United Nations

Is Dallas Ready To Eat Bugs?

Remember last year when we stumbled on Stephan Pyles' Twitter feed? The chef was traveling around Mexico, gathering ideas for menu items for Stampede 66, and tweeting up a storm. See Also: - Stampede 66 Teases Tacos de Chipolines Pyles snapped a picture of a bin full of crickets and teased that ... More >>

This Week's Best Concert Posters: An Array of 4/20 Fests

Talented artists are spreading their works of art all across the great city of Dallas through magnificent music flyers. Each week we'll spotlight our favorite poster picks for upcoming shows in the Metroplex. 4/20 brings in a vast amount of shows this week, and an assortment of weed friendly poster ... More >>

Syrian National Coalition's First Prime Minister Used to Be Chairman of Garland Academy

Ghassan Hitto, the man elected early Tuesday morning to become the opposition Syrian National Coalition's first prime minister, also happens to be a North Texan. The Damascus-born activist was educated in the United States, worked as director of operations at a Collin County telecom and, according t ... More >>

After Chest-Thumping Over International Election Observers, Greg Abbott Admits Texas Sovereignty In No Danger

In an exercise in states' rights fetishization, the Texas Legislature tasked Attorney General Greg Abbott with figuring out whether international organizations are usurping Lone Star sovereignty. If you'll recall, there was an ugly scene leading up to the 2012 presidential election, wherein Abbott, ... More >>

European Election Monitors Find U.S. Elections Are Expensive, "Unduly Politicized," Other Shockingly Obvious Conclusions

At the end of October, highly watchable Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott threatened to press charges against any "U.N. poll watchers" who might "interfere with Texas elections." Not to be outdone, state officials in Pennsylvania and Iowa also started threatening to arrest people. Those "poll wa ... More >>

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

By Jason Roche Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside...

Lubbock County Judge: Complete Economic Collapse, Probably Not Civil War, if Obama Wins

Lubbock County Judge Tom Head raised some eyebrows yesterday after he told a local TV station that the tax hike he was pushing for? Oh, it's just so the county can be prepared for when Obama, upon reelection, orders UN tanks into town and sparks a second civil war. In a rambling interview with the ... More >>

USDA Promotes Meatless Monday Before It Doesn't

See also, from Unfair Park: *Meatless Mondays at USDA Out-and-Out "Treason," Ag Commish Staples Says An internal USDA Newsletter has some Republican tweeps in an uproar. On July 23, the USDA posted a five-page newsletter for employees, offering tips and status updates on "greening efforts" includin ... More >>

FreedomWorks Will Bring Thousands of Tea Partyers to Dallas Next Week

You might remember FreedomWorks. In 2010, the nonprofit, established and funded by billionaire David Koch, helped shape a sprawling Tea Party movement into the force that swept a large number of very conservative Republicans into Congress. Call it grass roots, call it astro turf. For a hint, if on ... More >>

In The Land of Blood and Honey: Angelina Goes to War

Bloody Bosnia gets a coating of Hollywood sanctimony.

Clear Your Schedule Saturday for Chocolate, Cheese, Wine and Hoopla at Sigel's in Addison

Lauren Drewes Daniels​There's going to be a cornucopia of happiness at the Sigel's in Addison this Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. Not only will there be the usual United Nations gathering of comedians that make up the staff at Sigel's, but they're also throwing Dude, Sweet Chocolate's Katherine Cla ... More >>

Turns Out, Not Everybody Loves Continental, Lone Star Gas Building Makeovers

Photos by Anna MerlanA seemingly run-of-the-mill downtown development press conference had two surprise guests.​Over the years, the re-do of the Continental Building downtown has started to feel like a bit like Guns N' Roses's Chinese Democracy. Forest City, the developers behind turning the vaca ... More >>

PETA Asked the State Fair of Texas For a Booth. Wanna Guess How Big Tex Responded?

Just got off the phone with a lovely young lass from PETA, America's favorite activist group turned performance troupe. They're always really nice to talk to, those PETA folks, right until they start trying to reincarnate your lunch. Apparently they had applied for a booth at the State Fair of Texa ... More >>

Mexico City The Gourmet Taco: In a Word -- Awesome

​The capital of our neighbor to the south isn't all kidnappings and cheap telenovela settings. Mexico City (D.F.) is cosmopolitan city en par with New York, Paris and Tokyo, with a culinary tradition to match. Heck, the entire of culinary tradition of Mexico is so important that the United Nat ... More >>

Whitt's End: 10.1.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Sobering number right outta the gate: Since July 1 the Texas Rangers are 42-40. Are we fooling ourselves thinking they're an elite team that can actually win a playoff series against one of the ... More >>

Four American Dishes Intended to Honor Other Countries -- and How the Honored Countries Received Them.

Me So Hungry Burger King's new Pizza Burger probably doesn't appease Italians.​Americans have a habit of co-opting and recreating global cuisines, arbitrarily assigning ethnic labels to dishes unknown in their purported homelands. In the process, of course, they've created some very good - if ... More >>

Annette Simmons Donates $1 Mil in Stock to Keep Mercy Ships Floating Off Coast of Africa

Mercy Ships​Since 1978, Mercy Ships has been sending hospital boats, for lack of a better term, to impoverished and beleaguered countries to tend to the "forgotten poor"; at this very moment, matter of fact, the African Mercy is perched off the shores of Togo in West Africa, a country ranked near ... More >>

There's an Insanely Well Acted House of Blue Leaves in Arlington and Bedlam in Bedford with Cuckoo's Nest.

Oh, Canada

Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak

Review: Ounce Prime Steakhouse in Addison

Songs by committed vegan Moby play in the background as we dine on our red and dripping prime rib

R.I.P. Carter Albrecht|It's in the Air|Return to Sender

Max'd Out

Meet a pop art legend

Bill Richardson's Coming to Town. He Wants Your Money. Who Doesn't?

It's Bloody Bone-in Hot Out There

Prophet or Heretic? Either Way, He Takes All Major Credit Cards.

Accidental Tourists

Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

Sweet Jesus Camp

Code Broken; Professor Just a Little Tired

Another Look at a Legend

Sip Soiree

Salon of Babel

Do you do ethnic hair?

Who'd Guess?

Can it be that Bernie and Ashton are better than Spencer and Sidney?

First Fest

Celebrate Dallas via all of the Americas

Lost in Translation

Sudanese refugees struggle to make their way in America

The Band Who

Not Radiohead. Not Coldplay. Not Oasis. Just Travis, and that's fine.

Savage Breasts

Do the homeless hate classical music?

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Letters

Tasty Diplomacy

The buffet table sings at Dawat

Basic Straining

Oh, look--another bad John Travolta movie. How original.

The Colonel's Other Recipe

Chicken-fried steak...why?

Love & Rockets

Andrew Beal spent $200 million trying to launch rockets without Uncle Sam's help. His dream went down in flames

Demolition Man

Wesley Snipes kicks his way through the flashy, messy Art of War

Across the Great Divide

Visiting Mr. Green asks if we can all just get along

Letters

Man for Marrs... And woman; Smooth-running machine ;They're not so petty; At least he laughed; Stirring the crock

Mountain of hope

Food is rocky, but Ararat still rises

Liquid sky

Fort Worth's Flying Saucer offers a cozy space for quaffing alien beers

Time captured in its flight

James Bland's postcards from the edge of a scene

Fight the power of hatred

We cannot let evil cowards make us less free