If you’re looking to brighten up your home this spring, swing by the plant sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest High School. Proceeds benefit the class of 2013 for year-round senior activities.

The prices are reasonable, too. There are more than 20 plants priced from $5 to $20.

The … more

Meridian’s wines make are enough to make a wine writer crazy. Sometimes, they’re really, really well done, and do things like make the $10 Hall of Fame. Other times, they taste like the grocery store wines that they are, and their $10 Hall of Fame worthinness seems very hard to … more

Right now, eager 20-somethings are graduating college and diving into “the real world,” but not all of them have careers lined up. For many students in these uncertain economic times, graduation leads to an awkward transition period that often involves moving back home with their parents.

That can really take … more

Amid a plethora of the typical girly-girl spas in our neighborhood comes a new concept for men only. The Gents Place will open in the Preston Oaks Shopping Center at the southeast corner of Preston and Royal by the end of June.

The upscale men’s grooming and lifestyle club offers … more

Taste Addison, the three-day food festival, kicks off this Friday, from 6 p.m. to midnight. This year’s event will feature food from more than 60 Addison restaurants, live music, celebrity chef demonstrations and wine tasting seminars, carnival rides, midway games and more.

The 5th person and the 10th person to email “I … more

The Dallas Police Department today released new details about a string of violent assaults and/or robberies along the Katy Trail as well as other parts of the city. As many as 11 recent incidents — including the mugging of both a jogger and of a woman leaving the Katy Trail … more

After winning 52 percent of the vote on Saturday, Elizabeth Jones became the new Dallas ISD District 1 trustee, replacing veteran board member Edwin Flores.

Throughout the campaign, Jones has addressed the need for a more results-minded board with people who know the exact steps to take on any initiative … more

The waitress speaks in a melodic accent — I’m no dialectologist, but something European — and tells us why Grimaldi’s offers the best New York City style pizza in these parts. It’s the coal-fired brick ovens set to the precisely perfect temperature … she says (what that is, exactly, I … more

Here’s a question for Mayor Vision: How did he get to Fair Park for last week’s Texas-OU announcement? He didn’t need to take a signature bridge.

Nothing illustrates the short-sightedness that dominates the thinking of those who run the city better than Fair Park. They whine and bellyache about the … more

If you didn’t do it early, tomorrow’s the day to cast your vote for the Dallas ISD District 1 trustee who will replace long-time board member Edwin Flores. Read our exit interview with him in the May issue.

It’s been a hotly contested race particularly between DeGoyler dad Michael Greenberg … more