Check out more photos from the auction in our slideshow.In front of a room at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts crammed with fine art and well-dressed folks sipping coffee, Ismail Omer gingerly approached a microphone. “I left Sudan in 1994,” he began “I had friends who died in jail…
They say Green Papaya isn’t authentic Vietnamese. I say: When I first moved to New York, my oldest friend introduced me to her cousin, who also lived there and was also a journalist. We hit it off immediately, and one of our shared passions–aside from writing, reading, watching Project Runway…
Last weekend, I set off on my bike. I would save gas, stay close to home, and kill like three birds with one stone by brunching at the promising-sounding Garden Café, on Junius Street in Lakewood. I’d been there as a pre-vegan, and I remembered a lovely garden in the…
Speaking of Proposition 2, as we were this morning, and Proposition 1, as we were yesterday, on Thursday the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce hosted a forum at Jack’s Backyard, where both props were on the table. And it was an all-star cast: Harlan Crow’s second-in-command Anne Raymond and Phillip…
It only took one vegetarian to convince Nana chef Anthony Bombaci to draw up a meat-free tasting menu. “They made reservations, they told us they were vegetarian and they paid for their food,” Bombaci recalls. “And we served them meat.” After their visit to Nana, Bombaci got a letter–“snail mail,…
In case you’re still of the opinion that the Trinity River and its surrounding forests are kind of a dump, the Sun to Moon Gallery’s latest photography exhibition, Great Trinity Forest and the Trinity River/i>, may change your mind. A portion of the proceeds from the work by photographers Dan…
Behind a beaded curtain at one of Kereje’s secluded booths this Sunday, my dinner companion for this week’s culinary adventure equated our situation–my situation, really, since he’s Taiwanese–to entry #71 on the blog Stuff White People Like: “Being the only white person around.” In other words, everyone else at Kereje…
A hat tip to the writers of Dude Food, who this February ensured that good ol’ meat-eatin’ men could dine successfully at Eatzi’s. So, it turns out, can veggie-eating types. Eatzi’s is one of those Oak Lawn institutions whose charming perks have given it staying power. It could be the…
“Forest Grumps,” by Alexa Schirtzinger, March 19 the Money Tree I enjoyed your article on the tree problems with Dallas City Hall. It looks to me like there should be a follow-up on where the money went. Thanks for this article. I have long felt that our city government was…
Mayor Tom Leppert’s introduction of renowned urban planner and architect Andrés Duany last night at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom on the SMU campus was less a please-welcome than a separate speech altogether. Full of pragmatic optimism and pride, and clad in his trademark pinstripes, the mayor insisted, “Not only…
Fill in the blank: The best thing about Cosmic Café is… …a deck of Tarot cards at every table. …free yoga. …unlimited mugs of soy chai. …delicious plates of all-veggie food, whose prices all add up to multiples of nine. (We don’t know why. We asked our waitress, and neither…
Last night’s affordable housing forum at Temple Emanu-El was a lesson in getting things right by “thinking wrong,” as architect Brent Brown likes to say. “Wrong,” in Brown’s view, really means “creatively.” Despite an intermittently functioning PowerPoint presentation, Brown wowed the mostly middle-aged, well-dressed audience of about 160 with slides…
On the fourth Sunday of every month, an assortment of vegetarians–police officers, an airline pilot, animal activists, nurses and all manner of otherwise normal people–gather for all-you-can-eat vegan Sunday brunch at Veggie Garden in Richardson. The restaurant is small and casual, occupying an unassuming suite in a strip mall near…
Other Gen X/Yers may remember that classic of our youth, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. You may also remember–for me, they’re positively indelible–the hairy-hoary illustrations of ghosts, ghouls and that uber-spooky black dog that followed people around. Andrea Cote’s black-and-white digital prints of body parts overlain with swirling,…
Through all my phases, from finicky meat-eater to cheese-hating vegetarian to vegan, I’ve never had a server actually encourage me to complicate my order. But at the Cliff Café last Friday our server, Ryan H., did–even after my “girly lunch” group had finagled a table on the sunny, secluded back…
Once every spring, and only for two weeks, Texas buckeyes burst spectacularly into bloom. The tree is generally small and understated, with symmetrically grouped pale-green leaves and bunched blossoms; close up, the flowers are tiny and exquisite, with artful splashes of orange-red on the intricate, cream-colored petals. And just a…
Thursday morning, Cedar Vista neighborhood advocate Frank Bracken — the southwest Dallas farm owner profiled, in part, in this week’s cover story about the taking of the trees — finally got the city to lend an ear — or, rather, two guys willing to get their shoes muddy. Bracken led…
On a windswept rise in southwest Dallas, Frank Bracken squints into the late-afternoon sun and sweeps his wiry, flannel-clad arm across the empty expanse of chalky white caliche. This ridge used to be thick with 30-foot jade-green cedar and oak trees, the only species tenacious enough to cling to the…
Our new feature searching for vegan and vegetarian dining options in Dallas–both at restaurants committed to the cause and regular, meat eating places. Being vegan is supposed to do lots of lovely spiritual and gastrointestinal things to you. You’re supposed to feel lighter and healthier, for one. And your bowels…
He’s a former professional triathlete and current Austin firefighter. But Esselstyn is also the author of a vegan cookbook. The Engine 2 DietBut he doesn’t call it vegan. He’s eating “plant strong”–and has been for more than a decade. Then, when a fellow firefighter found out his cholesterol was dangerously…
Scalini’s Pizza & Pasta 2021 Abrams Road 214.821.8088 Promised delivery time: 45 minutes Actual delivery time: 43 minutes The Score Semi-attractive delivery guy wearing hipster glasses: 4 Creative choice of vegetables: 7 Lukewarm pizza: -3 …that came from three blocks away: -3 …and he drove: -1 …and there’s a $2…
Here you’ll find the Petition In Support Of A House Censure For Representative Leo Berman and be able to “join the movement” — which, truthfully, could be stronger. Despite a week’s worth of news coverage concerning one man’s efforts to reprimand the Tyler state representative for remarks made during a…
