Conduit Goes Modern

All three artists currently on display at Conduit Gallery are worthy of a visit, but James Michael Starr’s work in Modern Times is especially intriguing. A great example of his creative sculptures is “Continental Divide,” a hefty streamer-trailing iron ball wrapped in vintage images of homes, steeples and columns from…

Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons

If you’re like us, you’re a procrastinator who sat out on the traditional day-after-Thanksgiving holiday shopping spree known as Black Friday. Your idea of Black Friday is Christmas Eve, which this year also falls on a Friday, unless you’re just hoping to receive some re-giftable goodies at an office or…

Comparing Anchor’s 2009 and 2010 Christmas Ales

Now that we’re into December, Christmas beers, winter warmers and other special seasonals are showing up in stores and beer joints. It is truly the most wonderful time of the year if you’re a beer lover, and year after year, Anchor Christmas Ale, also sometimes called “Our Special Ale” (and…

Saints or Winners?

So which Dallas Cowboys team will show up to play the New Orleans Saints on Thanksgiving? Will it be the ‘Boys who played with passion and heart and a fire under their asses and clobbered the New York Giants after the firing of Wade Phillips put the fear of God…

Three, In Kind

Work from the three artists on display at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary have little in common, but all “deal with women’s issues in compelling and provocative ways,” if the MAC is to be believed. Mary Beth Edelson’s There Is Never Only One Game in Town and Other Stories is an…

Epic Ruins

After reading that title and band name, do you really need to be told to expect ’70s headphones prog-rock? Probably not. But Epic Ruins—a Funkytown supergroup of Jordan Richardson (who has backed Ben Harper with Relentless7) Steve Steward (Darth Vato) Sam Anderson (Sam Anderson and the Thrift Store Troubadours) and…

Buzzing Over The Brews At Buzzbrews

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: Buzzbrews, 4334 Lemmon Ave., 214-521-4334 When: All day Monday, 3 to…

An Ode To (And Recipe For)
The Humble Green Bean Casserole

(Editors’s note: We asked some of our regular contributors to write odes to their favorite Thanksgiving dishes. “In verse,” some asked. “If you like, sure. Why not?” Here’s the first answer to that question.)Ode To The Humble Green Bean CasseroleTwo cans green beans, one cream o’ mushroom soupWith milk and…

Zone Out On Ozona’s Patio During Happy Hour

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: Ozona Grill & Bar, 4615 Greenville Ave., 214-265-9105When: 4 to 7…

Sad Sack

What makes Louis CK a truly great stand-up comic is how completely fearless and honest he is about his least admirable qualities. Which, of course, are the undesirable qualities we all have in common but try to hide. What father hasn’t thought that his 4-year-old daughter is a complete asshole?…

Last Night: Wolf Parade and Ogre You Asshole At Granada Theater

Wolf Parade, Ogre You AssholeGranada TheaterNovember 16, 2010Better than: finding out after the fact where the opening band got their name. Maybe the band was oblivious to the muddy sound that buried the vocals. Or maybe it just didn’t matter to them if the audience could hear the words because…

And The Libertine Ommegang Beer Dinner Winner Is…

Thanks to all the creative City of Ate readers for the excellent winter beer ideas in the Libertine Ommegang Dinner giveaway. Shane, obviously a fan of the classic comedy A Christmas Story, had several tasty ideas with witty names, particularly the Yellow Snow quad with orange peel and Thai chilis…

Chili Cook-Off To Spice Up Cliff Fest Sunday

Does this sound familiar? There’s going to be a street festival this weekend in the Bishop Arts District featuring a cooking contest and blues covers played by middle-aged white guys! This one’s called Cliff Fest, though, and unlike Blues, Bandits & BBQ, it features a more widely varied music lineup…

It’s You or the Dog

The title of Undermain Theatre’s latest production, David Rabe’s The Dog Problem, is redundant. Dogs themselves are problems. They’re a drain on your finances and cover your house in piss, shit and puke when they’re not demanding you play with them or running up medical expenses. Kinda like kids, except…

Tattoo Who…dunnit

Allow us to make a half-baked, probably regrettable and inaccurate generalization: Musicians, artists and chefs don’t get tattoos because they look cool, but because they smoke so much pot that their short-term memory is shot. All right, maybe that’s not the case for all of them, but it would explain…

Crushed Stars

Five albums in, Todd Gautreau’s Crushed Stars still makes the kind of textured, soothing, chill-out rock that perfectly suits gray drizzly days or droopy-eyed late nights. The deliberate mid-tempo lullabies are just as calming as ever, with the same whispery delivery that made a moderate radio hit earlier this year…

Blixaboy

We may be stuck in a hopelessly mundane future—no jetpacks, no laser guns and no sex robots, in neither a post-apocalyptic wasteland dystopia nor a beautiful utopia—but Kliks & Politiks sounds like the future as promised by sci-fi movies. Over stuttering, thumping beats and throbbing bass float ray-gun zaps, ethereal…