Subject: Prague

• Absinthe Makes the Grimes Grow Fonder

  December 19, 2007

• Seriously, Just How Long's the Commute from Grapevine to Prague?

  May 27, 2008

• Burning Question: What's changed since you left Dallas?

  November 7, 2008

• Ca-Caw, Ca-Caw

  April 2, 2009

• Little Orphan Commie

  February 20, 1997

• Interesting intersection

  November 27, 1997

• As You Lock and Load Your Halo Wars Demo, Keep An Ear Out For Plano's Stephen Rippy

  Xbox-ers are no doubt anxiously awaiting tomorrow, when Microsoft finally unleashes its Halo Wars demo in advance of the game's March 3 release date. (Am I the only person who misses Tempest? Ooooh -- thanks, Atari!) I digress. So happens there's an extremely local connection to the Halo spin-off: The guy who scored the videogame happens to be a Plano resident by the name of Stephen Rippy, who, for the last 10 years, has worked for Microsoft's (now-defunct) Ensemble Studios and provided the soun

  February 4, 2009

• Too high. Period.

  November 26, 1998

• Taking shots

  January 21, 1999

• Asphalt Barriers

  aaroads.comRecently there appeared on the pages of dallasfood.org a discussion of the city's confined culinary geography. Some people, as you all know, rarely deign to travel outside the loop because enough exists within the circular strip of asphalt to satisfy their needs. Quite a few, however, go a little further, condemning the space outside the loop as a soulless wasteland. We've all probably encountered this. Years ago a man sitting beside me at The Old Monk bemoaned the absence of a true

  March 16, 2009

• The New Year and Silkworm

  April 24, 2003

• Can't Anybody Here Serve A Table?

  Cote via FlickrI've touched on service issues before in this column, but the topic deserves another crack.Back in March I addressed a series of slip ups constituting what I thought was a frustrating downward trend in the quality of service at Dallas restaurants. For instance, on a couple review visits wait staff forgot at least one of our orders completely. At the start of another, a waiter took my drink order and disappeared before my companion could place hers--a very un-Texan display of bad m

  June 1, 2009

• Stephen Rippy Sets Halo Wars High Score

  February 26, 2009

• A Tough Year for Local Restaurants Sputters to an End

  January 1, 2009

• Gangsta Lean

  August 21, 2008

• Sambuca is Dallas' epicenter for Mediterranean jazz and—who knew?—Geritol jump-shooters

  December 20, 2007

• Hot for Hombres

  October 25, 2007

• A Hawk and a Hacksaw

  Saturday, January 13, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

  January 11, 2007

• Royale Flush

  The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy and comes up aces

  November 16, 2006

• Practical Magic

  Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

  August 17, 2006

• Chez Wal-Mart

  The wacky and wonderful objects of Twang show a rethinking of standardization

  March 24, 2005

• To the Dogs

  Canines and cornies take over Lee Park

  March 24, 2005

• Dorkula

  Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

  December 9, 2004

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  April 8, 2004

• Spring in his Step

  Age need not kill whimsy, says this Czech mate

  November 13, 2003

• Thunderbald

  Bond is reincarnated--sort of--as a shaven-headed punk in XXX

  August 8, 2002

• Severely Stumped

  Mean and hungry, Little Otik's got bark and bite

  March 28, 2002

• Eastern Bloc-heads

  Harrison's Flowers reveals -- duh -- that war is bad

  March 14, 2002

• Czech Marked

  Sadly, in a Dark Blue World even war heroes can be treated like villains

  January 31, 2002

• Native Son

  The children of an American Indian hero fight for his body's return home

  September 6, 2001

• Prague Rock

  Uz Jsme Doma want people to listen to the whole story--in Czech

  December 7, 2000

• The Con's On You

  May 21, 2009

• Critic Under Water

  Just got off the phone with Arnold Jones, food critic and lifestyles editor for the Dallas Voice. As reported today by the Dallas Morning News, Jones' car drowned the other night as he tried to make his way through downed trees to his M streets home."It's kinda funny being the news," Jones says--although not so funny losing a Crossfire with just over 6,000 miles on the odometer.He kindly gave me a ride in that car when I arrived from Prague and needed a lift for some necessary errands (like buyi

  June 12, 2009

• In a City of Gaudy Prime Beef Palaces, Dragonfly Has No Problem Laying Claim to "Best Steaks in Dallas."

  October 15, 2009

• And The Winner Is...

  ​Well, the big weekend is here. That's right, Mizzou vs Oklahoma State.My brother earned his Ph.D from OSU (although I hear they practically give those things away in Stillwater) while I, um, attended doctoral classes at the Sorbonne of the Midwest (where, I believe, Stephen Hawking flunked out before moving on to easier schools)--so it's a bigger rivalry than Texas-OU, as far as I'm concerned.If we had tickets to tomorrow's second-tier game--and if we were giving away prizes--we'd happily ha

  October 16, 2009

• If Memory Serves: Travel Guides

  ​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn warped.I wrote the restaurant section to a travel guide while I lived in Prague--and if I could remember which one I'd advise you to stick it back on the shelf and pick up another.It wasn't for Lonely Planet. I do know that much.This was in 2006. The guides refresh their information every other year or so to keep them up to date. Of course, within a month after I filed the section with a London-based e

  November 3, 2009