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The NFL's Game Changer

Chris Kluwe is prying open America's last closet: major-league sports.

TJ's Seafood Market and Grill is Now Open in HP/Oaklawn [Photos]

For chief fishmonger Jon Alexis, the building of TJ's new location in the Shops of Highland Park has been a labor of love and the culmination of all the years he's been running his family's business. "This is what I've always wanted TJ's to become," Alexis says. See also: - Jon Alexis of TJ's Seafo ... More >>

Finding A Decent Crab Cake With A Side Of Jimmy Choo Shoes

When Mark Stuertz reviewed Cafe Pacific, in 2004, he called the Highland Park Village seafood restaurant a cliché. The menu has crab cakes and veal Oscar, he said. Breaded veal cutlets with crab and asparagus were alive and well in Dallas. And here I am eight years later sitting at the bar at Cafe ... More >>

Rolling Stone Article Launches Fracking Fight with Chesapeake

Chesapeake Energy and Rolling Stone writer Jeff Goodell are battling over his March feature. The abridged version of the lengthy piece, unpacked further by Brantley, goes like this: Drilling appears to be a Ponzi scheme with Chesapeake's founder, Aubrey McClendon, as its leader. Neither McClendon no ... More >>

Why Does Big Bucks Burnett Need Big Bucks to Buy Back His Letter from Pete Townshend?

​A few days back James "Big Bucks" Burnett, proprietor of the world's only Eight Track Museum (for now ...), sent out a mass email asking for help scaring up a few bucks for a letter presently being sold at for $599.99 on the eBay. The seller's advertising it as: "THE WHO/PETE TOWNSHEND SIGNED ORI ... More >>

Burger King is Testing Home Delivery

Burger King's Stuffed Steakhouse BurgerSoon to be stuffed in a thermal bag. Surely that's good for you.​Right now in Washington D.C., Whopper-craving citizens can get front-door delivery. Yes, oh yes, Burger King is rolling out a pilot program for bringing the meat to you -- in Maryland, Virgi ... More >>

Cowboys Roster Cuts: What We're Left With

​In the final analysis the Cowboys kept nine rookies, four undrafted free agents, two kickers and zero fullbacks. If you saw that coming, raise your Labor Day hand. Didn't think so. We did foresee the departures of Igor Olshansky, Akwasi Owusu-Ansah and Montrae Holland, so not everythi ... More >>

The Bestest of The Best Thing I Ever Ate

​One of my pet peeves about most cooking shows is how often a program's uber-foodies -- from the four-star guys in the starchy aprons to the home cooks who've lucked into a spot on television -- are reluctant to express any real emotion about how much they love the actual taste of good food. ... More >>

BREAKING NEWS: 105.3 The Fan to Talk Sports in the Morning Beginning April 11

​Yes, 105.3 The Fan is tweaking again. But this time it's not merely another shuffling of the deck, but more so a commitment to talk sports in the morning. Out at The Fan as of April 8 are long-time radio veterans Jagger and Gregg Henson, to be replaced Monday, April 11, by "New School ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Devotchka at the Granada, The Supervillians at The Loft, O'Brother at Hailey's, Fleshtones at Dada, and Apollo 18 at Double-Wide

Good golly Miss Molly! SXSW frontwash is flooding into seemingly every venue in town. Enjoy it while it lasts...

One of Sierra Leone's most beloved comedians took refuge in Dallas from his country's civil war. What could have turned him into a killer?

Tonight, Tonight: Wolf Parade at The Granada, The Supervillians at The Loft, The Gaslamp Killer at Trees, Miss May I at The Prophet Bar and Jessie Frye at Dan's Silverleaf

We have ourselves a busy little evening of music on our hands tonight. If you can't find something cool listed here, you don't deserve to go out.

Tonight, Tonight: Guy Clark at The Kessler, Bloody Beetroots at House of Blues, VersaEmerge at The Loft, Maroon 5 at Superpages.com Center and Hoyotoho at City Tavern.

An unusual, but genuinely talented group of musical acts invade our area this Thursday evening...

Billy Joel Rocks a Better Block, or: How an Oak Cliff Experiment Is Turning Into a National Movement (and a Website and a Book!)

