Valentine's Day

If You Really Love Your Mother, You Should Blow Off Mother's Day Brunch

Ah, Mother's Day -- the one day of the year that actually surpasses the restaurant dog and pony show that is Valentine's Day. According to the National Restaurant Association, it's the busiest restaurant day of the year. If you don't believe them just ask anyone you know who works in the industry if ... More >>

Does the Harlem Shake Mean We'll Never Escape Viral Dance Memes?

I don't mean to get too weepy here, so soon after Valentine's Day, but I think this is true, and important: You never forget your first viral-video dance meme. I'm sorry, "Harlem Shake" partisans, but it's true. Whether it was "Call Me Maybe," all the way back in 2012, or "Gangnam Style," all the wa ... More >>

Patti Labelle was Perfect and Bobby Brown was a Mess Last Night: Review and Photos

It was a clear crisp Valentine's night in Dallas, Texas. As a matter of fact, it was one of the most gorgeous nights we've had in awhile. A slight cool breeze blew through Victory Plaza, and I thought to myself that it would have to be a holiday for the city streets to be so empty. Inside the Americ ... More >>

Valentine's Fall Out, Tacos and Pho: This Week In Dallas Dining

Well you made it through Valentine's Day. In case you're interested in reliving the carnage, here's a slide show of sexy dishes you may have encountered on your big night out, and a story on why many chefs hate to make them. Of course if you really want to depress yourself check out why you should n ... More >>

The Fifteen Worst Make Out Records Ever

It's a classic Valentine's Day dilema -- you've planned ahead, made the sweeping gestures, made eyes across a white tablecloth and now you're ready to express yourself with some good old fashioned parts-rubbing. Whatever you do, don't play any of these records.

Seven of Dallas' Best Restaurant Bars for Dining Alone

Valentine's Day is here, which pretty much sucks for everyone. If you've got a special someone, you're guilted into going out and having your wallet gutted by a triple-digit, prix fixe, mediocre meal. Have fun with that. If you're not coupled up, you get to spend the evening alone while people look ... More >>

NOOOOOOOOOO! Crystal's Pizza is Closing

I heard a rumor that they were closing. Instantly, all the best pizza parties of my youth flashed before my eyes and I said, "Bullshit." It was bad enough when the Crystal's Pizza across the street from Jesuit closed, but the one in Irving was supposed to exist forever. Forever and ever and ever. In ... More >>

Dallas County Would Like to Sell You a Pot-Bellied Pig

When Dallas County commissioners meet on Tuesday, they will decide whether to part with a rather unusual piece of county property: a black, 75-pound pot-bellied pig. The swine, identified only by his serial number, 12-167125, is being kept at the Kennedy Livestock Center outside Hutchins, where the ... More >>

Joyce And Gigi's Is Off to a Great Start in East Dallas

Joyce And Gigi's opened quietly four weeks ago with four pyramid-shaped heaters casting towering flames to call to cars as they drive down Ross Avenue. Without the heaters you'd zip right past the restaurant. It's tucked into a recently renovated space on Hall Street. Joyce Stenvall and Gigliola ... More >>

Charles Anthony Jones, Your "Erection Connection," Indicted for Selling Fake Boner Pills Over the Internet

Things were going well for Charles Anthony Jones last Valentine's Day. Business was good, he had $3,000 cash in his front pocket and enough anti-impotence medication in his car to kill a stallion. But that's when things started going down hill. Irving police arrested him later that day and took the ... More >>

Love Train

Friday, February 17, at the American Airlines Center

-Topic's New Songs About P___y Spells It All Out

Dallas emcee and producer -topic definitely perked my ears with his latest 12-song project, Songs About P___y (no relation to Big Black's Songs About Fucking), explained on his Bandcamp page as "a collection of the personal, emotion-related struggles of men, my perception and thoughts on the man/wom ... More >>

Laura Gibson Talks Finding Good Tex-Mex, Valentine's Day and Her Good Buddy Colin Meloy

Although Laura Gibson's engaging and challenging music owes as much to jazz as it does to any notion of folk. La Grande, her recently released sophomore effort, is a collection that laces those sounds with a bit of atmospheric rock. Just waking up before the long drive from Marfa to Austin, and in ... More >>

It's Kinda Like If Woody Allen Made a Short Film in Dallas About Time Travel and Nerds

I've long been a fan of the great Jun Kang, who's responsible for some of YouPlusDallas's best offerings. This one is no exception. Justin Ransom, who helped shoot the short you see above, kindly dropped in my inbox this Valentine's Day offering posted this morning: Just In Time For Love (or "Withou ... More >>

In Defense Of... Rihanna's "You Da One"

Those of us who aren't distracted by novelties like "significant others" on Valentine's Day like to think up odd rituals to pass a lonesome day decorated with buttocks-shaped stationary, candles and boxes of chocolate. My odd Valentine's Day tradition is having a nice, home-cooked, candle-lit dinn ... More >>

Best Coast Added to 35 Denton, Announced With a Video of Good-Looking People Making Out

This Valentine's Day installment of 35 Denton's latest line-up announcement comes with quite the appropriate video to make you all jangly in the pants. California trio Best Coast has been added, along with Teengirl Fantasy, Typhoon, Millionyoung, Cowboy and Indian, David Ramirez, Pond, the Rassle, A ... More >>

GetEQUAL TX Will Occupy County Records Building Once a Month For Marriage Equality

The bride wore a strapless dress in shades of blue and white. The other bride wore a battered leather jacket, a shiny, pale pink tie and a snug gray beanie. Hendrix Scott and Jennifer McCluskey rode up to the second floor of the Dallas County Records Building on Main Street this morning to ask John ... More >>

Preview: Machine Head, Monday, February 13, at House of Blues

Anvil's Steve "Lips" Kudlow Talks About His Dreams and the Evolution of Metal

Robb Reiner and Steve "Lips" Kudlow​In 2008, influential Canadian heavy metal forerunners Anvil finally tasted the fame that had eluded them for decades, thanks to the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil. Instead of becoming novelty stars who had a heart-warming yet heart-wrenching movie to ... More >>

Dallas' Five Best Places To Eat Alone

Valentine's Day is coming, which pretty much sucks for everyone. If you've got a special someone, you're guilted into going out and having your wallet gutted by a triple-digit, prix fixe, mediocre meal. Have fun with that. And if you're not coupled up, you get to spend the evening alone while people ... More >>

This Week's Best Food Deals, Starring Cakes in Jars, Fish and Lots of Chocolate

SokolataYou look pretty good, for a vegan.​Foodbitch's inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week's foodfull best. Living Social: 4-Course Chocolate-themed Meal for 2 at NCuisineIt must be close to Valentine's Day, the way res ... More >>

Upcoming Beer Dinners, Bier And Brats 101, And Just What, Exactly, Is A Starkbier?

Be sure to wear proper attire when hoisting your stein at Starkbierfest.​As usual, Brian Brown over at Plano Craft Beer Examiner has a good round-up of the week's events for beer lovers. A couple of highlights include tonight's tap night at Flying Saucer on the Lake featuring Sierra Nevada Oak-Age ... More >>

Lumi's Happy Hour's Enough to Make You Forget About the Parking

​Each week, Happy Eating highlights a different restaurant happy hour food menu. This week, it's dumplings and empanadas at Lumi. Where: Lumi, 3407 McKinney Ave. When: Monday-Thursday, 4-7 p.m., and reverse happy hour from 9-11 p.m. The Scene: Happy hour is available throughout the whole re ... More >>

Down At City Hall, Natinsky Makes It Official

Alex CopelandRon and Nancy Natinsky take a romantic stroll through City Hall this morning.​Councilman Ron Natinsky got his Valentine's Day started right, taking a short stroll with his wife, Nancy, down to the City Secretary's office to submit his petition to run for mayor. Ah, romance. A handful ... More >>

Single Dudes: Where to Go For Valentine's Day, Plus A Condom Giveaway For The Worst Date Story Ever

​Hey single fellows, got big plans for this weekend? If not, then we're here to save you from a weekend (and Monday) that will be dominated by four-course candlelit dinners, pink champagne, and annoying Hallmark cards that play crappy songs like "Walking on Sunshine." And as much as you might wa ... More >>

For All the Lovers (of Comedy) Out There...

