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Curious About Ten Bell's Ramen Nights? Hurry Or You'll Miss Out.

Occasionally there is ramen served in Oak Cliff. It's ladled into disposable bowls in an English pub after the other neighborhood restaurants have locked their doors. Ten Bells Tavern has a reputation for well-executed riffs on bar food classics with an Anglophile slant. Ramen doesn't quite fit into ... More >>

20 Feet's Midas Touch

A new East Dallas seafood joint uses beer batter like a fabled king.

Photos and Observations From The Drunkest Place on Earth: St. Patrick's Day in Dallas

This was my first time braving Greenville for St. Patrick's. I was expecting it to be bad. What I was not expecting was the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah. As I, the only sober person on the entirety of Greenville, struggled through a crowd roughly comparable to the population of Ireland itself (an ... More >>

Picnictyme and DJ Sober are Booty Fade: Get Familiar with the Premier of "Styrofoam Cup"

If you've found yourself at Beauty Bar on a Thursday night anytime within the last few months, you are already well aware that there is no one in the city of Dallas who can turn a party up like DJ Sober and Picnictyme can. Though Will Rhoten (aka DJ Sober) has been holding down his weekly party, Big ... More >>

Playing Fugazi's Repeater For My Kids: "I Like When They Shout Things"

See also: Why every album you love should be ripped apart by a 19-year-old I've tried to walk the line between imposing my tastes in music on my kids and letting them discover music they enjoy on their own. My tastes are all over the map, so they've gotten a little of everything. My 14-year-old da ... More >>

Sadness, Loss as Bonham Elementary School Prepares for Consolidation

Today is the last Friday of the school year for Dallas ISD schools. For 11 schools in the city slated for consolidation after a school board vote, like the 89-year-old James B. Bonham Elementary, this Friday holds even more significance. Next week, after the students leave, the teachers will pack al ... More >>

Rice Bowl's Menu Writes Checks Its Food Can't Cash

Rice Bowl Express, 11419 Garland Road, is fast and cheap. How could Cheap Bastard not love it? By eating there, unfortunately. Times I was like, "Is that a hooker? Yes. Is that also a hooker? Yes.": 12 Trucks in the Fiesta Mart parking lot next door count: 21 I've driven past Rice Bowl Express a ... More >>

Woman Drives Car Into Italian Restaurant, Probably Wanted Sandwich

A woman drove her car into Jimmy's Food Store Wednesday afternoon, crushing two tables, smashing a few bar chairs and tearing a hole into the side of the the Italian deli. While nobody was hurt, customers were enjoying a meal at an adjacent table in the same dining area. I stopped over to snap a pi ... More >>

A Dead Chicken Can Still Cluck

Photos by Anthony MarksKilled, stripped and ready to be eviscerated: That's the price chickens pay to give us tasty nuggets.​First things first: This story does not end with me killing and dismembering a chicken, although that was my goal when I signed up for a poultry-processing workshop. Unf ... More >>

Point/Counterpoint: Is Lil Wayne's Newfound Sobriety a Good or Bad Thing?

Weezy F. Baby​Little Wayne emerged from Rikers Island late last year. Now, owing to the terms of his probation, he must lay off drugs and liquor for three years or return to prison. And, by all accounts, he's kept kosher. And yet something doesn't quite sit right. For the man who once composed a l ... More >>

Begging and Choosing: Which Market's
Free Samples Give You the Best Meal?

Brooke NottinghamWe managed to snap a couple of pictures of freebies before the Central Market Stasi busted us.​During a dinner shift a few weeks ago, I returned with a guest's drink and asked if he'd like to start with a cup of soup or an appetizer. He stared at me. Then he said, "Do those c ... More >>

Kitchen Dog's Tina Parker puts the shine on Charm; gods are not great at Theatre Too's Tales From Mount Olympus.

Jim Schutze Joins The Urban Explorers Who, Amid The Poisonous Snakes, Bacteria And Quicksand Of The Trinity River, Seek To Reconnect The City To Its Natural Beauty.

DCT's Most Valuable Player Swings For The Fences; T3 Tunes UP [title of show]; One Thirty Productions Presents Its Favorite Austin Playwright

Just Because Dunkin' Donuts Sells A Boatload of Coffee, Doesn't Mean Roasted Has to Like It

Photos By Daniel Rodrigue​About two weeks back, Roasted was knee-deep in a mostly interesting coffee-biz conversation between an area coffee roaster and the owner of a local coffee shop when the two started talking about the coffee at Dunkin Donuts. And that's when a realization of apparently epi ... More >>

Sure, Fuel City's Tacos are Legendary, But How Does the Truck Stop's Coffee Stack Up?

