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Rage Against the Machinima

As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks that contract with them battle for money and creative control.

Embracing Gluttony: The Hot Mess at Pecan Lodge

We've decided to take a look at a few of Dallas' most glutton-friendly dishes and do something you probably really don't want us to: count calories. Total buzzkill? No. More like "smart calorie allocation." So, let's get smart. Say you have 2,000 calories, more or less, at your disposal everyday; ... More >>

This Week's Best Food Deals, Starring Chocolate, Meat and Hippies

Our inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week's foodfull best. Google Offers: $10 for $20 at Lindt.com Ever since last week's candy grabber deal, I've been asking myself WWWWD? (What Would Willy Wonka Do?) This week, the answer is ... More >>

Zagat Releases 2012 Texas Restaurant Guide

Yesterday, Zagat released their 2012 Texas restaurants guide. Here are their top five most popular restaurants. Abacus Fearing's Al Biernat's Stephan Pyles Del Frisco's Steak Look familiar? These restaurants have been dominating Zagat's list for years. The survey, a system employed by the authors ... More >>

Neil Hamburger

Saturday, January 14, at Texas Theatre

Finally: The Wu-Tang Clan in Bar Graph Form

Do a Google search for "Wu-Tang Clan members" and you'll get all sorts of infographics to help sort out the NYC hip-hop group's 10 personalities, as well as their lesser-known members (Noodleneck, Dr. Bloodclot). As the years wear on, those members have gone on to do solo projects or star in movies ... More >>

The Ghosts of Saturday Night: Man or Astro-man? Live From Sons of Hermann Hall

Daniel Rodrigue​ Man or Astro-man? Sons of Hermann Hall Saturday, December 17, 2011 Better than: Having amoebas eat through your brain. A snippet of conversation overheard before the Man or Astro-man? show: "I'm really freaked out about Neti pots right now." "Why?" "Well, I read this sto ... More >>

Our Gang: Welcome Dallas County Government, Where Interfering with the FBI is Part of the Job

​I think of everything the wrong way, from a skewed perspective. Who knows why? Maybe I got dropped on my head as a baby. But here's how I'm looking at this deal in which Dallas County Judge Craig Jenkins fired the security lady who wouldn't sweep for FBI bugs in the home of a county employee ... More >>

Why won't my hot Mexican gardener take a HIV test?

Welcome to ACL '11: Zilker Warms Up For A Big First Night; It's Already Buzz-Thirty, Dudes.

Pete FreedmanCold War Kids tear down that first-day ACL wall.​Off in the distance, the song of the summer, Foster the People's can't-stop-won't-stop "Pumped Up Kicks," is blasting away over Zilker Park, blaring from the P.A. over at the Google (nee Dell) Stage. There's a marvelous tag-team effort ... More >>

Google Buys Zagat. What's Next (Besides Mind Control, Obviously)?

​The Google-chompers gobbled up Zagat yesterday, as reported by the New York Times, the LA Times, and then everyone else. The acquisition gives the internet mogul access to a sizable restaurant database full of addresses and reviews that's 29 years in the making, and positions the company to c ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Titus Andronicus at Club Dada on Wednesday Night

​ Titus Andronicus' phenomenal 2010 release, The Monitor, is a fairly dense album -- not necessarily because of its visceral combination of punk aesthetic with indie rock instrumentation, but because of its subject matter, which centers around the Civil War. So it's quite fitting then, that the An ... More >>

Oak Cliff Bicycle Company Fires Up the Grill

While the brand new Katy Trail Ice House has garnered most of the attention in the trailside eats category this week, Oak Cliff Bicycle Company has quietly debuted a picnic series designed for riders willing to get dirty. ​The bike shop this past weekend staged its first "barbikecue" at the O ... More >>

Seven Days At The Crow

Taco El Viajero Should Make the List of the Top Taquerias in Town

​Discovering a taqueria is like finding your own secret place. And not the place everyone on Chowhound is raving about, such as El Fuego, Fuel City, or Chitos. No, I mean the one you stumble on by accident while doing your routine morning rounds. Suddenly you hear your stomach growling incessan ... More >>

Where Have All the Candygrams Gone?

