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10 Best New Dallas Restaurants, 2015

My inbox is filling with an endless string of Thanksgiving Day press releases — announcements with restaurant menus, pies for takeout and other holiday eats. It’s a reminder that the greatest food holiday is almost here and also that another year is coming to a close. This year felt slow...
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Choosing the Best Chef in Dallas

Picking the best chef for Dallas Observer’s Best of Dallas© issue is rarely straightforward. Some years are easier than others, as when chef Matt McCallister opened FT33, turning Dallas’ fine dining scene on its head, but most years I’m forced to sift through a bunch of really great kitchen wizards...
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Stand In Awe of Ted Cruz’ Simpsons Audition Video

Somewhere in the midst of his presidential campaign, Texas' junior senator and Simpsons fan Ted Cruz took the time to audition for the Simpson's roles vacated by the recently retired Harry Shearer for Buzzfeed. The results are equal turns amusing and horrifying. Amusing, because Cruz as Mr. Burns is just...
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Historic Things Tend to Happen When WWE Comes to Dallas

The last time RAW, the company’s long-running episodic television program set foot inside the AAC this past January, longtime WCW stalwart Sting made his first public appearance on WWE TV. Daniel Bryan – though hurt again and unsure when the company’s medical staff will clear him – wrestled his first...
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Restaurant Drama Burnt Is Dead on the Plate

Before Anthony Bourdain published Kitchen Confidential in 2000, mere mortals who simply eat in restaurants had little idea about the drinking, debauchery and drug use rampant among the folks responsible for getting their fettuccine Alfredo to the table. The book was eye-opening if true, and a rambunctious, vicarious pleasure even...
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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 10: Uchi

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Uchi might be offering the most dynamic cooking available in Dallas right now...
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First Jane, Now Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The CW Gets What Young Women Want

We've gotten used to the idea that the highest-quality, most innovative television lives on premium cable channels like HBO and Showtime. But two of the most delightful and inventive series to premiere in the past year have come from an unexpected place: the CW. Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend...
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Texas Planned Parenthood Video “Substantially Manipulated”

There have been two versions of each of the undercover Planned Parenthood videos released by the dubiously named Center of Medical Progress. There's been the naughty bits version, carefully edited in an attempt to shock viewers and implicate the women's health organization in criminal activity — usually the sale of...
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Dallas Inmates Looking For Books To Read Are Offered A Lot of Bibles

The only libraries at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center are law libraries. Inmates crowd in the rooms on a weekday, buried in legal books, as if they're in law school. And in a sense they are. People use the law libraries here mainly to understand their criminal charges, looking for...
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West Dallas Market CiboDivino Is Overtaken by Pizza

Let me paint a picture for you. It’s raining, but you don’t care because you’re tucked in at the bar at CiboDivino with a glass of jammy red wine in your hand. The weather’s not quite cold, but it’s cool enough that your favorite flannel shirt — the one that’s...
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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 2: Eight Bells Alehouse

Our annual Best of Dallas® issue is online and on the streets this week. To celebrate, we've been counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. It was almost hard to...
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17 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas this Weekend, Nov. 20-22

Friday, Nov. 20Art Film at the Dallas Contemporary Dallas-based fashion designer Charles Smith never seems to be without a new vessel to pour his creative talent into. In the last couple of years, he has put out his first line of couture as well as a ready to wear line,...
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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 18: Ten Ramen

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Many places offer ramen in Dallas, and likely many more are coming. The...