Or, you could just let this performance by Jay-Z (with a full orchestra!) at Carnegie Hall sum it up. I think the song titles do it nicely.

Dallas, not San Antonio.

Bravo’s Top Chef, you may have heard, has set its current season in Texas — namely rotating between the cities of San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin.  This is a departure from previous seasons which were each centered on a single city: San Francisco, Las Vegas, and New York among them.

The excuse for the change of pace is that Texas is just “too big” to have its season confined to one spot, but in reality the state tourism office paid Top Chef’s production company $600,000 to feature San Antonio plus two other Texas cities. That money, however, didn’t teach Bravo how to differentiate between these locations.

A few weeks ago I was watching an episode and noticed that an exterior establishing shot of the Dallas skyline was used before cutting to a scene of the cheftestants in the house they occupied in San Antonio. An amusing one-time flub, I thought.

But during last night’s episode (full recap on SideDish), the final show of the season filmed in San Antonio, they did it again. Twice. The very first shot of the week’s new footage was the image you see above.  Then halfway through the episode, coming back from commercial, they used the shot you see below. They must really love the Mercantile Building.

I went to school at Trinity University, which sits atop a hill overlooking downtown San Antonio. Dallas doesn’t look like downtown San Antonio. This is downtown San Antonio.

The Mercantile is not the Tower of the Americas.

But there’s no doubt now that the leftist/feminist machine has moved beyond feelings of betrayal into full-on attack mode, determined to pound the Dallas anti-cancer group into submission for its thought crimes. More specifically, they’re calling for Nancy Brinker’s head. The bottom line on all this: woe to anyone with the temerity to question the “enlightened” orthodoxy when it comes to the abortion issue. You will be punished.

As noted previously, ShopTalk’s Raya Ramsey was on the telly early this morning.

WFAA Daybreak host Ron Corning got too caught up in his personal anecdote about the blue cheese chocolate at Dude, Sweet Chocolate and ran out of time to ask Raya about where she got the lingerie that she’s seated next to during the segment (much to Uncle Barky’s delight).

Don’t worry: Raya will explain more about the “sassy” undergarments a little later on ShopTalk.

You can find all our Dallas Valentine’s recommendations here.

You might remember the touching tale that made its way around the Internet a couple of summers ago. It was the love story of Danny and Annie, two Brooklynites who were married for 27 years until death did them part. Before Danny passed away from incurable cancer, they both sat down for an interview that StoryCorps preserved as a beautiful (and tearjerking) animated short. I wish I’d done this with my grandparents before my grandfather got sick— they were married for 65 years, and knew each other for more than 70. Go watch the short, and then go buy a ticket to Isay’s talk tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art, part of the museum’s Arts & Letters Live series. He’ll discuss the project as well as his most recently published book, All There Is, a collection of StoryCorps’ most inspiring love stories.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out Bolsa Mercado, tonight’s a good night to go. JR Richardson of Oak Cliff Cellars is hosting an informal wine chat, so you can taste some vino and ask questions to your heart’s content. Then, pick up something delicious for dinner (they have sandwiches, paninis, and full gourmet dinner offerings ready to go). These photos on SideDish will make you hungry.

For more to do with your Thursday evening, go here.

Yet this week’s editions of Park Cities People, Preston Hollow People, and Oak Cliff People — which went to press last night and will be delivered this afternoon — are chock full of crime news. How did this happen?

Well, ever-resourceful reporter Bradford Pearson figured out that the incident reports can be accessed if you bypass the home page and type in a slightly different URL: policereports.dallaspolice.net.

You’re welcome, Scott.

Debate Over Deep Ellum School Turns Emotional. “I’m not going to personally stand for poor people to get bad education any more!” said Mayor Mike Rawlings. I see both sides of this. Actually there are lot more sides than that. It’s like a Dungeons & Dragons die. I guess? I never really played. Anyway, it’s an education issue, so I’m sure it’ll get settled quickly and quietly.

Arlington Councilman Questioned Over Drug Use. Councilman Mel LeBlanc’s wife narced on him after she found some marijuana (he’s already been to rehab), so now everyone is up in his business, asking questions and such. First question: Why do you live in Arlington? Second: And you willingly serve on the city council? Third: You must smoke, like, a ton of weed then, no? Fourth: Seriously, like a lot a lot right? Fifth: Do you know any other Mels? Because it seems like you probably don’t run into many others anymore. Sixth: Why do some names just die out? Like Norman. It used to be popular and now I bet there aren’t two kids born in Dallas all year with that name. Seventh: Do Arlington city council members get special rates at Six Flags? I feel like they should. Eighth: Do you like how they wrote that story and made it seem like it was probably crack you were caught with, but it was really just marijuana, and yeah, that’s still a drug and since you’re a public official still a big deal, but the reporter was probably ticked it wasn’t crack, because, let’s face it, that’s a much more awesome story, and so you kind of got shafted a little bit? Anyway, good rapping at you, Mel.

CBS 11 Political Reporter Jack Fink Has One-On-One Interview With Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum. It’s here, if you want it. At no point, however, does Santorum do this, so I’m not sure I’d bother. But I’d like to personally thank Fink and the rest of the hardworking CBS 11 team for going through the trouble to make that happen so I’d have a clear excuse to post that GIF. Guys, you may be 11 on the dial but you’re No. 1 in my heart, and I hope you know that.

BREAKING: “Nearly Everyone Speeds On Dallas Freeways.” “Holy s–t, are you kidding me?” said absolutely no one ever.

Too tired to get up and watch at that time? Don’t have a DVR, or even a VCR? Get a preview of what she’ll be talking about right here.

Yes — 72% / 103 votes

No — 18% / 26 votes

I don’t know who that is — 4% / 6 votes

I pretend to not know who that is but OMG YES — 4% / 6 votes

I prefer Robert — 2% / 3 votes