The downtempo, contemporary R&B music on Larce Blake's new EP invokes calm, a fitting sound for the 22-year-old producer,. He says he's at peace now that he's finally found the time to release new music. Blake is a full-time student at the University of Texas at Dallas majoring in mathematics,...
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It starts with a good roll. Every morning, Top Knot makes fresh Parker House-style buns. The result is a butter-sheened cloud with a delicately thin shell. With a few flakes of Kosher salt on top, you have one of the best damn bread bites in Dallas. You’ll find the roll...
A red door is, biblically speaking, a sign of protection, an echo of the blood rubbed on posts and lintels during Passover to keep God from smiting you and your home. But like most things that the Bible insists are positive, the red door also comes with an undercurrent of...
On Monday afternoon Glenn Beck countersued Tomi Lauren asserting that the she wasn't fired for revealing she was pro-choice on The View. According to Beck, who owns the online and able network The Blaze, already planned to fire Lahren when her contract expired in September. The causes of termination: Poor...
Friday Before Nine Inch Nails, Muse or even Marilyn Manson, there was Depeche Mode. A pioneer in popularizing electronic music, the English band peaked in the 1980s, offering a musical alternative to the exhausted bubblegum pop of Top 40 hits. The band has released 14 studio albums since its conception...
Over the past few weeks, a number of musicians with North Texas ties have received an email from an apparent superfan from Ukraine named Malesh Ivan. At first glance, it looked like a genuine fan letter from a real Gmail account. Aside from a few typos and an overuse of...
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Shakespeare in the Bar: The Tempest Wild Detectives 314 W. 8th St. 8 p.m. Monday $7 Theater doesn’t have to be in stuffy performance halls to be good. Sometimes all it takes is a small ensemble of actors, a modest stage in a bar and plenty of booze. And Dallas...
There was never any doubt about the thoughtfulness with which Aziz Ansari, in the first season of his Netflix series, Master of None, addressed the kinds of societal divides — racial, cultural, generational, sexual — that most sitcoms either lack the vision to perceive at all or take on only...
The time is here for stepping out of the comfort of your air-conditioned home and Netflix queue and into the wide world of roadshows. This week is jam-packed with names hotter than August temperatures. Lionel Richie's rescheduled concert from earlier this summer kicks off a stretch of great shows, including...
For the second month in a row, a U.S. district court panel on Thursday afternoon found that a Texas district map illegally discriminates against minority voters. In March, a three-judge panel ruled that the state's congressional map unconstitutionally limits the effects of votes cast by Texas' ethnic minorities. Thursday, a...
Could this be the year that Middle Eastern food becomes Dallas’ hottest culinary trend? Signs appeared in summer of 2016, when a series of acclaimed halal fast-food spots opened their doors across the city, including Halal Guys, Big Guys Chicken & Rice, Amsterdam Falafelshop and, in Irving, Arabian Bites. Then, this winter, Zatar Lebanese Tapas took...
The only thing improper about Proper Baking Co. is that their baked goods aren't available at all bars at all times. For a few hours this Thursday, however, their sweet and savory baked goods ($3-$8 each) will be available for purchase at Craft Beer Cellar Dallas. So grab a pint...
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Taco Stop owner Emilia Flores once called to notify me that she had been injured in a car wreck. As a result, she would be late setting up for the taco festival I was curating and at which Taco Stop was to be a vendor. Of course, I told her...
From an early age, Chelsea DeVos watched as her mother suffered from epilepsy. “In 2016 her doctor recommended she look into CBD-rich hemp oil to help control her seizures,” DeVos says. “I had already been researching cannabinoids to help with my anxiety, so she and I started taking the CBD...
ThursdayComedians must hear this all the time: “I’ll bet you’re really glad Donald Trump is president right now. The jokes must write themselves!” Comedian Chris Rock knows enough about telling the truth as he sees it and making people laugh that he could mine material from the world even if...
There are times when a meal calls for the exquisite and the refined: duck legs confit, passion fruit emulsions, oyster omelets. But there are also moments when nuance begs to be fallen by the dull ax of conventional, perfunctory experience. When cravings or nostalgia strike, it helps to keep it...
Simeen Farhat: Blood Shot Is Blood Loved Cris Worley Fine Arts 1845 Levee St., No. 110 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday Artist Simeen Farhat uses cast resin and acrylic to create sculptures that play with form and shadow. For the pieces in this exhibition, the show’s notes...
There's an old Irish proverb that reads, "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.” The same could be said of business partners, and luckily for Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling — co-owners of Goodfriend Beer Garden & Burger Bar, Goodfriend Package and...
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On Thursday, after four days of waiting, the Dallas County Elections office updated the totals in last Saturday's District 6 city council race to include 387 of the 426 that were sequestered on election day. The new ballots changed some totals but not the outcome: Incumbent Monica Alonzo, credited with...
How local should locavore food be? Can a North Texas restaurant survive and profit on ingredients sourced almost exclusively from within a few hours’ drive? Is that kind of challenge beneficial to chefs and diners? Is Dallas ready for this much pickling? The stakes are high at FT33 these days...
The 2Pac biopic All Eyez on Me completes an unofficial trilogy of what we could call the Bad Boy/Death Row cinematic universe. It began with 2009’s Biggie Smalls bio Notorious and continued with NWA’s Straight Outta Compton in 2015. Too bad that, like a lot of trilogies, the third movie...
The Washington Post's recent article about the slow death of the electric guitar has caused some local North Texas artists to come forward and give their own take on the state of guitar-driven music.