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Here's What Not to Pack for Rocklahoma 2013, Which Features Korn and Guns N' Roses

This weekend the erstwhile comedy team of Cleaver and Falcon will travel north on 35 till they arrive outside of Tulsa for the three-day festival that is Rocklahoma. While preparing for their time spent in a tent and seeing Guns N' Roses, KoRn, Bush, Alice in Chains and Cheap Trick, the two had a di ... More >>

There's an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don't Need the Help

"All the single dudes put up your phone. Now all the single ladies put up your phone. Turn to the nearest person with a phone up. Now type in your phone number. Now you have something to do after this." That was Chuck D, talking from the Doritos Main Stage. Or at least I think it was Chuck D. I wa ... More >>

Bachman Lake Taqueria Makes Some Brightly Colored Pork

While I've been searching for hand-built gyros in vain, the trompo, a vertical spit stacked with a cone of marinated pork, has been spinning in a handful of taquerias all over Dallas. The best part is most of them are made by hand. My favorite so far is served at Bachman Lake Taqueria. The small re ... More >>

The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

If Mitt Romney won't tell you which need to be closed, we will

Seven Awesome Tacos to Celebrate National Taco Day

Today is National Taco Day, so thousands of free corporate tacos will inundate American bellies. Taco Cabana and Taco Bueno are giving tacos away, but why not visit a real taqueria and mark the made-up holiday with something that actually tastes delicious? Who needs free when most of these tacos wil ... More >>

Esquire is Searching for America's Best Fried Chicken, and Bubba's Needs Your Vote

Esquire has an online fried chicken poll of local interest on its "Eat Like A Man" blog. Last week they had asked readers to name what "they consider the most life-changing fried chicken in America." The editors then parsed through those answers and served up the most frequently suggested chicken j ... More >>

"The System Made a Mistake": Judge Finally, Officially, Makes Richard Miles a Free Man

The ever-expanding and always sharply dressed brotherhood of Dallas County exonerees once again lined the courtroom at the Frank Crowley Courts Building for an exoneration hearing this morning, this time in support of Richard Miles, who they already know quite well. After 14 years behind bars for a ... More >>

Rais Bhuiyan, Victim of Post-9/11 Hate Crime, Calls for Forgiveness for His Attacker

Photo by Alex ScottRais Bhuiyan speaking to a group from Amnesty International at SMU earlier this spring​On September 21, 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, then 27 years old, was working behind the cash register of a Texaco station in Pleasant Grove when a man wearing a bandanna, sunglasses and a baseball ... More >>

At Inwood & Forest, Concern That Proposed Gas Station and Convenience Store Is Lowe's Blow

​Once or twice a week for the past couple of months, an e-mail will pop up in the in-box about a proposal to put a gas station and convenience store in the Lowe's parking lot on Inwood Road just off of Forest Lane. It's no small development, either: According to city docs, the complex will eat up ... More >>

Toxic Avenger: In the War Between the Feds and Texas, EPA Chief Al Armendariz has Science on His Side. Is That Enough?

Famous Faces' Local Choices, or: Wherein Kent Rathbun Spills the Bachman Lake Taco Secret

S&D Oyster CompanyIs it lunch-thirty already?​Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal rounded up some bold-faced locals -- including Luke Wilson, who I guess counts -- and asked 'em to pick a few recommendations each for out-of-towners and those natives who don't venture far from their comfo ... More >>

Road Trip: Noshing My Way to Big Bend

The scenery was pretty cool too.​According to the cheery student volunteer who gave a short lecture at Big Bend National Park the other day, the desert is delicious: Any resourceful visitor can make a meal of prickly pear pads and pigweed seeds. While the ranger-in-training assured us the fed ... More >>

Dallas Taco Tour: Noxious Fumes, (Mostly) Yummy Grub and the Best Taco in Town

Photos by Jose Ralat MaldanadoRollout (and Rolaids) for the magical mystery taco tour.​Dallas is a taco wonderland. When questions of the best local culinary offerings are raised, the taco is among the first victuals mentioned by the celebrity chef and vagrant alike. That being so, on Saturday ... More >>

Caraway Wants to Make It Clear: "The Majority Has Spoken" About Beer, Wine Sales

​Dallas, at least as of this very moment, is all-wet when it comes to the off-premise sale of beer and wine. And as Rudy Bush noted this morning, there hasn't exactly been a rush to the Oak Cliff Municipal Center's permit office -- in large part because of the city and county's hoop-heavy permitti ... More >>

A Ginormous Movie Studio in Frisco? Maybe.

