Studio Eighty Redux
If you were cruising down University Drive last week, with the ragtop down so your hair can blow, you would have spied a pile...
Randi’s Last Resort: A Kind of Tiki
In the summer of 2013, I wrote about this place way out on Highway 80, past Doc’s Records and Vintage. Niles City Saloon was...
A Proper Tiki Lounge
Almost a century after famous establishments like Don the Beachcomer and Trader Vics introduced their Polynesian-themed good times to the West Coast, tiki bars...
Frankie’s: Thanks, Obama
Finding a true sports bar to post up at for football Sunday proved a lot more difficult than it was in past years. Not...
Living the High(lands) Life
Week by week, the retail sprawl just oozes further in the Arlington Highlands Lifestyle Center. For reasons I may never know, one of the...
GloryHole
I’ll be honest. David Bowie’s death made it tough to write this column. I initially turned it into a long-winded tribute to the musician...
Diving In Race Street
Recently, a couple of couples in our friend group moved into the up-and-coming Oakhurst neighborhood around North Sylvania Avenue. This area’s housing prices are...
Life’s Too Short to Live in Dallas
Arlington residents might have heard bullets whizzing overhead recently or at least caught the verbal kind of shots fired from Dallas back toward Fort...
Ampersand: Party in the Back
In early February, I whiled away a sunny afternoon quaffing liquor-infused coffee drinks on the patio of Ampersand, a coffee shop at the edge...
Hit the Bar at Hopdoddy
At the risk of tossing away any street cred I’ve amassed: I dig restaurant bars. With the exception of a few outstanding craft cocktail...
