Subject: Jesse Hughey

• Slip on Yer Rubber Gloves, Kiddies

  May 18, 2007

• Will Johnson Only Wants 2 See U Laughing in the "Purple Rain"

  July 19, 2007

• P.P.T.'s Picnic Works on Coughee Brothaz Disc

  November 14, 2007

• Getting 'Non-Uncomfortable' with Dave Little

  November 30, 2007

• The Grinches Visit Oak Cliff

  December 21, 2007

• Josh Alan Friedman Comes Clean

  April 4, 2008

• The Lash Outs And Television City Go From The Studio To The Prophet Bar

  April 11, 2008

• Sloppyworld still accepting donations

  April 14, 2008

• Deep Ellum Throws Hip-Hop A Bone Tomorrow Night

  April 16, 2008

• Have A Close Encounter At Hailey’s This Weekend

  April 17, 2008

• Party With Your Buds On Sunday

  April 18, 2008

• Whiskey Folk Ramblers Inspired by Spaghetti Westerns

  April 25, 2008

• Learn To Be A Baller And/Or Shot Caller

  April 25, 2008

• Good Friday: Red Monroe, Ultraviolet Benefit, Whiskey Folk Ramblers

  April 25, 2008

• Ab-NORML-y Good Music? Well, Maybe. For Once.

  April 28, 2008

• Malmsteen’s Mullet: Proof That It Really Does Make You Go Blind

  May 1, 2008

• Bonus MP3: The Lash Outs -- "The Kids Don't Wanna Dance"

  May 8, 2008

• Tonight! On The CW! Lisa Loeb! Gossip Girl! O! M! F! G!

  May 12, 2008

• Playback: The Week (5/16/08 - 5/23/08) In Review

  May 23, 2008

• Bonus MP3: Scott Johnson -- "King Kong Heart"

  July 7, 2008

• Lewis Black Is Angry About EVERYTHING, DAMN IT!

  July 28, 2008

• Which Old 97's Record Would You Place On This List? If Any?

  August 26, 2008

• Bonus MP3: American Werewolf Academy -- ""Man with No Off Switch"

  September 12, 2008

• (Un)sound Bites: Vitto Italian, An Offer You Can Refuse

  November 3, 2008

• Good Friday: Holy Crap, There's A Lot Going On!

  November 7, 2008

• A Rasher Act: Bacon Brings Families Together

  November 17, 2008

• Bonus MP3: Anonymous - SupaPower

  As if the free mixtape he offered earlier this month wasn't enough, Anonymous, a.k.a. rapper Anttwon Thames from the Greedy Grove, has leaked another track, SupaPowers. In fact, he promises another next week. If he's offering all this for free but still holding onto his best stuff for the album, he must indeed have "SupaPowers." --Jesse Hughey Bonus mp3: Anonymous -- "SupaPower"

  November 28, 2008

• Bring A Jacket To Art Conspiracy 4 Tonight

  Art Conspiracy inexplicably got left off Good Friday, but really, the event deserves an entry of its own anyway. As in past years, volunteers will auction off art created on site between sets from local musicians. More than 150 artists participated in the charity arts event. This year's conspiracy benefits Preservation LINK, which you can read about here. This year's performers will include Mount Righteous, Paul Slavens' electro-classical symphony Chameleon Chamber Group, Aton and DJ sets from S

  December 6, 2008

• "Drank" Drink Drunk

  For those wondering why things got quiet over on Unfair Park for a couple hours Friday afternoon, you can blame a City Of Ate taste test gone horribly wrong. The self-proclaimed World's First Extreme Relaxation Beverage, Drank is marketed as an "anti-energy drink," with the tagline "Slow your roll." Rather than a jolt of caffeine and whatever else is in the likes of Red Bull, this purple grape-flavored soda is loaded with natural sleep aids melatonin, valerian root and rosehips. When a distr

  December 19, 2008

• Hophead: Jingle Beers

  I bid farewell to 2008 by, like Ricky Bobby, thanking little baby Jesus for giving us specialty holiday brews. What better way to soothe the white-knuckle stress of shopping, the friction of family gatherings and the frustration of assembling crappy toys than with a high-ABV beer? Jonathan Shikes at our sister paper in the Mile High City put together a slide show of "10 Holiday Beers To Help You Forget 2008." I was particularly fond of Anchor Steam Christmas Ale, a dark warmer so thick you c

