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July 21, 2011
Poster of the Week: Preteen Zenith Plays Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival at The Granada Theater
Rolyn BarthelmanInterestingly enough, not only are there a lot of posters floating around for this weekend; there are a lot of posters floating around for Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival, which will take place at The Granada Theater on Saturday, July 23. Easily, the most highly anticipated performance ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
NASCAR Legend Brings Moonshine to Modern Drinkers
If only grandma's apple preserves came bathed in moonshineUnless your grandpa is fermenting batches of white lightning in his backyard, you're going to be hard pressed to find authentic moonshine in this neck of the woods. The moonshining, bootlegging culture of Appalachia and the South has ... More >>
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March 11, 2011
And Presenting: SXSW Bingo 2011, Interactive Version!
Illustration by Noah Patrick Pfarr; Design by Alexander Flores. Written by Bill Jensen, Keith Plocek, Nick Lucchesi and Alex FloresClick to embiggen. See more in SXSW Bingo: Music EditionIt's happening right now. South-by-Southwest 2011 started up in Austin. And, as we pointed out earlier, one do ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Bloggers Leave Super Bowl Behind but Can't Stop Talking About the Weather...oh yeah, and V Day
Now that blogs are wrapping up Superbowl coverage, they've moved on to buzzing about two more Dallas observations: cold weather and Valentine's Day. They're answering what to eat to keep warm, what to eat to get laid and what to do when your Which Wich is too short. But really, we just want ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
What the Helmet? Cowboys Auctioning Off Coolest, Kitschiest Item for Salvation Army.
Three views of the same helmet. You can embiggen all you want. Still can't see everything.Yesterday, while looking for something entirely unrelated on Heritage Auction Galleries' website, I came across this what-the-what: Dallas Cowboys 50th Anniversary Celebratory Helmet Created by 3-D Pop Artis ... More >>
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July 16, 2010
Picture Show: Outtakes from the DOMAXXII Photoshoot
Dylan Hollingsworth and Andrew WilliamsMembers of Spooky Folk, Mount Righteous, galleryCat and The Beaten Sea revel in the greatness that is the state of local music. On Tuesday night, each and every nominated person on this year's Dallas Observer Awards Ballot was invited to attend an awards sea ... More >>
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July 6, 2010
Picture Show: The Fans of Vans Warped Tour
Alexander FloresWearing this shirt's an easy way to pick a fight with the guy standing behind you.On Saturday, at the Superpages.com Center in Dallas, Warped Tour brought its particular brand of headbang rock to rain-soaked Dallas. Bands included Andrew W.K., Motion City Soundtrack, Sum 41, Maxwe ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
The Oceanaire Seafood Room vs. Rockfish Seafood Grill : The Crab Cake Conundrum
Alex FloresCrab cake is official food of the Preakness Stakes for good reason. Just as the Preakness is the second jewel of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, the simple dish of quality crab meat, and little else, is a crown jewel of Maryland. Thought to be another one of these ancient ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Guess Where Dirk's Eating
Alexander FloresHe's so tall, y'all.He just delivered one of the most efficient playoff performances in NBA history. He's got a lot of tape to watch. He's got a zeppelin-sized hankering for some Mexican food. And he really, really wants to hang out with his friends from the Dallas Observer.Can yo ... More >>
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March 10, 2010
Victor Tango's vs. Mama's Chicken and Waffles: The Fried Chicken Fracas
Alex FloresMy research takes the famous Chicken and Waffle phenomenon back to 1930's Harlem to Wells Supper Club billed as "Home of Chicken and Waffles Since 1938." They claim to be the first to sell the dish during the Jazz Age, when late-night diners would order breakfast or dinner to soak up t ... More >>
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February 19, 2010
Poster Design Contest Announcement: Design The Poster For Angels & Airwaves' Dallas Stop, Get Hooked The [Expletive Redacted] Up.
