Avi Adelman

• 1 month, 1 week ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Photo gallery: Taste of Greenville Avenue brings the neighborhood together

  @ LG Resident

  I risk stirring up the pot here, but...

  If you are so damn sure of your so-called Karma, then why do you hide behind a fake name?

  Wouldn't you like to be the one with his foot on my neck and a nice 8 x 10 glossy hanging on your wall of your latest kill??

  At the minimum, I have no problem putting my name and face on any comment I make. What's your problem??

  When people like you and Jtmbls have nothing better to do than make wussy threats and insult my kids, then we all realize you have absolutely nothing else to say.

  TOGA 2009 was an absolute success on more levels than you will ever know. But you would not acknowledge that even on your deathbed, let alone here. We are already planning TOGA 2010 - bigger and better than this one.

  Sit and type in the dark, you piece of garbage, my karma is tracking you down even as we speak.

  And for the records

• 1 month, 1 week ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Photo gallery: Taste of Greenville Avenue brings the neighborhood together

  Let me offer a new caption on the photograph...

  "This is what happens when Avi's 9 year old daughter Shaina gets to throw a softball using her mother's money.

  "Avi's last words before hitting the water were, 'I can't get any respect.'"

• 4 months, 1 week ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Former Whole Foods on Lower Greenville target of thefts

  @ Tex0322

  Why compensate for anything??

  As Exhibit A, let me present - you and all your pissant buddies.

  You really really hate me not for anything personal (as if I would even bother to know you) but for doing some kind of damage to your oh-so-important playground on Lowest Greenville.

  If I was not successful, you would not give me 2cents worth of your attention.

  Obviously whatever I am doing here is working, and hence you cry in your $1 beer.

  So let's agree - I will keep doing what I am doing, and you will keep crying.

• 4 months, 2 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Former Whole Foods on Lower Greenville target of thefts

  The problem with LGresident is that despite his best efforts, the world still continues to spin on an axis, the sun rises and sets on a regular basis, and life continues no matter how much he bitches about it.

  In summary, he does not like seeing anyone upset his narrow-minded view of the world (bars are good, residents are evil).

  Even if Mike Orren was not picking up these stories, there's not a damn thing he can do to shut down my website and he is absolutely furious about that little fact.

  There's nothing he can do to stop the march of Resident Parking Only (26 and counting) streets in Dallas.

  And there's not a damn thing he can do about me either.

  He is the real loser in this story, a silly POS who would rather see the world turn into a giant toilet than a place where even basic rules of behavior and decorum are obeyed.

  For the record, all your claims are whimsical garbage. And I have three beautiful daughters, all of whom have learned the value of political activism and will haunt you, your children and your grandchildren for generations to follow.

• 4 months, 2 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Former Whole Foods on Lower Greenville target of thefts

  @ JTMBLS

  Yeah, bad press is what I write, and the bad guys read my blog every day to get ideas.

  The Service Bar was burglarized on Tuesday - so you want to blame me for that incident, too?

  http://www.barkingdogs.org/news/node/645

  Didn't I see you on a video burglarizing a plant center in Richardson the other day - it was a short, little monkey like character just like you.

• 4 months, 2 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ TRGold

  We tried the common ground approach with bar and property owners, for years, and it did not work.

  The only solution is the one they want - let the illegal bars continue to operate, tell the police to stop arresting their patrons, tell the neighbors to stop complaining about the noise, and by the way, revoke all the RPO so there is free parking in the neighborhood for their patrons.

  It ain't gonna happen.

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  With friends like JTMBLS, who needs enemies???

  @ TRGold

  1 - This is not an individual issue (eg me only), a neighborhoods issue. Under your logic, it should not matter to me that a bar (cough cough) is CO'd as a restaurant, but it does impact my community.

  I do not call in noise complaints unless they impact my house. But if I am on the street and a neighbor calls me about the noise, I have no problem getting some video to supplement his call to 911.

