Philippines

Mexicans Don't Need to Grovel to Anyone

Finding the Common Ground Between Coheed & Cambria and Jane's Addiction

Claudio Sanchez is incredibly pressed for time, but he has ten minutes to spare for an interview. Afterwards, he has to rush off for Coheed and Cambria's soundcheck. The band is in the midst of a long headlining tour with rocket scientist metallers Between the Buried and Me. Thankfully, Sanchez is w ... More >>

A Feeling of Damonlessness Clouds the latest Bourne

Should We Celebrate Juneteenth?

I had lunch with Rev. Peter Johnson yesterday. He walked into CT's Real Deal Barbeque in South Dallas, shook my hand, and smiled. "How was your holiday?" he asked me. "Great!" I said. It was. I told him I spoke to my father for about 15 or 20 minutes, and I had even gotten a few texts and congratu ... More >>

How to Beat a Bully: Start by Changing Their Parents

Two stories in the news just now offer encouragement on the bullying front. In today's New York Times is an account of a new policy adopted by a big suburban school district north of Minneapolis. Christian conservatives there had been fighting against an effort to protect gay students from beatings ... More >>

Central Market's Chocolate Festival: A Guide

Central Market's annual chocolate festival starts today and lasts through February 14. Some of the best chocolatiers from around the world will make appearances over the next few days and, as always, there are some interesting back stories. If you can fight through the crowds, don't take lightly the ... More >>

Raised An Army Brat, Jerry Rutherford's Now a Deep Ellum Metalhead Through and Through.

Jerry Rutherford​Within Deep Ellum's metal scene, Jerry Rutherford is everybody's friend. It seems like he's at all the shows, always up to do a shot and let out that rallying, supportive cry-of-the-rocker that barely edges up above the volume of whichever hard rock act is blaring not far in front ... More >>

Ocean Prime's Sonny Pache On His Beautiful Dysfunctional Kitchen Family

Ocean Prime Dallas​While Sonny Pache, 29, was studying finance in college in Ohio, he always ended up cooking for his five roommates. Apparently he wasn't half bad, because the roommates were always telling him he should trade in formulas for recipes and go to culinary school. Eventually he listen ... More >>

Chocolatier Stephen Smith On Cooking With Mom and the Guilty Pleasure of Twinkies

On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on chocolatier Stephen Smith of nib chocolates. Today, we asked Smith to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. ​I was raised in...a military family.   My friends say I'm...too laid back. Too relaxed.   My momma told me ... More >>

Palomino's All-Day Happy Hour: A Good Idea Gets A-Salted

​Each week, Happy Eating highlights a different restaurant happy hour food menu. This week, we clean ourselves up for a jaunt to the Crescent Court. Where: Palomino Restaurant and Bar, 500 Crescent Court, Ste. 165 When: All day, everyday in the bar. Hours are 11a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursda ... More >>

La Fiorentina: Generic Doesn't Always Equal Cheap.

Q&A: Death Angel's Mark Osegueda Talks Unlikely Collaborations, Band Name Regrets

Death Angel​From 1982 to 1991, there probably wasn't a more interesting metal act than California's Death Angel. Not only did the band consist of five Filipinos, but they didn't stick to any standard metal blueprint either. Despite the serious moniker, Death Angel displayed a musical variety and s ... More >>

La Fiorentina's Nicola Calamari Clams Up

​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Nicola Calamari, executive chef at La Fiorentina. Yesterday, we asked Calamari to finish a few sentences for us. Today, he shares a recipe for pasta with clams. The recipe follows after the jump.

Pedestrian Playlist: What Does Cowboys Stadium Architect Ralph Hawkins Listen To?

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to people of interest in the metroplex about their taste in music, including likes, dislikes, and guilty pleasures. We're calling it Pedestrian Playlist -- because, hey, everyone listens to music. A dude wearing a tie like that is bound to ... More >>

Today, "amnesty" is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Ronnie's Kids

Cross Pacific Pop

You Don't Have to be Born in Mexico to Call Yourself Mexican

Only in Arlington: Manny Pacquiao Saved His Biggest Hits for Post-Fight Concert

Patrick MichelsManny Pacquiao landed 246 of his punches Saturday night, and most of his high notes.​Manny Pacquiao double-booked himself Saturday night, and while he may have had a bigger audience at Cowboys Stadium for his 12-round decision over Joshua Clottey, he spent more time onstage at his p ... More >>

Picture Show: Manny Pacquiao's Post-Fight Concert in Arlington

Patrick MichelsA welterweight in the boxing ring, but a heavyweight on the six-string.​ Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao followed his Saturday night defeat of Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium with a post-fight concert next door at the Ballpark in Arlington, joined onstage by Journey's lea ... More >>

Top 10 Overlooked Culinary Vacations

Flickr user ^riza^It's a long way, but the rendang is worth the trip.​Anyone with the means can travel the villages of Tuscany, visit tasting rooms in Napa Valley or hit Belgium's chocolate shops. In fact, certain places are so well known as culinary destinations, even those with only the faintest ... More >>

Bald Bombshell

Sonia Sotomayor May Not Be Mexican, But She’s Close Enough for Government Work

Joel Hodgson and Original MST3K Crew Return to Dallas with Titanic Live Show

Hodgson, left, with his unsinkable comedy crew.Two decades since he made watching lousy movies on Comedy Central one of the funniest ways to waste a mid-'90s afternoon, Joel Hodgson has found a new, if similar, calling: a live touring show, Cinematic Titanic, with the original Mystery Science Theate ... More >>

Black Kids Contradict Themselves

Journey To Hell And Back...Without Steve Perry

Local Musicians Give Democracy The Finger

Jungle Fever

Big Screen, Far East

Sample the wonders of Asian cinema

Swift Justice in a Faraway Place

He-Man Called and Wants His Phone Back

News From the Flatlands

Life as a Holy Roller

Shooting Blanks

Whodunnit High

Brown Study

Aqua doesn't impress-doesn't even try

Filipino Pickle

TCU screens a tongue-twister

FOUND Out

Asian Delights

Film festival confuses with Gozu, thrills with Cavite

Fruit of the Poison Tree

In a Dallas court, Costa Rican banana workers claim a banned pesticide left them sterile

At War

Associated Press photographers returned with Memories of World WarII

Party Pooper

Arts celebration has some folks in a tizzy

Open to All

Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

Sweating it out in Saipan

While other major retailers settle sweatshop lawsuits, J.C. Penney insists everything's cool

Love and death

Kiss or Kill is a tense, eccentric little gem from Australia

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Events for the week

Blood and Feathers

A violent sport provides the knives, gaffs, and blood that bind

Pure delight

At Majella's and Palayok, you'll get your Filipino of fine imported flavors

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Rape of the forest

Indonesia is home to one of the world's worst ongoing environmental tragedies