Lebanon

Qariah's Stand

Amidst other businesses fighting to serve alcohol on Greenville, this Lebanese restaurant ditches the booze.

Arturo Sandoval

Thursday, October 18 at the Kessler Theater

Hey UTA! Here's Your Guide to Cheap Grub in Arlington

Classes at UT Arlington started late last week and everyone is excited about the new fancy-pants $160 million College Park District, which includes a 7,000-seat center for sports, concerts and general hoopla (like commencement ceremonies). The 20-acre area on the east side of campus also has new dor ... More >>

Emblematic College Drinks and Drinking Games

We'd be remiss to allow an entire College Week to pass without mention of the college life's main goal (well, you know except for the main-main one): procuring, hoarding and drinking booze. It's a universal feeling, the simultaneous confusion and wistful nostalgia that comes with the memory of one ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 59: Falafel At Fadia Bakery

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Charbel Hamad wants you to focus on his wife Fadia's sweets when you visit his deli an ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 69: Bolognese At Princi Italia

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. While Princi Italia failed to inspire me with many of their dishes, this Bolognese cap ... More >>

The Universal Food Shame Scale

Damn. Eating that freezer burrito made you feel like an awful human being. But, exactly how awful? Wish there was a way to know exactly how much shame you should feel when you eat a horrible, awful food? Wish. Effing. Granted. Above is our very helpful, very scientific Universal Food Shame Scale: ... More >>

Dallas Film Society Announces Its First 15 Selections into This Year's DIFF

(Clip from Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best) The Dallas Film Society announced the first 15 entries to be officially accepted into this year's Dallas International Film Festival, which occurs from April 12 to the 22.While many so far are documentaries, a few feel-goods have weaseled their way in, and ... More >>

Ask Indie Grandpa: The Coachella Lineup

With the release of Coachella's lineup yesterday, we decided to ask our resident curmudgeon and "good old days" music expert, Indie Grandpa, what he thought of the annual desert festival, which has now expanded to two weekends. What do you think about Coachella's lineup? First of all, morning ever ... More >>

Baboush Chef Yaser Khalaf on How to Make it in America (It All Starts in Lexington)

Yaser Khalaf, owner of Medina and Baboush in the West Village, traveled throughout the Middle East and Europe as a child. Then in college, he traversed America, Route 66-style, in a van in which he literally blew the engine. His life-long passion for food, culture and people helped mold him into a s ... More >>

Demi Lovato, Ray Benson and This Weekend's Top Shows

​A lot of people are home for Thanksgiving nursing food hangovers and hanging out with family, which explains why most of this weekend's shows are from local acts. That doesn't mean there aren't some big shows happening this weekend, like the one from Dallas' own Demi Lovato tomorrow at Verizon Th ... More >>

Princi Italia's Tuscan Trip Up

Princi Italia tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing -- everyone but us, it seems.

The Best Little Iraqi Bakery in Plano

​Inside Sherwani Bakery (2040 West Spring Creek Parkway) in Plano, Salah Hassan, the Iraqi baker and proprietor, greets me by extending his forearm for a handshake. Caked dough and flour generously coat his hands, but his hospitality is as deeply ingrained as the dark burn scars along his arm. ... More >>

Five Sad Bastard Songs From 2011 (And When To Use Them)

Make sure you're alone, cold and in the dark before listening to these songs.​We're just on the cusp of a time change. Oh, you know what that means. You know. It means: it'll get darker soon, the clouds will hang gray and low in the sky, and it'll be bone cold. Unless it's not cold because Tex ... More >>

73-Year-Old Dallas Man Convicted In International Telecom Swindle Worth $60 Mil

​Michael Signoretto is 73, and as of today the Dallas man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for his role in defrauding two British telecommunications companies out of of more than $60 million. Signoretto, who was just found guilty by a federal jury, didn't do this alone. He had plenty of co-c ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Experimental/Avant Garde Act, Best Talent Buyer, Best Local Music Advocate

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Experimental/Avant G ... More >>

Loft and South Side Music Hall Talent Buyer Kris Youmans Launches Independent Company

Dylan HollingsworthKris Youmans​ After a year and a half spent working as talent buyer for the Gilley's Complex on South Lamar, focusing on South Side Music Hall, The Loft and the Jack Daniel's Saloon, Kris Youmans has announced today the formation of his own, independent talent buying agency. In ... More >>

