they could only figure out how

Buzz

The price of privilege

Highland Park ISD's expansion plans target the homes of the district's less affluent residents

User friendly

Cafe Highland Park brings The Bubble down to earth