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Coffee and Sugar — Friends or Foes?

People take their coffee very seriously, or at least take their coffee ritual very seriously. For me, coffee is a part of the rhythm of my life. Drinking coffee is my first order of business every morning without exception. I begin looking forward to that first sip of coffee in...
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Great Man, Long Sit

What becomes a legend most? After prolonged incubation, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom offers the biopic's usual reply: legend itself. Bigger, louder, more expensive legend, brought to bear by the best talents and technologies of the day. The name Nelson Mandela has long been shorthand for the things Mandela shows...
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Dallas’ Six Best Cocktail Bars

With the emergence of Dallas' craft cocktail scene, bartenders -- OK, fine, mixologists -- have come to expect the city's notoriously conservative orderers utter those two magic words: "surprise me." It's an approach I've been taking more and more over the last year, and as a result I've been on...
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Island on the Screen

Whether you realize it or not, your existing knowledge about that little Caribbean nation known as Jamaica is a result of one iconic movie — and no, we’re not talking about Cool Runnings. Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come, the groundbreaking crime film set in Kingston, starred none other than...
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Your Beer Sucks? Try This.

You bought one of those home kits a couple months ago thinking maybe your special brew would be your ticket to total beer-industry domination. The reality was an epic grain-steeping, yeast-activating disaster that resulted in a concoction that’s a non-potable hops of wrath. Maybe it’s time for a little inspiration...
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My Worst Dallas Food Photos of 2013

Remember this choriqueso from El Tizoncito? The picture, taken in 2011, was so bad it gave me the idea to look at all of my photos from that year in a hunt for the worst, and it turned out that the heap of cheese and sausage one commenter likened to...
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In Trinity Groves, LUCK Needs More Skill to Survive

Those who have spent the last decade or so calling Margaret Hunt Hill's namesake a bridge to nowhere are running out of nothingness to shake their fingers at in contempt. Restaurants are sprouting out of a once-barren patch of ground in West Dallas, one after the other, each marked by...
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The Five Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, January 2-8

Well folks, we've got a slow show week upon us. Which makes sense, considering we're all taking our Christmas trees down and recovering from all the holiday hoopla that has taken over our day-to-day lives for the last couple of months. Though quantity may be low, quality is high. Between...
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Dreary 47 Ronin Falls on its Sword

Solemn as a funeral march, humorless as your junior high principal, as Japanese as a grocery-store California roll, Keanu Reeves' let's-mope-about-and-kill-ourselves samurai drama has exactly three things going for it. First, the cockeyed sensuality of Rinko Kikuchi as a spider-puking evil witch who can transform herself into a fox, a...
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The 9 Best Concerts in Dallas This Week: January 16 to 22

Things are starting to pick back up around here, Dallas. More than halfway through the first month of the year, the show calendar has returned to it's regular active programming. The week we've got lined up couldn't be a more diverse range of ground covered. Starting off, we've got one...
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The Best Movies of 2013

Here's where I write about how hard it is to draw up a 10-best list at the end of the year. Except it isn't: I think of drawing up a list as an honor and a necessity, a way of putting 12 months of moviegoing into some sort of perspective...
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Ten Movies to See in 2014

As awards season draws nearer and best-of-the-year lists keep rolling in, there's only one thing left to do: Get excited about what comes next. Here are 10 films you won't want to miss in 2014. 1. Adieu au language (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard) Jean-Luc Godard, former master of the French nouvelle...