How ‘Bout Them Knockers: Izmir Market & Mediterranean Deli

Izmir Market & Mediterranean Deli3607 Greenville Ave.Dallas, TX 75206214-824-8484Promised delivery time: 45 minutesActual delivery time: 40 minutesAmazing phone voice, lady version (I’ll explain): 11Option for a side Greek salad instead of chips: 5Super-nice delivery dude: 10Large dose of snappy pickles: 13That first bite of cool hummus on warm, soft pita:17Filling…

Girl Drink Drunk: Frankie’s Sports Bar & Grill

Frankie’s Sports Bar & Grill is loud when the Stars are playing. Frankie’s has a surprising balance of ladies and gents. Frankie’s has Freedom Fries and a Freedom Dip sandwich on its menu. The first two are kinda cool, but had I realized the latter before deciding on GDD location,…

He’s A Gass

Seems appropriate that someone so adept at impersonating voices, comic Craig Gass, grew up in a deaf family. Without verbal guidance from his parents or sister, Gass relied on the TV to lend him speaking skills. Now he has a stable of go-to voices (many of which are also stand-up…

Acting Up

Delaney boys: NYPD or no, if you can’t tell your mom you’re engaged (or married and expecting) because she’s got such a hold over you with guilt and good cooking, then we’ve either reverted several decades or you’re, how-you-say, a pussy. And that would put an unfortunate slant on the…

Fashion 4-1-1

He won VH1’s Glam God and dammit, if he can stand up to Vivica A. Fox and still make hot duds, this guy must be a force. He’s Indashio and he’s making his Texas fashion show debut Friday at the McKinney Performing Arts Center, 111 N. Tennessee St. The runway…

Get Into Gear

I’ll admit that thanks to the perfection that is Top Gear (that they’d ever try that show in America is a travesty, by the by) and to my car-loving beau, I’ve learned a bit about the high-octane world of four-wheel competitions. But after having seen televised versions of races far…

Girl Drink Drunk: Pizza Hut Park

Last week, BFF Jen’s birthday was nigh and her wish was to go to the FC Dallas season opener. Thus, a group of us converged upon Frisco’s Pizza Hut Park. Based on past FC Dallas experiences, games meant not only sporting good times and learning to curse in Spanish, but…

Art-Bound

Of course there is artistry in the creation of literature. We cherish the written word when placed in combinations that speak to our hearts, senses of humor and personal needs. But The Arts Gallery is looking at books just under their covers during the exhibition, Hidden Between Covers: Artists’ Books…

Design for Big Dimes

Who doesn’t love raising some money for charity? Having lost a relative to HIV/AIDS, it, in particular, has always been an important cause to me. Being a fashion fanatic (due to the economy, this fanaticism is exhibited internally) as well, DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) is right up my…

The King Bucks

They started out friends, playing with a rotating setlist of old country favorites at local bars. And, soon enough, they found the desire to write their own 10-gallon tunes. Now, The King Bucks has both a Monday night residency at Adair’s Saloon and an eponymous full-length album to its name…

Funny Guy

OK, yes. We all know Greg Behrendt was the mastermind behind Berger advising Miranda, “He’s just not that into you,” on Sex & the City. And he co-wrote the book He’s Just Not That Into You. And he’s probably rolling in the dough from the ensemble cast hit, um, He’s…

Shutter To Think

When was the last time you took a photo? Did you post it to Facebook or Twitter? Did you upload it onto your Flickr photostream? Or was it taken with an iPhone, and then you used an app to make it look like it was taken with a Holga? Maybe…

Faces Time

If you really want to see and feel what it was like to be amidst the Civil Rights Movement, say in 1964 Mississippi, all you have to do is take advantage of the African American Museum’s exhibition of photographer Herbert Randall’s Faces of Freedom Summer through April 16. Get even…

Mom, You’ll Love This Place. It’s … Scary?

On a lunchtime errand, I tool down Hall Street, look over at the field across from Lee Park and notice there’s a sign I haven’t seen before. I immediately flip on the hazards, pull over and grab my phone to snap this photo of what is, quite possibly, the worst…

Girl Drink Drunk: ANTM Edition

In the quest for girl drink knowledge, I looked, this time, to my past–to the bottles that I remembered (from high school, mind you) containing a deceptively refreshing alternative to yucky, stinky boys’ beer.Ladies, remember the dawn of Sprite-like malt beverages? Yeah, well so do I. Before I matured on to…

Visitor Q

For four days before writing this, I checked several online book retailers regarding The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey, My Passions: Photos and Mementos from Q’;s Personal Collection. At least twice during the searches, the book–which features a preface by the renowned Maya Angelou, a foreword by Clint Eastwood and…

Spin Art

Remember whirligigs? Those wooden yard figures whose arms spun like crazy–often with a familiar creak–when the wind picked up? They were pivotal to the seasons of childhood spent outdoors, confined to the backyard or “three houses either way” if you got to play in the front. I don’t know any…

Wild Wonders

Zooming down the Roaring Rapids at Wet ‘N’ Wild in Garland circa 1986 did not a river-rafting adventure make. Sure, it might have provided for some drama when your raft got stuck in that one whirlpool and you couldn’t get over the ridge for going around and around while people…

Shiny Around the Edges

Jennifer and Michael Seman, the consummate Denton couple, both in life and creativity, have finally forced their emotionally compelling mélange of rock, jazz and guttural noise to find a home on a full-length album. After CD-Rs, 7-inches and other snippet releases—as well as live shows that hypnotize audiences with both…

Blues for Good

Few contemporary pop songs elicit such gut-wrenching emotion, than that felt by any dejected, middle-aged woman while listening to “I Can’t Make You Love Me” as performed by bluesy skunk-striped Bonnie Raitt. But Raitt isn’t only beloved in the forties female demographic. The songstress earns high praise among fellow musicians…

Chua On This

What is a hyperpower? According to Amy Chua, right now, the United States is. But, it’s one threatened without a change in “tolerance.” Her bestselling book Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–And Why They Fall, compares even ancient empires such as Persia and the Roman Empire to…

Girl Drink Drunk: The Porch

Special Friday EditionDuring birthday season, I had the pleasure of celebrating one of our resident girl drinker’s special day at Consilient Restaurant’s neighborhood-gourmet (just made that up, but now that I think about it, it’s my new favorite genre of bites) eatery, The Porch. First, let me explain that while the…