Paris (France)

Dallas Children's Theater Delivers a First-Class Version of The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley

The Postal Service are Coming to Dallas: Presale Starts Tomorrow

Update, 2/20, 9:50 a.m. The pre sales have started for East Coast dates. The link goes live to the right of the date, where it currently says On Sale Soon. Once you click, you get put in a queue for tickets, so I'd try and click as close to 10 a.m. as you humanly can. As in, start refreshing your br ... More >>

A Confession from Lance Armstrong Will Just Speed Cycling's Downhill Slide

We assume Lance Armstrong will confess tonight to some part of a years-long juicing conspiracy while head of the U.S. Postal Service bicycle racing team, so we can anticipate at least a few more days of intense conversation about Armstrong. But what about bicycle racing? What is its future? The tra ... More >>

Les Miserables Doesn't Dream Daringly

Julie Delpy Brings the Paris Gang Stateside for 2 Days in New York

How You Gonna Keep Down on the Farm After They've Seen Dallee?

Gosh, I've been reading about the secret negotiations between the two groups of fancy people downtown over how to control the light, and I can't help thinking of the Paris Peace Talks to end the Vietnam War between 1968 and 1973. I don't know how much you may remember or maybe studied in school ab ... More >>

Julie Delpy Rocks New York

Always more than an ingenue, she's taking on everything that's wrong with movies—and she's bringing Chris Rock

Boulevardier is Open in Bishop Arts (Photos)

Last night was the première of Boulevardier, the new French bistro from Veritas owners Brooks and Bradley Anderson, chef Randall Copeland and chef Nathan Tate. The scene was set with French linens, crisp white walls and rich woods. The players were all dressed in tailored, plaid button-downs and fr ... More >>

Zebra Katz: "Ballroom Culture Has Been Available For Years, But It's Still Very Much A Subculture"

Zebra Katz was initially was one of seven characters in a performance piece by Ojay Morgan, a NYC-based performance artist and musician who studied at the British American Dramatic Academy in London, Parsons School of Design, and received his Bachelor of Arts from Eugene Lang College. His exhibition ... More >>

Chef Claudine Martyn on the Slow Food Movement in Dallas and Rediscovering the Family Meal and Local Farmers

Dallas native Claudine Martyn is the regional governor of Slow Food USA for Texas and Oklahoma. Per their website, "Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is part of a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members in over 150 countries, which links the pleasure of food ... More >>

High-Flying Boeing-Boeing Hits Comedy Stratosphere

Learn From The Masters

Dark Dark Dark's All-Time Top Five Favorite Museums To Visit While Touring The World

Minnesota's Dark Dark Dark is a chamber-folk collective that fills any stage they're on with their varied and engrossing sounds -- much as they do with their eight band members. Employing instrumentation ranging from cello to clarinet to the gorgeous, slightly dusky vocals of the intricately inked-u ... More >>

Hunt Asks: What Makes a "World-Class City"?

​As Sam notes below, Angela Hunt was the lone council member to vote against paying architect Santiago Calatrava $10.7 million to design a second version of the Margaret McDermott Bridge. The District 14 council rep believes spending all those many millions on a "signature" component added to a ... More >>

Outside: A Long- Not Epic- Look at the Algerian War.

The Illusionist: Reanimating a Celluloid Fossil.

Mayor Tom: "Dallas Is At the Heart of What is Happening in the U.S. Economy Today."

Chris Heinbaugh​On the other side is the final dispatch from Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert's chief of staff, who's among the traveling party wrapping up that trade mission to Spain and France. The quote in the headline comes from the release that follows, in which Leppert says the Euros are r ... More >>

Dijon Chefs Visit Land o' the Fried. Will They Survive?

Chefs from Dijon​School lunch reformers this past weekend salivated over a CBS Sunday Morning dispatch from Paris showing schoolchildren munching on ratatouille turnovers and mussels. Fresh, organic, local produce is the norm in French schools, says the city of Dijon's spokesman Fabian Forni, ... More >>

Some Days You Gotta Sit Through Council Meetings. Some Days You Go To France, Spain.

Last November, Mayor Tom and the missus went to Korea. This fall: Europe. I formally announce my candidacy for Dallas mayor.​I hope you don't need a face-to-face with Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia or Karl Zavikovsky, head of the Office of Economic Develop ... More >>

Chef Tell: Dishes in Disguise?

​Last night's episode of Top Chef provided A) the best text messages sent by friends watching the show before I was, and B) the most quality "sheesh"-inducing insults during tasting and Judges' Table so far this season.I knew the Quickfire was going to be good because well, I got a text that said ... More >>

SXSW 2010 Video: 6th Street... in 4 Minutes.

You know when you're in Paris, and you only have a few hours to go through the Louvre, so you have to high-tail it with the camera in about five minutes through the entire thing? Well this video is like that--only on 6th street, the main hub in Austin's SXSW music fest. And we did it in four minute ... More >>

From Paris With Love: John Travolta is the Plays the Real Ugly American in France

Handle The Proof: Sidecar

​In my school of thought--and keep in mind, it's not a very well attended school--cocktails born in the heyday of gentlemanly drinking are to be revered. Drinks such as martinis, old fashioned and the great sazerac came from an era when even the prettiest glass carried a big, stiff belt of alcohol ... More >>

Edsel's Now "Bewildered," "Bothered" By Meadows Museum's Response to Revelations Concerning Its Two Nazi-Looted Paintings

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's Saint Rufina, one of two pieces of artwork in the Meadows Museum stolen by the Nazis in 1941​So, I just spoke with Robert Edsel concerning those two paintings at the SMU Meadows Museum his Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art publicly identified as havi ... More >>

Paris

The Guardian on Bosque Brown's Mara Lee Miller: "Quite A Voice."

Annie GunnBosque Brown's Mara Lee Miller gets some serious praise from The Guardian.​ Looks like Telegraph Canyon's not the only Fort Worth-based act garnering some serious praise from a respected out-of-town outlet today: This morning, the UK-based daily The Guardian honored Bosque Brown as its " ... More >>

You just can't mask the many missteps of Garland Civic Theatre's Phantom (The Other One)

Hatching Deliciousness

Dishsmithing

A culinary master teaches classic prep

Dinner And A...Play

Theatre Three stages a dressed-down affair

Normandie Alliance Reaches for France and Comes Up Short

Soley's blend of French-Italian Makes for an Awesome Saturday Night

Crêpe Expectations

Put on the Rouge

The Modern is Red and White all over

Babel-Licious

Some menu items seem out of place. What's going on?

Puck Off

The lock on hockey could be a big blow to Dallas restaurants

Marking Time

Figaro Cafe keeps us waiting...and waiting

Hip Hop

Naan wants to bring "edgy" to Plano

Noodle Bullet

Liberty Noodles goes limp

Euro-Hash

Who has the worst cuisine in Europe?

Apple Gazing

Stolik operator hopes to beat the odds

Operation Florida Freedom

Papa wouldn't be proud of the Florida Seafood Grill

Frenchie Flash

Loosen up and enjoy the ride at Paris Vendôme

French 101

Le Rendezvous offers a respite from the flashy and the fancy

French Kiss

Paris in Plano

Paris, Texas

Though sometimes pricey, Jean-Michel Sakouhi's new bistro fits Dallas to a T

Thin line between love and hate

Cork is a promising wine bar that's plugged its excitement for the drink

Hash Over

Food play

Nana Grill's new chef toys with compelling flavors

Dining in the dark

Hotel St. Germain forgets a culinary dictum: "The eye has its rights"