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May 25, 2012
Five Country Albums To Drink Beer With
While there's certainly an eclectic mix at this weekend's third annual Homegrown Festival, you'll want to keep an eye on Robert Ellis. The Houston musician has been kicking around for a couple of years, but his 2010 New West debut, Photographs, provided the lengthy-maned Ellis a national profile, an ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2012
Picture Show: Toadies, The Phuss and Sealion at Rockin' Rodeo
These three bands have been rolling around Texas on a mini-tour: They just got in from Beaumont, did last night's show in Denton, spent a couple hours in their own beds, then off to Abilene. The Toadies/Phuss collaboration goes beyond this small tour, as Toadie Vaden Todd Lewis helped produce the Ph ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2012
Rex Emerson of Boxcar Bandits Talks Bob Dylan and Playing Gator Farms
Denton's Boxcar Bandits have been playing their warped version of Americana for just over half a decade. In that time, they've played countless shows and produced two albums: 2008's Smells Like Grass and the recently released Live at Dan's Silverleaf. And while live efforts are often perfunctory p ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Chef Tell: It Just Conch Be True
I'll be kind to you people who will see this pop up but who haven't yet watched last night's episode of Top Chef All Stars, the conch-ed up episode resting listlessly in your DVR. I won't give anything away in this first paragraph where your eyes will involuntarily dart around as much as you wish ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Super Bowl Side Benefit: Lunch Downtown on a Weekend
Dallas eaters who live downtown may be the unintended beneficiaries of this weekend's anticipated Super Bowl hubbub. While many downtown lunch spots typically shut down for the weekend, at least one sandwich shop has announced plans to stay open this Saturday. For the first time ever, Jason' ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Bonus MP3s: Grassfight Shares Some Songs And Sheds Some Light On Where It's Been Hiding.
Grassfight It's been a while since we'd heard anything on Denton's Grassfight. A little over two years, even--since back when Dave Sims wrote this glowing piece on the then-new-to-the-scene outfit. And then, out of nowhere, we saw that the band on a bill at The Cavern this past weekend and then, ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Chef Tell: Cooking for Buzz and Beyond
First of all, TV fans, let me just throw you a cyber fist bump and wish you all a happy 9.02.10. Donna Martin graduates!But seriously, last night was the last set of "normal" challenges before the Final Four set off to cook their way through the finale. It was tense and yet surprisingly lackluste ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Chef Tell: Take Them Out To The Concession Stand
Last night Top Chef opened with our fair Tiffany Derry's boisterous guffaws. Ed, the cheftestant who is her show BFF and who totally adores her, was parading around in one of her dresses. At that point, with just six left in the contest, a little unflattering cross-dressing seemed an appropriate ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
A View From the Judges Table: Week 4 of The Shiner Rising Star contest.
Shing Rising Star Competition: Week 4August 12, 2010City TavernAnother Thursday night in the Metroplex meant another evening of the Shiner Rising Star contest last night. Whereas the majority of the competing bands in the previous weeks have been North Texas products, last night featured a couple ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Chef Tell: Tiffany, Official Food Ambassador
Right away, we knew this would be a big week for our Tiffany Derry. They started off the show with her smoothing toner all over her face and neck (so that's how she gets that awesome skin!) and talking about how she was planning her wedding before hopping on the Top Chef train. But it was also wo ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
Like frontier scouts, we picked up his trail
Tracking Skills
Blogs
July 1, 2010
Chef Tell: This Show is No Picnic
After two episodes with chefs deucing out thanks to shitty dessert offerings, it came as no shock -- to me or any sane person watching Top Chef -- that last night's Quickfire Challenge would be for sweet teeth. But somehow the cheftestants were surprised. My first instinct was to desire ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Chef Tell: Tiffany Derry, Where Were You?
www.bravotv.comTiffany DerryOh, what's that? You wanted to know how Go Fish's Tiffany Derry fared on last night's Season premiere of Top Chef D.C.? Wish I could tell you.Derry was just off-screen for most of the show following her introduction. But, at least she did get the first intro. ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2010
Top Chef To Go Fish
Two years ago, then-Observer restaurant critic Dave Faries wasn't exactly singing the praises of Go Fish Ocean Club (he was fairly distracted by the waiters' chatter). You know who was impressed? Bravo TV. Beaumont native Tiffany Derry, named Exec Chef of Go Fish Ocean Club in 2008, will ... More >>
Culture
April 29, 2010
Uptown's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Plays Naughty Con Games; PFamily Arts Theatre's I Do! I Do! Doesn't
Two years ago, then-Observer restaurant critic Dave Faries wasn't exactly singing the praises of Go Fish Ocean Club (he was fairly distracted by the waiters' chatter). You know who was impressed? Bravo TV. Beaumont native Tiffany Derry, named Exec Chef of Go Fish Ocean Club in 2008, will ... More >>
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August 6, 2009
The Dallas Diesel Give Football Has-Beens and Hopefuls One More Shot at the Gridiron
Two years ago, then-Observer restaurant critic Dave Faries wasn't exactly singing the praises of Go Fish Ocean Club (he was fairly distracted by the waiters' chatter). You know who was impressed? Bravo TV. Beaumont native Tiffany Derry, named Exec Chef of Go Fish Ocean Club in 2008, will ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2009
Would You Like to Play for Dallas's New ABA Team? No, Seriously. And, No, It's Not 1967.
