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Mi Cocina vs Carolina’s Mexican Cuisine: Mole Melee

Like so many of the world's most famous dishes, the true origins of mole are shrouded by time. Is it, as many insist, from Puebla or did cooks in Oaxaca first concoct the spicy bitter chocolate sauce? Maybe it was created by nuns. Some say it resulted from a kitchen...
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Question Of The Week: Are Foods Over-Regulated?

Not that there shouldn't be a watchful eye--or several watchful eyes--looking out for us, given outbreaks of E. coli and such. But groups like Centers for Science in the Public Interest would like to bar us from fast foods, butter and other threats. There was a campaign against foie gras...
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The Dodos, Ruby Sun

After the breakthrough success of 2007's Visiter by San Francisco psychedelic folk group The Dodos, frontman Meric Long stated that, for his next album, he "wanted to make a rock record." And what better way for the acoustic-based duo to accomplish this feat than to become a trio? Although the...
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Best Use Of Butter And Cream

Central 214Blythe Beck, chef at this ground-level space in the Hotel Palomar, doesn’t believe in treading lightly. There’s no 2 percent milk in her kitchen, no low-cal dinners on her menu. And no way in hell will she even go near I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. Nope, she fries just about everything. And in her […]
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Best Pro Coach

Rick Carlisle, MavericksYuck, what’s that? Sorry, please excuse the tarnish on the hardware, but this award is sorta by default. How can it not be? Ron Washington almost got fired. Wade Phillips should’ve been fired. Dave Tippett did get fired. Not sure who FC Dallas’ coach is these days, but considering their utter irrelevance, he likely will […]
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Question Of The Week: If An Item Carries The “Official [Food/Drink] Of The Dallas Cowboys” Label, Are You Persuaded To Buy It?

So I got the idea for this week's question after reading Karen Robinson-Jacobs' piece about Jerry Jones and sponsorships in the Dallas Morning News. Seems that the Cowboys now have an official beer (of course), several official soft drinks, an official pizza, official coffee, official bottled water--even an official guacamole.Obviously...
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Best Blog

D Magazine's Inside CornerWhen The Dallas Morning News told longtime Texas Rangers scribe Evan Grant that he’d be moving into a group of several Dallas Cowboys beat writers resulting from the paper’s agreement to share sports coverage with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he decided it was time to ply his craft someplace else. He found an unlikely partner […]
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Best Marriage of Cattle and Quail

The Dirty Love Burger at the Love ShackAfter we watched Fort Worth’s Tim Love on Top Chef Masters, he truly earned our respect. He made an impressive trio of dishes—in a dorm room—with accidentally frozen ingredients. But it’s away from the cameras and back in the Stockyards kitchens where Love really impresses. His flavor profiles aren’t overly complex combinations that shock the […]
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DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 23: HYMNS

...and for the Youtube-inclined, here's your link.Fresh off a three-star review Rolling Stone review of its new EP, Appaloosa, Brooklyn-based retro-rock outfit HYMNS stopped by to participate in our ongoing DC9 in SPACE series last Wednesday night, offering up toned-down versions of the new EP's songs while also sharing a...
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The Price of Payoffs | SF Treat VS. Dallas Heat

"Guilty," by Sam Merten and Jim Schutze,October 15 The Price of Payoffs Who's forcing white people to pay off minorities? That's just ridiculous. Everybody has a choice. Politicians have a choice to act in the best interests of themselves or the best interests of their constituents. Southern Dallas voters have...
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Cirque Du Freak: There’s No Pulse in This Confuse Vampire Tale

Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass cult followings of the Twilight saga and HBO's True Blood. However, the only authentic vampires in this first (and, I can all but...
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The Secret Machines,…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

The Secret Machines have been through a lot in the past two years. Although their first two albums received favorable reviews, disappointing sales cost them their major-label backing. Also came the news that founding member Benjamin Curtis was leaving the band to focus on his School of Seven Bells side...