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Oso Food & Wine Is Full of Surprises, But They’re Not All Good Ones

One of the most effective tools in a chef's arsenal is the element of surprise. Whether by disguising one dish as another to alter perception and fool the palate, or by combining flavors and textures in ways that defy expectations, these little direction-changes have a tendency to become lasting food...
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Rep. Rafael Anchia Just Released a Trinity Toll Road Survey. Why?

Just two days after winning his unopposed re-election bid, state Representative Rafael Anchia has released a survey to gauge Dallas residents' opinion of the proposed Trinity toll road. The survey was quickly pushed out on social media by opponents of the toll road such as City Council member Scott Griggs,...
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Dallas Metal Band Wo Fat Get Unlikely NPR Nod for The Conjuring

Since 2006, Dallas-based metal band Wo Fat has seared ears around the globe. Make no mistake: This trio, consisting of Kent Stump, Tim Wilson and Michael Walter, isn't offering up simple hard-rock that's just hard enough to be considered metal. According to the group's Facebook page, "Psychedelic Doom" is how...
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Michael Gruber Puts a Dallas Spin on DJing Stars Hockey

Going to a hockey game is fun for a lot of reasons: The breakneck pace of the game, the physical game play, the fights, the goals and the music. Let's face it: Hockey has always had a bit of a leg up on the other North American sports for music...
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Rafael Anchia Just Wants to Confirm That No One Wants a Trinity Toll Road

Last week, we told you about an internet survey pushed out by Dallas state representative Rafael Anchia asking residents their opinion about the Trinity Toll Road. We speculated that Anchia's sudden interest might signal forthcoming action in Austin, likely an attempt by supporters to fund the currently unfunded (and unneeded)...
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My Worst Food Photos of 2014

It's that time again. Every year since taking this gig, I've engaged in the self-effacing act of examining my photography skills over the previous 12 months. This is of note because I am one of the worst food photographers that has ever graced media digital or otherwise, ever. In my...
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Eric Williams Guilty of Capital Murder In Kaufman County DA Case

He didn't do it. That's what Eric Williams' defense boiled down to. Despite the storage locker filled with weapons and survival gear, the getaway car bought using an assumed name, the emailed confession that came from his house and the bullet found in his possession that came from the same...
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-Topic is the Great Facilitator of Dallas Hip-Hop

A few blocks down from the intersection of Washington Street and San Jacinto Road, outside Bryan Street Apartments, Donny Domino loiters on his phone. He's speaking to Freddy Sans, the producer/engineer-directed singer, at the Dojo 45 recording studio. It is here that the Team From Nowhere sound is created and...
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Transportation Planners to Combat Hatred of Toll Lanes With Fabulous Prizes

OK, North Texas. Regional transportation planners have heard your shrill, anti-toll battle cry. They know you will not countenance a speculative private toll road that inexplicably runs from Wylie to Greenville. They also know you also hate those new "managed lane" thingies, which essentially charge drivers for using highway space...
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DC9 at Night Mixtape with JT Donaldson

JT Donaldson is something of a jack of all trades. Partner of Josey Records, globetrotting DJ, occasional promoter and a prolific producer. He jumpstarted a lengthy career in house music with the "Duality" single on DJ Cajmere's legendary Chicago house label Casual records in 1996 and has continued to churn...
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Rosewater Is Outraged, Cinematic — and Even Funny

During a 2009 Daily Show interview with Maziar Bahari, the Canadian-Iranian journalist who, earlier that year, had been imprisoned in Iran for 118 days on espionage charges, Jon Stewart said, "We hear a lot about the banality of evil, but so little about the stupidity of evil." Or about its...
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Marion Cotillard Wins — Twice — in Our 2014 Film Critics’ Poll

What kind of circle is time again? A year after blowing the doors off our annual critics’ poll, golden boy Matthew McConaughey won just a single vote for his turn in the loudest movie of the year, Christopher Nolan’s tears-in-space effort Interstellar, which has tied with the unprescient Transcendence as...
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Beers Under 8 Percent ABV Are a Waste of Time

Recently, my esteemed colleague wrote about the lack of available and palatable session beers, those beers that can be drunk during a long hot summer's day. Do you know what I say? The lack of session beers is simply a sign that we're all going in the right direction. I...
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Blue Bell’s Listeria Problem Is a Sticky Mess

As he pulled out of Brenham's Blue Bell factory without any ice cream in the back of his delivery truck in April, Tim Smith (not his real name) couldn't shake the feeling he was forgetting something. After almost a decade of delivering ice cream for Blue Bell, Smith had been...
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The Best North Texas Metal Albums of 2014

2014 was a good year for Dallas metal. While it wasn't as prolific as years past, the Dallas metal scene's output still possessed a depth of quality. Death metal, thrash, hardcore-punk-influenced metal, heavy metal and sludge were all represented by this year's class of Dallas metal releases. Some could be...