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.

Concert at TCU

A good 'Education’

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.

Logan Miller

For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.

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.

They uttered two of the most famous lines in movie history, and now you can ask them about that or whatever else.

Miguel Harth-Bedoya's 'Caminos del Inka' is full of drama, intricacy and elevation.

FORT WORTH —The collaboration this week between the TCU Latin American Music Festival and conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Caminos del Inka project came to a close Thursday in PepsiCo Recital Hall when Maria Luisa Harth-Bedoya — the maestro’s sister — played a guitar recital.

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.

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.

The jury in the trial of an Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ended five hours of deliberations Friday without a verdict.

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says.

Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.

For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.

Oprah Winfrey has racked up memorable moments during her long television reign. Some were moving, some embarrassing - to her or others - and a handful became pop-culture landmarks. Here are highlights through the years: