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McDonald's is Still Considering Making Breakfast an All-Day Thing. STILL.

Good job, McDonald's. You're kicking around the idea of making breakfast available all day, finally catching up with every single person who's ever had breakfast and realized it should be eaten all day every day. It's taken you long enough, and frankly we're not sure why you've kept such a reactiona ... More >>

A 28-Year-Old Dallas Man Was Found Dead at the Adolphus Hotel on New Year's Eve

On New Year's Eve, nine minutes before the ball dropped on Times Square, police arrived at the Adolphus Hotel, Room 1809, to find the body of 28-year-old Patric Turner. It's not clear from the police report if there were other people in the room, or drugs or alcohol, just that there was "no sign of ... More >>

Kick Start Your Heart

Ask A Failed Musician: Success is Influence

Welcome to Ask a Failed Musician, in which I will help struggling musicians make sense of their careers and even offer some advice. Whether or not it will work, who knows? It obviously didn't work for me. But then again, I was on Kimmel once, so there's that.A musician responded to my ... More >>

Top Hits and Perfect Tens

Nine of This Week's Show Announcements: Public Image Ltd, Why?, The Sea and Cake and More

Public Image LtdThursday, November 1, at Granada TheaterBefore the group hits Fun Fun Fun Fest, Dallas gets its own intimate show. It will be cool to see what John Lydon does best: walk around the stage in clown pajamas.

Welcome, Cheeseheads and Towlettes! Let Us Show You How to Get the True Big D Experience

Give Me Libertine, Or Give Me Death

The Big Apple: My Top 10 Observer-ations

You are looking liiiiiiiiive!!!​10. Got my bag checked and my toothpaste confiscated at D/FW Airport. Do I look that guilty? 9. I'll never get tired of flying into New York. That skyline is one of the best views on Earth. 8. Nothing more unnerving than the cab ride from LaGuardia Aipor ... More >>

At Today's Economic Development Committee Meeting, Where Downtown Comes Alive!

The Grand Ricchi, some day​Afternoon, Unfair Friends! Once again I find myself at City Hall, moving and shaking as I do among the political hoi polloi, bringing you the livest, bloggingest account of today's Economic Development Committee, wherein we'll be hearing about the Downtown Connection TIF ... More >>

Q&A: Matt & Kim's Matt Johnson Talks Cuteness, Nudity, DIY and The Importance Of Not Overplaying Your Instrument.

Matt & Kim​For the past year, Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino of Brooklyn dance-punk duo Matt & Kim have been quietly making a case to replace Mates of States' Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel for the title of indie rock's reigning "It" couple. But don't call them "cute."With their songs "Good ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to See Matt & Kim at the House of Blues on Friday

Just two years ago, when Brooklyn-based dance-punk duo Matt & Kim stopped through town, they did so with a gig at Fort Worth DIY space 1919 Hemphill. Last year, when the band returned, it did so with a gig at the House of Blues' Cambridge Room. And, this weekend, when the band stops through town ... More >>

Mean Green Musical

Lay's Traveling Greenhouse Lets You Get Up Close with Real, Live Plants

The King considers a potato plant first-hand.Flickr user Diane Bondareff​We all know how hard it is to remember what it's like to be up-close in a room with plants, so Dallas-based Frito-Lay's doing us a solid this summer, along with lucky folks in five other cities, trucking around a 70-foot mobi ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Original Nachos at Fuzzy's Taco Shop

​As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eaten on the ... More >>

Whitt's End: 5.7.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Newy Scruggs is on vacation next week from 105.3 The Fan, which means two things: 1. I'll miss my pawdnuh. 2. At least one of the days I'll be joined by a very special, very familiar mys ... More >>

What’s So Appealing About Gorgeous Women in their Underwear Tackling Each Other? If You Have to Ask, You Won't Want To See the Lingerie Football League's Dallas Desire.

How To Succeed As An Indie Rock/Dance Punk Duo, With Matt And Kim

Let Me Ask to Speak with the Sportatorium

Back when I was just a punk - okay a younger punk - there was this show on Channel 8. Best I can remember, it came on Saturday nights at 6:30 and featured station manager Mike Shapiro answering viewers' questions about programming choices, etc. It was decades ahead of its time in yanking back t ... More >>

Radiant*, Salim Nourallah, Winslow Bright, Menkena

Friday, January 23, at the Granada Theater

Local Office Space Fan Now Gets Shot at Movie-Watching World Record

Josh Alan Friedman and VH1 Come Clean on Sex: The Revolution

Not So Pretty

Best Bets for New Year's Eve Clubs

Will Smith Impresses in I Am Legend

That old "last man on Earth" setup? It really works.

How Good Morning America Really Screwed Up Its Dallas Window

Enchanted: What a Toad

Fairy-tale land and real world collide to no good end in Enchanted

Review: The Roots at House of Blues

Keep the Meter Running

Victory is Ours! Well, Belo's, Anyway.

What is Radiant Doing New Year's Eve? Nothing, Except Rockin' Jimmy Kimmel's World.

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Pimp and Circumstance

Uptown Players score with unhappy hookers in The Life; UTD takes disturbing Vacation

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Feelin' Lucky

Granbury rounds up the Guys and Dolls

Mo Better

Corn Mo left D-FW for NYC, but he didn't leave his talent behind

Jurassic 5; Blackalicious

August 10; August 13

Gimme Some Mo

Corn Mo makes an appearance on Total Request Live

Josh Alan Band

Josh Alan Band (Black Cracker Music)

They Got Music

Why does karaoke still exist?

Blood Simple

The gory 15 Minutes is like TV news: flashy, fun, forgettable

Tale of the Tapes

With headliners like Mike Judge and an impressive list of films, the Dallas Video Festival once again wins by knockout

Viva Sandinista!

Is the Clash still the only band that matters?

Horse with no name

First person to call it "D2K" is gettin' firebombed

"Let's not rock!"

The Lilith Fairies is must-hear TV!

Letters

That giant sucking sound

No, not The Dallas Morning News' arena coverage--but tax dollars being siphoned away for millionaires' pet projects

Winedale nation

A man, his guitar, and a last-chance bar on Greenville Ave.

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX