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North Texas Beers: A Guide

Following North Texas' big win at the Great American Beer Fest, this week's cover story by Lauren Drewes Daniels profiles the rise of the DFW craft brew. To see what kind of growth we're talking about, Lauren's broken down each of the local brewers. Check it out below. Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. rahr ... More >>

Frito Lay Will Attempt to Set The Guinness Record for Largest Frito Pie at State Fair

See also: The Fried Food Finalists Coming to the State Fair of Texas 2012 The Amazing Sweets of the State Fair of Texas They say everything is bigger in Texas, and whoever the hell they is has it right at least as far as corn-chip filled snacks go -- though that's probably not what they had in min ... More >>

2012 Oscar Nominations, Complete with Snubs, Surprises, and Mehs

The nominees for the cinematic super bowl, the 2012 Academy Awards, were announced yesterday, and as always there were a few of the year's best pictures and performances that were left warming the bench by the all-powerful Academy. Martin Scorsese's Hugo leads the game with 11 nods, beating out th ... More >>

The Big Texas Beer Fest is Coming to Fair Park, and Sounds Like it Just Might Work

​Remember when a husband-and-wife team planned a beer festival in Fair Park and everyone was all excited about it but then it got canceled and everyone, aside from a few told-ya-so-sayers, was bummed? Well, once again, a husband-and-wife team is organizing a beer festival in Fair Park. And, wi ... More >>

Starfucker's Vowel-Free and on the Dancefloor

Oak Cliff's CocoAndré Chocolatier Hits the Catwalk, and Keeps Hitting its Stride

​In 1985 Andrea Pedraza found herself in need of a little extra cash when a friend told her about a new chocolate shop that had just opened and was hiring. Going to the interview, Pedraza was hopeful, but didn't think working in a chocolate shop was realistic. Three weeks later, Rex Morgan, ow ... More >>

The MasterMinds Finalists: Part Three

Winnowing down Dallas' growing, dynamic community of artists to three MasterMinds involved some tough choices. The process was like lining up at a vast buffet prepared by an outstanding chef: too many wonderful selections and too little room on our plates. On the way to naming the winners, our judge ... More >>

Ringing In Good News As Another UT-Dallas Professor Does His Own Tinnitus Research

​Every couple of weeks someone asks how goes those UT-Dallas docs' tinnitus research, which, last we heard, would begin with clinical trials in Belgium. Well, so happens that Dr. Michael Kilgard and Dr. Navzer Engineer, hoping to discover the sound of silence via nerve stimulation, are over there ... More >>

After the Burial's Trent Hafdahl: "We Want To Be The Band People Hear and Go, 'Holy Shit.'"

Minneapolis' After the Burial plays a brand of progressive metal that is technically impressive and catastrophically heavy. They're somewhat self-destructive, too: The band has been around for seven years, and they are already on their third singer and drummer. Such turmoil would certainly tear ap ... More >>

Belgian Independence Day Provides Yet Another Culture To Toast -- And A New Duvel Offering

You don't have to know who this guy is to enjoy Belgian Independence Day.​Like St. Patrick's Day, Cinco De Mayo and Bastille Day before it, Belgian Independence Day is gaining in popularity with revelers (beer drinkers, in this case) as an excuse a perfectly legitimate reason to toss back a few pi ... More >>

Franconia Preparing To Bottle, Host Donnie Nelson Meet-and-Greet Saturday, and More Beer News

His dad may be banned from bringing beers to press conferences, but Donnie Nelson can have one with you.​Dirk Nowitzki may have grown up just a few minutes away from Franconia brewmaster Dennis Wehrmann's hometown in the Franconia region of Germany, but it will be a different Dallas Mavericks pers ... More >>

Il Cane Rosso Settles Down

Dallas' favorite roaming pizzeria hits and misses in new home.

Play-N-Skillz's New Collaboration With David Guetta Has Already Charted In 18 Countries

Steve VisneauCollaboration swag.​Late last week, we passed along word that the latest single from French house producer David Guetta (the man behind, among other songs, the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling") to blow up the Internet was actually a Play-N-Skillz co-production -- and the first of a ... More >>

If You're Headed Downtown and Love the World Cup and Wanna Hang Out with the Mayor ...

