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Take Me Out to the Brisket: An Englishman on BBQ Sandwiches at Rangers Ballpark

Here's something -- I am a very big fan of baseball. I can't explain why. I guess it's like really fast cricket. Anyway, I used to watch it late at night on TV back in the U.K. quite obsessively. It's the only American sport I've ever managed to get on board with, American football being poorly name ... More >>

The Five Worst British Import Bands

​ While we might have done some wonderful things for y'all with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Radiohead, we have also sent you some terrible crimes against music. And while none of this really compares to Canada foisting Avril Lavigne and Nickleback on you, it's still not great. I'm ... More >>

Horse Meat -- You Say Problem, I Say Opportunity

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" took on entirely new meaning in the UK this week, as it turns out many people had unknowingly fulfilled their declaration of hunger by eating what they believed to be low-quality beef. Predictably, this has led to outrage across the land, as consumers begin to won ... More >>

Apparently, at Least One British Newspaper Hasn't Figured Out How to Spot a Hipster

Our resident Englishman stumbled across an article in a popular UK newspaper that aimed some snark at what the paper called current food trends. Gavin, who at his present rate of Americanization will soon own an AR-15 and a pickup, took exception to the article's outlook. An Open Letter to The Guar ... More >>

First Round of SXSW 2013 Acts Announced, Including Blackstone Rangers and The Relatives

With the announcement of 35 Denton's initial lineup, it was only a matter of time before you felt that tightening in your chest, aka the first round of SXSW acts. North Texas' Blackstone Rangers, Ronnie Fauss, the Relatives, Somebody's Darling, Sarah Jaffe and Tedashii are all represented. Thurston ... More >>

The Secret Chain Restaurant and Fast-Food Shame of an Englishman

You see all those chain restaurants, Dallas? All those bright shiny lights, beckoning you in to eat products of a questionable providence at a price so reasonable there's no need to go home and time-consumingly construct a meal for your baying, hungry, ungrateful family? You grew up around them (the ... More >>

Identity Festival - Gexa Energy Pavilion - 8/10/12

Identity Festival Gexa Energy Pavilion Friday, August 10 See also: The fans of Identity Festival, parts one and two See also: Eric Prydz on Swedish techno, the future of dance music I think the Observer sent me to this in hopes I would feel as out of my element as most aspects of Texas make me fe ... More >>

An Englishman Reviews the BBQ of Off the Bone

See also: *An Englishman in BBQ Sauce for more of our efforts to fatten Gavin up Last week my dad emailed me. "As a parent the sheer amount of food you are eating in your food journalism quest is truly frightening. The way that your wife feeds you is slightly reminiscent of foie gras production, bu ... More >>

The Olympics of British Food: A User's Guide from a British Guy

When the Observer emailed me with the offer to, and I quote, "continue our gross exploitation of your heritage" by somehow shoehorning together the two subjects of the Olympics and food, how could I possibly resist? I suppose this allows me to tackle that thorniest of subjects, British "cuisine". ... More >>

The Temper Trap at House of Blues

Sunday, June 10, at House of Blues

Mark Your Calendar: Texas Theatre's Got a Copy of Urgh! A Music War

If you have yet to see Urgh! A Music War, you're in for a treat, as Texas Theatre has obtained a rare 35mm copy, and will be screening it on Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26, with live performances from Peopleodian, George Quartz and Marriage Material. If you have seen it, you'll likely agree t ... More >>

Preview: Starkey at 3025 Main

Saturday, April 21, at 3025 Main

Nathan Nicholson of The Boxer Rebellion: "If I Made Music In The U.S., I Probably Would Have Met People Who Were More Like Me."

Moving from Tennessee to London proved fairly easy for Nathan Nicholson of The Boxer Rebellion. After losing his mother in 2000, he hightailed it across the pond and quickly formed a band. Speaking from a tour stop in Austin and in anticipation of tonight's show at Dada, Nicholson talked about his ... More >>

Sore Losers and Mind Spiders Among First Round Of Bands Announced For SXSW 2012

​Considering that pre-South by Southwest bash 35 Denton announced its first round of performers last week, I guess it makes sense, then, that the Austin fest would announce its own first round of performers this week -- and that their list is indeed larger than 35 Denton's list of 17 names, clocki ... More >>

