The Portland Trail Blazers have been hovering under .500 and in the bottom of the Western Conference Northwest division while your Dallas Mavericks are trying to close in on San Antonio for first in the Southwest division. But that doesn’t mean it will be a blowout when they meet Tuesday…
Following funnyman Neil Hamburger on Twitter is like a peek into the mind of an obsessive madman, albeit a hilarious one. If you had no other window to the world, you might think that the two biggest threats to the future of our world are Axe Body Spray and the…
This week, I’m looking back on 2010 with a couple of lists. First, I’ll share my 10 favorite beers of the year. They’re not my top 10 of all time, but rather 10 brews I tried (and in many cases, subjected to the Hophead Ranking System) this year and really…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Tejano Mexican Restaurant, 110 W. Davis St., 214-943-8610When: 11 a.m. to 6…
Thanks to all who shared their tales of holiday embarrassment, trauma, blackouts and illness in our latest commenting contest. It was a lot of fun (and sometimes just sad) reading them, and also oddly comforting to know that I’m not alone in finding that the holidays aren’t just a nonstop…
Do you have kids who just can’t keep themselves from yelling advice, cheering or booing at the characters when you go to the movies, no matter how much the other patrons shush them or give them the stink-eye? Then you probably think there’s no chance they could handle live theater…
There may be a little bit of ugly American in us, still holding a grudge against the entire French people based on a single high school experience with a Grenoble cafe employee who pretended not to understand the word “croissant” until we finally exhaled it out in a spiteful overly…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Brackets, 5300 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 100 (at the Palomar, Mockingbird and…
The Libertine Bar sent along details about its December 29 holiday beer dinner, as well as a pair of tickets for one lucky City of Ate reader. Or rather, for the purposes of this contest, “one unlucky City of Ate reader” would be more accurate. Winning the tickets would be…
How ironic that a Christmas-hating character and a destination so emblematic of the worst excesses of the holiday can, in combination, actually get us in the Christmas spirit. There are few places as hellish as a mall during the run-up to Christmas, but NorthPark manages to make the experience tolerable…
If we were homeless, we would definitely feel compelled to express ourselves through art, but it wouldn’t be the kind of work that gets snatched up by folk-art collectors. It would more likely be gathered as evidence of so-called “terroristic threats” or labeled “graffiti” than be seen as a legitimate…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Gordon Biersch, 8060 Park Lane, 214-369-2739When: 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and…
My only complaint about the Idle Rich Pub and Monday night’s Winter And Christmas Beer Tasting is something outside the control of the bar: Resident Parking Only areas are one of the most idiotic ideas shortsighted Dallasites have ever come up with, and they’ve spread like a cancer from a…
Sink the Bismarck! from BrewDog on Vimeo.Scotland’s Brewdog brewery made headlines early this year with Sink The Bismarck!, a 41-percent ABV quadruple IPA that surpassed German brewery Schorschbrau’s 40-percent ABV Schorsbock 40% as the world’s strongest beer. Schorsbock 40% had earlier one-upped Brewdog’s 32-percent ABV Tactical Nuclear Penguin as the…
Wu-Tang Clan; La the Darkman; A.Dd+ with Picnictyme, DJ Sober and Sore Losers; Rob Viktum and Jay ClippGranada TheaterFriday, December 10, 2010Better Than: Even the most optimistic fan could expect a hip-hop clusterfuck with AWOL members and a late start to be. To say there was reason to be skeptical…
Winter hasn’t even officially begun, but winter beers and holiday seasonals have already been on the shelves and bar taps long enough that I thought I’d offer a quick rundown of those I’ve particularly enjoyed so far this year — and one that gave me a good laugh. This is…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Nodding Donkey, 2900 Thomas Ave., 214-922-8898When: 2 to 7 p.m. Monday through…
Born into a prominent family as the grandson of the founder of what would become the Burroughs Corporation, William S. Burroughs was educated at Harvard University. Yet despite his privileged upbringing, he worked as an exterminator, developed a lifelong opiate addiction and chronicled the lowest of lowlifes in novels populated…
Jake Johannsen has an awkward but endearing hesitant delivery that makes him sound more like a neurotic friend telling a funny story full of spontaneous asides than a pro reciting a practiced stand-up routine. But to be invited to perform on The Late Show With David Letterman a record 35…
According to Samuel Adams press material included with a sample bottle of Infinium (and an ice bucket and pair of flutes — aww, you shouldn’t have!), 60 percent of men would prefer to toast with beer instead of Champagne if given the choice. Whether or not that’s a good reason…
Some brief programming notes before we get into the deets of a few upcoming beer events… On tap for the next few weeks in Hophead are tasting notes on numerous beers, including some great holiday and winter seasonal brews as well as a hop-heavy Belgian import that is so far…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials. Where: Idle Rich Pub, 2614 McKinney Ave., 214-965-9926 When: 3 to 7…
