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The Weekend Guide

Quit your jibba jabba. Even Mr. T would pity the fool who doesn’t like these weekend picks.

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Urban Bazaar

What: Last weekend to shop twenty local DIY artists and designers.
Why: Stranger things have happened.
When: Thurs., 1-8:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sun., ...

School of Rockwell

Whether it’s model to talk-show personality (Tyra Banks), talk-show personality to actor (Steve Carell), or actor to governor (Ahnuld), Americans are always up for a change.

No surprise, then, that the old switcheroo has ended up inside your freezer. You’re ...

A Raw Deal

People in Dallas have what some might consider a codependent relationship with meat.

Oh, sure, we’ll eat our vegetables (with the help of some butter or cream, of course). Until someone comes to town bucking our way of life. (Remember ...

Hog Heaven

The only Latin you speak is of the swine variety. (Um, uts-whay e-thay ime-tay?)

Lucky for you, it doesn’t take a classics major to suss out the meaning of Aqua, the recently opened restaurant in Oak Lawn. The soothing hideaway ...

Eat Your Words

Celebs and their chosen pursuits. Go figure.

Cher and the infomercial. Martha and the blue-light-special bath towels. Anna Nicole Smith and the weight-loss elixirs.

Around here, we have Stephan Pyles, whose much-anticipated namesake restaurant opens today in the heart of ...

Phil ’Er Up

My, how you’ve long dreamed of your own big, fat Greek wedding.

Sadly, you don’t have a drop of Mediterranean blood in you.

And your matrimonial prospects? Zilch — unless you count Mom’s sexually ambiguous hairdresser, the one who calls you ...

Talking Turkey

Your friends have many things to be thankful for this holiday season.

Sadly, your special recipe for jerk turkey with seitan stuffing ain’t one of them.

So, this year, serve them a bird from Allen D. Preston. His company, All-Purpose, ...

Le Rouge et le Soir

You trusted the Burger King.

He said you could have it your way. But, in the end, his lofty promises (great job, no weight gain, eternal life) turned out to be empty.

All is not lost. Cosmo Rouge, the new ...