New Year's

Missing Esme: Making sense of loss in the new year

Missing Esme: Making Sense of Loss in the New Year

I was having a hard time figuring out what this column would be about this week. Resolutions? Hot new bands? The fact that three East Dallas liquor stores sold out of Ciroc? All my ideas were falling with a thud. And then, on New Year's Day, my heart did too. In the early morning hours of January 1 ... More >>

So That's How You Transform the Dallas Convention Center Into a Giant Discothèque

I mean, hell, if Schutze could do the Electric Daisy, no reason I can't go to Lights All Night at the Dallas Convention Center, which starts tonight and lasts through the break of New Year's Day dawn. At least I have some Girl Talk, Diplo and MSTRKRFT on the iPod. But, wait -- what's that, New Music ... More >>

Cow Peas For New Year's: You Gonna Eat That?

Flickr​Yesterday I wrote about a New Year's tradition based on German heritage, which is applicable considering the strong German population in the Dallas area. (Remember when Oktoberfest blew my mind a little?) But this post considers a tradition a little more native to Texas, and perhaps al ... More >>

Bring On the Meatless Mondays

​Happy belated birthday, sweet infant Jesus! Now that all that trimming the tree and wrapping presents is over, all Santa's cookies have been eaten, and all the stores are ready to mark down all the stuff you just bought by 60 percent, we can look ahead to the dawning of another year and the d ... More >>

With Housemade Sauerkraut, Bolsa Mercado Just Might Save My New Year's Day

I am made of considerable German stock -- my father was a Reitz, and my mother was a Schuster. But for whatever reason this heritage did not make it to my dinner table. We ate like the rest of America while I grew up. The only time our table was graced with anything remotely German was New Year's D ... More >>

For Your Last Night of Hanukkah Listening Pleasure: Dr. John At the Aragon, On The Zoo

​Tonight, as we burn the final candle on the menorah, we return to that secret stash of oldies but goodies that knows no end. I'd heard a few minutes from this recording a couple of years back, when a clip made its bow on the great KZEW tribute site. But now, here's the broadcast in its entirety: ... More >>

Reviews, Reviews, Reviews and Bad Tomatoes: This Week In Dallas Eats

Flickr​Y'all got your shopping done? I'm feeling the pinch. A few more items to check off my list and then I get get my egg roll on, all over Dallas. Things are scheduled to be quiet tomorrow so we're wrapping things in iceberg a day early. Dipping sauces' are on you. This week I reviewed Mar ... More >>

Why Saturday's Cowboys Game Is the Most Important Game Ever (This Week, Anyway)

Davynin, Via.​[Editor's note: For those who might have forgotten, Michael Corcoran is formerly of the Austin American-Statesman and Dallas Morning News, a one-time Observer contributor and one of my favorite writers in the history of ink. This morning, he dispatches this preview of Saturday night' ... More >>

Arboretum Chases Away Holiday Blues

Davynin, Via.​[Editor's note: For those who might have forgotten, Michael Corcoran is formerly of the Austin American-Statesman and Dallas Morning News, a one-time Observer contributor and one of my favorite writers in the history of ink. This morning, he dispatches this preview of Saturday night' ... More >>

The Road to 8-8: A Week-by-Week Look at the 2011 Cowboys

Because it wouldn't be a newspaper football preview without piss-in-the-wind game predictions.

Labor Day 2011: Let's Work This Out

​One of the best things about being a sportswriter? Getting paid to go to games. One of the worst things about being a sportswriter? Working on holidays. Not that I'm complaining. I've got lots of media friends who are without full-time jobs, and there's nothing more stressful than trying to ... More >>

Q&A: Gustafer Yellowgold Creator Morgan Taylor Talks Food Violence and Justin Bieber on Vinyl

For those DC9 readers who don't have young children, Gustafer Yellowgold is the main character in a children's DVD series created by Morgan Taylor, an artist who has performed Gustafer's live show at Polyphonic Spree and Wilco concerts.Gustafer is a yellow cartoon sun dweller who landed on earth in ... More >>

NCAA Delays Reupping TicketCity Bowl License

​The NCAA's Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee met today in New Orleans, where it okee-doke'd bowl licenses through 2013-'14 for 32 out of the 35 game played during college football's post-season. (Really? Only 35? Coulda swore it was more like 98.) Anyway. Two of the no-go's were already fo-s ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.8.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *So Nuggets coach George Karl wants some of the Mavs, huh? "If we had to pick and choose, we would probably say 55 percent Dallas and 45 percent Oklahoma City," he says of his preferred ... More >>

Seems Like Old Times, as Pete Schenkel Signs On as Natinsky's Mayoral Campaign Treasurer

​I've already seen council member Ron Natinsky's for-mayor website -- though, at the moment, it's little more than an under-construction placeholder. But says here that on Thursday, he filed with the City Secretary's Office his official paperwork naming his campaign finance treasurer, which makes ... More >>

Happy New Year, Japan

​I've already seen council member Ron Natinsky's for-mayor website -- though, at the moment, it's little more than an under-construction placeholder. But says here that on Thursday, he filed with the City Secretary's Office his official paperwork naming his campaign finance treasurer, which makes ... More >>

But It's for Charity

​I've already seen council member Ron Natinsky's for-mayor website -- though, at the moment, it's little more than an under-construction placeholder. But says here that on Thursday, he filed with the City Secretary's Office his official paperwork naming his campaign finance treasurer, which makes ... More >>

Secret Recipe: A Good, Not Great, Find
In a Search for Malaysian Food in DFW

Secret Recipe's Hainanese-style roasted chicken​Malaysia is a country of vast and diverse cultures, all marrying to create one united cuisine. The nation's food borrows and combines elements of Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, Filipino, and Indian menus, creating a robust flavor profile. The use of ... More >>

Chickening Out: Can You Keep a Resolution
To Eat Right?

​Salon senior writer Frances Lam has sworn off cheap chicken. In a New Year's Day post on the Salon food blog, Lam shared his resolution for 2011: "I will only buy chicken that is well raised, so that I will support the people doing that work. I will ask where the chicken came from, I will re ... More >>

Details Set for Frankie 45 Memorial Show

​Pete's asked me to share with the Friends of Unfair Park a link to the rundown for Thursday night's show at Club Dada, a memorial for Frankie Campagna, who died early New Year's Day. I'm happy to oblige -- not only because I'd known Frankie 45 since he was a little boy, no older than my own son i ... More >>

TCU Finally Shuts Up the Big Ten Buffoons

​So a bunch of us are sitting around on New Year's Day laughing at the empty seats at the Ticket City Bowl, gulping venison chili and combating our headaches with straight up hair o' the dawg. Suddenly, invited to our football-watching gala by a mutual friend, the Big Ten Buffoons show up. Th ... More >>

New Year's at Nick & Sam's Goes Smooth as Velvet

The New Year's resolution about dieting can wait a bit.​Remember those New Year's Eve nights/early mornings when your parents came back from a party or dinner wearing top hats and tiaras glittering with the New Year's digits? I do. I remember my parents would pay the babysitter and then cracke ... More >>

Good Friday: The "Happy New Year!" Edition

No seriously, these will definitely look cool on you.​We kind of jumped the gun on this weekend's shows already --- but only to help you whittle down your list of New Year's Eve concerts before they sell out. But hey, New Year's Eve is on a Friday night, and there's still the rest of the weekend's ... More >>

Have A Ball At The Moth

No seriously, these will definitely look cool on you.​We kind of jumped the gun on this weekend's shows already --- but only to help you whittle down your list of New Year's Eve concerts before they sell out. But hey, New Year's Eve is on a Friday night, and there's still the rest of the weekend's ... More >>

When Waking Up is Hard to Do

No seriously, these will definitely look cool on you.​We kind of jumped the gun on this weekend's shows already --- but only to help you whittle down your list of New Year's Eve concerts before they sell out. But hey, New Year's Eve is on a Friday night, and there's still the rest of the weekend's ... More >>

Hike On

No seriously, these will definitely look cool on you.​We kind of jumped the gun on this weekend's shows already --- but only to help you whittle down your list of New Year's Eve concerts before they sell out. But hey, New Year's Eve is on a Friday night, and there's still the rest of the weekend's ... More >>

Run, Drunkard, Run!

No seriously, these will definitely look cool on you.​We kind of jumped the gun on this weekend's shows already --- but only to help you whittle down your list of New Year's Eve concerts before they sell out. But hey, New Year's Eve is on a Friday night, and there's still the rest of the weekend's ... More >>

Six Tips for Losing a New Year's Hangover

Nick RalloHypnotic Donuts has some damn fine spicy hangover cures.​After you figure out whose bed you're in, whose underwear you're wearing and how to get home, here are a few tips for hangover recovery on New Year's Day: 1. Eat donuts Donuts are the perfect booze-sopping-up grease bomb. Add ... More >>

Homeward Bound

Nick RalloHypnotic Donuts has some damn fine spicy hangover cures.​After you figure out whose bed you're in, whose underwear you're wearing and how to get home, here are a few tips for hangover recovery on New Year's Day: 1. Eat donuts Donuts are the perfect booze-sopping-up grease bomb. Add ... More >>

Chinese New Year

Nick RalloHypnotic Donuts has some damn fine spicy hangover cures.​After you figure out whose bed you're in, whose underwear you're wearing and how to get home, here are a few tips for hangover recovery on New Year's Day: 1. Eat donuts Donuts are the perfect booze-sopping-up grease bomb. Add ... More >>