This past weekend, sometime blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge's other band, Angels & Airwaves, released its third studio full-length, an album called LOVE. Which is fitting, of course, since that was Valentine's Day weekend and all. But the band also took an interesting route with this release, of ... More >>
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February 11, 2010
Behind The Scenes: Dallas Hip-Hop Prepares For The NBA All-Star Game
...and for you relics still stuck on YouTube, here's your link.Many thanks to Observer Web editor Patrick Michels for popping by a certain unnamed area high school gymnasium this past Saturday morning to join photographer Steven Visneau, art director Alex Flores and yours truly as we welcomed Play-N ... More >>
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February 11, 2010
Poster Of The Week: Well, Not Really. But A Pretty Cool Announcement, We Think!
No winner this week. Sorry, folks.I just got word from POTW Captain and Observer art director Alex Flores that this week's submissions were rather... um, how can I put this lightly... meager. So, instead of simply picking a poster for the sake of announcing a winner, we're gonna simply gonna pull ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Grimaldi's vs Coal Vines: Pizzeria Pugilism
Alex FloresPizza can be a scary subject, but one that I am not easily shaken from. For this week's challenge I felt the need to be slightly scientific in choosing the correct opponents. I randomly asked strangers for their ideas on a perfect Dallas pizza.. I polled about 40 people from the sup ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Windmill Lounge vs Avila's: Luna de Miel Madness
Alex FloresWe all find our places to sip a brew, tell a few lies, and hopefully forget the recent events that often plagues a working stiff. As a young child, my father would tell me that if you owe someone money, always pay them back in a bar. Preferably during happy hour. The old man was ch ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
Eden vs Central 214: Salad Smackdown
Alex FloresIt is that time of year when we begin to waver on our resolutions. Oh, we still push ourselves to actually visit the gym we have been dutifully paying for the past eighteen months. Diet books fly off the shelf as we survey the damage done by the excess of office parties and garish hol ... More >>
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January 7, 2010
Park vs Ava: Mussel Mayhem
Alex FloresIn 2006 we witnessed the death of a good friend in The Green Room. The classic gem of Deep Ellum was brash and ripe with imagination for its time. Since then, the diaspora of the alum that made the kitchen great helped rock the Dallas restaurant landscape. Now, as Green Room resurrec ... More >>
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December 24, 2009
Poster Of The Week: Center Divider, Emil Rapstine, Dim Locator At Dan's Silverleaf Tuesday
Emil RapstineObserver art director Alex Flores, who's kind of a big deal, is taking some well-deserved time off. So I'll be at the helm of Poster of the Week until his return, which means you can expect critiques that are less verbose (and yeah, I'll admit, less authoritative) for the next couple ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Jimmy John's vs Which Wich: BLT Bash
Alex FloresWe don't know just who invented the bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. It certainly wasn't the Earl of Sandwich, reputed to be the first to put his meat...um, that went wrong somewhere... to put meat between two slices of bread (even though the Greeks had this thing called pita).First ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Fish City Grill vs Kenny's Wood Fired Grill: Nachos Knockdown
Alex FloresYou all know the story of nachos, how they were a novelty item until the folks at Arlington Stadium decided to pour orangish goop over chips. Then Howard Cosell raved about them on Monday Night Football and the rest was history.At least that's how we heard the tale.In this week's toque ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Hut's vs Dixie Chicken: College Town Clash
Alex FloresIn one week, the tea sippers battle that redneck military school for all important bragging rights. Yeah, Texas has to get past the Chickenhawks of KU first, while the Aggies go up against (yawn) Baylor. But on Thanksgiving day, it's either "Hook 'em Horns" or...what the hell does "Gig ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
Lucky's vs Allgood Cafe: Chicken Fried Steak Stand Off
