Hostess Twinkies

Junk Mail

Look, Comic Book Creators Can Draw a Crowd Too, Damn It

Tears of a Clown

The Eyes of Tammy Faye teaches us that garish televangelists have feelings too

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Events for the week

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Hot Dish

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Spring in her step

Playwright Angela Wilson takes us on a jaunty stroll down 11th Street

Letters

Playwright Angela Wilson takes us on a jaunty stroll down 11th Street

Out Here

Playwright Angela Wilson takes us on a jaunty stroll down 11th Street

Just How Blue-Collar is the Blue Collar Bar?

Playwright Angela Wilson takes us on a jaunty stroll down 11th Street

Picking Cotton

Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?

Fair Play

Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?

Robots in Love

WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.

ABBA Fab

Mamma Mia! makes merry at Fair Park; All About Bette gets eyes rolling

Pot-bellied Cowboy

Finally catching up with the late, great Nate

The Tao of Cowboy

Plus: The Big Jesus Bash

Purple Prose

DTC is seeing Violet

Cooking With Class

Soon, Dallas students can learn the restaurant biz in school

Daddy, Help!

Big Daddy's Grill House is good, but bring a defibrillator

Blue's Clues

Blue Man Group started as a joke. It's not as funny anymore.

Faux Nosh

At least the food's not fake at Josephine's

Blue Note

It's a smash hit

The South Falls, Again

Reese Witherspoon goes home to Alabama, and it ain't sweet

All These Years

Early success was almost the end of Ray Wylie Hubbard

Hungry girl

The Potted Plant Lady's strange tale of sex, money, and feeding Anna Nicole Smith

Day for Knight

Ray Wylie Hubbard is no longer up against the wall, redneck mother

Short Orders: Go Go Burger

Go Go Burger6129 Main St., Frisco214-472-2715Cute, the place is cute. So much so that it has a teenage girl atmosphere about it.In fact, five suburban kids sat gossiping behind me last time out. And I must say, teenage life in Frisco is really, really scandalous. Their hushed innuendos repeatedly bu ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Pluckers

​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Pluckers 5500 Greenville Ave.(214) 363-9464 Promised Delivery Time: 60-75 minutes Actual Delivery Time: 80 minutes Scoring Summary: Entire order arriving with appropr ... More >>

Our Deep-Fried Decade: Ten Years Of Gluttony And Progress At The State Fair

Photos by Patrick MichelsAfter 10 years, this is where we ended up: four deep-fried butter balls topped with garlic and grape sauce. How did we get to the point where we'd actually eat this?​In the early 2000s, we came to the State Fair of Texas with a doe-eyed, innocent kind of hunger. We'd get a ... More >>

In Case You Missed It, Dallas Was the "City" in Last Night's Chefs vs. City on Food Network

​Dunno why Food Network never sent out a heads-up that last night's episode of Chefs vs. City -- a sorta-kinda culinary Amazing Race pitting Aaron Sanchez and Chris Cosentino against two comers -- took place in Dallas. Good thing the 6-year-old who lives in my house likes to wrap up his Sundays wi ... More >>

Five Awesomely Easy Desserts for 4th of July

We salute you, lazy asses!​Independence Day is coming up and you're in charge of bringing dessert to the office potluck, the familyfest or the epic drinkathon with your friends. Screw making a flag cake. Instead, assert your right to pursue happiness -- lazy = happy in our book -- and bring one of ... More >>

Labor Day: Fanfare for the Common Foods

​Labor Day used to be a really big deal. Back when a minimum wage was considered radical and child labor was the norm, workers turned out in fearsome numbers to march for their rights. More than 10 thousand workers joined the first-ever Labor Day parade in New York in 1882, many of them weari ... More >>

Pie in the Sky: Is Fried Frito Pie Ready
To Hit the Top of the Greasy Charts?

