William "Buffalo Bill" Cody

The Life and Death of Dallas Theater Center's Jack Ruby, All-American Boy

In 1974, DTC premiered its best show ever. Why was it never seen again?

Ten Movie Moments That Were Made By The Music

Last week saw the limited release of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, and the director is currently receiving the type of media love reserved for those who rarely misstep and whose work is hailed as classic the moment it's released. What's always interested me about Anderson is his ability to perf ... More >>

Silence is Golden (Then, Not)

Are There Different Kinds of Mexican Food?

Time for a Pumpkin Beer Taste Test

​It's that time of year, when pumpkin flavored, scented, and shaped merchandise invades virtually every supermarket, convenient store, coffee shop, liquor store, restaurant and bar. Pumpkins are everywhere, and each year there's more pumpkin stuff to sift through. City of Ate wants to help yo ... More >>

Drinking Excuse of the Day: It's International IPA Day. Plus, More Beer Events.

​If you haven't checked your 2011 Calendar of Made-Up Food Holidays, today is International IPA Day. (It's also National Catfish Month, National Peach Month, National Water Quality Month and National Picnic Month, so consider that when deciding on food pairings with your IPAs.) We're on the fenc ... More >>

As of Right Now, I'm Wishing Failure Upon ...

Miami Thrice, enjoy your demise.​Dwyane Wade in specific. And the Miami Heat in general. Take this lightly if you wish, but consider the career/personal plunges of my previous targets: *Terrell Owens (cut by the Cowboys, irrelevant as Buffalo Bill). *Tiger Woods (lost his wife, reputat ... More >>

Lawnmower Man: Kenneth Page Followed His Peculiar Dream from Texas to Florida.

Browsing the Aisles at the New Park Lane Whole Foods, Where We Score Brother David's Triple

Unfair Park​A selection of more than 600 beers surrounded me on refrigerated grocery shelves that seemed to stretch on forever, and a money clip brimming with cash in my jacket pocket bounced against my ribs like a reassuring pat with each step. Yet I had to hold back from the splurge that would h ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Red Beer

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn warped.My first wife's clan would gather at least once a year in the middle of nowhere, otherwise known as Columbus, Nebraska.Yes, first wife--for some reason my firm belief that life revolves around telev ... More >>

A Good Saturday: Hittin' the Sci-Fi Expo and Record Store Day. Is This Heaven?

Will BryantBig day tomorrow -- takin' the kid (cough, cough) to the Sci-Fi Expo in Richardson, then heading down to Good Records for the shoppe's ninth birthday bash, which so happens to coincide with the 2nd Annual Record Store Day, which DC9'ers already know plenty about. 'Cause, if nothing else, ... More >>

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Time Warp

Dog Days of Whine and Roses

Thirtysomething

"Look! I Made This!"

Robert Altman wants your attention, if not your affection

Private Defective

Alan Rudolph's Trixie is happily stuck between a rock and the deep blue sea

The product

Former Dallas Cowboy Pat Toomay found it harder to write about the NFL than to play in it

The one that you want

High-school confidential, reflected in a '90s fun-house mirror

Rude awakening

Georgia is a character study that refuses to charm