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Take a Walk on the Pastry Side

When it comes to gingerbread houses, we’ve been slumming it. Last year’s gingerbread house was slapped together on Christmas Eve — we eschewed the recommended allotted time to allow the icing to cement and so things got a little dicey. The result: a gingerbread crack house. Our resident 3-year-old conducted...
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The 10 Best Mexican-American Musicians from Texas

Cinco de Mayo is the day when a relatively small section of Mexico celebrates a victory over the French in 1862 at the Battle of Puebla. Of course, this being America, we look for anything and everything to exploit in honor of the almighty dollar and the almighty excuse to...
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In Danny Collins, Pacino Stares Down His Stardom

Some years ago, I went to see Tom Jones perform. He sang all the hits, but I was unnerved by his new, walnut-brown goatee. It looked freshly trimmed and fake, like he'd ripped it off Evil Spock backstage. Superstars aren't allowed to change. Even the fans who love them insist...
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Pop-Up Record Stores are the Latest Vinyl Boom to Hit Dallas

Early on Saturday morning a group of crate diggers roll into a church parking lot on Columbia Ave. They pay a small cover charge to walk into a big room with boxes of 25 cent vinyl on the floor and a few private retailers with boxes of premium but reasonably...
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Bravura Anthology Wild Tales Lays Bare Everyone’s Awfulness

There are two kinds of humanist movie. One kind shows human beings struggling against the most unspeakable horrors, sorrows or injustices and still, somehow, emerging with their essential goodness intact. The second, thornier type gives us people doing terrible things to one another — screaming, cheating, and generally making life...
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Anchia Survey Finds That Everybody Hates the Damn Trinity Toll Road

The results are in from state Representative Rafael Anchia's survey of Dallas residents' feelings about the Trinity toll road. They are exactly what you'd expect. Of 1,014 respondents who reported Dallas ZIP codes, only 42 said they supported the toll road, and 955 were against the toll road and. Somewhat...
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Feds Bust Man Behind Dallas-Based Steroids Website

If you were going to buy steroids online, Trusted Anabolic Solutions seems like a pretty good bet. According to online reviews, TAS offered a good product, discreet packaging, and fantastic customer service from someone going by "Big H." Then, a few weeks ago, something went awry. On Muscle Gurus, jilted...
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Taming Dade: The Fall and Rise of Dallas’ Worst Public School

The fight started on the third floor right before fifth period, when the kids were still buzzing from lunch and hardest to manage. Jennifer Duggins, a Spanish teacher, was monitoring the hallway outside her classroom when a surge of students rushed passed her and disappeared around the corner into an...
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The Can’t Miss Events at the Inaugural Soluna Festival

This week the Dallas Symphony Orchestra brings to life its newest project. The Soluna Festival packs music, art, dance and storytelling into a three-week extravaganza. There's a lot to chose from, and the website is beautiful but unfriendly, so we asked our classical music writer, Jonathan Patrick to sink his...
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The Penn Is Mightier, but The Gunman Is Strained

In the action thriller The Gunman, Sean Penn, at age 54, looks neither old nor young. He's been in training to look this age for a long time. Even as a relative kid, in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, his sailor-on-shore-leave mug had a wry, quizzical roughness to it;...
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Claire Morales Mines Her Inner Perfectionist on “Prettier”

Amid the clatter of diner plates, Claire Morales methodically eviscerates her waffle into equal-sized square morsels, explaining that she's trying to be a "cutting ahead" waffle person instead of a "cut as you go" type. As a graphic designer by trade, it's definitely not the strangest habit she could have...