The Souper Bowl

Nick RalloHypnotic Donuts has some damn fine spicy hangover cures.​After you figure out whose bed you're in, whose underwear you're wearing and how to get home, here are a few tips for hangover recovery on New Year's Day: 1. Eat donuts Donuts are the perfect booze-sopping-up grease bomb. Add ... More >>

Girl Drink Drunk: Skinnygirl Margarita

​I made no New Year resolutions. At least, I've not called any of my plans to become a better me "resolutions." Too easily broken once you put that dastardly moniker on them, you know. But I will say that this Lose It! iPhone app is coming in handy and my EA Active for the Wii has officially kicke ... More >>

New Food

​I made no New Year resolutions. At least, I've not called any of my plans to become a better me "resolutions." Too easily broken once you put that dastardly moniker on them, you know. But I will say that this Lose It! iPhone app is coming in handy and my EA Active for the Wii has officially kicke ... More >>

Run With Resolve

​I made no New Year resolutions. At least, I've not called any of my plans to become a better me "resolutions." Too easily broken once you put that dastardly moniker on them, you know. But I will say that this Lose It! iPhone app is coming in handy and my EA Active for the Wii has officially kicke ... More >>

When Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway Speaks Slowly, Apparently Folks Listen

Patrick MichelsIs Caraway responsible for less noise on New Year's? Sure, why not.​Admit it. You laughed when the DPD and city officials held a press conference last week urging locals to stop firing guns while bringing in the new year. "No ... gunfire ... on ... New ... Year's ... Eve," May ... More >>

A Parade of New Year's Parade Photos

All photos by Harry Wilonsky"Who's Ron Jackson?" asks the boy. "That's Jason Castro," I tell him. "Who?" "Exactly."​It's no longer the Cotton Bowl Parade that snakes through downtown Dallas on New Year's Day. Wouldn't make sense -- the Cotton Bowl's now in Arlington, in case you missed that break ... More >>

New Year's Noms

All photos by Harry Wilonsky"Who's Ron Jackson?" asks the boy. "That's Jason Castro," I tell him. "Who?" "Exactly."​It's no longer the Cotton Bowl Parade that snakes through downtown Dallas on New Year's Day. Wouldn't make sense -- the Cotton Bowl's now in Arlington, in case you missed that break ... More >>

New Year's Noms

All photos by Harry Wilonsky"Who's Ron Jackson?" asks the boy. "That's Jason Castro," I tell him. "Who?" "Exactly."​It's no longer the Cotton Bowl Parade that snakes through downtown Dallas on New Year's Day. Wouldn't make sense -- the Cotton Bowl's now in Arlington, in case you missed that break ... More >>

Dream Weaver

All photos by Harry Wilonsky"Who's Ron Jackson?" asks the boy. "That's Jason Castro," I tell him. "Who?" "Exactly."​It's no longer the Cotton Bowl Parade that snakes through downtown Dallas on New Year's Day. Wouldn't make sense -- the Cotton Bowl's now in Arlington, in case you missed that break ... More >>

DPD, City Officials Would Really Like You to Keep That Firearm Holstered Tomorrow Night

Delia Jasso, Dwaine Caraway and Lt. Andy Harvey today at DPD HQ​In some parts of town, you can tell when the calendar needs flipping when the guns start firing; apparently, nothing says "Happy New Year!" like shooting a pistol in the air. And while there haven't been any serious injuries due to th ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Les Americains At The Prophet Bar Thursday

​The Prophet Bar will be really busy for Thursday's New Year's Eve show, with free beer, free Champagne and a dozen bands including Jeremy Megert, Hats And Statues, Michael Grey, Jacob Metcalf and more all playing the Big Room, plus more in the bar.Among those bar bands is Les Americains. The Amer ... More >>

Toadies Add Second New Year's Eve Show. Well, Sorta: This One's On Dec. 30.

​Careful readers of the print edition of DC9 will have already noticed this little announcement in Trees' ad this week: In addition to headlining the venue's New Year's Eve show with support from Dove Hunter and The Boom Bomo Box, the Toadies will now play a second show the night before New Year's ... More >>

Celebrating Cocoa

Grapevine pigs out on chocolate

Body Art

You'll find a lot On The Body at UNT

Sweating Booze

Run a better-timed New Year's 5K

5, 4, 3, 2, RUN!

Run headfirst into the New Year

5, 4, 3, 2, RUN!

Run headfirst into the New Year

Cotton Bowl: Goodbye, Dallas. Hello, Palace.

Like it or not, relocation is the right Cotton-pickin' decision.

Jelly-House Rock

We're caught in a trap, we can’t walk out because these doughnuts are so tasty