Festivals and Parades

Move Over, Greenville Ave.: Your Annual Irish Debauch Now the "Dallas St. Patrick's Day Parade"

Last year, Mark Cuban swooped in at the last minute to save the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade, thereby ensuring that the gutters of Lower Greenville would flow with beer and other liquids for a 33rd consecutive year. The parade had run into trouble as the event -- and costs, mainly fro ... More >>

Five Events for the Week, Oktoberfest, Beer, Two Sticks of Buttah and a Bowl of Gumbo

Just put all these options in a hat and pick one. Maybe two. Becuase it's just too hard to decide. It's a busy weekend. If you strategize, you might be able the hit most things on the list. Addison celebrates their 25th Anniversary of Oktoberfest this weekend. There will be more schnitzel then you ... More >>

Here's the Updated, Official Beer List for BrewFest

See also: Buy Tickets to BrewFest It's happening tomorrow, rain or shine. Over 250 beers will be flowing for our BrewFest beer party in the Arts District. ICYMI, doors open at 6:00 p.m. for VIP and and 7:00 for General Admission (it's 21 and up obviously), and there'll be food and music from Cody ... More >>

Ted Cruz Gets His Honeymoon -- But Only in the Straight, Godly Meaning of the Word

Basic rule of American democracy: Anybody who wins an election gets 10 seconds of credibility. Let's hope in the case of Ted Cruz, lionized today in The New York Times as "A Republican Voice With Tea Party Mantle and Intellectual Heft," we can make it to the second 10 seconds without throwing up. ... More >>

Edgefest 22 at FC Dallas Stadium

Sunday, April 22, at FC Dallas Stadium

The Granada Shows Mark Cuban Some Love

Julie Garcia of the Granada just sent over this pic of their marquee, thanking Big Daddy Cuban for reaching into his pot of gold and saving the Greenville St. Patrick's Day Parade. Does this mean Cuban will be King of the Parade this year? Is that a thing? In other news, the Observer's March 17 ... More >>

Mayor Awaits Report on Occupy Dallas; Group Vows It Won't Protest Omni, Vets Parade

Photo by Chris Howell​In the wake of two reports concerning the city's response to Saturday's arrest of eight Occupy Dallasites, some Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Is the city going to boot the protesters camping out behind Dallas City Hall, allowed by agreement following last month's trip to ... More >>

Diwali Mela at the Cotton Bowl: Count Me In

​When I first came to Dallas, many commenters thought I would be some sort of carpet bagging elitist who would swoop into town and declare everything that didn't align with my northern ideals unsatisfactory. While I did complain about some bad guacamole, and I remain steadfast in my distaste f ... More >>

See Addison, See the World

Ballast for Your Beer Belly

Oktoberbest 2011 Round One: Samuel Adams Speared By Harpoon, Paulaner Pounds Ayinger And More

We can only hope Hoppy The Clown brings as much drunken hilarity and pathos to The Common Table tomorrow as Shakes The Clown did to our VCR years ago.​The first round of Oktoberbest 2011 is halfway over, with a couple of surprising upsets and a couple of shocking, bit-spitting failures by favored ... More >>

Austin City Limits Goes Mainstream

Addison's Oktober Fest: The Bigger the Stein the Better

​Time to dust off your beer steins. Not days after Brew at the Zoo, from which I'm still hungover, it's time to start planning next weekend's beer-laden festivities. Addison's 24th annual Oktoberfest kicks off this Thursday evening with a ceremonial keg-tapping by Mayor Joe Chow. Admission is fre ... More >>

Summer In The City: Three More Local Festivals Announce July Lineups, Cheap Tickets.

​With Coachella and Bonnaroo now past us, it's safe to say that we're officially smack dab in the middle of summer music festival season. Unfortunately, this being Texas and all, and that meaning that it can get pretty warm around these parts, the well is rather dry as outdoor festivals on the hor ... More >>

Kicking Off Foote

Show Us Your Sneakers

They're At It, Again

Fried Beer To Cross State Fair Lines and Go National

Sara Kerens​Fried beer has started its march to the sea, with the much-publicized snack scheduled for a second outing at Savannah's 27th annual Oktoberfest this weekend. "Believe it or not, fried beer will be available," the Savannah Morning News reported today. Fried beer has not been universal ... More >>

Take One Down, Pass It Around: Office Sampling of Samuel Adams' New Harvest Collection

​Last week, the Boston Beer Co. sent along a free sample mixed 12-pack, the company's Harvest Collection, which includes the new Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale along with a few other varieties and a couple bottles of the flagship Boston Lager. Also included in the package was a loaf of pumpkin b ... More >>

Libertine Bar Offers Pair Of Tickets To Oktoberfest Dinner Next Week

​Speaking of Spaten Oktoberfest, this month's beer dinner at the Libertine Bar features five Spaten beers along with an Oktoberfest-inspired five-course meal. The dinner is at 7 p.m. next Wednesday, September 29. On the menu are apple and pear potato pancakes with spicy lingonberry sauce paired wi ... More >>

The Hippy, Hippy Shake

Project Recap: Cher-iously, Not Another Bridal Gown Challenge?

As long as Richardson's Shirin Askari is on the show, we'll watch. But if she's auffed, we're so off.​This week on Project Runway, which we're one local contestant auffing away from turning off forever, Heidi Klum flounced out on the runway and announced that the designers would have to pick new m ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

In a short post-holiday week (as you no doubt remember, last Saturday was National Bacon Day), it takes us a little while to get back in the groove. Not so the City of Ate readership, however.Keep in mind we still want to find a way to award prizes. Just this week we recieved a gift certificate fro ... More >>

The Big Texan

Renaissance Men And Women

Dallas Paints the Town, Faces, Beer and Dogs Green for St. Patrick's Day

Patrick MichelsWhat the Hell is That? St. Patrick's Day edition.More photos from the parade and the mess that followed, in our slide show here.Once a year in Dallas, we come together to celebrate the common heritage that binds us all, whether we spent our formative years at frat parties, Uptown bars ... More >>

Bust A Move

Addison throws a dance party

Army to Step Up Recruiting Among Local Latinos -- Using Robots and Video Games

Man, That Parade Was Awesome

Overheard at Day 2 of ACL

Fire at Austin City Limits festival

Beads of Hope

Racing for Boobs

Run a 5K for breast cancer

The Bittersweets, Rose County Fair, Doug Burr

Friday, August 4, at the Cavern

Take Eight

Q Cinema's Film Fest celebrates another birthday

When Stars Don't Align

Ten Days of Talent

Being Out of the Loop is not a bad thing

Jingle Django

Doug Burr, Bosque Brown, Current Leaves, Kristy Kruger, Kelly Upshaw, Sleepy Atlantis

Friday, July 29, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Good Riddance

The Dallas Music Festival is over. Thank God.

Brave New Combo

D'oh! The Simpsons animate Dallas' favorite polka band

Viva Vistas

Dallas' Latino film festival keeps raising the bar

Pets, Weiss and Videotape

Rewind the Dallas Video Fest

Shamrock On

You'll learn more than just stereotypes at the North Texas Irish Festival

Free Will

Teen Shakespeare: It's not just for the movies anymore

Blink

Shake-ing it up

Gadzooks

Night & Day

March 4 - 10, 1999

Of haggis, hairy legs, and plaid

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