Says here that on August 22 at Mountain View College, the American Basketball Association's Dallas Generals will hold it final tryouts and a combine -- seriously, the ABA returneth? Dunno how we missed it, and I've yet to find mention made anywhere else, but at the end of May, the ABA announced that ... More >>
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April 23, 2009
Get lost with Jim Schutze while canoeing the Neches River and find the wildlife refuge Dallas wants to dam to secure its water supply
Says here that on August 22 at Mountain View College, the American Basketball Association's Dallas Generals will hold it final tryouts and a combine -- seriously, the ABA returneth? Dunno how we missed it, and I've yet to find mention made anywhere else, but at the end of May, the ABA announced that ... More >>
News
January 8, 2009
Blown Over: Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast Struggle After Hurricane Ike
Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston residents try to put the pieces back together
Blogs
November 25, 2008
Pulp Charity: Holiday Food Drive Horror Stories
Holiday giving is all around us now. If you're not already the generous type, you're being guilted into it by a bell-ringing Santa, or Will Smith, or even Wal-Mart.If you think you can get away with tossing another can of creamed spinach into the bin -- the one in your kitchen cabinet, back where yo ... More >>
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October 30, 2008
Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”
Holiday giving is all around us now. If you're not already the generous type, you're being guilted into it by a bell-ringing Santa, or Will Smith, or even Wal-Mart.If you think you can get away with tossing another can of creamed spinach into the bin -- the one in your kitchen cabinet, back where yo ... More >>
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October 27, 2008
Weekend Roundup: R.E.M., Breve Eternidad, Kessler, Edgefest
Holiday giving is all around us now. If you're not already the generous type, you're being guilted into it by a bell-ringing Santa, or Will Smith, or even Wal-Mart.If you think you can get away with tossing another can of creamed spinach into the bin -- the one in your kitchen cabinet, back where yo ... More >>
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April 18, 2008
Under a Paper Moon
Holiday giving is all around us now. If you're not already the generous type, you're being guilted into it by a bell-ringing Santa, or Will Smith, or even Wal-Mart.If you think you can get away with tossing another can of creamed spinach into the bin -- the one in your kitchen cabinet, back where yo ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2008
College Newspaper Gaga Over Unsigned Artist Damian Giglio
Holiday giving is all around us now. If you're not already the generous type, you're being guilted into it by a bell-ringing Santa, or Will Smith, or even Wal-Mart.If you think you can get away with tossing another can of creamed spinach into the bin -- the one in your kitchen cabinet, back where yo ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2008
Clinton's Coming to Town. Not That One.
Holiday giving is all around us now. If you're not already the generous type, you're being guilted into it by a bell-ringing Santa, or Will Smith, or even Wal-Mart.If you think you can get away with tossing another can of creamed spinach into the bin -- the one in your kitchen cabinet, back where yo ... More >>
News
July 19, 2007
Nickeled, Dimed and Screwed
Hard-sell coin dealers make chump change
Blogs
February 13, 2007
Parts Per Billion and Other Things You Really Oughta Care About If You Breathe
Hard-sell coin dealers make chump change
Calendar
February 1, 2007
Bow to Your Partner
Wendorf honors the Texas dances
News
August 24, 2006
High on the Hog
In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.
Music
September 29, 2005
Deep Picks
The North Texas New Music Festival overwhelms Dallas this weekend; make sense of it with our suggestions.
News
September 9, 2004
Basic Instinct
Plus: Move Over, Swifties; Thanks A Lot, Pal
Dining
February 27, 2003
You Say Somalia
What is a sommelier?
News
November 28, 2002
A Girl Named Suicide
Texas' Valerie Mahfood--last seen getting clobbered by Laila Ali--could change the pretty face of women's boxing
Culture
April 11, 2002
Free of Expression
Two phases of John Alexander's work show what happens when an expressionist loses the fire
News
November 15, 2001
The Way of the Gun
The untold story of why Lenell Geter was freed
News
February 22, 2001
For God and Country
For a South Oak Cliff church considered a model for mixing faith and government, the line between church and state is thin indeeda
News
December 28, 2000
:cueless
Buzz hacks through the past in search of the cool cats and fools of the year that was
News
May 18, 2000
Letters
The turkey leg goes to...; Funny lady; Hanging on a KLIF; More epistles to the Jews; Dry summer days
News
April 20, 2000
Belly up
Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So des the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.
Culture
February 24, 2000
Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Drew Daleo's toys-for-boys images evolve from World War II to Star Wars
Music
January 20, 2000
Lost legends
Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.
Dining
September 2, 1999
Texas shtick
Love & War in Texas sounds more like a movie than a restaurant. Either way, it's an epic of indulgence.
Film
April 22, 1999
The Moses of baseball
Hank Greenberg documentary hits a home run
News
January 21, 1999
Letters
Hank Greenberg documentary hits a home run
Culture
June 25, 1998
Dysfunction junction
11th Street Theater Project revives a Pulitzer play with mixed results
News
July 24, 1997
Publicity Paul
U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins loves feeding his name to the papers. But what's he done that's news?
Dining
October 10, 1996
Tasting the rainbow
Even if its service is Dallas monochrome--Lavendou offers a superb palette of Provencal
Music
March 28, 1996
To be or not to bop
Texan Jazz unveils the Lone Star contribution to jazz
Music
February 15, 1996
Lonely Hunter
After a self-imposed exile in Mexico and obscurity, a Texas bluesman comes home
News
February 16, 1995
Bad lawyer joke
'Tort reform' is a misleading euphemism--an excusefor insurance companies to gouge more
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