Prague

Absinthe Makes the Grimes Grow Fonder

Seriously, Just How Long's the Commute from Grapevine to Prague?

Burning Question: What's changed since you left Dallas?

Ca-Caw, Ca-Caw

Grapevine hears the call of the Falcon

Little Orphan Commie

Kolya is sweet, charming, endearing--and shameless

Interesting intersection

The many roads of Keli Vaughan

As You Lock and Load Your Halo Wars Demo, Keep An Ear Out For Plano's Stephen Rippy

Xbox-ers are no doubt anxiously awaiting tomorrow, when Microsoft finally unleashes its Halo Wars demo in advance of the game's March 3 release date. (Am I the only person who misses Tempest? Ooooh -- thanks, Atari!) I digress. So happens there's an extremely local connection to the Halo spin-off: T ... More >>

Too high. Period.

Curt Kirkwood, now living in Austin, is still a Meat Puppet. His brother Cris is a missing-in-action junkie

Taking shots

A German hockey team claims that Stars goalie Roman Turek is its property

Asphalt Barriers

aaroads.comRecently there appeared on the pages of dallasfood.org a discussion of the city's confined culinary geography. Some people, as you all know, rarely deign to travel outside the loop because enough exists within the circular strip of asphalt to satisfy their needs. Quite a few, however, go ... More >>

The New Year and Silkworm

April 27

Can't Anybody Here Serve A Table?

Cote via FlickrI've touched on service issues before in this column, but the topic deserves another crack.Back in March I addressed a series of slip ups constituting what I thought was a frustrating downward trend in the quality of service at Dallas restaurants. For instance, on a couple review visi ... More >>

Stephen Rippy Sets Halo Wars High Score

Cote via FlickrI've touched on service issues before in this column, but the topic deserves another crack.Back in March I addressed a series of slip ups constituting what I thought was a frustrating downward trend in the quality of service at Dallas restaurants. For instance, on a couple review visi ... More >>

A Tough Year for Local Restaurants Sputters to an End

Cote via FlickrI've touched on service issues before in this column, but the topic deserves another crack.Back in March I addressed a series of slip ups constituting what I thought was a frustrating downward trend in the quality of service at Dallas restaurants. For instance, on a couple review visi ... More >>

Gangsta Lean

Cote via FlickrI've touched on service issues before in this column, but the topic deserves another crack.Back in March I addressed a series of slip ups constituting what I thought was a frustrating downward trend in the quality of service at Dallas restaurants. For instance, on a couple review visi ... More >>

Sambuca is Dallas' epicenter for Mediterranean jazz and—who knew?—Geritol jump-shooters

Cote via FlickrI've touched on service issues before in this column, but the topic deserves another crack.Back in March I addressed a series of slip ups constituting what I thought was a frustrating downward trend in the quality of service at Dallas restaurants. For instance, on a couple review visi ... More >>

Hot for Hombres

Cote via FlickrI've touched on service issues before in this column, but the topic deserves another crack.Back in March I addressed a series of slip ups constituting what I thought was a frustrating downward trend in the quality of service at Dallas restaurants. For instance, on a couple review visi ... More >>

A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Saturday, January 13, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Royale Flush

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

Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Chez Wal-Mart

The wacky and wonderful objects of Twang show a rethinking of standardization

To the Dogs

Canines and cornies take over Lee Park

Dorkula

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

Spring in his Step

Age need not kill whimsy, says this Czech mate

Thunderbald

Bond is reincarnated--sort of--as a shaven-headed punk in XXX

Severely Stumped

Mean and hungry, Little Otik's got bark and bite

Eastern Bloc-heads

Harrison's Flowers reveals -- duh -- that war is bad

Czech Marked

Sadly, in a Dark Blue World even war heroes can be treated like villains

Native Son

The children of an American Indian hero fight for his body's return home

Prague Rock

Uz Jsme Doma want people to listen to the whole story--in Czech

The Con's On You

Uz Jsme Doma want people to listen to the whole story--in Czech

Critic Under Water

Just got off the phone with Arnold Jones, food critic and lifestyles editor for the Dallas Voice. As reported today by the Dallas Morning News, Jones' car drowned the other night as he tried to make his way through downed trees to his M streets home."It's kinda funny being the news," Jones says--alt ... More >>

In a City of Gaudy Prime Beef Palaces, Dragonfly Has No Problem Laying Claim to "Best Steaks in Dallas."