Alex FloresThere's always some confusion when non-Texans first encounter chicken fried steak. As former president Bush--the one with a measurable IQ, otherwise known as H.W.--admitted in a 1989 address, "I didn't know if chicken fried steak was a chicken fried like a steak or a steak that tasted ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
7-Eleven vs Barefoot: War Of The Wines
Alex FloresYesterday it came to our attention that 7-Eleven planned to introduce their own wine brand, priced at a Thunderbird-like $3.99 a bottle--that's right, $3.99 for .75 of Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon in glass with a real artificial cork. No screw-tops for wine this fancy.They call the ... More >>
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October 30, 2009
Good Friday: Butthole Surfers, Peaches, MEN, Digital Leather, King Bucks, Ghoultown, John David Kent, Horrorble Party, Play-N-Skillz Halloween Bash, House Harkonnen and More
Don't forget your costume. Here's one idea.Love it when Halloween falls on a weekend, as is the case this year. What that means for music fans is lots of costume contests and tribute nights, and bands and fans will likely be even more intoxicated than usual--so be careful out there. Recently some ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
Chocolate vs Fruit-Flavored: Halloween Fun-Size Candy Free-For-All
Alex FloresFor this week's food fight, we asked a group of UNT students to buy bags of Halloween candy--"promising" to reimburse them, of course--pour them out on one of those dorm study tables and start munching. They picked up Fun Size Butterfinger, Baby Ruth and Nestle Crunch bars, Skittles, ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Starting Tomorrow, "Poster of the Week" Gets Re-Worked A Bit.
For a year-and-a-half now, our clubs editor, Jesse Hughey, has dutifully handled that task of selecting the winners and writing the accompanying blurbs for our Poster of the Week items. (Check the archives--there are some real gems in there.)Starting tomorrow, though, Jesse's stepping aside from ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Luby's vs Furr's: Buffet Brawl
Alex FloresPeople tell me I have a glamorous job. They tell me over and over...until I respond with "gotta go to Furr's; want to come along?" As much as we dismiss pile-it-on buffets, however, we've all bellied along a serving line. Whether we regret it moments later or rationalize the experien ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Poster of the Week: Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr. and Lou Barlow And The Missingmen At The Granada Theater Thursday
Round Rock artist Todd Slater designed this week's featured poster, which promotes tonight's bill of Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr. and Lou Barlow and the Missingmen at The Granada. Look closely and you'll see that the ants crawling all over the woman's face; the design was inspired by the lyric to ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
The Porch vs Burguesa: Burger Bash
Alex FloresWe're not just comparing any burgers here, but the monstrous La Monumental at Burguesa and The Porch's equally hefty Stodg.The first is a much-hyped stack consisting of two beef patties, a special sauce, lettuce, cheese--and then more cheese, ham, refried beans, tostada, chunks of avoc ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
Babe's vs Williams: Fried Chicken Fracas
Alex FloresEvery time I go...strike that. The few times I've been to old downtown Carrollton, the square always seems deserted. Oh, there are cars, but few people--until you walk into Babe's, where you find the entire population of North Texas.So if, as writers at the New York Times suppose, Sout ... More >>
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October 1, 2009
III Forks vs Bob's vs Outback: Three Way Steak Shootout
Alex FloresWhen you consider that most of the city's obscenely massive steak palaces buy from the same purveyor, a comparison seems rather pointless. Unless...You see, III Forks serves prime New York strip. This will run you almost $46. Bob's cuts corners, selling choice grade strip at the upscal ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Marble Slab vs Braum's: Cone Confrontation
Alex FloresIn the parlor, no one can hear you scream...Thanks to all the ruckus over frozen yogurt, some people might have forgotten about the stuff that doesn't contain active cultures. But ice cream has suffered through a number of indignities over the past two or three decades: Chunky Monkey, ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
Gloria's vs Mattito's: Margarita Massacre
