It’s that time again to break out the baguettes, don your best berets, and celebrate Oak Cliff’s historic “La Reunion” French colony with the return of our epic Bastille on Bishop celebration! This time around, Go Oak Cliff is partnering with the Alliance Francaise de Dallas, the French American Chamber of Commerce, and the city of [...]
We’re just about a month away from one of the most fun weekends in Oak Cliff! Mardi Gras Oak Cliff started with just a parade 4 years ago, which used to draw a few thousand people. Now it is a full weekend of programming, and the little ol’ parade grew to a whole new level in 2011 [...]
Over 40 members of the Adamson High School football team will get a chance to attend the Ticket City Bowl on January 2nd at the Cotton Bowl where Houston will face off with Penn State at 11AM. The team’s tickets and trip are being sponsored by the Friends of Fair Park, the Oak Cliff Chamber [...]
This Saturday, December 3rd, the City of Dallas Complete Streets team will be inviting residents and business owners out to hold a “community walk” beginning in the Bishop Arts District (at Bishop and Davis), and heading west toward Cedar Hill Avenue. The walk will take place from 10:30AM to 1:30PM with groups reviewing the corridor [...]
We have bar-b-que, sushi, specialty sodas, craft beers, in the Bishop Arts District, and as of last week we can now officially include a traditional Chinese foot spa. Nicole Isenberg, wife of longtime Oak Cliff resident and businessman Ralph Isenberg, was born and raised in North China in an area where residents would make foot spa treatments [...]
Hometown hero, Jimmie Vaughan, returns to Oak Cliff to perform at the historic Texas Theatre. More from the press release: It’s not often that a legend returns to his hometown and discusses growing up in the old neighborhood, then takes the stage and performs a concert. Imagine Elvis having a talking with an audience in Tupelo, [...]
The Texas Theatre is hosting a very unique event to get you into the Halloween spirit. They’ll be showing two great silent horror films, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1919) and “Nosferatu” (1922). The films will be accompanied on the piano by Oak Cliff resident Robert Edwards. We spoke with Edwards about the event: GOC: [...]
The Texas Theatre is hosting a roaring ’20′s night of entertainment Saturday night, August 27th, at 8pm. Oak Cliff resident Robert Edwards will provide live piano accompaniment to a hilarious Buster Keaton silent comedy entitled “The Playhouse”, from 1921; it’s the story of a dreamy stagehand in a vaudeville theater (played by Keaton of course). [...]
It was an amazing night last night, with an estimated crowd of 3,000 people celebrating Bastille Day in Bishop Arts. This was the first year that we were able to celebrate with Dallas’s sister city in France, Dijon. Dijon’s Mayor broadcast the following message to all attendees prior to a re-broadcast we showed of their [...]
We have so much to report on this year’s Bastille on Bishop event, but since it’s getting late we wanted to quickly give a nod to this year’s 2011 Bastille on Bishop mussels winner: Matt McCallister. Matt formerly worked at Stephan Pyles restaurant and is in the process of opening his own space now. Hopefully for Matt history [...]