Candygram.com​Valentine's Day plans? Sure, there'll be dinner, maybe a little dancing. And every Walgreen's and Albertson's this side of Hell is decked with pink and red and little naked dudes pimping waxy chocolate. Central Market even wants you to learn how to make chocolate. There are flower de ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Hong Kong Express

"It was the Kung Pao."​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Hong Kong Express4760 Preston, Frisco972-377-8850Promised delivery time: 45 minutesActual delivery time: 30 minutesScoring summary:Finding a place th ... More >>

Tuk Tuk Has Some Mighty Tasty TIT. (That's Thai Iced Tea.)

Dallas News Inches Closer to Charging for Online Content and Blocking Google News

​The latest news about The News should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who's listened to the paper's publisher and CEO, Jim Moroney, since at least February, when he told Unfair Park that, yes, sooner or later A.H. Belo would "experiment" with finding out how much online readers were will ... More >>

Texaco: Fill Up With Gas--From the Tacos, Not Petrol

Old Red Bird Mall's About to Get a Fresh Look from the Urban Land Institute

View Larger MapMoments ago, the Dallas City Council approved spending $120,000 in economic development grant money so the Urban Land Institute can "assess redevelopment options" at Southwest Center Mall. As we noted earlier this week, the council's Economic Development Committee took a peek at the p ... More >>

Bush and Booze. Not What You Think?

First, on this Inauguration Day afternoon, a mention of drink specials in honor not only of our new president, but the former one who will make Dallas his home, oh, any day now. A few days back, Simon McDonald at The Libertine Bar forwarded us a handful of welcome-home signs, one of which appears at ... More >>

"Dallas Is a Pretty Incomplete Place"

During Friday's RE:Vision Dallas design charrette at City Hall -- where Mayor Tom Leppert introduced the parking lot some folks hope to turn into a sustainable, self-contained community -- organizers screened a nine-minute "photodocumentary" in which residents talk about the city that isn't and the ... More >>

Bill Murchison Says News Has Lost Its "Personality, Spirit and Flavor"

In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, former Dallas Morning News columnist William Murchison reviews Judith Garrett Segura's Belo: From Newspapers to New Media, published in September by the University of Texas Press. (Segura worked at the paper from 1981 till 2004, and she was, among other th ... More >>

Studying the Dallas School Board and the "Theory of Action for Change"

One of the more astounding discoveries I have made about the Dallas school board is that its recent behavior has been based on a so-called "theory of action for change" -- part of a program called The Reform Governance® Framework run by an outfit called the Center for Reform of School Systems (or ... More >>

Oh Brothers, or: "There Is No God."

Wanna Watch a Holiday Inn Go Boom? Then You're In Luck on Sunday.

Muddy Waters Has Dried Up. But Something "Exciting" Is Taking its Place.

Total T.O.

Learn from the master

A Man Rolls Into a 7-Eleven With a Baseball Bat and Pocket Knife ...

Chip's Old-Fashioned Burgers, Now Served Done (On Cole Avenue, Anyway)

JG's

New Dallas-Based Seach Engine, Viewzi, Is Fun to Look At, If Nothing Else

Land Shark: Larry Hamilton on DCAD's "Excessive" New Downtown Valuations

The PATH Away From Homelessness

Who's House? Darren's House.

Citizen Faux

Orson Welles calls out a faker

Picture This

A picture's worth 479 words

Dallas, Google Sees You

Blow Average

You, too, could be a star...but please don't try

Apparently, I Need to Find New Hobbies

News Hard on Preston Hollow. Finally.

Hey, Jealousy

Ed Wood's best is at the Inwood

Unfair Park, Brought to You By AT&T?

Search Engine News Wars

Devil Creek

For decades we buried our streams beneath concrete. Now they're baaaack.

Take a Hike

DADA says art is fun

Eating a Life

With George Restaurant's austere environs, the food is even more alluring

Various artists

Music From and Inspired by Spider-Man 2 (Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax)