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How to Pull Together a Cheap Last-Minute Easter Basket

Last year it wasn't until 10 p.m. the night before Easter Sunday that I remembered it was absolutely definitely time to round up some Peeps and chocolate peanut butter eggs to fill baskets, which is partially on account of me not wanting to spend money on things that will be obliterated within one h ... More >>

Alice Laussade Is the Guest Chef at Next Monday's Cane Rosso Pizza Party

By now you've surely heard that the folks at Cane Rosso love to invite celebrity chefs and other local food personalities to sit in as guest pizzaiolos. The story was almost getting stale before Alice Laussade got in on the action. This Monday night she'll be joining the ranks of Jack Perkins, Brian ... More >>

An Englishman Provides Our Final Word on the State Fair: One Hero Passes, Another Enters

I chose the saddest day of all to go the State Fair. The death of Big Tex (flame-grilled is the way he'd have wanted to go) cast a shadow over the whole event, which had Big Tex's now non-existent face on every piece of merchandise, every map, every stall, every advert, every building. When the twit ... More >>

Rita's Italian Ice Ice Baby

Rita's Italian Ice, or Rita's Water Ice, or as the corporate website put its, Rita's Ice-Custard-Happiness, is a quickly growing frozen treats franchise out of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, (near Philly). In addition to their many names, they also have many many many combos. One can have a straight Rita ... More >>

Bearded Brothers Energy Bar: A Texas-Made Energy Bar That Actually Sounds Good for You

Recently I was reading the book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, about Mexico's Tarahumara Indians in the Copper Canyons who have an amazing ability to run extreme long distances. In the book McDougall describes the pre-run concoction of choice for the Tarahumara, which is made from chia seeds. ... More >>

The Food of Denton's Arts and Jazz Festival

The Arts and Jazz Festival should be called the My Chest Will Hurt On Monday Convention. Taking a step into city limits, you're olfactory sense is assaulted with the undeniable, comforting aroma of all things battered and fried. If only Village Voice Media would invest in smell-o-vision.

In Honor of Titanic 3D (Or Something), the 10 Very All-Time Best Frozen Foods

Yeah, we went there. Most of these are dessert-related. And might force you to face your childhood because most of them are also a bit nostalgic. Which may or may not be an indicator that we need therapy. 1. Lemon Chill Available at any water park, baseball stadium or outdoor concert in the hist ... More >>

The Black Dotz Are a Band, Dammit

P-nutty's: A Dallas Stoner's New Best Friend?

​It's Saturday morning, 2:30 a.m., and after a night of partying at Sfuzzi you find yourself on your couch, more stoned than a Snoop Dogg's bus driver, and in desperate need of a candy bar. Who you gonna call? P-Nutty's Snack Delivery Service. The new Dallas-based home-delivery company recent ... More >>

Five Halloween Candies to Hand Out if You Hate Kids

Alice LaussadeNana is kinda chalky. ​Monday night is Halloween. Which means it's time to start thinking about what you'll be handing out to the little ones this year. If you're awesome, we know you'll be the house with the king-size Snickers bars and the werewolf droppings. But if you hate kids a ... More >>

Leon Lett Finally Apologizes for His Cowboys Blunders. Sorta. With a Snickers.

​Got this letter the other day, from "The Desk of Leon Lett": Even though I have three Super Bowl rings, made two Pro Bowl appearances and recorded 22 sacks during my 10-year NFL career, I'm only remembered for two mistakes. Including one monumental mistake I committed on an icy Thanksgivi ... More >>

NFL Films, Snickers Get Leon Lett to Seek "Redemption" For '93 Thanksgiving Eff-Up

​No doubt you recall where you were at the exact moment Leon Lett cost the Dallas Cowboys a Thanksgiving Day victory over the Miami Dolphins in 1993. Me? I was icebound in Farmersville, cooped up with out-of-town family convinced it would be just fine to drive up to Collin County during a sleetsto ... More >>

As If We Need To Tell You, Avoid These Candies On Valentine's Day. Seriously.

Consult Dr. Chuck Norris before giving anyone modified candy dispensers on Valentine's day.​Valentine's Day is a zero-sum game. And I say that as someone who loves Valentine's Day, as someone who knows terms like "Hallmark holiday" and "Singles Awareness Day" are just the protests of the unhappy a ... More >>

Ten Food Commercials Featuring...Pandas?

