Grand Canyon National Park

Pop Diner is a Big Bust

Closing time: You don't have to go home, but don't go here.

Ron Swanson and Manwich, a Sloppy Match Made in Heaven

We all had "Mom is tired of your shit" night, yes? It was also called Sloppy Joe Night. That weekly or monthly event when she plopped a pound of ground beef into a pan and poured some sauce on it, stirred it up and threw a bag of Mrs. Baird's buns at your face and made herself an old-fashioned. No? ... More >>

The 10 Worst Fast Food Trends of 2012

If civilization does collapse on Friday, December 21, 2012, which is the day the Mayans were all like Hey guys! Earth's gonna explode in a fiery saucer of flames and stuff!, then any remaining future humans (or any aliens stopping on the burnt husk of Earth to take a leak) will be able to read the s ... More >>

The Hollow Shame of Hot Pockets Limited Edition Chili Sauce Cheese Dog

So, I'm late to the game and for that, I apologize. I'll try harder. Promise. Last week, looking for something new to add to the weekday lunch line-up, a Hot Pockets "Limited Edition" box caught my eye -- even though it appears to have hit the market months ago. I gave it a quick look, but pushed t ... More >>

Domino's Japan Has a $50 Pizza

Domino's recent trend of gourmet-ing the shit out of their food jumped to new heights recently. Introducing, from the company's Japanese chain (via Eater), the Prestige Quattro, which is not a sequel to the Hugh Jackman film. This is the $50 (¥3,900) unbelievably fancy pizza that features four sid ... More >>

Grand Canyon Burger: The Latest in Japan McDonald's Ridiculous Big America Campaign

Burger Business​Earlier this year we approximated the possible future of Japan McDonald's bizarre Big America 2 campaign, which features four Hulk-fist sized America-themed burgers (the "Texas 2" burger featured "flavors of the Lone Star State with spicy chili beans"). Our own product pitches ... More >>

Baboush Chef Yaser Khalaf on How to Make it in America (It All Starts in Lexington)

Yaser Khalaf, owner of Medina and Baboush in the West Village, traveled throughout the Middle East and Europe as a child. Then in college, he traversed America, Route 66-style, in a van in which he literally blew the engine. His life-long passion for food, culture and people helped mold him into a s ... More >>

Have a Coke and a Frown: Another Win for Libertarian Robber Barons Eating the Planet

​Here is where this libertarian bullshit -- the propaganda foisted on us by Koch-brothers, Harold-Simmons-style polluter robber barons -- just makes suckers, fools and chumps out of us if we believe it. A story in today's New York Times reports that the top national park system official killed ... More >>

What Happens in Las Vegas ... Gets Re-Told in Dallas: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10.Two of the sweetest words to any man's ears: Free. Upgrade. Thank you, US Airways. 9. For the life of me I can't figure out why casinos offer the game of War. It's the the most balanced, fair game in Vegas. It's high-card wins, with ties merely forcing the play ... More >>

Before He Celebrates 17 Years of Hosting The Adventure Club, Josh Venable Looks At Its Past

Josh Venable​Halfway through our talk with KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge radio host Josh Venable, he excuses himself from the conversation."Hold on for one second, I've got to do a break real fast," he says, before pausing to clear his throat as the last notes of Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says" play in th ... More >>

Whitt's End: 1.7.11

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *If Bill Parcells fit too snug and Wade Phillips was a size too loose, Jason Garrett fits juuuuust right. *Maybe I'm naive and gullible and biased in favor of Garrett, but until otherwise I'm ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

Get Out!: Arizona and America Join Joe Arpaio in Rushing to Inquire: Are Your Papers in Order?

Big State, Big Screen

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

Wild Wonders

Take a trip down the Colorado via IMAX

The Hottest Male Athletes According to Females

Second in a very sporadic, yet nonetheless fascinating series by Dallas Observer staff writers Merritt Martin/Megan Feldman. Ladies, as always, mi casa es su casa ... You've been waiting haven't you? We knew you wanted it, but c'mon, we had to make you yearn. It was a tease, all in good fun ... and ... More >>

Grandest Canyon

Kenneth Holder paints a Mexican beauty

Sides Live

Carson biographer raises dough for Mayborn

Sides Live

Carson biographer raises dough for Mayborn

The Prestige

Copperfield makes money vanish

Tae Kwon Ho

Dead or Alive 4 finally gets hardcore.

Fine Dining

For a little, they get a lot

The Polygamists Are Coming!

Nervous West Texas townsfolk brace for the arrival of a sect of Mormon fundamentalists and their many wives

Please Kill Me

The sounds, the sweat, the stink, of SXSW 2004

Miss Firecracker

Alfre Woodard takes a seat at the Feast

Best Gas Station

Fuel City

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Desert Blooms

Jetports and elite resorts may do what border bandits and blistering heat couldn't: rob Big Bend of its rugged beauty

Dirt Farmer

Sandler and Spade continue quest to dumb down America

Out & About

Japancakes

Lee's Library

A senior citizen takes on City Hall the old-fashioned way-- she charms it

Ranch Hams

Matt Damon and cast tackle Cormac and give us a predictably mythic Cowboy flick. Yeehaw.

Sex and the City

Urbania gives gay New York life a cinematic face you haven't seen before

Zellweger in Love

Nurse Betty ain't Shakespeare, but Neil LaBute's riff on shallow fantasies comes close

Fly joys

The Magic of Flight on the big screen

Nuts to you

With psychobabble and Hollywood hoodoo, Mumford can't cure what ails ya

The Goal Line

If Blackie Sherrod's just another writer, then Wilt Chamberlain was just another center

What a mess

With a new-but-not record and yet another bassist, The Darlingtons begin again

Love for sale

The relentlessly earnest Playing by Heart talks itself to death

Reeling inthe years

It's deja vu all over again with the rerelease of The Big Chill

Grown Up

R.E.M.'s new adventure in hi-fi is its finest in years

Out Here

Back in black

Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash are still our greatest Storytellers

Closet case

In & Out goes both ways--funny and funnier

Amazing grace

Jim Severson's new restaurant has the Wright stuff

A fistful of tunes

The Big Gundown squints into the sun, throws its serape over its shoulder, and makes its play

Directing his life

Albert Brooks talks about his Mother and a character called Albert Brooks

Citizen Cornholio

Boi-i-i-inng! Beavis and Butt-head Do America doesn't suck--not by a long shot

Street scenes

Harvey Keitel talks about being discovered after 20 years of acting