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Hitting the Streets of Bombay for Spring Break -- Well, Actually, Just Hitting the Food Truck

I tracked down the Bombay Street Food food truck yesterday. It's as close as I'll get to any type of interesting travel or cultural experiences this spring break. Not that Port Aransas in the early 1990's was a hotbed of cultural experiences, but you know, we play the hand we're dealt. I was exci ... More >>

Muslim Hunting

David Horowitz has made taunting college students a spectator sport. Sometimes he's actually right.

Sic 'em, Mitt. Make All Those Elderly Deadbeats Pay Their Fair Share.

Poor Mitt Romney finally says exactly what he's thinking and the guy gets hammered for it. You wanted specificity and numbers from the man? Well, as you no doubt heard, Mother Jones reported this week that he's plenty specific when talking to gatherings of his big-money contributors: "All right, t ... More >>

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

The Drinks Fail to Deliver at Snack

Located in the seemingly doomed Henderson Avenue strip where Horne & Dekker, Fish City Grill and Urbino all met their maker, Snack seems to be the unfortunate red-headed stepchild of the otherwise successful ventures from dynamic duo Avner Samuel and Jon Stevens. It's been panned by critics and Yel ... More >>

In Trishna, Michael Winterbottom takes Hardy's Tess to today's Mumbai

The Best Thing To Do with Fair Not-Really-A-Park Is Tear That Mother Down

The Remaking of Vickery Meadow

They fled some of the world's most dangerous places, only to land in one of Dallas'. Slowly and unsurely, they're making it their own.

East Meets West Meets Wall

Eat Street: James Cunningham Celebrates Street Food ... Not Here, Of Course

Eat Street host James Cunningham lets food serve as the real star of his show.​Eat Street leads with one of its many trump cards when it starts out each episode with chrome-domed host, James Cunningham, just taking up some space on a city sidewalk, shooting the breeze. Cunningham may have been ... More >>

With 9x9, the Dallas Museum of Art Lets You Graze and Gaze Well into the Evening

​Starting tomorrow night, the Dallas Museum of Art will stay open until 9 p.m. for nine Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, or until July 30. The event, called 9x9, includes artist discussions, performances, film screenings, "art-inspired cocktails" and small plates. Chef Coulter will prepare ... More >>

Vijay Sadhu's Newest Venture Takes The Fear Out Of The Exotic

Rob Allyn Used to Run Local Politics. Now He's Making Movies in Indonesia.

Rob Allyn​Longtime observers of the local political landscape probably hear the name Rob Allyn and think of the Trinity River Corridor Project (Schutze insists it was Allyn who came up with those solar-powered water taxis), myriad mayoral campaigns, those Dubya ads attacking John McCain's environm ... More >>

Since It's Never Too Early, Dallas International Film Festival Announces Its First 12 Titles

The Indonesian Blood of Eagles is among the first dirty dozen titles selected for this year's Dallas International Film Festival.​While in the middle of dealing with some South by Southwest film fest logistics, this announcement arrived from the Dallas International Film Festival: It's ready to de ... More >>

Cocktails: So, You Think You Can Mix One Better Than Your Bartender?

​At many fine 19th-century restaurants, it wasn't unusual for diners to deviate significantly from the printed menu. Since it was assumed the chef stocked his larder with the same eggs, cheeses and vegetables that appeared in nearly every hoity-toity restaurant kitchen, eaters could reasonably ... More >>

Q&A: Legendary Electronic Musician Alexander Robotnick Talks Italo Disco And His First DJ Gig In Advance Of His First Ever Dallas Stop.

Alexander Robotnick​The city of Dallas has never been a very vocal champion of electronic dance music. Apart from the infamous "club kids" and the days when MDMA was sold at bars in Dallas, the city hasn't ever really been known for its electronic music culture--not in any important or globally re ... More >>

The Common Table: Good Beer, Uncommonly Poor Food.

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Domino's Pizza

dominos.com/Patrick MichelsMy Domino's order: even hotter in real life. But online, the pizza was less like a greasy sponge.​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Dominos.comdelivered from 4420 Gaston Ave.Promi ... More >>

Handle The Proof: Bombay And Bombay Sapphire

​I pointed out last week how, when I asked for a Bombay martini, a waiter at Sevy's asked "regular Bombay or Sapphire."​Since Sapphire hit the market in 1988 and began the upscale gin revolution, The Original Bombay (that's what it now says on the label) faded into near obscurity--at least in th ... More >>

Ava: A restaurant so good, Dave Faries might consider moving to Rockwall for...Nah.

Handle The Proof: London vs Plymouth

Talking about gin, of course.That so many people hate gin, love gin or can tolerate only one specific brand of gin says a lot about the spirit. Although bound together by juniper, the amount of this fruit and balance of other botanicals involved in distillation--as well as the distillation process i ... More >>

Our annual Death Pool: Which artists will croak in '09?

Who should fear the reaper this year?

Critical Mass: The Best Movies of 2008

Thousands of EDS Employees Were Laid Off By HP This Week

A Friend of Unfair Park who works -- sorry, make that worked -- for Electronic Data Systems in Plano sends this missive:Amazing how the DMN or any of the local news outlets has not reported the fact EDS has laid off 8,000 to 10,000 people this week. I was one of them on Monday. I will be on the payr ... More >>

Slumdog Millionaire, A Feel-Good Movie That Actually Works

Bollywood meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's new film

Hash Over: Bolsa's Farmer's Market, Free Wine, and a Guy Called Mike

Cheap Hookah

In its own way, Al Amir is smokin’

Bengal Tiger

Spice and everything is nice at a new Indian eatery

Land of Opportunity...

...For many skilled immigrants, it's not here, it's home

Bolly-stic

¡Ask a Mexican!

Hip-Hop Hooray for Ghostbar...Not.

Standard Transmission

Tune up and laugh at Stanton's Garage; a fun ride into Bombay Dreams

Berry Me Not

Who drinks gin?

Generation Rx

Adrift in a sea of psychotropic pharmacology, it's easy for a kid to drown.

Cheap Shots

How do you find good, inexpensive liquors?

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Bomb Shelter

You can have an Atomic time at this West End sushi joint

Tasty Diplomacy

The buffet table sings at Dawat

Green Giant

Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

Hear Here

Local music was better than ever in 2001

Pazz and Jop

With Unincorporated, the Earl Harvin Trio is no longer a jazz band. It's whatever it wants to be.

Merchant Ivory

Begging and Borrowing

Cloak and dagger

A bank scheme is the McGuffin in an Indian film about political intrigue and human nature

Reel power

Dallas-based Regent Entertainment vies to become a Hollywood player, and it's off to an Oscar-winning start

Invasion of the bodyshoppers

A shortage of American engineers and programmers spells boom times for brokers who peddle skilled foreign workers at bargain prices. Is it exploitation, or just good business?

Stars of India

Two generations master an ancient art

Wicket food

What's good about the Bombay Cricket Club is everything is

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