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Top 10 Most Annoying Diet Fads

In a rare unguarded moment, Jared Fogle appears without a pair of pants in his hand.​Grapefruit can change your life. Cabbage soup, too. Balancing the right carbs with the right fats extends one's youth. Smoking shaves off the pounds. Eating only vegetables is ethically right...While Americans did ... More >>

First Look: Texas De Brazil Express

​We love the idea of Texas de Brazil Express: take a trusted name in meat-coma dining and parlay it into a quick meal concept. Round out said concept with a simple assisted assembly-line format and plop it in a busy shopping center (with ample parking) and you've got yourself a winner. At first ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Flock of Seagulls, When in Rome, Gene Loves Jezebel and Dramarama at the House of Blues

Flock of Seagulls, When in Rome, Gene Loves Jezebel, Dramarama The House of BluesMay 22, 2009(Just Barely) Better Than: Starring in my own reality show called Dancing with the MILFs.Advertised as "Lost '80s Live," the quadruple bill sponsored by a local radio station attracted a decent-sized crowd t ... More >>

Good Friday: The Memorial Day Weekend Edition

Hey guys, it's a long weekend! Who knew!  Fortunately, we've already talked about most of the top shows coming happening around the region either on the blog or in print. Still, there's some others we think you should know about--and, certainly, that you should check out, should you get the ch ... More >>

Angels & Demon Speeds Down the Track Laid by The Da Vinci Code

Roy Bennett (The Band) Has a New Video--With a Hot Chick and Everything!

The local rock trio known as Roy Bennett has just released a new video for its song "Alone," and, hey, they actually got a semi-famous actress to star in it!Lead singer Ben Templeton met Farah White, who, among her credits, was one of the beauty pageant contestants in Miss Congeniality, while he was ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Carter Albrecht Was Ready For His Close Up

Hal Samples Carter Albrecht I was not ready to do this. For a couple of weeks, I've tried to mentally prepare myself to write a proper story about Carter Albrecht's Jesus is Alive... and Living in London, the recently-released solo album that he was in the process of finishing at the time ... More >>

10 Questions: Lidia Bastianich

She arrived in New York at the age of 12 in 1958. Half a century later, she's a cooking icon with five cookbooks, four television series and six restaurants to her name.Bastianich's most recent PBS cooking show, Lidia's Italy, is such a hit in Dallas that she's frequently asked to help with loca ... More >>

10 Questions: Judd Fruia

Fruia thinks big--and no wonder.His tenure includes Pappas Bros. Steakhouse (big steaks, big wines and, once, the world's biggest cigar) and a stint with Consilient Restaurants (big buzz), while his newly opened Tre Amici fills the old Rick Stein's spot...making it perhaps the largest restaurant ope ... More >>

How to Know When it's Time to Give Up the Band

Open Skies, Open Market

Sidney Lumet's Long Journey

Venerable director returns with a devilish thriller

Greetings from Toronto...

Where old masters, drunk teenagers and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

Seasons in the Sun

Off the Mark|Big D, Little D

O, Lord, Trouble So Hard

Stickin' It to the Pope?

Back, Not Forth

Bush Library, Meet Sports Think Tank

Get Real

The competition for true love is stiff, especially during prime time

Up to Snuff

Mel Gibson drenches Mayan civilization in trademarked gore

Cracked Code

Da Vinci's leap to the screen leaves no room for surprise

They Bang

Chicago sex-rockers wage war against Italian hairspray gods

Chosen Son

Meet John Dominic Crossan and the real Jesus

Flower Power

Bill Murray is an aging Don Juan revisiting former loves in Broken Flowers

Wild Life and Industrial Chic

Vibrant gallery life flourishes in the Design District

Top Cats

This musical has nine lives

Manhattanism

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

Best Hip Men's Clothing Store

Premium 93

High on the Hilltop

SMU's Meadows becomes an honest-to-God art museum

Habitat for Inhumanity

The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters are insane

Letters

Rhaving Mad in Rhome Bad Apples Never Forget

Get Wise

County north of Fort Worth must be eliminated

To: Broadway

Elledanceworks doesn't dance around reality

Vittorio Victorious

In this Beijing, a Bicycle is never just a bicycle

Circle of Jerks

Kitchen Dog Theater puts nine actors in the pit for Coriolanus

Les Savy Fav, The Dismemberment Plan

November 30, December 1

Lift To Experience

The Texas-Jerusalem Experience (Bella Union)

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Searching for Gold

Like other past Olympic stars, local gold medal winners often have trouble keeping track of them

Letters

The turkey leg goes to...; Funny lady; Hanging on a KLIF; More epistles to the Jews; Dry summer days

Chicken Caesar

Gladiator doesn't lack heroism or spectacle, but its drama is tainted by cowardice

Out Here

ASKA

IMAX; you, Mickey

Walt Disney's toon-not-for-tots, Fantasia returns

Nerves

God save the king

Events for the week

Lost souls

11th Street's hillbilly soap opera Heathen Valley is beyond redemption

Unkindest cuts

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