Poland

The Hot Mess from Jack in the Box, Taco Bell-Flavored Doritos and More Fast Food Crazy

With the big game this weekend I was trying to find some interesting and gluttonous fast-food options. Nothing insane stuck out, but I came across a few items of note, both in the States and from around our big fat globe. Some of them are good, others awful. Well, actually, they're mostly awful. F ... More >>

Native Americans Gathered Downtown Last Night to Protest Broken Treaties and a Tar Sands Pipeline

If you happened to be passing the corner of Akard and San Jacinto Monday night, the huge, blue LED lights spelling out "IDLE NO MORE" might have left you nonplussed. It was no coincidence that the demonstration, known as a light brigade, took place within a stone's throw of the Canadian consulate g ... More >>

How Texas Came Within an Atom's Breadth of Discovering the God Particle

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 42: DJ Gabe

Gabriel Mendoza, aka DJ Gabe, has been spinning (literally, he uses turntables) since 2004. His DJ career took off when his friend, Patricia Rodriguez, pitched him on doing a psych/mod night. Gabe's response was, "Hells yes." He now spins all over town, and folks looking to unwind to some funky t ... More >>

Scrap-Yard Owners Evolve to Survive Assault by City Hall and the News.

Amongst The New Rave Children: An Old Person's Review of Saturday's Dayglow Party

"What initially began as a college tradition has transformed into a world-renowned live concert, featuring spectacular DJs, soaring aerial acts, stilt-walkers, contortion acts, fire shows, and cannons to deliver the famous "Paint Blast," along with many other unforgettable live performances." That' ... More >>

Dallas ISD Names Mike Miles, Reform-Minded Military Vet from Colorado, Lone Finalist for Superintendent Job

Prediction: The next few weeks may not be a ton of fun for Mike Miles. Miles, the superintendent of Harrison School District Two in Colorado Springs, was named the lone finalist for the top job in Dallas ISD at a meeting this afternoon. The board, which voted 8-0 (with Carla Ranger abstaining), now ... More >>

2012 Oscar Nominations, Complete with Snubs, Surprises, and Mehs

The nominees for the cinematic super bowl, the 2012 Academy Awards, were announced yesterday, and as always there were a few of the year's best pictures and performances that were left warming the bench by the all-powerful Academy. Martin Scorsese's Hugo leads the game with 11 nods, beating out th ... More >>

My Favorite Beers of 2011

Here's what passes for my year-end list, 10 of the beers that really impressed me this year, listed in no particular order other than roughly reverse-chronological. It's late because I tend to do my heaviest drinking during the holidays. I wanted to be sure to include anything I tried up till midnig ... More >>

73-Year-Old Dallas Man Convicted In International Telecom Swindle Worth $60 Mil

​Michael Signoretto is 73, and as of today the Dallas man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for his role in defrauding two British telecommunications companies out of of more than $60 million. Signoretto, who was just found guilty by a federal jury, didn't do this alone. He had plenty of co-c ... More >>

See Addison, See the World

Two Polish Beers Walk Into A Bar ...

​... and were delicious. The end. What, you were expecting a Polack joke? This is Texas, where the butts of our jokes are Aggies or blonds, not Polish people. Not that we have many Polish people to offend, anyway. Apparently, there isn't enough demand to import Zywiec or Okocimskie beers into the ... More >>

Paczki Shortage Looms in Dallas

​In cities with significant Polish populations, Shrove Tuesday is commonly known as Paczki Day in honor of the pastry made with all the lard, eggs and sugar that had to be used up before the traditional Lenten fast began. But Dallasites without deep-fryers may have trouble participating in the ... More >>

Kenny's Wood-Fired Grill Likes its Chilly Vodka, But How Cold Is Too Cold?

