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The Ten Best American Hardcore Punk Albums

Seeing that a form of Black Flag is touring right now (and playing Trees on Friday), we thought it a good time to investigate American hardcore punk rock. For all practical purposes, the beginning of hardcore in the states happened in the early 80's. While many hardcore acts were inspired by the Sex ... More >>

Urbano Café Travels the Globe

Bolognese next to pork belly with pickled mustard greens? Somehow, it works.

Our BBQ-loving Englishman Is Actually an Educated Student of Politics. Who Knew?

Turns out or resident English guy, Gavin Cleaver, who drenches himself in barbecue sauce and smoke for us over on City of Ate, is actually like a doctor. In politics. University trained and the author of a forthcoming book on political ethics. We did not know that ... both that he was a Ph.D. or tha ... More >>

In a Hidden Texas Farming Village, the Making (and Selling) of a Cambodian Bumper Crop

Cambodian immigrants are growing and selling a plant so invasive it's banned in several states. How did you think that water spinach ended up in your bowl?

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

Squirty Flower Alert!

The Best of Dallas' Asian Film Fest

As distributors flee the Far East, Dallas' Asian Film Fest keeps fighting.

How Jimmy's Conquered Dallas

How did a humble neighborhood bodega become the city's sausage king? With a recipe restaurants couldn't resist.

This Dallas Symphony Viola Wiz Has a Thing for Green Papaya and Funeral Potatoes

Barbara Sudweeks: Second chair but no second fiddled. (Apparently they don't have fiddles in the orchestra.)​Occasionally we identify interesting local folks who are as obsessed with food and restaurants as we are, and share some of their thoughts on Dallas' dining scene and food in general. T ... More >>

Healthy Families Eat Together (Or Stab Each Other With Forks)

The classic American family dinner: no cell phones, texts, tweets or tubes. Just smiling kids dreaming of the day they can blow this boring scene.​If you're serious about keeping your kids off dope and out of liquor cabinets, researchers at Columbia University's National Center on Addiction an ... More >>

Dengue Fever

Thursday, May 5, at The Loft

And Everything Is Going Fine: The Spalding Gray Portfolio

Your Search for a Fabulous Hu Tieu Ends With This Post

​Last Monday afternoon, my friend and I found ourselves taking an unplanned tour of the Dallas area, from Uptown to White Rock Lake all the way to Garland, after three restaurants we wanted to try were closed or out of business. Frustrated and starving at this point, I declared that we eat at the ... More >>

Rob Viktum Looks To Cambodia, Sees Progress

Pho From Home: Dishes To Fit Your Resolutions

Mi Hoanh Thanh (wonton noodle soup).​City of Ate reader, Margie, comments, "Oh, and I'd like to add that this rash of dieting talk all over the web and TV is making me sick. My resolution is to eat more and drink more and have more fun doing it. Saying 'hell' more than 'damn' is another one I thi ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Rob Viktum -- "12.25.78"

In this week's upcoming paper, Jesse Hughey talks to local hip-hop producer/beatmaker Rob Viktum about his upcoming release, Progress 2. Be sure to keep an eye out for that story, but in the meantime, some added background: As you'll hear/see in the above clip, the record's release is something of a ... More >>

Tuk Tuk Has Some Mighty Tasty TIT. (That's Thai Iced Tea.)

Rob Viktum Goes Mega Royal With New Label And His Upcoming Progress Volume 2 Release

​In the few weeks since going live with his new label, Mega Royal Records, Dallas hip-hop producer and DJ Rob Viktum has already given away The Big Gold Instrumentals, a beat tape by Vanderslice that you can download for free via Mediafire or UserShare. And he already has ideas for upcoming releas ... More >>

As Frost/Nixon Goes from Stage to Screen, Langella and Sheen Capture a Summit of Egos

Crazy, But That's How It Goes

Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Ozzfest

Back...and Loving It

Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Meet Dallas' Latest, Greatest Tourist Attraction: Foreigners

Wounded Soldier, Healing Warrior

Undue Process

Want to send an innocent man to prison for life? Judge Karen Greene is ready to help.

Ask, and Ye Shall Receive a Check for Fraud

Jello Biafra with the Melvins

Sieg Howdy! (Alternative Tentacles)

Blade Runners

Hotel Rwanda finds hope amid the horrors of tribal genocide

Fog of War

A group of veterans says John Kerry stretches the truth about his Vietnam service. Who can you believe? Who knows?

Divided Borders

Brutality and romance make odd bedfellows in Beyond Borders

Get on the Bus

For one fellow traveler, the road to an anti-war protest in Washington is paved with good intentions and bad politics

Brush With Greatness?

Plus: Needless Things and Sack of Kittens

The Spirits Move Them

Followers of Cao Dai, a Vietnamese sect with frail tendrils in Dallas, say their time has come to spread the word. Just ask Victor Hugo.

Abstract Rebel

To achieve the stillness and symmetry that define his art, Hermann Sigg had to burn a big bridge

Granny get your gun

Dallas' pistol-packing 'Second Amendment Sister'--63-year-old grandma Mary Thompson--takes aim at a million moms

Punk You

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that proves there isn't always room for Jello

The garden of life

In East Dallas' Little Asia, a community blooms in fields of litter

It's your store (like it or not)

Albertson's wants to build in East Dallas, and it's not about to let future customers get in the way

Frogs on film

Robyn Hitchcock's new record is a soundtrack to a film that does exist--yet doesn't

Save us from the Rainforest

Even with decent food, Rainforest Cafe makes appetites endangered species

Blurry vision

Soderbergh operates far too much on Gray's Anatomy

'Kill him again, he's not dead yet'

Memories of Ronnie Lane, 1946-1997

The beautiful loser

Keith Ferguson keeps a loose grip on Fabulous past

Rushes

Too punk to f--

Ethyl Merman makes 'dance music for the poor'

Striking a Nerve

Laurie Anderson riffs on fame, death, and the political landscape