Just got off the phone with Arnold Jones, food critic and lifestyles editor for the Dallas Voice. As reported today by the Dallas Morning News, Jones' car drowned the other night as he tried to make his way through downed trees to his M streets home."It's kinda funny being the news," Jones says--alt ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​Well, the big weekend is here. That's right, Mizzou vs Oklahoma State.My brother earned his Ph.D from OSU (although I hear they practically give those things away in Stillwater) while I, um, attended doctoral classes at the Sorbonne of the Midwest (where, I believe, Stephen Hawking flunked out b ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Travel Guides

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn warped.I wrote the restaurant section to a travel guide while I lived in Prague--and if I could remember which one I'd advise you to stick it back on the shelf and pick up another.It wasn't for Lonely Plan ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Thanksgiving Overseas

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn warped.Even in tough economic times, working Americans take fewer vacation days than any other people on earth--although I believe this oft-cited bit of information ignores farmers eking out a living on th ... More >>

Hello, I Must Be Going

Flickr user Metro Centric​Yeah, I love Groucho, the source of this week's headline. I've borrowed many of my standard lines from him (such as "if I were a man, you'd resent that"). But we have other things to discuss. Like the fact that I have decided to leave City of Ate and the Dallas Observer. ... More >>

Pho From Home: Ngoc Suong

Photos by Kristy YangBun Cha​After a positive dining experience at the Super H Mart last week, I asked my mother if she was up for joining me on one more food expedition before she leaves town. She said yes, but any early excitement she held for Grimaldi's pizza or Rise No. 1 baguettes soon dissip ... More >>

Q&A: Scorpions' Rudolf Schenker Talks Retirement, Friendship, Success and Getting Chicks

Scorpions' Rudolph Schenker​Since The Scorpions didn't reach great commercial success until the late '70s and early '80s, many people don't realize that some form of the band has been around since 1965. 45 years later, and massive hits from the '80s such as "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "No One ... More >>

Texas Folklife Wants to Know
What's on the Lone Star's Menu

​Texas Folklife, a nonprofit organization that got its start documenting folk art across Texas, has launched its first food-focused research project. The group plans to spend the next four years collecting information about eating habits statewide. "Food is the centerpiece of festivals and c ... More >>

Today In Music News: Czech Radiohead Fans Make A Movie, Mariah Carey With Child And Blink-182 Plan New Record

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 1, 2010...A group of Czech fans recorded video footage of a Radiohead show in Prague, got together, edited it and released it as a free download.  The cooler thing is Radiohead caught wind of it and gave the group the master reco ... More >>

Prepare for a Journey...

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 1, 2010...A group of Czech fans recorded video footage of a Radiohead show in Prague, got together, edited it and released it as a free download.  The cooler thing is Radiohead caught wind of it and gave the group the master reco ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitute Myth: 100,000 Hookers Won't Be Showing Up in Dallas

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 1, 2010...A group of Czech fans recorded video footage of a Radiohead show in Prague, got together, edited it and released it as a free download.  The cooler thing is Radiohead caught wind of it and gave the group the master reco ... More >>

Iced In

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 1, 2010...A group of Czech fans recorded video footage of a Radiohead show in Prague, got together, edited it and released it as a free download.  The cooler thing is Radiohead caught wind of it and gave the group the master reco ... More >>

Concussing Our Kids, One Hit At a Time

While pro sports finally fess up to the dangers of high-impact athletics, trainers, coaches, parents and lawmakers struggle to curb head injuries that are even more dangerous for kids.

The Dodos' Logan Kroeber Names For Us His All-Time Top Five Bay Area (Musical) Giants.

The Dodos​Earlier this week, when Meric Long of the San Francisco-based band The Dodos told us about some of his earliest concert-going experiences, our Eric Grubbs noted that the band "plays folk, but with a kick to it." Give their Live from Akropolis, Prague album a listen, as well as their most ... More >>

The Dallas Observer 2011 MasterMind Awards

The winners of our second annual art awards delve into the past and personal loss to bring new visions to Dallas