​Kenny's Wood-Fired Grill customers are vodka drinkers. They drink vodka shots, vodka martinis and vodka dessert drinks made with butterscotch schnapps. That's why the restaurant has installed two frozen Grey Goose taps, and why there'll be another Grey Goose tap in the bar at Kenny's Italian ... More >>

At the Dallas Holocaust Museum, American POWs and Concentration Camp Survivors Meet

Photos by Danny FulgencioFormer prisoners of war at Oflag 64 in front of the wall of the dead at the Dallas Holocaust Museum​"Uplifting stuff."So notes our very own Danny Fulgencio after his visit Friday afternoon to the Dallas Holocaust Museum in the West End, where former American prisoners of w ... More >>

Our Top 5 Most Expensive Things
To Eat or Drink

​You just invented the Opti-Grab just like The Jerk's Navin R. Johnson, or possibly hit it big in what many now may consider their only chance at retirement, the lottery. What would you do with all that loot after buying a ration of fine automobiles and country estates? Well, you could join th ... More >>

Show Announcements: George Clinton's Mothership To Connect With House Of Blues April 22, More

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at the Granada Theater in 2006.​Don't burn your entire stash on 4/20, because just two days later George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will touch down at House of Blues in Dallas.Bandleader Clinton, as if you needed an introduction, is a true legend of ... More >>

Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels featuring Rodrigo Amado

The Great Bydgoszcz Concert (Ayler Records)

There Was...But What Now?

Hophead: Prost In Plano

Mikal Beth Hughey​A liter a day keeps the doctor away. --Old German proverb (at least according to the Bavarian Grill's Stein Hour menu)Along with a handful of other local eateries, the Bavarian Grill in Plano is in the running for GermanDeli.com's designation as The Best German Restaurant in Amer ... More >>

Handle The Proof: Two Of The Best 'Hard To Find' Spirits

​I personally think zubrowka and aged genever are the finest spirits one can drink. But neither are easy to find, unless you travel.Zubrowka is a flavored vodka generally associated with Poland, where they've been distilling and drinking it for a good six or seven centuries. Pale gold in color, it ... More >>

From the Hilltop, a Film About the Holocaust

Last December, Rick Halperin, director of SMU's Human Rights Education Program, took nine students from the university to a frigid Poland, where they visited Auschwitz, Birkenau, Stutthof and Treblinka, among several other Nazi concentration camps. (Halperin has led such sojourns for the last 13 yea ... More >>

From the International Desk, Dirk Nowitzki Is Tingling, and Tom Hicks Is Refinancing

And, in international headlines this morning, Dirk Nowitzki wants to play with the German national team in the EuroBasket2009 tourney in Poland, which runs September 7-20. At least, if I read my Babel Fish translation correctly: "I believe already that it tingles/swarms." He needs to get that checke ... More >>

Big in Poland: Local Doom Metal Quartet Solitude Aeturnus Release New Live CD

Even though vocalist Robert Lowe is now the full time lead vocalist for legendary Swedish Metalheads Candlemass, his local quartet, Solitude Aeturnus, has a new CD coming out next month. Hour of Despair, a live effort that was issued on DVD last year, hits the streets in Europe on March 2 and in the ... More >>

Just How "Illegal" Are Illegal Immigrants?

Working cheap isn't a crime. It's the American way.

Past Forward

You Down With JCC?

Celebrate the Jewish arts downtown

Rockers Without Borders

Big D music is on the road and in the movies

Up to Snuff

Mel Gibson drenches Mayan civilization in trademarked gore

On a Wing and a Prayer

Minister to despots across the globe, evangelist K.A. Paul just needs a few tons of jet fuel--and a safer plane--to keep up God’s work

Back From the Dead

Rigor Mortis were once "Condemned to Hell"--and irrelevance--but the Dallas metal legends have risen

Get Hitched

Gifts not required for Tony n' Tina's Wedding

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

Manhattanism

The new season in New York's Chelsea galleries offers a mad mixture of artful objects, photo-optics and cinematic play

Biting the Appellation

Is it right to produce alcohol in the wrong country?

Advance Screening

Pssst, wanna see a movie that isn't out yet...legally?

Fall Away

Meadows opens a somber season

A Twist of the Wrist

Aren’t wine drinkers sissies?

Look Oy Vey, Dixieland

Double dose of self-hatred, way down South and south of the border

In the Ghetto

Polanski returns to Poland, this time as The Pianist

Foreign Substances

What's the difference among vodka brands?

Pay for Play

Seventy-three DMNers get sent packing

The Kindness of Strangers

Archival footage illuminates a remarkable Holocaust story

Death becomes him

Execution specialist goes Nazi-partying in Errol Morris' disturbing new documentary

The devil's playground

Roman Polanski can't understand why anyone would take his new movie seriously

Concentration comedy!

Jakob the Liar twists the truth to make the Holocaust more fun

Hey Yiddle Yiddle

Honed alone

A free-jazz disciple gets the last laugh

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