Aside from a few unimpressive attempts at surfing as a sixth-grader–I retired after I managed to stay on my feet for a few seconds–my exposure to surf culture was mostly limited to the Beach Boys and the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. But even my one moment of triumph on the board…
Morgan Taylor, creator of the children’s music character Gustafer Yellowgold, is an inspiring example of the good things that can happen when you stop worrying about marketability and just create things that you love. I had the chance to interview him for the Observer’s music section last year, and I…
Morgan Taylor, creator of the children’s music character Gustafer Yellowgold, is an inspiring example of the good things that can happen when you stop worrying about marketability and just create things that you love. I had the chance to interview him for the Observer’s music section last year, and I…
Dallas food lovers love to gripe that there’s no good (fill in the blank) here. Praise Sonny Bryan’s and they’ll scoff that you have to go to Lockhart to get true ‘cue. Say something nice about Keller’s and they’ll call you an idiot for suggesting anyone in the Big D…
“I have never been to a festival that was this disorganized,” remarked the young man sitting across a cluttered table in the canvas tent that served as a press conference room. Power cables spidered out from a haphazard assortment of power strips and surge protectors tapped into whichever electrical outlets…
They’re doing it again. Live Nation is offering $24.99 (and, in a couple cases, $19.99) lawn tickets for select Starplex (I still refuse to call it Superpages.com Center) shows today only during this week’s installment of No Service Charge Wednesday. Until 11:59:59 tonight, lawn tickets purchased at Live Nation’s Web…
Music aside, one big part of the fun at Bonnaroo is just experiencing the interaction of strangers who would never have anything to do with each other outside of such a frenzied environment. This is true everywhere, from the open-air drug markets along “Shakedown Street” to the campgrounds to the…
Friday, 3 p.m.”Yeah! Brooklyn!” someone yelled during a lull after “The Party” during St. Vincent’s Friday afternoon set. Now, I’m not the kind of guy who needs to shout his affirmations of civic pride, but I was tempted to clarify where St. Vincent got her start by offering a counter-shout…
Each week in ‘Knockers’ we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Amico’s Pizza & Pasta4032 Cedar Springs214-520-1331Promised delivery time: None stated, and I didn’t think to ask.Actual delivery time: 29:35 Phone friendliness: 20Not stating order total or ETA on phone: -15Delivery time well…
As of Friday at noonish, nothing at the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has happened the way I’ve expected it to. Or the way I’ve thought it should’ve gone. Or the way Triumph the Insult Comic Dog thought it would either, for that matter.No surprise that there are lines…
Whether you’ve got your own specialty beer you’re dying to share with the world or you just like free mystery drinks, make sure you block out some time Sunday afternoon. From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 14, Eno’s Tavern in the Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff will…
Recipe Demonstrated By Rosanne Dileo of The Libertine Bar Rosanne Dileo has been cooking at The Libertine Bar for about a year, following stints as a server and general manager at the beloved lower Greenville pub. As much as she liked front-of-house money, though, she says she prefers the relative…
It’s incredible that a bluegrass musical with such a countrified phrase as “cotton patch” in its title could be scandalous, but for some, Cotton Patch Gospel is a threatening retelling of the Greatest Story Ever Told even 28 years after its Off-Broadway debut. Not everyone accepts the play’s suggestion that…
There’s something comforting and nostalgic about circus folk playing fast and loose with the truth. When a carnie claims the top half of a monkey skeleton sewn to the bottom half of a stuffed fish is a mermaid, you don’t think of it as fraud, just fast-talking showmanship. That’s why…
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…Galaxy Drive In Theatre5301 N. IH 45, Ennis972-875-5505Dude Factor: 8, or “T-1000,” on a scale of 1 (“John Connor played by Nick Stahl”) to 10…
The comment thread in the April 14 10 Questions with Jim Schutze, the Dallas Observer’s “investigative curmudgeon,” got City of Ate thinking about his hometown brew, Stroh’s. “Some people cry for the Old Country. I cry for Stroh’s. Many’s the Stroh, many’s the Stroh. Oh, Stroh’s!” Schutze wrote in a…
This flyer by Michael Musselwhite promotes Seryn, This Old House, Western Giants, Younger Sons and Baruch The Scribe at The Treehouse in Denton. Should be a wonderful, mellow evening of acoustic Americana and folk, and this intricately detailed flyer really captures the vibe of these bands. It’s a great poster,…
If your pop is a little too generous with the charcoal starter fluid, there’s no need to recharge your fire extinguishers and update your will before Fathers Day this year. At 2 p.m. Sunday, June 21, Chef J Chastain will do the grilling this year at The Second Floor at…
North Of The Dial seems to have mixed feelings about the idea of a band as rowdy and raucous as Brutal Juice doing something as conventional as reunion shows. But there’s no question in my mind about the poster for tomorrow night’s show (with The Boom Boom Box, Saboteur, Chameleon…
Some 24 restaurants, including Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, Winslow’s Wine Cafe and Fletcher’s Corny Dogs (yes!) will be featured at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Fort Worth Zoo’s Third Annual Beastro tasting event. But if looking at caged animals while getting in touch with your inner carnivore, herbivore or omnivore isn’t…
“The best comedy comes from the truth,” X-rated comic Robert Schimmel has said–and proven, with hilarious observations mixed with compassion and insight when documenting his bout with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in his 2008 book, Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of…
With some comics, it takes several minutes of their acts to get where their humor is coming from. With others, all you have to do is read their self-penned bios. Case in point, an excerpt from Christian Finnegan’s self-description: “He also travels this great nation, bringing his own special brand…