Alex FloresDallas has always seemed a little confused about margaritas--even though the cocktail was reputedly invented by a local (albeit during a Mexico vacation).Perhaps it's just a misunderstanding of semantics. You see, 'cocktail' is generally a drink consisting of three or more ingredients, ... More >>
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August 27, 2009
Cowboy Chicken vs Boston Market: Rotisserie Rumble
Alex FloresSomething about America's Northeastern states grates on us Southwestern hicks.OK, so I'm really a Midwestern hick--our distrust of New England is about the same. So the opportunity to pit a local enterprise against a national chain bearing a blue blood name? Couldn't resist.Rotisserie ... More >>
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August 20, 2009
Mi Cocina vs Carolina's Mexican Cuisine: Mole Melee
Alex FloresLike so many of the world's most famous dishes, the true origins of mole are shrouded by time. Is it, as many insist, from Puebla or did cooks in Oaxaca first concoct the spicy bitter chocolate sauce? Maybe it was created by nuns. Some say it resulted from a kitchen accident.Hardly see ... More >>
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August 13, 2009
Whataburger vs McDonald's: Fast Food Fisticuffs
Alex FloresWhen people say 'it tastes like cardboard,' what do they really mean? Well, after taking a bite from a box left over from my last Costco excursions--a corrugated job with a slick, four-color facing--I can report with some authority it has more character than the batch of McDonald's fri ... More >>
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August 6, 2009
Sevy's vs Cuba Libre: Creme Brulee Crunchtime
Alex FloresYears and years ago, Aurora chef Avner Samuel blurted in the middle of a phone conversation that he had introduced creme brulee to Dallas--and vice versa, I suppose. Let's assume that's the case. Why then, didn't he go that one step further and show local chefs how to caramelize the su ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
Bella vs Rathbun's Blue Plate Kitchen: Clash Of The Caesar's
Alex FloresOur weekly dish duel this time features a cagey newcomer and an old veteran working on new tricks...Think what we'd be missing out on if Caesar had never came, saw or conquered. Those who grew up in the 80s would have waited in lines at the Orange Justinian stand, for one.It's difficul ... More >>
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July 21, 2009
Mia's vs Taco Diner: The Battle Of The Briskets
Alex FloresThe first round of our weekly dish duel features a venerable Tex-Mex veteran and a pretty boy from Uptown...You know, Texans brag almost constantly about brisket. Mention brisket tacos and you risk sending natives into a fugue state. We've always wondered why because, frankly, Dallas prod ... More >>
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July 16, 2009
Poster Of The Week: DOMA Showcase Saturday On Lower Greenville
Created by Dallas Observer art director Alex Flores, this might be the most beautiful poster I've ever seen. Created by old-fashioned cutting and pasting (not the kind you do with a mouse, but with actual paper), his masterpiece perfectly encapsulates the DIY house-party aesthetic that we're proudly ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
Poster of the Week: John Congleton and Joey Kendall at Dan's Silverleaf Tonight
Tonight at Dan's Silverleaf, the brains behind two of the region's most mind-blowing acts, John Congleton (of The Paper Chase) and Joey Kendall (of Mount Righteous), will join forces on a bill that features each of these intriguing minds performing solo sets.The above poster for the show uses an ae ... More >>
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February 20, 2008
Our Final Obama Rally Post: The Video and Photos Edition
Tonight at Dan's Silverleaf, the brains behind two of the region's most mind-blowing acts, John Congleton (of The Paper Chase) and Joey Kendall (of Mount Righteous), will join forces on a bill that features each of these intriguing minds performing solo sets.The above poster for the show uses an ae ... More >>
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July 20, 2007
Tiger Army: Dallas "Has No [Effing] Place to Play," Nothing Personal
Tonight at Dan's Silverleaf, the brains behind two of the region's most mind-blowing acts, John Congleton (of The Paper Chase) and Joey Kendall (of Mount Righteous), will join forces on a bill that features each of these intriguing minds performing solo sets.The above poster for the show uses an ae ... More >>

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