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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Earlier this month I spent a weekend in Austin for Fun Fun Fun Fest, where I was able to spend some time in the very cool Black Star Co-op brewpub and also bring back a few beers that I hadn’t seen in Dallas. One of the Austin-made brews that 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: Buzzbrews, 4334 Lemmon Ave., 214-521-4334 When: All day Monday, 3 to…
(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…
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…
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?…
One of the most exciting bits of beer-related news I’ve received in the last year came in an interview with Guinness brewmaster Fergal Murray at Trinity Hall in March as he was touring the country making the case for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with his products. Intrigued by outstanding Beer…
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…
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…
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…
We’re coasting into the best time of the year, beer-wise, with winter and holiday seasonals and luscious stouts starting to edge out summer session beers on retail shelves and tap walls. At Hophead HQ, we’ve already nearly finished off our first (but likely not last) six-pack of Anchor’s 2010 Christmas…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This past weekend I stayed in Austin to cover Fun Fun Fun fest — one of the best rock and indie festivals in the country, and easily the greatest in the state, in my opinion. But with the music ending at 10 p.m. nightly and ears (and feet … and…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Capitol Pub, 2401 N. Henderson Ave. (at Capitol Avenue), 214-887-9330When: 4 to…
