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At the Rose Room, Re-Designing Women Puts Men in Dresses and the Audience in Stitches

I See His Delta Burke

Style By the Spoonful

John Tesar's newest project is potentially a North Dallas pearl

Top Chef Seattle: Season Finale. Part 1. Because This Season Won't Die.

On the Season Finale of Top Chef: Seattle, they told us that the season finale would be a two-part season finale. I swear, this season won't die, you guys. At least the photographers at Bravo keep getting "I'm farting" pictures of Tom Colicchio. Everyone likes those. Enjoy.

Top Chef Seattle: Valentine Makes Fun of People While Having a Handlebar Mustache

On last night's Top Chef, the contestants were on a cruise ship headed to Alaska. The QuickFire was two hours long, and they had to feed 200 people innovative dishes using iceberg lettuce. Valentine made a tiny wedge salad. Pretty much everyone incorporated bacon into their dishes. And Padmaboobz wa ... More >>

An Interview with Danyele McPherson of The Grape on Top Cheffing, Tesaring

Danyele McPherson, chef de cuisine at The Grape on Greenville, recently braved the tricky waters of reality TV by appearing on Bravo's Top Chef: Seattle alongside two other local chefs, John Tesar and Josh Valentine. See Also: - Top Chef Seattle Recap McPherson grew up in North Carolina and after ... More >>

Top Chef Seattle: Valentine and Tesar Don't Make Out. Again.

Welcome to another episode of Top Chef: Seattle, during which nothing really happens that is all that interesting. Read: Tesar and Valentine don't fight, make out or even rap battle. We're not asking for much, you guys -- just one freaking dance off, one table flip, one tense face-to-face meeting at ... More >>

John Tesar Will Be On Bravo's Top Chef

A few months ago I received a series of cryptic emails from an anonymous source telling me John Tesar was going to be on Bravo's latest chef shit show, Top Chef, Season 10. The email didn't say much, so I sat on the unsubstantiated claim. There were a few clues: namely the slow open of Spoon, Tesar ... More >>

Rowdy and Michelle Obama Visit a Dallas School To Promote Nutrition, Reality TV

Michelle Obama joined the folks from Top Chef this morning, as part of her tour celebrating the second anniversary of her "Let's Move!" initiative. The folks from Bravo staged a mock cooking competition in front of scores of crumbsnatchers (who didn't look that fat to me, by the way) from the Nancy ... More >>

Private Social Hears No Evil, and That's the Problem

The loudest restaurant in Dallas can't hear (or see or taste) its mistakes.

Cable TV Programmers Make Bait-and-Switch a High Art

Drunken yoga does not equal female empowerment. Show of hands: Who remembers when cable TV's A&E channel featured real art for entertainment? Been a long time, right? Back in the 1990s, the Arts & Entertainment channel, as it was known then, specialized in high-culture programming. Ballet. Opera. ... More >>

The Master List: The Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, January 6-8

Cowboys fans can admit it: We cried a few sports tears when our playoff dream evaporated on Sunday night. But so be it. We know must move past another dismal season of professional football and look forward to the remaining college bowl games. Sure, these guys aren't making big money like Tony Romo, ... More >>

D-Lister Does Dallas

Top Chef Texas Highlights: That Heather Lady is a Real Bitch, Ain't She?

photos via BravoNyesha and Dakota were the victims of this week's double elimination.​Lounging on the couch, still rumpled and disheveled from last week's steak dinner competition, Edward coined the gang of chefs the "dirty dozen." "Ooohh, dirty dozen," they laughed in unison in a perfect tel ... More >>

Top Chef: Texas Cost Taxpayers $200K More Than First Reported, Thanks to San Antonio

​We've been telling you since the summer about the estimated $400,000 the Texas governor's office agreed to pay the producers in exchange for them promoting the state's brand in the ongoing, Texas-centric season of Top Chef. Last we checked in, the producers, a California company called Magica ... More >>

Big Hair. Big Boots. Big D. This is Reality?

Dallas is hot, hot, hot on reality television. Or at least someplace sort of like Dallas.

