Category: Oaklawn

  • JR’s Bar & Grill To Re-Open in Oak Lawn

    JR’s Bar & Grill To Re-Open in Oak Lawn

    JR.’s Bar & Grill will be re-opening Monday, Oct. 19, at Noon. Read our review here of JR’s Bar and Grill vs. other favorites in the gayborhood. Just in time for the block party weekend that would normally be held but is canceled this year. Gov. Greg Abbott last week announced that bars in the…

  • JR’s Bar & The Round-Up Saloon to Reopen June 1st

    JR’s Bar & The Round-Up Saloon to Reopen June 1st

    It’s been quite awhile since we even imagined going to a bar or dance club due to the Coronavirus pandemic but now we have confirmation that a few bars will be opening as soon as this Monday. Caven Enterprises and The Round-Up Saloon took to Facebook to announce they would be opening on Monday, June…

  • Highly Anticipated Rainbow crosswalks finally being painted in Oak Lawn

    Highly Anticipated Rainbow crosswalks finally being painted in Oak Lawn

    The first of the several rainbow crosswalks planned for the Oak Lawn/Cedar Springs gayborhood is finally here. This is at the intersection of Cedar Springs Road and Oak Lawn Avenue. Dallas will soon become the city with the most rainbow crosswalks in the country. Ten are currently being installed in the city’s LGBT neighborhood of…

  • Rainbow Crosswalks and Safer Streets Coming to Oaklawn

    Rainbow Crosswalks and Safer Streets Coming to Oaklawn

    Rainbow Crosswalks are going up on Cedar Springs between Douglas and Oak Lawn. Plans are almost complete and work to β€œremodel” Cedar Springs Road is about to begin according the Mayor’s LGBT Task Force. They plan to mark areas of Cedar Springs at Douglas and Oak Lawn avenues. Rainbow crosswalks are planned for the street…

  • JR’s fires employee who kicked out transgender woman

    JR’s fires employee who kicked out transgender woman

    JR’s Bar & Grill has fired an employee who denied service to a transgender woman this week, and video shows a security officer at the bar shoving the woman. The woman believes she was kicked out because her ID doesn’t match her gender. The bar also asked its security company to not use the officer at…

  • Tamar Braxton Says JR’s Bar & Grill Denied Her Entry because she looked β€œtoo gangster”

    Singer and reality TV star Tamar Braxton is alleging that JR’s Bar and Grill on Cedar Springs denied her entry based on her appearance. Braxton took to her Instagram and social media accounts to detail her account of trying to enter the bar, which was promptly posted to Facebook by a user named James Michael.…