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English Premier League Teams Kicking Around the Idea of Going After FC Dallas's Brek Shea

​Reports out of England have Liverpool and Manchester City of the Premier League taking a long, hard look at FC Dallas's Brek Shea, the 21-year-old College Station-born star just called to the U.S. National Team at September's end. Problem is, Shea -- a chief contender for MLS's MVP award -- is un ... More >>

The Luck of the Germans

​Reports out of England have Liverpool and Manchester City of the Premier League taking a long, hard look at FC Dallas's Brek Shea, the 21-year-old College Station-born star just called to the U.S. National Team at September's end. Problem is, Shea -- a chief contender for MLS's MVP award -- is un ... More >>

Germany Turns Its Back on Beer Bikes, Should Probably Ship Them To Dallas

Carpooling can be fun.​Aside from overpasses, we've just stumbled upon the most brilliant plan for reducing city traffic and pollution. Originally from the Netherlands, these "beer bikes" can be found swerving along the roads in Germany, where up to sixteen people can sit around a table on w ... More >>

Sampling Samuel Adams Utopias With Fellow Beer Bloggers, Taco Trailblazers, Unfair Parkers and Buzz

Patrick Michels​I thought I was lucky back in 2009 when The Boston Beer Company sent a sample-sized bottle of the remarkable but ruinously expensive Samuel Adams Utopias. But in drumming up pub for the 2011 release, the company outdid itself and sent a full 24-ounce decanter, along with a fine Rie ... More >>

Kuby's Sausage House at 8 a.m.: It's Never Too Early for Encased Meat

Photos by Jonas Luster​It's 8 a.m., and it smells deliciously of cooked meats, fresh bread, and sausages. It wasn't my nose alone that brought me here at this hour, though; Kuby's was first and most-often mentioned when I asked around for places to purchase sausages in Dallas. Inside the stor ... More >>

For Your Listening Pleasure: The Gourds (and Pogues, Snoop Dogg and VU) at Barleypalooza

​Amazing the things you find when you're not looking for them. Take this morning's accidental stumbled-across, for instance: The Gourds recorded in the old Barley House parking lot on June 1, 1997, during the third then-annual Barleypalooza musical marathon on N. Henderson. (Here's some video, for ... More >>

Toast with Champagne and Schnitzel

​Amazing the things you find when you're not looking for them. Take this morning's accidental stumbled-across, for instance: The Gourds recorded in the old Barley House parking lot on June 1, 1997, during the third then-annual Barleypalooza musical marathon on N. Henderson. (Here's some video, for ... More >>

Beer Before Beer, Never Fear

​Amazing the things you find when you're not looking for them. Take this morning's accidental stumbled-across, for instance: The Gourds recorded in the old Barley House parking lot on June 1, 1997, during the third then-annual Barleypalooza musical marathon on N. Henderson. (Here's some video, for ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​I may have mentioned a month or so back that we had finally come up with a scheme to give out prizes.Good ones, too: I have Jon Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine, The Field Guide to Candy, Chili Madness, Cooking Dirty (has nothing to do with Blythe Beck) and other food-related books cluttering up my ... More >>

Hophead: September Isn't Too Early For Oktoberfest

Jesse HugheyFranconia's Oktoberfest​Eins, zwei, drei, g'suffa! (One, two, three, drink up!)--Bavarian toastThe beginning of Oktoberfest 2009 in Munich is still more than a week away, but the celebrations are already cranking up locally. Just as you can already find Halloween costumes and decoratio ... More >>

10 Questions: Mike Davis

Davis is kinda like Richard Petty or the New York Yankees, at least in the world of competitive barbecue.Since he began working the pit in 1994, this Marietta, Oklahoma, native has claimed 66 grand champion titles, including last year's World BBQ Cook Off in Munich. He's even featured on the cover o ... More >>

German Suburban

Addison throws an Oktoberfest

When Of Rome

Maraniss discusses a special Olympics

Leppert and City Council Loyalists Retreat on Convention Center Hotel Plan

Maraniss discusses a special Olympics

Laughing Pains

Maraniss discusses a special Olympics

Rendition is an Ordinary Terrorism Thriller

It's not torture, but this latest terrorism flick comes close

Geekology 101

Judd Apatow explains himself

Southlake, Germany

Don your 'hosen at FruhlingsFest

That's All She Rote

Don your 'hosen at FruhlingsFest

Royale Flush

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy and comes up aces

Bring on the Backlash!

The Arctic Monkeys kick it old school and rep for their hood. Seriously.

Beauty at Buchenwald

The Arctic Monkeys kick it old school and rep for their hood. Seriously.

Tube Boobs

American Dreamz's nation

of idiots lands a little close

to home

Tragedy Re-Revisited

Spielberg's Munich rehashes a tale we've heard before

Foo Fighters, Weezer

Thursday, September 15, at Smirnoff Music Centre

International Boundaries

We're going to Europe. What should we drink?

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Letters

Our critics survey the local art scene

Underneath the Bunker

Blind Spot offers a long close-up with one of Hitler's intimates

Blood Money

Why John Cusack wouldn't do anything till he made this Hitler movie

Max Factors

Writer-director Menno Meyjes asks, "Would a Jew help Hitler?"

Jackson Jive

Michael Jackson vowed to raise millions for 9/11 victims. And he hired a gay-porn producer pal to help.

Garageland

Do What You Want (Foodchain)

Blood Sport

The Oscar-winning One Day in September tells the brutal story of an Olympics massacre

Searching for Gold

Like other past Olympic stars, local gold medal winners often have trouble keeping track of them

Hide and seek

Deep Ellum developer Lou Reese bilked a savings and loan, bled his creditors, and walked away from federal prision a rich man. Bragging about it was is one big mistake.

Bug in your ear

For 25 years, Bug Music has protected the rights of songwriters. In the process, it's gotten Willie Dixon's songs back from Led Zeppelin and transformed Iggy Pop into a TV commercial composer.

Monument to an ego

Why is multimillionaire Scott Ginsburg building one of the world's most expensive restaurants in Dallas? Because he can.

Master stroke

Olympic gold medalist Jerry Heidenreich has become what he swore he never would -- one hell of a swimming coach

Ten albums I played a lot in 1997

Olympic gold medalist Jerry Heidenreich has become what he swore he never would -- one hell of a swimming coach

You invent the future

How ignoring their past left Fleetwood Mac a band out of time