It would be quite the understatement to say that Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. has recovered from the roof collapse that shut down the brewery in February 2010. In fact, the rally of community support behind the brewery after the disaster and the resulting “To Thee” series it inspired has…
Everyone who has demanded a designated driver veer into the Taco Bell drive-through line at 2 a.m. knows that beer can enhance the flavor of food. But being drunk before you taste something isn’t the only way it works. Learn hands-on that using beer as an ingredient can turn a…
Just because we can’t remember just what the hell our country is doing in Afghanistan now that 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden has been sent to hell, or just why we’re still in Iraq after toppling first Saddam Hussein’s statue and then the dictator himself, doesn’t mean we should forget…
Timbo, the Dallas Zoo’s oldest gorilla, died yesterday in surgery at the age of 49, and we’re still bummed by the news. Even though we didn’t know her personally, we still plan to mourn her the same way we’ve marked the deaths of friends, family members and celebrities alike: with…
Tom Green is best known for livening up MTV with the weirdness of his Tom Green Show, tormenting his parents, strangers and, by having viewers request his “Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)” on the secretly-not-really-live Total Request Live, the network itself with pranks that ranged from bizarre performance art…
Recently, I asked my Twitter (I’m @DallasHophead) and Facebook friends for recommendations on beers from the Carolinas, as Lady Hophead was headed there for a wedding. And, while I got plenty of great tips I’ll check out if I ever get a chance to make the trip myself, it turns…
If we were to write a fantasy novel about winning the chance to inherit a magical food manufacturing facility, it would probably be called Charlie and the Smoked Brisket Factory, or better yet, Charlie and the Beer Factory. So it’s probably best that Roald Dahl had the idea first with…
The figures in the paintings and drawings of Rubén Miranda are distorted, sometimes stripped down to bone or muscle, other times seeming to have flowers sprout from their skin. Yet rather than appear grotesque, these embellishments suggest something deeper about the subject than a realistic depiction could, or conjure some…
After the bills supporting small breweries in Texas each died a slow, torturous death while being chipped away by compromise in the most recent legislative session, we drowned our sorrows, saddened to see our cynicism about the corporatocracy ruling our state proven correct once again, and tried to forget about…
We’re reluctant to share the bounty of Hatch peppers with our vegetarian and vegan friends, especially with this year’s crop delayed by drought. Why should a bunch of hippie weirdos get any when they clearly belong in a pot of meaty chili? But Ann Gentry, author of Vegan Family Meals:…
You’d think a restaurant that has the word “Cowboy” in its name would serve cow. You’d be wrong. Thanks to Cowboy Chicken, for the last three decades, buckaroos have been able to enjoy the occasional break from steak on the trail (or Greenville Avenue). To celebrate its 30th anniversary, from…
Rock The Bells Tour with Mobb Deep, Raekwon, Ghostface and Vicious Cycle Sunday, August 14 House of Blues Better than: an unrequited longing for Golden Age hip-hop. Sunday night was an unabashed nostalgia fest for the crowd at House of Blues, particularly for those whose school days, much like this…
By now you’ve probably noticed the banners across the top of our blogs or seen the Mixmaster post touting Brew at the Zoo September 10, but perhaps were hesitant to commit to a $30 ticket without knowing just which beers would be available. How about I just tell you that…
It can get trashy at times, and we’re not about to swim in it anytime soon. But White Rock Lake is still one thing Dallas has managed to do right, a manmade oasis of natural beauty that doesn’t need Calatrava string art or concrete fake rapids to attract joggers, bikers,…
There are people who will tell you that when it’s more than 100 degrees out, you need to drink water because alcohol will dehydrate you. Ignore those buzzkills — especially today, it being International Beer Day, making for two international beer holidays in a row. Here are some of our…
If you haven’t checked your 2011 Calendar of Made-Up Food Holidays, today is International IPA Day. (It’s also National Catfish Month, National Peach Month, National Water Quality Month and National Picnic Month, so consider that when deciding on food pairings with your IPAs.) We’re on the fence about this. Just…
Ladies in comics aren’t always relegated to the roles of helpless damsels in distress or impossibly proportioned Barbie doll heroines in skin-tight costumes, and ladies creating comics don’t have to fall into the mold of cranking out dull everywoman schlock like Cathy. Exhibit A: the awkward high school protagonist of…
With its gargoyle logos and its cocky slogans and beer names, not to mention its intensely bitter IPAs, Stone Brewing Co. — which celebrated its 15th anniversary Tuesday — may try to maintain a bad-ass image. But a couple of new collaborations coming out this summer show that they’re really…
Moonface, Flow Child, Nervous Curtains Dada Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Better than: the Rangers’ performance that night, by a moonshot. Moonface is essentially Spencer Krug’s solo project, the purest distillation of the twisted melodies and lyrical longing we’re likely to hear any time soon from the yelpier of Wolf Parade’s…
It’s impossible to extricate the actual Preteen Zenith, a distorted-pop sextet with all of a week’s worth of full-band practice under its belt before its first gig, from the hype that was inevitable from the moment Tim DeLaughter announced that he was getting back together with latter-day Tripping Daisy guitarist…
Like St. Patrick’s Day, Cinco De Mayo and Bastille Day before it, Belgian Independence Day is gaining in popularity with revelers (beer drinkers, in this case) as an excuse a perfectly legitimate reason to toss back a few pints this week.Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld becoming the…
If you missed The Onion Live last night at the Winspear Opera House, you are not one of the 1,300 people who comprise the entirety of the city’s intelligentsia, according to Onion editor Joe Randazzo and head writer Seth Reiss. But at least it’s easy to recreate the experience. Just…
