Great Brewers recently launched its “Beer Sommelier,” an online program that purports to pair beers to a variety of meats, grains, vegetables, cheeses, breads and sweets. “Masterfully select the best beer styles to pair with any dish,” the Web site boasts. With the Libertine Bar’s Brass Knuckle Corn Dog Beatdown…
VEGA’s Well Known Pleasures EP–you know, the one that was “soon-to-be-released” back in January–is supposed to be available online today from Vogue College Records, though I’ll be damned if I can figure out where to download it. Maybe VEGA mastermind Alan Palomo spent too much time working on his Pre…
Can’t make it out to Neverland to see Michael Jackson’s body? Or perhaps you’d just prefer to appreciate Jackson in a less ghoulish way than looking at a corpse? Either way, The House of Dang is the place to be tonight.The boutique shop will screen the King of Pop’s 1988…
Dallas rapper Tum Tum, a.k.a. Tumzilla, doesn’t come off as a particularly romantic dude, but judging by this recent track, “Kush,” it seems the big guy is head-over-heels in love. That his love interest is O.G. Kush, a potent and deliciously fragrant (or so I’ve read) strain of medical-grade marijuana,…
At least two City of Ate contributors plan to celebrate Independence Day on Saturday the way our forefathers would have wanted: by throwing down (and hopefully not up) at The Libertine Bar’s Brass Knuckle Corn Dog Beatdown. The 15-minute bout, limited to 25 gluttonous idiots brave gurgitators, will award the…
Available at Whole Foods since early last year, Funky Monkey Dried Fruit Snacks combine the crunch of potato chips with (most of) the nutrition of fresh fruit. Even better, three of the company’s four varieties (Bananamon, Purple Funk and Jivealime) have been certified organic according to Natural Organic Program standards;…
Fresh off her amazing solo performance and crowd-thrilling guest appearance with Snoop Dogg at Bonnaroo, Erykah Badu will make a “surprise” appearance tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. She’ll be playing in and with Kimmel’s Fallon’s house band, The Roots, according to publicist Paul Levatino. No word on which or…
Though he’s most famous for a bit about the nightmare of shopping at Ross Dress for Less, Sebastian Maniscalco also wonders what happened to macho guys. “Look at what they’re ordering. Apple martinis? You’re walking around with a green drink! With a little apple floating on top! You go get…
Justin Bua has an instantly recognizable style that merges the kinetic playfulness of graffiti art, the careful detail of classical art and the skewed perspectives of cubism into what has come to be known as “Distorted Urban Realism.” His best-known painting is “The DJ,” which depicts a young man working…
Zac Crain’s favorite “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott story isn’t about Dimebag, actually. Rather, it’s about one of the late guitarist’s pets. “He had a goat and had dyed its beard like his, so it was a little Dime goat,” Crain says during a recent phone interview. “And it was a real…
This week’s featured poster advertises a show with The Fox And The Bird tonight at the “hoffice” (house/office) of Switch Creative Group; if you’ve looked at a Pluckers menu recently, or seen that “Body By Pluckers” billboard with all the schlubs in tighty-whiteys, you’ve seen Switch’s work. This poster, too,…
At the Kessler groundbreaking ceremony last weekend, a music critic was overheard calling Oak Cliff “the Brooklyn of Dallas.” It’s not a new sentiment. According to an 1890 flyer by Dallas Land & Loan Co., “Oak Cliff is to Dallas what Brooklyn is to New York.” Whether or not the…
The Big D Opry is a bimonthly country music showcase that takes place at Fellowship Dallas (9330 N. Central Expressway) and regularly stars some pretty big names from the world of regional commercial country. Tonight’s version, starting at 8 p.m., also includes Nashville’s multi-platinum, Grammy-winning Bryan White and Star De…
I didn’t find out about this show in time to get it in the listings last week, but, hey, that’s what Gig Alerts are for, right? Sarah Jaffe will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at boutique shop House of Dang (which was a Best of Dallas winner in 2007 for…
Of all the fast-food chicken places in my neighborhood, Popeyes is by far my favorite. Williams Chicken is OK. I used to work at a KFC and have pretty much had my fill for this lifetime while Church’s makes me question the existence of God. Problem is, my daughter isn’t…
Each week the Dude Food guys assess the ‘masculinity’ of Dallas area dives. The more fried meat and junk on the walls, the better the rating…Norma’s Cafe1123 W. Davis St.214-946-4711Dude Factor: 10 (June Cleaver) on a scale of 1 (Kate What’s-Her-Name, the one in all the tabloids) to 10.Norma’s Cafe…
The groundbreaking at the Kessler in Oak Cliff on Friday evening provided one of the most surreal sights I’ve seen in my seven years of covering local music: a dread-locked musician standing side-by-side with the mayor of a major city, as both used golden shovels to dig into ceremonial dirt…
Why in the world would anyone leave San Diego to visit Dallas in late June? Well, if you’re Stone Brewing Co. head brewer Mitch Steele, leading a beer dinner at Dallas’ best bar and the restaurant with the best bar food is enticement enough. The Libertine Bar (2101 Greenville Ave.)…
Chat Room Pub bartender and booking agent Ben Rogers announced yesterday that the Fort Worth neighborhood bar and occasional venue will revert back to just being a neighborhood bar after a final three shows in July (lineups after the jump). Rogers says the decision is partially because he is so…
Gorilla Vs. Bear contributor David Bartholow created this poster using an image from Land of Nicholas Copernicus by Michal Rusinek and featuring photos by Magdalena Rusinek-Kwilecka. “I typically gather a few images that I believe are appropriate for the particular show, apply the type treatments, and subsequently present them to…
Hophead spent a four-day weekend at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. The music, comedy, people-watching and general chaos of the thing made for an outstanding trip. But one of the highlights was the accompanying “Broo-er’s Festival,” a biergarten featuring some 20 brewers ranging from tiny local…
Food for Thought is a cleverly named gala to benefit Big Thought, a Dallas nonprofit serving some 300,000 students and teachers with creative learning programs inside and outside the classroom. Thriving Minds summer camps, for example, offer artistic and cultural enrichment at no cost to children. They’re also–as I suspect…
