Key West

City Auditor: Dallas Is Missing Out By Not Collecting Tax on Short-Term Vacation Rentals

What's the one thing Key West and Encinitas have that Dallas doesn't? Besides a tax on short-term vacation rentals.​Back in February, the city auditor in Austin, Ken Mory, took a long, hard look at hotel occupancy taxes down there and noted that folks renting out their homes to vacationers weren't ... More >>

Adele and Def Leppard Reschedule and Other, Equally Important Show Announcements

Adele​A few weeks ago, we were sad to announce the postponement of Adele's House Of Blues show due to an illness. However, the British singer has announced that she'll be back, only this time it'll be at the much bigger, and probably more suitable Verizon Theater on Friday, October 21. All ti ... More >>

Asador's Dean James Max: What a Lucky Man

Asador's Dean James Max​Some people just end up doing the things they are meant to do, and the lucky ones end up being successful at it. Dean James Max, concept chef at the new Asador Restaurant in the Renaissance Dallas Hotel, is one of the lucky ones. What he's dreamed up for Asador is what ... More >>

I Love You Phillip Morris: Jim Carrey and Crew Go Balls-Out.

For the First Time, The Man Who Blew the Whistle in DISD E-Rate Scandal Talks

Yacht ForumsIt ws Ruben Bohuchot's passion for Post Yachts, like the one seen here, that ultimately let to his downfall at DISD.​Danny Cain does not and never has worked for the Dallas Independent School District. He does not and never has worked for Hewlett Packard. And yet yesterday, two federal ... More >>

Survivor: Nicaragua. The Coach as Champion: Week 3

​What the friggin' what?! Last time I saw Jimmy Johnson on Survivor he was ordering her to fetch water and him to cut down trees and those guys to catch some fish and the rest to build a bridge from Nicaragua to Key West so he could home and drink some cold Heinekens. He had his&nbs ... More >>

For an Authentic Cuban Sandwich, Stay Away from Cuba

Flickr user jasonlam​"Original Cuban sandwiches come from Ybor City; everything else is just a sub." This rather controversial statement comes to us courtesy of Andy Huse, Assistant Librarian at the University of South Florida, as quoted in Cigar City Magazine. Immediately, most readers are prob ... More >>

David Allan Coe, The O's

Thursday, July 23, at House of Blues

Radio, Radio: Ayo Says Adios, While We Look at Just What Passes for "Quality Rock"

Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rat ... More >>

Pitch Perfect

The Grand Prairie AirHogs are willing to do whatever it takes to make you a fan. And that includes win.

Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey Mash-Up Fool's Gold is Pitiful

There is no gold at the end of this terrible flick

Short-changed

Nickel and Dimed works up minimum rage; Zero does a number on manhood

G.I. Jerk

Phil Haberman claims he fought with special forces in Iraq, but he's about as real as Rambo

Wharf Arf

The Wharf @ Bayview Marina floats and sinks

Operation Florida Freedom

Papa wouldn't be proud of the Florida Seafood Grill

The Gay Priest Thing

The conference of bishops ignored "the elephant in the sacristy"

A better mousetrap

The wonderful worlds that Walt built are rendered at the Modern in Fort Worth

Lex and Terry's wet dream

Can two transplants from the land of Lynyrd Skynyrd and fart smells find the key to radio fame at Dallas' Q102?

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Driven to abstraction

Lack of tension and purpose kills Surviving Picasso

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX