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Little Katana

Little Katana is an inventive offshoot of the tiny sushi bar in the Galleria expanded to a full kitchen that prepares dishes with Japanese, Korean and Thai influences. In addition to fresh and relatively inexpensive sushi, Little Katana offers a variety of steaks and other meats cooked on a custom-engineered grill to tame the intense […]
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Tillman’s Roadhouse

For years, Tillman’s Roadhouse felt like it was playing second fiddle. As crowds swarmed other Bishop Arts restaurants on Friday nights and Sunday brunchtimes, Tillman’s often seemed a little neglected. When new owners, brothers Jeffrey and Ross Kollinger, purchased Tillman’s, they appeared to be aware of this reputation. The first order of business was a […]
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Masala Wok

This is where South Asian meets the rest of the East, resulting in Indo-Chinese hybrid dishes like the rice n noodles, a combination of masala noodles and fried rice with a choice of chicken, paneer or shrimp. For those who prefer to keep their cuisines geographically separated by, say, the Himalayas, three expected options are […]
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Dallas PD’s New Right-to-Photograph Rules Are Seriously Watered Down

When Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, last visited Dallas in October, local law enforcement seemed damn near progressive in its approach to dealing with citizen photographers. Dallas police and the Dallas County Sheriff's Office didn't just encourage officers to attend the seminar he'd helped organize,...
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Details Emerge In Flower Mound “White Power” Sign Incident

The results of Lewisville ISD's investigation into "White Power" signs in the Flower Mound High School student section during last Friday's basketball game against Plano East are in. And what did the district find? Basic dumbassery among young idiots. Surprise! Here's the timeline, according to the district:...
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Roy’s

Famous Hawaiian chef Roy Yamaguchi (he has a TV show and 32 restaurants bearing his name) brings his island-Asian-Cal-Gallic rumba to the land of lone stars and two-stepping steers with mostly satisfying results. The menu changes nightly except for a couple of worthy stalwarts like the Ahi Tuna poketini,” a kind of raw tuna and […]
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South Side Music Hall

The Gilley’s Dallas Complex, home to The South Side Music Hall, is located just a few blocks south of downtown near the Convention Center. Opened in 2003 a few years after a fire gutted the original Gilley’s in Pasadena, Texas, Gilley’s Dallas has “El Toro,” the original mechanical bull made famous in Urban Cowboy, much […]
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Amy Summons Up All That Amy Winehouse Was

The death of Amy Winehouse, in July 2011, at age 27, was one of the first great tragedies of 21st-century pop music, an event — like the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain in the last decade of the 20th — that emphasized the jarring contrast between the fragility...
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Meddlesome Moth

Keith Schlabs and Shannon Wynne, the team behind the Flying Saucer craft-beer chain, have upped their suds game. In 2010, they opened this gastropub with 40 rotating drafts, two cask ales and more than 85 bottles, all of which can be expertly paired with chef Chad Kelley’s high-end pub grub. The restaurant is also the […]
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So, You Wanna Be an Artist?

So many art shows purport to be “immersive,” but they’re really just “engaging.” The art is all around you — you see it, you feel it, you hear it even, but largely the art doesn’t really involve you beyond your viewing of it. PrismCo’s PRISM, on the other hand, is...
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What Dallas Chefs Drink at Work, and After It

The kitchen is unlike any other workplace out there. You can yell at your coworkers, you get paid to play with fire, and in some cases, it’s totally acceptable to take a nip of something boozy in the middle of your shift. This may be part of the chef archetype,...
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The Best FIFA Scandal Lawsuit Was Filed in Fort Worth

The corruption charges unveiled in New York last month against more than a dozen international soccer bigwigs shook FIFA to its core, but the long arm of American justice somehow missed longtime FIFA President Joseph "Sepp" Blatter, the world's most notorious sportocrat. Those hoping that Blatter will experience a comeuppance...
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AllGood Cafe

If you designed the diner of your dreams, and you happened to be from south-central Texas rather than, say, New York or the Midwest, the result would look a lot like AllGood Cafe. The food here adds gentle Texan touches to American classics, like the fat slices of roasted poblano pepper in the terrific grilled […]
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Adrift Float Spa

Floatation therapy takes place in a floatation tank (also called a sensory deprivation tank or isolation tank) containing 10 inches of super-concentrated Epsom salt & water solution. Our floatation cabins contain 270 gallons of water and 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt each. The density of the water makes it possible to effortlessly float on the […]
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Bbbop’s Chicken Is the Stuff of Obsession

One shot. Most dishes I encounter during my food explorations get one chance to make an impression before they're captured in my notebook and churned into words. Dallas is filled with interesting restaurants and has too many menus with too many dishes for me to give mediocre plates a second...
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Denton Artist Changed Tracks from Tagging Trains to Making Murals

It started in Waco. Mick Burson, 16 at the time, watched freight trains decorated with graffiti roll past him. The markings felt free to him. They represented a breed of art that wasn't self-serving or introspective, but mobile, liberated. He absorbed these inscriptions and wondered where the artists were from...
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Study Shows City Can’t Afford to Save Historic Piece of Public Art

After long debate over the viability of restoring a piece of public art at White Rock Lake created by Frances Bagley and Tom Orr, the city revealed the results of an engineering study today that estimates a full restoration would cost $198,375. Considering the limited funds the city has for...
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The News Has Never Come Faster or Harder, and Nobody Cares

Strictly from a newspaper point of view and comparing today with maybe 40 years ago, current events are re-writing the basic rules of what we in the business have always called call "story sense." Forty years ago it would have been major front-page news for researchers to find a geological...
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Texas Threatening to Do Some Progressive Criminal Justice Reform

Amid what's been a massive bummer of a Texas legislative session, the search for silver linings has been difficult. Over the past week, though, a solid contender has developed: the chance for meaningful criminal justice reform. Specifically, a pair of efforts that would make it easier for ex-offenders to secure...
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Big Changes Are Coming to Dallas County’s Godawful Truancy Courts

Dallas County used to be pretty damn proud of how it handled truancy cases. In a 2005 letter to then-Attorney General Greg Abbott, District Attorney Bill Hill wrote with evident satisfaction of the swiftness and ferocity with which students were punished for chronic absenteeism. In 1996, a year after Texas...