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A Federal Prisoner is Suing Taco Bell for Stealing His Idea for the Doritos Locos Taco

You've no doubt spent the 14 months since Doritos Locos Tacos were introduced wondering how Taco Bell came up with the brilliant idea of turning the popular chips into popular taco shells. If you just assumed this was the work of a dedicated, and probably high, Yum Brands food scientist, Gary Cole i ... More >>

Artful Posters Aim at Getting SNAP Participants to Spend Their Benefits on Vegetables

Until last summer, low-income people who received federal assistance to purchase nutritious food could use their benefits to buy a Pepsi from the local corner store. A fresh bell pepper at the Dallas Farmers Market, however, was off limits. The Dallas Farmers Market administration couldn't be bother ... More >>

And They're Off!

Major League Baseball's Screwball Economics

As another season begins, MLB faces an unsustainable future -- and you’re picking up the tab.

Was Hostess' Death a Murder, Suicide or Natural Causes?

Or was it all three?

Hypnotic Donut Billboards Are Taking Over Dallas

Remember the Hypnotic Donut billboard I found so distracting last week? I've gained 3 pounds since I noticed the lime green banner outside our office window. I can't stop thinking about doughnuts. It's gotten so bad, editor Joe has sporadically started blogging about fruit to keep his mind off confe ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson's New Anthem For the Dallas Cowboys Sounds Like Something You'd Hear at Forever 21

See also: Kelly Clarkson endorses Ron Paul, shit hits fan Texas singer Kelly Clarkson has penned the new Dallas Cowboys anthem, "Get Up (A Cowboys Anthem)," in conjunction with Pepsi. It's, uh, caffeinated. And as far as "anthems" go, I suppose it's serviceable enough, but interchangeable with hal ... More >>

And They're Off ... For a While

Top 10 Super Bowl Commercials Starring Food

This year, like most years, the multi-million-dollar-slinging advertising competition known as the Super Bowl was largely dominated by those in the motor vehicle category. But if you were paying close attention, somewhere between the David Beckham ogling, flipping back and forth from the Super Bowl ... More >>

The Most Exciting (Non-Football) Super Bowl Moments!

TEXANS CELEBRATE AMERICA - Neither of the pre-game patriotic performances achieved Whitney Houston-level kudos, but both were delivered tastefully and capably. Lindale's Miranda Lambert did some nice harmonizin' with her hubby on "America the Beautiful," and Burleson's Kelly Clarkson shared her Nati ... More >>

Dr Pepper Be Damned, Dublin Bottling Works is Striking Back Against Big Soda

Leslie Minora​Jeff Kloster, owner of Dublin Bottling Works, didn't sit on his ass and sulk after his company's settlement with Dr Pepper Snapple stripped him of his top-selling product, Dubin Dr Pepper. The day after the news hit, he says, he picked up the phone and did the same thing he's don ... More >>

The Problem With... Outasight's "Tonight Is the Night"

I often wonder how youth culture thinks up slang for something they like. For example, I wonder how the phrase "out of sight" came along. If something is out of your sight, how do you know it's good? I also wonder where this New York musician in business-casual dress and Ray Bans came from. Out ... More >>

Let It Bleed

Hard at work on his eighth novel, Deadwood author Pete Dexter still packs a punch.

Drought Drunk: The Bitching-About-Texas-Weather Drinking Game

Drink in the horrible, awful hot.It's hot. People won't shut up about it. We're not quite sure why you people are cheering for the stupid hot to continue (we're looking at you, @CBS11Larry). Rather than get annoyed, here at City of Ate we think it's about damned time we made this shitty streak of un ... More >>

Hey, There's Dairy In That Milkshake: Five Ways I Justify My Terrible Food Decisions

If she can settle on the pasta by convincing herself she needs to carb load before her big night of drinking, we'd probably get along.​I had a milkshake with lunch the other day. I didn't feel too bad about it, even if I have been bitching about my build lately. I look sort of like a centaur t ... More >>

