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Chef Tell: There’s a Mouthy Bully from Dallas Named Morgan

This week on Top Chef Just Desserts Brought to You By Dawn Hand Renewal Because Dawn Hand Renewal Loves Top Chef Just Desserts, renowned cake decorator and beautiful ice queen Shinmin Li guest judged the Quickfire Challenge of edible bouquets. Dallas' own Morgan and Yigit created the top offerings (despite...
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Neon Indian

It began with a grooving, hazy track called "Deadbeat Summer," and there's no telling where it may end. Dallas' own Neon Indian stand as the chief of chillwave, an upstart subgenre that fuses laser-y synth lines, trebly beats and the chirpy blips of '80s pop with guitar flavors and lo-fi...
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Rangers-Rays: GAME 5 Preview

History isn't on the Rangers' side. But everything else is. When the Texas Rangers face the Tampa Bay Rays tonight at 7:07 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, they'll do so knowing they've never won a playoff series and that no 5-game baseball series has ever been decided via five wins...
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The Burbs

Suburbia used to be an integral part of the great American dream. Is it still? Urban sprawl and other challenges often mean that the suburbs aren't the picket fence utopias that their reputations once suggested. Disquiet: Unsettled Suburbia explores the reality of modern suburbia through photographs of suburban, middle class...
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Ba Le: Good Sandwiches, But Not Great

A couple of weeks ago, when a visit to Ba Le in Garland proved disappointing, I teased that I would be trying out the much more highly recommended outpost in Arlington. The two restaurants couldn't be more opposite. While the Garland location is a small deli take-home type of establishment...
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Best Jazz Club

Brooklyn Jazz CaféThe growth of culture on South Lamar in Dallas over the last few years has resulted in great restaurants, great concert venues, great retail and this little gem: Brooklyn Jazz Café. Home to some of the region’s established and most talked-about jazz and R&B artists, Brookyn Jazz Café has live music almost every night of […]
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Best Appetizer

Oyster Nachos at Fish City GrillScene: Fish City Grill Time: Any “R” month Dad: “Son, it was a brave man who ate the first oyster.” Son, giving it right back: “It was a brave man who ate the first anything.” Dad, smiling: “True.” Waitress: “Here’s your Oyster Nachos. Enjoy.” Dad digs in to an ample appetizer plate; Son, not so […]
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Best Scandal Redemption

Ron Washington, Texas RangersJust when Ron Washington appeared on the fast track out of Arlington after disappointing seasons in his first two years as manager, Wash saved his job by leading the Rangers to a surprising 87 wins last year, but we learned in March that he tested positive for cocaine while doing so. Despite the implausible claim […]
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Best Sports Resuscitation

Dan Beebe, Big 12 Conference commissionerWith the boxed body of the Big 12 Conference seemingly sawed into pieces and displaced from coast to coast, the embattled commissioner of our state’s prestigious football fraternity dramatically, magically reassembled the body parts into a living, breathing, working whole. The result is that the Big 12 lives, rebooted and repackaged as a leaner, stronger-than-ever […]
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Fair’s Cooking Contests Attract Young Top Chef Wannabes

Matronly home cooks clutching recipe cards inherited from their kitchen-wise grannies are no longer shoo-ins to win culinary contests at the State Fair of Texas. The number of young men competing in the various contests featuring Dr Pepper, Spam and Malt-o-Meal has been steadily increasing over the past decade, but...
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The Top 10 Worst Quarterbacks in the History of Your Dallas Cowboys

In his first NFL action in almost two years, Jon Kitna immediately served notice of one thing Monday night at Cowboys Stadium: When starting quarterback Tony Romo went down with a broken collar bone, the Cowboys' season swirled down the toilet with him. Kitna's stats don't look awful: 16 of...
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The Case Against Cliff Lee

Whether free agent Cliff Lee chooses to re-sign with the Rangers because of Arlington's proximity to his Arkansas home or bolts to New York for the extra dough, his decision undoubtedly shapes the future of both teams significantly. Yet in all that's been said and written about Lee, rarely does...
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Deerhunter’s more than just another Bradford Cox outlet.

Let's get to the heart of the matter up front: Is Deerhunter a band, or just another tool for the prolific songsmith Bradford Cox? "The band dynamic is really strong," says Moses Archuleta, drummer and Cox's co-founder in Atlanta's indie darlings, Deerhunter. "We feel really strongly about the four of...
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Bake Sale Bandits

Correction:"Come and Bake It" by Robb Walsh [February 10] originally repeated disparaging remarks about home bakeries that were incorrectly attributed to Lauren Kitchens of Fancy Cakes by Lauren in Dallas. Kitchens says she has always been a supporter of home bakeries.We regret the error._____________________ Erin Flynn is a pirate cake...
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Best Refresher

The Domino Fizz, Neighborhood Services TavernNeighborhood Services Tavern has a good thing going with New York import and general manager Jason Kosmas. He knows cocktails—from muddling to infusions, from classics to innovative recipes. In a restaurant where the food is notoriously top-notch, drinks should be just as good. Seems like common sense, but it’s not often accomplished as deftly as […]