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April 25, 2012
The Universal Food Shame Scale
Damn. Eating that freezer burrito made you feel like an awful human being. But, exactly how awful? Wish there was a way to know exactly how much shame you should feel when you eat a horrible, awful food? Wish. Effing. Granted. Above is our very helpful, very scientific Universal Food Shame Scale: ... More >>
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September 24, 2011
The Night They Turned Off the Lights at 7-Eleven And Other Tales of Greenville Ave.
Yes, as a matter of fact, they did close the 7-Eleven on Lowest Greenville this morning -- at midnight, almost to the second. And, at just past midnight, the sidewalks -- which, moments before, had been thick with club-goers shuffling from drink special to drink special at the Pussycat Lounge, Ku ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
The Week in Dallas Food: Tiny Sandwiches, Too-Sweet Desserts, and Lots and Lots of Beer
This week we brewed at the zoo, ate some disappointing things, and Leslie Brenner told us another thing wrong with Dallas. Read on. City of Ate/Observer Even if Taj Chaat has Amruth beat as far as charm, interest and adventure, the humble vegetarian former stumbles into second place when it ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
SUP, Service Bar and Yucatan? Not Your Late-Hours Permit. So Sorry. Ask City Council.
Photo by Leslie MinoraPhilip Kingston of the Lower Greenville Neighborhood Association takes the mic in opposition of Service BarToday brought another round in the ongoing fight over whether Lower Greenville is a daylight retail district or an evening entertainment strip. This afternoon, the ... More >>
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August 13, 2011
A Rambling Item Starring David Seeley, Tango, Gary Myrick, Joe "King" Carrasco and the Crowns, Mike Rhyner and Lisa Loeb
Via.Tango and the work of the great Bob "Daddy-O" WadeSpeaking of late, great Lower Greenville venues ...Last weekend the boy and I picked over Paperbacks Plus, where I found a copy of David Seeley's Too Cool to Get Married, a 1989 paperback collection of pieces written for, mostly, Texas Monthly ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Peachy Week in the Food Blogosphere
He did it for America.This week in food blogs, peach desserts were a big hit, ketchup haters learned to love Ketchup and Taco Cabana introduced different-tasting tacos. Read on. City of Ate Even Jenny Block, who doesn't like ketchup, enjoyed Ketchup the restaurant. In her review, she said th ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Good Records Recordings To Re-Issue Tripping Daisy Back Catalog and Unreleased Songs.
The folks at Good Records sure are having some fun with all the news breaking out of their camp over the past couple of days. But, rest assured, most of it is just that: Fun.That cryptic tweet and Facebook post the store made today? The one about being "a part of history" if you stop by the store ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Robert Cray and Stevie Ray at Club Redux For Q102
Back in January 1987, if memory serves, Club Redux stood at the site of the present-day Taco Cabana on Lower Greenville, and that old Observer ad you see at right more or less hints at the kinds of acts that played there back when -- a little bit of this, a whole lotta that. But that advertisemen ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Week in Blogs: Smoked Meat, Meat Soap and Wiener Men. Can You say Freudian?
Sara KerensLockhart SmokehouseThis week, Dallasites get cheesy and try to wash away their troubles with meat soap. No, really. Read on. City of Ate Cedars Social isn't all that great, concludes Jose Ralat Maldonado. The "comfort" food is ultimately disappointing and over salted, but hopefull ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
When Every Day Is a National Food Day, Is Food Still Special?
Look, we love a grilled cheese as much as anyone, but something in that kid's look gives us the willies, as though she plans to eat a grilled cheese ON GRANDMA'S GRAVE.Happy National Rice Ball Day! Wait. You didn't know it was National Rice Ball Day? Did you know it's National Grilled Cheese ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Lent: No, It's Not the Vatican Diet Plan
The tired, lame joke used to pop about annually this time of year among the lapsed Catholics in my family. "I'm giving up watermelon for Lent," assorted uncles would say with a grin. Har-har. Get it? Watermelon isn't in season during Lent, so as sacrifices go... Yeah, those old boys were ca ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Free Is Too Much for Jack in the Box Tacos
"Our tacos have had a cult-like following since the 1950s, when they gained a permanent place on our menu. This is especially true in Dallas, where our guests are counted among our long-term favorites," Brian Luscomb, Jack in the Box spokesperson, told me over the phone. With those words in m ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Art Kegger
"Our tacos have had a cult-like following since the 1950s, when they gained a permanent place on our menu. This is especially true in Dallas, where our guests are counted among our long-term favorites," Brian Luscomb, Jack in the Box spokesperson, told me over the phone. With those words in m ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Taco Cabana Commemorates National Taco Day with Street Taco--Wait, Isn't Every Day National Taco Day?
In the last few years, the taco has become a mad scientist's laboratory. Many well-intentioned Vincent Prices -- whether from south of the border or homegrown -- have sought to elevate the taco, fusing it with disparate parts. Their experiments are to be commended; the masses that have dipped ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Dallas City Council Members Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano Have A Plan To Help Rid Lowest Greenville Avenue Of Crime. If Only They Can Get Neighborhood Businesses To Cooperate.
In the last few years, the taco has become a mad scientist's laboratory. Many well-intentioned Vincent Prices -- whether from south of the border or homegrown -- have sought to elevate the taco, fusing it with disparate parts. Their experiments are to be commended; the masses that have dipped ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Remember When Tacos Were Just a Simple
Fast Food?
Street food purists reviled Taco Bell's "cantina tacos," but the tenor of their response hasn't dissuaded a Texas-based chain from trying out the same shtick. Taco Cabana today announced it will launch street-style tacos on Monday. According to an e-mail from a publicist for the 150-outlet T ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Restaurant y Taquería Lupita's:
Poorly Sexed-up Tacos
The temptation to rend clumps of facial hair as a response to a child's incessant "whys" is much like the reaction to being left hungry after a large meal. However, a little one's unbridled curiosity is difficult not to appreciate. Had I been able to ingest the trompa (lips) and buche (pig st ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Hops to the Stove
The temptation to rend clumps of facial hair as a response to a child's incessant "whys" is much like the reaction to being left hungry after a large meal. However, a little one's unbridled curiosity is difficult not to appreciate. Had I been able to ingest the trompa (lips) and buche (pig st ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Honest food at Potager and a roll of the dice at The Mercury
Sara KerensThis week's Dallas food bloggers learned to trust empty parking lots, took Mary into their own Bloody hands, and found peace on Earth at Potager Café and the Dallas Islamic Center. More Dallas restaurants have Gone Texan, and don't expect to find wines from any other place e ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
Chick Fight: Popeye's vs. Pollo Campero
Photo by Steven DoylePollo Campero takes the prize by a beak.Toque to Toque has made strides this year, delving into various cultures and cuisines. Some of our favorites included the mussel challenge, the soup dumpling debacle and the souffle cook-off where we met a former president. A chef ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Free Food for "Fiends" Who "Toil Not;"
Count the Observer Staff In
Odd, when we Googled a picture of bums, this came up, but these guys don't look like hobos.The free food frenzy that's currently gripping Dallas could induce eaters to quit their jobs and loaf full time -- or so feared observers during the last era of widespread food giveaways. What's so sca ... More >>
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July 5, 2010
Having a Pepper Ball on Lowest Greenville Early July 4. Was That Really Necessary, Officer?
Avi AdelmanI spent Saturday night -- and the wee small hours of Sunday morning -- riding shotgun with a certain Barking Dog as he kept watch over his favorite "scumbars," he likes to call them. And I got a little more than I'd bargained for: a nose and throat fill of pepper courtesy the Dallas Po ... More >>
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August 5, 2009
Where Do Stephan Pyles, Tim Love and Dean Fearing Get Their Fast Food Fix?
The first Whataburger in Corpus ChristiRight -- this should probably be over on City of Ate, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to make this inexplicable (on my part) Esquire subscription count for something, so here goes. For the September issue, which just landed in the mailbox, editors asked ... More >>
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February 20, 2009
Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.
They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>
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July 12, 2007
Girls' Night Out
The boys of She-Dick don their fake boobs, drag names and lady detective personas
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December 7, 2006
Texas Bard
Guy Clark remains an understated statesman of true country
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August 24, 2006
Play Dead
Texas has some of the weakest animal protection laws in the country
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October 14, 2004
Best Tortillas
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July 29, 2004
Moving On
Poor David's Pub preparing to enter new generation
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August 7, 2003
Blue Note
It's a smash hit
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February 2, 1995
Roky's road
The father of psychedelia is not insane, just a little crazy

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