South Korea

Ji Kang of Samar on What He Learned After Restaurant Ownership and Eating Live Octopus

The first thing you probably should know about chef Ji Kang is that once he ate squiggling octopus tentacles in Korea. That's hard-core dedication to local cuisine, even though he swears he'll never try it again. Kang, who is the executive chef at Samar, began his culinary career before he even kn ... More >>

Godzilla and Flowers: The Films of Kim Jong Il

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 >>

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

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 >>

Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate — where's the military when the chips are down?

How a Battle Over a Korean-Owned Kwik Stop Divided, Then United, South Dallas

Led by a little-known minister, protesters rallied to run a Korean store owner out of business. Then they learned a little more about that minister.

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 >>

Growing Our Way Into the Third World

​Rick Perry keeps telling me that I shouldn't worry about dumping all the kids out of school or putting Grandma out of the nursing home. Texas has the nation's fastest-growing economy, he says, so don't sweat it. What does that mean -- fastest-growing economy? I took a look around yesterday ... More >>

You Can Take the U.S. Trade Representative Out of Dallas, But You Can't ... Well, You Know

​Late yesterday, as the boy grew fidgety from yet another day stuck at home, we flipped on the teevee hoping to find something interesting, educational. Which meant: No Disney Channel, no nonsense. A few flips later, and there we were on C-SPAN2, listening to former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk address t ... More >>

Southern Maid To Take a Dunk in Oak Cliff

​A familiar name in doughnuts is returning to Oak Cliff after a four-decade absence. A new Southern Maid is set to open next week at the corner of Davis and Polk streets, Rob Shearer reported on the Go Oak Cliff blog this afternoon. Les Franklin, Southern Maid's vice-president of development ... More >>

If You're Headed Downtown and Love the World Cup and Wanna Hang Out with the Mayor ...

Patrick Michels​... you might wanna swing by Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Tom and the Dallas World Cup Bid Committee and Hunt Sports Group chairman Clark Hunt and a few FC Dallas players (including goalkeeper Kevin Hartman, defender Ugo Ihemelu and forward Ruben Luna) and former Colombian Nationa ... More >>

What in the First World is Wrong with Mexico?

Mayor Tom Leppert and Friends Lobby for Dallas Convention Center As World Cup HQ

Photos by Patrick MichelsFIFA delegates wrap up their tour of the Dallas Convention Center this morning, before hopping a bus to see Cowboys Stadium.​ Along with Mayor Tom Leppert and our good friends at Telemundo, we got up early this morning and rode over to the Dallas Convention Center, where ... More >>

Pizza Hut Proves: If You Want the Customer's Trust, Better Get Your Dancing Shoes On

The P'Zone is reason enough to be seriously suspicious of Pizza Hut's motives, but the results from survey in The Economic Times of India carried a reminder that the brand we Americans all know as The Hut is the most trusted name in the Indian dining world -- and has been for six years running. Whi ... More >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

Big Fan: AFI Dallas Announces Its Complete Line-Up, Minus the Closing-Night Movie(s?)

Patton Oswalt is the Big Fan, scheduled to play the AFI Dallas International Film Fest this yearMoments ago, the AFI Dallas International Film Festival sent along its complete schedule for this year's fest, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as we've noted before, most screenings taking pl ... More >>

The Heartstring Stranglers Graduate

Blade Runner

Larry Neal has invented a flying motorcycle, and he wants you to try it

From Auction Block to Chopping Block?

The Man and the Myth

How Now Mad Cow?

For Texas cattle ranchers, "What's for dinner?" is a touchy question

Fished Out

Samurai Japanese Cuisine & Sushi Bar is just a little fishy

Return of the Black Widow

Death and rumors have followed Sandra Bridewell for decades. But no one could predict the strange turn her life has taken today.

Hip Hop

Naan wants to bring "edgy" to Plano

Cool Cucumber

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

The Apostle

The preacher who launched this century's longest-running revival, transplanted Texan Stephen Hill, spreads the word: Sinners wanted here

No man's land

When you're out of options, look no further than the USBL

It don't mean a thing

Swingster and Fort Worth homeboy Red Young comes back home

Yemengate

In a tiny Middle Eastern country, government officials have accused Dallas oilman Ray Hunt's company of cheating them out of millions.