  It's called 'coordinated efforts.' Many of the residents all have neat little roles to deal with and jobs to do. Mine is being out there with a camera. The rest - well, I will leave that to your imagination.

  As to your harassment theory, you can blow that crap out of the pool. As long as you and I (or even just me if you in a patio) are on public right of way I cannot be stopped from rolling tape. I can't be cited for trespassing if I don't go in the patio. There is no loitering law on the books in Texas (or Dallas). Evading a camera does not mean I am trying to harass you.

  Under your theory, Mike Wallace would never have developed his cool in-your-face reputation.

  If you don't like the camera, don't look at it. Don't talk back, and don't answer questions.

  Sadly, this is a diversion. If you look at my videos, there are no man-on-street-interviews. They are simply reality of the situation as some scummy gang-banger or his hoochie-mama is being arrested. You almost never ever hear me speak. You never hear me ask questions. All I do is stand there and roll tape.

  Your problem is that you don't like what I see because it upsets your partyzone mentality, and god knows we can't have that can we. So you come up with feeble ideas on how to stop me, and not how stop the problems I document.

  Welcome to the blog, but at least make a basic effort to post the correct information.

  Not that your comments are new - many others have posted this line of text, hoping that it would dissuade me from being out there, or better. In fact, it is simply a way of trying to move the limelight off the issues and websites, in the hopes that illegal or improper activities can flourish again.

  Not gonna happen.

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  After nearly 80 posts here, I am ready to move on... I have some more interesting stories to post shortly.

  That said, let me close with this...

  The neighborhood will have the last laugh. We will watch these illegal bars go away, and stand on the street throwing beads at the moving vans.

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ Scott Doyle

  What smear campaign???

  If you think that 'taking concerns to the city and leaving it at that' (not sic) is the only answer, then you are mistaken.

  Actually, no, you are correct. We both know that the City is incapable of fixing things here.

  So in your mind, filing a complaint guarantees it will never be fixed.

  But on my side, filing a complaint then posting it online, then showing photos, then posting video, then writing about it, tends to hasten the issue being resolved.

  Under your logic, half the stories on the evening newscast would never get aired once the complaint is filed.

  Do you really think the North Texas Tollway folks would be installing hundreds of new WRONG WAY signs if News8 had not been all over their butts about wrong way drivers and the lack of the tools (already out there in Houston) to prevent these needless deaths???

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ Scott Doyle

  I think you just found a way for the City to save about $8 million in the upcoming budget debacle (sp?) - shut down the 3-1-1 system. Use the money for something else, like DPD salaries.

  Using your logic, there is no need for John Q. Public to call and file complaints against an illegal anything since it's none of our business.

  Someone operating a lead smelter down the street from you? Hey, they have a permit for - well, you can't ask now - so leave them alone.

  Someone painting cars for money in their backyard and the odors bothering you? Too bad, he's in his own house and it's not your business, so just stay inside and shut up.

  Someone wants to build a whorehouse down the block near the DART station?? Sorry, neighborhood associations are not allowed to talk about zoning issues, and he has more money than they do anyways.

  You get the point?? I doubt it.

  The city's Building Inspectors (the people who handle permits) rarely check CO applications on site except for as-they-are-building-it inspections. For the most part, a permit is a promise to be good and build what you say you are building. And many of these businesses promised to be restaurants and even built kitchens.

  But six months later, they fired the cook and threw out the equipment. And now it's on Code Compliance to prove it's a bar under another set of rules.

  We are a nation of laws and regulations. Like them or not. If you don't like them, change them. But don't expect others to ignore violations just because you like bars or whorehouses.

  And in both cases, all the records are open for anyone who takes the time to file an Open Records Request. You would be amazed at the stuff we come across. Try it.

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ Rick Yost

  Your statement has a false premise - that there is a relationship between the success of the bars and the prosperity of the neighborhoods.

  False.

  How many of the bar owners actually live in the area. Just one that I know of. They - and their money - go home to Richardson, McKinney or Duncanville.

