In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. An oft-overlooked brisket is the lunchtime variety, guaranteed to make your afternoon at work a slow and lazy…
In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. One of the things that makes barbecue places great is that some of them are just so strange…
In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. *** Yesterday, writer Steven Harrell had the unenviable task of defending barbecue sauce. Today, Professor Cleaver sets him…
In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. When I first came to America I was a man adrift. Sure, I had a family I loved,…
There are too many people in the Yellow tent at Fun Fun Fun Fest. This is true at almost all times. It’s awesome, because a festival has a comedy tent, but it does mean that if you want to see a comedian, or one of the ragtag collection of bands…
The “big name” attraction of the first set of Fun Fun Fun Fest Nites was the Misfits, because you could only get in to see Sarah Silverman if you were invisible and had the ability to pass through a very firmly closed glass door. Obviously, the Misfits are one of…
Fun Fun Fun Fest have released a very nice app. It’s sparkly and it makes nice noises and it shows you where everything is, especially tacos (there is a whole map of local area tacos). It will cost you precisely zero dollars, and it’s so hip and, dare I say…
Last night two of our number saw the frankly magnificent Dylan Moran swoop through Dallas. A lot of his set is a stream of consciousness, and so being in Texas, he had some typically European thoughts, served with a dash of surrealism, about our state that we thought were worth…
Comedian Dylan Moran is a freewheeling delight to behold in person. A veteran of the comic circuit (as he admits, as part of a fantasy sequence, he’d really like to have a job, he’s just never had a real one), he doesn’t seem to have a plan as such. Sure,…
As the British guy on staff, it falls to me to tell you the Dr. Who-ge (geddit?)* news involving our very own Dallas. The new Dr. Who “cinematic event” (the press release I have is extremely grand), entitled Dr. Who: The Day of the Doctor, is to be the subject…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company, fresh off some controversy over their marketing tactics, has fallen back to two ideas we can all get on board with — gigantic dinosaurs who terrorize Japanese cities, and pumpkins. They even have a mascot for the special occasion. Ironically, Godzilla does not go down easily,…
The Los Angeles Times put out an article today suggesting the U.S. might be better off swapping Texas for England if it wanted to avoid the particular Texas brand of Republicans shutting everything down for their own special reasons. While as a resident of Texas I cannot possibly approve of…
Kid Congo Powers was fantastic last night. He truly was. A full-blooded romp through a set that drew from his past as an ’80s pioneer of post-punk, as well as just some straight up punk, his was a stage presence far from the snarling beast you might have expected. Instead,…
Kid Congo Powers comes through the Double Wide tonight, an unmissable chance to see a man with one of the most interesting résumés in rock in a tiny, intimate venue. A former member of The Gun Club, The Cramps, and The Bad Seeds doesn’t just turn up in a small…
Some people might hold up Josh Homme as a kind of savior of modern rock music, what with his riffs, and his arms (he has nice arms), and things like that. And I suppose that I did too, once. Around the time when Kyuss ended and QOTSA began, when they…
Texas barbecue: You and I know it’s the best. More importantly, it’s a food where, if you leave the state, you’ll notice other states do barbecue in strange and terrifying ways that make you feel wrong. Once I went to Oklahoma (this is how all great stories start, I know),…
There’s a reason you associate our accent with fashionable music of the last fifty years. We’ve produced some great bands. The thing is, there’s a whole undercurrent you’re missing out on over there. You know you have favorite obscure American bands, who you’d go and see whenever they come through…
As I sit here in work my mind drifts from matters such as job responsibilities to more jovial pursuits such as murder, car theft, and the endless slaughter of pedestrians. Yesterday saw the release day of the biggest game of the year. Aping the inanities and cliches of radio DJs…
Do you like potentially life-altering scavenger hunts? Do you like Slayer, M.I.A., and the great capital of the state of Texas? If the answer to both of these things is yes, you may be interested in the Dallas leg of the Fun Fun Fun Fest Scavenger Hunt, in which people…
I spent a year chronicling the barbecue of Dallas. It’s not over yet, I’m just much fatter, so it has to calm down a bit. The main constant throughout this whole year, besides the fact that brisket is really quite something, was a commenter called Gabe48. You might be familiar…
The Melvins | Honky Trees Saturday, August 10, 2013 Sometimes you’ve just got to stand right at the front, in the middle. Especially when there’s two drum kits, both slightly angled in, so if you stand in the right place they’re like terrifying speakers positioned exactly for your benefit. Only…
You don’t need this writer to tell you that the most hotly anticipated televisual extravaganza of the year is upon us this weekend, as all-time great TV series Breaking Bad returns for the start of its final eight-episode hurrah. It’s been a show based entirely around one question — What…