Picture Show: Locals Only with Bravo, Max! and Analog Rebellion

All photos by Alex ScottCaption this photo in the comments below, and the most interesting one will win some Beirut tickets.​Around 9 p.m. last night, the Mavericks were finishing up the first half, warm peanuts sat in a barrel at Jack Daniels Saloon, and Bravo, Max! began tuning up for Locals Onl ... More >>

Q&A: The Black Lips' Jared Swilley On Rowdy Shows, Punk's Influence and Playing Antarctica

Atlanta's The Black Lips formed as teenagers, right before the turn of the millennium. Just a year or two later, while still in high school, the punk-influenced, retro-obsessed four-piece started touring. And they've never really looked back. Seemingly more comfortable on the road than at home, the ... More >>

Oh, Lordy: First Baptist's Jeffress Preaching About Quakes? I Think I'll Head Out of Town.

​I'm really worried about what the Reverend Robert Jeffress is going to say at Dallas First Baptist Church Sunday about the quake in Japan. I live within a three-mile radius of First Baptist, and I'm afraid I won't be far enough away. The ad for his sermon that appeared here on Unfair Park ye ... More >>

Show Announcements: Arcade Fire, Beirut, Josh Groban, Gruff Rhys, Alejandro Escovedo, Gogol Bordello, Bruce Hornsby, Big K.R.I.T., Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae & More!

Who is this band, and why are they holding a Grammy?​Since the Grammys, the general population has been mostly dumbfounded that Arcade Fire could win in the category of Best Album. All over the web, the question resounds: "Who is Arcade Fire?" You'd think that a band that's sold as many albums as ... More >>

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

DFW Film Crix, Very Social at Year's End

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its year-end best-of list, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film The Social Network coming out on top -- just as it had in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review ... More >>

Q&A: Monotonix's Yonatan Gat Defends His Native Israel Against Bands That Boycott It, Describes Letting Himself Go During His Band's Notorious, Off-The-Wall Performances

Daniel RodrigueMonotonix's Ami Shalev​For astute music fans in the North Texas region, the name Monotonix has become quite familiar. In the last couple of years, the Israeli garage-punk trio has made a few stops here, including a 2009 NX35 slot that got the ball rolling pretty hard on their Metrop ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Black Stone Rangers -- "Plug It In"

Black Stone Rangers​A couple weeks back, we caught the very tail end of a performance from new local duo called Black Stone Rangers. It wasn't much, but it was enough to pique our interest in the outfit, which, apparently, is named after an infamous 1960s Chicago gang. So we did as we do, and we c ... More >>

Cedars Mediterranean Mezza: Lots of Choices, but Mostly Mediocre

Yann Tiersen

Thursday, April 22, at the Granada Theater

Top 10 Overlooked Culinary Vacations

Flickr user ^riza^It's a long way, but the rendang is worth the trip.​Anyone with the means can travel the villages of Tuscany, visit tasting rooms in Napa Valley or hit Belgium's chocolate shops. In fact, certain places are so well known as culinary destinations, even those with only the faintest ... More >>

Stephan Pyles is Back in Fine Form -- Again -- With Samar

Blood ties between Arabs and Mexicans? Oh, man, that’ll drive Lou Dobbs really nuts.

10 Questions: Mr. Dallas

He is, in every sense of the word, The Man.Well, that attribution is probably only true for those of us sharing far too much zeal for nightlife, but still...No one is better than this bleary-eyed Dallas Morning News icon at zeroing in on a scene, distilling it into words and makin ... More >>

Dogs of War

Waltz With Bashir is documentary and animated feature—andA bubbling up of repressed violence

Critical Mass: The Best Movies of 2008

The First Cut, Always the Kindest

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Sweet Silver Screen

Rooms at War

Holy Land Family Fights Terrorist Label

Despite a hung jury, the trials are far from over

What Happens in Iraq Doesn't Stay in Iraq For Some Local Immigrants

Food for Kids or Terror Funding?

Patriot Acts

Far from his Kurdish home, Adnan Kirkuki seeks out soldiers to defend his new one in the United States

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 13

The Other Immigrants

Alone, Together

Give Peace a Dishtowel

Think peace protesters are lame? So, what are you doing with your life?

The Cult of Ole

Ole Anthony anointed himself the watchdog of America's televangelists. But who was watching Ole Anthony?

European Vacation

Beirut Ain't Got Jack on Woodrow

A Living Crisis

Bozo Rules

Landlord calls cops, gets sued for annoying City Hall