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Venice (Italy)

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Five Rules To Surviving A Trip To IKEA, Dallas

    I made my first trip to the Frisco IKEA yesterday. In the course of my journey I saw families ripped apart, friendships tested and entirely too many things promising to solve my organizational dilemmas. Yes, I left disorientated with two carts of "AUSKS" and "FULKVIKS." The problem with IKEA is th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    The Most Amazing Thing Stephan Pyles Ever Ate

    FacebookStephan Pyles: Founding Father of Southwestern Cuisine, Eater of Grubs​Chefs for Farmers, a Dallas based group who celebrate small, local farms, is having some fun on their facebook page to promote their annual event.They asked Brian Luscher from the Grape to come up with a random ques ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    At Much, Much Bigger Joule, a Recording Studio, New Charlie Palmer, Underground Spa and, Finally, Return of Mercantile Mosaics

    Via David KirkpatrickA look at one of the Merc's mosaics before it was removed​For close to two years we've written here and there (and there and there and ...) about Tim Headington's slow-but-sure downtown takeover via The Joule's expansion, which, we recently learned, is the reason the Praetoria ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Dark Dark Dark's All-Time Top Five Favorite Museums To Visit While Touring The World

    Minnesota's Dark Dark Dark is a chamber-folk collective that fills any stage they're on with their varied and engrossing sounds -- much as they do with their eight band members. Employing instrumentation ranging from cello to clarinet to the gorgeous, slightly dusky vocals of the intricately inked-u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    How Banksy Forced Hal Samples to Finish Doc About Homeless Man Living Outside L.A.

    Tachowa Covington and his former home in a still from Hal Samples's in-progress Something From Nothing. The whole trailer's after the jump.​Over the years photographer Hal Samples has shown me bits and pieces of his in-progress documentary about Tachowa Covington, who turned an abandoned water tan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film

    December 9, 2010

    The Tourist Gawks at its Stars, Visits Venice, Has Twist.

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Model Watch: Bullying and Being Too Thin Aren't In, But, Like, Demi Lovato Totally Is

    Dallas model Ann, tethered so she won't blow away in a slight breeze​We found the chosen girls from the America's Next Top Model premiere talking themselves up something crazy and strolling Venice Beach, which, if I'm not mistaken, go hand in hand. A Venice street performer rolled up, and they al ... More >>

  • Film

    September 9, 2010

    Lebanon: A Claustrophobic Look at War's Horrors.

    Dallas model Ann, tethered so she won't blow away in a slight breeze​We found the chosen girls from the America's Next Top Model premiere talking themselves up something crazy and strolling Venice Beach, which, if I'm not mistaken, go hand in hand. A Venice street performer rolled up, and they al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Breaking Away: Cycling in the City to Get a Taste of Dallas

    The hardest question I've been asked since I moved here last week has come from friends back in North Carolina: What's Dallas like? Having seen little of the city beyond my apartment, my office and Ikea, I honestly had no idea. So Friday I decided to get educated by pedaling portions of the metropl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Beaten to Neo-Pulp: The Bad Juju of Dallas Noir Writer Jonathan Woods

    Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem - book trailer from Bad Juju and Other Tales on Vimeo.I came across the above video this morning. I know well one of its makers (our pal Hal Samples), but not its neo-noir star: Jonathan Woods, a peddler of crime fiction loaded with "violence, sex, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    And The Winner Is...

    ​Sorry--it's getting on in the afternoon. I should have started this sooner, but I've been working out some statistics.See, last week one of our dozen or so readers, TLS, failed to make our list of non-winners. She then vowed to sprinkle her comments with the word "cougar" until she reached the s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 25, 2008

    New Year's Mystique

    ​Sorry--it's getting on in the afternoon. I should have started this sooner, but I've been working out some statistics.See, last week one of our dozen or so readers, TLS, failed to make our list of non-winners. She then vowed to sprinkle her comments with the word "cougar" until she reached the s ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Pole Dancing—Good for the Body, But What About a Woman's Soul?

    How powerful can a woman be when she's dangling by a leg and touching her "teaser"?

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2008

    There's Always Room For Othello

    How powerful can a woman be when she's dangling by a leg and touching her "teaser"?

  • Calendar

    December 28, 2006

    The Dark Side of Nokia

    See some lasers in Grand Prairie

  • Dining

    August 13, 1998

    Hash Over

    See some lasers in Grand Prairie

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