Art Institute of Dallas

Is You a Top Chef? Then Pack Your Knives and Go.

I Was A Teenage Sous Chef...

Yeah, another competition announcement.No one ever said "make 'em be sauciers and line cooks and such." Still, the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Dallas is encouraging mamas of high school seniors to push their kids into the service industry...Actually, the institute hosts a r ... More >>

Everything Must Go: Billy Reid Corporate Leaving Deep Ellum for Alabama

The New York Times just posted a piece on designer Billy Reid, who peddles his "dressy-casual whiskey-soaked style" in NorthPark Center, one of only six outlets in the U.S. Which reminds dressy-casual, whiskey-soaked me: Over the weekend I received via postcard a reminder that tomorrow through Satur ... More >>

Skipping School

Top chefs can spend 30 grand on school or just work their way up

Spanish Eye

Tarantino restaurant to open in Main Street building

10 Questions: Tiffany Derry

When Go Fish moved--and moved up market as Go Fish Ocean Club--the owners picked Derry to run the kitchen.She may look fresh-faced, but Derry's been in food service for some time. Before she finished high school, the Houston native became the youngest person to manage an IHOP. She then attended cook ... More >>

Go Fish Ocean Club

The waiters chatter. Too bad the food doesn't exactly sing.

Gumbo Jazzmatazz

Shrimp and scattin' on Greenville Avenue

Give the Box a Bone

Shrimp and scattin' on Greenville Avenue

Rowdy, Loud and Lucky

After years of the grind, PPT makes its own fate

She's Got Skills

At Dallas' hottest dance clubs, women are getting noticed--behind the turntables

Dang! Good

Prowling the cat walk at Station 4

Grape Escape

Go ahead and stomp

Ticket Takers

Foodie culture cooks in the West End

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Foodie culture cooks in the West End

Signing off

Local talent scout Teresa LaBarbera-Whites discovered singing sensation Jessica Simpson the way she always does: without even trying

The Annual Billy Reid Warehouse Sale Event Has Returned. Kind Of. Not Really.

​This morning, yours truly and a few other well-known media cheapskates were at NorthPark Center for the 9 a.m. opening bell of the annual Billy Reid 75-percent-off warehouse sale, which we'd thought was no mas following Reid's decision exactly one year ago today to shutter the corporate office on ... More >>

Your Wednesday Morning Eye Candy: Local Sign Maker, Collector Dan Holzschuh's Vision

Today's eye-opener is more abstract than a short doc about Willis Winters. Instead, it's a virtual sculpture by noted neon-sign collector, Dan Holzschuh, who counts among his collection's pieces remnants from the old Prince of Hamburgers, the Circle Inn, the Gemini Drive-In and even Jack Ruby's Caro ... More >>