Subject: Dr Pepper

• Roughing It

  January 17, 2007

• Love-Love

  November 17, 2006

• Are You Ready For Some (More) Football?

  November 15, 2006

• Peeling Back John Peel's Dallas Daze

  May 16, 2007

• Re-Pete After Me

  September 20, 2007

• Tough Glove

  Ayala tries for Comeback King

  November 13, 2003

• Video: Somewhere In Dallas Lurks the Stomach of A Burger King

  November 7, 2008

• Hot Dish

  October 24, 1996

• Babes in Boyland

  November 7, 1996

• Out Here

  July 9, 1998

• Dude Food: Melios Brothers Char Bar

  Allison RaeMelios Brothers' Char Bar2026 Greenville Ave(214) 826-8800Dude Factor: 8, or Super Mario Brothers on a scale of 1 (George and Jeb Bush) to 10 (Frank and Jesse James)Regretfully, I had to knock a point off this joint right from the start for the misleading name. I was finally getting my appetite back following a bout with the flu and wanted nothing more than a burger and a beer. Surely a place that calls itself Char Bar would be the ideal place to find both, right? Wrong. The "bar" in

  March 3, 2009

• Short Orders: Sambuca (Uptown)

  Sambuca2120 McKinney Ave.214-744-0820Sambuca is still around.It still has one of the more sophisticated courtyard spaces in Uptown and still brings in live entertainment. But the room appears somehow stale.As a restaurant slips into middle age--about four years without a makeover--pressure builds on the kitchen. Their work must contend with dulled color, familiar decor, blandishments becoming blander by the month. Even if they perform to a reasonable standard, the restaurant will still lose lust

  March 5, 2009

• Chewing The Fat: Wednesday Ground 'Round

  Restaurant-ing through History has a nifty bit of nostalgia about the old automats that served Philly and New York starting in the early 20th Century. You can think of automats as part vending machine, part post office, walls of little windows where customers deposited coins and then opened the door to get everything from a lobster soups to bottled beer. It's bound to stage a comeback. A short-lived comeback. Ever try that Dr Pepper made with real sugar, the stuff outta Dublin (TX)? Now it

  March 25, 2009

• Best Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich

  September 25, 2003

• Echoes and Reverberations: "Snapshots From The Spectacle of Sickness"

  The original Nervebreakers lineup.Defining moment: For a suburban teenage kid from North Dallas in 1977, a delirious new underground movement called punk rock inspired a profound and urgent departure from the regular routine of cruising Forest Lane or hanging out at the Gemini Drive-In movie theater. It was a Ramones show on a snowy night at Panther Hall in Fort Worth that lured me headlong into the lifestyle; 16-year-old Joan Jett and her band The Runaways were the opening act. Vern Evans' p

  April 10, 2009

• Is Dallas Boxer Luis Yanez a Future World Champion or Just a Suburban Myth?

  He was an Olympic disappointment, but with his first pro fight on Friday, Yanez is out to prove he's the real deal.

  February 19, 2009

• Shaky Construction|Sweet on the Dr

  August 28, 2008

• Family Feud

  August 21, 2008

• It's Dr Pepper Time!

  June 5, 2008

• Icy Hot

  Maybe this girl should name her next cat Mike Modano

  September 7, 2006

• Rich Kids Behaving Badly

  Nerdy, bitter and shod in fake Uggs, Andrea Grimes investigates the legend of the Park Cities Party

  November 3, 2005

• Buckle Up

  July 28, 2005

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  June 9, 2005

• Best Retro Candy

  Metro Retro

  October 14, 2004

• Dream On

  Team China takes a shot

  July 1, 2004

• Boy, Oh, Boy

  Plus: Won't Somebody Please Think of The Children?; Mavs, Man

  April 29, 2004

• Perfect Town, USA

  Frisco wants to lure Andy and Opie with a Starbucks. Why is that an evil plan?

  April 22, 2004

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  February 12, 2004

• Stars on Ice

  They’ll spin right ’round

  November 20, 2003

• Power play

  Coaches and parents in the area's elite youth hockey league say the Dallas Stars are trying to ice anyone who threatens their control of the kid hockey business

  December 16, 1999

• Food For Thought 4.29.09

  "This is about McDonald's becoming a beverage destination and building off our offerings of fountain beverages." (Karen Wells, vice president of U.S. strategy and menu for McDonald's, on a new with Plano's Dr. Pepper Snapple Group replacing Pibb Xtra--a Coco-Cola product--with Dr. Pepper. Guess the Doctor has more drawing power than anyone thought, if it will finally draw people to the global giant for a drink. As quoted in "wire reports" assembled by the Dallas Morning News.)