Powerful Sports Marketing Agency Concerned Employee Left With Confidential Trade Secrets

​There's no shortage of stories extolling the genius of John Tatum, the 45-year-old who in 1994 co-founded Genesco Sports Enterprises, the Woodall Rodgers-based consulting group that marries the right product with the right athlete, sport or major league. Sports Business Journal noted in '08 that ... More >>

Why Texas' Craft Beer Bills Are Doomed, And Why They Would've Been Baby Steps Anyway

Daniel KramerMaybe it's a good thing HB 602 is doomed. Think how much longer the line for this Saint Arnold tour would be if guests could take beer home.​If you're a passionate beer drinker or state-legislation fetishist, you've probably read by now  that two of the House bills favoring Texas ... More >>

A Morning Field Trip to the Arts District to Usher In Trammel S. Crow's Earth Day Dallas

Photos by Patrick MichelsA National Parks Conservancy Association mascot teaches children that bears are great for hugging.​ The two-day Earth Day Dallas celebration kicked off in the Arts District at 10 this morning, and right from the start it was absolutely packed -- thanks to the Trammell S. ... More >>

Listomania: 30 Songs That Make Us Hungry But Probably Shouldn't

​Ricky Martin will be performing at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie tomorrow night. And, yes, that kind of has our mouths watering. No, not because we have a thing for the recently outed Latin singer, but because, gluttons that we are, our stomachs have always growled when we hear his song "Shake ... More >>

Get Stoked (And Stoned) For These 420 Events

If you attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, subscribe to High Times or frequent The Flying Saucer's commemorative 420 glass​Gas Pipe, you're well aware that today is the official holiday for devoted fans of Phish and the Grateful Dead, better known as 420. Spend the day hugging you ... More >>

SXSW Meets Its Odd Future

If Security at Super Bowl's Anything Like the Clampdown at the Downtown Sheraton ...

Photos by Patrick MichelsJanet Napolitano brought her Secret Service "safe zone" to Super Bowl XLV's press row in the Sheraton.All day Monday, Super Bowl XLV Press Row at the Sheraton downtown was filling up, as the best and the brightest out-of-town media checked in, grabbed their credentials and s ... More >>

Tipping Point: It's Cheesy to Stiff For What A Server Can't Help

​I am good at working for free. That is not to say I am good at volunteer work. For one thing, I get bored bagging groceries at the Food Pantry. It's hard to feel good about what I'm doing when we run out of supplies and have nothing to give the late-comers but green beans and evaporated milk ... More >>

Paul Quinn College Declares Student Farm a Success

Paul Quinn College's community garden, the most visible element of a massive rebuilding effort the troubled school launched earlier this year, produced one thousand pounds of food this summer. Snacks.com​Director of Service Learning Elizabeth Wattley reported on the garden's progress at yesterday ... More >>

Q&A: Giggle Party Tells Us Why It's Bailing On Dallas.

Bad news, fans of things that are fun: Giggle Party is bailing on Dallas-Fort Worth for the greener pastures of San Francisco. Right after this weekend, in fact. Turns out bassist Jason Reichl is headed that way for real-life, not-at-all-music-related career reasons--and GP keyboardist Kat Michie ... More >>

Ron Kirk Injured in Grand Prairie Car Wreck. And DPS Has Answers About Tollway Crash.

