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Celebrate National Pie Day at Emporium Pies This Wednesday

Good news, those of you whose New Year's resolutions have expired, this Wednesday is National Pie Day! Not to be confused with Pi Day, which is on March 14, or 3.14 for you nerds out there, Pie Day is the day in which we celebrate the miracle of pie. Pie was first invented by Sir Alexandris Pie, o ... More >>

The Best Films of 2012

The end of cinema? Hardly. Taking a look at the top movies.

Nazca Kitchen Opens This Friday Serving South American Comfort Food

From Craig Collins, the majority owner of Red Hot & Blue, comes Nazca, a South American concept opening this Friday. Located in the same plaza as Crossroads Diner at the intersection of Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane the new restaurant offers South American comfort food -- kinda. There's c ... More >>

Six of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Residents, Fleetwood Mac and More

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Sharon Van Etten Thursday, March 14, at McFarlin Auditorium Tickets go on sale tomorrow for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' North American tour, although they won't last long. The 12-date tour kicks off right here in Dallas, in support of the band's latest creation, Push the S ... More >>

Opa! Das Bier! Five Things To Do This Week, Which Pretty Much All Involve Beer and Meat

This weekend is the 56th annual Greek Food Festival of Dallas at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church at the southwest corner of Hillcrest and Alpha Road. They're kicking things off Friday with a happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m., along with a chance to win a trip for two to Greece (throw my name in the ... More >>

McDonald's Is Going Vegetarian. Seen Wearing Skinny Jeans.

McDonald's purists (yes, they are a people), you may want to sit down. The fast food giant is set to open not one, but two of their first entirely vegetarian concepts in India next year. The first location will be in the holy city of Amritsar, near the Golden Temple. The vegetarian menu is a somewha ... More >>

If You Fight With a Cop, Why Shouldn't the Cop Shoot You?

In Anna Merlan's coverage of the disturbance last night at Dixon and Bourquin streets about a mile and a half southeast of Fair Park, one particular scenario leapt out. People in the crowd defended the man who was shot to death by police after a running fight with the officer who shot him. Their def ... More >>

Comedy Slam Dunk

Council Field-Trips to SMU For a Lecture on Ethics From Someone in Federal Gov't. Oh, Boy.

Photos by Anna MerlanIt would appear the council got a standing o for appearing, briefly, at a lecture about ethics.​Ethics reforms, or at least the earnest discussion thereof, are in the air over at City Hall lately. Mayor Rawlings won his seat, after all, at least partially based on a "pro-e ... More >>

More Tarnish for the "Texas Miracle"

New report finds the Lone Star swimming in deep debt.

See Addison, See the World

Arresting Comedy

Whitt's End: 6.17.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Jason Terry's voice is still hoarse from all the partying and cigars, but yet we're already peeking at 2012. Problem: The Mavs aren't a team built for the future, but rather the here-'n-now ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Great Escape

Jamie Oliver at Athens​From the moment my inner ear first caught a bit of Jamie Oliver's East End, London, accent, with its gargled consonants and street urchin patois (he's the Artful Dodger with a frying pan) I was hooked. I've always considered Oliver to be a cut above most of the air-bru ... More >>

From Party Girl to Oscar Winner, Sofia Coppola's Journey to Somewhere.

Greece On A String

Tonight, Tonight: GWAR at House of Blues, Of Montreal at the Granada Theater, Lifehouse at the Palladium Ballroom, Jacob Metcalf at City Tavern

Another Tuesday rolls around and it's another intriguing collection of musical options. A great night to drown those baseball sorrows.

Taking Shelter From the Storm, Dallas Republicans Are Fired Up in the Palomar

​With a monster show of force, and a little help from the weather, Dallas County Republicans have made their presence known tonight, bringing Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane to an absolute standstill pulling their Large Vehicles into the Hotel Palomar for their election night cash-bar bacc ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Interpol at the Palladium, Widespread Panic at Verizon, Don Williams at the Majestic and Bones Thugs-N-Harmony at the House of Blues

What a packed Wednesday evening. And that's not even counting Your Texas Rangers playing in their first ever World Series game. Crazy, right?

Tonight, Tonight: Deftones at Palladium Ballroom, White Denim at The Loft and Casey Thompson at Adair's

It's a great day for Rangers fans and a crappy one for Cowboys fans. Fortunately, there are at least a couple musical offerings this evening that seem bound to either continue your euphoria or ease you out of the doldrums...

Platia Greek Kouzina: Fine Greek Food and Infectious Spirit Might Carry You Away

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To See Dead Confederate, Ume and Futurebirds Play The Loft on Sunday Night

In this week's paper, Darryl Smyers talks Athens' Dead Confederate, explaining why Sunday night's show at The Loft is a must-see in his book:Known for their hybrid mix of alt-country and post-grunge, Athens' Dead Confederate created quite a critical buzz with the release of Wrecking Ball, the band ... More >>

Dead Confederate, Ume, Futurebirds

Sunday, August 29, at The Loft

No Peace, No Nookie

Any Extra-Virgins In The House?

Filling up with the good stuff.​Flavors From Afar 6712 Snider Plaza 214-696-2327 Try: Conte Pucci Della Genga extra virgin olive oil (now 50 percent off) Don't try: leaving without taste-testing something We were out of extra virgin olive oil. (No, I don't mean E.V.O.O. I will never abbrevia ... More >>

Good Friday: The Hood Internet, The Gourds, Air Review, Dead Meadow, The Eagles, Chicago, Femme Fest, The Orbans, Sir Silky, Early Republic, and others...

Clayton HauckThe Hood Internet​The Hood Internet is playing The Loft tonight, and as Pete explained earlier in the week, "White people really like hearing their favorite rap lines placed over their favorite indie rock anthems," which is what The Hood Internet does really well. And since the theme ... More >>

Cedars Mediterranean Mezza: Lots of Choices, but Mostly Mediocre

Cannes Wrap-up: The Cannes crew picked a true winner, but the best of the fest wasn't even allowed to compete

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax Coming to Dallas on June 22. Sort Of.

On June 22nd, a concert billed as The Big Four and featuring a quartet of legendary metal acts can be seen in Dallas. Not at any concert venue, mind you, but at several area movie theaters.The actual concert featuring Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax will take place in, of all places, Bulgari ... More >>

Purple Ovation

Digital Energy

The Halls Are Alive

Long May You Run

Athletes tackle the White Rock Marathon

In Living Color

See The Color Purple at Fair Park

Ticket to Paradise

Graphic Stuff

Illustrating a traumatic childhood

Naked Dinner

No muss, no fuss, great taste at Olea

Grecian Yearn

The truth is, Kavala is mostly a beauty

Backtrackin'

A few things you may have missed the first time

Headbangin' Christ Child

Christmas goes metal with the TSO

King Queenie

Hatshepsut was a cross-dressin' royal

Kal

Kal (Asphalt Tengo)

Yard of Dreams

Nicotine Fit

Smoking-ban study shows loss for the city

The Other White Meat

New restaurant is a prime place for pricey steaks

War Torn

Dallas' ethnic Albanians grapple with twin dreams of American assimilation and an expanded homeland in the Balkans

Don't Forget to Decompose Your Auk

Dallas immigrants don't have to go home for holiday fare

Romeo's head

A would-be Indiana Jones reopens the debate over who got to America first

Buzz