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Dish
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Dallas News
Dallas' New Vietnamese Spot, Mot Hai Ba, Will Challenge Your Views It was wildly unexpected when Colleen O'Hare and Jeana Johnson announced their latest restaurant. They'd already successfully tackled tacos more... More >>
Film
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Dallas News
If Only the Monsters University Writers Had Taken a Quick Sendak Seminar Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pom-pom-furred Wild Things that populate... More >>
Music
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Dallas News
At the Van Cliburn Competition, Perfection Is Subjective Before every pitch in a major league baseball game, there's a moment of stillness. The pitcher nods to the catcher, then maybe he goes through a... More >>
Stage
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Dallas News
Love's No Accident In Gruesome Playground Injuries The lifelong connection between the two characters in Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries begins when they are 8, meeting in the school... More >>
Feature
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Dallas News
Who's Left Behind When a Soldier Commits Suicide? The day after her husband's funeral, a week or so after she found him, Rebecca Morrison somehow managed to get dressed and get in the car. She was... More >>
Film
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Dallas News
The War at Home Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you've got left and... More >>
Stage
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Dallas News
Trouble in River City in Lyric Stage's Vanilla Music Man Meredith Willson's 1957 musical The Music Man, now at Irving's Lyric Stage, feels as summery as an ice cream social. If only this production came... More >>
Stage
12:00 am
Jun. 20, 2013
Dallas News
Who Needs Superman? In Traces, Humans Fly without Special Effects Traces lets you marvel at the wonders of the human body while making you feel bad about your own. Seven gorgeous young performers in a 90-minute... More >>
City of Ate
4:50 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Pakpao Opens Friday With a Sprawling Thai Menu, From the People Who Brought You Oak Richard and Tiffanee Ellman are at it again. Last year they opened Oak in the Design District. This year they opened Belly & Trumpet in Uptown. And this Friday PakPao will open back in the Design ... More >>
Unfair Park
3:59 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Mattel Has Transformed Texas A&M's Formerly Respectable Yell Leader Into a Ken Doll At about this time each year, Mattel rolls out a new collection of University BarbiesĀ®, who are invariably clad in pom poms and cheerleading outfits, the logo of their favorite educational institution emblazoned across their perky plastic chests. This year,... More >>
Unfair Park
3:30 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Senator Ted Cruz Can't Wait to Flip Off Latino Vote Victory. Why? You can't always tell by watching Texas politics, but there are subtle distinctions to be made between being an arch conservative and being a colossal dick. Here's how to tell if you've crossed the line: Look in a mirror. If... More >>
City of Ate
2:44 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Dallas' Hand-Crafted Hot Dogs Make for One Hell of a Cook Out Step away from the highly-processed tube meat. You know who you are. Your last-second planning has you trapped in the aisles of your local grocery store. There are red and yellow bottles in your ... More >>
The Mixmaster
2:39 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Your A-to-Z Guide to Friday's Dallas Arts District Summer Block Party The DMA, Nasher and Crow stay open late on Friday night for the annual Dallas Arts District Summer Block Party. We've looked at the evening's itinerary and found exactly one million different thi... More >>
Unfair Park
2:29 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Probably High Waxahachie Man Was Prepping for Doomsday Until Police Found Guns and Explosives in His Car FacebookOut of the entire universe full of objects of potential interest to human beings, there's only one thing Clayton Earthman enjoys enough to like on Facebook. It's Doomsday Preppers, the National Geographic reality show about otherwise sane Americans steeling themselves... More >>
Unfair Park
12:27 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
University Park's All-Seeing Automated Parking Enforcement SUV Is Terrifying RedditUniversity Park's old system of parking enforcement relied on humans and was, therefore, fallible. In un-metered, high-traffic areas like Snider Plaza and the Miracle Mile on Lovers Lane, an officer would mark car tires with chalk so it was easy... More >>
Unfair Park
12:06 pm
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
The State Senate Approved a Massive Anti-Abortion Bill Photo courtesy of Planned Parenthood of Greater TexasProtesters wearing Mad Men garb protest the ass-backwardness of the new restrictions. And there it is: Late last night, the Senate approved SB 5, a massive set of abortion restrictions that combine all... More >>
DC9 At Night
11:53 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Last Shot: The Questions I'm Tired of Answering About Cancer [Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for o... More >>
City of Ate
11:08 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Meet Deep Ellum Brewing Co.'s New Head Brewer, Jeremy Hunt It's a struggle to find new ways to describe the local beer industry -- the "budding craft beer scene" just feels so repetitive and overused at this point. I think it's safe to say it has, indee... More >>
The Mixmaster
10:58 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Buy Buy Baby Doesn't Sell Babies, and Other Baby-Shopping Tips from an Expert Mom Welcome to Alice Column, in which Alice Laussade writes stories about things on (roughly) the same day of (roughly) every week, making it (roughly) a column. Got an idea for a column? Start your... More >>
Unfair Park
10:36 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Happy Juneteenth from a Land Where Old Times Are Forgotten Interesting story in The Dallas Morning News today by Selwyn Crawford about growing national popularity for Juneteenth, a holiday originally thought to be strictly a Texas thing. Juneteenth marks the official emancipation of slaves in Texas in 1865, two years... More >>
City of Ate
10:20 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
TacoNaan in Coppell is Cross Dressing Tacos and Naan. This Could Be Fun. TacoNaan is a new taco naan place at 928 Belt Line Road in Coppell serving variations of tacos and naan. The owners recently renovated the inside of this old convenience store -- cleaned it up, sl... More >>
Unfair Park
8:58 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Walmart is Suing the DFW Union Workers Who Have Been Protesting Their Stores Danny HurleyProtesters picket the Walmart at 3155 Wheatland Road on Black Friday.For almost two years now, like an angry minnow nibbling at a whale, a coalition of labor groups operating as OURWalmart has been organizing nationwide protests against the retail... More >>
The Mixmaster
8:40 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Radiolab Will Drop its Science on Dallas In one quick email, WNYC just announced that its hit radio program focused on scientific wonder will embark on a 21-city tour, and ticket sales are activated. Dallas gets its dose at Grand Prairie... More >>
DC9 At Night
8:11 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
The 10 Greatest Dallas Blues Artists The Lone Star State has long produced some of the greatest blues legends to ever pick up a guitar or stand behind a microphone. Legends like Albert Collins from Leona, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins fr... More >>
Unfair Park
8:00 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
As Drone Journalism Takes Off, UT-Arlington Researchers Offer a Glimpse of the Future Two years ago, after their cameras were denied entry to a secretive government immigration camps on Christmas Island, the Australian version of 60 Minutes piloted a small, unmanned aircraft above the island detention center. A few months later, activists in... More >>
DC9 At Night
7:42 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
David Castell on Recording with Blue October, Famous Drummers, and DFW's Finest We caught up with producer David Castell here a couple years ago, but he's been up to an awful lot since then. Castell has produced, mixed, mastered and otherwise had his hands in local music d... More >>
Unfair Park
7:30 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
Here's the Six-Story Parking Garage Proposed for the Dallas Arboretum WFAAArboretum officials were understandably cautious when they unveiled early plans for a Garland Road parking garage last night. The memory of the public uprising and PR debacle that greeted a proposal to park cars on Winfrey Point is no doubt... More >>
DC9 At Night
7:12 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
NPR Digs the Way True Widow's New "Four Teeth" Crunches Earlier this year, we could barely contain our excitement over the news that Dallas' favorite Stone-gazing trio, True Widow, had signed to the well-regarded label Relapse Records. Sure, it was c... More >>
DC9 At Night
7:09 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
There's Jazz in Addison, Every Wednesday at Azure. Here's What it's Like Welcome to The Weekly, where we'll tell you what's happening at various weekly musical events going on in DFW this summer. Some of them will be well-known scenes, some will be considerably less ... More >>
Unfair Park
7:00 am
Jun. 19, 2013
Dallas News
A Texas Herpetologist Was Arrested for Smuggling Peruvian Snakes onto a DFW-Bound Plane Atlanta Botanical GardenYou can see the frog, but can you spot the snakes renowned herpetologist Bill Lamar is wearingWilliam Wylly Lamar is something of a rock star amongst readers of sites like HerpNation.com and WildHerps.com. His reptile-capturing skills -- we're... More >>