​The Dallas Business Journal this morning brings news of a $1-billion, 1-million-square-foot movie and teevee production facility being planned in Frisco, near the Dallas North Tollway and Warren Parkway. And that's not all: According to Premier Studios' elaborate website, filled with conceptual r ... More >>

La Paisanita: Gas-Station Art With Gusto

​At an independent fashion-and-crafts art show/flea market in the Essex Street Market in Lower Manhattan, my wife chastised me for taking photos of some of the finer products available for sale -- noveau velvet paintings of the latest Brooklyn It band, shirts with images of unicorns sectioned ... More >>

Only Alice in Wonderland works wonders (so far) at this year's Festival of Independent Theatres.

This Year's Bath House FIT Fest Will Be Extra Cool. (The New Air-Conditioner Helps.)

Churchmouse ProductionsJoey Folsom and Stephanie Hall star in Churchmouse Productions' Georgie Gets a Facelift and Thank U Berry Munch​Each summer the Festival of Independent Theatres puts Dallas' hottest stage actors in a bunch of short one-act plays in rotating rep over four weekends. The 12th a ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Asado De Puerco Rojo At Chitos

​As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eaten on the ... More >>

DCT's Most Valuable Player Swings For The Fences; T3 Tunes UP [title of show]; One Thirty Productions Presents Its Favorite Austin Playwright

Woodlands Man Files Suit in Dallas, Claims Ballplayers Assaulted Him on New Year's Eve

KTRK-TV​Speaking of courthouse filings, our sister paper in Houston and KTRK-TV, the ABC affiliate down thataways, bring news of a lawsuit filed here by a 25-year-old Chevron petroleum engineer who claims he was assaulted on New Year's Eve at the Magnolia Hotel downtown.According to  the suit ... More >>

To Hell With The Recession -This Year Gave Dallas Audiences The Best Productions Of The Decade

City Says It's Serious About Cleaning Up One Beleaguered NW Dallas Intersection

View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

Legally Blonde Guilty of Contempt of Audience; FIT Fuels Up Under a Texaco Canopy

FIT to Be Seen

Kidnapped McKinney Man Gets an Up-Close Look Into Nigeria's Oily Heart of Darkness

Fueling Up at Lunch at La Paisanita Taqueria is a Gas

Texaco: Fill Up With Gas--From the Tacos, Not Petrol

Appetite For Instruction: Orzo Fresca Salad

Demonstrated by Jon Sprague of Corner Market Jon Sprague (left) and Chuck ColeTucked into a 90-year-old storefront on lower Greenville Avenue, Corner Market is like a little bit of Europe right here in Big D. Chuck Cole opened this restaurant-slash-flower shop two and a half years ago, aiming to ... More >>

Wolfgang Puck soars high with Five-Sixty

One Local Attorney's Figured Out How to Get Money Out of Big Oil

A Shell of Its Former Self?

The Last Word on the White Rock Marathon, From Our 17th-Place Finisher

Hell's in Lakewood

Austin, Condensed

Why attend 1,400 concerts when you can read an abbreviated list instead?

What's Your Position?

Who will lead America's Team come November? The electorate must know.

Funky Quarters

Inwood Quarter Café mixes the seedy with the charming

Off the Hizzle

Plus: Double D'oh, Bolly Wanna Poppadum?

Best Fried Chicken

Bubba's Cooks Country

Wrapped Up In Chains

Fast-food restaurants are quietly taking over the world

Superiority Complex

How Glenn Heights turned a debate over starter homes into a nasty small-town war

Pumped Out

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Whizzing inside the tent

ExxonMobil shareholders use their stock to push a corporate giant toward change

Howard's End

Carlton Stowers goes in search of the dark muse that inspired pulp-fiction legend Robert E. Howard, the West Texas recluse who created Conan the Barbarian

Southern cross

Gothic, God, and the working class meet in Buck-Nekkid

Buzz

The power of the picket

It doesn't pay to cross Daisy Joe

A strange goodbye

Odd sights--and musings--at Mickey Mantle's funeral

Slouching toward the millennium

Kitchen Dog celebrates its new era with a strange, apocalyptic work