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John Wiley Price Defends Sale of KKDA, Compares Himself to Noah

On New Years Day, listeners tuning their radio dial to 730 AM were treated not to the typical mix of old-school R&B and soul but a stream of unintelligible foreign syllables. Visiting the website informed them that KKDA, which had served southern Dallas for 42 years had, abruptly and unceremoniously ... More >>

The New Korean Fusion

Bulgogi meets tacos, and nachos, and hot dogs, and more.

First Round of SXSW 2013 Acts Announced, Including Blackstone Rangers and The Relatives

With the announcement of 35 Denton's initial lineup, it was only a matter of time before you felt that tightening in your chest, aka the first round of SXSW acts. North Texas' Blackstone Rangers, Ronnie Fauss, the Relatives, Somebody's Darling, Sarah Jaffe and Tedashii are all represented. Thurston ... More >>

Cloud Atlas: Your Past Lives Probably Didn't Love It, Either

Cheap Bastards, Chili Dogs and Chorizo Tacos: This Week In Dallas Dining

In need of weekend plans? We've got the best food events to keep you sated over here, but before you head out of the office, we've got a week to wrap up. This week I reviewed Start, a new fast food concept on Greenville Avenue. If you're looking for a quick meal that doesn't leave you hampered with ... More >>

It May Be 3 a.m. in China, But Mayor Mike Wants to Remind You: Turn Off Your Damn Sprinkler

As I type this, Mayor Mike Rawlings is in a room at Shanghai's Purple Palace Hotel, 7,000 miles away and 13 hours ahead of us. That makes it about 1 a.m. over there, so you might expect him to be sleeping, resting up for another big day at the U.S.-China Mayors Conference, or, if Mayor Mike rolls th ... More >>

Is Dallas Smarter Than a Third Worlder?

In my ongoing series on cities smarter than Dallas, please allow me to add Seoul, South Korea, another place we need to send a team to right away. Yesterday the Dallas City Council heard an awe-inspiring presentation by Guillermo Penalosa, a leading-edge planner whose work has helped transform citi ... More >>

Bi-Biennials, Each Non-Repeating and Fleeting

Victor Tango's Chef Greg Bussey on Evolving in the Kitchen and the Best Korean Food In Town

Victor Tango chef Greg Bussey is a chef's chef. By that, I mean so many other cooks in Dallas mention Bussey's tables as one of their favorites to dine at. After meeting the soft-spoken, quick-to-smile chef, it's easy to understand why. After attending the California Culinary Academy, Bussey spent ... More >>

Tto Tto Wa Bistro and the Arrival of Korean Fried Chicken

While researching Tto Tto Wa Bistro, the subject of this week's review, I read everything I could on an Asian delicacy that's become a personal obsession: Korean fried chicken. The earliest reference I could find to the stuff served in the States was in John T. Edge's book Fried Chicken, published ... More >>

Before We Get (Another) Plan for Downtown's Parks, the Bridge Club Should Get a Clue

Tale of two cities on today's front pages: Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic at The New York Times, presents a big-canvas panoramic of Rio Park in Madrid, Spain, where they entombed a highway to bring a river back to life. Linking Madrid's vast and wonderful new park to trends in Europe and Am ... More >>

What Good is Rohst Without Fire?

If Greenville Avenue's latest wants to conjure Korea, it needs to turn up the heat.

Roasting Rhost: The Subject Of This Week's Review

​This week I take a look at Rhost, the newest only Korean outpost on Lower Greenville Avenue. I loved the restaurants layout, but the menu was a hard sell. Dishes that boasted tasty flavor components lacked something in execution. Dishes that were cooked well, boasted quirky flavor components. ... More >>

LA Burger: Korean, Mexican and American Food Make Grand Alliance in Irving

​After months of drooling over the hedonistically obscene images of burgers, tacos and other meat and carb pornography my friends had been sending me, I finally had the chance to check out the source of their obsession: LA Burger.Along with a whimsical selection of traditionally western burgers, ... More >>

