Dubai

Brian Zenner of Belly & Trumpet on Dinner in Thailand, Bruno Davaillon, Chef-Driven Dining and the Best Time for Cheap Tacos

Chef Brian Zenner of Belly & Trumpet in Uptown has been around a bit. Born in Bangkok, his family moved to Dubai and London before finally settling in Texas. And while on paper his culinary career started at the Texas Culinary Academy, one might say the cooking wheels started churning on a dock in T ... More >>

Two North Texans Could Get 205 Years in Federal Prison for Exporting Computers to Iran

There is, apparently, an entity known as the North Texas Counterproliferation Task Force. It's sufficiently new/under the radar to yield exactly zero matches on Google, but it's a thing, and it's made up of agents from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, and the Departme ... More >>

Chuck Billy of Testament is Ready for the End of CDs and Records

It's pretty rare for a band to wait nearly three decades to release its best album, but that's exactly what Testament did. Last summer saw the release of Dark Roots of Earth, Testaments tenth and most accomplished work. Melding the old school fire of the band's previous efforts with a modern sheen a ... More >>

(Im)Perfect Sound Forever

Fort Worth's Dreamy Soundz revive the analog arts.

Fort Worth's Dreamy Soundz Revive the Analog Arts

Robby and Jennifer Rux greet me at the front door of an old brown fourplex, nestled comfortably on a tree-lined street in Fort Worth's Fairmount Historic District. Their apartment, covered in posters, tapestries and age-old vinyl, serves as one of the few exclusively analog recording studios in Nort ... More >>

Bucks Burnett Makes Good On His Threat, Opens Second Eight Track Museum

See also: Bucks Burnett threatens to open another Eight Track Museum Back in March, I checked in with Dallas institution Bucks Burnett and got a tour of his Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum, lovingly curated by Burnett across several decades. It was then he revealed a new museum would be opening s ... More >>

Trinity Toll Road Doesn't Add Up

However you slice the numbers, it's still baloney.

The Mayor's $20 Million Plan for Southern Dallas is Just Another Drop in the Bucket.

The $4,500 Toilet, A Must Have For Your Modern Home

Finally a toilet fancy enough to keep in the living room of your magnificent, glass-enclosed, hilltop house. This weekend's First Dallas Modern Home Tour begs the question: Everything else in your retro-futuristic frame is perfect, but how do you hide the commode? Well, if you're feeling especia ... More >>

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Tom Cruise's mission: live another day as a bankable star.

73-Year-Old Dallas Man Convicted In International Telecom Swindle Worth $60 Mil

​Michael Signoretto is 73, and as of today the Dallas man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for his role in defrauding two British telecommunications companies out of of more than $60 million. Signoretto, who was just found guilty by a federal jury, didn't do this alone. He had plenty of co-c ... More >>

Middle East Field Buyer Alleges Anti-Muslim Atmosphere At War-Zone Contractor Giant KBR

​KBR, Inc., the massive and controversial Houston-based wartime contractor that has landed billions in military contracts for erecting base camps and supplying fuel for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will have to convince a federal judge in Dallas that race and religion had nothing to do wi ... More >>

Waiters Say the Darndest Things

​You know what's understood in every language? A check presenter. I'd wager there's not a diner from Dubuque to Dubai who's surprised by what he finds when he opens the leather-bound book that appears at the end of every meal. No competent restaurant-goer wastes time wondering if he's been gi ... More >>

Repo Chick: A Woman Moves in on the Alex Cox Series.

SBOE Pushes Back Against Imaginary Threat of Pro-Islamic Bias.

Dinghy Bar & Grill: Where Would-Be Parrotheads Flock.

Pizza Hut Proves: If You Want the Customer's Trust, Better Get Your Dancing Shoes On

The P'Zone is reason enough to be seriously suspicious of Pizza Hut's motives, but the results from survey in The Economic Times of India carried a reminder that the brand we Americans all know as The Hut is the most trusted name in the Indian dining world -- and has been for six years running. Whi ... More >>

Food Festivals Like Taste of West Village Aren't Necessarily About Food

​Since news about Texas food tends to find its way to my inbox, I know way more than I should about Texas Roadhouse happenings. I don't usually find too much in the Roadhouse oeuvre that's worth sharing, but I was oddly riveted by a recent announcement regarding the restaurant chain's partici ... More >>

If You Need 15 Acres Near the Galleria, I Know Just the Person You Should Talk To

Spike Johnson​That banner you see on the old Showcase Chevrolet dealership on LBJ Freeway, near the Dallas North Tollway intersection, just went up this week. I can't tell you the asking price, but I do know this: When Apartment Realty Advisors sold the property the first go-round in November 2006 ... More >>

Q&A: Titanmoon Travels The World, Gets Treated Like Heroes, Shares an MP3.

Patience SteltzerTitanmoon​DFW's own Titanmoon just arrived home from its first international tour--a whirlwind trip that took the band through Japan, Pakistan and Dubai and found the band being treated like heroes. And though a couple of bombings canceled a couple of shows, the indie rock outfit ... More >>

Lyric Stage’s Road To Qatar leads a Caravan of Small New Musicals on Local Stages

Bye-Bye, Dubai. Nighty Night, New York.

Icon Midtown, yet another conceptual rendering to add to the pyreBut 15 months ago, Icon Partners issued a breathless press release announcing a 3.7-million square foot development to be dropped at the intersection of  LBJ Freeway and the Dallas North Tollway. Called Icon Midtown, it was to be ... More >>

Sleep Recession

Slip into something more comfortable at the Majestic

Today In Music News: DJ AM Sues, Diddy Woos, and Dubai Believes In A Thing Called Love...

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 29, 2008...DJ AM got into the Christmas spirit a little early this year. On Christmas Eve, he not only sued Goodyear, Learjet and the charter company he used for the flight that crashed and left him and drummer Travis Barker severely burned ... More >>

Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy thriller we deserve

Really, Rangers Fans, Why Can't We Form a "Supporters' Union" Too?

Meet the Woman Who Has Royally Pissed Off Tom Hicks

"Kids, We're Going to Kuwait. Mommy's Got a ... Um ... Job."

Much Ado About Nothing

Last Men Standing

Leppert and Oakley show that what you think about Dallas politics could be wrong

OK, So...Ski Fort Worth, Then!

Patriot Acts

Far from his Kurdish home, Adnan Kirkuki seeks out soldiers to defend his new one in the United States

Realty Check

Ski Dallas!

Seductress of the Saints

Inside the mind--and suitcase--of Sandra Bridewell, religious charlatan

Whiz Biz Kids

Dallas' young entrepreneurs live by their creed: Just do it.

Future Shock

Michael Winterbottom paints a plausibly problematic tomorrow in Code 46

Truly in Love With Lionel

It may be easy as Sunday morning to dis Lionel Richie. But why do that?

Shipshape?

Awash in oil, the Spanish victims of a tanker disaster seek justice from a Texas company

Good as Cash

The unlikely story of the greatest Texas athlete you've never heard of