Dean Martin

Out Here

Top 10 Most Erotic Christmas Songs

10. "Backdoor Santa," Clarence CarterBelieve it or not, Carter had a career before "Strokin'".

Idol worship

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars

Reviews

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars

Ghosts in the machine

When the vinyl jukebox dies, so will a little piece of the music it played

Austin's real lounge lizards

Down south, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

Thank Heaven for Little Country Girls

She's only 14, but child star LeAnn Rimes knows what she wants. Can Nashville handle it?

The ghost of Xmas passes

Landmark local band packs it in

Deck the malls

This season's Christmas album offerings

The Voice goes silent

Sinatra fought time in Dallas, and it was a split decision

The Voice, The Spark, The Image

On film, on vinyl, and in print, the late Chairman of the Board offers pleasurable surprises

Chairman of the bored

HBO's Rat Pack don't mean a thing, because it ain't got no swing

Jerry Lee, Dino, and Homer Henderson

The "Amazing One-Man Band" signs on with one of the greatest living American writers

Start making sense

A stylistic mess, Home Fries hops out of the pan and into the fire

Bully Pulpit

Pushy, driven, and fearless, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer is Bush's big man on the border. But is he tough enough to cut through the red tape snarling efforts to help the poor people living in the colonias?

Bob Dylan

Love and Theft (Columbia Records)

New Year's Eve Guide

Don't be caught at home when 2002 arrives

Best Waitstaff

Maguire's

Best Chinese Food Mainstay That Never Gets Old

Royal China

Mercy Mercy

New wine bar to open in late January

Packin' Them In

Sinatra and friends jazz up the Majestic

Review: Exposition Park Café

So good we want to live there and probably could

The art of implication

Vince Bell's been dead once, and he's got the record to prove it

Burning the Yule Log

Vince Bell's been dead once, and he's got the record to prove it

Olympian Gold

God of War II enters the pantheon of classic games.

Dough Mine

Fossil fuel makes for delicious pies

Puck Rock

Under the stars, a disco-era Dream; unpleasant peasants mar murky Les Miz

The Impossible Bomb

Under the stars, a disco-era Dream; unpleasant peasants mar murky Les Miz

Sweet and Lowdown

What is a good margarita?

Calling All Film Geeks

Plus: Dallas Floats

Before E-mail

Writing when posting didn't mean blogging

Letters

Writing when posting didn't mean blogging

I'll Drink to That

Keep that New Year's Eve spirit all year long with these boozy sing-along tunes

Viva Las Vegas

Ring-A-Ding in the new year

Season's Bleatings

Thanks to these CDs, it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

Peter Schmidt

Sunday, September 5, at Barley House

Nobody's Fool

He has three Oscars, co-wrote Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Newman digs him. So why don't you know Dallas-born filmmaker Robert Benton?

Virtual Family

It's the Spy Kids in 3-D, but where are Mom and Dad?

Camp Ernie

Do the time warp at Ernie's of Dallas

Tough Sledding

Rosebud is far from a work of genius

Bold Fish

Chef Chris Svalesen perseveres with 36 Degrees

Slammer Chow

Prison food with a price

Southern Fried

Those wacky Southern women return--again--in the trite Impossible Marriage

Esquivel takes another swing

Those wacky Southern women return--again--in the trite Impossible Marriage

Listomania: 30 Songs That Make Us Hungry But Probably Shouldn't

​Ricky Martin will be performing at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie tomorrow night. And, yes, that kind of has our mouths watering. No, not because we have a thing for the recently outed Latin singer, but because, gluttons that we are, our stomachs have always growled when we hear his song "Shake ... More >>

Coal Vine's Mozzarella Sticks: Bar Food For Kids, and Maybe Adults Too

​Coal Vines: so cliché, with that portrait of a young Frank Sinatra hung beside the bar, his face gazing upward. You might wonder if the moon's in his eyes, though that's another another artist that's equally as shopworn in New York Style Pizza joints. And here that cheesy tune is playing too ... More >>