Halloween

The Devil's Auteur: Rob Zombie Faces His Fans -- and His Art

Hey, People Writing New Christmas Songs: Stoppit

I love Christmas. It's awesome. Baby magic-types being born, giant trees in your living room, socks full of socks brought to you by an old man stranger -- what's not to like? Welp, there's just this one thing: the thing that sucks about Christmas is that people keep writing songs about it. And jus ... More >>

Get Your Chipotle Fix For $2 On Halloween. With One Catch...

Tomorrow is Halloween, just so you know. It's also Wednesday, which means if you're at least 23, you're probably working all day instead of getting daydrunk and flinging fake blood on one of your old undershirts to make a "costume." But maybe you should swing by Party City on your lunch break and ... More >>

The Seven Best Concerts In Dallas This Week

Nas and Lauryn Hill Monday, October 29, at the Palladium Ballroom, $54.75 This pairing is an inspired one, and especially notable for fans of Lauryn Hill, who have been wondering where the follow-up to 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has been hiding. That (hopefully) comes with the release of ... More >>

Tasting Lakewood Brewing Company's Newish Lakewood Lager

Anyone else have beer on the brain? Lauren's cover story on the second rising of craft brewing in the DFW area and the Texas legislation that's been smothering it has me dreaming of bubbling amber glasses of keg-nectar. Last night I stopped by the Libertine and ordered Lakewood Brewing Co.'s Lakewo ... More >>

The Best Food, Drink and BBQ Events of the Week (Oct 24 - Oct 30)

The 3rd annual Blues, Bandits and BBQ is this Friday and Saturday in an old sunflower patch in Oak Cliff (715 W Davis Street). The two-day will have live music, Four Corners' beer and 23 teams cooking more than 1,000 pounds of meat. Admission is free, but if you want to taste the cook-off grub, you ... More >>

Five of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Kendrick Lamar, Maroon 5 and More

Kendrick Lamar Wednesday, October 31, at South Side Music Hall, $34.29 Here's a last-minute announcement for ya. If you still haven't nailed down your Halloween plans for next week, Scoremore's bringing Kendrick Lamar back to town, and he'll be serving up tracks from his brand-new album, good kid, m ... More >>

Sorry, Arboretum, But Two More Months of Chihuly and Schlock-Selling is Not a "Gift"

Oh, boy. We all get to go see the Chihuly fake flower show at the Dallas Arboretum for free! I just saw the press release. The Arboretum is throwing open its doors and letting us all in to see the fake flower show as a holiday gift to the City of Dallas from the Arboretum Board of Directors. This ... More >>

Sonic Will Have Corn Dogs For 50 Cents on Halloween

I do it. You do it. We all utter a short string of colorful words when we miss Happy Hour at Sonic. And it's always at 4:08 in the afternoon when all you've had to drink that day is bottle of room-temperature water and maybe some questionable orange juice. It's not supposed to taste carbonated, just ... More >>

WaterTower Drains Life and Laughs from Mystery of Irma Vep; at Fair Park, Addams Family Lacks Snap

Because, Apparently, Dallas ISD Will Order Far More Band Uniforms Than It Needs

​A couple of years back we espied three pallets of band uniforms and hats being auctioned off by the Dallas Independent School District, and at quite the nice price. (The whole lot wound up going for ... $15.) This, then, is the sequel: Whilst perusing the latest DISD surplus-equipment offering on ... More >>

Keep That Spooky Feeling Going

What Happens to the World's Unused Pumpkins?

Dallas Arboretum​Sunday evening, just hours until Halloween, there were still hundreds of un-sold pumpkins at a local farmers market. It raised the question -- what happens to all the left-behind gourds? Do the extras go to the pie factory? Or are they all just tossed in the dump? Turns out ... More >>

Taste-Testing Two Pumpkin Beers: One's a Treat, The Other Must Be A Trick

Jesse Hughey​We've already mentioned a handful of them, but today being Halloween, perhaps reading about one particularly excellent pumpkin beer will inspire some of you homebrewers not to waste the chunks of gourd left behind from carving your jack-o-lantern.On the other hand, the scary results o ... More >>

Five Halloween Candies to Hand Out if You Hate Kids

Alice LaussadeNana is kinda chalky. ​Monday night is Halloween. Which means it's time to start thinking about what you'll be handing out to the little ones this year. If you're awesome, we know you'll be the house with the king-size Snickers bars and the werewolf droppings. But if you hate kids a ... More >>

