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Burger Bubble: Two New Concepts Coming to Garland and Richardson

I'm reminded of the dot com internet boom every time I see the announcement of a new burger restaurant cropping up somewhere in Dallas. As Internet stocks exploded, pundits listed myriad reasons why traditional valuation methods did not apply to these new companies that had no revenue but were still ... More >>

The Spring Breakification of the Disney Princess Complex

Spring Breakers is Harmony Korine's most accessible -- and yet his most experimental -- movie yet.

Do Mexicans Really Dislike Cubans?

Cast Your Vote at 7-Eleven With Special Election Coffee Cups, Track National Results

Today 7-Eleven begins a tryst into pre-election voting by offering customers an opportunity to show support for their preferred presidential candidate by choosing a blue coffee cup for President Barack Obama or red for Mitt Romney. Undecided voters, or those who don't want to endure the wrath of a ... More >>

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

Preview: Wildflower! Art and Music Fest at Galatyn Park

Friday, May 18 through Sunday, May 20, at Galatyn Park, Richardson

UT-Arlington Students March for Trayvon Martin, Demand Gunman's Arrest

Students, faculty and community members marched together today through the University of Texas at Arlington campus, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin's death and the arrest of his killer, 28-year-old George Zimmerman. Hundreds attended the rally organized by the UT-Arlington NAACP chapter, inclu ... More >>

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

Pong Beer, the Beer Made Specifically for Beer Pong, is Coming to Texas

Somewhere, Toby Keith is rejoicing. Coming soon to Texas, according to Pong Beer's site, is the one, the only beer exclusively designed to receive a unsterilized, filthy college apartment ping pong ball. It's Pong Beer! Or, the beer specifically for playing Beer Pong. It's so real, everyone. How r ... More >>

Since You Gotta Spend Money to Make It, City Looks Outside For Help Growing Small Biz

​Far as Dallas City Hall's concerned, it's hard out there for a small start-up, which is why it's spent years loaning and granting money to businesses via, say, the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund and the Southern Dallas Development Corporation, both of which have suffered their share of sputter ... More >>

Feds, Researchers Raise More Questions About Texas's New Voter ID Law

​The voter ID law passed by Texas lawmakers in May continues its circuit among activists, lawmakers, academics and social commentators as a discriminatory, unjustified and absolutely necessary measure, depending on who's yelling. Words like "voter fraud" on the right and "disenfranchisement" o ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys

Saturday, September 24, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton

Watch: Astronautalis Freestyles About Ron Washington, Blows Minds at Homegrown Fest

Yeah, but you're from around here when it counts, Andy.​Astronautalis may actually call Jacksonville, Florida, his home base, but, as he told the crowds before during his Homegrown Festival performance on Saturday, he's always considered Dallas a home, too. And, hey, we're proud to call him our ow ... More >>

Asador's Dean James Max: What a Lucky Man

Asador's Dean James Max​Some people just end up doing the things they are meant to do, and the lucky ones end up being successful at it. Dean James Max, concept chef at the new Asador Restaurant in the Renaissance Dallas Hotel, is one of the lucky ones. What he's dreamed up for Asador is what ... More >>

Pour Your Own Beer: A Gimmick That Works...At Least in Tampa

​Craft-beer bar chains are nothing new. As a matter of fact, they might be the most beloved chains of all. Relatively small in size, like local fave Flying Saucer, they offer a consistent quality par excellence. When I learned from my brother-in-law in Florida that a craft-beer restaurant-bar ... More >>

What I Learned About Bullies, And Their Parents, When I Wrote A Book On The Subject

​Friday I'm going to this thing at the home of garden designer Robert Bellamy called "Light a Fire," some kind of dinner deal to make people more aware of the problem of bullying of gay kids and suicide. I do things like this because I'm a great guy and my wife makes me go. She has been a friend ... More >>

Last Night: Torche, The House Harkonnen at The Nightmare

Torche, House Harkonnen, White Mountain The NightmareSeptember 23, 2010(A Little) Better Than: Torchy's Tacos.Torche​Torche brought their Florida stoner metal prog rock to 60 or so people at The Nightmare in Deep Ellum last night, and took them all along for a head-banging journey.

