You may be taking time off work for New Year’s Eve, but law enforcement isn’t. It’s an all-hands-on-deck weekend for troopers, says Department of Public Safety spokesman Lonny Haschel, with a focused patrol specifically looking for intoxicated drivers. See Also: Here are Some Numbers and Websites to Help Keep Your…
Cab rides aren’t cheap, but they’re a bargain compared with the costs of a DWI. Fines of up to $2,000, up to six months in jail, suspension of your driver’s license, having your car impounded, bail money and lost time off work (if you’re not fired) add up to make…
Saint Arnold Brewing will roll out a limited series of a new beer next week, but don’t put in a request for time off work just yet. The Icon series will be quarterly releases, rotating in style and not necessarily tied to the season, with new label art. On December…
X, Dum Dum GirlsGranada TheaterSaturday, November 3We’ve so far focused Kids These Days on classic albums, but when a friend asked if I’d want to help chaperone a trip with my daughter and her friend Emma to see Saturday’s X show at the Granada, it seemed an ideal way to…
The Common Table enjoys a good reputation among local beer lovers for the ever-changing array of brews it offers. But in the next few days, that reputation stands to get even better for the beers it won’t be pouring. “Starting next week, we will no longer be offering mass produced…
The Boston Beer Co. has released its 10th anniversary batch of Samuel Adams Utopias, and it’s starting to turn up on shelves around town. I spotted some in the cooler at Goody Goody on Oak Lawn Avenue and had a private little beer-nerd laugh — clearly, the staff there is…
Oak Cliff’s annual Blues, Bandits and BBQ this weekend isn’t just an opportunity to gorge yourself on competition-worthy smoked meats. It’s also a historic moment for Dallas — the first chance to buy beer from Four Corners Brewing Co., one of the breweries featured in Lauren Drewes Daniels’ excellent story…
I went to the Meddlesome Moth on a whim yesterday for the Wednesday special tapping, without having looked up the beer to be featured. It turned out to be Left Hand Chainsaw Ale, about which I knew not a thing. I was about to Google it, and then decided it…
Founder Kevin Carr plans to have Community Beer Company open in November, joining the ever-swelling ranks of Dallas and Dallas-area breweries that were little more than dreams just a couple of years ago. Deep Ellum, Lakewood, Peticolas and FireWheel brewing companies are already established and available in bars (and lately…
See also: The People of BrewFest The Dallas Arts District proved to be a natural spot for a street festival during Saturday’s BrewFest, even if the boozy crowd winding throughout was by and large more interested in Hooter’s wing-eating contests, arcade games and pulled-pork nachos than taking in exhibitions. Not…
Saturday’s Untapped fest combined the best of my two favorite worlds, beer and music, by putting equal importance on both. Each was strong enough to stand on its own. The beer selection is usually an afterthought at music fests, its only purpose to boost the revenue, while the music selection…
The Untapped Festival is coming up Saturday, but the September suds-swilling saturnalias don’t end there. The Observer is throwing its BrewFest the following weekend, 7 to 10 p.m. (with 6 p.m. entrance for VIPs) Saturday, September 15, in the Downtown Dallas Arts District. Check out these screen grabs (didn’t feel…
You know those great Southern rock songs that make you crank up the volume and take your hands off the wheel for some air guitar or dashboard drumming? Quaker City Night Hawks have those songs in spades, except you haven’t already heard them a thousand times on the classic rock…
The Dallas-area beer scene is growing almost too quickly to keep track of, with news of another brewery coming almost monthly and enough beer festivals in the near future that hardcore suds lovers should consider opening a liver-transplant savings account. Fort Worth’s Martin House Brewing Company is the project of…
The visual assault of a flyer for Pro Wrestling Onslaught’s second DFW Wine Mixer symbolizes perfectly: a jarring combination of unreadable fonts, inexplicable blue outlining around the wrestlers, and what looks like a default Mac screensaver as the background. It’s awesome, and the event — inspired in part by the…
See also: Why every album you love should be ripped apart by a 19-year-old I’ve tried to walk the line between imposing my tastes in music on my kids and letting them discover music they enjoy on their own. My tastes are all over the map, so they’ve gotten a…
This is one of the most eventful weeks ever for beer aficionados in Dallas. First off, yesterday marked the release of Houston brewery Saint Arnold’s Divine Reserve 12. Divine Reserve is a series irregularly released special, rare single-batch offerings. Each is inspired by an entry in the Big Batch Brew…
With Belgium’s Independence Day falling on Saturday, retailers and pubs specializing in good beer are celebrating all week with specials on Belgian beers, starting last night and running through Saturday — though the celebration runs through next week with the Libertine Bar’s Belgian Beer Dinner Tuesday the 24th. Other Belgian-inspired…
In every eating contest, there comes a moment when I suddenly realize just what I’m doing. It usually follows a particularly difficult bite, after I try to force down just a bit more than I can swallow and it rests against the back of my throat and I come this…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Walking into the A&R Records plant on Riverfront Boulevard is like stepping into some alternate universe in…
Tonight at 7 o’clock, the Libertine Bar offers a beer dinner featuring beers from Weihenstephaner, a Bavarian brewery — the world’s oldest, in fact. In that time, they’ve clearly mastered the brewing art. Their Korbinian is my personal favorite doppelbock, and the others to be featured ain’t half bad either…
Every time I go to a Flying Saucer beer festival, or BeerFeast or whatever they want to call them, I ask myself, “Why don’t I go to these more often?” And then I remember — distance. My fantasy is that the chain opens an outpost in Dallas proper within walking…
