East Africa

A Former Cowboy is Suing Mavs Great Rolando Blackman Over Alleged African Gold Scam

After leaving the Mavericks as the club's all-time leading scorer, pre-Dirk of course, Rolando Blackman has bounced around a bit. He spent a couple of seasons with the Knicks and a couple more playing in Europe before finally retiring to the sidelines. Some of those sidelines were at the American Ai ... More >>

Desta Rises Above Sadness

Family members bind together to reopen Ethiopian Restaurant

Ron Swanson and Manwich, a Sloppy Match Made in Heaven

We all had "Mom is tired of your shit" night, yes? It was also called Sloppy Joe Night. That weekly or monthly event when she plopped a pound of ground beef into a pan and poured some sauce on it, stirred it up and threw a bag of Mrs. Baird's buns at your face and made herself an old-fashioned. No? ... More >>

Feast of Appetizers

Gorge on this year's Oscar-nominated short films.

Modern Piracy’s Evolution

UPDATED: The DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge #4: Yells At Eels

UPDATE 10:30 a.m.: Congrats to Tracy Halliday, who is the lucky winner of Index Festival tickets and the loot from the Good Records challenge. Have fun out there, Tracy! Here we go now, get busy! It's time for another Good Records Challenge. I wish I had a whistle to blow. You know the drill: We gi ... More >>

First Taste Of Ethiopia Hopes To Draw Increased Attendance To Ethiopia Day

We made it! At least unofficially. Labor Day weekend is here, and with it hopefully an end to triple-digit heat. Actually, compared with last year, this summer was pretty comfortable. I might say I even enjoyed it. I won't miss it, though, because with fall comes what I think it one of Dallas' mos ... More >>

Study: Texas' Hellacious 2011 Summer Is A Prime Example of Loaded Climate Dice

Our record-busting summer 2011 continues to be an object of fascination to climate scientists all over the world. Alongside floods in Thailand, drought in Eastern Africa and the European heat wave, the driest, hottest year in recorded Texas history has provided a case study for gauging the influence ... More >>

Fashion, Food, Dancing Mark World Refugee Day in Vickery Meadows

African men singing to the beat of a drum and about ten women dressed in long bold-colored dresses danced in an undulating circle in Fair Oaks Park on Saturday afternoon. With bright scarves wrapped around their heads, their bodies seemed to move like aquatic plants to the music and chants. It was ... More >>

Oak's Lucid Plates

With the right frame of mind, Jason Maddy can take you anywhere

Refugee Writers Means an Outlet for Refugees and Awareness for the Rest of Us

The other day, Unfair Park chatted with filmmaker Bentley Brown about his film Faisal Goes West, the tale of a Sudanese family moving to America and settling in Dallas' Vickery Meadow neighborhood. Brown mentioned his friend who convinced him to film in Dallas (and acted as script supervisor) starte ... More >>

The City of Ate Interview: Atti Worku, a Former Miss Ethiopia and Host of a Benefit Dinner at Bolsa Mercado Next Week

Atti Worku was born and raised in Adama, Ethiopia, where at an early age she noticed a distinct difference in her private school education and those in the public school system. During college Worku began modeling and competing in beauty pageants, and in 2005 was crowned Miss Ethiopia. Shortly aft ... More >>

At Ibex Ethiopian, the Dishes (and the Vibe) Are Communal

And the menus, thankfully, have numbers.

Diving Into Dallas' Ethiopian Scene and Ibex, the Subject of This Week's Review

Sara Kerens​While I was here for my job interview a while back the heat had me on the lam. I was holed up in my hotel, trying to avoid a stroke, and found an article in D discussing Dallas' Ethiopian restaurants and how the volume here compares to New York and Los Angeles. The D.C. area, wh ... More >>

For Tacos in a Mexican Grocery in an Ethiopian 'Hood, Super Plaza's Are Pretty Damn Good

Jose Ralat Maldonado​Entering a supermarket--or a mall, for that matter--is a stressful venture packed with potential pitfalls, so it's always comforting to see food options as an escape or security blanket. Super Plaza, a market in Upper Greenville's Little Ethiopia, is no exception. The mar ... More >>