News & Notes & A Day in the Park

Patrick Michels​Where to begin -- Vegas, maybe? Perhaps you've heard: Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's now just one of two finalists for the Clark County School District's top job, since the Floridian in the mix dropped out. Meanwhile, this Thursday, the DISD's ... More >>

Lawnmower Man: Kenneth Page Followed His Peculiar Dream from Texas to Florida.

Black Tusk, Zoroaster, Dark Castle, Maleveller, Four Days To Burn

Thursday, June 18, at Trees

Who Do You Want to See the Cowboys Play on Thanksgiving?

​When they're finished tinkering and tweaking with overtime today or tomorrow, NFL owners down in Florida will reveal next this season's marquee TV matchups. Included on that list will be the Dallas Cowboys' annual home Thanksgiving game. Been awhile since Dallas played a classic on Turkey Da ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Less Than Jake Tomorrow Night at the Granada Theater

Once upon a time, Less Than Jake was a ska band--horns, the whole deal. Then something happened; the band went pop-punk. And while 2006's In with the Out Crowd wasn't a terrible record by any means, by that point it was clear that this was a band that had evolved. Nonetheless, 2008's release from t ... More >>

Ryan Bingham, Telegraph Canyon, The Orbans

Friday, November 27, at House of Blues

Veggie Guy: Cereal Bar

​"Little boxes on a hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky, little boxes, little..." Okay, okay--I'll stop. But doesn't The Colony remind you of that town Agrestic from the show Weeds? Well, maybe not quite as affluent. And there definitely aren't any hills to speak of. But the houses all loo ... More >>

Today In Music News: Q-Tip Hits The Big Screen, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold Has A Side Project and Festivals Are Getting Canceled

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 4, 2009...Oy vey! Q-Tip has signed on as the co-star in an independent movie about a young man from a Hasidic community who is caught importing and trafficking ecstasy into the States. Obviously, Tip won't be the Hasidic character; he'll ... More >>

Today In Music News: Skynyrds Loses Another Member, Joaquin Phoenix Is Doing A Bit (Maybe), Rachel Ray's Back At SXSW, Slayer and Manson To Tour Together

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 29, 2009... Lynyrd Skynyrd's keyboardist, Billy Powell, died at his Florida home at the age of 56.  It looks like the Joaquin Phoenix "rap career" could possibly be a hoax after all. I really hope it is because, well,  ... More >>

Discounting Super Sunday

Are you ready for some football? You better be, because you're going to get some! Sunday is Superbowl XLIII, and the Pittsburgh Steelers square off against the Arizona Cardinals in Tampa Bay, Fla. Assuming you don't socialize with NFL sponsors and thus can't make it over to the Sunshine State yet ... More >>

Starfucker

Starfucker (Badman Records)

Dust Congress Talks Egg Tooth, Define ‘Indie’

Astronautalis' New Disc Features Sea Chanteys and Patriotic Tunes

About Jarrod Saltalamacchia's Gym Teacher Wife ...

Inspecting the Inspector

Tia's Tex-Nixed

Sunset on the Sunshine State?

Movin' On Up

I Hope They Shoot It on Uranus

Thrice and Poison the Well

March 31

Cell-bloc Voting

A new effort tries to unlock former felons' votes

Wabbit Season

Animal rescuers try to find a Texas home for Miami's unwanted bunnies

Passing the Plate

Proposed new license tags weigh in on the abortion debate

Flag Team

No contact doesn't mean no fun

Plea for Peace Tour

October 18

Best Local Singer Who's So Good She May Have to Move

N'Dambi

Culinary U.N.

A little focus could give Stratos a boost

Oh, Never Mind

The last word--give or take a billion--on the media's election-night mambo

Ignorance is bliss

Two supposed champions of open government are pushing hard to keep campaign finance records off the Internet. What don't they want you to know?

Letters

Smoke-filled room

When Dan Morales brokered Texas' $17.3 billion tobacco settlement, he blew away Governor Bush. He also made sure his friends got a few puffs.

Real cuisine--or gator bait?

Blue Conch brings Florida fare to Dallas