Updated with a response from the Double Wide below. One of Dallas’ most beloved recent institutions, Good Luck Karaoke at the Double Wide, is no more. This weekly festival of alcohol and bad singing to great tunes, heavily assisted by the two men in charge and their refusal to ever…
Every year, the Rangers roll out a whole bunch of stuff designed specifically to clog your arteries. It’s their public service, as a socially-minded ballclub, to cut down on the population explosion in DFW by culling those stupid enough to eat a two-foot sandwich. I am one of those people…
Severe storm are possible Sunday afternoon/evening!! Large hail, damaging winds & tornadoes are the concern!! pic.twitter.com/ZApq3MBnFv— Pete Delkus (@wfaaweather) April 11, 2014 Last weekend, I was correct about the weather. It was dreadful. The weather, that is, not my forecasting. There’s no stopping me now, not after I’ve got a…
You’ve got a rock band. They’re pretty good. They rock out. People seem to like them. What’s the next logical step in the progression of this band or musician’s sound? Get louder? Play faster? Dig the same groove onto the next album? Maybe even get quiet and introspective for a…
To everyone in town this weekend for what are apparently a series of basketball games played by unpaid teenagers, we say welcome! Welcome to North Texas! How was the weather last night? That bad, huh? Well. If a few tornadoes and storms and the odd bit of baseball-sized hail are…
Everyone’s favorite ultra-budget dragon tease mega-series returns for its fourth season on Sunday night. We’ve constructed a drinking game in its honor. I would opt for a light mead. Not wildfire. Will Daenerys actually make it across the sea? WILL JOFFREY EVER DIE? How amazing is Brienne of Tarth? Will…
If you see the world in visuals and aren’t afraid of interviewing, recording, cropping, color adjusting, and rendering, we have good news. The Dallas Observer is looking for multimedia interns for this summer. – Meat Fight 2013 – The Video – Greenville’s Truckyard – A Video Tour Above, you can…
Hello everybody, from The Ballpark With the New Name. We’re here at Rangers Opening Day, and will be documenting the thrills, the spills, and the silliness. Apologies for any mistakes – your live blogger is British, and thus totally unfit to document America’s national pastime, no matter how much he…
Our 2013 Best of Dallas award winner, and Observer writer, Michael “Grubes” Gruber, is renowned for nicknaming Rangers players. In fact, if you follow him on Twitter (@tweetgrubes) like thousands of other people do, then his Diamond Tweets covering the Rangers games are largely incomprehensible without extensive knowledge of the…
Last week, I predicted thunder, rain, and general apocalypse. I said all of your weekends would be ruined, and that you should all stay inside. In my defense, it was quite overcast. I never said I was a weather forecaster…
A surprising number of business people have business lunches at Off-Site Kitchen. You might think, being business people, in suits and ties, discussing contracts (all business people ever discuss is contracts) and tapping away on their Blackberries like it’s 2004 might shy away from a place as earthy as Off-Site…
Dave Brockie, better known as Gwar frontman/front-alien Oderus Urungus, passed away this morning, at the age of just 50. This follows the death of guitarist Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus, in 2011, while the band were on tour. Forming the band of terrifying alien creatures in 1984, Brockie had long…
You see all that brightness outside right now? It’s pretty great, isn’t it? It’s been like that all week. You might have made plans to spend a Saturday outside for the first time since The Great Ice Storm of 2013 obscured the sun and turned us all into shut-ins. Maybe…
You know how the Amazing Race works? Well, this is like that, but we could only get Observer staffers to do it if we promised alcohol at the end. Tracie, our art director, takes her car, Gavin, the web editor, takes a Yellow Cab, Catherine, our editorial assistant, takes Lyft,…
Thousands of people are on Austin’s famed Sixth Street, punks and hipsters and bros, et. al. We’re standing in the jarring sunlight of daytime, the afternoon after an alleged drunken driver plowed into a crowd at South by Southwest. People walk gingerly past each other, as people do when they…
Woodshed Smokehouse’s menu has been teasing me for months. With all those exotic items (smoked mozarella! Bizarre sausage! AN ENTIRE GODDAMN SHIN OF BEEF! Smoked rutabaga, which is called “swede” back home because “rutabaga” is literally impossible to say in a British accent), I had actually spent what might be…
DC9 at Night spent four days in Austin at SXSW, along with another three hundred thousand or so people. It was never going to be a normal experience akin to spending the night out in Deep Ellum, but there were constant reminders that this is a very special event taking…
Updated at 7 a.m. Vanessa Quilantan contributed reporting. Two people were killed and 23 injured early this morning when a suspected drunk driver, speeding away from police after an attempted DWI stop, plowed through an Austin street crowded with SXSW partygoers…
Editor’s note: Every week New York City’s own Andrew W.K. takes your life questions, and sets you safely down the right path to a solution, a purpose or — no surprise here — a party. Need his help? Just ask: AskAWK@villagevoice.com Dear Andrew, I love my parents, but I feel…
Looking back, I think I had been scared to try smoking a brisket. Having never seen chunks of meat that size back home, it’s a scary commitment for two reasons. One, you can’t eat a brisket by yourself. That means you have to invite people round for brisket. This has…
Under a chilly and sometimes sprinkling sheet of grey Fort Worth sky that turned stout black sooner than usual, the second edition of Untapped Fort Worth successfully kept its attendees spirits high with quality ales and well-crafted musical performances. The several food trucks on-hand even lent the event some warmth…
Our boys over on Elm Street, Oliver Peck and the Reverend Horton Heat, have really outdone themselves this time. Fresh off the success of last year’s greatly expanded festival, the guys have somehow arranged for Black Flag to visit Deep Ellum. Starting on June 11 at Three Links, the festival…
