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A Horse Is A Horse ... Unless It's A Burger

By now you've surely ready about the English horse meat scandal. Scientists first found horse DNA in the meatballs at IKEA in England, prompting the disposable furniture seller to pull tons of frozen boxes from their inventory. Now horse meat is popping up in all sorts of ground meat blends causing ... More >>

7-Eleven is Now Building Stores from Snap-Together Kits

When my 3-year-old's first-ever soccer season wrapped up in October and we stopped making our biweekly trips to the fields at Harry Moss Park in Northeast Dallas, the southwest corner of Greenville Avenue and Meadow Road was empty. It was still empty in November, and at the beginning of December. Bu ... More >>

Snuffer's Gets Snuffed on Serious Eats

On Friday, Ewan Macdonald posted an article on Serious Eats about the "simply decent, and no better than that" burger at Snuffer's, which made me slap both hands down on my desk (because of my inability to follow Ikea instruction manuals I almost knocked it over) and yell, "How dare he? He dare he w ... More >>

Edgefest 22 at FC Dallas Stadium

Sunday, April 22, at FC Dallas Stadium

At Pho Is For Lovers, Wishing Meatless Monday Was Pork Banh Mi Tuesday

When it comes to pho, that glorious Vietnamese noodle soup perfect for curing hangovers and head colds, I'm almost religiously devoted to the huge steaming bowls served up at Vietnam Restaurant on Bryan Street. However, when I heard that the semi-recently opened Pho is for Lovers on Upper Greenville ... More >>

Five Rules To Surviving A Trip To IKEA, Dallas

I made my first trip to the Frisco IKEA yesterday. In the course of my journey I saw families ripped apart, friendships tested and entirely too many things promising to solve my organizational dilemmas. Yes, I left disorientated with two carts of "AUSKS" and "FULKVIKS." The problem with IKEA is th ... More >>

Six Ways to Localize Your Dallas Thanksgiving

Pearl Brand Artisanal Ice Cream​We've already talked turkey. Now, let us not delegate lesser attention to the other elements of a proper Thanksgiving feast, many of which you nary have to travel far to find. There are, in fact, many ways to bring a local farm, wine-maker, cheese crafter, coffe ... More >>

Please Help the Learning Process

As Dan Aykroyd knows, small-mouth bass plus food processor or blender equals a delicious smoothie.​My apartment has less counter space than Barbie's Dream House. It's not uncommon for me to balance a cutting board on a hot burner, or on my lap as I sit cross-legged on the floor, or even to fin ... More >>

Art for the Abode

Amazon Says That Frisco Is For Lovers ... Of Crappy Books and Movies

Click to embiggen. And em-heart-en. ​The people of Frisco buy so many romantic comedies, romance novels, relationship-help books and Barry White albums on Amazon.com that the website has ranked it the 20th "most romantic" city in the United States.Amazon's methodology was to ask a bunch of 12-year ... More >>

State Department Thinks Ex-Mustang, Cowboys Cheerleader Sarah Shahi Is Worth a Profile

​I was watching Ocean's Thirteen on USA last night -- couldn't sleep, thought that would do it, didn't, don't judge -- and was inundated with promos for a new series called Fairly Legal, about a mediator at an IKEA store who likes to strip down to her underwear, though I could have that wrong. I t ... More >>

Home On La Grange: Where Service and Drinks Almost Make Up for the Food.

Kitchen Dog's Tina Parker puts the shine on Charm; gods are not great at Theatre Too's Tales From Mount Olympus.

Beat the Retreat: Liveblogging the City Council's Tuesday Spent at the Wyly Theatre

Andrea GrimesThis is what it looks like when Mayor Tom, standing, and the council set up shop in a performance space.​Good morning, Friends o' The Unfair Park. I'm poised alongside a couple of very handsome Dallas Morning News writers at an inadequately small Ikea work table somewhere high up in t ... More >>

Cookbook Authors Lead Backlash Against Food Porn

A new minimalist movement may be taking hold in cookbook design circles. Penne, as Caz Hildebrand sees it.​There aren't any finished dishes pictured in The Geometry of Pasta, a new noodle field guide and recipe collection authored by Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy. The stunning black-and-whi ... More >>

Model Watch: Bullying and Being Too Thin Aren't In, But, Like, Demi Lovato Totally Is

Dallas model Ann, tethered so she won't blow away in a slight breeze​We found the chosen girls from the America's Next Top Model premiere talking themselves up something crazy and strolling Venice Beach, which, if I'm not mistaken, go hand in hand. A Venice street performer rolled up, and they al ... More >>

If You Win We'll Go Shopping

99 Ranch Market: Go to Shop,
Not to Eat at the Food Court

​My first experience at the brand new 99 Market Ranch in Plano was not a pleasant one. The Asian supermarket chain opened its first location in North Texas last week to much buzz. I paid a visit to the monstrous market during its soft opening on the hopes that I would avoid any crowds. No su ... More >>

IKEA vs. Waffle House: Waffle Warfare

Flickr user joshuahellerWaffle House Waffles​It has been claimed that breakfast is the most important meal of the day (probably by the egg lobby), and I am not one to disagree. While most of us grew up on Cocoa Puffs and a variety of toaster pastry, it was the Sunday morning breakfast feast that ... More >>

Breaking Away: Cycling in the City to Get a Taste of Dallas

The hardest question I've been asked since I moved here last week has come from friends back in North Carolina: What's Dallas like? Having seen little of the city beyond my apartment, my office and Ikea, I honestly had no idea. So Friday I decided to get educated by pedaling portions of the metropl ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Edgefest 2010 at Pizza Hut Park

Edgefest 2010Pizza Hut Park in FriscoMay 1, 2010Better than: watching the Kentucky Derby, although probably not if you were doing so from Churchill Downs' infield--because that's a party, folks.Phoenix headlined Edgefest's smaller stage on Saturday.​Believe it or not, there was music at Pizza Hut ... More >>

The Search for an English Pub in North Texas is Over. We've Found the Holy Grail.

Project Runway First Episode Recap: The Two Local Contestants Play Safe and Stay Safe

The sketch and final red-carpet dress from Richardson's Shirin Askari, featured last night on Project Runway's return​Dear Lifetime, thank you. I've really, truly missed Project Runway. Last night I was visibly excited to have it back. One thing though: Go high-def, for crying out loud. Not being ... More >>

Baby Cardinals

Coast Global Seafood

Skip the starters and dig right into the entrees

Chilling Views

Take in The Unseen Seen at Decorazon

Top Design

Hotz-Headed

The Canuck comic blasts through Addison

Last Night: Centro-matic, The Kadane Brothers and The Theater Fire at the Granada Theater

Hotels, Clearly, Have Become the New Porn (NYLO, Aloft -- Yes, You)

Space-Time Condominium

Centraltrak gets deep

Play Ball

Another summer kicks off in Frisco

Red All Over

Eneroth brings Sweden stateside

Review: Jonathan Coulton at Club Dada

Aqsa Shall Receive

Outside is definitely where to be

Hair Country

Little Texas is still together

Every Day Matters at Good Records

Are You Ready For Some (More) Football?

Anchor, Man?

Ferrell doesn't quite ground this artificially whimsical comedy

Don't Be Sub-Urban

IKEA vs. the Alamo

Table Talk

Furniture takes on new meanings at UNT

White Noise

Painter Robert Ryman does so much with so little

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Driven

Speed for a Cure

Karate; Black Dice; k.

October 31; November 1; November 4

The Hives

Veni Vidi Vicious (Sire/Burning Heart/Epitaph)

Revenge of the nerds

David Fincher's Fight Club will make you cry uncle