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Miller Lite Intern Opportunity For Those Willing to Travel Cross-Country in a RV and Party With Stars

It's time to do some spring-cleaning on the old resume. Wipe the dust off with the sleeve of your shirt and maybe a little spit-shine for good measure, because Miller Lite has a new internship available that will catapult you up the corporate ladder. No, you won't bring home the bacon, but you will ... More >>

The Big Texas Beer Fest is Back, and This Year it Promises to Have Food

The Big Texas Beer Fest returns to the Fair Park Automobile Building in support of the expanding waistline of the local and national craft beer movement. The lucky day is Saturday, April 6. Over 120 of breweries will come out to pour samples of over 400 different beers. See Also: The Guide to Nort ... More >>

Irving-Based MADD Is Now Also Against Promoter Who Didn't Deliver NASCAR, Money

​Google the phrase "SponsorMonsters," and the first thing that pops up is an item from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website touting the John Carpenter Freeway-based organization's partnership with it. As in: "For 2011, Sponsor Monsters donated their lead sponsorship position to MADD and will ... More >>

The 50 Most Powerful Peeps in DFW Sports: Take 7

​Power is subjective. But when you see it -- when you sense it's immense influence -- you just know it. Each summer, as I construct my list of the 50 Most Powerful People in Metroplex Sports, the criteria gets a triple-digit tweaking. This year I deemed the allure of power  ... More >>

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Approves of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

Whitt's End: 4.1.11

Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: Plaaaaaay baaalllllll! My prediction: Your Texas Rangers will finish second to the Anaheim Angels in the AL West and miss the playoffs. Hey, repeatin' ain't easy. For most teams in baseball lo ... More >>

NASCAR Legend Brings Moonshine to Modern Drinkers

If only grandma's apple preserves came bathed in moonshine​Unless your grandpa is fermenting batches of white lightning in his backyard, you're going to be hard pressed to find authentic moonshine in this neck of the woods. The moonshining, bootlegging culture of Appalachia and the South has ... More >>

Daytona 500: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. NASCAR fans are loyal and rabid and ... strange. I asked a guy who he was rooting for before Sunday's Daytona 500 here in Florida and his answer: "Dodge." Imagine NFL fans picking their favorite team based on whether they wore Nike or Reebok or Under Armour. 9. All the yellow cauti ... More >>

White Flight: The Most Dangerous Drivers on the Road

Beware.​I got a theory. Been working on it for a while, nurturing it from a fleeting thought to a flimsy premise all the way up to a working, rational theory. Here it is: There are no more aggressive, dangerous drivers on Metroplex highways than those in white pickups. I know, 18-wheele ... More >>

Welcome to the Day After March 31

​*Ron Washington's first and only experience with cocaine came at age 57? Of course I believe him. Why wouldn't I? *Okay, I admit it. I secretly, desperately wish I wrote for the Dallas Morning News and talked for 1310 AM The Ticket and admit that my jealously bleeds through into my sub- ... More >>

Ah, Espana

Country Hunks And The Women Who Love Them.

A Taste of 10 Dallas Milkshakes

Europeans have fresh, seasonal foods, universal health care and about 30 weeks of vacation each year. But we have milkshakes.OK--so they serve a literal version: milk shaken with some flavoring. Ours involve ice cream, crammed into a glass and churned with a little milk (or, better yet, cream) into ... More >>

Short Orders: Who's Who Burgers

Who's Who Burgers69 Highland Park Village214-522-1980I'm almost certain Laura Bush walked by as I readied to try my first Who's Who burger in about five years. I say "almost," because if it really were the former first lady and only cognizant person in the White House, federal agents would have torn ... More >>

Mr. Funny Guy

Into the Heart of the Texas Motor Speedway Tailgates... I Lived It.

Kelly Knickerbocker Not exactly the type of skin we're used to on this blog, but intern Kelly was brave enough to meander through Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend. Her report from the mayhem and mullets ...  I wearily ventured into the world of NASCAR last Friday, knowing I'd stick o ... More >>

10 Questions: Jeff Burton

It wouldn't be a stretch to say he's a fan of Texas Motor Speedway. After, all, Burton's first career win in NASCAR's top series came here in 1997. A decade later, he became the track's first repeat winner.The South Boston, Virginia, native has taken the checkered flag 21 times in 16 years of rubbin ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.3.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Seems Highland Park-ex and potential No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Matthew Stafford isn't comfortable talking with teams - specifically a psychologist for the San Francisco 49ers - about his parent ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Double, Double Your Refreshment

Well, refreshment, maybe not. Double your fun, though, sure. Toil and trouble all you want. It's been a big week of twos here on City of Ate. A double dose of Veggie Girl, for instance. Two posts recapping the year's first quarter. We even had a couple items for the big race weekend at Texas Motor S ... More >>

Watters Creek Sounds Like A Farm, Right?

Watters Creek At Montgomery Farm will soon have its own farmers market. One of the first entries listed in Christian Lander's "Stuff White People Like" blog is Farmers Markets. If that's true, the area's newest weekly pickings should be a roaring success thanks to its prime location in the city's ou ... More >>

Texas Tea

The Top 10 Things I'd Change in Sports

Before I run out the door to Arlington this afternoon for a sneak peek at the facelift applied to Rangers Ballpark, thought I'd make a quick to-do list: *Since the Mavs suck and the Stars suck and the Cowboys suck and the Rangers will in all likelihood suck, look into other sports. Like, f ... More >>

Welcome to the National Armball League

Big Bad Bob

Add a little Swagger to your day

Hot Fun In The Summertime

NorthPark breaks out the face paint

The Fab 50

Half a hundred power brokers who sculpt our local sports landscape

God Bless America. And Sports.

End Of Line

The Inwood brings in the logic probe

Central's HOV Lane Drives Me Crazy

Killer Cars and Trucks

The Craftsman Truck Series hits the Speedway

Farce of a Champion

Road Rage

In FlatOut 2, life is a highway strewn with carnage

Google Gets New "No Shit, Sherlock" Function

Fire on the Mountain

Value Pack

Here's Mindy

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

Cowboy Up

We just can't quit this countrified Karaoke.

Viva La Revolución!

This weekend, Southfork becomes The Range

Skunky Wine | The Mapes File | Round and Round

Sternum Warning

Forgettable food and mediocre service are bosom buddies at Twin Peaks

200 mph T-bone

Steak house announces deal with NASCAR

Gut Blast From the Past

Cheeburger Cheeburger captures the essence of the greasy spoon--not in look, but in bloated regret

White Dork Down

Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords

Flag Team

No contact doesn't mean no fun

Pickup Picks

Where are the best places to go if you're looking to get laid?

Medieval Empire

At Hawkwood, participants can escape the daily grind -- but not NASCAR

A Glassware Menagerie

Does the proper glass really matter?

Buzz

The racer's edge

Hunt alliance gives weaker track developer big edge