Two years go I stumbled upon Petit Prince, a session ale with very low alcohol content brewed by the Jester King Brewery, outside of Austin. I used the discovery to launch a discussion on what makes beers sessionable, and why they were so hard to find. Two weekends ago a...
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To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I know Tom's Burgers and Grill is good because I reviewed...
Sunday is National Ice Cream Day. Don't say we didn't warn you. Carnival Barker's You can actually stop looking for ice cream now. All you really need to know is that Carnival Barker's, creator Aaron Barker's ice cream shop at Truck Yard (it doesn't roll away), is serving the flavor...
Think about this night at the theater like you would any other one night stand. Except perhaps this time you'll have wiled away the hours with a lively, charming man you won't regret in the morning. For years, Rawlins Gilliland was a welcome voice on public radio, telling stories with...
Hell took a few days off. It's hibernating. Taking a well-earned nap. It must have gone on a date or something. Maybe it's at the ballpark cheering on its favorite baseball team, the New York Yankees. Point is, the hellish Texas heat isn't terrorizing the citizens of the Valley Ranch...
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Stock and Barrel’s New America
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Alex Smith is the executive director of the North Texas Behavioral Health Authority, the agency that oversees the North Texas public mental health care system. He's made his living deciphering the ins and outs of the very messy system here, and is well versed in what it takes to properly...
On the evening of July 13, 2010, a 36-year-old woman checked into the emergency room of Lake Pointe Medical Center in Rowlett. She was suffering from a painful infection on her left leg, the result of untreated poison ivy, but that was relatively low on her list of concerns. As...
In downtown Portland, Powell's Books stretches the length of a city block. Inside, hundreds of wooden bookshelves stuffed to the brim with everything from classic literature to engineering manuals keep crowds of regulars and tourists engrossed. When you go to Portland, you have to go to Powell's. Even readers who...
From the outside, the Dallas arts world is filled with enigmas. Certain projects, galleries, or even artists, demand definition or exposition or at the very least a label that says, "This is art." Two puzzlers linked arms last month, skipping into the much deserved spotlight. The local anachronistic zine, semigloss...
If an angry homeowner-turned-environmental-activist keeps getting vindicated by research, but all the important government people just ignore it, does the research make a sound? Probably not. Steve Lipsky, the homeowner in Parker County who became famous for being able to set his water on fire after Range Resources started drilling...
You have to hand it to James McAvoy, who has made a career out of his amiable, boyish good looks; in Filth, he destroys that image. As Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, he's a booze-bloated, greasy wreck who appears about 20 years older, all busted capillaries and shit-eating grin. He's not...
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This is the week something should happen in the now 5-year-old dispute between the city of Dallas and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over HUD's landmark segregation complaint against Dallas. HUD and the city have been jaw-boning each other for several weeks now over what Dallas must...
"They are all untitled, and I think he did it on purpose, so as to minimize preconceptions that might influence anyone looking at them," curator Dr. Karin Oen tells me as she walks me through the installation of artist Shen Wei's exhibition at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. The...
For once, going back to work on a Monday comes with a pay-off in sight: This week we'll get a three-day weekend, courtesy of Labor Day falling a week from today. So that, at least, is something to take comfort in. What else is there to be excited about? Why,...
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Steel City Pops Sizzle and Chill
Earth to Echo is a slender kiddie flick about a quartet of preteens and their palm-sized alien pal that’s at once bland, well-intentioned and utterly terrifying about the mental development of modern children. As in the most honest kids films, our 5-foot heroes admit to being isolated, unhappy and cowed...
We all know that country music, by and large, isn't the most progressive of musical genres. With loudmouth GOP musicians like Charlie Daniels and Hank Williams Jr., it's easy to forget that country music isn't all about trucks, America and hating President Obama. Believe it or not, there are surprisingly...
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Ninety-nine point nine percent of what urban planner Larry Beasley says is brilliant, and usually when I do think I've got him being wrong on some point, it's because I'm not being brilliant. It always turns out to be something I misinterpreted. That said, I think he may be one...
There is a YouTube clip, jerky and brief, posted by his mother, showing Wilmer-Hutchins High School's Troy Causey Jr. going head-to-head against Madison's Johnathan Turner. Causey opens the game with a put-back jam. Turner responds with one on the other end. Two months later, on March 23, Dallas police say...
Life isn't fair. It's why kids starve. It's why puppies suffer. It's why the people who live next to Cityplace will soon also be living next to a 130,000-square-foot Sam's Club. Dallas' City Plan Commission confirmed this afternoon that yep, the big box Trammell Crow has planned for the corner...
Has it really been a year? Have 12 months really passed since The Dallas Morning News trolled us all with its rich, lily-white and generally boring Best Neighborhoods list? No, it's been 11. But the paper apparently couldn't wait the extra 30 days, so eager it was to roll out...