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A Sign of Success

Fat zone

Chow Thai celebrates the shameful splendor of fried food

Chinese slick

P.F. Chang's polishes Chinese fare with an American bistro veneer

Chief Beef, Joey Kendall, Veloura

Thursday, September 6, at Andy's, Denton

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie

Napoleon the Great

See a French view of Egypt at Beaux Arts

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie

Purring Gears

The upscale casual Houston's is a well-oiled machine

Let It Shine

New eateries coming to the Galleria

Good Friday: Blue October, Le Cure, Drawn by Jaymz, Boys Named Sue, The Fox & The Bird, Mono, Dosh, Hello Lover

This is happening, folks.​As you're probably already aware, we're embarking on the mother of all weekends. That's right; Edgefest is upon us. By now, you might have tried your luck at winning one of our ticket giveaways--after all, what self respecting Limp Bizkit fan wouldn't? But if trying to ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes State Policy, Thanks to State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

This is happening, folks.​As you're probably already aware, we're embarking on the mother of all weekends. That's right; Edgefest is upon us. By now, you might have tried your luck at winning one of our ticket giveaways--after all, what self respecting Limp Bizkit fan wouldn't? But if trying to ... More >>

An Opportunity to Stand Up

This is happening, folks.​As you're probably already aware, we're embarking on the mother of all weekends. That's right; Edgefest is upon us. By now, you might have tried your luck at winning one of our ticket giveaways--after all, what self respecting Limp Bizkit fan wouldn't? But if trying to ... More >>

Now's the time to raze Arizona. Here's how you can help.

This is happening, folks.​As you're probably already aware, we're embarking on the mother of all weekends. That's right; Edgefest is upon us. By now, you might have tried your luck at winning one of our ticket giveaways--after all, what self respecting Limp Bizkit fan wouldn't? But if trying to ... More >>

And the Winner(s) For Best Historic Preservation Project in Dallas Goes To ...

Courtesy Preservation Dallas311 N. Edgefield Avenue in Oak Cliff, before and after its restoration​We're still waiting for Preservation Dallas's list of endangered properties -- that should be ready by the end of the month. But till then, it has announced the winners of its Eleventh Annual Preserv ... More >>

Long Way Go Down

Courtesy Preservation Dallas311 N. Edgefield Avenue in Oak Cliff, before and after its restoration​We're still waiting for Preservation Dallas's list of endangered properties -- that should be ready by the end of the month. But till then, it has announced the winners of its Eleventh Annual Preserv ... More >>

Lakers Over Celtics: My Top 10 Observations

​10. With a combined 32 championships, isn't this the all-time greatest rivalry in sports? Thought so.  9. Kobe Bryant may be one of the greatest players of all time, but don't be shocked if Boston point guard Rajon Rondo is the best player on the court. 8. The Dallas Mavericks ... More >>

Concert Promoter Kevin Lyman Apologizes For Country Throwdown's Dallas Cancellation, But The Eli Young Band Actually Does Something About It.

The above, poorly-lit clip finds concert promoter Kevin Lyman (he of Warped Tour creation fame) apologizing to the music fans in Dallas, Houston, San Diego and Phoenix for the fact that, due to low ticket sales, scheduled stops from his new Country Throwdown tour, which features Montgomery Gentry, J ... More >>

Cowboy Down: Murdered Southern Arizona Rancher Rob Krentz's Family Talk About His Life and Death

The above, poorly-lit clip finds concert promoter Kevin Lyman (he of Warped Tour creation fame) apologizing to the music fans in Dallas, Houston, San Diego and Phoenix for the fact that, due to low ticket sales, scheduled stops from his new Country Throwdown tour, which features Montgomery Gentry, J ... More >>

Kitchen Dog's Long Way Go Down Too Cinematic For Stage;Jubilee Sails With Gem Of The Ocean

The above, poorly-lit clip finds concert promoter Kevin Lyman (he of Warped Tour creation fame) apologizing to the music fans in Dallas, Houston, San Diego and Phoenix for the fact that, due to low ticket sales, scheduled stops from his new Country Throwdown tour, which features Montgomery Gentry, J ... More >>

Good Friday: The Hood Internet, The Gourds, Air Review, Dead Meadow, The Eagles, Chicago, Femme Fest, The Orbans, Sir Silky, Early Republic, and others...