  December 25, 2008

• Have A Bloody Great Menarche Party

  Unfair Park just informed readers about a new reason to party: your daughter's first period! No, seriously. Apparently, advertisements for menarche party planning have been spotted on at least one SUV in town. The idea, according to Menarche Parties 'R Us, is to "Create a life time of memories for your daughter by hosting a menarche party for her.  A menarche party can make this time easier and more meaningful for both the young lady beginning menstruation and her parents." But what's a par

  January 2, 2009

• Dude Food: Big Al's Burger Hut

  Big Al's Burger Hut3211 S. Hampton Rd. (recently moved from 4950 W. Illinois)214-333-7767The first thing you see walking into Big Al's Burger Hut is a sign with an illustration of a revolver and the slogan "Warning - I don't dial 911." The sign is, of course, intended to caution to would-be holdup artists. But in its own way, it also serves as a warning to vegetarians, dieters and food snobs. You'll never see such a sentiment gracing the doorway of an organic, vegan cafe--unless it threatens to

  January 6, 2009

• The End Of The End Of Year Lists: Jesse Hughey's Favorite Albums Of 2008

  Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues... This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer's music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, which compiles the lists of hundreds of music critics across the country into one massive, hopefully conclusive, aggregate list. Over the next couple of days, we'll be posting various excerpts of their choices for the best of '08.After the jump, Jesse Hughey's favorite records from

  January 8, 2009

• Demi Lovato's New Video, Apparent Sexuality Get Pimped On Myspace

  To those of you who think we only post about the Jonas Brothers on here: Boy, are you misinformed! For instance, we also post items about Colleyville's own Demi Lovato, who, you might have already noticed, has her new video plastered all over Myspace today under the guise that she's a "featured icon", whatever that means. Also, Myspace promises that the video shows a "different side" to the 16-year-old--to which our very own Jesse Hughey responds, "How many sides can a two-dimensional thing have

  March 17, 2009

• Burning Question: What's Going On At City Of Ate?

  Hey, wait a minute...this is a government waste disposal schedule.Someone posted a comment under our new Veggie Girl segment this week wanting some kind of alert when the column pops up--RSS, we think they called it.The Burning Question crew, of course, knows nothing about technology...which is probably for the best. If we could figure out our mobile phone camera, crew members would waste workdays in much the same way we used to waste them back when the photocopier worked.Too smudged to copy--th

  March 20, 2009

• How I Loves Ya|Best Year of Their Lives

  January 8, 2009

• Room Service|Work Smarter, Not Harder|Sweet on the Tea|Yeah, But It Was Tons to Read|F-Bombed Out

  October 2, 2008

• Fan-friggin'-tastic| The Invisible Sheriff |That '70s Hair| Vanishing Green Space

  May 11, 2006

• How to Suck| No Butts About It| Funny Money

  April 27, 2006

• American Werewolf Academy

  Tell Them Right Now! (self-released)

  March 2, 2006

• Poster of the Week: John Congleton and Joey Kendall at Dan's Silverleaf Tonight

  Tonight at Dan's Silverleaf, the brains behind two of the region's most mind-blowing acts, John Congleton (of The Paper Chase) and Joey Kendall (of Mount Righteous), will join forces on a bill that features each of these intriguing minds performing solo sets.The above poster for the show uses an aesthetic not wholly unfamiliar to past posters for some of Kendall's shows, but that doesn't necessarily mean this one's not effective. Using strips of white to cover the eyes of The Wizard of Oz's Dor

  June 11, 2009

• Pairing Off: Corn Dogs

  Patrick MichelsEach week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Maybe I'm jumping the gun on this. Then again, writing a corn dog piece around state fair time seems far too cliche.So what the hell--it's summer, the season of food on a stick, and our own Jesse Hughey just won a corn dog eating contest over the weekend. Why not pair batter-dipped dogs with a decent wine?If possible--I mean, the State Fair brand box of frozen specimens I bought at Tom T

  July 8, 2009

• Hophead: Uncannily Good Beer From Oskar Blues

  Jesse HugheyLast year, Oskar Blues added five 100-gallon tanks and increased its brewing by more 64 percent over 2007 in order to keep up with increased demand. That the Lyons, Colorado, brewery experienced such a rapid growth probably wouldn't surprise anyone who has tasted its excellent flagship beer, Dale's Pale Ale, or other offerings like Gordon's Ale (a Hophead favorite). What is surprising is that the Oskar Blues beers are primarily available in cans. Cans carry a stigma among the beer-sn

  July 16, 2009

• Hophead: 'Liquid Aloha' From Kona Brewing Co.

