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Vietnam

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Desperados Owner Jorge Levy on Emails to Mark Cuban and Running a Family Restaurant

    Jorge Levy and his two sons own Desperados on Greenville and in Garland. The senior Levy, originally from Mexico, is also involved in The Dallas Margarita Society, Savor Mexico and the Greenville Area Business Association. Most importantly, he's the guy that emailed Mark Cuban about saving the Saint ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    My Five Favorite Bowls of Soup in Dallas

    Last week I published a blog post about an object of my affection: a steaming bowl of seafood laden soup from Veracruz Cafe. In the comments, CitizenKane seemed just as smitten, and asked about other bowls of soups and stews that were worth checking out. Since the mercury is rising, and soup may no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    At Pho Is For Lovers, Wishing Meatless Monday Was Pork Banh Mi Tuesday

    When it comes to pho, that glorious Vietnamese noodle soup perfect for curing hangovers and head colds, I'm almost religiously devoted to the huge steaming bowls served up at Vietnam Restaurant on Bryan Street. However, when I heard that the semi-recently opened Pho is for Lovers on Upper Greenville ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2011

    Earn Your Weekend Wings

    When it comes to pho, that glorious Vietnamese noodle soup perfect for curing hangovers and head colds, I'm almost religiously devoted to the huge steaming bowls served up at Vietnam Restaurant on Bryan Street. However, when I heard that the semi-recently opened Pho is for Lovers on Upper Greenville ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Request Lines Now Open For Tomorrow Night's Kosher Christmas Music Show on The Ticket

    Former News-man-turned-Lodge'r Michael Precker grabbed this last night at the kosher Tom Thumb in Preston Forest, which clearly doesn't want to wind up on Robert Jeffress's Grinch List.​If you listen to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), perhaps you've heard: Tomorrow night, from 9 till midnight, I'm yet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    No Get Out of Jail Free Card, Dallas County's Veterans Court Heard Its First Two Cases Today

    Judge Mike Snipes​A Vietnam veteran accused of forcing a 6-year-old girl into his car to ride on his lap became the first to sign on for Dallas County's new veterans court program on Tuesday, with a chance to avoid having a conviction on his record if he completes a six-month treatment program. Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    For Asians in Dallas, There's No place Like Home--Other Than an Asian Market

    Last week, my friend Rona hosted her parents who where visiting from Maui. They were staying for the whole week, and being of Filipino descent, they wanted to know where the nearest Asian supermarket was. And when my aunt from Taiwan arrives next month, she will be asking me to take her to the neare ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Pho From Home: Ngoc Suong

    Photos by Kristy YangBun Cha​After a positive dining experience at the Super H Mart last week, I asked my mother if she was up for joining me on one more food expedition before she leaves town. She said yes, but any early excitement she held for Grimaldi's pizza or Rise No. 1 baguettes soon dissip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Pho From Home: Dishes To Fit Your Resolutions

    Mi Hoanh Thanh (wonton noodle soup).​City of Ate reader, Margie, comments, "Oh, and I'd like to add that this rash of dieting talk all over the web and TV is making me sick. My resolution is to eat more and drink more and have more fun doing it. Saying 'hell' more than 'damn' is another one I thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Pho From Home: Vietnam

    In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.​As a little Vietnamese kid in a primarily white world, I never thought these three letters wou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2009

    ...Polished

    In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.​As a little Vietnamese kid in a primarily white world, I never thought these three letters wou ... More >>

  • Film

    August 27, 2009

    Taking Woodstock: OK, Boomers, You Were Young and Carefree. We Get It. Now Shut Up.

    In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.​As a little Vietnamese kid in a primarily white world, I never thought these three letters wou ... More >>

  • Film

    August 27, 2009

    Taking Woodstock: OK, Boomers, You Were Young and Carefree. We Get It. Now Shut Up.

