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Rachel Behring Tells Rock Star Hospitality Stories and Explains her Love for Local Music

Ever been backstage at House of Blues Dallas? Rachel Behring painted the cool murals you see on the walls back there of some of rock and soul's legends. But hell, that's just her showing she loves where she works ... and who wouldn't? Behring spent a good stretch of time managing backstage at HOB, a ... More >>

The Box: Tesar Tesars the Crap Out of The Box

Welcome to the return of City of Ate's The Box. Somehow, we got Spoon Bar & Kitchen's The Mr. Chef John Tesar to agree to take our The Box challenge. We even got Cafe Momentum's The Mr. Chef Chad Houser to help us pack The Box with the perfect, high-quality ingredients. Spoiler alert: Tesar kicked T ... More >>

Mom Bloggers Attack Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

What the hell is cheesy pasta?Remember pink slime? Remember screwy additives in Gatorade? I always get a kick out of small efforts by consumers and advocates whose issues with large companies gain momentum and lead to changes in our food system. See also: - Former Pink Slime Beef Processors are Dr ... More >>

Cowtown Gets a 15-Passenger Beer Bike and Our Jealousy Burns Slightly More Than Our Legs Will

Remember this? The beer bike that was banned in Germany because of all the ruckus it caused on the roadway? We can't imagine how 15 drunk people pedaling a bike through a busy city could possibly be a distraction, but we honestly wanted to find out for ourselves. Well, our neighbor to the west has ... More >>

Cucumber Gatorade: A Warning

We offer many different perspectives here at the City of Ate, and on occasion we even dabble in being good Samaritans. This is one of those times. If you order Gatorade by color, you must stop. Immediately. "Hey, I'm at the store need anything?" "Yeah, can you pick me up a Gatorade?" "What k ... More >>

Cocktails, Food Fears And Summer Camp For Smoke Freaks: This Week In Dallas' Food Blogs

Hello Dallas. Planning on having a boozy weekend? Craft cocktailery has descended en masse on our city, and Monday could be a little rough. Make sure to drink your Gatorade before imbibing with enthusiasm. And if you do catch a bad case of morning malaise you'd do well to head up to the Crossroads D ... More >>

Pickles Versus Cucumbers: When It Comes To Cocktails, Whose Side Are You On?

Confession: I love cucumber drinks. Muddled with vodka, soaked in gin, even just sliced and floating in a glass of water, the addition of cucumber gives an unparalleled refreshing note, perfect for summertime patio sipping. Obviously I'm not alone in this -- every cocktail bar in town has at least ... More >>

Preparing For The Onslaught: This Week In Dallas Food Blogging

Welcome to the longest weekend of your life. Between the parade, block party, concerts (stoked for Ryan Bingham by the way) English breakfasts, cabbage dinners, green beers, Irish pubs, whiskey shots, sunshine, crowds, food truck parties and other happenings, there's a good chance some of us will ne ... More >>

Off-Site Kitchen's Brough Ham Fleetwood Sandwich Goes Its Own Way

Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW's most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he'll check it out. Venue: Off-Site Kitchen Sandwich: Brough Ham Fleetwood ($5.95) Bread: Toasted bun imported from Village Baking Co. less than a mile away Toppi ... More >>

Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Ally Traylor on Pre-Game Meals and Favorite Dallas Restaurants

Occasionally we identify interesting local folks who are as obsessed with food and restaurants as we are, and share some of their thoughts on Dallas' dining scene and food in general. This is one of those occasions. What food reminds you of your childhood? Soft pretzels! I'm originally from St. L ... More >>

Postcard from Texas Meth Country

In one East Texas town, a new brand of meth lab has business -- and the occasional house -- booming.

Hometown Heroes

Hello Aters. I'll Be Your New Food Critic.

Scott ReitzFinn, professional left-over consumer​ A little over a week ago I threw my belongings into a 16-foot Penske, drove down 16th Street past the White House, and headed west. Finn, my 14-year-old wonder-mutt, sat shotgun, along with a spider plant, a bottle of port, some Gatorade and a ... More >>

Baseball Goes Bonkers: The Top 5 Championship Celebrations in Sports

​Watched South Carolina win their second consecutive College World Series last night. Their celebration -- gloves and hats flying in a giant infield dog pile -- got me to thinking: Does baseball over-celebrate? Or, perhaps, do they do it just right? Think about the Mavs' reaction after a ... More >>

What About Bob? He's at the Mavs Parade Too. Along With Some Guy Named Jamie Foxx.

Photo by Leslie Minora​Early this morning Mavs fans packed the intersection of Griffin and Young, setting up chairs and coolers and settling in behind the barricade along the first block of the parade's route. And there, amongst the growing throng, was none other than the ubiquitous Robert Crawfor ... More >>

Sorry America, But We Ain't Safe: A Review from the NBA Finals Road

​Please don't take this as a complaint. More of an -- as I do from time to time, and always -- observation. I love my job(s). Getting paid to attend sporting events is all I ever wanted to do since the day I realized I'd grow up to be too short and too unathletic to play for a living. An ... More >>

Can't Stand the Heat? Try Some Things from the Kitchen.