Clayton HauckThe Hood Internet​The Hood Internet is playing The Loft tonight, and as Pete explained earlier in the week, "White people really like hearing their favorite rap lines placed over their favorite indie rock anthems," which is what The Hood Internet does really well. And since the theme ... More >>

Picture Show: The Fans of Vans Warped Tour

Alexander FloresWearing this shirt's an easy way to pick a fight with the guy standing behind you.​On Saturday, at the Superpages.com Center in Dallas, Warped Tour brought its particular brand of headbang rock to rain-soaked Dallas. Bands included Andrew W.K., Motion City Soundtrack, Sum 41, Maxwe ... More >>

NEA's Mayors' Institute Awards City Design Studio $100,000 For "Cultural Remapping"

​Some of the winners of the 21 National Endowment for the Arts grants handed out Thursday know precisely how -- and where -- that money will be spent. In Los Angeles, the $100,000 awarded through the Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative will go toward the mixed-use Broadway ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 19: Lucy Wrubel

​Lucy Wrubel has been DJing for over a decade now. The stand up comedian turned DJ got her start in Rome Italy, where she found she could overcome the language barrier through music. "I found myself unable to communicate with the locals, unless I was choosing the music." Wrubel says, "After spen ... More >>

Get Out!: Arizona and America Join Joe Arpaio in Rushing to Inquire: Are Your Papers in Order?

​Lucy Wrubel has been DJing for over a decade now. The stand up comedian turned DJ got her start in Rome Italy, where she found she could overcome the language barrier through music. "I found myself unable to communicate with the locals, unless I was choosing the music." Wrubel says, "After spen ... More >>

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

​Lucy Wrubel has been DJing for over a decade now. The stand up comedian turned DJ got her start in Rome Italy, where she found she could overcome the language barrier through music. "I found myself unable to communicate with the locals, unless I was choosing the music." Wrubel says, "After spen ... More >>

Decades After Local Man Found, Um, "Lost" Elvis Song, The "Tale of Greed and Betrayal"

​On eBay at this very moment, you can buy for anywhere from $3.99 to $85 a single sold in the late 1970s by then-Mockingbird Lane-based International Classic Productions and advertised as Elvis Presley's "first professional recording?!" The single was accompanied by a missive from then-University ... More >>

Illegal Immigrants, Desperate To Find Work In The U.S., Risk Kidnapping, Rape and Murder From Those Smuggling Them Across the Border

​On eBay at this very moment, you can buy for anywhere from $3.99 to $85 a single sold in the late 1970s by then-Mockingbird Lane-based International Classic Productions and advertised as Elvis Presley's "first professional recording?!" The single was accompanied by a missive from then-University ... More >>

We Know What Illegal Means. So What?

​On eBay at this very moment, you can buy for anywhere from $3.99 to $85 a single sold in the late 1970s by then-Mockingbird Lane-based International Classic Productions and advertised as Elvis Presley's "first professional recording?!" The single was accompanied by a missive from then-University ... More >>

Holy Ghost! Shakes Its Buzz Demons

​On eBay at this very moment, you can buy for anywhere from $3.99 to $85 a single sold in the late 1970s by then-Mockingbird Lane-based International Classic Productions and advertised as Elvis Presley's "first professional recording?!" The single was accompanied by a missive from then-University ... More >>

Should We Call City Hall To Find Out About Those 5,000 Jetpacks on Order? Probably Not.

​On Monday, FOX News's Gretchen "Still on MySpace" Carlson -- a former KXAS'er, for those who've forgotten and how could you? -- reported that the Los Angeles Police Department has ordered 10,000 jetpacks, which sounds totally ... what's the opposite of reasonable? Problem is, as Raw Story and Gaw ... More >>

Five Horrible Novelty Burger Trends

Via EaterWe'd like to six-shoot that Nacho Whopper outta here.​Dear Burger King, we'd like to request to live outside test markets. The fast food chain currently is testing its "Nacho Whopper" (comes in a double) in the Netherlands, and we couldn't be happier. Keep that nacho thing away from us. Y ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans.

