Ethiopia

Desta Rises Above Sadness

Family members bind together to reopen Ethiopian Restaurant

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Whitt's End: 10.2.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Former Carter High School star Michael Crabtree may not be a bad guy, but he's following some horrible advice. Friend of a friend of Crabtree tells me that he and the 49ers remain $10 million ... More >>

Big, Bold Five

Sitting On a Corner: Bronze Rosa Parks Finally Arrives at the West End DART Station

Patrick MichelsWhen the music stops, there's only one seat open.Rosa Parks Plaza at DART's West End Station is still a noisy dust-covered construction site, but with help from sculptor Erik Blome, the corner at least has its centerpiece installed: a bronze statue of Parks on a bus seat, planted on a ... More >>

Good Friday: New Science Projects, The Theater Fire, Red, Air Review, George Strait, I Was A King, Pops Carter, Josh Weathers, Bowling for Soup, J.D. Souther, Grand Funk Railroad, Better Than Ezra, Les Claypool, Girl In A Coma

Why, yes, that is R. Kelly playing from my computer speakers in the office right now. Which means it must be the weekend. And means I must be running late on posting Good Friday. My sincerest apologies. Here are your weekend plans, friends. First up, the shows we've already hyped.Tonight's kinda cra ... More >>

The Phoenix Project Rises From DIY Ethics

Gig Alert: Phoenix Project Benefit At Reno's Chop Shop

Tonight, Reno's Chop Shop in Deep Ellum has a great lineup of punk and punk-influenced local acts that includes Rocket For Ethiopia, Warcola, Division of Power, Sleep As The Enemy, Just Another Consumer and Embolization. Even better than the bill is the cause. The Phoenix Project is a DIY space curr ... More >>

Good Friday: The House Harkonnen Does Weezer, Motörhead, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Firewater Goes Bananas, Lovie, First Lady Assassins

Black Cinematheque Dallas Offers Free Admission to Bob Marley Documentary

Arguments Creationists Make to Counter Evolution

Good Friday: Bleach Boys, Eleven Hundred Springs, Shiny Around the Edges

Forget Gun Control

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

Patriot Acts

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

Who Stole the Soul?

On a Wing and a Prayer

Minister to despots across the globe, evangelist K.A. Paul just needs a few tons of jet fuel--and a safer plane--to keep up God’s work

The End Is Near

Famine, pestilence, war, death--at Dallas Theological Seminary, the Apocalypse is the horse to bet on

Mystery Solved

Ride the Nile with explorer Pasquale Scaturro

Chili-ing Out

Why can't they make Texas food outside Texas?

From Horror to Heroes

For these Sudanese refugees, just surviving makes them real comic-book supermen

Letters

Letters

Tossed Out

Little Ethiopia businesses get eviction notice

Divided Borders

Brutality and romance make odd bedfellows in Beyond Borders

Sacred Heart

Meet Kenna, "the 2Pac of rock"

SEAL Appeal

Antoine Fuqua and Bruce Willis lend nobility to brutes

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

Critics' Picks

Patti Smith

Jewel of the Nile

Uncover the Mysteries of Egypt on film

Buzz

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Yemengate

In a tiny Middle Eastern country, government officials have accused Dallas oilman Ray Hunt's company of cheating them out of millions.

Local hero

Disaster-relief expert Fred Cuny disappears while rendering aid in Russia