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The Week's Best Culinary Events, March 20 - 26, Including A Craft Beer Tasting

Wednesday, March 20 If Wednesday is your super-fancy day, then you might enjoy dinner at FT-33 where chef Matt McCallister is working up a six-course Texas-inspired dinner paired with Corra Wines, with detailed explanations courtesy of winemaker Celia Welch. Dinner is $200 per person including the w ... More >>

Meet Texas' Six Newest Billionaires

Yesterday, Forbes released the billionaires list, its annual parade of the ridiculously, absurdly super-rich. This year, the list stretches to some 1,426 names worth a combined $5.4 trillion. Texas claims a small if significant portion of that, counting 50 billionaires among its 26 million resident ... More >>

A Full Spectrum of Hope

Restaurant Journey Deep in the Heart of You Know Where

​Before you click the comment box, I know, I know: I missed some phenomenal eating opportunities this week. I was on the road reporting a feature story, which meant interviews and transcription sessions took precedence over meals. Had I structured my itinerary around restaurant visits, I surel ... More >>

Whitt's End: 10.15.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *There's probably some heart-over-head at work here, but I'm picking Rangers in 7. If Neftali Feliz doesn't blow a save and if the Rangers can avoid letting the Yankees' mystique force a mis ... More >>

Top Chef Tell: Baby Food and BS

​This week, Top Chef finally got interesting. That's not to say it wasn't totally bassackwards, but it was almost intense, and I officially started my yelling at the screen. I still haven't gotten the names of all the cheftestants straight, but that time is nearing.At QuickFire, the chefs found To ... More >>

Commonwealth of Good Hair

Nana's Cooking

3,000 Pounds of Pie and A Roomful of Sales Reps: The Recipe for One Sweet World Record

Photos by Patrick MichelsIf not for the pies, a roomful of people in white plastic ponchos might have seemed strange.​Stepping into the big white tent next to Grapevine's Embassy Suites, the first thing you noticed last night was that it smelled great inside. The air hung thick and fruity, and as ... More >>

What's it Worth to Move 200 Hilton Jobs to Dallas From Farmers Branch? Dunno Yet.

​Says this sneak preview of the city council's Economic Development Committee agenda next week, Dallas is considering forking over an economic development grant to Hilton Hotels, which is looking to relocate a regional headquarters to Dallas. Office of Economic Development head Karl Zavitkovsky, a ... More >>

Two Restaurants Score Big This Week

Chef Brian Luscher, one of the big winners.​Ah, bragging rights. Everyone wants to claim them, over your brother, a co-worker, the guy you battle for a parking space every morning. Now two Dallas restaurants hold them over the entire city.Nana was just inducted into the Nation's Restaurant News 2 ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV Comes to Dallas! Sorta!!

We all know the NFL's ultimate game will be played at Jonestown Coliseum on Feb. 6, 2011 - or 633 days from now. But, after yesterday's grand gala in Arlington, here's the roster of Super Bowl XLV's other coming attractions: NFL Headquarters: Hilton Anatole Hotel NFC Team Hotel: Omni ... More >>

Cowboy Catwalk

Ron Natinsky Says Convention Center Hotel Vote Might Amount to Jack Squat, General Fund Will Lose $300 Million Without Hotel

Sam MertenCouncil member Ron Natinsky debated Anne Raymond about the convention center hotel in Farmers Branch. While his colleagues assembled at City Hall, council member and Build the Hotel'er Ron Natinsky spent yesterday morning at the Farmers Branch Recreation Center selling the convention cente ... More >>

Arlington Singer/Songwriter Jessie Frye: "I'm Playing SXSW, Too!"

glynisphotography.comJessie FryeArlington-based singer/songwriter Jessie Frye has been seeing all these lists of Dallas area bands who are playing this year's South by Southwest Festival and she wants folks to know she's heading south as well. "I think I am the only artist that is invited who is fro ... More >>

Dallas County DA Craig Watkins to Deliver Keynote at Annual Prayer Breakfast

Dallas County District Attorney Craig WatkinsLarry James, president and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries, posted this announcement to his blog this a.m.: Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins will deliver the keynote address at this year's 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast, set f ... More >>

Bob Hayes’ Family Feud Tarnishes a Long-Awaited Hall of Fame Entry for the Cowboys Great

Harlan Crow Ain't the Only One With Self-Interest in the Convention Center Hotel Debate

(Helping Dallas secure a convention center hotel earned DCVB President and CEO Phillip Jones a bonus larger than most people's paychecks./Sam Merten) When Harlan Crow launched a petition drive to give Dallas voters a say in publicly financing a $525 million convention center hotel, proponents of th ... More >>

Since When Did the Trinity River Project Come to Mean "Ferris Wheel"?

I actually love the way news pops up in The Dallas Morning News. I pick up the paper every single morning and feel as though I'm visiting a foreign city for the first time. Every story, even the most mundane, is a forehead-slapper, because I have no idea what they're talking about.Today, for exampl ... More >>

Reserve Fund May Not Protect Taxpayers If Trouble Finds Dallas' Convention Center Hotel

Just how safe are taxpayers in the convention center hotel deal? Good question.

These Are Grim Times for the Hotel Business. But, Shhh, Say Nothing.

Hurrying the Hotel

City Hall plows ahead with convention center hotel despite petitions

Dallas Convention Center Hotel's Murky Future

Petitions to kill the public project are gaining momentum

As Far As Some on the Council Are Concerned, We've Already Voted For the Convention Center Hotel

Next Month, You Can Get Muggled at the Huge Harry Potter "Symposium"

Statler Hilton Makes National Trust's "Most Endangered" List

This Doesn't Raise Any Questions At All

Birthstone Bonanza

See some gems in North Dallas

Demanding Answers as the Dallas Convention Center Hotel Moves Forward

As Mayor Tom Leppert pushes for a convention center hotel, critics demand more details and less tax money. At least, those who haven't been silenced do.

As the Crow Flies Off the Handle

Developer Wasn't Bluffing About Bluffview Development

Into the Arena

Get Your Rocks Off

Mine for gems...in a hotel

Blast My Bubble

Get on the floor for DIFFA

Oh What a Fright

Fear Fest 2007 lashes out in Mesquite

Dallas Children's Theater Goes to New Hampshire. Bad Grown-Up Things Happen.

Anna Nirvana

Falling in Love-40 with a tennis temptress

Gimarc Has Another Alternative

Radio is a Sad Salvation

Wait, People Still Play Quake?

Taking Up Collection

Blue, New and Borrowed

Watch & Wait

More Than Meets the Eye

It's a car, it's a robot, it's a Transformer

Return of the Black Widow

Death and rumors have followed Sandra Bridewell for decades. But no one could predict the strange turn her life has taken today.

Facing the Music

Inventor, musician and self-professed man of God, Al Petty says he hit on the perfect moneymaking scheme. His bright idea could cost him 1,200 years behind bars.

Steel Cage Match

TNT pays tribute to Nicolas Cage

Daddy Deadliest

Millionaire Allen Blackthorne had a unique scheme to regain custody of his kids--have his ex-wife murdered

Getting dumped

Despite shoddy science, bad economics, and catastrophic health risks, a West Texas border community may become the nation's nuclear dumping ground

The Ice Man

Diamond broker Bryan Wilson Taylor is so smooth, people say he can charm the horns off a billy goat. If he tries to sell you anything, run.