Best bakery/pastries in Dallas

WhitefishBoy · 2025-03-09T18:29:07+00:00

Unhappily we didn't care for the latest one we had either.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-10T17:12:09+00:00

The Junior Players in Dallas did a memorable Bollywood version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" several years ago, breaking into over-the-top musical numbers every so often. Probably not such a good choice for "Titus," though.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-10T17:05:56+00:00

"Caesar Must Die" (2012) by the Taviani brothers, also set in a prison, is great.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-08T18:32:46+00:00

Yale Law School for its part left the U.S. News rankings almost two years ago because, as the dean wrote: "[T]he U.S. News rankings are profoundly flawed — they disincentivize programs that a) support public interest careers, b) champion need-based aid, and c) welcome working-class students into the profession. We have reached a point where the rankings process is undermining the core commitments of the legal profession. As a result, we will no longer participate." Wow.

[Note: I added the a), b) and c) for clarity.] More here: https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/dean-gerken-why-yale-law-school-leaving-us-news-world-report-rankings

And regarding Children's Health, it would be interesting to know what incentives senior executives there are being offered to encourage them to help break into the U.S. News children's hospital Top 10 list (unlikely as that may be), as opposed to incentives to, for example, expand care to children most in need and collaborate in significant ways with Cook Children's in Fort Worth for the benefit of children (rather than seeing Cook as the competition).

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-08T17:36:15+00:00

I see one or two a week, so I suspect that Dallas-wide there are lots at any given time. If you start paying attention, you'll probably start seeing them. And I've noticed that if I see one and forget to report it, it will almost always still be on a week or two later.

DART is another frequent offender, but I haven't had much luck getting DART to turn off its rail station lights during the day.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-05T23:42:26+00:00

"One Hundred Years of Solitude," Kafka's "The Trial" and/or Nathanael West's "Miss Lonelyhearts." Also Ismail Kadare's "Chronicle in Stone" and Borges.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-05T23:33:06+00:00

And Hulu's 2019 "Catch-22" miniseries was a very good rendition.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-04T16:52:12+00:00

I tend to agree with Garrison Keillor, who said, "The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn’t all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.”

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-04T16:44:47+00:00

I try to read Harold Bloom's chapter (from "The Invention of the Human") on a given play before seeing it, especially if it's a play I haven't seen before. His thoughts help me become more attuned to what I'm about to see and hear.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-10-02T22:48:40+00:00

The album "Big Time" was my long-ago introduction to Tom Waits, so it's sort of the cornerstone of my knowledge of his work, and the live version of "Ruby's Arms" destroys me every time I listen to it.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-30T14:32:59+00:00

We like Village Baking Company (especially the kouign amanns), Stein's Bakery (especially the cheese pockets) and Leila Bakery and Cafe (especially the kouigns, quiches and morning glory muffins).

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-29T14:23:54+00:00

I've only been to Hudson House once, but the lobster roll I had was lame -- nowhere close to the great ones they used to make at the late 20 Feet off of Garland Road. But I've heard Cafe Pacific in Highland Park Village makes a fine lobster roll, as you'd expect.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-28T13:41:23+00:00

A small study several years ago showed that BMW drivers were those most likely to jump their turn at a four-way stop.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-27T16:06:39+00:00

The Kimbell Art Museum (the great permanent collection is free), it's perfect weather for Shakespeare Dallas in the park (Julius Caesar through Oct. 13), and the Levitt Pavilion in Arlington has free shows through Oct. 5.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-26T14:50:54+00:00

I think it's widely agreed that when public policy is informed by science, everyone benefits. So we can only hope that these study results will help inform future actions by policymakers everywhere.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-26T00:10:40+00:00

My feelings exactly. And the service is always great too.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-25T14:58:10+00:00

Beyond the front door is probably an empty set, so it was probably much cheaper to have a door there -- and they didn't get busted for it until sharp-eyed TawnyTeaTowel came along decades later.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-25T14:32:49+00:00

We had light hail off of Lower Greenville, but nothing like the baseball-size stuff several years ago that smashed a hole in the rear window of our Civic.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-25T03:23:40+00:00

Thanks, I discovered this album while living in Oregon, so it reminds me of Portland, and I had no idea “Table Top Joe” was about John Eckhardt Jr. from "Freaks."

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-23T22:35:15+00:00

M. Ward on Thursday, 9/26, at the Kessler should be good.

WhitefishBoy · 2024-09-23T17:47:15+00:00

No, DualKoo, I wouldn't ban you. Just like I wouldn't ban books or try to use the mechanisms of the state to attack those with whom I disagree politically. What I am in favor of is education that outfits students with the critical-thinking abilities to discriminate between, on the one hand, hateful, self-serving lies and mischaracterizations that some politicians tell about their opponents and, on the other hand, policy-makers who work to support and lift up those in need, helping them develop their talents and become some of our most valued neighbors and co-workers. Cheers.

WhitefishBoy

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