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The HapiFork: A Smart Fork That Gives You a Buzz When You Eat Too Fast

Yesterday the company HapiLabs unveiled the world's first "smart fork" that tracks eating behavior bite by bite. The creator of HAPIfork, Dave Graveline (who, by the way, is a skinny Frenchman), promises that by not eating too fast or too much, we will be "happier." From the HapiLabs Facebook page ... More >>

Now That They've Party Rocked The World, What Should LMFAO Do Next?

Maybe my imagination's become limited and cynical in the third decade of existence, but I feel as though this Party Rock thing is on its last legs. It's enjoyed a phenomenal run, mostly in the perennially club-stamped hands of Redfoo and SkyBlu, the two Gordy descendants who compose LMFAO. They're e ... More >>

Top Ten Awkward Electric Daisy Carnival Dance Move GIFs

By Christopher Victorio and Ben Westhoff See also: Coverage of EDC 2011 We love you, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas. In fact, here are five reasons why you rule the roost. But my oh my, you dance funky. We're not saying we're any better; truth is, we're utterly captivated by you and your awkwa ... More >>

EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

[Update at 2:48 a.m]: Also see: - Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival 2012: Day One - Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival: More From Day One - Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival 2012: Day Two EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official anno ... More >>

Las Vegas' Hangover Heaven Bus Brings the Hangover Cure to You

Planning a trip to Las Vegas soon where you'll surely create your own version of The Hangover? Or have a nasty track record of hitting it hard the first night of vacation only to ruin subsequent days where even the smell of booze trips your gag reflex? (Rookie.) As our sister pub OCWeekly recently ... More >>

Serendipity 3's French Toast Log: Tastes Better Than Any Other Log

I recently took a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada. Maybe you've heard of it. It's called The City of Shit I Lost All My Money Again Ooh Look There's An ATM. What you might not know about Las Vegas is that it is also home to Serendipity 3, a restaurant that specializes in hangover-cure food that's as big ... More >>

Hibiscus Chef Brent Hammer on Dish-Washing in a Suit, Vegas and the Blessing of Food TV

Chef Brent Hammer started his cooking career all because of a slight misunderstanding, in what turned out to be one of longest night of his life washing dishes at a restaurant in Milwaukee. The fast pace of the kitchen lured him in, and soon he began the career path that eventually led him to a hote ... More >>

Stripping's Suze Orman

Naomi VaughanRebecca Avalon's No. 1 Rule: Stay off the pole, ladies.​Rebecca Avalon likes to say she did things backwards: went to college, got a master's degree in science education, became an elementary school teacher, then started stripping. She's quit dancing full time twice but keeps goin ... 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 >>

A Second Death Related to the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival in Dallas?

​More news this afternoon about the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival that took place this past weekend at Fair Park in Dallas: The Dallas Morning News and sister paper LA Weekly report that a 22-year-old named Kyle Raymond Haigis died late on Sunday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer. Hai ... More >>

Spirit Offers Another DFW-to-Chicago Option

​On the same day that Love Field-based Southwest Airlines announced its 40th anniversary sale featuring some one-way ducats for as low at $40, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport sends word that newbie Spirit Airlines is already expanding its service. Initially, the low-fare carrier was only f ... More >>

Lynyrd Skynyrd Opyns Rystyrynt

Them boys might not be from Texas, but they heads is in the right place.​Love everything about Las Vegas except for the fact that there's no place you can drunkenly scream the wrong lyrics to "Free Bird" while eating (allegedly) Texas barbecue? You're in luck: Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer will op ... More >>

Dallas' Don't Wake Aislin Asks That You Not Snooze On Helping Them Play The Billboard Music Awards

Don't Wake Aislin​Right around the turn of the calendar year, Billboard reached out to 17 bands across the country -- bands that had little to no prior contact with the trade magazine, no less -- and asked them to compete for a chance to perform at this year's Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. ... More >>

Whitt's End: 3.4.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Apparently Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones misunderstood. The NFL lockout hasn't yet commenced. While the Washington Redskins signed O.J.Atogwe and Bob Sanders lan ... More >>

DISD Superintendent Hinojosa Comments -- Kinda -- on Reports That He's Moving to Vegas

​I was on the phone with a Dallas Independent School Board trustee just seconds ago -- a trustee, mind you, who had not heard there were reports and a yeah-sure-maybe? that DISD Superintendent Michael Hinjosa's outta here, possibly as early as tomorrow, to take the Las Vegas gig -- when the follow ... More >>

State Fair of Texas: Favorite Food of Fairs Past

A fried PB&J​Since Jose Ralat Maldonado announced on this blog the finalists for this years Big Tex Choice Awards for Best Fried Foods at this year's upcoming festival, it brought back memories of fairs past and all the folderol created last year by Abel Gonzales' award-winning Fried Butter - ... More >>

Today In Music News: Ollie Campesinos! Is A Quitter, Vince Neil Gets Busted And Method Man Pleads Guilty

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 29, 2010...It's not Ollie Campesinos!, it's the band.Vince Neil was arrested for DUI in Las Vegas... at least he didn't kill a best friend this time.Method Man pleads guilty to tax evasion, not very gangsta sir.

And the Thunder Rolls

It's Not Vegas or Taiwan, but You can Get Some Authentic Japanese Food at Sushi Yama

​While DFW boasts significant Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese populations, one is hard pressed to find more than the random Japanese person every now and then, much less an authentic Japanese restaurant. Most sushi restaurants in our area are owned by either Vietnamese or Korean proprietors.Unles ... More >>

Day "Off": My Top 10 Observations

​10. Decided to take a day off today. At least from 105.3 The Fan. I'm working on a cover story for next week's Dallas Observer, plus I've contracted some ornery strand of the common cold that has me so congested that diced jalapenos taste like nothing but texture.  Seeing that I spent ... More >>

Heritage Sues to Determine Who Really Owns Michael Jackson's Stuff

​Back in November, Unfair Park's across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries auctioned off a pile of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including a signed guitar, some autographed album covers and his fedora. Heritage says it got the stuff from a Los Angeles man named Benson Hopp, to whom Heri ... More >>

Today In Music News: Bow Wow Makes Bad Decisions, Lady Gaga May Head For Vegas And Lil Wayne's Album Gets Pushed Back (Again)

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 5, 2010...It's probably not a good idea to tweet while driving drunk in your "Lambo," right Bow Wow?Lady Gaga has been offered a Las Vegas residency? Wayne Newton better start hiding his extra stage blood--now!Weezy's Rebirth album has bee ... More >>

Who Stole My Meatball?

Why Just Hitch a Ride on a DART Bus?

​Didn't wind up with one of those Dallas Fire-Rescue pumper trucks up for auction last month, which is just as well -- wouldn't have had room for one of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses that went up for grabs late yesterday on my favorite everything-must-go Web site. Really, it just makes more ... More >>

Today In Music News: TLC Is Reuniting... Kinda, The Cranberries Reunites And Bob Dylan Possibly Has A New Second Career

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 26, 2009... What's left of TLC--Chilli and T-Boz--will perform with Justin Timberlake in Las Vegas. You gotta wonder how they're going to work out Left Eye's parts... With the '90s music revival gaining steam, I guess it only makes sense ... More >>

Blanket Flicks

Mr. Dallas Does Drunk Texting...

Or maybe he's just having a good time. A text message from the man himself at 2:07 a.m. this morning: "Las Vegas is the happiest place on earth." Seems he's enjoying vacation.

Happy Hour

It's really time for change

Critical Mass: The Best Movies of 2008

Fair from Over

Do Not Read This If Your Name is Adam “Pacman” Jones

Chris Bosh Is Packed for China and the Olympics. Now, It's All Crackin'.

Panic at the Disco

Pretty. Odd (Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen)

UFL Passing on '08 Start Date

"In the Kingdom of Dallas, Texas." No Idea What This Is.

What Happens in Vegas: Mark Cuban Will Dance With Big Bunch o' Bloggers

Ne-Yo

Friday, July 6, at House of Blues

Hey, Now, You're An All-Star

Best Place for Cichlids

Fish Gallery

Camp Out

Viva Las Vegas with the Caring Friends Follies

Table Dance

Plus: The Benefactor...of pure comedy

Sheryl Crow|Lonestar

November 9|November 8

Vegas, Baby

Plus: Mark Cuban's Dance Party; Check Her Briefs

Best Place to Kill Time Any Time of Year

Satellite Wagering at Lone Star Park

There's a "Can" in Cancer

Some of us might call it bad luck; he thinks of it as "25 minutes of new material"

Taco Star

Taqueria Cañonita

Out Here

Try, try again

Armchair Athletes Unite

Gamers give one for the thumb

Leaving Mike Figgis

The director shoots but doesn't score with self-indulgent Loss of Sexual Innocence

Fog is lifting

Fog City Diner clears a clouded focus