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The Art Of Nesting

His Stories > Your Stories

Deep Sea’s Splendors, Revealed

The Nine Best Tex-Mex Restaurants In Dallas

Hang onto your pants. It's time to lay out or favorite Tex-Mex restaurants -- an endeavor that consistently draws as passionate a comment stream as any burger post. Pepe & Mito's (Pictured above) This Deep Ellum mainstay won last year's award for Best Tex-Mex in Dallas with homemade tortillas, gre ... More >>

A New Species Of Mouse Lemur? Thanks, Life.

Savagely Adventurous and Thoughtful

Land Inside Dallas Jail Between February and May and You Could Wind Up in TV Doc

​Back in November the Dallas County Commissioners signed off on part2 Productions' pitch to shoot a season's worth of Hard Time in the Dallas County Jail on behalf of the National Geographic Channel, which would have taken some 120 days and netted the county upward of $120,000. Alas, we find out v ... More >>

They Wanna Shoot the Ewings in Dallas County Buildings, But First Need Commissioners' OK

​Twice in November the Dallas County Commissioners Court approved requests from reality-TV crews to film inside the county jail -- first from Brits bearing 3D cams, then from the National Geographic Channel. But tomorrow, Dallas comes to Dallas County: Per the commissioners court agenda Warner Hor ... More >>

NatGeo's Dallas Reality Show Pitch: "Gripping, Gritty Long-View Into World of Incarceration"

​Just a couple of weeks back some Brits asked Dallas County for the okee-doke to film a 3D programme in the county jail for a couple of days, to which the commissioners courts said: Sure, fine. But the request going before Dallas County higher-ups today is much, much bigger -- as in, 120 days' wor ... More >>

Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, Digitally Restored For National Geographic Channel Doc

Speaking of a Dealey Plaza's redo ... I've had a copy of National Geographic Channel's JFK: The Lost Bullet sitting on the desk for a week; haven't watched it yet, but there's time -- it doesn't air till Sunday at 8 p.m. And while it's said to show Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone on November 22, 1963 ... More >>

Herrera's Mexican Café Opens New Location on Fitzhugh

Catherine Downes​The original Herrera's Mexican Café was located on Maple Avenue, right across the street from Observer HQ, where the lovable Grapevine Bar now resides. Amelie Herrera opened the restaurant in 1971, and it's been a popular spot for Tex-Mex in Dallas ever since, featured in a 1 ... More >>

Say These Names Three Times Fast

Really, We Have to Wait a Whole Year Till Modern Family Cast Comes to Brinker Forum?

Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet will be at the Winspear in April​Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season's TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season's Brinker Inte ... More >>

City Hall's Kennedy Conspiracy

Kennedy assassination author and conspiracist Robert Groden says the city's out to get him. He may be right.

Under The Sea

The Aperture of the Adventure

Weird Science: Eating Brains, McDonald's Madness and Brilliant Bacon

Lunch!​For most eaters, scrutinizing food means checking to make sure the lettuce in their salad's clean and their steak's not overly fatty. Scientists, of course, take a more rigorous approach, using microscopes, MRI scans and sophisticated chemical testing to determine exactly what people ar ... More >>

In Case You Switched Providers in Recent Weeks, Dish Network, FOX Kiss and Make Up

Dish'ers, you're now free to watch FX's The League again. And if you're not, you should.​That's the word from the Dish Network, which just sent word that, nope, it's not gonna drop regular ol' FOX from its line-up after all. And, matter of fact, those 19 regional sports nets axed on October 1, inc ... More >>

What Lies Beneath

Dallas Stars Suggest Dish Subscribers Might Just Wanna Go Ahead and Switch Services Now

If you don't want to miss The Razor, DISH-watchers, might wanna switch services now.​Speaking of FOX ...By now even non-Dish Network-ers are aware of the ongoing spat between FOX and Dish over carriage fees, which resulted in FOX's yanking off the Dish its 19 regional sports nets on October 1, inc ... More >>

Outside The Lines

Blow Me Away

Bonus MP3: RIVETHEAD - "Stay Alive"

Kaylene FanslerRIVETHEAD​Chances are, you've already heard a song by Dallas' RIVETHEAD. You just may not have realized it. The local industrial/metal band's music has been played by the Dallas Stars at the American Airlines Center for several years now--and, beyond that, RIVETHEAD's songs have bee ... More >>

Good Godfather! Al Pacino's Bringing a Greatest-Hits One-Man Show to AT&TPAC in November.

​Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-'11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS -- quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the atten ... More >>

95 Million Reasons Why Unfair Park Needs More Dallas Dinosaur News

Courtesy Karen CarrKaren Carr, a New Mexico artists who used to live in Dallas, offers this peek at what Aetodactylus halli might have looked like back in, ya know, the day.​Big breaking news in the world of paleontology today: Back in '06, Lance Hall, a member of the Dallas Paleontological Societ ... More >>

Same Ol' Song And Dance

A Sneak Preview of National Geographic's JFK Doc, Which Doubles as Local Media History

Just spent the better part of an hour watching a rough cut of National Geographic Channel's The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, a found-footage doc that makes its debut Monday at 8 p.m. C.S.T. Those burned out on Last Day of JFK documentaries need to take note: It's not another rehashing of the e ... More >>

From National Lampoon to National Portrait Gallery, Paying Tribute to Don Ivan Punchatz

National Lampoon CoversAmong Don Ivan Punchatz's most familiar works is the cover for the November 1974 National Lampoon.​Spent the better part of the morning looking at the artwork of Don Ivan Punchatz, the New Jersey-born illustrator and TCU adjunct design professor for 40 years who died last Th ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Qdoba Mexican Grill

​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Qdoba Mexican Grill 6505 W. Park Blvd.,  Plano972-403-7372 Promised Delivery: 60 minutes Delivery Time: 45 minutes Scoring Summary:Finally having Mexican food del ... More >>

Elephant Talk: The World's Foremost Authority on the Subject Weighs In

As Promised, Angela Hunt's Video from Her Trip to Mexico

Non-Fiction Stew

Dallas Destroyed By Duststorm in an Imaginary Future

Bird's-Eye View

See some photography at the mall

Accidental Tourists

Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

Hostess With the Mostess

Lens Sisters

See National Geographic's feminine side

In Cold Blood

Horse Sense

Play horse mind games with the Parelli Natural Horsemanship seminar

Bury Frank Already

Blade's needs an update

Ruff Stuff

Unleash yourself for a day of sun, fun and dogs

Serart

Serart (Sony)

Sub: Par

Harrison Ford's latest action vehicle, K-19: The Widowmaker, cruises in a mediocre sea

Super Sized

National Geographic lives large with SuperCroc

Jewel of the Nile

Uncover the Mysteries of Egypt on film

It's one "ele" of a show

Save the elephants ... from these circus costumes

Glint of gold

I ate what?

Tei Tei Robata pushes the envelope on foodstuffs, and does it very well

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX