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Morning News Praises Angela Hunt on Drilling! While God's Passing Out Miracles, Maybe We Can Get a Strong Mayor.

In the very wee hours as my eye first opened to the light of this day, I thought I heard a rushing of wings aloft. I caught my breath. Was this ...? And then distinctly as if from the next room, I heard the oinking of pigs. Only later with coffee in hand and the daily newspaper on my knees did I co ... More >>

Glenn Beck is Planning a $2 Billion Libertarian Commune in Texas

Your browser does not support iframes. Earlier this week, Glenn Beck announced that he was reinventing The Blaze, his online media property, as a global libertarian news network, complete with three foreign bureaus, a nightly news magazine, and, no doubt, lots of Beck himself. Last night, he announ ... More >>

"Moving the System Forward": Once More, City to Hold Dallas Parks Summit at Fair Park

​One years ago, when Mayor Mike Rawlings was merely Park Board President Mike Rawlings, the city held its first-ever Dallas Parks Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. By way of invite in 2010, ad man Rawlings said this:"Walt Disney once said he didn't want the public to see the world where they ... More >>

House of Blues Brings Back Hash and Gospel

​A scaled-back version of the House of Blues' gospel brunch, which was mothballed in August, is set to return to the West End restaurant next month. According to featured performer Lady Diamond, who starred in the weekly hallelujah-and-hash show until January 2010, "Gospel Sunday" will be a m ... More >>

More On Saturday's "Love Your Parks" Summit, Which Clearly Has Inspired Mike Rawlings

Sam MertenMike Rawlings, Park Board prez and poet​And speaking of the city of Dallas's parks ...No doubt you've forgotten all about the August 19 save the date sent by the city -- an invite to this weekend's first-ever Dallas Parks Stakeholders' Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Hence, the ju ... More >>

Digging the Dirt: Why Hatch Chiles
Are So Damn Good

​For cynics wondering whether the hype surrounding Hatch chiles is justified, here's the Santa Fe School of Cooking's culinary director's take on the pepper: "I'm not saying they're better, but they are to me," Rocky Durham told members of the Association of Food Journalists at a meeting in S ... More >>

Only Alice in Wonderland works wonders (so far) at this year's Festival of Independent Theatres.

This Year's Bath House FIT Fest Will Be Extra Cool. (The New Air-Conditioner Helps.)

Churchmouse ProductionsJoey Folsom and Stephanie Hall star in Churchmouse Productions' Georgie Gets a Facelift and Thank U Berry Munch​Each summer the Festival of Independent Theatres puts Dallas' hottest stage actors in a bunch of short one-act plays in rotating rep over four weekends. The 12th a ... More >>

Holy Grail Pub vs. The Dream Cafe: The Monte Cristo Conflict

And the winner is...​ We have been down this road before. You know -- the road of questionable food origins and, more important, what we consider to be the authoritative version of whatever it is we are eating. Be it a cheeseburger, a pizza or a soupy dumpling, we all have thoughts on what the ... More >>

What Happens In Vegas

How do we know whether Walt Disney was a Mexican? Maybe a little mouse told us.

Short Orders: Veracruz Cafe

Veracruz Cafe408 N. Bishop214-948-4746Expectations are a bitch. When me and my date talked about going to Veracruz Cafe in Bishop Arts, somehow my mind conjured images of Spanish wine and olives, chorizo and Manchego cheese...Which is weird since I've traveled in both Spain and Mexico and scoff when ... More >>

Ice-Cold Merchandising

DVD Releases for the Week of December 11

The Kids Are Not All Right

Sundance 2007 was all about the kiddie porn (not just Dakota Fanning)

Know Dick?

Dale's much more than just that "Miserlou" guy

Tom Hicks' California Gold Rush

Clean Up, Aisle Two!

Last Caress

A terminal kid seeks a stroke of luck in One Last Thing...

Primal Fur

Disney parades its pooches through the frigid Eight Below

Marianne Faithfull

Before the Poison (Anti-/Nave)

Sure Feels Like 80 Days

Jackie Chan takes a long trip, and it feels like déjá vu

Nice Pussy

A killer cat steals a wonderful movie from a kindly ogre

Poker Face

Clonie Gowen is good for poker. So, how good is Clonie Gowen?

Five Golden Reels

The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

Best Urban Rain Forest

Dallas World Aquarium

A Slice o' Hell

Don't Tempt Me with this teasing battle for one man's soul

Beach Head

At the Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up while the U.S. blows up Iraq

Ahoy, Oh Boy

Treasure Planet reveals an embarrassment of riches

Not So Hot

Plus: Bring on the Smut, Tudor Tyrants

Future Shock

Simon Wells tinkers with his great-grandpa's Time Machine

Buzz

Better than yoga

Best Place to Buy a Button

Pursley Discount Fashions

Everywhere a Sign

Terrell James' paintings don't suffer from contemporary art's usual faux profundity

Being Avi Adelman

One man fights bars on Lower Greenville, while others urge compromise

I Got Skillz

The Mavs were scouring Hoop-It-Up for real players. Look no further.

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Latin Lover

Adani Gallery introduces Latin American art to Gringolandia

Critics' Picks

Guttermouth

Buzz

Spanish flyways; Friends in low places; So long, friend

A better mousetrap

The wonderful worlds that Walt built are rendered at the Modern in Fort Worth

The house that Mickey built

Back in the saddle

Tangled web

From Mexico to L.A. via Alaska and El Paso, Tito Larriva has seen it all and more

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Arlington Metro (Part II)

Wednesday, April 3, 1996 Arlington, Gateway to Pantego

Art for the masses

Deep Ellum transplants can't make Addison hip

Hellbound

The hyped-up supernatural thriller Hideaway is too sloppy to be scary

Belly good

Sinbad's Palace offers superb Middle Eastern cuisine and fabulously hokey ambience

Acadian exception

Crescent City bends the rule that it's a crime to eat Cajun outside Cajun country