​Not satisfied with winning "best taste" honors at yesterday's Big Tex Choice Awards, fried Frito pie inventor Michael Thomas has implied he'd like his concoction to become a concession stand staple. "The deep-fried Frito pie is a game changer for fair food," Thomas told The Dallas Morning Ne ... More >>

Huzzah! Renaissance Festival Recommends Healthier Fare

This dude definitely needs to lay off the fried foods.​An event designed to celebrate tightly corseted wenches and bloodthirsty jousters isn't exactly synonymous with restraint, but organizers of this year's Texas Renaissance Festival are promoting the fair's healthy snacks. The festival, bil ... More >>

Four Super Bowl Snacks You Should Get Store-Bought and One You Shouldn't

holytaco.com​Despite City of Ate's obvious culinary prowess, there are some events that are better off catered by the freezer section -- the Super Bowl, for example. On February 6, you'll have a lot of football to watch and commercials to critique. Go ahead and buy these Super Bowl staples and ... More >>

Bake Sale Bandits

Local Movement Fights for Cottage Food Bill.

Chocolatier Stephen Smith On Cooking With Mom and the Guilty Pleasure of Twinkies

On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on chocolatier Stephen Smith of nib chocolates. Today, we asked Smith to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. ​I was raised in...a military family.   My friends say I'm...too laid back. Too relaxed.   My momma told me ... More >>

Bait & Switch: Have You Ever Been Conned by Good Restaurant Review?

Horne & Dekker proves it: You can't trust the media.​You know the feeling you get when you read a music review, and the critic is all "You gotta hear this one song, it'll change your life, I swear!" and then you go buy the CD and it sucks and you feel like a chump? I had that feeling at Horn ... More >>

Of In-N-Out and Crabs...Our Inner 12-Year-Old Howls With Laughter

He's dead! Shot in the head! Please pass the bread! Stay classy, Dallas.​It sounds like soft shell crabs and In-N-Out are finally coming to Dallas, so it's been a good week in Dallas food blogs. Read on. City of Ate Kristy Yang has some mixed feelings about Il Cane Rosso. She was disappointed ... More >>

Eight Quick and Easy Rapture Meals

If this is The End, we're getting KFC Double Downs.​The end of the world cometh this Saturday, right y'all? We figure, whether we believe that or not, better to be safe (and full of cheesecakes) than sorry. So, here's our list of eight quick and easy rapture meals your whole family can enjoy: ... More >>

Stormy Weather: A Disaster is Bad Enough, but a Disaster Without Rum? S.O.S.

It's times like these in life that you finally realize: "I should have eaten more pie."​Boy, that was a doozy. Nothing like stuffing yourself in a closet with five other people plus a dog to put apple pie and mopping floors in perspective. (Of the former: Life's short and I should eat more; of ... More >>

Things Got a Little Too Cheesy and Too Private This Week in Dallas Food

​This week in food blogs, some special people ate special meals, Dallas placed ahead of Anchorage but behind everywhere else, and someone finally thought to stick corndogs in cocktails. Read on. City of Ate Scott Reitz decides Wild Salsa is decent for its hit-or-miss selection of tacos, passa ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul, Shit Hits Fan

​Last night, Texas' own Kelly Clarkson did something Americans do: She casually endorsed a candidate for President on her Twitter account. That person was fellow Texan Ron Paul. Cue Twitstorm. Today she clarified her stance, sort of: "I am really sorry if I have offended anyone. Obviously t ... More >>

The Stand on McKinney is Open and Has a Crazy Mac Daddy

​The Stand recently opened at 2916 McKinney, just where the street splits to one-way traffic. The name is a reference to a burger or hotdog "stand," and inside two Airstream trailers serve as such. The patio that wraps around the front of the restaurant could be a cool spot to hang on a nice d ... More >>

Hostess Is Going Bankrupt. Again.

​Hostess, the Irving-based maker of beloved school-lunch snacks like the Twinkie and the Ho-Ho, is in financial trouble, according to the Wall Street Journal. A source tells the paper that the processed food giant will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as soon as this week. Hostess a ... More >>