Never Say No to Panda's stares​Seems everybody loves a big tubby panda. Like, everybody. All over the world. They pop up in commercials for many kinds of cuisine and with all sorts of attitudes. They can be lovable, they can be stoners, they can be full on bullies. But it seems like panda bears ar ... More >>

Top 5 Things To Do With Halloween Candy
After October 31

​This year, we saw no more than 15 trick-or-treaters come to the door -- at that wasn't even at our own house, but an an organized trick-or-treat event. At home, there were seriously, zero children out roaming the streets for sweet treats. Now we're left with a bucket of pre-packaged sugar and not ... More >>

Adam Carolla Makes Time for Pie... Between Rants

​ There are cake people and pie people. Adam Carolla, headlining a special two-night event at the Addison Improv Tuesday and Wednesday (October 5-6), is a confirmed pie man. More about that in a minute. If all you know of Carolla, 46, is from the 1990s on cable's The Man Show and Crank Yankers (s ... More >>

And The Libertine Beer Dinner Winner Is...

Self-portrait by Eugène Delacroix, who apparently came back from the dead to enter and win a beer-naming contest.​Thanks to all the commenters for the fun beer ideas from yesterday's Libertine Oktoberfest Beer Dinner contest. Some sounded tasty, some sounded disgusting and some had us laughing ou ... More >>

Pie in the Sky: Is Fried Frito Pie Ready
To Hit the Top of the Greasy Charts?

​Not satisfied with winning "best taste" honors at yesterday's Big Tex Choice Awards, fried Frito pie inventor Michael Thomas has implied he'd like his concoction to become a concession stand staple. "The deep-fried Frito pie is a game changer for fair food," Thomas told The Dallas Morning Ne ... More >>

Sunday's Free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven, So... Bring Your Cameras?

"I feel it right inside my head somewhere.""I feel like I've ben shot."Maybe you already forgot. It's cool -- it's been almost a year. But yeah, this Sunday's another July 11 -- 7/11, right -- so just like last year and the year before that, 7-Eleven is celebrating with free 7.11-ounce Slurpees fo ... More >>

A Baker's Dozen of Authentic Munchies Recipes

From Holytaco.com​Last week, we discussed The New York Times' article on "haute-stoner cuisine" and, in response, we offered up some dishes from local restaurants that totally speak to the high mind.This sparked (ha!) some discussion regarding much more low-brow, what's-left-in-the-pantry culinary ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Zero Candy Bars

Denver Westword​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining what's wrong with me.It has been dismissed as a white Snickers. The company that makes them has changed hands so many times it's near impossible to keep track. And when I went to the 7-Eleven by our posh, t ... More >>

Pairing Off: Most Graphic Moments Of The Fourth Quarter

Patrick Michels​There were some punishing stretches over the three months past, where latkes from a box or a Snickers bar purchased from some convenience store were standout dishes.Plenty of suffering to go around: popcorn shrimp, candy corn, cranberry sauce from a can...At least I was favored by ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​Such a week--people congratulating us, berating us, questioning the sexual orientation of those who post and comment, and pausing with us to praise shit on a shingle. Wouldn't have it any other way.A good prize this week would have been some bottles of that Texas whisky. Unfortunately we couldn' ... More >>

Pairing Off: Snickers

Patrick Michels​Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.It's funny what foods frighten the wine experts.When I began calling around about this week's pairing, I expected nods to certain reds that go well with chocolate. But the guy at Dallas F ... More >>

Top 10 Foods To Fry For Next Year's State Fair

Patrick MichelsBecause even with garlic sauce on one side and grape topping on the other, this fried butter love affair can only last so long.​Every year, vendors on the state fair circuit push the limits of fried excess: chicken fried bacon, deep fried peanut butter cups and, of course, this year ... More >>

(Un)sound Bites: The Trick or Treat Interloper

Behind the Scenes With Keven McAlester, Local Boy Done Reel Good

Guilty Pleasures

You don’t have to wait for a taste of the State Fair

How Would Jesus Eat?

So, You Don't Like Airplane Food, Hunh?

The Day Jim Schutze Met Gerald Ford and Asked Him the Worst Question Ever

Penal Colonies?

Camp Death

Plus: Stink Pit

Magic Show

Balls Out

How to throw a no-hitter on acid, and other lessons from the career of baseball legend Dock Ellis

Playmakers

Want to design video games? SMU's Guildhall can show you how, if you're willing to work like a dog.

Bass Fishing in America

How Takahiro Omori defied his family, flew to Texas, slept in a van and made his crazy dream come true

Ghouls Club

CATS offers twice the fright

Carrying the Load

Troy Hambrick begged for Emmitt Smith's job. After one good game, can he keep it?

Best Dessert

Terilli's Xango cheesecake

Kick Ace

Billy Cundiff's performance was great. So why do I hate him?

Blue Note

It's a smash hit

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Chocolate Fix

Super Target

Here I Am Again

Loretta Lynn is Still Country, and still woman enough for you

It's one "ele" of a show

Save the elephants ... from these circus costumes

Back in black

Or, Why you shouldn't go to the Bauhaus show dressed in white

Roadshows

Swiss Misses

A tempest in a teacup over azaleas erupts into a class war in Dallas' Swiss Avenue Historic District

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