We don’t usually announce new hires. We assume you don’t really care who fills up the cubicles around here, as long as they write somewhat coherent sentences, occasionally stumble on something interesting and are willing to risk heart disease to eat where ever you instruct them. But since you City…
As you might have heard, just a few folks have skipped work to hang out in downtown today to pay homage to a group of very tall men (and one of-average-height Puerto Rican). But with an hour to go, traffic’s an issue: Dallas PD reports that the Jefferson Street Viaduct…
The other night, when Mark Cuban was snuggling with his shiny new safety blanket and dreaming about a flyover for Thursday’s parade, this wasn’t likely what he had in mind: The EPA will conduct low, slow fly-bys of Dallas over the next day or so, taking “baseline air samples” so…
Tough to tell how serious Mark Cuban is about forgoing championship rings and getting something else to commemorate the franchise’s first title. But he seems pretty committed to changing it up. “Rings are old school,” Cuban said, according to The Dallas Morning News. “Rings are done. It’s time to take…
As he gears up for his inevitable run for president, Rick Perry is doing his very best to shield his inner kook and maintain some semblance of populism. But in the last couple days, two Perry allies have taken it upon themselves to paint the Republicans’ Great God-Fearing Hope as…
Pablo Francisco, master of the movie-trailer-guy voice, is coming through Arlington this weekend, so his press folks generously made him available for an interview the other day. He was quite nice, and is a pretty skilled impressionist, and I suspect he works very hard to put on a show his…
At the precise moment that I shot the above photo on Wednesday, a good 300 people were probably lined up at a fast-food burger chain up in Frisco. Maybe you heard about that? I’m guessing you did, judging from the Most Popular Stories widget at the top right of this…
Happy In-N-Out Day, Dallas. Decades from now, when you’re stuffing your face with a Triple-Triple (we get fatter in the future) and wondering if anyone called while you were out (cell phones, the internet — it’s all going to stop working soon, I swear), we’ll remember the days leading up…
If you pay much attention to this blog and its accompanying newspaper, you’ve noticed that we’ve yet to fill the oft-sneezed-upon shoes of Hanna Raskin, our former food critic and lead blogger, who’s now doing those things in Seattle, where apparently even allergens think it rains too much. Well, we’re…
The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff threw its second Supper Club last night, inviting local hungry people to sample the culinary stylings of Kelly Hightower, recently announced as the new chef for something called Wild Salsa. The monthly event, which is sponsored by this very blog, opened with an apps…
The folks at City Hall aren’t the only ones trying to slip looser ethics rules into places they don’t belong. A bill that cruised through the state House this week would force lawmakers to disclose more information about how money moves between their campaign accounts and their personal ones, shedding…
First K2. Then Salvia. Now bath-salt uppers? How will law-abiding citizens ever get high around here?Texas lawmakers are well on their way to banning yet another synthetic narcotic after the House on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill criminalizing the chemical compounds found in “bath salts.” The salts, sold in head…
The four candidates for Dallas mayor took the stage at the Nasher Sculpture Center last night for what had to be the most relaxing forum of campaign season: a debate on the role of arts and culture in Dallas.Get this: They all love the arts. Mike Rawlings once wanted to…
Frackers, oil companies, plastics makers, wastewater managers — more or less anyone who spews a little shit into our midst in order to keep things running around here has dumped some money into the lap of Rep. Warren Chisum, the Republican from Pampa heretofore known for his fight against gay…
The Pickens Plan — Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens’s plan to equip every American with his very own riding natural-gas fracker — is enjoying a wave of consensus not seen since The Simple Life got canceled. Pickens’s latest pitch for an OPEC-free America would give large tax breaks to manufacturers…
Throughout April, the New Guy is only eating at places suggested by City of Ate readers, in a futile attempt to speed his conversion to Texasism. Have a suggestion? Leave it in the comments or hit us on Twitter at @cityofate and @joeptone.I’ve been faithfully heeding your dining suggestions, dear…
Throughout April, the New Guy is only eating at places suggested by City of Ate readers, in a futile attempt to speed his conversion to Texasism. Have a suggestion? Leave it in the comments or hit us on Twitter at @cityofate and @joeptone.When I reached out for restaurant suggestions yesterday,…
Here’s the deal: I’m new in town. I was brought in to slowly turn Richie Whitt into a love-advice columnist. It’s going well so far, I think; he hasn’t kneed me in the groin since late Tuesday.I’ve learned over the years that the best way to get to know a…