Billy Joel recently did a version of Oak Cliff's Better Block Project in his hometown of Oyster Bay​This afternoon I stumbled across this website: The Better Block: A Planning Tool for Urban Retrofit . Which, of course, refers to Jason Roberts's twice-executed Oak Cliff experiment in which the peo ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Smashing Pumpkins at The Palladium, O.A.R at House of Blues, Film School at The Nightmare and Despised Icon at The Prophet Bar

Hump day once again and what an interesting collection of acts we have descending upon Dallas this evening. Tonight, there's a little bit of something for everyone--so long as that something includes alternative rock, jam bands, post punk or deathcore.

Gig Alert and Bonus MP3: Miniature Tigers - "Gold Skull"

Brandon LeeMiniatue Tigers, enjoying a summer of discontent.​Brookland-based indie rock act Miniature Tigers has been around since 2006--and from the beginning the band has received critical kudos. With its dreamy, synth-heavy indie pop, the band's success hasn't come unexpectedly; frontman/guitar ... More >>

And With the 27th Pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys Select ...

The next Dallas Cowboy?​The NFL Draft gets cocky tonight. It goes prime time, up against the networks' lineup of must-see CSIs and Grey's Anatomy and such, and against the NBA's LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. I'll be at Cowboys Stadium from 6 p.m. until? ... at the 105.3 The Fan Miller ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips

​Ah, the very nearly late Arthur Treacher's.The chain was named for a well-known English actor, counted the original fish and chips house as its own and had the support of Dave Thomas (of Wendy's fame, not the one from Second City). And there was a time when Arthur Treacher's had a solid reputatio ... More >>

It's a Homecoming for Eisley and Rhett Miller Who Each Return To Dallas This Week

Gig Alert: Straylight Run and a Bunch of Other Folks Tonight at The Prophet Bar

Straylight Run​Despite the cold and wet weather, the fine folks at The Prophet Bar are offering up a crowded and fairly consistent line-up of moppy rockers to hopefully not add to your rainy day blues.On tonight's bill are Straylight Run, Dangerous Summer, Mansions, Brian Bonz and David Melillo. F ... More >>

Maker of Black & Milds Is "Looking Forward" to Talking to Dwaine Caraway About Cigars

On Wednesday, as you'll no doubt recall, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway vowed to sweep every Black & Mild cigar off the shelves and into the ashtrays. Said he was preparing to launch a national campaign against the makers of the machine-made cigars, which Caraway says are "poisoning ... our ... More >>

Burning Question: Which Super Bowl City Has The Best Food?

Actually, this question came to us as your basic "who will win the Super Bowl" sort of thing, presumably hoping for some insight from our crew's most recent has-been athlete. (See photo).Dave Faries almost gets away with an ill-advised spin move during a Prague Lions practice session last spring.But ... More >>

U.S.'s First DNA Exonoree Writes About Dallas' Latest DNA Exonoree

AFI Dallas: A Post-Fest Standing O

Take a Picture Postcard, It'll Last Longer -- Especially in Teardown Dallas

Cloud Nine

Come for the glitz, stay for the food

Old-Time Religion and New Americans

Hispanic evangelical leaders join to push for compassionate immigration reform

On Christmas, a Soldier from Dallas Died in Iraq

Alley Fat

This grill requires a high-cholesterol billfold

Spreading the Blame

Heir Jordan?

Kanye West

Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)

Ferré Chef: Cheerio

Plus: Standard Snafu; Drink This

Much Ado

Was the Morning News wrong to send an intern on a jailhouse interview? No.

Street Feed

Houston Street's "creative American" fare has a lot of potential

Crit and Shap

The worst of 2002

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

Tanking

What's wrong with Dallas' aquarium? Not enough fins--or sawbucks.

Beat the Parents

Travolta's performance can't overcome the horror of this evil-stepfather cliché

Fish Flushed

Baking Fish leaves its Paramount locale

The Color of Money

Does restaurant service differ because of race? Depends on whom you ask.

Open House

Yellow House Gallery

Witch Is Which?

Blair Witch 2 blurs fact and fiction, but the truth is, it ain't scary

Perpetual Movement

Trance music pioneer BT continues to trip the light fantastic in a never-ending search for sound

Laughing at Lolita

Outstanding miss

Imaginative home cooking takes Rooster almost all the way

The civilized meal

Plano Cafe offers a surprise in a strip mall

Strike up the band

The Capitol's American melting-pot menu makes it cool to be a patriot

Super fry

Babe's chicken is as good as you'll get 'round these parts

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