Blogs and Blogging

Local Food Blog, In Sock Monkey Slippers, Nominated by Saveur Magazine

The fancy-pants gourmet food and travel magazine, Saveur, has recently nominated a Dallas-based food blog, In Sock Monkey Slippers, for a food blog award. Meredith Steele is the one in funny socks. She started cooking when she traded in her craft as a graphic-designer to be a stay-at-home-mom. The t ... More >>

Style’s Totem Animal

Sharon Van Etten

Saturday, November 3, at Trees

Action Bronson at Dada

Sunday, September 23, at Dada

Preview: Flight Facilities at Rio Room

Thursday, April 12, at Rio Room

White Denim Are Having A Moment

Why Recipe Testing Is Important (and Why Blogs' Untested Recipes Are Destined to Fail)

Before I was a food critic I was a recipe tester. I worked with Bonnie Benwick at the Washington Post, who would send out a handful of recipes to her team and demand resultant dishes be brought to the office for sampling and photography. She would yell at us testers in all caps throughout the text o ... More >>

Hypnotic Donuts: Bring on the Chicken Biscuits

Alex Nham travels the globe, mainly the part with Dallas on it, in search of new places to eat breakfast. Acting on a tip from fellow blogger Justin Bitner, this week I ventured out to Hypnotic Donuts -- but not for the donuts. To say that this wacky donut shop's reputation precedes itself would ... More >>

John Tesar is a Jedi of Self-Promotion

Allison V. Smith​Back in January, chef John Tesar announced he was kind of over the whole Commissary, One Arts Plaza thing. He was pulling out and shifting his focus to a new restaurant on Westchester Drive in Preston Center. Spoon was what Tesar called the space, and bloggers got to bloggin ... More >>

Robert Wilonsky is Leaving the Observer for Something Called The Dallas Morning News

Yes, you read that correctly: Robert Wilonsky, the longtime editor of this blog, is going behind the paywall. Or maybe he's becoming the paywall. We can't be sure. But we know this: He's leaving the Observer for The Dallas Morning News, where he'll officially be known as the digital managing editor, ... More >>

Hey, Our Best Of App Is One of the Best. No, Really. Apple Said So.

​As blogs go, Unfair Park is a mostly safe, well-lit space, free of the black-hearted cynicism that infects so many other blogs. (Except when Rick Perry parts his lips.) (Oh, and when Schutze shows up.) (And Patrick! Can't forget about Patrick.) (Anna and Brantley have a little darkness in the ... More >>

Food Bloggers Wanted. Must Be Hungry.

​Update: I posted this last night and within minutes had heard from several people, including a couple who I suspect will be gracing these digital pages at some point. That said -- keep 'em coming. Remember to put "City of Ate Blogger" in the subject line, and remember not to suck. This here ... More >>

Homesick Texan Releases Homesick Cookbook

​Native Texan Lisa Fain is living the quintessential food blogger dream. After five years of compiling recipes in CSS and HTML, her writings will appear on paper in hardback, available on Amazon and at other booksellers this September 13th. Fain has been a salve for displaced Texans, working ... More >>

Gorilla Vs. Bear's Dallas Coming Out Party

Can influential music blogger Chris Cantalini's latest venture -- a festival at the Granada -- finally put the site on his hometown's map?

Here's the foodbitch Post That D Magazine Scrubbed From Its Web Site Last Week

​Last week, readers of D Magazine's food blog, SideDish, were introduced to a new contributor. She went by the name "foodbitch." Moniker aside, she seemed like any other after-work food blogger: sassy, smart, obsessed with food trucks. She brought some readers with her, folks who knew her from ... More >>

So We're Still Looking for That Food Critic ...

If we don't find a critic soon, I'm going to start reviewing local potato skins. Get your sour cream guns ready, area chefs.​If you pay much attention to this blog and its accompanying newspaper, you've noticed that we've yet to fill the oft-sneezed-upon shoes of Hanna Raskin, our former food ... More >>

This is a Stuffed Burger: The Ron Swanson Turkey Burger

Eater Touche, food blog.​Well played, blogosphere. On last week's episode of NBC's Parks and Recreation, Rob Lowe's muscular chest asked character Ron Swanson: "you ever tried a turkey burger?" Swanson responded: "Is that a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger? If so, yes. Delicious." B ... More >>

Taco Bloggers Descend on In & Out Tacos, Get Tongue-Boned

​If anyone doubts the importance and popularity of tacos in Dallas, then I ask them to look at the growing number of taco bloggers. I'm not referring to everyone with an opinion on Fuel City's picadillo and an Internet connection. I am referring to those individuals who have dedicated large am ... More >>

Chef to Tell 2000 Food Lovers What He Thinks of Their Cameras and Free Meal Requests

James Holmes, the affable locavore chef behind Austin's Olivia, missed out on the culinary scandal that unfolded last year when Time.com critic Josh Ozersky wrote about how much he enjoyed having restaurant chefs cater his wedding (while failing to mention he accepted their services for free.) Oli ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Liked Our BBQ-Gate,
For Some Reason

