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How 'Bout Them Wineboys? (At Least Some Texas Competitors Had a Good Monday Night.)

​There's no dispute that Texas trounced New York in last night's Grape Gridiron Classic, a Texas Department of Agriculture-sponsored competition featuring wines from both states. What's debatable is whether it was a fair fight. "You guys killed us, and we deserved it," Albany Times-Union wine ... More >>

Observer Hires New Food Critic and It's Not Dude Food's Noah Bailey

Not Hanna Raskin​It's no easy thing, hiring a food critic. There's the slogging through countless resumes and writing samples, the wining and dining of potential candidates, the follow-up phone calls and e-mails to find that one voice among the many whose writing pops off the page and knows what ... More >>

Down On The Grass-Fed Farm: The Beef May Be Better, But It's Still Damn Hard Work

Jayme RutledgeMarguerite Robbins with her cattle.​ Sweat pours down Marguerite's sun-baked face. She feels briars scratching through her dusty jeans. The buzzing and biting of mosquitoes is maddening. So is the old fence lining one of the back pastures. It's broken again. Marguerite stops wha ... More >>

Tequila and Sushi, Together At Last

Patrick MichelsStrictly speaking, this is duck, not sushi. We'll explain...Hoping to prove his is a kinder, gentler brand of the Mexican ass-kicking liquor, Casa Noble Tequila's Jose Hermosillo invited local media to be his guests guinea pigs Thursday night for a pairing of his tequila with courses ... More >>

Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet

An SMU biologist thinks the secret to the fountain of youth may be found by putting fruit flies on a diet.

AFI Dallas Announces Its First 15 Films

Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in Gigantic, which premiered in Toronto last year and screens this year at AFI DallasThe AFI Dallas International Film Festival just released its first list of films selected for this year's shindig, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as noted last month, most ... More >>

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The Dirt Doctor

How radio show host Howard Garrett pushed Dallas to the center of the organic gardening movement through passion, principle and molasses

Review: Bob's Steak & Chop House

Bob's brings the beef to the 'burbs

Tex-Mex Horse Meat

Horse slaughtering has stopped in Texas, but the horses are still dying—now in Mexico

Mayor, Mayor, on the Wall | Spell C-O-N-F-L-I-C-T| Got a Beef | Phat Girlz | Judge Roy Bean

Ground Meat

Native-born and immigrant both get bled at Swift's beef plant

High on the Hog

In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

The Poop

That's what I'm supposed to give readers. That's what I got.

All the Pretty Horses...

Plus: Gone FIshing

Playing Coy

Plus: Dude, You Owe Us, Like, $95,000; Edit Yourself

Bellies of the Beast

Food cuts have inmates and guards grumbling

Horton Heard What?

Find out Who's Who at Romano's latest venture

In the Screening Room

For the Deep Ellum Film Festival, the third time's the charm

Best Steak

Bob's Steak and Chop House

Shoal Shocked

The Lighthouse doesn't quite work

If Horses Could Talk

The city alleges that horses at Samuell Farm's private riding concession were mistreated

Sour Town

Resident dreamer Robert Bledsoe has a plan to keep his hometown of Ladonia from disappearing off the map. His neighbors want him to wake up—and shut up.

Fooling with Mother Nature

Plano-based Frito-Lay finds it's better to be safe than sorry with genetically modified foods

Cola kids

Public school students become a captive audience for corporate advertisers

Hercules unchained

Many mistakes were made the day a 340-pound gorilla got loose at the Dallas Zoo. One keeper almost paid for them with her life. But should the deputy zoo director have paid for them with his career?

Bull--it's what's for dinner

The cows aren't the only ones pumping out manure in windy Amarillo, where Oprah is giving the cattlemen a lesson in steer wrestling

Behind the lines

From reds to feds to blues

Too Many Chiefs

The only center Dallas has to help Native Americans is mired in ineptitude and tribal politics

All shook up

Doolittle's barely emerges from a martini-induced culinary fog

Collective grief

Private child support agency means more headaches for single mother

Hot Product

World-class embezzler Gary Lewellyn rebounds with a fast-selling treatment for A.D.D.

At a Snail's Place

Richard Fullington is trying to make a fortune in a slimy business

Rogue Yogurt

When you buy that double-swirl cone from ICBIY, you may not be licking what you think