  Our values are in decline for lots of reasons, very few of which have to do with the bars. But thanks to RPO, our Quality of Life has immensely improved and our streets are safer too.

  There are 1,500 homes in the area east of the bars to Skillman (south of Belmont). So you really think my 90-year friend spends her days thanking the bars for being here. Nah, she's too busy taking care of the grandchildren, and she knows she will outlive many of the bar operations anyways.

  In fact, your statement should be reversed.

  There are 100+ new residential developments ($250K and up) on the east side of Greenville. Do you really think all the developers said, I am going to build for drinking families - the steps will be padded and the floors hosable.

  No, they want to see positive development. Urban walkable communities - where everything you need to live and work - is within walking distance. And that means not bars only, but retail of all flavors. Bars are the only business down here save for a few struggling restaurants being choked by their neighbors scummy patrons.

  We are not anti-bar. Just level the playing field - close down all the illegally operating bars and see how long the landlords wait until they get positive retail development in here.

  Yeah, I am dreaming again.

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ Scott Doyle

  I am so sorry, but where are my so-called 'illegal doings'?

  Do you have evidence of a crime committed by me and of which I was convicted?

  If you do, please - share it with the group.

  If not, why don't you crawl back into your dirty litter box??

  (God, I feel so much better)

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ Tex0322

  Not a damn thing to hide. Just very simply none of your business, just as it's none of my business how much money you intend to spend to save the Lowest Greenville bars from their evil residential neighbors.

  Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ James Scott

  Thank you for the comment on details. We in the neighborhood have a long and detailed memory. Thank god for computer files.

  @ Tex0322 It's all in the details. And the details are none of your business.

  @ Mike Cue the horse! I will have a Bandera story on my website in a few days, and then you can start the pissing match again.

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ Mike

  About six or seven years ago, the property owners wanted to build a parking lot on the space behind Arcadia (flatten now-closed Torch, reaching all the way down to the Community Theatre).

  This would have required a major zoning change, so the neighbors were brought into the discussion early (unlike today when they admit at zoning hearings they don't care what the neighbors think).

  Two issues came up -

  • Noise

  The parking lot was going to look like (as I can best remember) the back end of the parking lot behind the Plaza of the Americas complex at Pearl Street (now the W hotel??). Big tall and wide open - no walls. So the honking and squealing would be heard all over the neighborhood since there is nothing tall enough to block the noise in the area.

  • Fees and free parking

  Every space would be charged on. No freebies, no comps. What happened to the free and required parking? God knows.

  • RPO

  Now remember this is way before RPO ripped a new hole in the fabric of the Lower Greenville universe - there were only three or four RPO streets in the area.

  The neighborhood residents said, in summary - You can charge all you want for the spaces, you can manage the lot anyway you want. But while you are at it, the neighborhood is going to go either completely RPO for the streets that will pay for it, or NO PARKING 24/7 (which is free when enough residents sign the petition).

  The property owners started squawking and said, Oh no, we can't have that. We need the parking lot AND the streets in order to have enough spaces for all the people we expect to be on Lower Greenville each night.

  At that point, the neighbors said, So, let's see, in effect you want to double the parking, double the noise, and take away our streets.

  The property owners shook their heads Yes so hard they looked like bobblehead dolls.

  After about 30 seconds, the neighborhood residents said, Nope, we are not going to support this zoning change, and left the meeting.

  And they all lived sort of unhappily ever after, until after the Arcadia burned down, and the Big Bad Dog got the theatre sign, sold it for $10,000 and paid for RPO all over the east side of Lower Greenville (and helped get a few more on the west side).

  The end - in more ways than you can imagine!

  (Re your parking experience - it's supposed to be free parking until 10pm, but that is still illegal. Show us the free and required clear parking spaces, and I'll show you an uncomplimentary valet. Your experience is possible to repeat, but don't hold your breath.)

• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  Okay let's say it clearly -

  If a bar is legal - and there are some here, like Service Bar and Old Crow - then it is not an issue (except when its patrons get listed on the public arrests reports).

  But the majority of the so-called restaurants are really operating as bars - they have no kitchens and no food service.

  It's a no-brainer, but the City has yet to figure out how to close down any kind of illegal business without the City Attorney's butt cheeks tightening up.

  Can you name any illegal 'massage house' the city shut down?? Neither can I, but when they did, it usually takes six months to process the paperwork.

  This area is zoned Community Retail, which means a mix of restaurants, personal service shops and even a bar or two.

  If you have enough money to change the zoning en masse, I can give you the names of the property owners (richer than all get out on their profits from the bar sales) who have not been able to do that in ten years.

  Like I said, this is gonna be fun to watch.

  If you want to take the tour, my email address is avi@barkingdogs.org.

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  OMIGOD, do you really think you and your money can actually make a difference?

  Before you spend anything to support illegal bars, why not come out here on a Saturday night and watch the human garbage of hoochie-mama's and gangbangers walking down the street. The best place to stand is by the DPD command post (yeah, we got our own little command post, so you know how safe it is) at Greenville and Alta.

  In fact, we saw some white folks out here just last night - they looked really scared and made sure they got out fast.

  Ooops, a few parked at the Taco Cabana and came back to find their cars towed away. Guess they did not care to read the warning signs?

  Or take a look at the weekly police reports sent to neighborhood associations to see the latest count of drunks and illegal parking in the neighborhood -

  http://www.belmontna.org/html/weeklyr...

  If you want to support bars that are illegal, go ahead and throw your money at them. They will gladly accept it and then completely ignore you.

  If you want to stop the neighborhood complaints, then stop the illegal activities. Level the playing field and get rid of the illegal bars, and it might be a nicer place to live.

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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  @ Tex0322

  Money won't solve the problem.

  The bars have some money, the property owners have more. And they are losing the battle.

  And since it looks like you don't live close by (as in the same council district), you will have to work with your council member.

  And if you think that 13 other council members (Ms. Medrano represents part of Lower Greenville) are going to give a damn about our problems, you are wrong. They will politely listen to you, shake their head and say, well we appreciate your interest, but that's out of our district, son.

  But they will listen to you since you are a resident and probably vote too.

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ Tex0322

  I don't know what 'movement' you are talking about. The bottom line is that these so-called bars are operating illegally and need to be closed down. There is no outright opposition to LEGAL bars.

  As to your amateur psychology examination, trust me you are so very very off.

  Let me ask you a question, if you don't mind??

  Where do you live?

  If the answer is Lower Greenville or anywhere in Dallas for that matter, then you have a right to call your council rep and tell him/her you think these so-called bars should be allowed to operate. But be prepared to show proof that you actually own a property in the Lower Greenville area before your opinion is taken seriously (as in, they put you on the YES list).

  If you do not live in Dallas, no one cares what you think. You do not own property near here, you do not pay taxes, and you do not vote on Dallas issues. You have a right to your opinion, and you have a right to express it.

  But bottom line - It's all noise.

  And since it's mostly non-residents who support the so-called bars, it's an annoying but ignored noise comparable to that of gnats.

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ James Scott

  • There IS plenty of free parking. RPO is an evening program only. Therefore, daytime retail businesses would have no trouble finding sufficient parking spaces for their customers (god knows they will pay through the nose, so the property owners generate income twice and kick them out at 6pm)

  • The torches / pitchforks only come out when a business operates illegally. In this case, Banderas is legal since it has an NCU. The track record of its manager is why it will fail.

  As to the other so-called restaurants that are really bars, their days are very numbered. $10 parking spaces and RPO do not a happy patron make. And there are only so many hoochie-mamas and gangbangers you can serve before the doors close.

