Fighting spirit: East Dallas military veterans remember their time overseas
Whether it was 50 years ago or five, many East Dallas neighbors served overseas in the military. Their service delivered them to new corners…
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Swiss Avenue’s Aldredge House: Public asset or public nuisance?
The raucous festivities at Swiss Avenue’s only non-residential mansion may mean the end of an early 20th century home’s open door policy. The number…
Lost in the detail: Small items on the Lakewood Home Tour have big stories
It’s a fall tradition 39 years in the making. The Lakewood Home Festival draws neighbors every year to explore unique homes, learn about local…
Patti Vinson: Pietro and his family remember 50 years in the restaurant industry
Pietro’s is that wonderful, old world restaurant on Richmond Avenue, just steps from Lower Greenville. That lovely little place with the red-checkered tablecloths, piped-in…
Delicious: The Heights
It’s part neighborhood coffee shop, part gastropub with an upscale twist. Expect to find a new take on traditional dishes, such as a classic…
The good fight: Veterans, we cannot thank you enough
Germany. Vietnam. Afghanistan. Korea. These and other far-off countries don’t begin to cover the places many of our neighbors have shipped off to as…
Beauty in pain: Artist Caroline Oliver’s personal life inspired messy and beautiful works of art.
Growing up in Phoenix, Ariz., Caroline Oliver loved rain but rarely saw it. So it was fitting when the East Dallas artist named her…
Globetrotter Kimberly Haley-Coleman takes East Dallasites around the world
As the Obama administration eases travel restrictions to the long-exiled island of Cuba, millions of Americans are preparing to flock there in the upcoming…
Unsolved mystery: The search for the rightful owners of a cache of 1920s letters found in East Dallas
It’s a mystery decades in the making, the likes of which seem reminiscent of the setting for a saccharine made-for-TV movie. It’s a mystery…
15 things to do in November around Lakewood/East Dallas
Through Nov. 25 Autumn at the Arboretum It’s your last chance to bask in the feeling of fall at the Dallas Arboretum with…
Worship: Counsel for the ‘Beliebers’
Justin Bieber says he “just wanna honestly live like Jesus.” Good for him. Good any who wanna honestly live like Jesus. Justin says: “Jesus…
Little dog, big world
Melee the chi-weenie is a lap dog who thinks she’s a great Dane. She lives in East Dallas with her humans, Kiley and Matthew…
