Bavarian attire strongly encouraged but not required at Addison Oktoberfest.With Oktoberfest and other fall styles hitting shelves and taps and a slew of beer-related events on the horizon (not to mention the chance to try deep-fried beer), it is starting to be a good time of the year to be…
With just 100 cassette tape copies available at $5 apiece, Eyes, Wings And Many Other Things are selling Iced Aged as a sort of fund-raiser to get the band’s own Pour Le Corps tape and vinyl label up and running. But while the album is primarily a stepping-stone to release…
There’s nothing quite like the experience of being in a movie theater filled with stoned people. It’s marked by lots of crowd interaction, loud conversations, laughing (at appropriate moments or not), abnormally frequent disturbances as people leave and come back, and the occasional hacking cough followed by a billow of…
Last year, Maximiliano Alessandro Vatovac and his mother, L. Hart Rueter, collaborated for a benefit show to raise money to cover Max’s tuition at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. The exhibition was a success, and work-study opportunities and scholarships are covering costs for Max’s second and third years…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Teams have been practicing and judges (including two City of Ate contributors) are advised to begin fasting as Oak Cliff is about to get smoked out this weekend for the Blues, Bandits & Barbeque street party.The festival takes place outside and inside the Kessler Theater and surrounding neighborhood and includes…
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: Uptown Pub, 3605 McKinney Ave., 214-522-5100When: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday…
On September 11, 2001, 19 men coordinated a vile attack against targets they considered symbolic of an evil empire to avenge U.S. support of Israel and its perceived wrongdoings in the Middle East. On September 11, 2010, the 25 or so men on the Rangers’ active roster will coordinate a…
On the first anniversary of 9/11, we mourned the tragedy. On the second, we wrote about Bush callously invoking the victims and notions of “freedom” to create new victims in a pointless war, and laws that represented anything but freedom. Now that we’re all 9/11-ed out, we don’t mark the…
As teased last week, after months and months of waiting (and false starts), Fort Worth’s Rahr & Sons Brewing Company is finally ready to reopen to the public with regular brewery tours, beginning today from 5 to 7 p.m.Tonight’s featured specialty beer is a cask-conditioned take on Rahr’s Blind Salamander,…
We love Angry Dog for the burgers, the nachos, the dogs and much more, and now have yet another reason to frequent the Deep Ellum greasy spoon and bar. For the entire month of September, Angry Dog will donate 50 cents to local charities each time it sells one of…
Anyone with experience raising a boy knows that at times, especially around age 5, they seem to be completely insane–and obsessed with their own penises (unfortunately the latter isn’t usually just a passing phase). Comedian Jo Koy is no exception. “My son is out of his mind,” he says on…
Nana is extending its “Summer Savings Menu” through September 30, though we wonder if the $45 prix fixe three-course dinner (with choices including mesquite-grilled flank steak, seared Scottish salmon and more) could attract the wrong crowd. By which we mean people like us, who didn’t realize it was pronounced “prefix”…
Great news for fans of Fort Worth’s Rahr & Sons Brewing Company this week, as the brewery is just about ready to open up to the public again for its raucously fun brewery tours. The news comes more than six months after February’s snowstorm collapsed the brewery roof, temporarily halting…
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 Elbow Room, 3010 Gaston Ave., 214-828-9488When: 3 p.m. to 8 p.m…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Kids are back in school, which means their summer diet of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Mountain Dew is giving way to … black bean burgers and hummus? What the what? In our day, school lunches were composed of compressed mystery meat, gubment cheese and sugar. We’d have laughed the lunch…
In case you haven’t read this blog, other food blogs, turned on the television or driven on Central Expressway in the last month, let us remind you that this is Hatch chile season, with peppers from Hatch, New Mexico, hitting grocery shelves and restaurant kitchens. The recipes for chiles, roasted…
“One pump, eye contact. Boom! That’s how you do it!” No, not that. That’s how you shake hands, according to Greg Behrendt, contrasting the manly way to shake with the “wet French fry” handshake offered by a fan who identifies him as “that dude from that thing.” Who am I…
Photographer Deborah Lightfoot has a knack for capturing familiar landmarks and icons in a way that makes you look at them in a whole new light. Her photo of State Fair of Texas mascot Big Tex, with the giant’s face starkly lit in white light, captures the simultaneous creepiness 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: The Ginger Man, 2718 Boll St., 214-754-8771When: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
