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Guitarist Nick Curran, 1977-2012

Nick Curran passed away on Saturday, October 6, after a two-year battle with oral cancer. He was just 35 years old. After touring with Dallas rockabilly legend Ronnie Dawson when he was barely in his 20s, Curran moved to DFW from Maine to back Kim Lenz and the Jaguars. More recently, he'd been livin ... More >>

Why Do Chicanos Love the Aztecs?

And what are some Mexican regional stereotypes of Mexicans?

McDonald's Is Going Vegetarian. Seen Wearing Skinny Jeans.

McDonald's purists (yes, they are a people), you may want to sit down. The fast food giant is set to open not one, but two of their first entirely vegetarian concepts in India next year. The first location will be in the holy city of Amritsar, near the Golden Temple. The vegetarian menu is a somewha ... More >>

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

LMFAO at American Airlines Center, Madonna Adds Second Show, Sleigh Bells and This Week's Show Announcements

​When we first heard that LMFAO were going to be performing at American Airlines Center on Friday, June 15, we were like, WTF! Then we started thinking about how funny they looked at the Super Bowl half time show with Madonna, at which point we started LOLing so hard we began ROFL. Tickets for the ... More >>

Feds, Researchers Raise More Questions About Texas's New Voter ID Law

​The voter ID law passed by Texas lawmakers in May continues its circuit among activists, lawmakers, academics and social commentators as a discriminatory, unjustified and absolutely necessary measure, depending on who's yelling. Words like "voter fraud" on the right and "disenfranchisement" o ... More >>

Q&A: Erasure Synthmaster Vince Clarke Talks Collaboration with Frankmusik On New Album

A video clip from Erasure's 1992 performance at the Apollo in Manchester, UK Andy Bell and Vince Clarke have been writing pop songs together as Erasure since 1985, and they remain, to this day, one of the most successful British pop acts of all time thanks to their highly positive and creative nat ... More >>

Dallas Has Some Decent Delis, But We Need Some Help With Our Bread

Jimmy's Italian Stallion. Not a hoagie​Oh Dallas. I'm about ready to admit defeat. In a story I did calling for hoagie suggestions to satisfy my East Coast carpetbagging cravings, many chimed in citing Jimmy's, The Great Outdoors, Biladelphia, Great American Hero and more. I asked for shredded ... More >>

Show Announcements: Mike Watt, Ghostcar, Paul Slavens, Dredg, Eisley, Brandi Carlile, Little Feat, New Fumes, DEVO, Cage The Elephant, Manchester Orchestra, Sevendust & More!

Mike Watt​As we mentioned yesterday, the South by Southwest spillover effect has reached our beloved record store Good Records. And this evening, before he performs a full blown electric show at The Loft, Mike Watt will be over at Good for what he calls a "hoot & spiel," more commonly known as ... More >>

Pop Quiz: Can You Tell One City from Another By Menus?

​I recently had occasion to look up a menu from a town where I used to live, and was startled by how ostentatiously it flaunted the region's culinary biases. The menu was so obviously issued by a restaurant in this particular town that I'm pretty sure I could pick it out of a line-up of 100 me ... More >>

Whoever Your Daddy is, He'll Love Daddy Jack's

​Daddy dates. Not to be confused with Sugar Daddy dates. I really mean those dinner outings a girl goes on with just her dad (or for this review those dinners where the name of the restaurant coincidentally has the word "daddy" in it). Before my dad passed away two years ago, he'd often drive ... More >>

East Texas Turkey Fronts New York Times Dining Section

John T. Edge's profile of Greenberg Smoked Turkey in this morning's New York Times no doubt whetted appetites nationwide for the Tyler smokehouse's "spice-rubbed and hickory-burnished bird," but the product's long been a local favorite. ​As a newcomer to Dallas, I couldn't fathom what John T ... 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...

For the Same Price, You Could Live on the Urban Reserve or a Creek in Rockport, Maine. Hmmm.

Ebby Halliday RealtorsThe porch of the Ford Tri-Motor House in the Urban Reserve​Thanks to The New York Times, I just spent the last little bit taking a virtual tour of the Dan Shipley-designed 25 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve off N. Central Expressway and LBJ Freeway. The Shipley house -- oth ... More >>

Local Restaurants Help the Gulf Coast; Mextopia Holds Its Grand Opening This Weekend; Scardello Hosts Top Flight Wines; And More.

Blythe Beck​A few Dallas restaurants are gearing up to help out with Gulf oil spill. Executive chef Blythe Beck at Central 214 starts a new fundraiser today called "We Cook While They Clean." The restaurant will donate $1 from every purchase of the chicken-fried Kobe steak dish to the Gulf R ... More >>

Dallas Chop House Breathes Beefy Life into Downtown's East Side

Samuel James' True Blues

Short Orders: Daddy Jack's

Daddy Jack's 1916 Greenville Ave. 214-826-4910 If you could travel back in time to, say, New England, Baltimore, or even the bayous of Louisiana in the 1950s, you'd expect to find dozens of places like this. The now venerable seafood shanty on lower Greenville has it all: doo-wop bopping from the, ... More >>

Oh, Sarah

DTC’s Sarah, Plain and Tall is Stretched Too Long; As Thousands Cheer Deserves Your Applause.

And This Year's Invisible DFW Theater Critic Forum Awards Go To ...

Yet Again, a Last-Ditch Effort to Keep Bush Think Tank Off SMU Campus

The Unseen Steals the Show at the Out of the Loop Festival

Rum and Vodka stops it and Fool for Love flops all by itself

Review: Fearing's at the Ritz Carlton

Fearing (but no loathing) in Uptown

One Good Turn

Billy Bigelow, ultimate anti-hero, finds his heart in Lyric Stage's sparkling Carousel

To-Go List

Patricia Schultz plans your road trip

Madame Ovary

No Kathy, no Mo no mo', but Parallel Lives still proves feminist humor's not an oxymoron

Rag 'Em Up

Ain't missin' this

Hack, Man

What's a great actor doing in a dump like Mooseport?

Grab for Privates

Should we turn local government over to a corporation?

Howie Day

November 3

Talkin' Trash

Earth Day needs schooling

The King Is Dense

There's more to Stephen King's Dreamcatcher than will fit in its confusing adaptation

Knockout

PDNB Gallery gives a left hook with The Best of Neil Leifer

Manifest Destiny

The Smithsonian's art museum, closed for repairs, ships its American treasures to flyover-land

Best Seafood Market

TJ's Fresh Seafood Market

No News is Good News

Belo, streakers, and Bush

Little orphan Tobey

Cider House recounts Homer's odyssey to find his very own life

He comes in peace

Gentle and breathtaking, The Iron Giant is a most human film

Ask the Guru

The Met's Bad Habits

Bite me

Jaws + Alligator / Friday the 13th x zero = Lake Placid

Return to sender

Get out your hankies and weep for the heart-tugging disaster Message in a Bottle

Tear jerks

Simon Birch plays the audience for saps

Pleasure chained

Mediterraneo at the Quadrangle is even better than itself

Noshing around the world

Barcelona Tapas Bar offers eclectic, if mediocre, grazing

Roadshows

Letters

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Fight the power of hatred

We cannot let evil cowards make us less free

Personal best

From a year full of startling and memorable movies, here are our favorites