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: VIckery Park, 2810 N. Henderson Ave., 214-827-1432When: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday…
MarfalitesJust because the Austin City Limits Music Festival is over doesn’t mean your chance to catch some live dad rock is gone. The Chevrolet Texas Battle of the Dad Bands competition at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Chevrolet Truck Row Stage at the State Fair of Texas pits four…
All photos by Jesse HugheyThough you may not have known it, as the brewery’s products are carried by fewer than 20 retailers and pubs in the area, Boulder, Colorado’s Twisted Pine Brewery has made its way into North Texas. In Dallas, you can find Twisted Pine brews at Pogo’s, Trinity…
The Coen Brothers’ stoner/detective/quest movie, 1998’s The Big Lebowski, is endlessly rewatchable, as its phenomenal DVD sales and an official Lebowski Fest are proof enough of its staying power. You’ve probably watched it enough times that once we start quoting our favorite lines you’ll be able to finish them. Us:…
It would be hard to find a seat where you don’t have a good view of a screen. 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…
Held in the store’s upstairs classroom kitchen, Friday night’s “Stone Brewery Gastropub” at Central Market was more cooking class than gastropub beer dinner. It provided such intriguing samples of food and Stone beers that it was impossible not to go downstairs and immediately head to the store’s beer cooler in…
It could have been the finest drama of power and betrayal that Shakespeare never wrote. A young man learns the homebrewing craft but ultimately abandons his former employer for an IT career. Economic factors out of his control bring that to a halt, and he comes back to a career…
A Cosmic Joke isn’t as boring as you’d expect a Salim Nourallah-produced Chris Holt record to be. Faint praise, sure. But it says a lot about the two Dallas music-scene lifers. For all their accolades—Holt’s as a multi-year Dallas Observer Music Award winner for his guitar and keyboard prowess and…
The History Channel’s Monster Quest proves that believing in sasquatch, moth-men, chupacabras and other legendary creatures requires some suspension of skepticism. The story is set with witnesses describing an encounter and perhaps showing a blurry photo or scratch left behind on a tree. The team of cryptozoologists take print casts,…
All right, Bishop Arts District, we get the picture. You’ve had some kind of festival about every three days for the past couple of years, and last week we awarded you that Best of Dallas award for Best Place For A Street Festival that you’ve clearly been aiming for. We…
Beauxregard has always been a band that looks to the past for musical inspiration. That much is obvious within a few minutes of listening to their songs. But figuring out just what era is informing their music is where things gets tricky. Gryphoemia, the follow-up to their excellent 2008 EP,…
As distinctive a lyricist and songwriter as Centro-matic and South San Gabriel frontman Will Johnson may be, the standout track on this EP is a cover—and it’s an unlikely, left-field cover at that. Under the South San Gabriel banner, Johnson and his bandmates wind down “All Night Long (All Night),”…
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: Renfield’s Corner, 2603A Routh St., 214-397-0300When: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through…
Jesse HugheyOur cloning technology is clearly in the early stages of development.This Sunday as part of Central Market’s Brewtopia beer marketing drive, the Dallas location is offering a homebrewing workshop from 3 to 5:30 p.m. The class is only $10 and offers the opportunity to purchase Central Market’s homebrew kits…
Mikkeller Nelson Sauvin IPA, one of four from the brewer’s Single Hop series available tonight at The Common Table.Good news for cash-strapped beer lovers who were having a bit of trouble justifying a $15 pint (imperial 20-oz pour notwithstanding) at The Common Table: General manager and beer expert Jeff Fryman…
Evan ClintonAre they functional? Depends how many drinks you’ve had. 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: The Double…
Self-portrait by Eugène Delacroix, who apparently came back from the dead to enter and win a beer-naming contest.Thanks to all the commenters for the fun beer ideas from yesterday’s Libertine Oktoberfest Beer Dinner contest. Some sounded tasty, some sounded disgusting and some had us laughing out loud. Here are a…
According to my admittedly Looney Toons-influenced impression of how dog racing works, greyhounds chase a mechanical rabbit around a track. I don’t have much more personal experience with human races than I do with dog races, but as far as I know they don’t use a comparable incentive for the…
Perhaps the perception is different in person, but Pard Morrison’s work brings to mind a spin on the old “My kid could make that” criticism of modern art. In fact, his work looks remarkably similar to larger versions of things most people have made as kids–accidentally–with unsolved Rubik’s Cubes and…
Speaking of Spaten Oktoberfest, this month’s beer dinner at the Libertine Bar features five Spaten beers along with an Oktoberfest-inspired five-course meal. The dinner is at 7 p.m. next Wednesday, September 29. On the menu are apple and pear potato pancakes with spicy lingonberry sauce paired with Spaten Oktoberfest, smoked…
Last week, the Boston Beer Co. sent along a free sample mixed 12-pack, the company’s Harvest Collection, which includes the new Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale along with a few other varieties and a couple bottles of the flagship Boston Lager. Also included in the package was a loaf of…
Mikal Beth HugheyEach 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: Bavarian Grill, 221 W. Parker Road in PlanoWhen: 4 to…
