Don’t be fooled: These are not modern-day prices. Rather, they were some weekly specials offered in 1973 at the Mr. Max Beauty Training Center. F. Max Brown had a beauty school at 414 S. Main St. at ...

Last winter, we told you, reluctantly, that Mr. Max in Irving had closed, seemingly forever. People loved this place, were deeply passionate about it. But the owner had died; there was no succession ...

After a protracted closure for remodeling, Mr Max recently reopened with a slightly altered menu but the same authenticity. You’ll find the same crowd at the L-shaped bar, the same sunken tables under ...

Mr. Max has been on my list ever since I read about the eel donburi they served here on City of Ate. But apparently that list is long, because that post was published more than a year ago and I’d ...

Readers who wish their families were more interesting will be hooked, as I was, on Cynthia Voigt’s “Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things,” the first of a planned three-book series featuring an ...