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Dallas ISD Magnets Are Once Again Among the Washington Post's List of Top Public Schools

It's tradition by now. Every year, Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews crunches the numbers and comes up with a list of the country's top public schools, and every year Dallas ISD's cohabitating School of Science and Engineering and TAG Magnet are near the top. This year is no different. Mathews ... More >>

Best Recipes for Spending the Super Bowl with Food Nerds

If you need evidence that food nerds don't know sports, take a look at the intro to this video for short rib nachos. Painful, right? But ask yourself: What would a Sunday game be without a good tailgate? Who turns on a big game at home and doesn't at least offer some Buffalo chicken dip? While some ... More >>

Baking for Good Is Baking Up "Instagrahams" for the Holidays

I'm sure you other Instagram users noted it too. Last Thursday the popular social media site, based on filtered photography, was absolutely inundated with pictures of turkeys, table settings, pies, fall leaves and anything else that was even remotely related to the Thanksgiving holiday. A bakery ba ... More >>

For We The People, It All Comes Down to Welsh Cakes or a Honey Brown Ale Home Brew

Last week Ann Romney shared a batch of her homemade Welsh cakes that she baked in a brief moment of reprieve in her kitchen in Belmont, Massachusetts. Phillip Rucker of The Washington Post was aboard the plane when the cakes were dispatched and was one of the lucky few who got to sample what a Repub ... More >>

How Will Texas' Cattle Crisis and Rising Beef Prices Test Dallas' Love for Steak?

This January, the Houston Press ran a prophetic story about last summer's drought and its coming effects on beef prices. Katherine Shilcutt's story, like our own Brantley Hargrove's story did a few months before, described Texas ranchers who sold off their cattle when the costs associated with raisi ... More >>

Great Service Can Mask Flawed Food, But It Doesn't Work the Other Way

A few weeks ago I tuned into an NPR broadcast out of DC. The Kojo Nnamdi show featured local journalists, and they discussed the state of dining in the nation's capital. Tom Sietsema, food critic for the Washington Post, made reference to a survey that determined diners were more inclined to return ... More >>

So, New EPA Regs Won't Cause Apocalyptic Blackouts in Texas After All?

Luminant's Monticello​Over the course of the last month, both ERCOT and the North American Energy Reliability Corporation have warned of outages as early as next summer, due in large part, they say, to new regs issued by the EPA aimed at reducing the amount of mercury, sulfur dioxide and other ... More >>

The Curse of the iPhone at the Dinner Table

Two men and an iPhone​"Is it just you dining?" "Yes, my waitress, I'm a sorry solo sap. Thank god my iPhone can keep me company." I tweeted that exchange from Princi Italia, the subject of this week's restaurant review, while enjoying one of the nicer lunches I've had in some time. Two days ... More >>

City of Ate is the First Loser in the Association of Food Journalists Awards

Scott was really hoping for first place.​The Association of Food Journalists met in South Carolina over the weekend, presumably engaging in heated debates over critic anonymity and restaurant-review waiting periods and whether a large slab of bacon should be carved into Mount Rushmore. (Of cou ... More >>

Post's Hunting-Camp Story Unfairly Loads Southern Baggage on Perry's Shoulders

​Well, pardon me for making myself important, but I feel like I do bring a certain perspective to the Rick Perry N-word story. For one thing, I just finished a long stretch of reporting on Perry. I have a story coming out his week in the newspaper that's pretty much a deconstruction of his "Te ... More >>

Amy Winehouse, RIP

A Second (But Still Shitty) Life for Bluefin Tuna, the 600-Pound Chicken of the Sea

FlickrBluefin: It's what's for dinner, presuming you have flexible food morals.​Wednesday is Arts and Life and Style Day at the nation's newspapers, which, believe it or not, still contain no small amount of interesting food news. Our Wednesday Feed highlights the best of it. Tim Carman at Th ... More >>

How Many Dallas High Schools Made Washington Post's Best-Of List? Quite a Few.

The Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center, home to some of the best schools in the country, says The Washington Post​How about some good news for the Dallas Independent School District? That would come from today's online edition of The Washington Post, where longtime education columnist Jay Math ... More >>

Despite Vietnamese Food's Soaring Popularity, Native Fish Sauce Hard to Find

​On one of my trips to Vietnam years ago, my mother and I traveled to the seaside town of Danang. During morning jogs on the beach, I'd run through hot spots of a familiar scent lingering in the air. It was the very distinct odor of fish sauce. Until now, I'm still unsure as to the source of t ... More >>

Cold "Oatmeal" is Hot With Trendy Breakfast Eaters

Oatmeal, once derided as dull, is now so trendy that at least one Dallas-based restaurant chain's slapped the name on a dish of uncooked rolled oats, yogurt and fruit. ​The sweet breakfast snack is officially muesli, but - after nearly a decade of name-tweaking --Corner Bakery now sells it as ... More >>

Democrat Governors Association Is Betting Plenty on Bill White to Take Texas

Sam Merten​According to The Washington Post this morning, the Democratic Governors Association has already poured $2 million into Bill White's campaign. Which is just the start: Today the DGA's set to debut an ad in Dallas that attacks Governor Rick Perry on three fronts -- for his 2007 executive ... More >>

News & Notes & Our New Computer Wallpaper

Justin Terveen​A little bit o' this and a little bit o' that while admiring that picture taken yesterday by Best of Dallas-certified Justin Terveen:A Friend of Unfair Park whose name rhymes with "Jason Roberts" forwards along this Washington Post piece in which Oak Cliff's Better Block Project ins ... More >>

For Your Lunchtime Reading Pleasure: ACLU of Texas's Latest Banned Books Report

​The ACLU of Texas just released its annual banned-books report, Free People Read Freely -- compiled with the assistance of former Washington Post reporter Myra MacPherson, mother of the late, great Leah Siegel. As in previous years, the report documents the books banned, restricted or given the ... More >>

News & Notes: More Tax Hike Talk, More DPD Officers Put on Leave, D's Logo And ... Sports!