Doesn't one of these sound tasty just when your body is about to hit the turf from heat exhaustion?​Living in a place where Satan would wear an umbrella hat and a fanny-pack full of Blue Ice, I'm proud that I made it as long as I did without suffering heat exhaustion. Last Thursday, in betwee ... More >>

Run With A View

If Security at Super Bowl's Anything Like the Clampdown at the Downtown Sheraton ...

Photos by Patrick MichelsJanet Napolitano brought her Secret Service "safe zone" to Super Bowl XLV's press row in the Sheraton.All day Monday, Super Bowl XLV Press Row at the Sheraton downtown was filling up, as the best and the brightest out-of-town media checked in, grabbed their credentials and s ... More >>

Hangover Helpers: Big burritos, Gatorade and Man Maids--Coming to a Headache Near You

​Hey drunkards! Let's all move to Boulder. Sure, it's super cold in Colorado (because, for some reason, that state acknowledges that winter is a season) but they have one awesome thing we haven't got: Hangover Helpers. We heard about these guys while listening to the Edge this morning and didn't ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Joanna Newsom at The Granada, Paddy Keenan at Poor David's, A Skylit Drive at The Prophet Bar and Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa at Rubber Gloves

This is, by far, the oddest quartet of shows I've mentioned with this thing.

Lone Star Creator Kyle Killen Begs: Help a Brother Out and Watch My Show, K? Great.

Courtesy Lower Oak Lawn/Kendall ShifflerShooting an art auction scene with Jon Voight for Lone Star at ARTability on Oak Lawn last month​Thanks to the many Friends of Unfair Park who've directed my attention to this blog post from Kyle Killen, the creator of Lone Star, which, as we noted Tuesday, ... More >>

Dancing Industrial Complex at AAC?

Fab Four Friday

From the Muddy Banks of Forney, Slipping and Sliding Through the Warrior Dash

Chelsea Leiber​We begin this week where we spent most of last week: at the Warrior Dash in Forney, where my fellow warriors and I spent the weekend traversing 14 obstacles from hell. We worried about parking, since that seemed to be an ongoing issue, but once we arrived it wasn't a problem at all. ... More >>

Gallop Into 2010

Inside Dallas News's Price-Hike Strategy

​The Dallas Morning News's circulation is way down -- by 30 percent since 2007 -- which is just what A.H. Belo higher-ups expected when they decided to start upping the price of the paper. In a "special report," Editor & Publisher details just how the News came up with the decision to charge $ ... More >>

Like it or Not, Tiger Woods is a Role Model. A Suddenly Horrible Role Model.

​I have great parents. As a kid, they provided for me and poured the foundation for me to grow into a decent - I said decent - human being through principles, rules and accepted boundaries. My parents raised me. But Bjorn Borg molded me. I'd be home by my 10 p.m. curfew because of my parents. ... More >>

Mavericks-Nuggets: A Requiem in 5 Predictable Parts

No Jason Terry. No Gatorade dump. Hindsight, they say, is 20/20. Sometimes, unfortunately, so is foresight. On Friday, May 1 I picked the Denver Nuggets to eliminate the Dallas Mavericks in five games. Last night it came to pass, in the form of Nuggets 124, Mavs 110. Dirk Nowitzki was as grit ... More >>

Wings Of Charity

Girls on Girls: The Hottest Female Athletes According to Females

Okay, let's try something different. Something titillating. Since Observer staff writers Merritt Martin and Megan Feldman almost never get in a cat fight that spills over into the mud-wrestling pit, they instead want to entertain us visually-stimulated, testosterone-saturated dorks with their ... More >>

Whitt's End 1.9.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *First things first. If you plan to see this movie, or even think it looks remotely entertaining, please, leave these premises immediately. *Nothing official yet (UPDATE: Now it's official), but I hear E ... More >>

Allow Myself to Introduce ... Myself

Jet Off to the Moon

Footbawl

This girl's got no game—or legs

Gatorade Gullibility

Payton Place

Riverdance-ing by the Numbers

Moody Mavs

For a team headed to the playoffs, Nellie's group is a schizo bunch

Godspeed, Goodspeed

Plus: John Cocktoastin'; Kick ASSCAR

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

I Got Skillz

The Mavs were scouring Hoop-It-Up for real players. Look no further.

You Will Love It

Josie doesn't pussyfoot around: You're being brainwashed by pop

Cajun quest

Good cuisine--even if it involves bathtubs of boiling oil-- never goes out of style

Buzz

Aiming low

Lulu's Bait Shack-- the name says it all

Compulsive childbirth

Why my third time still wasn't the charm

Bigger, louder

With 1,000 times the budget for his sequel, Robert Rodriguez comes out with guns a-blazin'

Summer season

Mavs' star rookie gets winded off the court

Old friends

Negro League ballplayers recall game's shameful, glorious past