  • The property owners DO NOT CARE what they have in their spaces, as long as they collect rent and a piece of the profit (eg a portion of liquor sales). Since a bar makes more money than a bookstore, guess who gets the building. And as long as bars keep churning through the locations, the bookstore will never be here.

  • The two key property owners keep talking about "walkable urban environments" where everything you need to live and shop is within a six block radius.

  Under this scenario, only alcoholics are getting everything they want, since the restaurants on the Lowest Greenville side are few and far between. One so-called restaurant finally stopped trying to lie and got rid of all its tables so it could be a bar.

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  The bars could not organize a group fart if you gave them the raw jalapenos and instructions.

  I am not the least of their problems, but they have no way of stopping me or others who are going to watch them drop off the face of the earth as their phony business operations are slowly exposed.

  They are too busy worrying about other problems - like TABC, the lack of free parking in the neighborhoods, expensive valet parking, dozens of police officers on Lower Greenville watching them every Friday and Saturday evening, and being ripped of by their own staff every time a bottle is tipped.

  When they signed documents at City Hall claiming to be restaurants, they put themselves in a legal deathtrap that will soon - we hope - come back and consume them.

  Your support - buying a beer or two - is not going to make a difference.

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  Heeeeeeeeeee's baaaaaaaaaaaack!

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
  Avi Adelman's comment on:

  Bandera, new bar on Greenville in Dallas, loves red dirt

  @ Scott

  Okay, let's put the boot on the other paw.

  You live on a residential street. One of your neighbors operates a business - for example, lamp repair - out of his house.

  Everyday, the street is full of cars. They belong to his workers (it's a big shop), his customers, UPS trucks, delivery trucks, and don't forget the noise too from the metal grinding.

  And he works 18 hours a day.

  Now, you sit at home (when you are not partying) and you have a choice.

  You can sit back and take it, while chewing on your panties.

  Or you can call the City to ask them to enforce every damn law they can come up with for operating an illegal business in a residential area.

  It's called Zoning, which organizes a city into little sane squares. It keeps factories away from restaurants and car repair shops away from hospitals.

  And within Zoning, it keeps a balance of operations. So you find lots of stores in one area, but not a taxidermy store.

  On Lower Greenville, the Zoning is Community-Retail. CR allows restaurants, and bars with special exceptions and permits.

  In this case, Bandera's has a non-conforming use from the time it was a Poor David's. It's legal and no one disputes it (we fought the NCU renewal but lost on a technicality, but hey).

  In the case of other so-called restaurants, they have no kitchen, no food service, and no tables. They are not restaurants, they are bars.

  And by default, they are not allowed to operate here.

  The City knows it, you know it and I know it.

  The City chooses to ignore it, due to budgets or legal issues.

  You choose to support it.

  I choose to make this an issue until the City finally grows a set of testicles (sadly, not in the next budget) and shuts them down.

  In Arlington, the City pulls the electric meter on illegal business ops. Dallas has done that just once - on Lower Greenville in fact. It will sadly never happen again in my lifetime.

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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  @ Tex0322

  Okay, you got me. I admit it (sound of shuffling feet on the floor).

  I will stand up and say it loud and clear so you can hear anywhere on the interweb...

  I want the illegal, out of compliance BARS - especially those claiming to be RESTAURANTS on their Certificates of Occupancy, but have no kitchen or food service facilities - to just go away.

  And while we are at it, I want the City of Dallas to send in dozens of code enforcement inspectors who will write bagillions of tickets on each one of these illegal operations.

  (Sheesh, talk about a frigging fantasy!)

  I feel so much better now.

• 5 months ago
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  @ Allen78704

  Mr Lishin is correct. I have been on Lower Greenville for 30 years, 21 of them in a house just 150 feet from the street.

  When I moved here, Dodie's was a laundromat.

  Oh, to see that happen again.

  But I digress. We are not asking for the bars to go away (okay, maybe one or two). If they were legal, they would be operating as the restaurants they claim to be. But popcorn in a bag does not count as a served food.

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