Eiffel Tower

Chocolate, Chocolate, and More Chocolate: Photos from Saturday's Chocolate Conference & Festival

On Saturday, Dallas was rainy and dank, but inside the Addison Conference Center it was Chocolate Christmas. DallasChocolate.org's annual Chocolate Conference & Festival offered the opportunity for chocolate makers both local and otherwise to showcase their chocolatey wares, and for anybody with a $ ... More >>

Friday Flashback: When They Broke Ground on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in December '05

​Strange timing that one of my last tasks for the Observer will be covering the opening (but not really opening) of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Shame I can't get Schutze to be my date this weekend, so instead I'll just have to schlep along my son, who wants to get a few last photos on Unfair Pa ... More >>

Nearly Lost, No Longer Forgotten: "From Uncertain to Blue" at PDNB Gallery

Rural Texas towns tend to have unusual names; it is a well-worn trope. You seen the Eiffel Tower (replete with its own cowboy hat)? Need to get ahold of somebody in Telephone, Telegraph or Dial? They're locked and loaded in Gun Barrel City and Cut And Shoot. We could do this all day. But, let's no ... More >>

Beauty Is Black and White

Tower of Power: Fair Park Crawls Closer to Becoming Year-Round Destination

Photos by Leslie MinoraThe Observation Tower Ride will fill this 30-foot hole behind the Cotton Bowl. Don't worry, they're covering it up for the State Fair.​There is a big hole in Fair Park. Finally. Eventually the crater will be filled with a 500-foot pole surrounded by a doughnut-shaped slowly ... More >>

Despicable Me Is Any But Despicable.

Dueling Southforks

Trip Advisor/Ultimate Dallas​Quick -- spot the real Southfork Ranch, the one in Parker. Good for you. (It's the one on the left.) The other one's a replica built in the mid-'90s by "corrupt Romanian billionaire Ilie Alexandru," as he's described on Ultimate Dallas. The only real difference, aside ... More >>

Maybe News's Story on Cause of Levee Delays Was First Step to Rehab? Nah.

​The headline of Michael Lindenberger's big front-page to-do in the paper version of Sunday's Dallas Morning News was "Grand Plans Delay Levee Fix." It was, in many ways, a remarkable story for The News to publish, exposing as a serious public lie the repeated assurances of Dallas Mayor Tom Lepper ... More >>

Extended Q&A (With Audio!): The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks NX35, Festivals, Midlake and Deep Ellum.

It's not hard to see how The Flaming Lips earned its repuation as festival kings.​In this week's print edition of the Observer, you'll see some of the fruits that came from a conversation I shared with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne a little over a week ago as part of a preview for the NX35 Con ... More >>

From Paris With Love: John Travolta is the Plays the Real Ugly American in France

The End-Of-Times Thriller 2012 Is Driven By Iconic Destruction--You Know, Stuff Blowing Up

ComeHome

The Convention Center Hotel Vote is Not Just About a Building. It’s About a Mayor.

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant

Deck the halls with bombs of Xenu

Former Screen Door Chef Takes Reins at Dali Wine Bar & Cellar

The Museum of Nature's Mayne Man

Good God, That Was One Helluva Fight

Family Shattered After Oscar Sanchez's Murder

Sanchez's family thought they'd left the lawlessness of Mexico behind. But somehow it caught up with them.

An American (and a Chinese) in Paris

The third time's the guilty pleasure for Tucker and Chan's buddy cop franchise

Much Ado About Nothing

Fluff Done Right

Life and art meet sweet in this breezy French comedy

Gardening for Chicks

Kitty Litter

Steve Martin's Pink Panther piddles on its predecessor

"Exuberantly shallow"

Suspension bridge of disbelief

Ticket Takers

Foodie culture cooks in the West End

Around Hear

The best in local music

Ray Day

Newest Deathray Davies disc is bigger and better

DJ Rap

Paul Oakenfold contemplates the needle and the damage done

Petty Woman

Wayne shakes his Wang at The Center of the World

An Affair to Remember

A man and woman have their first tango in Paris

A fair question

Can you find any art at the State Fair of Texas?

Paris, Texas

Though sometimes pricey, Jean-Michel Sakouhi's new bistro fits Dallas to a T

Parlez-vous fun?

Bastille Day celebration will let you eat cake

Innocence lost

Prosecutors lied and cheated to put Kerry Max Cook on death row for 16 years. He's out of prison now, but still not quite free.

A better mousetrap

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

Peripatetic pleasure

The Cajun drifter, Margaux, has found yet another new home