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20 Year Vietnamese Staple Returns to Dallas

Papaya Kitchen, a long-standing Dallas favorite for authentic Vietnamese cuisine formerly known as Green Papaya, reopens its doors to craft new stories with their classic unforgettable flavors. Behind this exciting venture is Alan Mai, the original owner and industry veteran, … Continue reading

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Chef John Tesar’s Knife Italian Embraces and Elevates Traditional Italian Cuisine

Knife Italian, the latest culinary venture by renowned Executive Chef and Restaurateur, John Tesar, is set to open its doors at the newly transformed The Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Building on the success of his other Knife restaurant concepts, Knife Steakhouse … Continue reading

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Sweeney Todd at Lyric Through April 7

Lyric Stage, a theatre company dedicated to the development and preservation of the musical, presents Sweeney Todd to April 7. These performances will be presented at Lyric Stage’s new studio stage. Tickets are now available.  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet … Continue reading

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Eat Me: The Coconut Cream Pie at Capital Grille

by Steven Doyle I recently made my way to Capital Grille and was blown away not only by the fare, but the amazing and well-tended service. And the pie.  All I heard that evening from patrons to staff was how amazing this … Continue reading

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Celebrate Pi Day With Us

by Steven Doyle On March 12, 2009 your lawmakers  passed a non-binding resolution (HRES 224) recognizing March 14, 2009 as National Pi Day. It is one of the more legit holidays we discuss here, and it is actually an homage to … Continue reading

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As Spyro Gyra contemplates upcoming milestones to its storied career, it’s tempting to fall back on the Grateful Dead lyric, “What a long strange trip it’s been” to describe it. During that time, they have performed over five thousand shows, released twenty-nine albums (not counting “Best Of…” compilations) selling over ten million albums while also achieving one platinum and two gold albums. These upcoming milestones include 2012, which will be thirty-five years since their first album release and 2014 will be forty years as a band. They show little sign of wanting to slow down either, gaining Grammy® nominations for each of their last four albums.
Born in Brooklyn, bandleader Jay Beckenstein grew up listening to the music of Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie, and started playing the saxophone at age seven. In their earliest days, Spyro Gyra took their cues from Weather Report and Return to Forever – bands whose creative flights were fueled by a willingness to do things that had never been done before. "I believed that we were springing from what Weather Report did," says Beckenstein. "I never thought in commercial terms. I just thought they were the next step in the evolution of jazz, and that we would be part of it."
In 1977, they foreshadowed the DIY movement of the punks of the 1970’s by self-releasing their eponymous debut album. Spyro Gyra was picked up by Amherst Records, a local label who then made a deal for subsequent albums to go to Infinity Records, a label owned by MCA Records. After gaining Infinity its only gold (soon to be platinum) record with Morning Dance, Infinity folded and the group was picked up by MCA Records. There they stayed until MCA acquired noted contemporary jazz label GRP Records. Spyro Gyra moved to GRP in 1990 and put out all but one of their 1990’s output on that label. In 1999, they released a single album, Got The Magic on Windham Hill Jazz. The "aughts" had them returning to an indie mode, licensing their albums to Heads Up International. Most of those Heads Up albums have since returned to the band as self released independent releases. 2011 sees them returning to Amherst Records in Buffalo with A Foreign Affair.
"My hope is that our music has the same effect on the audience that it does on me," says Beckenstein. "I’ve always felt that music, and particularly instrumental music, has this non-literal quality that lets people travel to a place where there are no words. Whether it’s touching their emotions or connecting them to something that reminds them of something much bigger than themselves, there’s this beauty in music that’s not connected to sentences. It’s very transportive. I would hope that when people hear our music or come to see us, they’re able to share that with us. That’s the truly glorious part of being a musician."
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