​It's a fair bet there's not too much overlap between Anthony Bourdain and Dallas Morning News restaurant critic Leslie Brenner's lists of what they liked best in 2010. According to a recent feature story, Brenner this year thrilled to grilled mussels and escargot fritters. Bourdain enjoyed t ... More >>

Turbo Fruits, Pujol

Saturday, December 18, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

Harlem, Tiger Thrust, Sir Name & The Janes

Friday, September 17, at The Nightmare

WeDentonDoIt Offers Up A Sweet Florene Video and Books Its First Non-House Show Bill

So, despite a virtual kick in the gut from Pitchfork, it seems that Denton's Florene is unfazed. Sure, the above interview was filmed before the music media giant's slogging, but that didn't stop up-and-coming Denton bloggers WeDentonDoIt.com from posting the above well-done video to their site yes ... More >>

Weekly Tape Deck and Gorilla Vs. Bear Form New Record Label

​It looks like hosting shows and giving away mp3s is no longer enough for two highly influential Dallas-based music blogs, as Gorilla Vs. Bear and Weekly Tape Deck have joined forces to create Forest Family Records. But while both blogs are Dallas-based, and will have Dallas's A&R Record Manuf ... More >>

Our North Of The Dial Scribe Signs Off

October Baseball: Commence Daydreaming

​All this hubbub over those feisty Minnesota Twins and those dramatic Detroit Tigers and the dawn of the baseball playoffs slapped me sober this morning. Ponder this, Rangers fans: Texas' 87 wins would've been enough to win the American League Central Division. As I detail ... More >>

Mavs-Nuggets Game 5: How 'Bout Some Live Blogging?!

Danny Bollinger Circle the wagons. Hide the women and children (and mothers). Commence live blogging.Since we're too skeered to be in Denver's volatile Pepsi Center tonight, noted Mavs expert Mike Fisher and I decided it'd be a good idea to watch the game "together". Just the four ... More >>

See What Happens When You Blog About a Twitter Account? TV Gets Involved.

The "UNT art photography student" behind the Denton Police Department's waaaaay-unofficial Twitter page is probably having a big ol' giggle fit right about now. Because, see, after Unfair Park pointed out the page yesterday -- which uses TwitPic to send followers mug shots the Denton PD loads to its ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV is All Hip and Tweety

Apparently these guys are tweetin' back and forth. Who knew?Twiddling - or I should say Tweeddling - my thumbs until the 6 p.m. release of the NFL schedule and the unveiling of the Dallas Cowboys' path to 9-7, I stumbled upon a couple of things. 1. This year's NFL Draft is extraordinarily wea ... More >>

All A-Twitter

I'd tweet this item, but ... no. Instead, this trio of Twitter-related items in a single post. As in: This morning, the Chicago Tribune becomes the latest in a series of stories to reference Addison-based TweetCongress, which, go figure, follows the tweets of those in Congress -- about 110 politicia ... More >>

NBA Fines Mark Cuban $25,000. Why Bother?

The NBA is a bunch of nit-twitts. Over the weekend the league fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $25,000 for his "criticism" of officials via Twitter, the real-time social network that allows schmucks like you and me to be flies on the walls of the rich, famous and exhibitionistic. Or to s ... More >>

At SXSW, The Bell Tolled For Thee

The Other Day at NX35: Tweet or Die (Or: The 21st Century Music Biz)

If you managed a band in 1999 and told your clients to forget the major labels and focus on "social networking" while giving away free tracks--you wouldn't have lasted long enough to even be working today. But at least you could say "I told ya so." Ten years (and countless futile RIAA lawsuits) ... More >>

Whitt's End: 3.6.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *If you're breathlessly waiting to hear Mickey Spagnola's take on the Cowboys cutting Terrell Owens, you'll have to go here. Because, alas, The Ticket's beloved "Ranch Report" is no more. Remembe ... More >>

Erykah Badu Announces Her Baby's Name

...and in true Badu fashion, it's a little eccentric: Erykah's new-born baby girl is name Mars Merkaba. Again, just like Badu's labor, the announcement came last night via Badu's Twitter account. What's pretty fascinating about all this isn't that Badu is necessarily using technology to its full ... More >>

Angela Hunt Goes to Europe

ACL, Meet DC9

In the Belly of the Beast (Or, at Least, the American Airlines Center)

Touchy, Touchy

Honor Among Pundits

Jason Does Dallas Cowboys

"We Shot JR" Shot Down

Sci-fi Shorts

Wilhite signs her new release

...And the Law Won

Birdmonster, Division Day

Wednesday, August 23, at the Double Wide

More Plugs

After reading this week's feature, discover more of the local blogosphere here

Plugged In

Dallas bloggers fan the flames and flame the fans of local music

Eisley

Saturday, May 6, at the Granada Theater

Undiplomatic

Plus: UTD orders investigation of Waterview

Dizzee Rascal

Monday, April 11