Japan

Boris - Rubber Gloves Rehersal Studios - April 26, 2013

Take a little walk to the edge of town, and go across the tracks. Rather than a viaduct looming, there you will find the incomparable Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. Described on its website as an "industrial dive bar", I take this to mean that the quantities of dive involved in the construction of ... More >>

Farmers Markets Barbecue and Ramen: This Week in Dallas Dining

I'm certainly ready for the weekend. The weather is perfect for patio drinking, farmers market shopping, and I think there might be a parade around here somewhere, too. Don't get too excited yet, though. We've got a week to wrap up first. This week I wrote about Desta, the Greenville Avenue Ethiopi ... More >>

The Hot Mess from Jack in the Box, Taco Bell-Flavored Doritos and More Fast Food Crazy

With the big game this weekend I was trying to find some interesting and gluttonous fast-food options. Nothing insane stuck out, but I came across a few items of note, both in the States and from around our big fat globe. Some of them are good, others awful. Well, actually, they're mostly awful. F ... More >>

Scarf Sushi. Chug Sake. Appear Sophisticated.

Get Animated with Anime

Best Films of 2011: Ten and Two to Grow On

J. Hoberman's faves from a mutating medium.

Grand Canyon Burger: The Latest in Japan McDonald's Ridiculous Big America Campaign

Burger Business​Earlier this year we approximated the possible future of Japan McDonald's bizarre Big America 2 campaign, which features four Hulk-fist sized America-themed burgers (the "Texas 2" burger featured "flavors of the Lone Star State with spicy chili beans"). Our own product pitches ... More >>

Heavy Metals

Our Recipe For Peach & Calamari Ice Cream

japaneseicecream.blogspot.comMmm, seafood ice cream.​You probably ate a lot of food this Fourth of July. We're not judging. We did the same thing. But while you were gorging yourself on hot dogs and that questionably warm potato salad, we made a dessert that's sort of nutritious, but more impo ... More >>

The Museum of Nature and Science and Some Cute Kids Team Up for Tsunami Fundraiser

​We'll admit that when we see a kid selling lemonade in the neighborhood we have to buy a cup and give the adorable rascal an extra dollar. It's going to be hard to resist emptying your wallet at the lemonade stand that will be in the Science Building lobby at the Museum of Nature and Science ... More >>

Five Pickles That Should be More Popular

Ok, just one bite.​With so many restaurants now doing their own pickling, there's a great opportunity for fruits and vegetables besides cucumbers, onions and carrots to enter the favorite pickle pantheon. We present here five terrific pickles that surely deserve a spot in the nation's culinary mai ... More >>

Grow Rice in Your Special Place

Right now, the force is with eating local. More and more documentaries, nutrition-based magazines and hard-hitting food journalists are attacking the mass-processed nonsense that floods major-chain grocery stores. So what's the solution? Back in 2008, Jesse Hyde reported for us on the Slow Food Mo ... More >>

Girls On Film

Lines, Paint and Stuff

Review and Gallery: Geisha House

Sara Kerens​ This week Dave takes a trip to Japan, or something like it, with a few visits to Geisha House, where sushi, oyster shooters and, yes, real chopsticks come together under one roof. As he writes, some visits to the Uptown spot left him more inspired than others.The furniture's bound to ... More >>

The Remarkable Life of "Tex" Biard, North Dallas High Grad and WWII Codebreaker

Forrest "Tex" Biard​There is one rather remarkable item in this morning's Metro section: Among the paid-for obituaries is a notice that retired U.S. Navy Captain Forrest R. Biard died Tuesday at the age of 96. A Bonham native and North Dallas High School grad in 1930 (he is, in fact, a recipient o ... More >>

Oh, Thank Heavens, 7-Eleven's Making Its Own Wine. Just, Ya Know, Don't Call it "Cheap."

​Dallas-based 7-Eleven's had a few proprietary wines on shelves for some time, among them Sonoma Crest and Thousand Oaks, but today comes word that the convenience store's actually in the private-label business thanks to a partnership with its Japanese sibling, Seven-Eleven Japan. And, whoa, Yosem ... More >>

Politics In the Footlights

I Think I'm Cooking Japanese

Go Go Gocco

And This FIlm Also

Q and A: Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick

Rick Nielsen and his quintuple-neck guitar, which is perhaps one of the reasons writer Darryl Smyers refers to him as "uber-nerd." Last week, Sony Legacy released a 30th anniversary edition box set of At Budokan, Cheap Trick’s remarkable entrance into popular culture. Sure, the Illinois quartet ... More >>

A Bang-Up Show

Two peeps play everyone in history

DART, Now More Like The Jetsons!

Explosive Exhibition

Wilhite drops The Bomb on us

Turning Japanese

Watch as the South meets the East

Crab Case

SushiSamba is not without stimulating promise

Melt-Banana, xbxrx, Count Dracula's Weed Smuggling Jam Engine

Friday, May 25, at Rubber Gloves

Mono, World's End Girlfriend, Grails

Wednesday, May 2, at Hailey's, Denton

Sho'nuff Shogun

Cornelius

Sensuous (Warner [import])

Rent By the Hour

Better Buck Next Time?

Putting the FU...Pardon, FUN in FUNimation

Jay-Z Wants to "Murder Jesus"?

East Meets Old West

Hui Chuan offers fresh and delicate flavors

Enter the Dragon

Dragon Quest VIII is the biggest thing from Japan since Godzilla.

Kyoto Song

Gardens grow in Temporal Screens: Photographs from Kyoto

Biting the Appellation

Is it right to produce alcohol in the wrong country?

Venetian Finds

Lazarus returns home with more than postcards

Best Chinese Restaurant

Royal China

Mr. Behind-the-Scene

Above and Beyond

The food is the star at Daxx

They Got Music

Why does karaoke still exist?

A Real Bangfest

Pounded by state regulators and rabbit-punched by promoters, the gladiators at Fighter's House struggle for legitimacy

Gods almighty

Princess Mononoke is beautiful, but is she worth the wait?

Resurrecting diner grub

Maybe Guthrie's needs a seance

Events for the week

Letters

Dumb and dumber

The Nation of Nitwits rolls along with the Republican Revolution