Seven Valentine Suggestions for That Special Some-Guy in Your Life

It ain't V Day without a laser-sighted cross bow.​It's time the guys got a little attention on Valentine's Day. The pressure to fork over for chocolates, roses, diamonds, a week's salary on a "special" V Day prix fixe meal that many would consider highway robbery weighs on a brother. After all, yo ... More >>

Sweetheart Stoppers: "Bend Over," "He Fit U Fat" and Other Unconventional Conversation Hearts

​Conversation hearts. Sure, they taste like chalky soap and vitamins, but somehow they're a tradition that's been passed down for generations. New England Confectionery Company (NECCO) started printing sayings on their candy in the 1860s. And in 1902, NECCO began producing the present day Sweeth ... More >>

Say, Did You Know There's Some Kinda Football Game Happening?

​Just like for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's, Dallas food blogs have eagerly compiled lists of things to do and places to go if you're not into the main event. On Super Bowl Sunday, even if you're into football and not so much into planning ahead, there are still plenty of restaurants ... More >>

Makeshift Cocktails to Give You a Rolling Blackout

​This week, we had, I believe, three blackouts in Girl Drink Drunk Land. Some Aters saw six according to Twitter reports, and yet another Ater offered that her home temp dropped from 70 to 56 degrees during one of the blackouts in the OED.So, I got to thinking about some cocktails that might warm ... More >>

Troy Dungan to Appear On ... Channel 11? Yes.

​So, about that local TV news rumor to which I alluded below ... Earlier today we got a call that Troy Dungan, the longtime WFAA-Channel 8 weatherman who stepped down in July 2007 after 31 years on the air, has been seen loitering around the KTVT-Channel 11 studios in recent days, briefcase in ... More >>

Matching Easels

A Video Tour of the Eight Track Museum

Several Friends of Unfair Park have sent me today's Paste piece on Big Bucks Burnett's Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum. So let me note: Pete posted the details concerning the Official Grand Opening on DC9 yesterday. Takes place Valentine's Day, with The O's and the Tom Tom Club in attendance. Inclu ... More >>

Final Thoughts On Season's Holiday Beers, And Reasons To Hang On Till Saint Patrick's Day

​The holidays are over, and unless you've got Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Presidents' Day off, there aren't any work holidays until Memorial Day on May 30. Christmas and holiday beers are disappearing from taps and shelves faster than your New Year's resolutions. But before you put a gun in you ... More >>

Don't Wait Till Valentine Day for Lovers

​All right, I know it's not Valentine's Day, but for those of you who like to plan for the future, I have a theme date for you. The first two words are Lover's Pizza. I recently shared a booth with a date at the great place on Lovers Lane. If you're going to a place with "lovers" in the title ... More >>

Speaking of the City's Graffiti Ordinance ...

​Well, maybe you weren't. But the city council's Quality of Life Committee is right about now, because, as it turns out, the city's graffiti ordinance is, in some spots, in conflict with recently enacted state law dealing with graffiti removal. As in: State law demands owners adios-mofo that tag w ... More >>

Dinner And A...Play

Theatre Three stages a dressed-down affair

Blades Of Glory

Through A Bed Of Roses

Walk amongst beauty, don't waste it

Art Is Life

Love Stories

Guys can earn major points with Almost, Maine

Culinary Training

The dinner horn's a-blowin'

Steppin' Out

Take your baby to Celtic Woman

Play a Game

Magpies Wanted

Cost of Doing Business

Biting the hand that feeds you

Slow Run

It's a three-hour ride on the Gump truck

Love-o-motion