Columbus

Why Do Mexicans Boycott Columbus Day?

And why do white people like to brag about where they travel?

Tracing the Hops in Deep Ellum Brewing Company's Newest Beer

See also: *Inside the Fermenting Mind of Drew Huerter, Head Brewer at DEBC When one thinks of fresh farm-to-market produce, it's usually in the vein of carrots and lettuce. And when food is flown across the country via special delivery, it's usually for fish that was swimming in an ocean one day an ... More >>

Rating Saint Arnold Divine Reserve 11, And Where You Can Try It

​Houston brewery Saint Arnold cracked this year's just-released Brewers Association Top 50 Craft Brewing Companies list, coming in just ahead of a fellow Texas brewery No. 49 Real Ale (Blanco) but well behind the only other Texas company on the list, the No. 4-ranked Spoetzl (Shiner) -- which also ... More >>

Sampling Spring Seasonals From Samuel Adams and Magic Hat

Jesse Hughey​Boy, doesn't this lovely weather just put you in the mood for a crisp, cold spring beer? Well, the temperatures may not quite yet be spring-like, and spring may not officially begin for more than a month, but spring seasonals are already appearing on grocery shelves -- just as it seem ... More >>

Pedestrian Playlist: What Does The Executive Director of the Dallas Zoo Listen To?

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to people of interest in the metroplex about their taste in music, including likes, dislikes, and guilty pleasures. We're calling it Pedestrian Playlist -- because, hey, everyone listens to music.I wonder what Turtles listen to?​The Dall ... 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 >>

Samuel Adams LongShot Six Packs Let Homebrewers Shine, Plus Flying Saucer Events Info

Jesse HugheyMile High Barley Wine, one of three beers available in the Samuel Adams LongShot six pack.​Homebrewing is a labor of love, the creative pursuit of some new twist on beer or refinement on a standard style. Few homebrewers expect anything more than a fresh supply of tasty beer and perhap ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Little Feat at Convention Center in '78

​Don't bogart this boot, my Friends, as The Wayback Machine presents this guh-roovy groover's flashback to June 2, 1978 -- the final time Little Feat would play Dallas with Lowell George, who died one year later, and the last time the band would come through till a Bronco Bowl show in the summer o ... More >>

Hophead: Homebrewing For St. Brigid

Jesse HugheySteeping grains. ​I'd like to give a lake of beer to God / I'd love the Heavenly Host to be tippling there for all eternity ... I'd sit with the men, the women of God, there by the lake of beer / We'd be drinking good health forever and every drop would be a prayer. --From Saint Brigid ... More >>

On The Range: Jalapenos

​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Take a couple slices of meat and stuff them into my flour tortilla, along with some handy rice, beans, salsa and, finally, jalapenos. We know the last ingredient colloquially as a pepper, yet pepper is also the name ... More >>

Top 25 Food-Related Quotes Of The Past Decade

​Almost a decade ago, I wrote this: "Every time this country ends up with a Bush in the White House, several things most assuredly occur: The government inflicts some regrettable incident on Japan, the nation tumbles into a recession, a presidential pet writes a book, and everyone worries about th ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Red Beer

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn warped.My first wife's clan would gather at least once a year in the middle of nowhere, otherwise known as Columbus, Nebraska.Yes, first wife--for some reason my firm belief that life revolves around telev ... More >>

Dude Food: The Porch

Holy shit, dudes.​The Porch2912 N. Henderson Ave.Dude Factor: 10, or The Stodg, on a scale of 1 (The Great Pyramid of Giza) to 10. This Dude Food is being filed from the home office, where I'm currently enjoying a productive birthday staycation. In honor of this momentous occasion (alas, the last ... More >>

American Baseball, the European Way

​Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America's pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn't be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn't be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer ... More >>

Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

On The Range: Cabrito

Goats helped settle America. Not kidding: According to Robb Walsh, author of The Tex-Mex Cookbook, goats were the preferred diet of common folk in Europe, so when Columbus sailed to the New World on his second voyage in 1493 he brought goats for meat, cheese, and milk--along with Spanish sheph ... More >>

A Footnote in History, Duncanville's Bacsik Wants Back in the Bigs

Airline Gets Some College Radio Love

UFL Passing on '08 Start Date

American Toxic

The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

Holier Than Thou? The Church of God in Christ Fights for Its Roots.

Ready to Rumble

Dallas entrepreneur pushes his own brand of ultimate fighting

Whiz Kid

Daniel Folmer wants you to wear headphones but stop watching football

¡Ask a Mexican!

The Battle for Metroplex Mediocrity

NASCAR: A Yankee Pastime

Card Shark

Amateur collector making a killin'

FOUND Out

Chili-ing Out

Why can't they make Texas food outside Texas?

Secret Soul

Recent compilations unearth the hidden history of funk

Wet Kisses

Riding Giants gushes over the legends of "big wave" surfing

Electric Shtick

The Electric Six's shenanigans have them laughing all the way to the bank

Evil Eyes

Coral Eugene Watts is a serial killer. He says he'll murder again. Why can't Texas stop him?

Bag Limits

Why do men hit on female bartenders?

Tippling Tips

Can you please solve all our alcohol-related mysteries?

History's Mysteries

For better or worse, progress has been made

Gave the People What They Had

Sometimes, the best new music is the best old music

Letters

Cultural ignoramuses; Steppin' out with Mr. F; Hail to the chief; Take a trolley Uptown; Muddy waters

Nerves

Banter

Terry Martin dives into WaterTower

Lush life

Nancy Wilson may be the greatest jazz singer left

Rest in peace

A compromise promises to end a battle over development in Greenwood Cemetery

Digging in

Friends of Greenwood Cemetery prepare a long-shot effort to protect paupers' graves

Accidental activists

A fight over Greenwood Cemetery's future wakes the living

Fusion fireworks

Anzu proves anew that whatever works, works

Grateful Dead

Holly Mullen explains how a massive paupers' graveyard barely survived greedy landowners and a stealth real-estate deal

Dig 'em up, move 'em out

Columbus Realty races to move paupers graves

Paint it Black

Haunted by his mother's suicide, Dallas-born artist barron Storey has won fame drawing the darkness

The pizzas of summer

Frantoni's fresh basil pie makes the season worth living through

Thai one on

Bangkok City offers thrills beyond searing spices