The independent coffeehouse serves espresso-based drinks, smoothies and panini.

This Thanksgiving, the bird shouldn't bust your budget. Dining guy Bud Kennedy talks turkey about where to go and what to order.

When there's no fennel for your recipe, will an artichoke substitution make or break this roast salmon?

In the crowded field of chicken-wing emporiums, Pluckers stands leg and wing above the rest.

Doing the "Big Nasty" with Chubby’s

Graced with a scalpel-sharp wit and Texas troubadour's voice, Lovett is a wonderfully distinctive force of nature.

A look at new releases from John Mayer, Them Crooked Vultures and Leona Lewis

Fort Worth-born but Austin-based singer-songwriter Collin Herring is in a far better place now than he was when making his gripping third album, "Past Life Crashing," although you wouldn't necessarily know it from listening to the just-released "Ocho."

Some women cut their hair after the end of a relationship, looking for a change. Norah Jones didn't clip her locks, but she did shake up her sound.

Norah Jones’ post-breakup 'Fall’ explores new sounds with success.

Crafters unload their holiday wares

The talked-about traveling bio-circus, in which more than 250 actual human specimens and individual organs are on display to show how biology works, makes its first visit to Texas with a five-month run at Dallas’ West End Marketplace beginning Saturday.

Irritated by Santa Claus, who's always giving away toys for free, the DeBiggy toy company gets a judge to outlaw him altogether. Things do not look good for the toy-loving children of the world - until a rag-tag band of kids steps in to save Christmas.

Your entertainment options range from the crystalline beauty of Ice! at the Gaylord Texan to the giddy geekdom of YuleCon.

Who says you have to go to San Diego for Comic-Con to get your comics fix? You don't even have to leave Tarrant County, thanks to YuleCon, which opens Friday at the Radisson Hotel Fort Worth North-Fossil Creek and runs through Sunday.

Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.

The Lone Star International Film Festival concluded its third edition last Sunday, and by most estimations it was a success.

"New Moon" is elegant and occasionally moving - a leap beyond last year's Twilight.

It would be wonderful to say that director John Lee Hancock has fashioned an elegant bookend to his 2002 baseball movie, "The Rookie." No such luck.

This week's question: Tim McGraw stars in the new film "The Blind Side"; this is the second football-themed movie for the country singer. What was the first?

The actor-comedian makes his home movies a moving portrait of a fascinating and loving family.

The concert by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra calls on a sprawling three centuries of the music shaped and inspired by Incan landscape and culture.

The novelty of Ballet Frontier's presentation is how it enlists guest artists from across the Metroplex, in addition to local dance students.

Jennifer Higdon is regarded as a composer whose music dazzles with its technical flourishes yet is accessible to a wide audience.

"Riverdance" bids farewell Dec. 1-6; "Home for the Holidays" begins its run Dec. 4.

Perhaps the weirdest gig in Maynard James Keenan's trio of musical projects - the bald vintner also fronts Tool and A Perfect Circle - the experimental Puscifer has few stylistic borders.

Pure, ringing and altogether heavenly: Flame-haired songstress Neko Case's lovingly weathered soprano doesn't sound like anything else on the planet.

Seeing John Mayer live offers an opportunity to appreciate his ability to fuse crowd-pleasing pop choruses with gritty, virtuoso guitar licks. He plays American Airlines Center in March.

Beginning with Jackopierce, Creede Williams: Friday and Saturday. Granada Theater, Dallas. $30-$40. 214-824-9933.

Local music fans rocked their socks off on Saturday at two great Dallas venues.

Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib is being sent to jail for 45 days for leaving the scene of an accident.

Police believe a batch of drugs blamed in Michael Jackson's death was purchased by his personal physician at a Las Vegas pharmacy, court documents released Friday show.

A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.

Jennifer Lopez plans to include fireworks and an on-stage costume change in her performance at the American Music Awards. "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert will incorporate leather and chains into his.

New York designer Irina Shabayeva's collection took the gold in "Project Runway," winning $100,000 toward her line, an agent and a trip to Paris.