From the Print Edition

Who's Left Behind When a Soldier Commits Suicide? Who's Left Behind When a Soldier Commits Suicide?

The day after her husband's funeral, a week or so after she found him, Rebecca Morrison somehow managed to get dressed and get in the car. She was exhausted, wrung… More >>

Can You Say "Assassination?" Can You Say "Assassination?"

Wrong. I said the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination in Dallas would be no big deal. It will be. And it looks as if Dallas, to the delight of… More >>

Get Your Mexican Soaps in English Get Your Mexican Soaps in English

Dear Mexican: In Philadelphia, there are three Spanish-language stations on regular broadcast television. None of them offer English subtitles. I bet plenty of people of all heritages would like to… More >>

A Gun-Dumb Brit's Journey into American Gun Culture A Gun-Dumb Brit's Journey into American Gun Culture

The AR-15 is lighter than I expected. It's an intimidating chunk of rough-hewn black metal and rubber, but it sits softly in my hands. I bring it to my shoulder and,… More >>

Abtahi and Kingston: Who's the bigger SOB? Abtahi and Kingston: Who's the bigger SOB?

Heard an interview with some actress on the radio recently talking about how she chain-smoked and behaved badly in college, causing her to lose a lot of weight and wake… More >>

Tips for Hungry Brits Tips for Hungry Brits

Dear Readers: U.K.'s spectacular Guardian newspaper has asked if I could field some questions for their readers as part of the paper's summer travel package — turns out Brits want… More >>

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