Rock CunananDPS has determined what led to Wednesday morning's crash on the tollway.​Didn't intend to end the day with three (or four, if you will) auto-related items, but that's how we roll:First, this breaking news courtesy KTVT-Channel 11: Former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, now President Obama's tra ... More >>

Larry James Hopes to Open "Center of Hope" on I-30 By End of Next Year

Larry James​We led off yesterday with the news that Larry James and Central Dallas Ministries are preparing to turn one corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and Interstate 30 into a "center of hope," as James calls it -- 3.6 acres filled with what CDM's CEO says will be "scores of new livable wage jobs, ... More >>

Local Designers Somehow Cram More Character Into Grand Prairie's Nokia Theatre

Patrick MichelsA look back inside two of the Nokia Theatre's newly remodeled suites. Check back soon for a slide show with more photos.​Nobody's ever accused the Nokia Theatre of having too much character, but thanks to a down-to-the-guts remodeling of its luxury suites, the Grand Prairie venue is ... More >>

Sweet Georgia Brown: Sometimes Spending a Little Extra is Good for the Soul (Food)

Only Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Build A Palace Big Enough To Match His Larger-Than-Life Persona

Why Coke Is Not It For Dallas

​In September 2004, the Dallas City Council gave Dr Pepper an exclusive beverage vending contract -- meaning that at any city of Dallas venue, you had to be a Pepper or else till at last the fall of '09, since Dr Pepper was paying good money for the exclusive access via vending machine. But with t ... More >>

Cowboys Stadium: Reviewing Our Suite Dreams

Somehow seven years ago I didn't forsee 5-star bars equipped with back-lit chandeliers and littered with HDTVs.​Back in 2002 when I was at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram we first started getting wind that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was toying with the idea of building a new stadium. "Ga ... More >>

Well, Somebody Clearly Needed 25,000 Texas Stadium Seats. And Two Big Ol' Video Screens.

​Christopher Moore, the prof quoted in today's paper about the physics of punting as it relates, to, oh, I dunno, low-hanging video screens in overwrought football domes, offers plenty more info on his blog concerning hang time and kicking angles; rrrrrrriveting stuff. But, for a moment, back to t ... More >>

Scoreboard! Or: This Texas Stadium Relic Would Look Great Above Your Bed.

​Seems like we'll never be done with Reunion Arena or Texas Stadium, which is still loaded with shit the city of Irving would love to sell you for pennies on the penny. Like, oh, this scoreboard -- which, believe it or not, can be yours for the low, low price (so far) of ... $25?!?! (Same goes for ... More >>

Today In Music News: Jackson Pepsi Video Unearthed, Ice Cube Gets Serialized and The Nuge Gets Political

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009... Leave it to Us Weekly to unearth the video of Michael Jackson's infamous Pepsi ad from 1984. Ice Cube has partnered with TBS to produce his family friendly Are We There Yet? as a series. Leave it to Cube to keep it faux-ga ... More >>

Maybe Mexico Should Build a Fence to Keep Out Undesirable U.S. Immigrants

Uptown Players Drag Forth A Faye-Ragious Mommie Queerest; Watertower's Receptionist Leaves No Message

Meet Ron White, the Texas-Born Memory Champ You’ll Never Forget

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

Cowboys Fans Take Home A Piece Every Conceivable Slice of Texas Stadium

Patrick MichelsOne more piece of Texas Stadium sets out into the world.Tonight, somewhere in Texas, a Dallas Cowboys super-fan will return to home and mount a piece of signage above his family's fireplace. Maybe a naked section of wall space will already be waiting. "We Stop Selling Beer at The End ... More >>

Last Night: John Legend At Nokia Theatre

John Legend Nokia Live January 22, 2009 Better than: Letting the bartender mix your cocktail with Pepsi products. Having learned a hard lesson in traffic jams the last time I went to Grand Prairie's Nokia Theatre, I took MacArthur to the venue, to discover the streets were flowing free and clear. I ... More >>

Tony Romo's Gonna Be Huge

Review: Antoine's of Dallas Serves Up Po-Boys On The Cheap

Dallas Loses Latino Ad Agency to Austin

Tom Hicks, Looking for Some Positive Press, Throws Another Log on the Fire

Justin Time, A Tony Romo Super Bowl Ad (Sort Of)

Tony Romo Has 67 Million Reasons to Be Alive

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Thanks to The O'Reilly Factor and Pepsi, Ludacris got a bad rap

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