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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 40: San Salvaje

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.  San Salvaje is a restaurant that defies every stereotype of the downtown Dallas...
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Ratatat’s Dance Party Rose But Never Peaked at The Bomb Factory

Ratatat Bomb Factory, Dallas Friday, September 25, 2015 Two guitars, two keyboards, two toms, and an armada of lasers; these were Ratatat’s weapons of choice at The Bomb Factory Friday night as they played to a packed house. The Brooklyn-based duo of Mike Stroud and Evan Mast have been at...
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The 10 Best Dallas-Fort Worth Albums of 2015

When it comes to the best albums made by North Texas artists, it was a year of extremes. Some, like Slobberbone front man Brent Best's Your Dog, Champ, took years and seemingly endless series of ordeals, to see the light of day. Others, like Leon Bridges' Coming Home, was the...
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The State Fair of Texas Is Coming With Plenty of Fried Stuff

Before we get into any of this I thought I should point out that Old Navy is having a sale on elastic pants right now. Maybe you should bookmark it. Bikini season isn't going to last forever, you know, and I can personally attest to the comfort and appeal of elastic,...
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Is the Exodus from Dallas PD Real?

On the front page of its Metro section last Monday, The Dallas Morning News had a piece reporting that the Dallas Police Department's attrition rate (i.e. the number of officers who resigned, got fired, retired or died last year) was higher than it's been in Chief David Brown's five-year tenure leading the...
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Blythe Beck’s Pink Magnolia to Open September 3

Ah, Labor Day weekend: the end of summertime shenanigans, the promise of cooler temperatures somewhere on the horizon and the opening of Pink Magnolia. Chef Blythe Beck announced her new Oak Cliff restaurant will open September 3, just in time to catch diners as they celebrate the three-day weekend that...
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Dallas’ Six Best Baskets of Fried Okra

As Southern side dishes go, there is none better than fried okra. Assuming you can get past the okra pod’s slippery, seedy insides, you’ve found yourself the perfect complement to barbecue, burgers, chicken fried steak — damn near anything you can think of. Unfortunately, most of the fried okra you’ll...
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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 19: Lalibela

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. Hungry fans of Ethiopian food have lots of choices around the intersection of...
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Take a Peek at Madrina’s French- and Mexican-Inspired Cocktail Menu

Where Michael Martensen goes, good drinks follow. We first enjoyed his libations at The Cedars Social and have since been sipping way too many fancy drinks at Proof + Pantry. Last week, Martensen and his collaborators at Misery Loves Company opened the doors to Madrina, their “French-Mex” concept in Highland...
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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 23: Smoke

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. There's something about the new location of Smoke that makes me wonder if...
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Here’s How to Fix Texas’ Sky-High Teen Pregnancy Rate

Last Wednesday brought a dose of positive news for anyone concerned about Texas' sky-high teen birth rate, which given that it costs the state an estimated $1.1 billion per year and puts Texas in the company of such bastions of progressive public-health policy as Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma, should be everyone. According...
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Texas Agency Charged With Protecting Environment Continues Bold War on Air

Some of our state agencies have confusing names. The Texas Railroad Commission, for instance, is the name of the entity that regulates fracking. And the agency called the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has actually kept a fairly consistent stance against environmental quality. Don't feel bad if you're confused. The...
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10 Best Wine Lists in Dallas

Dallas is the booziest city in America. We spend more of our income on drinking than any other city, and it’s not just our thriving craft beer and cocktail scenes that are keeping the locals happy. Local restaurants have developed deep, interesting and affordable wine lists to pair with the...
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Seriously, What’s With All Those Soviet Apartments?

We have a confession to make. Two weeks ago, we published a piece in this space purporting to identify Dallas' 10 HOTTEST Apartment Complexes. While this might seem to imply that we used some sort of objective methodology for determining HOTNESS — or, for that matter, had any knowledge at all about...
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This Sexy, Scary Faust Goes to Hell and Back (Fun Ride)

The future of theater in Dallas should be what The Drama Club is doing with Faust. This all-local consortium of disgustingly talented writers, actors, directors and designers has created a fresh and contemporary version of the old Goethe tale (with shades of Christopher Marlowe) of a doctor who sells his...
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10 Best Dallas Lunch Spots

Lunch is the best part of every workday, specifically because it’s not work. For whatever period of time you’re lucky enough to get away from the grind, lunch is your time to focus on sustenance and rejuvenation. It’s also time to focus on meals that will assure you’re able to...