Photos By Daniel Rodrigue​The truck stop/car wash/taco stand known as Fuel City has earned local and national attention for its tiny, tasty tacos that Texas Monthly named the best tacos in the Lone Star State. Of course, not everyone agrees that the tacos are all that. But, whether you think Fuel ... More >>

Le Me Thinks It Can Do It All But Can't

​With Texas continuing its onslaught of dysfunctional weather (today excluded), I interpreted last weekend's abrupt cold weather as a sign for me to finally go and review Pho Bang, the popular pho restaurant in Garland. Along for the food ride was my friend Kelly, a Vietnamese cuisine neophyte. On ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Sushi World

​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Sushi World1001 Ross214-999-6050Promised Delivery Time: "between 15 and 20 minutes" Actual Delivery Time: 20 minutes Scoring summary: Easy online ordering: 0 Estimated d ... More >>

Kunkle's Retirement Press Conference Was More Like a Melancholy Family Farewell

Photos by Patrick MichelsChief David Kunkle at his retirement press conference today; standing next to him, wife Sarah Dodd​When a big-city police chief announces a sudden early retirement, you expect a lot questions -- most of which begin with "Why ...". Apparently, they were all answered las ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Pizza Xpress

​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Pizza Xpress3355 Trinity Mills972-307-6600Promised delivery time: 35 minutesActual delivery time: 29 minutesScoring Summary:Handily beating promised time, though by not en ... More >>

A Taste of 10 Dallas Milkshakes

Europeans have fresh, seasonal foods, universal health care and about 30 weeks of vacation each year. But we have milkshakes.OK--so they serve a literal version: milk shaken with some flavoring. Ours involve ice cream, crammed into a glass and churned with a little milk (or, better yet, cream) into ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: "Snapshots From The Spectacle of Sickness"

The original Nervebreakers lineup.Defining moment: For a suburban teenage kid from North Dallas in 1977, a delirious new underground movement called punk rock inspired a profound and urgent departure from the regular routine of cruising Forest Lane or hanging out at the Gemini Drive-In movie theate ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Loco Gringos Vivir Para Siempre en Nuestros Corazones

For more photos, album art and show posters, check out our slideshow here.Dallas bands are usually judged within the context of their efforts and accomplishments. Some spend stupid money on hair care products and aspire to a label deal; other bands actually rehearse and wanna make an important art ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Chef Chu

Chef Chu 3355 Trinity Mills 972-307-7788   Promised delivery time: 40 minutes Delivered in: almost precisely 40 minutes   The Score Promptness: 50 Degree of difficulty: 3 Phone psych-out attempt: -25 (for attempt), 25 (because it worked) Nods to Charlie Chan era stereotypin ... More >>

Tré Wilcox: Under -- and Over -- Fire

The Ghost and Miss Chicken

Are the spooks in the house or bats in the belfry?

Lord Have Mercy

Jesus Camp pitches its tent in the other America

Déjà Boo

Another Rangers season ends in a familiar Hunt for Dead October

Little Steps

Chez Wal-Mart

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

Host of a Green Party

Foul Play

Take a shot during this three-on-three tournament

Geek Out

R.I.P. Robot Monster Weekend, 2001-2003

Supermarket Smackdown

Is Central Market worth it?

Sour Hereafter

Life after death looks like hell in two surreal new comedies at Undermain and Kitchen Dog Theater

High Spoons

Bare breasts, a bowl of red, and bad blood among the chili brethren in the Big Bend. Texas doesn't get any better.

Animal-free Farm

Ducks and chicks and geese better scurry from Samuell Farm

Miss (Latin) America

Beautiful Señoritas fires a comic broadside at stereotypes

Funny Valentina

The food's OK, but the service leaves a bad taste in your mouth at La Valentina

Talk of the town

The two couples in Seascape must take a giant step for mankind

Out Here

Builder

The Handsome Family

Cow chips and dip

If you can get past the Texas kitsch, the grub at Texana Grill makes for some good eatin'

Dining in the rough

If Wilderness Grill's dismal food is the best nature has to offer, then thank God for civilization

Round midnight

Sure, Mighty Peking Man stinks, but that's half the fun

Hash Over

It's a fiasco

It's a Veritable Feast! fumbles into famine

Attacking Macs with chopsticks

Yoshi's brings Japanese sensibilities to an American dining habit

From Bauhaus to God's House

What happens when cutting-edge architecture collides with surburban sensibilities? Mark Alden Branch tells the unholy tale of Plano's Prince of Peace Catholic Church

Hall of Fame hunt

Nolan Ryan takes aim--at birds instead of batters