  April 29, 2009

• Now Selling for Five Figures, the Recipe, Perhaps, For a Friendly Pepper-Upper

  Used to be a time when procuring a real Imperial Pure Cane Sugar Dr Pepper meant hoping that case of bottles you ordered from Dublin arrived mostly intact; though, years ago, my old man bought a few cases of the 12-ounce cans from a guy in a parking lot on 183, seedy. Now, of course, they're available most anywhere for dollars on the penny, still worth it. But for $50,000 to $75,000, courtesy Unfair Park across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries, you can own what may be the original

  May 1, 2009

• NPR's Robert Siegel Wonders How Heritage Auction House Can Sell a Rock for Five Figures

  Courtesy Heritage Auction GalleriesThe Garza StoneThis weekend, Unfair Park's across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries holds yet another of its dino-bone and space-rock sales, a fairly regular occurrence over there. But this one got the attention of National Public Radio: All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel can't understand why someone will likely pay more than $50,000 for nothing more than a rock -- the rock in this instance being the famous "Garza Stone," so named for the

  May 13, 2009

• Appetite For Instruction: Mai Tai

  Demonstrated by A.J. Iammarino of Trader Vic's Dallas Guess what? Marilyn Manson is now shilling absinthe. Yep, as if Cabo Wabo and Trump Vodka weren't enough, now everyone's favorite goth poster boy is in bed with the naughty green fairy. We'll file it somewhere between the Danny DeVito Limoncello and Willie Nelson's Old Whiskey River Bourbon in our overflowing celebrity-branded liquor cabinet. Long before any of these big name bandwagon jumpers joined the party, Victor J. Bergeron--bette

  May 21, 2009

• Today in Music News: Dr. Dre Loves The 23 Flavors, Rihanna Will Testify, and Dave Gahan Has Tumor Removed

  Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 29, 2009... The latest installment of Dr Pepper's "Trust Me I'm A Doctor" campaign may be the only time we will get to hear anything off of Dr. Dre's long in-the-works Detox... for now.  It's always nice to see how art and commerce come together. Rihanna has been subpoenaed to testify in Chris Brown's pre-trial hearing. Will this harm her street cred and turn her into a snitch? Depeche Mode will resume the band's world tour

  May 29, 2009

• Dude Food: Norma's Cafe

  Each week the Dude Food guys assess the 'masculinity' of Dallas area dives. The more fried meat and junk on the walls, the better the rating...Norma's Cafe1123 W. Davis St.214-946-4711Dude Factor: 10 (June Cleaver) on a scale of 1 (Kate What's-Her-Name, the one in all the tabloids) to 10.Norma's Cafe makes the kind of food Mom used to make. More specifically, the kind Mom used to make before she went back to school, before she gave up the fight against TV dinners and started letting us chug Dr P

  June 23, 2009

• Scoreboard! Or: This Texas Stadium Relic Would Look Great Above Your Bed.

  ​Seems like we'll never be done with Reunion Arena or Texas Stadium, which is still loaded with shit the city of Irving would love to sell you for pennies on the penny. Like, oh, this scoreboard -- which, believe it or not, can be yours for the low, low price (so far) of ... $25?!?! (Same goes for the Motorola scoreboard, and the Pepsi and Dr Pepper video monitors that once hung from the rafters.) Beats all kinda hell out of the tangle of telephones selling for five bucks. But, I dunno, it's h

  August 12, 2009

• New Product Launches Have Us Wondering...Um...Why?

  ​The more things change, the more we find ourselves scratching our heads at the stuff the powers-that-be in the corporate food world come up with. Pop Culture Vita Food Products, Inc. is the number one brand of refrigerated seafood products, sales-wise, as well as an industry leader in the smoked fish category. Don't ask us how this translates into their new soda-pop flavored dessert toppings and barbecue sauces, though. We just report this stuff. The company's Vita Specialty Foods arm has

  August 14, 2009

• Well, Somebody Clearly Needed 25,000 Texas Stadium Seats. And Two Big Ol' Video Screens.

  ​Christopher Moore, the prof quoted in today's paper about the physics of punting as it relates, to, oh, I dunno, low-hanging video screens in overwrought football domes, offers plenty more info on his blog concerning hang time and kicking angles; rrrrrrriveting stuff. But, for a moment, back to the Dallas Cowboys' former home. A couple of weeks back we mentioned that the city of Irving was auctioning off Texas Stadium leftovers -- including 25,000 seats that were, on August 12, still availabl

  August 25, 2009

• Why Coke Is Not It For Dallas

  ​In September 2004, the Dallas City Council gave Dr Pepper an exclusive beverage vending contract -- meaning that at any city of Dallas venue, you had to be a Pepper or else till at last the fall of '09, since Dr Pepper was paying good money for the exclusive access via vending machine. But with the five-year deal set to fizzle out, in April the city told Coke and Pepsi that, hey, you're more than welcome to make yours the one and only vending machine at the Meyerson or Farmers Market or Love

  September 8, 2009

• Top Five Surprises In DFW Stadium Food

  Patrick MichelsAre you buying what he's selling? Or are you waiting for the cart?​Seattle has ballpark sushi, San Francisco spawned a garlic fry renaissance, and the world can thank St. Louis' Gateway Grizzlies for the Krispy Kreme burger. But there was a time when Dallas ran on the cutting edge of sports food innovation this town invented ballpark nachos, while the rest of the country still sang about peanuts and Cracker Jack.Now that stadium foodservice has grown up around the country, garli

  September 16, 2009

• Pssst, Need a Job? How About a Sports Job?!