  Jesse Hughey When you think about brewing hot spots, what come to mind? Some obvious international destinations include Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Czech Republic. As for the U.S., craft breweries are everywhere, but we think of the West Coast--especially Portland and Seattle. There's always (for better or for worse) St. Louis and Milwaukee, too. But Hawaii? Believe it or not, the state actually has a few well-respected breweries, including Mehana, Waimea and Kona Brewing Co., the lat

  July 23, 2009

• Hophead: Yes, Southern Star Can

  Jesse Hughey​Two weeks back in this column, Oskar Blue made a pretty convincing case that high-quality beer need not be kegged or bottled to taste great. In fact, as commenter Paul Hightower pointed out, you can find a Texas example of high-quality craft beer that comes in cans. And no, that's not a reference to Pabst Lone Star. Southern Star is a new brewery that began production just over a year ago in Conroe, some 45 minutes north of Houston. The company makes just a handful of beers, inclu

  July 30, 2009

• Hophead: Baffled By British Beer

  Jesse Hughey​May a grand Constellation be formed by a union of American virtues. --Revolution-era toast, per Richard J. Hooker's "The American Revolution Seen Through A Wine Glass" (though we like to think that beer mugs were hoisted to these words as well).Two British ales recently proved to be real head-scratchers for Ye Olde Hophead. That's not to say they weren't enjoyable--quite the contrary on both accounts. But each offered a surprise of some sort. The first was Samuel Smith's India Ale

  August 6, 2009

• Hophead: First Batch Of Homebrew Exceeds Abysmal Expectations

  Photos by Jesse HugheyTransferring beer from secondary fermenter to bottling bucket.​The day I have been waiting for since I bought my starter kit back in August finally arrived yesterday, as Lady Hophead and I popped open our first couple of "H.M.N.I." home-brewed beers. (The initials, incidentally, stand for "Hi My Name Is," for the name-tag stickers we'll probably use to label this first batch.) It was an anxious moment. My mind kept second-guessing all the steps I'd taken and the potential

  October 8, 2009

• Dude Food: Chesterfield's Food & Spirits

  Jesse HugheyChesterfield's bacon cheeseburger with onion rings.​Chesterfield's Food & Spirits2555 Inwood Road No. 143214-353-9268Dude Factor: 9, or Recently Deceased Celebrity, on a scale of 1 (Not Wearing A Costume Because Halloween Is Satanic) to 10 (Devil)Chesterfield's is a sports bar located at Maple and Inwood in an eclectic strip center that also includes a tattoo shop, check-cashing place, boat junkyard and, inexplicably, a fine wine shop. Before fellow Food Dude Noah and I even se

  October 27, 2009

• Hophead: Stone Vertical Epic Stout Is Meant To Be Cellared Three Years--But It Already Tastes Pretty Nice.

  Jesse HugheyStone Vertical Epic 09-09-09 Belgian-style imperial porter.​San Diego's Stone Brewery is known for creating some monstrously, even arrogantly hoppy brews. So it was somewhat of a surprise when I sat down to try a pint of the recent 09-09-09 Vertical Epic Belgian-style imperial porter, and the first adjective that came to mind was "subtle." Expectations are a big part of that. I went to lunch at The Ginger Man today anticipating my first-ever taste of Oskar Blues' Ten FIDY, which is

  November 5, 2009

• Hophead: Pyramid Haywire Hefeweizen And Deschutes Black Butte Porter Free Samples--Sometimes You Get What You Pay For

  Jesse HugheyPyramid Haywire Hefeweizen​A Pyramid PR representative recently sent a press release announcing the Gold Medal awarded to the brewery's Haywire Hefewiezen at the Great American Beer Festival, and offered to send over sample bottle or two. As if she needed to ask.Ben E. Keith beer distributors did her one better and delivered two six-packs, free of charge. One was a Haywire sixer, while the other was a mixed pack with three beers from Deschutes: the Jubelale Winter Seasonal, the Bla

  November 12, 2009