Posts Tagged ‘olive’
Olive Is Home
Jeff PrinceHere’s a feel-good story to kick off your weekend: Earlier this week Blotch told readers about Olive, the Tandy Hills Natural Area’s unofficial mascot that went missing. Don and Debora Young were heartbroken and did...
Where’s Olive?
Jeff PrinceThe little dog with the funny teeth and sweet personality had become the unofficial mascot of the Tandy Hills Natural Area in recent years, and she’s a familiar sight at the Prairie Fest events. Debora Young adopted the d...
Spelling Bee Scores
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is given an uproarious reading by Theatre Arlington.JIMMY FOWLER
The word “cartoonish” is typically used as an insult, but it describes all the best qualities of Theatre Arlington’s tearfully funny staging of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee — brightly colored, sharply draw...
Rings of Fire
Laurie Barker JamesIn addition to a new name and new owners, the restaurant formerly known as Duce also has a new concept. Gone are former owner Tim Love’s tapas – in their place, bona fide and excellent entrées.
Classic Beauty
George’s Specialty Foods is small but powerful in the Greek cuisine department — and also has some swank cachet.JIMMY FOWLER
The joint isn’t much to look at, sitting like an outpost along a barren stretch of White Settlement Road, with only a city bus stop across the street for companionship.
Glossed Over
Depending on where you sit, Stage West’s version of As Bees in Honey Drown is either fun or clichéd.Jimmy Fowler
Americans love the idea of the “self-made man,” or of the woman who takes charge of her life and becomes the person she was meant to be.
Portrait of an Artist
The Fort Worth School gained a masterpiece when Olive Pemberton chose brushstrokes over Broadway.Jeff Prince
Hitting the gym three days a week puts a snap in Olive Pemberton’s step. She knows about staying fit, having danced on Broadway and made Look magazine’s “Beautiful Girls From Texas” list in 1939. The ens...
Old World, Old School
Long-time ma-and-pa pizza joint Corky’s opts for substance over style.Jimmy Fowler
In the urban pizza wars, will there ever be a resolution? New York vs. Chicago-style, thick vs. thin, the Huts vs. the Inns — the skirmishes are many, the field is stained with marinara sauce, and we all refuse to budge on wh...
Olive the Family
Kristian LinAn enormous crowd-pleaser at the Sundance Film Festival, Little Miss Sunshine now looks poised to be this year’s “little indie movie that could” box-office hit. The packed house at the Angelika in Dallas, where I saw it l...