  You don't have to be able to dunk to apply.​Times are tough. Jobs are scarce, money's tight and our sports teams haven't lifted a championship trophy since 1999. We temporarily interrupt this recession depression for some good news, wrapped in an employment opportunity. The NBA's new Frisco Developmental League (D-League) franchise is holding a job fair this afternoon Noon-2 p.m. at Dr. Pepper StarCenter in Frisco. Dallas Mavericks' general manager Donnie Nelson will be on han

  September 17, 2009

• Hash Over: Bonus Jack Is Back, A New Cowboy Chow, Pluckers To Burn Good Morning Texas And More

  The Bonus Jack of fantasy...​Jack In The Box has reintroduced the Bonus Jack burger, which is a sandwich made of two beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese and pickles on a triple-decker bun. For some reason, that ingredient listing is prompting a serious case of deja vu. Where in the world did they get the idea for such an unorthodox hamburger? According to information from the company, the burger came out in 1970. That's two years after the Big Mac was rolled out nationwide--which we'r

  October 5, 2009

• Analog Rebellion (formerly PlayRadioPlay!) Announces New Album Details

  Kolby Schnelli Analog Rebellion's Daniel Hunter​I perfectly understand Daniel Hunter's frustration. Really, I do. As PlayRadioPlay!, the Aledo native did get lumped into the mall-punk scene by a lot of people--us here at DC9 included. But, upon going back and listening to the still super-young 20-year-old's debut, Texas, which was released on Island Records shortly after he was signed as just a 17-year-old, you can hear some real interesting, real promising stuff on there. And, as we've seen i

  October 14, 2009

• Whitt's End: 10.16.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *According to my very unscientific research conducted on this very blog over the last two years, the most sensitive, whiny, irrational folks on Earth are: 1. Ticket P1s; 2. Right-wing Republicans; 3. Oklahoma fans. So if you wore your OU T-shirt while turning off 1310 AM just long enough to vote for George Dubya, my apologies sympathies. *Biggest disappointment through five Cowboys ga

  October 16, 2009

• Owl City: The Latest In A Long Line Of Rip-Offs

  October 29, 2009

• Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To Third String Productions' Halloween Show at Nokia Theatre with Cobra Starship, Others

  Cobra Starship​ You've no doubt at least heard "Good Girls Go Bad," the synth-heavy, all-hook, unavoidable summer smash from dance-pop outfit Cobra Starship. Well, in this week's paper, Seth Graves takes a look at the band's ascension to this point:Surfacing in 2006 as part of the genius Snakes on a Plane marketing barrage, Cobra Starship bandleader Gabe Saporta (formerly of emo outfit Midtown) won the hearts of cult-film buffs and asymmetrically coifed teenyboppers with the flamboyant, delibe

  October 28, 2009

• Veggie Guy: Back Yard Burgers

  ​In the spirit of Halloween, I'm going to share a horrifying confession with you guys. A little over a decade ago, I was a regular at the Whataburger on Main St. in Lewisville. I'd hit that drive-thru five days a week for a double-meat, double-cheese Whataburger with ketchup, mustard, and extra pickles, a large order of French fries, large onion rings, two sides of country gravy, and a large Dr. Pepper. For breakfast. Pretty frightening, huh? Yeah, I was a big guy back then, weighing ove

  October 29, 2009

• Whitt's End: 10.30.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I take absolutely no very little joy in D Magazine's Inside Corner sports blog going belly up any second now. Evan Grant is a solid baseball Xs and Os writer and I'll follow his work back to Dallas' Only Daily. But the combo of Grant's departure, the arrival of ESPN Dallas and an expiring Dr Pepper sponsorship proved fatal. Says former Inside Corner contributor and Ticket Noon-3 host

  October 30, 2009

• Good Friday: Jackopierce, Dweezil Zappa, Darktown Strutters, Captured by Robots, Boys Named Sue, Hatebreed, Justin Nozuka, Cartel, Generationals, Norma Jean, Paula Cole

  ​Alright: Another weekend! No sense in beating around the bush. Let's just jump right in and check out the show-going options on the DFW plate for the next couple of days. First, as always, the shows we've already plenty hyped up.Tonight at The Green Elephant, various hip-hop and DJ acts will grace the venue's two stages--but the real highlight, surely, is a DJ set from UK-based dubstep tastemaker Mary Anne Hobbs, who's stopping through Dallas as just one of four stops on her US tour. Also ton

  November 20, 2009