Come On Down: It's Time to Meet the Contestants for Top Chef: Texas

The folks over at Bravo have been teasing out info about the new contestants while they battle in court about your tax dollars. A set of clips released last week compiled a montage of each contestant and some of their dishes, drawn from the videos they submitted to enter the contest. When first pub ... More >>

Top Chef Producers Sue to Suppress Details of Their Deal With Texas Taxpayers

Chris Christie, the seriously-non-president-running governor of New Jersey, recently pulled the plug on $420,000 in government subsidies for Jersey Shore, calling the tax incentives "wasteful spending" on a show that poorly represents his state. Texas Governor Rick Perry's office? It sees no such w ... More >>

Top Chef: Texas is Official; Emeril Lagasse and Hugh Acheson Will Judge

Emeril: Top Chef's new jurist.​Official word just came from Bravo: The next season of Top Chef will be set in Texas. You already knew that if you've been following any number of blogs, including City of Ate, where we broke the story that the state will shell out an estimated $400,000 to see ... More >>

Top Chef To Cost Texas Taxpayers $400,000, Give Or Take the Bacon Budget

"Mmm. Taxpayer-funded chocolate is delicious."​For several weeks now, as Top Chef crews have bounced around the state shooting next season's Texas-centric version of the popular Bravo reality show, journalists and food bloggers have wondered: How much, if anything, did the state pay for the sh ... More >>

Dallas To Provide "The Sexy Backdrop" For Bravo's New Swingingly Single Socialites Show

Word is this Oakland Raider is one of Dallas's Most Eligible. Or something?​At this very moment, Bravo bigwigs are gathering in New York to announce the network's latest lineup of reality programs, which will include The Therapists ("Centered on some of the top private practices in Los Angeles ... ... More >>

Gail Simmons Sees How the Cookies Crumble on Top Chef Just Desserts

Gail Simmons​The Emmy-winning and highly rated Top Chef franchise on Bravo puts the icing on its cake with this week's debut of Top Chef: Just Desserts (10 p.m., Wednesday, September 15, then moving to its regular slot at 9 p.m. the following week). Hosting the competition among 12 top-flight ... More >>

Top Five Things We're Expecting to Happen on Top Chef Tonight

​OK, so we're all really stoked about the start of Top Chef, D.C. tonight. Even Bravo producer and Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen is venturing into fanboy-level excitement, as proven by his repeated tweets on the subject today. (So cute. Love that guy.)Glad to have some Dallas representat ... More >>

The Red Vag Of Courage

Dallas On Exhibit

Project Runway First Episode Recap: The Two Local Contestants Play Safe and Stay Safe

The sketch and final red-carpet dress from Richardson's Shirin Askari, featured last night on Project Runway's return​Dear Lifetime, thank you. I've really, truly missed Project Runway. Last night I was visibly excited to have it back. One thing though: Go high-def, for crying out loud. Not being ... More >>

The Hurt Locker: A business suit for what might be the worst job in the world

Top 10 Greatest Cooking Shows Ever

Programs on Food Network and Bravo and such have become a kind of obsession with some folks. But as current hot shows lose their sizzle and new stars emerge, will we remember Throwdown, Top Chef and the like?Certain shows remain in our thoughts, however, popping to mind at odd moments. Others influe ... More >>

Sean Avery Likes Project Runway, Maybe A Little Too Much

Far From Genius

The First Cut, Always the Kindest

Hair to Care: Two Locals Make the Cut for This Season's Shear Genius

Casey Thompson on Top Chef's "Riff-Raff" And Why She Don't Blog

Our, Ahem, Supermodel Says Goodbye

Not So Pretty

Victory: That Gasoline Smell...

2007 started with the scent of napalm in the morning

Plano Woman Wants to Be a Supermodel. Well, Bravo.

Tré Wilcox, Still Vying for Top Chef

Two Local Reasons to Watch Runway, Like We Need 'Em

Tonight's the Night on Top Chef

Meet Marion Lee, Dallas' First Project

Will Casey Thompson Kick Some Aspen?

Casey at the Palate

Griffin's Gold

The D-Lister offers grade-A stand-up

Why Read When You Can Read About TV?

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

Tryout City

He's Crafty

TV Dinner

That's ... acting!

Go Inside the Actor's Studio -- and never return