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Tips For The Best Burgers You’ll Ever Grill At Home

Summer is gone, and standing beside a hot grill no longer feels like an act of torture. That means it's time to fire up the charcoal, and one of the easiest way to coax the most flavor out of your kettle grill is by cooking top-notch burgers. Skip the preformed...
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The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Astronautalis, Friday, October 5, at Granada Theater This time last year, former North Texas rapper Astronautalis had just released his 11-track gem, This Is Our Science. This Friday, he opens for Flobots, a Denver-based prog hip-hop group signed to Motown Records. On his website, Astronautalis encourages you to be proactive:...
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How to Survive a Plague Recounts a Stirring History of ACT UP

In his filmmaking debut, journalist David France assembles a thoroughly reported chronicle of ACT UP's most vital era, from the direct-action group's founding in 1987 (six years into the AIDS epidemic) through 1995. Expertly compiled from hundreds of hours of archival footage — depicting fractious meetings, infamous demonstrations like 1989's...
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Ten Bells Proves When Creating Menus Smaller Is Often Better

Menu size makes a difference, but unlike other matters where bigger is better (wallets), smaller is preferred when it comes to designing a restaurant's offering. The first thing I noticed when I checked out Ten Bells Tavern during my first visit was that I didn't have to think a lot...
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A Visual Narrative

Trapped within a prepackaged cubical at an anonymous office, Irving artist Richard Ross felt his fingers type the beginning of a sentence, the beginning of something: The road to the store. He didn’t know why his fingers chose that path across the keyboard, as though they’d deciphered an ancient dance...
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Why That Rothko Vandal is a Wimp

The room containing Rothko's Seagram collection is considered an immersion experience. Nine paintings line the walls of the secluded viewing area inside the Tate Modern, making up the first series where the artist's goal was to surround and intimidate the viewer. Originally these paintings had been commissioned by the Four...
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Look At This Gorgeous Bench, Constructed Out Of Salvaged Items

I love this curvacious bench, which has its formal debutante reveal tonight on the corner of Pittman and Fort Worth Avenue at 7 p.m. It's a new piece of public art, meant to gussy up the exterior corner of Chicken Scratch's property, improving pedestrian conditions along the South Dallas strip...
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Fashion Star Wants To Put Dallas Designers on Network Television

Our local fashion designers spend their lives toiling over pleats and hemlines. It's often a thanklessly driven mission. Long nights fine-tuning each stitch results in little payback unless the market drive exists to purchase those looks, and it should. Dallas is bursting at the seams with talent. This Sunday, July...
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Cloud Atlas: Your Past Lives Probably Didn’t Love It, Either

The trailer for Cloud Atlas, the gargantuan new movie of David Mitchell's 2004 novel that took two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer to adapt, looks less like a preview than a whole slate of coming attractions, so many and varied are the times and places that it touches down. The...