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The 10 Best Rap Albums of 2012

10. The Idea of Beautiful, Rapsody The black mamba of super producer 9th Wonder's Jamla Records team reached a new pinnacle in her career, and in her evolution as an artist this year. Sprinkled with collaborations from Big Remo, BJ the Chicago Kid and Childish Gambino, Rapsody takes us on a journey ... More >>

Presidential Debate: Thoughts on Manners, Accents and Ass-Kickings

OK, they're finally getting down to the part of the last presidential debate I care about, accents and manners. So I have questions. The New York Times has a piece on its local page today about how New Yorky and Jewish the last debate was, because most of the people who spoke from the audience had ... More >>

Krishna Das Dallas

Come On Down: It's Time to Meet the Contestants for Top Chef: Texas

The folks over at Bravo have been teasing out info about the new contestants while they battle in court about your tax dollars. A set of clips released last week compiled a montage of each contestant and some of their dishes, drawn from the videos they submitted to enter the contest. When first pub ... More >>

Five Food Shows Ready to Have a Fork Stuck in Them

Food Network Humor​After 12 years of growing grouchier and more haggard, Alton Brown announced a few weeks ago that he's putting Good Eats out to pasture. Presumably, he's ditching science class for something more lucrative, like Welch's grape juice and the warmed-over Iron Chef: America, leav ... More >>

Ron Corning Will Save WFAA's Morning Show?

​A few weeks ago, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 was moving Chris Flanagan, co-host of its morning-news show Daybreak, to Good Morning Texas, whatever that is. His replacement: Ron Corning, who's leaving Kabletown's Long Island affiliate to pair up with Cynthia Izaguirre, the sixth-most famous ... More >>

An Acting of God

Theatre Three's musical The Drowsy Chaperone could use a lot more caffeine.

What the Duck: Why Do Duck Breeds
Get Short Shrift?

​Even eaters who dine out only on special occasions have typically been exposed to Berkshire pork and Waygu beef. But when it comes to duck, few restaurants bother to reveal which breed they're serving. "Every time I see duck on the menu, it just says duck," says Ted Hill, co-chair of the Dal ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Mumford & Sons at House of Blues, Appleseed Cast at The Loft, Circle Pit at The Cavern, Cruel Hands at The Nightmare and The Dwarves at the Double Wide

Featuring some big names both old and new, it's just another crazy busy musical Thursday evening...

Over The Weekend: Brand New and Thrice at the Palladium Ballroom

Brand New, ThricePalladium BallroomOctober 30, 2009Better than: flipping through zillions of censored horror flicks on cable.Brand New​Waiting for the members of Brand New to approach the stage was more like waiting for a song to begin on Guitar Hero--or kinda like an encore before the show even b ... More >>

Lymelife

Chewing the Fat: Plastic People

The state of some food these days is enough to make a man go hungry rather than risk consuming the contents of many processed and pre-packaged items. If it's not salmonella-tainted peanuts, it's energy drinks that turn your blood into syrup. Health Canada recently found that 96 percent of sodas o ... More >>

Say It!

It's love in the time of the dark lord

Ludo, Edison Glass, Treaty of Paris and Deas Vail

Thursday, December 13, at the Door

Don Imus' New Comic Sidekick is an African-American Woman from Plano

(Not) the Firestarter

Billy Joel "rocks" the AAC

Thou Shalt Not Be Too Funny

And on the seventh day, God created sketch comedy

Geekology 101

Judd Apatow explains himself

From Autumn to Ashes

Friday, April 6, at The Door, Dallas

Northern State, Polyphonic Spree

Saturday, March 24, at Riprocks, Denton

Bump and Grimes

Girl takes some—but definitely not all—of it off

As Tall as Lions

Sunday, September 3, at the Door

On Top of Her Game | Tickin' T.O. | Stomp | True Morality | Oily Ole | God's Big Tent

Piano Works

The architect Renzo Piano makes high design for our local culture of kitsch

You Can Have It

NASCAR: A Yankee Pastime

Schizville

Jaden's restaurant works, except when it doesn't, which is often

Something Corporate, Straylight Run

Tuesday, February 1, at Gypsy Tea Room

Past Prime Time

Where do people over 40 hang out?

Mindy Smith

April 23

Youthful Indiscretions

How do bartenders spot underage drinkers?

The Girlz Garage Tour

November 2

Bemoaning Mahowny

If there was any life to this reality-based drama, the filmmakers seem to have missed it

Box Car Racer; Glassjaw, the Blood Brothers

October 25 and 29

Homies

Home Movie looks inside some eccentric domiciles

Ozzfest

September 8

The Awful Truth

The malaise of one suburban teen is made vivid in the disturbing first feature film L.I.E.

Go West for Wine

There are plenty of surprises at Sapristi!

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

De La Soul isn't dead

Rumors of De La Soul's imminent demise are proved untrue with the Art Official Intelligence series

Out There

Lou Reed

Scene, heard

New New Bohemians, Tomorrowpeople part with manager, The Eagle does fashion, and more

Mose's better blues

A trip to Long Island reveals an Allison wonderland

Nowhere man

Settling into the relaxed paranoia of Henry Fool director Hal Hartley

Split personality

With Parent Trap, Disney brings us that rarest of creatures:a successful remake

Meltdown man

John Spano was just a dull, two-bit Dallas businessman before he tried to buy a professional hockey team. Now he's been charged with bank fraud, and his claims of wealth and business prowess are dissolving in the glare of scorching publicity.

Oh, Mother

The Daytrippers loosens the family ties that bind

Too much, too late

Remake of the 1950s romantic comedy Sabrina searches for a '90s mood

UFOFU and your mother

From New York to Dallas comes a classically trained punk-pop band