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Five Holiday Breads for Soaking Up Holiday Booze (and Where to Find Them)

Flickr​Bread. The essential form of sustenance for most of us homo sapiens. More importantly, that from which doughnuts and cake evolved. I decided to take a look at different cultures' spins on holiday bread, and why so few take up such an inordinate amount of shelf space this time of year. ... More >>

Ristorante Nicola's Luigi Iannuario on Paula Deen and How to Spoil a Good Book

Ristorante Nicola executive chef Luigi Iannuario.​Born in Milan, chef Luigi Iannuario believes that the best way to know your way around a kitchen is to experience all kinds of kitchens. That's why he's made it a point to do it all -- resorts, hotels, a Michelin-rated restaurant, an internatio ... More >>

Have Chips and Melted Cheese Become College Football's Defining Snack?

​ My brother sent me this photo of a billboard near Milan, Mich., figuring I had the food expertise to explain it. My brother, an alum of the school responsible for the ad, wondered if Eastern Michigan had resorted to making nacho love its only prerequisite for admission. I assured him the a ... More >>

In I Am Love: Tilda Swinton's got to be free

Your Cocoon, Madame

What Do Michael Douglas and Jack Abramoff Have in Common? They're Both in This Year's Dallas International Film Festival.

Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg in Solitary Man, one of the first titles announced for the Dallas International Film Festival​After the jump you'll find a list of the first 10 titles announced for this year's Dallas International Film Festival -- you know, The Film Fest Formerly Known as AFI D ... More >>

On The Range: Milanesa

A chicken fried steak, by any other name...​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Let's suppose a job offer landed in your lap that's just too good to be true. The money is a significant upgrade from your present position.Only one problem: You'd have to ... More >>

Focus, People

Jeff Elrod is Adderall for your artistic chaos

The International: This Movie Needs a Bailout

Top 10 Latin Music Albums of 2008

Americans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to lend a closer ear to the genre. This country's Hispanic population isn't just growing, it's growing more diverse. More and more unique musical styles are being gobbled up, and that shoul ... More >>

Fairy Princess

Cinderella has a ball in Hurst

Having a Cavalli, or: Economy? What Economy? It's Fashion at the Park!

Bushwhacked

Let's just say Bush gets charged with war crimes. Will Dallas be guilty by association with his library?

Head East

Alessio's is Euro-friendly

Dining's a Bitch

Beach-Aye, the Navel-Gazer

Freaky Number

Thirteen at dinner

Is Screwing Hip?

We twist open 2005 for a nip. Is this a sign of things to come?

Cool Girls

Labor of Love

Better In The 'Burbs

Plano restaurant delights with authentic Italian

Living Loud

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

On the Down-Low

Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures.

Out of Rehab

Nasher Center resurrects the works of Medardo Rosso

Operation Florida Freedom

Papa wouldn't be proud of the Florida Seafood Grill

Let's Squawk About Love

Our Endeavors whiffs out with its windy, open-air Two Gentlemen of Verona

Buy the Numbers

Because it does matter how much a gift costs

Best Men's Clothing Store

Pockets Menswear

Food to Go

Dallas chefs learn their trade here, there and everywhere

Pirate Ride

Lou Reese's biggest creditor says it has found his Caribbean hideaway

Hide and seek

Deep Ellum developer Lou Reese bilked a savings and loan, bled his creditors, and walked away from federal prision a rich man. Bragging about it was is one big mistake.

Letters

The problem is you; Dance for the masses

For the benefit of Mr. Max

The creator of iconographic '60s art is now an icon himself

Bad trip

As anguished Plano watched heroin pick off its children one by one, a cry went up for police to do anything to stop the deadly plague. Months later, some parents say they went too far.

Joe Bob in Bloom

John Bloom has taken his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, and gone Hollywood. But watching America's favorite drive-in movie critic on television these days, a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself

Commie comedy

The laughs come wrapped in pinko packaging in Theatre Three's We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!

Cowtown Babylon

When Fort Worth oil tycoon Tex Moncrief accused his secretary of embezzlement, she says, he left out one important detail: their 16-year affair

Jim of all trades

For David Byrne discovery Jim White, music wasn't his first career choice. Or his second. Or his third...

Born to kvetch

Europe's a blur to the self-absorbed Woody Allen

Honed alone

A free-jazz disciple gets the last laugh

Deck the malls

This season's Christmas album offerings

The Ego and the Ecstasy

Sculptor Raffaele Martini Pandozy wages a one-man war to revolutionize Dallas' aesthetic from inside his South Dallas fortress

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