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At Sakhuu, You’re Welcomed

If you're not a social person, if you'd rather quietly eat at a table alone and enjoy peaceful solitude while you dine out, you might have a hard time enjoying yourself at Sakhuu Thai Cuisine, the new restaurant on Bryan Street that quietly opened earlier this fall. You might want...
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Rage Against the Machinima

The video entitled "Thank you, I will miss you guys" is barely more than a minute long — all one shaky handheld shot trained on the face of then-21-year-old Ben Vacas. Vacas, known online as Braindeadly, has big brown eyes, a fauxhawk, a stubbly goatee and a British accent, discernible...
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James Bond, Out of Time

Attention, Eon Productions, Daniel Craig and Heineken: James Bond is not a beer drinker! Sure, I know. Getting all worked up about the new James Bond installment is like freaking out about a new Tim Burton movie — past glories don't justify contemporary relevance. The year 2012 marks 50 years...
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All Sides Are Pissed at City Council as Fracking Debate Comes to a Head

Over Thanksgiving weekend, the Morning News' Randy Lee Loftis posed a question we'd been wondering about ourselves: Just what the hell happened to that fracking ordinance the City Council was supposed to pass, the one that would finally and completely resolve all those unanswered questions about gas drilling within the...
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Ask Fan Landers: Should My Weird Band Hire a Publicist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to...
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Don’t Kneel Before Cod: Reviewing The Three Lions Food Truck

Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they're peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we're ranking Dallas' food trucks to sort out which one's are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow...
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Dallas Police Officer Fatally Shoots Himself While Cleaning Gun

Dallas Police Chief David Brown sent word yesterday evening that Christopher Pasley, a five-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department died yesterday "as a result of an apparent accidental discharge while cleaning his weapon at home." "The Department's Employee Relations Team has been activated to coordinate assistance to the family...
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Top Chef: Seattle Episode 5 Recap: The Ginger Curse Is Real

Episode 5 starts out at Pike Place Market, and the chefs have to make breakfast for the QuickFire. And Padmaboobz's wearing a lot of layers and pants, so you immediately know that this episode is taking the highway to meh. Things start to maybe possibly look up when Valentine and...
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Major League Baseball’s Screwball Economics

Police in riot gear guard the dugouts, preparing for the worst with German shepherds at heel. This is Philadelphia in 1980, after all. It's the top of the ninth. Two strikes. Two out. Bases loaded. Human rocket Willie Wilson of the Kansas City Royals hugs the plate, curiously dressed in...
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Mike Miles versus The World

This is a good time to reflect on the difficulty of finding truth in the battle over school reform in Dallas, because at this moment I don't seem to be able to get through the front door. I am standing on the parking lot at James Madison High School on...
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Les Miserables Doesn’t Dream Daringly

You can hear the people sing — really hear them — in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the standard practice of having the actors in a film musical lip-synch their songs to prerecorded tracks, director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) insisted that all of...
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A Girl Named Richard

The reason I moved to Dallas in the first place was due to the inexplicable love of a very fine woman indeed; an internationally in-demand scientist, in fact. She, like me a Brit, got offered two jobs in one day, one in Seattle and one in Dallas. We chose Dallas...
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The Ten Best Nick Cave Songs

People of Dallas! One of the greatest singer-songwriters of his generation is coming to our fair city in March, and the tickets haven't sold out yet. I know they're $80, but come on. He's very unlikely to come back again, and for some reason that no one can explain he's...
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Dallas’ Best Visual Art of 2012

Mixmaster art critic Betsy Lewis picks her favorite works of the year: BEST PIECES "Aragh," Morehshin Allahyari and Richie Budd, from "Monstrous Coupling" at UT-Dallas Allahyari's and Budd's "Aragh," from UT Dallas' high-spirited exhibition "Monstrous Coupling," mixed political commentary with simplicity of execution and a complex concept. Three mundane objects...