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Here are Two New Mobile Apps to Help You Explore Dallas Dishes

If you're looking for new ways to explore Dallas one dish at a time, two new mobile applications are ready to feed you ideas. Foodspotting and Chefs Feed both focus individually on dishes instead of restaurants as a whole. The first application makes use of user generated data, while the Chefs Fee ... More >>

There's More Booze and More Space at Liberty Burger in Keller Springs

More booze and more space--that's what's new at the new Addison Liberty Burger location. I cozied up to the bar the day after its grand opening (and yes, it just opened September 11, despite the sign off the Tollway being up for months) and found myself next to a pressed-collar Dallas businessman ty ... More >>

New iPhone Gadget Will Determine if Food is Really Organic

Wondering about the true carbon footprint of that cauliflower? (Yeah, I stole that from a commercial. But, it's funny! Love Gallagher!) Does that weird slime around your organic baby carrots taste and feel like something from a chemical plant? Feel bamboozled at the farmers' market? (Feel like this ... More >>

Jampact Works Out Some Glitches at the Nasher

Last night I attended a new improvisational night at the Nasher Sculpture Center, led by SMU's Meadows School of the Arts Dean and pianist José Bowen. He and his band, Jampact, played for close to an hour, dipping in and out of free jazz, funk and electronic pockets. In addition, dancer Jennifer Ma ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 74:Veracruz Cafe's Sopa de Atlahua

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It's a bit like a French bouillabaisse but with Mexican leanings. Veracruz Cafe's Sop ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 75: Pepper Bomb At Goodfriend

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I wonder if I'd known what was about to happen if I would still have eaten that Trinid ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 76: Shanghai Buns at Jeng Chi Dumpling House

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. These little parcels of pasty dough were on last year's list, and they're not going an ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 77: Pho At Lemongrass

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Most of the oho I've eaten in Dallas leaves a lot to be desired. It's salty as sin and ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 78: Sweet Shrimp At Yutaka

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. My meal at Yutaka is months old but one memory is firmly with me. I've been trying to ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 79: Veal Cheeks At Bijoux

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Bijoux's new menu makes for interesting exploration because most of the entrees are of ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 80: Pulled Whole Hog BBQ Eggs Benedict at Smoke

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Eggs Benedict is probably one of the most hackneyed brunch dishes out there done 70 wa ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 81: The Italian Beef At Jimmy's

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. While working on my story about Jimmy's we took a ton of photos and I'm happy that Cat ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 83: The Blueberry Ricotta Pancakes at Smoke

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments or email Scott. "The best pancakes of my whole life!" That's what many people have heard me scream afte ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 84: Brisket Tacos At Manny's

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Brisket Tacos: perhaps one of the few foods Dallas can take credit for inventing, at l ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 85: Chicken-Fried Egg at Union Bear

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Union Bear's beer list is a reason to go all on its own, but its chicken-fried egg is ... More >>

More Art Than You Can Shake a Paintbrush At

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 86: The Roast Chicken At Bolsa

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. When I leave a restaurant I'm reviewing, I immediately spend some time hashing out not ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 87: The Brisket at Pecan Lodge

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. My first Texas brisket was eye opening. Back in DC, there were a few barbecue places t ... More >>

Nelly - Wildflower! Festival - 5/18/12

Wildflower! Festival Galatyn Park Friday, May 18 The modern music festival exists as three very distinct types: The mega-fests put on by corporations, which bring together some of the world's biggest acts and are able to cut huge checks so bands can reunite (ACL, Coachella); the righteous upstarts t ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 89: Croissants From Rush Patisserie

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I was surprised it took me so long to find these, considering they're offered just up ... More >>

Hope You Brought Your Glove to Work, Because We're Giving Away Some Bad-Ass Tix to Today's Rangers Game (Updated)

Update: We wussed out and used a random-number generator to choose a winner from the most creative responses. Your winner? Sarah: My boss is crazy. My husband is crazy. My home is regularly festooned with dog diarrhea. I recently broke my iPhone and my pinkie toe. Unrelated, I fell down last week a ... More >>

In the Katy Trail Robberies, Police Reports Paint Portrait of Bumbling, Brazen Criminals

We know a lot more about the string of recent armed robberies at the Katy Trail since the Dallas Police Department initially released some details on the incidents yesterday. We know, for example, that police think all were committed by a pair of black men in their 20s who were driving a silver, fou ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 93: Chicken and Waffles at Jonathon's Oak Cliff

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It could just be the picture. I've admitted my obsession with it before. There's somet ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 100: The Cleaver and Block Burger at NHS Tavern

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. NHS Tavern's Cleaver and Block Burger has an unfair advantage over every other burger ... More >>

The Snozzberries Taste Like Snozzberries!

Tabbed Out: The iPhone App That Lets You Close Your Tab without Really Opening One

The Katy Trail Ice House was a zoo on Friday. There wasn't a single seat available, and there was a wait at the bar to get a beer. Despite the crowd, I was able to get in, order a Lawnmower, chug it and get out in about five minutes. How'd I do it? An iPhone app called Tabbed Out that promises to li ... More >>

VNV Nation - Trees - 2/23/12

VNV Nation Trees Thursday, February 23 A lanky blonde, clad in black pumps, fishnet stockings, satin booty shorts, elbow-length gloves and a red corset that didn't leave much to the imagination, stepped up to the bouncer guarding the front door of Trees last night. The young girl frowned when the b ... More >>

I Ate Baby Butterflies in Carrollton, and I Think I Liked It. (Then Again, I Was Trashed.)

