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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 49: LA Han Bat

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 are plenty of Korean restaurants in the Dallas area that serve shul...
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Best Tattoo Artists in Dallas: Travis Clancy

Travis Clancy’s studio, located in an off-the-beaten-path warehouse district in Plano, is a stunning combination of recording studio and tattoo shop. It looks nothing like the semi-sketchy shops where most of us got our first piece of art — the barbed wire wrapped around the arm or small butterfly on...
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Why Can’t We Be Better to Animals?

I'm having a really hard time with the death of the Dallas Zoo's baby giraffe, Kipenzi. Earlier this month, I lugged a video camera out to the Zoo, a place I hadn't set foot in such childhood. To my mind, these baby animals were symbols not just of what attracts...
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Armoury D.E.’s Csavargó Proves Sandwiches Can Still Surprise

The Csavargó is the kind of sandwich that could anchor a restaurant, but unless you’ve ventured into Deep Ellum lately, you’ve probably never heard of it. In fact, if you haven’t been down there since spring, you likely wouldn’t recognize the neighborhood, thanks to all the bars and restaurants that...
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Dallas Has Hundreds of Airbnb Hosts. Two of Them Pay Their Taxes.

Back in March, The Dallas Morning News introduced us to Pam Mueller. Mueller, we learned, is a mild-mannered M Streets resident who has taken to renting out the other side of her small duplex on Airbnb, the short-term rental website that has, along with Uber, become synonymous with the "sharing economy." "It's more fun...
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13 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1

Thursday, Oct. 29 Kyle Abraham: Abraham in Motion Kyle Abraham’s work is inclusive, any way you look at it. It’s inclusive of different art forms: dance (obviously, as he’s a choreographer), music, and visual art; it blends performers of different ethnicities; it mixes classical elements with contemporary; it weaves social...
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Rapscallion Takes Southern Food to New Places

If you scored an 800 on the verbal side of your SAT, you might know that "rapscallion" is an archaic term used to define a mischievous character. The rest of us are glad the Oxford English Dictionary is still available for free online. Without some help, we'd be forced to...
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Don’t Be That Guy: How to Get Your Band Some Publicity

As music journalists, we come into contact with every industry stereotype imaginable. From the most humble rockstars, to the divas, to the wannabe music bloggers and the overly confident promoters — we've seen them all. It's tempting to feel cheated when you pour so much of your energy into creating...
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Resurrected From The Dead, Trees is Thriving Six Years Later

Throughout its long and storied history as perhaps Dallas’ most famous entertainment district, Deep Ellum has seen a tremendous amount of change. Its existence has been a series of ebb and flow circles, massive booms and even bigger busts. In the neighborhood’s most recent major heydey, the 1990s, Deep Ellum,...
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10 Books to Read This Fall

Fall creeps into Dallas this month with everything pumpkin and, if we're lucky, glorious weather. The temperatures are dropping below 80 degrees more often and you might just see a few leaves turn to orange. And if you find this weather, makes your want to curl up with a good...
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Mary (yes, that Mary) is often portrayed as obedient, peaceful and poised, but what happens when we dig deeper? When an author sets out to create a humanized version of our beloved virgin? The result is Irish author Colm Tóibín’s short novel, The Testament of Mary. In it, Tóibín brings...
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Mike Miles Quits Dallas ISD

Dallas ISD's embattled superintendent gave up the fight Tuesday morning, resigning his post after almost three years on the job. In May, Miles survived an attempt by the Dallas ISD board to remove him from his post, but there were signals at the time that he may have held on...