Venturing Out for a Bibimbap Bender
In Koreatown

Kristy YangTree House's bibimbap, a perfect blend of textures and flavors​I found myself on a bibimbap bender last week after my friend Sam had recommended two of his favorite restaurants in Koreatown. In the spirit of holiday overindulgence, I felt justified in visiting both places in the sam ... More >>

Lost Immigrants

Pasaporte (Lo-Fi Tofu)

Omi Korean Grill and Bar Gets Props for Location and Atmosphere but its Food Fumbles

​I found myself on an eating mission last week with Cathy, my ever present best friend in gluttony. After some random driving around, we found ourselves at the Super H Mart shopping center in Carrollton. It was destined to be, as we have had a long overdue date with Omi Korean Grill and Bar. Hav ... More >>

Pen Name

A Legend In Lines

Spring Awakening Puts Teen Angst to a Driving Rock Beat and Lets It Go Buck Wild.

Who Is He And Why?

Catch the Seoul Train to Fine Food in Korea Town

Little things mean a lot: Seoul Garden's small plates -- banchan -- are perfect for a big appetite.​ It took me a while to warm up to Korean food, to the chagrin of my many Korean friends. For inexplicable reasons, Korean food seemed to me to be the most foreign and odd of Asian cuisine. I sus ... More >>

Before You Can Re-Install Walking to the Sky, You Must First De-Install Nasher's Sculpture

Patrick MichelsThis morning, crews were removing the most famous sculpture at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Don't worry, kids: It returns in a year or so.​On his way into the office this morning, downtown dweller Patrick Michels stopped by the Nasher Sculpture Center, where he espied crews with cra ... More >>

Pho From Home: From Saigon Kitchen to the Super H Mart and Back

Photos by Kristy YangSoup at Saigon Kitchen​Is it safe to come out? Someone's writing sure did bring about a lot of ire last week, but I've always felt food, like puppies and babies, is a unifier not a divider. So let's get started again. Like many food finding expeditions I've had in the past w ... More >>

Catching Up With Mayor Leppert in Asia If Only Because We Miss Him When He's Gone

All photos courtesy of the Office of the MayorLeppert and the trade delegation make a stop during their trip to Daedeok Innopolis (Hmm ... seems familiar)From the looks of the photos sent along by Mayor Tom Leppert's chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, it appears as though Leppert and the other 21 memb ... More >>

A (Small, But Spirited) Effort Afoot to Shine a Little Light on Dallas's Buried Creeks

Dallas Public Library/Dallas History and ArchivesAn old map of one Dallas's buried creeks, Peak Creek, which SOS would like to dig up and "daylight."In the high-ceilinged shadows of the old Pump House at White Rock Lake, Bud Melton clicks through PowerPoint slides of apartment complexes, shopping ma ... More >>

Threat Level: Killer Tadpole

Korean box-office monster emerges to Host slime-ball fun fest

No Seoul, Brothers

Lone Star, Two Raids

Deal or No Deal

Have Gun, Will Travel

How far can a video-game champ go? Ask Matt Leto.

Fished Out

Samurai Japanese Cuisine & Sushi Bar is just a little fishy

Come Together

Local bands unite!

Hip Hop

Naan wants to bring "edgy" to Plano

The Story of O-So

The Asian Film Festival offers bullets and blood

Beach Head

At the Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up while the U.S. blows up Iraq

Cool Cucumber

On Harry Hines, sea cucumbers and watermelon help an unlikely revolution at Chef Hsu

Jackson Jive

Michael Jackson vowed to raise millions for 9/11 victims. And he hired a gay-porn producer pal to help.

Looking East

The Asian Film Festival of Dallas offers up some exotic entries

Bean Waiting

This just in: Starbucks' global march reaches the Cliff

Sweet Seoul Music

Chunhyang is a complex, beautiful retelling of a simple Korean folk tale

She's Better Than You

Chicks dig the roundball, but for some reason fans don't care

My secret garden

Seoul Garden blooms

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