Don't worry they're not moving.​During my second trip to Tto Tto Wa, the Korean fried chicken joint I reviewed this week, I was determined to blow it out. I'd tried dumplings, chicken feet and some other dishes -- none of it as good as the spicy chicken, mind you -- and wanted to work even fur ... More >>

An(other) Ode to Deep Ellum's Black Swan

blackswansaloon.comVodka and fruit medley.​On my first pilgrimage to Deep Ellum's Black Swan Saloon, I walked right past the place, thinking the small, windowed room was just an extension of La Grange. There's no sign to speak of; I had to consult my iPhone ("Siri, where the fuck am I?") and ... More >>

Meatless Monday Is Harder Than I Thought

Ed. note: Along with our booze correspondent, food critic Scott Reitz is trying his mouth at going meatless on Mondays. They'll occasionally relay their experiences. So far Scott sucks at it. It sounded soooooooo easy. Drop meat on Mondays -- it'll help save the world and shit. And it's only one da ... More >>

Dallas' Best Food Needs You: A Plea For Ater Input

Alexander Flores​Earlier this month we teased the launch of our big ol' issue: Best of Dallas. Since the Rapture is rapidly approaching, we wanted your feedback on how to improve our Readers Picks' categories. We asked which food nerd categories you liked, and which needed to be thrown to the curb ... More >>

Why Price of The Dallas News Just Went Up

​First, The Dallas Morning News was going to begin charging for online content December 14; then came a delay. But this morning comes The Official Word, via online story (still free!) and press release, outlining the "The Next Generation" in A.H. Belo news delivery.What the story says that the rel ... More >>

Leppert's Still Sending Companies Those iPhones. If Nothing Else, It's "Great Marketing."

​Rudy beat me to it, but for those wondering to whom Mayor Tom's been sending those come-to-Dallas iPhones, well, The Oregonian found one lucky recipient: Tim Boyle, the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. And while Boyle has no interest in moving his HQ outta the Pacific Northwest, why, he ... More >>

At QuakeCon 2010, John Carmack Shows Why His iPhone's Cooler Than Yours: It's Got Rage

Photos by Patrick MichelsGaming guru John Carmack waxed philosophical about ray tracing, indirect ambient occlusion, and leading a purposeful life in his 15th QuakeCon keynote this afternoon.As gamers from around the world wheeled their home-tweaked shoot-'em-up-optimized computers into the Hilton ... More >>

Presenting! The Completely Free Dallas Observer iPhone App

Download the App for free in the iTunes App Store under Dallas Observer.​Let's get right to the announcement: our brand-spanking new Dallas Observer iPhone App is available for download, right now, in the iTunes App Store. Before we launch into an epic "presenting" speech, where we tell you that's ... More >>

Yet Another Reason to Avoid the Tollway

As if the fear of wrong-way drivers, fiery crashes and wheelie-poppers wasn't enough to put you in the bike lane, the North Texas Tollway Authority has released video from a Wednesday-morning crash near the Belt Line Road exit in which no one, astoundingly, was seriously hurt. Yet one more reason n ... More >>

Dallas Public Libraries Finally Getting Into the Digital Download Bidness This Month

​So says a memo from Assistant City Manager Forest Tucker to the city council sent last night: On May 11, the Dallas Public Library will go into OverDrive, the Cleveland, Ohio-based company that builds Web sites for libraries and allows users 24/7 download access to, so far, about 100,000 audioboo ... More >>

The Picture's Kicking

Finding His Home Turned to Rubble, One Lower Greenville Man's Back on the Streets

Patrick MichelsWhat's left of the house at the corner of Greenville Avenue and Vickery Boulevard.​A little after 9 this morning, the man neighbors know only as "J.B." walked out his back door and took his daily stroll up Lower Greenville. When he came back eight hours later, the house was gone.Woo ... More >>

Dallas-Born Encycloweedia—Exactly What It Sounds Like—Is Trying a New Way to Turn Pot into Dough

What's On Your Christmas Wish List?

Hinty hint hint.​That question, of course, is a trick 'em, dick 'em way of telling you - psst! - here's what's on my list. What I don't want in my stocking this Christmas: Coal. A Snuggie. Tiger Woods' sloppy seconds. Swine Flu. Wade Phillips' resume. What has caught me eye this season - ot ... More >>

While Breaking Ground for Convention Center Hotel, Mayor Tom Leppert Unveils Updated Design and Becomes Bellhop for a Day

Sam MertenCaption contest!It took Mayor Tom Leppert approximately two years to accomplish what no one else in Dallas could: begin building a convention center hotel. And hundreds of assorted politicos, city officials, business leaders and supporters were on hand Tuesday afternoon at the site of the ... More >>

Wanna Sing Like Kelly Clarkson? There's An App For That.

​Yep, that's right: As of today, Burleson's own Kelly Clarkson has an iPhone app. Far as I can tell, it's basically like Rock Band, but without the pretty integral "band" part; you sing into a mic and the application judges your rhythm and pitch. It's just like Idol, only not at all!Anyway, detail ... More >>

Picture Show: Old 97's Christen the New Hard Rock Cafe at Victory Park

Patrick Michels​Check out more photos from the night in our slideshow.The weirdest moment at last night's Hard Rock Cafe grand opening party? Take your pick, but I'll say it was right at the end, when it turned out the winner of the night's big raffle was with the band.After a night full of ridicu ... More >>

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