Patrick Michels​... you might wanna swing by Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Tom and the Dallas World Cup Bid Committee and Hunt Sports Group chairman Clark Hunt and a few FC Dallas players (including goalkeeper Kevin Hartman, defender Ugo Ihemelu and forward Ruben Luna) and former Colombian Nationa ... More >>

Austin Community-Owned Brewpub Black Star Co-op Gets A Gold Star From Us

Jesse HugheyA glass of (512) One 2, enjoyed at Black Star Co-op in Austin.​This past weekend I stayed in Austin to cover Fun Fun Fun fest -- one of the best rock and indie festivals in the country, and easily the greatest in the state, in my opinion. But with the music ending at 10 p.m. nightly an ... More >>

Faux Belgian Brews: Ranking Celis Grand Cru And Flying Dog Raging Bitch

​This week's special Avery events at the Libertine Bar, The Common Table and the Meddlesome Moth are putting a special emphasis on the Colorado brewery's Salvation Belgian-style golden ale. The Libertine and Common Table have already offered up food pairings especially made to go with the beer, an ... More >>

Wyland's Ocean Blue: Artist Should Stick With Palettes, not Palates

Chef Tim Byres Goes in Search of Himself and Finds Smoke

​Walk into Smoke early on any Saturday afternoon and you'll get the sense that the year-old restaurant hums along effortlessly. Simple preparations, a small, amiable kitchen crew, a mastery of the menu. Truth is, the food takes hours to prepare and there is meticulous care in the execution of wh ... More >>

Those Wisconsin Folk are Lightweights
When it Comes to Fair Eating

Sauerkraut balls: Wasn't that a nickname for Hitler?​A Milwaukee filmmaker who chronicled one man's annual quest to eat every deep-fried and "on a stick" food served at the Wisconsin State Fair has a few tips for fair-goers contemplating similar missions. Mark Irving, whose 13-minute "documen ... More >>

Meddlesome Moth: Great Beer, but the Food Doesn't Make Our Heart Flutter.

Surely, The Best News You'll Hear All Day: The Pixies Will Perform Doolittle At Grand Prairie's Verizon Theatre On September 19

Pixies​A huge thanks to the Friend of DC9 who emailed this morning to pass along a note he'd noticed while scoping the Pixies' MySpace page today: This morning, the Pixies announced via a blog post on the social media site that they will be touring again come the fall, hitting 11 U.S. cities and s ... More >>

Hash Over: Girls Night Out, Organic Maple Caramelized Bacon Gelato is Coming Soon, Urban Crust Hosts a Wine Dinner, and Dallas Farmers Market Chef's Cooking Series

La Duni​Hey ladies, we hope you can find a babysitter, skip your yoga class or leave work early this Thursday, April 29, because La Duni has something special planned for you. From 6-9 p.m., La Duni's NorthPark location will host a free Girls Night Out celebrating the DVD release of It's Complica ... More >>

Tonight at Fest, a Film That Really Does Blend Dallas With "International"

Patrick MichelsJames Gillies and Sharon MacDonald of Scotland were among hundreds of fans who traveled to Southfork in November '08.​Back in November 2008 Patrick Michels and I schlepped out to Southfork Ranch for that clusterfudge of a Dallas reunion, for which thousands of people flew in from al ... More >>

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Nose, Hair and Mouth--And That's A Good Thing

Gig Alert: Neon Indian at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

No need to be shy, Alan.​At the risk of beating you over the head with this information, it seems worth our while to remind you that tonight marks the much-anticipated debut of Alan Palomo's newest project, Neon Indian, which has garnered praise from outlets far beyond us and the normal local musi ... More >>

Salum: Paring Down Portions But Not Flavor at a Dining Gem

Part-Time Texan Vanessa Peters Tours Europe, Prepares New Disc For March Release

Juri de LucaVanessa Peters' MySpace page used to list her home town as McKinney, but truth be told, the former Austin resident spends as much time in Italy as she does in the states--which probably explains why Peters is touring The Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium before her new album is officiall ... More >>

Angela Hunt Goes to Europe

Brothers Grim

Wendell Baker is a dysfunctional Wilson family affair

AFI Fest Releases Lineup of Films and Guest List. Oh, Look: The Guy From Office Space

Bones to Pick

Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?

Horse Scents

S-M-Who?

Seeing Green

Raising the Bar

More than olives and beer nuts, Vickery Park takes pub grub to the next level

Berry Me Not

Who drinks gin?

International Boundaries

We're going to Europe. What should we drink?

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Letters

Starring Roles

Why don’t we have a nationwide restaurant rating system?

Nature Calls

Why are patios so popular?

Scavenger Hunt

The best was hard to find, harder still to ignore

The Band Who

Coldplay conquered America before its passport was even stamped

Absinthe Minded

Why can’t we get absinthe?

Food to Go

Dallas chefs learn their trade here, there and everywhere

Scene, Heard

London ain't so great

Wet kiss

Bizu needs to tighten its menu before Dallas will pucker up

Rawhide Italian

Antonio Ristorante revels in successful simplicity

Service with a frown

A mediocre menu and lackluster service take the fine out of the dining at Mel Hollen's

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