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Latin Deli Hits Three Essential Targets: Good, Fast and Cheap (photos)

This afternoon, as I was lounging in my hammock, sipping freshly squeezed lemonade and reading the paper, I pondered the meaning of life. Under a delicate, cloudy sky that looked like a soft, sleepy blanket of solid grey wool, I wondered, "What if we're the stars?" Except nobody has time for that ... More >>

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Hollywood Records' John Nicholson Knows How To Make Pyrotechnics Out of Tomato Juice Cans and Gunpowder

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. Lima, Peru, native John Nicholson has helped out a lot of DFW musicians over the years. His early gigs included Sound Warehouse, Bill's Records and label promotion for Polygram, A&M and V ... More >>

Bolsa's Covered Patio is the Perfect Place to Ride Out the Summer (and Get Drunk)

Sometimes you just really need to get drunk on fancy cocktails in the middle of the day.  (And by "you," I mean me, of course.)Lots of places don't open until 5 or later, though, or they close during that late afternoon lull between lunch and dinner service; often, if they do stay open during t ... More >>

Tax Breaks for AAC Worked So Well the First Time, Let's Do More!

The Most Amazing Thing Stephan Pyles Ever Ate

FacebookStephan Pyles: Founding Father of Southwestern Cuisine, Eater of Grubs​Chefs for Farmers, a Dallas based group who celebrate small, local farms, is having some fun on their facebook page to promote their annual event.They asked Brian Luscher from the Grape to come up with a random ques ... More >>

This Dallas Symphony Viola Wiz Has a Thing for Green Papaya and Funeral Potatoes

Barbara Sudweeks: Second chair but no second fiddled. (Apparently they don't have fiddles in the orchestra.)​Occasionally we identify interesting local folks who are as obsessed with food and restaurants as we are, and share some of their thoughts on Dallas' dining scene and food in general. T ... More >>

Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano: "We've Never Done Anything Everybody Else Does."

At 54, Johnette Napolitano sounds like she has much creative drive as people half her age. Full of energy and desire with her work as a solo artist, a collaborator and the lead singer of Concrete Blonde, listening to her is quite an inspiration. While her power was out at her home in Joshua Tree, C ... More >>

First Move From 11-Year-Old Mayor of Forney? Changing Main Street to Justin Bieber Way.

Begrudgingly, yes.​Dallas has a serious case of Bieber Fever, y'all. In addition to the fact that we can expect a nude statue of Bieber and his Grand Prairie-raised girlfriend, Selena Gomez, to be housed inside of the city limits at the end of the month, today comes the news that the City of Forne ... More >>

Show Announcements: Sorta Reunion, Bitter End, Fair To Midland, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Sarah Jaffe, Murder By Death, Ozomatli, Sevendust, Jeff Beck, Yanni and More.

Sorta​It's no secret that the folks over at AllGood Cafe have always loved the band Sorta, the now-defunct Dallas supergroup that called it quits shortly after the untimely and shocking death of Dallas music legend Carter Albrecht. Since that breakup, the band's members haven't disappeared from th ... More >>

Coppell's Emily Elbert Gets Some Love From Glamour For Her Jazzy, Acoustic Stylings.

21-year-old area singer-songwriter Emily Elbert's no stranger to local music fans, having performed her fair share of gigs at Opening Bell and the Kessler Theater in recent years since picking up the guitar at age 15. She's no stranger to the Internet either: Her jazzy, acoustic take on Michael Jack ... More >>

Something (El) Bulli This Way Comes

Lorea Fruit basket copia​Diners have a better chance of getting into Harvard Law School than scoring a seat at El Bulli, the gastronomic temple in Spain that annually fields more than one million requests for reservations, but visitors to SMU's Meadows Museum next month can console themselves wi ... More >>

Amid Carrollton's changing restaurant scene, the Inca's Café Really Gets Its Goat

Sara Kerens​Once known as a haven for large-chain dining, Carrollton is slowly changing, as more and more immigrants move there from Asia, and Central and South America. Drive down East Belt Line Road or Josey Lane and you will see taquerias aplenty, plus homey establishments that draw culinary i ... More >>

The Peruvians Are Coming and They are Bringing Their Lomo Saltado With Them By Chris Meesey

From WikipediaGaston Acurio​Gaston Acurio is one of the hottest chefs in the world that you've never heard of.That's because the 41-year-old, black-clad whirlwind is neither French nor American. No, in fact he is Peruvian, as in South America, long seen by many Americans as a culinary backwater. ... More >>

Coffee Not Only a Mother Could Love at White Rock Coffee

​Roasted's convinced that the only thing more grueling than waking up on a regular Monday morning is waking up on the Monday morning following daylight-saving time's great "spring forward." Ugh.The red print on the At-A-Glance calendar at the office warned of the impending time change, and Roasted ... More >>

Short Orders: El Fogon

​El Fogon3636 Frankford972-820-6440Does it matter if a funky little ethnic joint is lodged in a far north strip mall? Is character defined by the shell or what is inside?Some would have you believe that location and setting matter more than unique flavors. So the fact that El Fogon is hidden behin ... More >>

Inca's serves up down-home food from way, way down south

18-Wheeler Wisdom

The LCC offers words to drive by

Mi Corazón

Victory: That Gasoline Smell...

2007 started with the scent of napalm in the morning

Review: Aló Cenaduria & Piqueos

Soccer, Sushi-style

Have some yellowtail with those yellow cards

Crab Case

SushiSamba is not without stimulating promise

Peeling Back John Peel's Dallas Daze

Ring Tone

Fish Story

Adventurous chef "Pyles" it on

Deep Easy

Laissez les bon temps rouler at two new restaurants

Yard of Dreams

Step Up

Best foot forward

Remembering John Peel

Influential DJ began his radio career in Dallas

The Importance of Being Ernesto

Motorcycle Diaries explores Ché Guevara's formative years

Legal Eats

Savory is a neighborhood restaurant without pretensions

First Fest

Celebrate Dallas via all of the Americas

How Now Mad Cow?

For Texas cattle ranchers, "What's for dinner?" is a touchy question

Hey, Kids, It's Tepee Time

Children go in search of history

Five Golden Reels

The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

Wave On

Music's lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes on the shortwave radio dial

Terror Firmer

In The Dancer Upstairs, Bardem is the quiet amid the violence

Letters

Letters for the issue of April 24

1-Hour Arrest

When does a snapshot of a mother breast-feeding her child become kiddie porn? Ask the Richardson police.

Real to Reel

Vistas Film Festival travels out of its comfort zone

Best Homestyle Restaurant

La Duni Latin Café

Book of Martyrs

Sharon Kopriva transcends the usual mediocre fare of American religious art

Latin Homestyle

La Duni Café serves up comfort food from down south ... way, way down south

We are the World

More fun than a school board meeting

Cora! Cora! Cora!

Artistic director Cora Cardona's style--passionate, arrogant, riveting, domineering--makes Teatro Dallas special and her enemies livid

Speed Demons

Crusty Demons of Dirt

Obsessed by destiny

Through-the-ages love story between a courier pilot and a schoolteacher

Short takes

Two companies stage comebacks of the theatrical revue with mixed results

International waters

AquaKnox successfully cross-dresses fish in Dallas