The Roman Catholic Church

An Ungodly Silence

"This Is What God Told Me to Do to You"

Jesus and Mary: Stay Outta Farmers Branch

Damn Right That's What America's About, Sister

"Can You Pray the Gay Away?"

Extra Crunchy

Viva la Vistas

We had lost faith in local film festivals--until this one

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

Naughty, naughty

Theatre Three exposes a bit of Durang in Disgraceful Acts

Events for the week

Theatre Three exposes a bit of Durang in Disgraceful Acts

Pixel Pleasures

The tenth annual Dallas Video Festival shows why video is eclipsing film as the mass art medium

Passionless play

The heart of Abelard and Heloise skips a few beats

Deck the malls

This season's Christmas album offerings

Say cheesy

The Cheesecake Factory aims to please everybody. Blah.

Banned Books

SMU presents an exhibit to die for

Doubt

Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism

Why is Tony Montana such a li'l friend to Mexicans?

Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism

Goin' to the Chapel

Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism

Picture Pages

Art and religion collide at the Kimbell

Hogwarts, North Texas Division

Do you believe in magic? Then we have a school for you, Harry.

Hey, Joe

Josephine's Restaurant has appeal and gobs of potential

God in the Details

For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.

Book Of Common Themes

For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.

Art Grows Up

Nechita paints with the kids

The End Is Near

Famine, pestilence, war, death--at Dallas Theological Seminary, the Apocalypse is the horse to bet on

Do You See What I See?

An image of the Blessed Virgin on an Oak Cliff tree trunk proves one thing: Belief is in the eye of the beholder

Fearless in Mesquite

Skip the suburban chains and head to Kamikaze Japanese Cuisine

Is the Pope Catholic?

Mel Gibson's dad doesn't think so

Habitat for Inhumanity

The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters are insane

Viva Vistas

Dallas' Latino film festival keeps raising the bar

The Spirits Move Them

Followers of Cao Dai, a Vietnamese sect with frail tendrils in Dallas, say their time has come to spread the word. Just ask Victor Hugo.

Tortured Souls

Horribly abused children of the Hare Krishna movement seek justice--and peace--through a multimillion-dollar lawsuit

Living La Vida SIDA

After his younger brother died of AIDS, Joseluis Partida dedicated his life to warning people about the disease. But the politics of being gay and Hispanic made it tougher than he ever imagined.

Cora! Cora! Cora!

Artistic director Cora Cardona's style--passionate, arrogant, riveting, domineering--makes Teatro Dallas special and her enemies livid

The Power and No Story

The DMA's Mexican masters exhibit schleps around the world in service to...Aetna?

Epistle to the Jews

Southern Baptist missionary Jim Sibley's job is to call Jews to Jesus. Is anyone listening?

Edifice complex

Michael Piazza wants his proposed $20 million cathedral to send a message to the world -- gays can go to heaven too

A Real Gem

Michael Piazza wants his proposed $20 million cathedral to send a message to the world -- gays can go to heaven too

Last Night, Mother Teresa's Shoes and Rosary Returned to St. James Church in Oak Cliff

Photos by Patrick MichelsMother Teresa's crosses were on display Tuesday night.Twenty years after Mother Teresa visited Dallas to found a local order of her Missionaries of Charity, a choice selection of her personal effects returned to Oak Cliff's St. James Catholic Church last night, drawing a fa ... More >>

Pope's Chicken, a Not-Quite Immaculate Conception.

Photos by Patrick MichelsMother Teresa's crosses were on display Tuesday night.Twenty years after Mother Teresa visited Dallas to found a local order of her Missionaries of Charity, a choice selection of her personal effects returned to Oak Cliff's St. James Catholic Church last night, drawing a fa ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitute Myth: 100,000 Hookers Won't Be Showing Up in Dallas

Photos by Patrick MichelsMother Teresa's crosses were on display Tuesday night.Twenty years after Mother Teresa visited Dallas to found a local order of her Missionaries of Charity, a choice selection of her personal effects returned to Oak Cliff's St. James Catholic Church last night, drawing a fa ... More >>

What 19-century Texans Ate for Independence Day

Celebrate Texas Independence Day by eating a native dish -- like tacos, say, or enchiladas.​The first observances of Texas Independence Day were relatively sedate affairs: The semi-centennial in 1886 was marked by readings of the Declaration and a sprucing-up of Sam Houston's grave. In Brenham ... More >>

Dear St. Louis: Your Pizza Cheese is Bullshit. Just Admit it and Move On.

Dear people of St. Louis, You're about to either head to Dallas, or watch Dallas on your TV as our baseball players beat the ever living baseballs out of your baseball players. I'm not talking about the Most Elligible Dallas Dallas ("Carbs and cheese are poison! Where is my trainer!?"), bu ... More >>

Dough Pizzeria Napoletana: VPNot

Preston Hollow's newest Pizzeria makes decent pizza, but it's not as authentic as the menu claims

Screen Door Chef David McMillan on Italy, the Navy, Plus Lessons Learned in LA

Screen Door Chef David McMillan​In part one of our interview with Chef David McMillan of the Screen Door, we learned about his childhood in Berkeley, California and early his penchant for Chinese food. In part two we discussed the Dallas food scene. Today we hear some good Navy stories. Afte ... More >>

Open Stage Showcases the Power of Positive Thinking

Richardson venue welcomes all, from bards to belly dancers.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Tom Cruise's mission: live another day as a bankable star.

B.B. King at Billy Bob's Texas, The Boom Boom Box at La Grange, and More Show Announcements

A young B.B. King​It's a far cry from B.B. King's legendary 1968 performance at Fillmore West in San Fransisco, where the story has it that he was booed by black audience members. But, as he's done many times since, King is returning to perform at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on Saturday, Febru ... More >>

The Vatican Press on Metallica, LeAnn Rimes

​Fort Worth's The Vatican Press has been kicking around for the past few years, sprung from a lineage of classic post-hardcore and emo. Frontman Eddie Hennessy even grew up with the guys in Jimmy Eat World, and recently reunited with his old band Haskel to open for them. The band is preparing ... More >>