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Unnatural Umami: How Soy Sauce Took a Shortcut Past Organic

​Several years ago, the discovery of the carcinogenic compound 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol in soy sauce was generating concern throughout parts of Europe and Asia. A United Kingdom study directed attention to the matter in 2001.It turned out that low levels of 3-MCPD had been present in processe ... More >>

Bowling For Soup's Jaret Reddick Talks His Band's New Album, New Label and What It Was Like To Have One of His Songs Played in Space

Jason JanikBowling for Soup in a lake? Why not?​In the wake of their recent split with Jive Records, the record label home to such artists as Usher, Justin Timberlake, Cage The Elephant, and Britney Spears, Bowling For Soup could have very easily slipped into a tumultuous time of uncertainty. Inst ... More >>

Hopefully The Macaroni Truck Will Crash Into This Billboard

Via GizmodoTake that, Andrew Jackson!​No, that's not home insulation. It's a London billboard made of 110kg of cheese which, according to Gizmodo, is completely lick-able. Modo reports that English food artist Prudence Staite used a surprisingly-low 10 types of cheese, and it took roughly eigh ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Wild Party -- "Take My Advice"

Wild Party knows how to have a good time.​We've seen quite a few local bands call it quits over the last year or so, but the past few weeks have also seen a whole new crop of up-and-coming local acts sprout up--many of which we think are worth your time. Over the course of this week, we'll be shar ... More >>

British Tex-Mex Food -- How Could That Go Wrong?

​A Texas-based chain has announced plans to open 35 outlets in the British Isles, saying the expansion will help eaters across the pond learn the difference between Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisines. "In the UK, we consider Tex-Mex and Mexican food to be one and the same," the first Cantina Laredo fr ... More >>

Today In Music News: Aerosmith Heads Up Download Festival, Franz Ferdinand Starts New Album And Peter Gabriel May Or May Not Reunite With Genesis

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 16, 2010...Aerosmith is slated to headline the Download Festival in England this summer... if the band has a singer by then.Franz Ferdinand is working on its fourth album.Peter Gabriel may reunite with Genesis for their Rock and Roll Hall ... More >>

The Guardian on Bosque Brown's Mara Lee Miller: "Quite A Voice."

Annie GunnBosque Brown's Mara Lee Miller gets some serious praise from The Guardian.​ Looks like Telegraph Canyon's not the only Fort Worth-based act garnering some serious praise from a respected out-of-town outlet today: This morning, the UK-based daily The Guardian honored Bosque Brown as its " ... More >>

The Londoner serves up pub grub the way the Brits only wish they could

Ask a Mexican

Yeah, but can you imagine a macho Mexican man wearing a skirt?

What It Was Like: Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Watershed, David Banner

Dallas Observer SXSW Concert Lineup Announced

FC Dallas' Coach Steve Morrow Comes to Tom Hicks' Defense

Seasoned With Panto

Theatre Britain adapts Aladdin

Arctic Monkeys, The Coral

Sunday, September 16, at the Palladium Loft

Downright Filthy

The Inwood has an armory of Sex Pistols

It's What's for Dinner

Grapevine wrangles a beefeater

Lady Sovereign

Public Warning (Def Jam)

Fun-Raising

Theatre Britain brings Music Hall back from the dead

Expect Delays

The Beatdown

If you want to survive in the jungle, then stay close to the Hive

Diaspora Jammin'

Beats, rhymes and life rule this best-of list

Muse, Razorlight

Wednesday, May 4, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Athlete

Vehicles & Animals (EMI International)

You, Spy

Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

Girls With Balls

Gurinder Chadha scores with a sporty crowd-pleaser

Paul Weller

Illumination (Yep Roc)

English Beat

The Streets' vision of working-class England is full of beats, birds and brandy

Sing Sing Sing

Travis is happy to remain The Invisible Band. As long as people sing along.

The Kindness of Strangers

Archival footage illuminates a remarkable Holocaust story

Into the groovy

Raving about Simon Reynolds' techno history, Generation Ecstasy

Roadshows

Reef's herbal remedy

Another sign of the end of the Brit-pop invasion?

Dedicated amateur

For longtime local music fixture Bucks Burnett, the playing is the thing

The (British) empire strikes back

Ash tries to live up to the hype

Hope you die before we get old

Reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time