Author Archive

The Victim: Dennis Cochran
Location: 10000 block of Cole Ridge
Date: Tuesday, July 22
Time: 3:00 a.m.

In the dead of night, nothing stirred on Coal Ridge Street. Dennis Cochran and his family were asleep under the watchful eye of a custom-made security system. With a motion sensor floodlight and … more

You might not know BRAD BISHOP, but if you live in Dallas, you’ve likely seen his work. We caught up with the Lake Highlands resident just as he was hitching up his newly restored 1970s Oldsmobile 442 for a weekend car show in Dearborn, Mich. But his Oldsmobile obsession — … more

Taste of White Rock is in its second year, with the Peninsula Neighborhood Association announcing that the 2008 Taste of White Rock Dinner Club Book is now on sale. The $12 book is a buy-one, get-one-free dinner club good until Oct. 31, with proceeds benefiting organizations that support White Rock … more

It is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month — almost. Actually, October claims that designation, but Luke Davis is writing this column in the October issue, so I thought I’d just get a jump on the crowd and slip in an early reminder to make those yearly appointments, if you haven’t … more

Brian Luscher, a neighborhood resident who is the chef and co-owner The Grape on Lower Greenville, figured there was nothing a chef couldn’t do. That included replacing the cook top in his kitchen at home. Everything was going smoothly, Luscher says, until he wired the cook top and went to … more

It’s not often that a neighborhood association gets the chance to deal with a major Dallas-area real estate investment firm, and even less often that the relationship ends happily on both sides.

Luckily for the Royal Highlands Homeowner’s Association (RHHA), its recent collaboration with Trammell Crow ended not only peacefully … more

Lake Highlands resident Chris Kelley always knew he wanted to be a writer, even as a kid. He was curious, and that’s what drove him to poke, prod and then report.

His recently published non-fiction book “I Was A Stranger” is a result of this curiosity.

Kelley, who spent 27 … more

It is almost 8 p.m., and yoga students at the neighborhood gym are rolling up their mats and bidding farewell to their instructor as she shuts off the tranquil tunes.

Enter the teacher of the post-yoga class: With an unruly shock of graying hair, baggy shorts and a bursting-at-the-seams bag … more

Picasso’s Pizza and Grill
7215 Skillman
214.553.8100
Sat–Thurs 11a.m.–10 p.m.
Fri 11 a.m.–11 p.m.
 
When it comes to pizza, you’ve got Sicilian-style pizza, New York-style pizza, Chicago-style pizza — heck, you’ve even got bagel pizza.

Then there’s Picasso’s Pizza.

“We jokingly refer to our pizza as Dallas-style pizza,” says … more