Bite It, Big Apple

​Again, something with which to occupy your time while we wait on return calls ...This time, it's a New York Post piece that ran a couple of days back from a local scribe of note who writes that no way, no how would he move to New York City, even if they do have real bagels. It's been e-mailed and ... More >>

Once Back in the Pack, Dallas Now the Top Destination for "Young People" After Austin

​There was a piece in this morning's New York Times about how Austin's now the top destination for the young American, all right. So notes Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, who adds Dallas to the list of Top Five destinations for the highly coveted 25-to-34-year-old. Only a few years ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitute Myth: 100,000 Hookers Won't Be Showing Up in Dallas

​There was a piece in this morning's New York Times about how Austin's now the top destination for the young American, all right. So notes Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, who adds Dallas to the list of Top Five destinations for the highly coveted 25-to-34-year-old. Only a few years ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Katie Karch Is More Than A Roadie -- She's In Charge Of How A Bunch of Local Bands Sound Onstage.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk.Katie Karch​Last week, with 25-year-old Michelle Pelissero, we found ourselves celebrating the "accomplishment of youth" factor in Local Music 'Me ... More >>

Two DFW Chefs in the Running For Food & Wine Prize

Brownstone's Casey Thompson​Proving once again that Austin has a Justin Bieber-like hold on culinary chroniclers' heartstrings, chefs from the capital city scored four of the ten slots in Food & Wine's online "The People's Best New Chef" competition. For the first time ever, Food & Wine's add ... More >>

Do Legal Mexican Immigrants Really Sympathize with Illegals?

Brownstone's Casey Thompson​Proving once again that Austin has a Justin Bieber-like hold on culinary chroniclers' heartstrings, chefs from the capital city scored four of the ten slots in Food & Wine's online "The People's Best New Chef" competition. For the first time ever, Food & Wine's add ... More >>

Edgefest vs. Arcade Fire: Who wins?

Breaking Down The Sights and Sounds of Saturday's Dueling Shows.

The Heart Attack Grill is Open, and It's Even More Terrible Than We Imagined

All photos by Jenny Block The 1 pound Double Bypass burger...for $9.24. For $1.85: 8 more bacon slices!​A neon sign hangs in the window of a new Dallas burger shop. "Taste worth dying for," it reads. The neon in the window confirms your suspicion that some less-than-subtle gimmickry is at play: "O ... More >>

Picture Show: Burgers Across Texas

JC Reid / Houston PressEating Our Words says Houston's Hubcap's bacon burger is one of the best. ​Last week, we joined forces with the Fellowship of the Village Voice Media Ring to bring a epic slideshow of burgers across the country. There were some surprises: the peanut-butter slathered mons ... More >>

In Which We Ask The New KXT Program Director About #KXTFail, Among Other Things.

We may or may not have found Mark Abuzzahab's Driver's License photo.​No, Mark Abuzzahab, the new program director at KXT-91.7 FM (and their very first, by the way), isn't here yet. Won't be for a few more weeks. He's still down in Austin, finishing up his stint as the music director at KGSR-93.3 ... More >>

Midnite Society Strikes The Right Balance

We may or may not have found Mark Abuzzahab's Driver's License photo.​No, Mark Abuzzahab, the new program director at KXT-91.7 FM (and their very first, by the way), isn't here yet. Won't be for a few more weeks. He's still down in Austin, finishing up his stint as the music director at KGSR-93.3 ... More >>

Neither A Phoenix Project Nor Nu-Metal Band, Maleveller Ventures Into The Metal Unknown

Dylan HollingsworthMaleveller​ Heavy metal is a genre that is famously and often unintentionally self-parodying. Bands that are in on the joke, but that take their craft seriously, are rare. Local metal masters Maleveller seek to fill that void. Since their first show in 2009, they have careful ... More >>

Ten Local Music Entities Ready for Reality TV

​Dallas has always been a wellspring of source material for reality show producers looking to put some squick-worthy drama on television. Along with the new Most Eligible: Dallas and Big Rich Texas shows that make up the crust on the bottom of the basic cable reality barrel, we've seen some me ... More >>

Good Friday: Lil Wayne at Gexa Energy Pavilion, and The Rest of This Weekend's Shows

Lil Wayne​It seems that The Young Money Millionaire is making up for time lost while locked up last year. Lil Wayne is returning to Dallas on Saturday at the Gexa Energy Pavilion after performing at the American Airlines Center only five months ago. And the opening acts are reason enough to check ... More >>

Suck on That, Orlando: Dallas Ranks 32 of 35 in Travel Leisure's Foodie-Destination Rankings

Flickr​Travel Leisure readers recently voted on their favorite foodie cities in America. Dallas clocked in at number 32, ahead of only Orlando, Vegas and Anchorage and behind San Antonio (10), Austin (15) and Houston (24), and more or less every other city of note. According to Travel Lei ... More >>

Bicycle Advocates Win a Game of Chicken

City Hall turns back on fudged numbers for bike lanes.

Legsweeper and More Come Out of the Swamp

Friday, February 3, at 406 Arts