El Centro College

From Street to Runway

Parigi's Janice Provost, Out of the Corporate Fire and into the Sauteeing Pan

Parigi's Janice Provost.​This week, Three-Course Meal catches up with Janice Provost, chef/owner of Parigi Restaurant. Who are you? I'm 42. I grew up in a suburb of Houston on what my mom called Neal's Mini Farm. We had ducks, geese, chickens, rabbits, honey bees and a horse named Ginger. ... More >>

Leave Your Tie at Home or Munch a Cupcake for Charity

​ This week, forgo the tie and stop in for a cupcake. Don't feel bad about being too trendy -- or maybe too late on a trend -- it's all for charity. Read on. The Event: No Tie Dinner and Dessert Party The Cause: AIDS Services of Dallas When you get home from the office Friday, hang your tie o ... More >>

Aural Ambush: El Centro College Loves The Dandy Warhols

or if YouTube is your flavor, click here... This week, we traveled to El Centro College in the heart of downtown Dallas to see how students felt about The Dandy Warhols, the popular post-punk band hailing from Portland.Although none of the participants were accustomed to this kind of music, all of ... More >>

Those Who Can Do Also Teach

Chef Richard Chamberlain: Boys Will Be
Boys Who Cook

Photos by Robert BostickRichard Chambelain​Luckily for steak-loving Dallas diners, chef Richard Chamberlain wasn't much interested in tilling the soil when he was a young man. Girls on the other hand -- well, them he liked. That's not exactly surprising for a 14-year-old boy -- Chamberlain's ... More >>

Cesar Chavez Street Signs Debuted Today At City Hall, Along Cesar Chavez Blvd.

Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert injected some pomp into the street sign changeover, along with city council members Steve Salazar, Delia Jasso and Tennell Atkins.​Two years and a million misfires ago, local Latino groups began a push to rename a street in Dallas in honor of Cesar Chavez ... More >>

Hey, Mr. Greenjeans

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Breezeway: El Centro Wants to Put Wind Turbines on Top of Old Sangers Building

View Larger MapThose Landmark Commission meeting agendas are full of interesting hints -- like, oh, that green house the State Fair of Texas wants to build in Fair Park. Or, now, this vague note concerning the installation of 21 wind turbines on the rooftop of 801 Main Street. We should have more ab ... More >>

Inching One Step Closer to That Self-Sustaining Block Behind Dallas City Hall

Come Friday, we'll know which of the three Re:Vision Dallas finalists, including Entangled Bank (seen here), is the out-and-out winner.​John Greenan, executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation and one of the main men charged with growing that self-sustaining block behi ... More >>

If Nothing Else, Every Day I Drive By the Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist's Work

Say what you will about Eliseo Garcia's sculpture in front of the Walnut Hill Lane firehouse, but he's the official state "three-dimensional artist" for 2009, so there.Last December, we directed your attention to the publicly funded sculptures dropped in front of Fire Station No. 35 near the Marsh-W ... More >>

Art Out Loud

Toque In Hand

Want to help a good thing get even better?We recently wrote about the phenomenal lunches and dinners provided by aspiring chefs of El Centro College's culinary arts program. Still, the school's kitchen could use a little help. And it's getting it from a few of its famous friends.From 4 to 7 p.m., M ... More >>

His Buddy And He!

DCT presents a baseball dream on stage

Taste And Class

We all have to start somewhere, and the next Rathbun or Pyles may be just a saute away...at El Centro College's Food and Hospitality Institute. Their kitchen may not yet be in a rotating ball, but they're building their basics--and dishing out proof of their knowledge through the college's meal ser ... More >>

Doll Parts

Bourbon takes on celebrity culture

Half-Pint's Holidays

The DCT celebrates in a Little House

Boxing Flashes

Art Booty

No Humbugs Allowed

DCT brings in the season

Teutons of Fun

Uptown Players romp through uber-gay Valhalla; CTD stages laid-back Whorehouse

Closet Case

With The Normal Heart, Uptown Players find gentle new beats in angry drama

Stage Epidemic

Heavy Metal

Metalsmiths show off at El Centro

Spidey Sense

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Get Hitched

Gifts not required for Tony n' Tina's Wedding

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

The Living End

After two decades, the West End is a pale shadow of its former self. Will it rise again?

Party Bard-y

Shakespeare's greatest guffaws and ha-has

Rag 'Em Up

Ain't missin' this

Fast Food

Catch The Stinky Cheese Man

Hit Parade

All we want for Christmas are some floats downtown

Ghoul Crazy

Handsome Frankenstein at Dallas Children's Theater; Cargo troupe takes Dracula down for the count

Midnight Magic

Things get Harry at Barnes & Noble

Of Feedlots and Fisheries

Richard Chamberlain puts smiles on the mouths of both fish and meat fans

Speak Up

Soon we'll all be speaking English

Tongue-tied

Gringo Lingo gripes

Urban Modesty

Jeroboam has it all

Idiot box

Dallas Community Television tries to convince the city it's must-see TV

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Wrong foot

Musicians' superstore stumbles out of the gate

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Love puzzle

Premiere of romantic comedy Fat Freddy's Blues disappoints

Rug rats' guide to Christmas theater

DTC's Dickens delivers, and Dallas Children's Theater's Witch almost soars

Winnie the wimp

Dallas Children's Theater wrings as much life as it can from A.A. Milne's limp tales

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Events for the week