Get Drunk and See Your Future This Weekend at the Hotel St. Germain

Hotel St. Germain​The Hotel St. Germain on Maple Avenue will host a Halloween brouhaha this weekend with a tarot card reading alongside a wine and amuse-bouche dinner served by Chef Chad Martin. What better place to channel your supernatural subconscious than 100-year-old Victorian mansion? T ... More >>

Candy Corn: The Worst Halloween Candy in the History of Ever

Candy corn is grosser than gross.​Candy corn, I hate you. Mainly because -- and I'm going to be blunt here -- you fucking suck. You taste like pre-digested marshmallows and Sweet Vanilla Shit Meadow Febreze had a flavor baby. You're punishment candy. People who give out candy corn on Halloween wou ... More >>

Ten Ways to Celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month

October is Vegetarian Awareness Month. It's true. Vegetarians do exist, even in Dallas. And not only that, they should be celebrated, if for nothing else than for eating all the world's tofu so you don't have to see it. Here are a few ways to help make everyone aware of your support for the carniv ... More >>

Scream for America

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 >>

It's Not Too Late to Make New Year's Eve Plans

​Still don't have plans for New Year's Eve yet? You've only got three days left to plan the big night or risk spending Friday night ordering from Papa John's. On Monday, we gave you our top picks for NYE dining, and today we've got suggestions for where you can still find those prime 7 p.m. dinne ... More >>

Let's Give Thanks For Thanksgiving Food Blogging

​The best time of year is when the Halloween decorations come down, the pumpkins get mushy and the candy aisle goes on sale for half-price. We're inching closer to Thanksgiving and the blogosphere is buzzing and roasting and stirring. It's a food-filled, recipe rich, seasons-eatings time of year. ... More >>

The Texas Rangers and the Dallas Cowboys offer a study in contrasts as they each lose in different ways.

Charlie Sheen vs. Lady Gaga: The 15 Best Halloween Costumes From This Weekend

Ray and Peter LekGotta give props to the DIY A.W.E.S.O.M.E. Robot​Bravo, Dallas, you had some amazing costumes this weekend. Not to sound like a pretentious dickhead, but going through the photos...we're impressed. It's no small feat to make a good costume for Halloween, and even more exciting whe ... More >>

The Dallas Cowboys: Grind It Out or Give It Up?

​Personally, I don't see much sense in spilling blood, sweat, tears, worry and blogosphere space on your Dallas Cowboys. At 1-5 and with Tony Romo out at least six weeks, the season is over. Considering it started not that long ago with Super Bowl aspirations, this has to be the most disappoi ... More >>

Hayseed Horror

This Morning, In a New York State of Mind

​Writes Mike Lupica in this morning's New York Daily News: "So now, after all the winning during the regular season that Joe Girardi talked about in a testy postgame interview session, after starting the postseason with four straight wins and maybe thinking the Rangers were going to be the kind o ... More >>

It's a Different Sort of Pop Rock

Poster of the Week: U.K. Subs, Total Chaos and Star Fucking Hipsters at Trees

​ Nothing says British punk rock like a tattered Union Jack, right?

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: P-Funk Tears the Roof Off the Convention Center in '76

​There's no need imagining the scene -- a show videotaped in Houston, at the Summit, on Halloween '76 gives you some idea of the spectacle George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, the late Gary Shider and the rest of the Mothership Connection took on the road that ... More >>

Titus Andronicus, Soft Environmental Collapse, Bizarro Kids

Tuesday, August 31, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Hanging Out West

Eye Candy

All Hail The Saint Of Drinking

Come party right with the Dallas Observer

The Vampire Lounge, Back in Business, Hopes Not to Suck

Also: Rhett Miller returns to Dallas to champion a good cause

Doesn't Grow On Trees

Bite Down

Vampires fight hunger at the Inwood

Ho, Ho, Hoe

Santa takes to the frontier

Halloween Hams

They're Doing the Mash

It's a graveyard smash

Katy Is A Friend of Ours

Bones of Fun

Want a Little Irish in Ya?

Learn to stir-fry shamrocks at Neiman's

The Corny Girls

Teen popsters visit Nokia

Show Your Bones

Take your teens to see the Dead

Canine Calvary

Dog Days

The Crow ushers in the Chinese New Year

Off the mark

Sometimes The Landmark misses

Princess for a day

Don your rhinestone tiara: The Pyramid's prix-fixe dinner is the best deal in town