    In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.​As a little Vietnamese kid in a primarily white world, I never thought these three letters wou ... More >>

  • Film

    April 30, 2009

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine

    In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.​As a little Vietnamese kid in a primarily white world, I never thought these three letters wou ... More >>

  • News

    December 18, 2008

    Required Reading to Ready Yourself for the Reconquista

    You tried the enchiladas, now read the books

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    Peace of Action

    Angelou leads many powerful voices

  • Calendar

    February 7, 2008

    Here, Piggy Piggy

    Ring in the Lunar New Year

  • Home Entertainment

    November 22, 2007

    Jungle Fever

    Ring in the Lunar New Year

  • News

    October 11, 2007
  • Film

    September 20, 2007

    Help!

    Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor's '60s-set musical is a bust

  • Film

    July 12, 2007

    Man Down

    Werner Herzog takes his hero worship Hollywood

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2007

    Wounded Soldier, Healing Warrior

    Werner Herzog takes his hero worship Hollywood

  • Culture

    February 22, 2007

    To Tie-Dye For

    Jupiter aligns with Mars and Hair returns in all its flaxen, waxen glory

  • Calendar

    February 22, 2007

    Everywhere Daddy, Daddy

    Grow it and show it at the TRAC

  • Music

    February 8, 2007

    The Black Angels

    Tuesday, February 13, at Granada Theater

  • Culture

    May 25, 2006

    Curl Up and Die

    Steel Magnolias: To the salon with the sisterhood of graveling rants

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2006

    J.Lo Can Dallas Go?

    Steel Magnolias: To the salon with the sisterhood of graveling rants

  • Film

    November 3, 2005

    Killing Time

    In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

  • Best of Dallas

    October 14, 2004

    Best Unfounded Rumor

    Republic is a gay bar

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    Letters

    Republic is a gay bar

  • Music

    February 12, 2004

    The Metal Queen

    The Harder Beat's Linda Hollar rocks on for the boys

  • Culture

    February 5, 2004

    Strange Days

    Errol Morris gets history right by recognizing that it's usually all wrong

  • Film

    February 5, 2004

    Fog of Reason

    Robert McNamara considers the lessons of war

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2004

    Déjà Vu

    Broken hearts and bleeding lungs

  • Culture

    January 29, 2004

    Joy Meets Grill

    Talent sizzles in Addison's Spitfire Grill; history lessons go stale in Two September

  • Music

    November 20, 2003

    The Zapruder Sequence

    The Zapruder Sequence (Self-released)

  • Best of Dallas

    September 25, 2003

    Best Move

    Liberty Noodles

  • Music

    August 14, 2003

    Coming Home

    Terry Allen's lost Amerasia re-emerges decades later

  • Culture

    March 27, 2003

    War on War Songs

    Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

  • Best of Dallas

    September 26, 2002

    Best Pot

    Jackson's

  • Film

    February 28, 2002

    Hell on Earth

    In the first battle of the Vietnam War, they were Soldiers and then some

  • Dining

    January 24, 2002

    Skunky Bud

    If the Scented Geranium doesn't work out some of its kinks, it may soon be a memory

  • Calendar

    October 11, 2001

    Real to Reel

    Vistas Film Festival travels out of its comfort zone

  • Film

    September 27, 2001

    Our House

    Together is a bittersweet look at '70s commune life in Sweden

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    The End of Youth

    Kids at a Dallas high school talk about their war

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    Short takes

    Kids at a Dallas high school talk about their war

  • Film

    July 23, 1998

    Life and death during wartime

    Spielberg perfectly--and horrifyingly--captures the humanity and horror of WWII

  • Dining

    November 6, 1997

    Transcendental dining

    Delight is in the details at Saigon Bistro

  • Film

    November 21, 1996

    Coming home, again

    Emilio Estevez directs and stars in the classic war story

  • Culture

    October 10, 1996

    Needs a trim

    DEOT's three-hour Hair suffers from conditioning

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