Some killer filler this early a.m. before the showdown at City Hall:​Speaking of: Ann Margolin has posted to her website "10 Reasons Why a Tax Increase is a Terrible Idea." (And by "terrible," I assume she means terrrrrrible. Anyway.) Margolin, of course, is among the handful of council members jo ... More >>

Yes, Indeed, Kay Bailey's Staying in the Senate After All. How ... Shocking?

State Sen. Florence Shapiro​Word is Kay Bailey Hutchison will announce this morning down in San Antonio that she's staying in the Senate -- so say NBC News and The Washington Post, anyhow. Which would explain Mayor Tom Leppert's acknowledgment yesterday that, sure 'nuff, he's mulling a second term ... More >>

Is June Jones Going Back to Hawaii? And Is Cowboys Stadium Bad for Football's Future?

June Jones​Two brief football notes of interest, the first involving SMU, where there's been little interesting football of note in recent years. The Honolulu Advertiser is reporting today that David Matlin, the Hawaii Bowl's exec director, will be at Gerald J. Ford Stadium this Saturday when the ... More >>

WaPo Asks: Why Do People Hate the Dallas Cowboys? Answer: The Fans. Go Get 'Em.

​The Washington Post's The League blog wonders this morning, "Why are the Cowboys So Hated? How does 'America's Team' remain one of the most loathed franchises in sports?" To which the responses, including essays from Eagles and Giants bloggers, have been varied and nasty. (Something about Cowboys ... More >>

Free Tinsel! Or: Do You Want a Copy of That Book About Christmas in Frisco?

Washington Post writer Hank Stuever begins a three-day sign-and-speak stint in North Texas tomorrow -- a sprint compared to the marathon of spending three years, on and off, living in Frisco in order to document how folks spend Christmas up thataways for his book Tinsel: A Search for America's Chris ... More >>

Lowe Blow: Get Motivated! Co-Founder Says Dubya Was "Inspirational," Not a "Caricature"

​Seems Tamara Lowe, one half of the couple behind Monday's Get Motivated! sell-or-be-sold hoedown at the Fort Worth Convention Center, isn't too keen on the coverage of the event. Her peoples have sent word that Lowe wants to right the media's wrongs: Per the press release freshly landed in the Un ... More >>

The Other North Pole: A Washington Post Writer's Book About Christmas in Frisco

 This is probably a way-too-early heads-up, but I just opened the afternoon mail to find a copy of Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present, due on bookshelves 'round November 12 -- just in time for all your gift-giving needs. And, trust me, those living up in Collin and Denton counties ... More >>

Mr. Moroney Goes to Washington

James Moroney IIIDallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney will be in D.C. tomorrow for a hearing on "The Future of Journalism," scheduled to kick off at 1:30 p.m. C.S.T. in front of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and t ... More >>

Belo Will "Continue to Focus on Expense Reductions and Operational Realignment"

Weeks after completing its latest round of penny-saving layoffs, which were preceded by pay cuts and benefits trims, A.H. Belo this morning reported its first-quarter '09 results -- and they are significant. The publisher of The Dallas Morning News reports a first quarter net loss of $103.1 millio ... More >>

The GPS Is Hard To Read

Fareed Zakaria speaks at the Fairmont

KERA-FM Says NPR Hasn't Asked the Station to Hold a Pledge Drive for the Mothership

At the end of March, The Washington Post ran a piece in which some National Public Radio hosts and higher-ups discussed the idea of having NPR member stations raise funds on the mothership's behalf. Because, after all, NPR's struggling like every other media organization: In December, it axed two po ... More >>

Food For Thought...

"We don't have a good idea right now in terms of how much of that product is still out there; it may have largely been consumed." (Stephen Sundlof of the FDA after the government extended a recall of peanut products produced by the Peanut Corporation of America's Blakely, GA, plant to include the pa ... More >>

Toasting Dallas's Wine Curmudgeon

Watchdogs Sue Cheney For Records, Which He Insists He'll Play Quietly in the Basement in Bush's S.M.U. Library

A Dallas Woman Accepts Washington Post's "Eat Local Challenge"

Ross for Boss! And He's Got Charts!

Just What -- And Who -- is Behind "The Great Immigration Panic"? You Name It.

"Dallas, You Merciless Universe!"

That's What Friends Is For

Back to the Future With Bill Clinton

Hillary's Other Big Secret: How Texas' Primary System Works

Romo to Simpson? Sure, Why Not.

That's Some Bush in Coach

The Book on the NFC East

Because God Loves a Good Hangin'?

A Sports Beat Down

Wait, Wait. Don't Leave.

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Rag 'Em Up

Ain't missin' this

The "Oh" Face

Morning News not so prudish after all

Buzz

Disorderly retreat

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