Whitt's End: 2.25.11

Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I still don't fully understand Michael Young leaving Rangers spring training for two days. The team announced it was a "family matter." Manager Ron Washington said Young "has a family thin ... More >>

Super Bowl Visitors and Taco Lovers: A Dallas Tacos Trail

Created by Alexander FloresMake the jump for the Taco Trail​ This certainly isn't the week to jog the Katy Trail (Fountain Place is frozen, man!), so instead, Jose Ralat Maldonado -- who has traversed the taco scene for City of Ate -- and the rest of us implore you to eat. Eat as much as you ... More >>

Show Announcements: Best Coast, Wavves, No Age, Geographer, Josh Ritter, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Get Up Kids, Tapes N' Tapes, Oberhofer, Bitter End, Underoath, Deerhoof & more

Best Coast and Wavves--In Love and On the Road​It's no secret that Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino wished that Nathan Williams, the stoner behind Wavves, was her boyfriend. She got her wish, too. And, now, the two are taking their much publicized relationship on road, presumably leaving a trai ... More >>

Five State Fair Foods You Can't Find in Texas

Ok, maybe we don't want this.​It's the rare visitor who leaves the State Fair of Texas wishing there had been more deep-fried delicacies available, but there are a few fried and stick-impaled snacks missing from the fair's line-up. Here, a look at five popular sweet and savory items sold at state ... More >>

Five Sure-Fire Food Costumes For Halloween

spirithalloween.com/Seriously, this is called the "Nasty Banana" costume ($49.99)​Unless your mom is my mom and she started sifting through costume patterns at Hancock back in August, you may be a little nervous. Halloween is twenty days away, and no one wants to see you reprise your role as ... More >>

Slow Food Dallas Wants to Plant a Seed
For Immigrant Neighborhood

​Slow Food Dallas is planning to use a portion of the proceeds from its upcoming $100 per plate benefit dinner to help launch a community garden in a Vickery Meadows area apartment complex. The local chapter has traditionally raised money to send delegates to the biannual Terra Madre conference in ... More >>

Goody two-shoes go wild for Square Burgers

Sara KerensThe burgers are great, the desserts are tiny at Square Burger​This week's Dallas food blog coverage is a medley of Czech chili, lamb burgers at Square Burger, good eats from Ethiopia, seafood stew from San Francisco, and gun-eating Texans. We'll help you to prepare your sweet tooth ... More >>

Ibex Ethiopian Cuisine & Bar: Follow that Cab
For a Taste of Africa

​I was tipped off to Ibex by an airport shuttle driver who was born in Ethiopia. When I told him I'd heard there wasn't any great Ethiopian food in Dallas, he looked at me quizzically and asked "What about Ibex?" Ibex opened three months ago on the ground floor of a generic-looking office bui ... More >>

The Expendables: Stallone Hawks Nostalgia and Really Big Explosions

Chef Tell: Tiffany, Official Food Ambassador

​Right away, we knew this would be a big week for our Tiffany Derry. They started off the show with her smoothing toner all over her face and neck (so that's how she gets that awesome skin!) and talking about how she was planning her wedding before hopping on the Top Chef train. But it was also wo ... More >>

Narcos Be Damned. There Are Still Plenty of Reasons to Love Mexico.

How 'Bout A Little Theatarrh?

Big, Bold Five

It's a Grind in Deep Ellum is more than just a coffee shop, it's a sanctuary for second chances.

World Music Must Die

AMADOU AND MARIAM BREAK OUT OF A FLABBY, GENERIC GENRE

For the Birds

Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg used to study ornithology. Now he sings about his learnings.

Arguments Creationists Make to Counter Evolution

Accidental Tourists

Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

Skin Deep

Rescue Them

Buy some art for the IRC

Chili-ing Out

Why can't they make Texas food outside Texas?

Don't Forget to Decompose Your Auk

Dallas immigrants don't have to go home for holiday fare

Finger food

Be a kid again and bring a bib to Ghion

Al's atonement

For starters, why not help undo the crooked cab laws he helped pass?

Paintball

The Kimbell reveals the gamesmanship between two modern geniuses that inspired their artistic legacy