Subject: Holidays

• Last Supper

  Send 2003 out with a bang

  December 18, 2003

• BeloWatch

  April 20, 1995

• Jingle bells, Jingle sells

  December 5, 1996

• Events for the week

  December 25, 1997

• Night & Day

  December 31, 1998

• Best florist

  September 21, 2000

• Best Halloween

  September 25, 2003

• All Hail The Saint Of Drinking

  March 12, 2009

• A Musical Toast

  January 8, 2009

• A Very Hipster New Year

  January 8, 2009

• New Year's Mystique

  December 25, 2008

• Holiday Harvesting

  December 25, 2008

• Eight Lights

  December 18, 2008

• Miracle of a Musical

  December 4, 2008

• Tre Seasonal

  December 4, 2008

• Seven Days

  December 27, 2007

• Holiday Leftovers

  Theaters never sicken of Dickens, so expect season's repeats

  December 20, 2007

• Light It Up

  December 6, 2007

• Hope You've Been Nice

  November 22, 2007

• King of Speeches

  January 12, 2006

• A Big Holiday Combo

  November 23, 2006

• Gefeltefestival

  December 7, 2006

• Kwanzaa Tongue Twister

  December 28, 2006

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  December 23, 2004

• Tree-rific

  Arboretum's cool yule

  November 25, 2004

• Carol Away

  The softer side of Dickens' Christmas

  November 25, 2004

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  November 25, 2004

• Run Away

  This stallion gallops into the IMAX theater

  December 25, 2003

• Leaf Blower

  Bay Leaf gets a new chef

  May 16, 2002

• Secular, But Equal

  Third Eye's Kwanzaa

  December 21, 2000

• The Art of Giving

  Make an artist happy this holiday season

  December 7, 2000

• Events for the week

  December 28, 1995

• The Top 10 Sportiest American Holidays

  Had a buddy yesterday gloat to me that Memorial Day Sunday is "one of the greatest sporting days of the year!" To which I replied, "Huh?" I remember a time when the Indianapolis 500 was must-see TV along with the Harlem Globetrotters, heavyweight boxing matches, Oklahoma-Nebraska football and NBA All-Star Saturday. Alas, those events long ago passed their prime. At this point they should be on the endangered species list, because they've gone the way of stewardesses, stationary&nb

  May 25, 2009

• Park and Ooh

  June 26, 2009

• Park and Ooh

  July 2, 2009

• This Weekend: No Shootin' Off Guns. No Drinking and Driving. No Fireworks.

  For the Fourth of July weekend, the Dallas Police Department is partnering with Dallas Fire-Rescue -- they're going to ride in patrol cars together -- to strictly enforce the no-no's listed above, especially the part about shooting stuff into the air. It's the first time the two departments have gone to such lengths to keep the skies from raining fire and brimstone (and bullets) on the Fourth."We're going to have a no-tolerance for it," said Dallas Fire Rescue's spokesperson, Lt. Rebecca Mathews

  July 2, 2009

• Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of A Good Wine Buzz

  To paraphrase Patrick Henry, "if this be intoxication, make the most of it."If the thought of another 4th of July spent dodging toddlers brandishing sparklers like Jack Sparrow's sword leaves you craving something red, white and intoxicating, maybe a more grown-up celebration is in order this year. You need $50, but it will buy your ticket to freedom at the Annual 4th of July Grapevine Wine Trail this weekend.Yes, freedom comes at a hefty price. But it includes a hell of a lot of vino, at lea

  July 3, 2009

• Trick or Milk?

  October 15, 2009

• Screamin' Halloweenies!

  October 22, 2009

• We Heard A "Boo!"

  October 22, 2009

• Star Wars In the Death Star

  October 22, 2009

• A Halloween Party Retrospective, In Two Parts

  Justin TerveenZombies, take a seat.​Gloria LevarioA relatively tame moment from Oak Lawn Saturday night.​Halloween's still a few days off, but last weekend there were plenty of chances to take the costume for a spin, especially for zombies in Deep Ellum last night, and for every other thing you can imagine (and a few you might rather not) Saturday night in Oak Lawn.Get a double dose of Halloween spirit in our pair of slide shows from the weekend's festivities -- the Oak Lawn Halloween Street

  October 26, 2009

• Ghouls of Greenville

  October 29, 2009

• Good Friday: Butthole Surfers, Peaches, MEN, Digital Leather, King Bucks, Ghoultown, John David Kent, Horrorble Party, Play-N-Skillz Halloween Bash, House Harkonnen and More

  Don't forget your costume. Here's one idea.​Love it when Halloween falls on a weekend, as is the case this year. What that means for music fans is lots of costume contests and tribute nights, and bands and fans will likely be even more intoxicated than usual--so be careful out there. Recently someone told me his drinking-and-driving strategy, which is to look for someone who appears even drunker than he is and tail them. I totally do not endorse that, and only share it so you can know what to

  October 30, 2009

• Night Moves: Who Are You Supposed To Be?

  Ray and Peter LekZubar reacts to news that Jason Castro's Dallas tour date is just days away.​We'd really like to hear the thinking behind some of the costume choices our nightlife photographers caught out in Dallas last weekend.Why do I always wait till Halloween night to come up with a costume? Thank god I've got this green body stocking, matching mask and blue running shoes. [Always Sunny reference, got it.]Girls didn't go for my homemade sci-fi cartoon character costume last year... but wh

  November 2, 2009

• Recession Blues Got You Down? The Folks at Get Motivated! Have a Solution: Think Happy Thoughts.

  November 6, 2009

• Getting Under Your Skin

  November 19, 2009

• Veggie Guy: Thanksgiving

  ​I would've really liked to spend this Thanksgiving with my brother and sister-in-law in Northwest Spain. They throw an amazing bash each year for all of their American friends, then take it to the clubs for late-night dancing and drinks. Fun times, for sure! My recently retired mother, however, has been itching to get out of Brownsville for a few days, so I nixed the European vacation and invited her over to Dallas for a vegan Thanksgiving. Yeah, I know what you're thinking: tofurkey. But

  November 19, 2009

• Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinners in Movies (And TV)

  When it comes to movie holidays, Thanksgiving usually takes a back seat to that overplayed holiday in December. The one with the elves. The one that rhymes with "isthmus." (Sort of.) But why the second-class status, Thanksgiving? The holiday's got all the same potential for family chaos, waxing moral on the spirit of the holiday, and elaborate turkey disasters, without any of the reindeer and polar bears. The only animal you're going to see in a Thanksgiving movie is the one that's about to get

  November 23, 2009

• If Memory Serves: Thanksgiving Overseas

  ​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn warped.Even in tough economic times, working Americans take fewer vacation days than any other people on earth--although I believe this oft-cited bit of information ignores farmers eking out a living on the Sahara's fringes and those always-on-the-job Somali pirates.If true--and it must be--this means any sanctioned time off has a defined value. For instance, the December holidays are for gift getting

  November 24, 2009