Subject: Food Security and Hunger

• A Feel-Good Follow to a Feel-Good Story

  February 1, 2007

• Southwest: They Do PR Wright

  May 31, 2006

• One Out of Four Texas Children Goes Hungry At Some Point During the Year

  November 16, 2007

• Hunger Strike

  Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

  December 6, 2001

• Are You Still Celebrating the Willenium? Then Are You Ever in Luck, Dallas!

  After the jump, the complete details on how to meetlook at Will Smith on Tuesday, when the formerly Fresh Prince comes to Dallas to not only sneak his latest feelgood redemption story, Seven Pounds, but to help fill the North Texas Food Bank's pantry before Thanksgiving. The trailer's also after the jump. --Robert Wilonsky

  November 14, 2008

• Gettin' Jiggy with Holiday Giving at Will Smith's Dallas Premiere

  Patrick Michels Will Smith pulls off the jersey and tie almost as heroically as Mayor Tom Leppert. Will Smith is all about good deeds these days, so if you wanted to catch the Dallas premiere of his new feel-good thriller Seven Pounds, you had to come with cans. Which was was cool with hundreds of fans, who began lining up outside the Cinemark 17 theaters before noon Tuesday, toting canned food donations for the North Texas Food Bank. The Fresh Prince (Big Willie, if you prefer) took to the s

  November 19, 2008

• Pulp Charity: Holiday Food Drive Horror Stories

  Holiday giving is all around us now. If you're not already the generous type, you're being guilted into it by a bell-ringing Santa, or Will Smith, or even Wal-Mart.If you think you can get away with tossing another can of creamed spinach into the bin -- the one in your kitchen cabinet, back where you found the dusty bamboo shoots last year -- well, you're right. But that doesn't mean you should feel good about it.Talk to the people who actually hand out the food, and it'll take a lot more to imp

  November 25, 2008

• Not Taking The Cake

  Patrick MichelsThe 33 KDAF's Rebecca Miller dresses up her cake.In a scandal very much like the one where French and Russian figure skating judges fixed Olympics results, I was robbed this morning of a cake decorating crown that was--by at least one account--rightfully mine.But first, the important stuff: The annual "cake-off"--in which the likes of Robbie Owens and Teresa Frosini of CBS 11 news, meteorologist Rebecca Miller from channel 33 and a lowly Observer food writer decorate cakes--draws

  June 2, 2009

• In Dallas, a Rise in Homelessness and Hunger Due to "Bleak" Economy

  This morning, outside a rescue mission in Miami, the U.S. Conference of Mayors released a study concerning homelessness and hunger in 25 major cities, with Dallas among those participating in the survey. The section dealing specifically with the city can be found on Page 30 of the 85-page report, but according to the study, which says that 21.1 percent of Dallas residents live below the poverty line, "Dallas has experienced a 14 percent increase in people experiencing homelessness" in the last y

  December 12, 2008

• Hot Dish

  April 20, 1995

• Best Health-food Store

  September 20, 2001

• Best Late-night Restaurant

  September 20, 2001

• Best Depressing Scene

  September 25, 2003

• Bowling for Soup

  February 19, 2009

• The Giving Time

  November 20, 2008

• Pour One Out

  October 16, 2008

• Nice Cans

  October 16, 2008

• Table Making

  September 25, 2008

• Simply Speaking

  January 3, 2008

• Nice Cans

  October 11, 2007

• Got Henna?

  July 6, 2006

• Can Do Attitude

  October 12, 2006

• Kind Threads

  May 17, 2007

• Charity Spaghetti

  June 14, 2007

• From the Ground Up

  Central Dallas Ministries helps the poor find their own bootstraps

  January 4, 2007

• Grinched

  Can you spare a dollar, mister?

  December 29, 2005

• Dang, some good news

  Generosity warms Buzz's cold heart

  September 8, 2005

• Best Star

  Mike Modano

  October 14, 2004

• Best Local CD Release

  Bamnan and Slivercork, Midlake

  October 14, 2004

• Best Food Event

  KRLD Restaurant Week

  October 14, 2004

• Feed the Need

  What is soup kitchen food like?

  June 24, 2004

• Bellies of the Beast

  Food cuts have inmates and guards grumbling

  October 23, 2003

• Green Giant

  Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

  December 5, 2002

• Saturday, In Nokia

  July 9, 2009

• Our Best Aunt

  July 16, 2009

• Can It

  September 24, 2009

• Hash Over: Sevy's Serves Scotch For Supper, Roy Williams Doesn't Take The Week Off, Learn To Use Your Noodle At Tei-An And More

  ​Do you love scotch? Sevy's Grill will have a Scotch Club tasting this evening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. featuring five premium whiskys and a complementary dish for each. Dishes and drinks include crispy 5-spice duck cigars (sounds classier than "duck taquitos," no?) with apricot ginger dipping sauce with Dalmore 12 and ginger ale; prosciutto, ricotta and basil fritatta with Glenfiddich 12; Ahi tuna tartar with Glenfiddich 15; griddled buffalo small sandwiches (they use the disturbing "s" word) wi

  October 19, 2009

• Hash Over: Drink Like A Millionaire, Eat Heart-Healthy, And More

  ​Golden Spirits has come up with an idea so perfectly suited to the artificial luxury embodied by Dallas ultra-lounges that you'd think the Madison, Wisconsin distillery was based here. Well, to use the old bumper-sticker phrase, Million Vodka wasn't born here, but it got here as fast as it could. Million Vodka [music warning] is a self-described "ultra premium" hand-crafted, triple-filtered, small-batch vodka with a suggested retail price of $29.99. But it's so much more than just a vodka. As

  November 16, 2009

• The New Faces of Hunger in North Texas

  ​When the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report earlier this week that placed Texas second only to Mississippi when it comes to the swelling ranks of hungry residents, Jan Pruitt wasn't surprised. After all, the president and CEO of the North Texas Food Bank had just released her own data on the growing need of North Texas families as part of a major food drive heading into the holidays. "I wasn't surprised based on what this last year has looked like for us," she tells Unfair Park,

  November 18, 2009

• Pints And Cans

  November 19, 2009