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Lucky Ducky Dogs is Giving Out Free Hangover-Inspired Dogs in the Arts District

Luck Ducky Dogs, the "silly truck with serious food," will be at the Dallas Arts District (2403 Flora) todayuntil 2 p.m. giving out 100 free "Hangover Part III" dogs, as an ode to the film that will be released Friday. Make haste! That spreadsheet can wait. Next is the character-based menu per t ... More >>

I'm in a Local Band: How Do We Go National?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Why do Mexicans Love Ska?

And why are Mexican Indians so poor?

Isn't DACA Just a Ruse to Identify and Deport DREAM Act Students?

La Banqueta's Suadero Tacos Boast Brisket Bacon Bits

See also: *The Cheap Bastard's take on La Banqueta (and butt crack). Out front of La Banqueta three panhandlers sat in the sun. One asked me for change, while another cleaned his fingernails with the corner of a scratch-off lottery card. The third sat silently and gazed out towards Bryan Street. In ... More >>

Rock And Roll Tacos Opens The New Kitchen at La Grange

Rock and Roll Tacos, previoulsy just a food truck, has completed their non-hostile take over of the kitchen and dining room at La Grange in Deep Ellum. The owners of La Grange wanted out of the kitchen (admitedly not their specialty) and the owner of Rock and Roll Tacos wanted a non-mobile kitchen w ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: In Defense of Tijuana

The Madcap Sound of Silence

The Walking Taco May Have Walked Across the Border

John T. Edge wrote about Tostilocos in Wednesday's New York Times and describes the Mexican street food as Tostitos corn chips topped with shaved jicama, pickled pig skins and stumpy tamarind candies in one instance. Sounds a little like the Frito Pie we wrote about a few weeks ago, right? Could our ... More >>

Forget Taco Bell: The Fast and Portable Gorditas at Doña Tota are Great

It was early Saturday morning, and I had a lot lined up for the day, so I was looking for a fast portable breakfast. Nothing seems more fast and portable to me then stuffed pastries, preferably with eggs or meat or both. And one of my favorite all time stuffed pastries are gorditas; tacos' overloo ... More >>

'Bad Sex' or None at All: King's Dallas Novel Nominated for Dubious Honor

Stephen King made a rare appearance at the 6th Floor Museum recently, touting his new novel, 11/22/63, which was nominated last week for an annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award by the Literary Review. We understand that bad sex might not be the only reasonable gripe about King's Kennedy-era thriller, ... More >>

Rick Perry, Stem Cell Therapy and the Battle Between Medical Freedom and Opportunism

​The Texas Medical Board is putting off until April a vote on how to regulate adult stem cell therapy, which involves using tissues from one's own body rather than controversial stem cells cultivated from human embryos. We don't blame 'em. This issue is thornier than a Texas mesquite thicket, ... More >>

Going Underground for a Good Meal

​I had the luck to attend one of chef David Anthony Temple's Underground Dinners. Temple began his career in Louisiana and traveled around the world before settling here in Dallas, where he started working with Tom Spicer. His passion is using the best local and regional ingredients to make di ... More >>

A Suburbanite's Guide to Being Tactful When Giving Used Stuff to the Gardener.

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Peace in our time? Not likely, but how about a nice revolution?

At Peace Burger, This Dude Looks Like a Lady

Photo by Hanna Raskin​(Editors' note: Technically speaking, Hanna is NOT a dude, but since she's capable of riding a bike from downtown Dallas to downtown Grapevine to eat a bowl of chili, we're not going to be the one to tell her. She might kick our asses.) Peace Burger 1228 William D. Tate ... More >>

Today, "amnesty" is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Ronnie's Kids

Need to slur a Mexican? We can show you how.

A Mexican By Any Other Name: How Many Slurs Does America Have For Our Neighbors To The South?

On The Range: Tortas

​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.No matter that you haven't read the strip in many years, or even if you've never perused the comic that has been a staple of the funny papers across the country for over 70 years, you still probably know that Dagwoo ... More >>

Top 10 Uses Of Food On Album Covers

As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

Appetite For Instruction: Blackened Trout With Linguine

Recipe Demonstrated by Chef Peter Gray of Cretia's on McKinney ​Cretia's on McKinney, the bistro-slash-bakery-slash-live music venue, reopened in March after a nine-month hiatus to, um, refresh and regroup. In addition to moving just up the road to the former Tijuana Bar and Grill location, a b ... More >>

How do we know whether Walt Disney was a Mexican? Maybe a little mouse told us.

Short Cuts: Enlighten Up! | Food, Inc. | The Merry Gentleman | Sleep Dealer

Maybe Mexico Should Build a Fence to Keep Out Undesirable U.S. Immigrants

Mexicans may be nostalgic for home, but that doesn’t mean they want to live there

Dude Food: Tacos Chano's

Google MapsTacos Chano's934 W. Jefferson Blvd.214-948-1846Dude Factor: 6, or "Cheap Floor Tiles" on a scale of 1 ("Montezuma's Revenge") to 10 ("Cheap Prescription Meds")One of my favorite things about visiting Mexico is haggling over the price of souvenirs. There's nothing like the rush of taking h ... More >>

Bite-Sized

UTD hosts some heady art

Ask a Mexican

An Anglo fool and his money are soon parted

Ask a Mexican

A ban on Spanish at work? Probably legal. Certainly dumb.

A Mighty Trio

Folk legends play the Bass

The Black Lips

Thursday, October 4, the Palladium Loft

!Viva Los Vaqueros!

Charity Cases

Good ways to spend some money. Just get a receipt for your taxes.

Small Talk

Storytelling gimmicks can't save vapid puzzle-film

K.A. Paul to Hastert: What About Me?

Latino Pupae

Latin food without the lard? It's better than you think.

Romancing the Revolting

Che opens in June

Bookwormed

Guthrie's has a great cookbook collection. Too bad they're on the shelf.

Goddess Takes a Holiday

Venus fades away

Critics' Picks

Guttermouth

Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson

A mighty roar

Los Tigres del Norte have become legends by singing the immigrant's song

Prometheus unbound

The boxed set of Charles Mingus' Atlantic years

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Far from Gone

Dwight Yoakam's latest conjures up echoes of '60s AM radio

Buzz

Rapid fire

Desperado is a shallow but thrilling ride