Toasts are kind of a big deal these days, if you haven’t heard. Perhaps it’s their visual appeal compared with traditional sandwiches — those colorful and vivid ingredients exposed to light. Or maybe it’s that toasts have half the carbohydrate load of their fully breaded counterparts. For whatever reason, toasts...
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In his 1965 dissertation, Geoffrey Gorer wrote of the “ethical duty to enjoy oneself” that seemed to permeate Americans’ collective attitude toward death. This attitude, Gorer explained, contributed to the rejection of public displays of grief and mourning. Analogously, this attitude has the potential to explain Americans’ relatively recent and...
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5 of Dallas’ Best Desserts
Here's a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just...
Last night, nearly 350 of Dallas’ biggest foodies helped Chefs for Farmers kick off their 2015 season by drinking a lot of summer punch and gorging on street food. The Mix Off, held in downtown event center, DEC on Dragon, was a competition including five of Dallas’ best sous chefs...
Newspapers are dead, except in the hearts of anyone who has ever loved them — which means there are still narrow slivers of hope. One of them now comes to us in the form of a movie: Tom McCarthy’s bold, shirtsleeve-sturdy newsroom drama Spotlight, which shows how a team of...
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Schlitz is the beer that made Milwaukee famous — we don't know what for exactly, or anyone who drinks Schlitz, for that matter, but never mind that. Anheuser-Busch was once the heart of St. Louis. Now it's the appendix of Belgian-Brazilian consortium InBev. Anchor Steam is San Francisco's iconic brew,...
Ron Pinkston says Dallas cops are in danger. When the Dallas Police Department releases the names of officers who kill a member of the public, things get even worse, the Dallas Police Association president claims, so he wants DPD to stop doing that. Anti-police activists are "calling for the killing...
It's not easy, turning a few hundred acres of environmentally contaminated landfill in a long-neglected semi-rural pocket of southern Dallas into a top-of-the-line golf course. But Dallas does not do things because they are easy; it does them because they seem world-class. And so, three years ago, Mayor Mike Rawlings and...
Complaining that you’re bored is, well, boring. In all likelihood, your boredom is more related to the fact that you’re not reading and enriching your booze-rotted brain than any real lack of arts and culture in Dallas. There is plenty to do, even if sometimes you do have to look...
Adam Sandler’s latest movie Pixels didn’t just feel like what we’ve come to expect from the mediocre movie star who churns out comedies the way that Hostess spits out Twinkies. Pixels felt like something that we as a society allowed to happen. Sandler didn’t do this to us. We did...
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Welcome to DFW: Eat This!
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It’s not “balanced” journalism if you compare the right big toe to the left big toe but neglect to mention the elephant. The elephant in the room of school reform here and nationwide has always been seniority pay. With distinguished intellectual defenders like author Diane Ravitch as their standard-bearers and...
It should probably go without saying that the University of Texas should not have been admitting unqualified candidates. The place that anyone but an Aggie will tell you is the crown jewel of the Texas higher education system should, at a bare minimum, require that those admitted by able to...
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Most Italian beef sandwiches sold in Dallas are exactly the same. Chicago-based Vienna...
“In the beginning was the stone and the stone prompted ownership” is how Fiston Mwanza Mujilla’s Tram 83 opens. An epigraph that serves as an elusive foreshadowing of the story that follows. The stone in question is a diamond, African diamonds, to be specific, which have prompted a diamond-rush in...
We were getting a little bit testy. Last winter, country mega star Garth Brooks announced that he was finally heading out on the road after a 15-years hiatus from touring. Except there weren't any dates in Dallas. Then he changed his mind and came to Dallas anyway — but only...
In 2001, under pressure from police and politicians, then-Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill launched a highly publicized crackdown on illegal eight-liner parlors that had sprung up like ragweed in dingy storefronts in Dallas and suburbs. Toby Shook, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, remembers Hill assembling reporters at a...
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Despite a vibrant and burgeoning film community here in Dallas (thanks Dallas Film Society, Texas Theatre, Video Association of Dallas and the many, many others who make it happen) we tend to pay a great deal of attention to what’s new while more or less neglecting the old. We can...
For Internet junkies, it's been difficult to avoid Google's "Deep Dream" software, for which the company recently released its open source code. From everything we know, basically what it does is send an picture or a video through a microcosm of the Internet, allowing it to gather new data along...
Now that she has returned from the lengthy mental-health sabbatical that put a bold-faced exclamation point on her remarkably tumultuous first several months in office, Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk is projecting an air of super-competence. Not only is she fielding the public’s questions (and quite deftly, by all...
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