The Dallas Association of Young Lawyers hosts its third annual Food for Thought on Saturday at The Tower Club, where guests can buy goodies in the silent and live auctions and sample fare from a number of top-notch local chefs and restaurants. The event is a benefit for Big Thought,…
The Goss-Michael Foundation isn’t just a chance for us common folk to drool over Kenny Goss and George Michael’s private collection of British contemporary art. The foundation also supports Texas artists with four annual $5,000 scholarships. Two of them are specifically for students from the Booker T. Washington High School…
I hadn’t heard about it until my sister texted me a few weeks back, “So excited about the new snuff film!!!” I read that three times before I dialed her number to tell her what a bad person she was. “Smurfs,” she texted me just before I was about to…
Sunday was National Tequila Day, a time to celebrate a drink that has often gotten a bad rap — at least among high-minded drinkers who disdain slushy, sugary, kiddie cocktails or knocking back a shot off a stranger’s torso. And don’t get us started about the hangovers. Please. (Must have…
I wrote a book that came out in June of 2008 called Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage. For the last three years, I’ve had the chance to read at all sorts of venues. I’ve read at Good Vibrations in San Francisco with a wall of dildos,…
American Idol Live Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Better than: Watching paint dry. I think. I don’t remember if there was ever a talent show episode on the original Beverly Hills 90210. But if there had been, I imagine it would have looked a lot like…
Dallas author David W. Menefee has written a new book that inspired his publisher enough to submit it for a Pulitzer Prize. It’s a long shot, sure. But with his unlikely career, he just might have a chance. Menefee, who was once a writer for the Dallas Morning News, has…
This is part three of our three-part interview with Pache. Click on the Three-Course Meal link for more from Pache and other Dallas chefs. What are your top five rules of the kitchen? Always taste your food. Keep your station clean. Always be on time. Always have a clean, pressed…
This is part two of our interview with Ocean Prime’s Sonny Pache. Read part one here. What are the five Dallas restaurants you go to most often? Mama’s Daughters Diner. Fireside Pies. Hunan Express, eatZi’s, Fearings at The Ritz Carlton…
While Sonny Pache, 29, was studying finance in college in Ohio, he always ended up cooking for his five roommates. Apparently he wasn’t half bad, because the roommates were always telling him he should trade in formulas for recipes and go to culinary school. Eventually he listened, enrolling in the…
Works of art can be sensitive creatures. In many ways, they have more in common with the living than with the inanimate. Why? Because art can change. A work can change with time and with environmental conditions. Light, temperature and moisture can all affect a work. Some works are more…
In part one of this week’s Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Scott Gottlich, chef/owner of Bijoux and chef/partner at The Second Floor, and his thoughts on the national food scene. In today’s installment, we ask Gottlich for his thoughts on dining in Dallas. Since Gottlich kept…
Ketchup, the neighborhood burger bar in cuisine-crowded Uptown, welcomes diners with a patio stocked with wicker chairs and tables tucked under wide umbrellas—an opening salvo that will no doubt be in high demand come fall. The inside offers a mishmash of seating, too: black-topped, metal-trimmed diner tables, classic booths with…
From a bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Oklahoma to restaurant owner and chef, Scott Gottlich’s career progression may seem odd. But that’s the path — with a few important stops in between — that led the Dallas native back home, where he’s owner and executive chef of…
Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of literature’s manliest men: Ernest Hemingway. About a month ago, author Marty Beckerman released his latest book, The Heming Way. I figured it might be a tribute until I read the subhead, How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested,…
More than 300 people came together at the Bath House Cultural Center on Sunday to support White Rock Lake and the Red Cross, as well as to take part in the Chef’s Picnic (part of the Beach Party of the Century). Red-checkered tablecloths covered the tables and Deep Eddy was…
New Kids on The Block, Backstreet Boys and Jordin SparksAmerican Airlines CenterJune 26, 2011Better than: leg warmers, boom boxes, and slow dancing in the gym. Last night at the American Airlines Center, NKOTBSB proved that boy bands are still hanging tough — especially with their powers combined.Yes, the lyrics are…
For more from our Q&A with Suze chef/partner Jeffery Hobbs, check out parts one and two. What are your top five rules of the kitchen? Always taste your food. Work clean. Work fast. Be nice. Be quiet. What are your top five favorite cookbooks? Modernist Cuisine The Making of a…
The Turtle Creek Chorale’s 31th anniversary season is about to come to a close. Last night, at the Meyerson, they performed their final offering, Night and Day: The Music of Cole Porter. But you still have a chance to see the final performance at 8 p.m. Sunday. Audiences will be…
Emmylou HarrisWinspear Opera HouseJune 23, 2011Better than: Sipping lemonade on the porch swing on a breezy afternoon in May. Dressed like Stevie Nicks, if Nicks had been a flapper (black headband and all), Emmylou Harris literally danced her way onto the stage at the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Winspear Opera…
Yesterday, Suze chef/partner Jeffery Hobbs told City of Ate about himself. Today, he shares a few thoughts on dining in Dallas. What are the five Dallas restaurants you go to most often? Maple & Motor, for a bacon cheeseburger with charred jalapeños. Rafa’s, for Steve’s Steak Tacos. Drip Coffee. Parigi,…
Boy bands. If you’re not a fan, you can blame it all on a capella barbershop quartets. Those groups were popular in the late 1800s and through the early 1900s, and they’re really the ones who laid the groundwork for the vocal groups we now love, hate and love to…
