Before this weekend, Bishop Arts was short a good ol’ fashioned seafood joint. Thanks to Pier 247, this vacancy has been filled. On the corner of Davis and Madison Streets, Cecilia Lopez retrofitted an old gas station and invited chefs John Fleming and Ty Frazier to light up the deep…
With keg-jacking on the rise in the dangerous streets of Addison, no one is safe.
If you’ve never fancied yourself a noodle slurper, Tanoshii Ramen + Bar still wants you to stop by for a visit. This week Chef Lan Chi Le added a few Japanese burgers to the menu at her noodle house: a traditional hambāgā, a chicken burger and a veggie burger. In…
It’s 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning and Dr. Charissa Terranova is regretting last night’s purchase of the iPhone 5. “I’m really not happy with Apple as a company right now,” she explains. “I may take it back and get the new Samsung.” This week she may be deliberating on her…
After years of serving serving pastas and steaks to happy customers, Uptown’s Arcodoro & Pomodoro closes its doors. In 2009, the Sardinian-Italian restaurant moved from its Routh Street location to the doomed corner spot in Crescent Court. Crave DFW broke the news this morning that after a long run, A&P…
It’s been a good year for Kennedy Waterman. She earned a DFW Theater Critics Forum Award for her performance in a re-imagining of Glengarry Glen Ross, she’s premiering her first solo performance piece this week and she’s about halfway through seventh grade. Her short play Allergic Me, directed by Dallas…
Remember when we told you that local filmmaker Toby Halbrooks’ first short film Dig was selected for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival? Well, he’s there now and he told me to tell all of you lovely people hello. One of the cool Sundance things is watching the short films on…
The Out of the Loop Fringe Festival has been premiering new work for more than a decade. WaterTower just released the 2014 line-up, which includes 18 artists and performing arts organizations, 12 of whom make their festival debut.
Since hashtags became a thing, the four-letter slogan “YOLO” has been attached to more than 16 million pictures on Instagram of bleary-eyed frat parties, foolhardy stunts and ill-advised trips to tattoo parlors. After all, you only live once. Over at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park, this motto of…
The latest stage in Phil Romano’s quest to take over the culinary universe is the planned opening of Sushi Bayashi, a casual sushi bar. Late last night, the Morning News scooped the latest addition to the gamut of fine dining at Trinity Groves. Romano is describing it as “an everyday…
And while we suggest you avoid calling the day “cheesy,” we’ve compiled a list of ways to celebrate the fake food holiday. Because this is a food blog.
She’s the Program Coordinator and Visiting Scholar in Dance at Eastfield College, the Director of University of Texas at Arlington’s Dance Ensemble, a guest choreographer for Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet, and a dancer at Contemporary Ballet Dallas and the Big Rig Dance Collective. Phew! Such is the life of Danielle Georgiou…
At 9 p.m. on Wednesday nights, Sundown at Granada’s executive chef Patrick Stark unties his apron and steps out of the kitchen into the bar. Half-price whiskey, live music and a late night menu, it’s little wonder Stark can’t drag himself away. “I’m trying to break myself of this, but…
Add a bit of salt to the air and Henderson Avenue’s newest joint might have you convinced it’s just steps away from the beach at the Hamptons. If you’ve been there, that is. For the rest of us, Gemma Restaurant is everything we might imagine about the almost mythical beach…
I did the expensive party thing last year. I shelled out money for a ticket that granted me access to a sketchy warehouse in the Design District, where instead of dancing and Champagne, there was a drunken photo booth and a lot of Jack Daniels. This year, I’m hoping to…
Toby Halbrooks is on a roll. The local film producer and director is an integral part of the film community quietly earning Dallas a reputation. For the second year in a row, Halbrooks will return to Sundance Film Festival in 2014 with two projects. Last year he co-produced Shane Carruth’s…
From street artists to Picasso, the biggest museums in Dallas and Fort Worth welcomed a diverse array of mediums, genres and artists. The Dallas Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of the groundbreaking performance artist and photographer Cindy Sherman, while the Amon Carter’s survey of color photography welcomed submissions from…
Once, while deep in the rabbit holes of Instagram hashtags, I stumbled upon jewelry maven Holly Shipley’s little shop @DearHolly.
Robert Wilson is a master of the silence. On Monday night as part of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s Salon, he stood steps away from his director’s chair staring into the audience before he repeated: “Theater 101, learn how to stand on stage.” The accidental theater artist crafted a career as…
It’s time to ditch that Hampton Inn. How many times are you going to let yourself get roped in with the promise of a continental breakfast? Business travelers, and the rare species known as tourists, pour into Dallas because “Big Things Happen Here.” Whichever big part of Dallas you’re coming…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more charming chef than Dean Fearing, the man behind Fearing’s Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas. Known fondly as the “father of Southwestern cuisine,” he earned a world-class reputation as The Mansion on Turtle Creek’s executive chef. He left that post in 2007 to head…
On Saturday nights for a couple hours, the good old days still exist on National Public Radio. For nearly 30 years, Garrison Keillor’s old-fashioned variety show A Prairie Home Companion has transported its listeners to a simpler time with musical performances from American folk musicians, celebrity guests from the literary…
