On the bulletproof compound of the formidable College Sports Cartel, no one enjoys life quite like the football bowl executive, that shadowy Good Ol’ Boy who plans one football game a year in exchange for a mid-six-figure salary and fringe benefits fit for a Florida congressman. And in recent years,…
Jerry Jones talked to KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan this morning, making about as much sense as the Fake Jerry Jones who no doubt graced KTCK-FM 96.7 The Ticket’s airwaves sometime yesterday. Here he is on why — despite his team’s unflagging mediocrity, total draft-day ineptitude and other traits with the…
Every winter, Major League Baseball teams engage in what’s called the Rule 5 Draft, where they poach minor leaguers from their fellow competitors. It’s complicated, and typically doesn’t make much of a splash, which why it was especially confusing to read this morning that the Texas Rangers had selected Russell…
Meat Fight 2013 from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. If you prefer your pictures stationary, check out this Meat Fight 2013 slideshow. If you prefer them with too many words, here’s a recap of this year’s event, which raised $50,000 for charity…
It’s been a foregone conclusion for months that Pecan Lodge, Dallas’ Mecca of smoked meat, would leave its perch in the downtown Dallas Farmers Market, which has been turned over to private developers apparently unmoved by the Lodge’s cult following. The question, until today, was where the smoke trail would…
With the holidays approaching, the nation is once again sweating with fantasy-football fever, sending the NFL’s popularity further into the stratosphere and office productivity further into the tank. But there are more important things in life than football, or at least one more important thing: Food. Specifically Thanksgiving food, which,…
See our full slideshow from Sunday’s Meat Fight here. Sometime on Saturday I started prepping my wife for her first Meat Fight, the annual barbecue competition organized by our long-time columnist, Alice Laussade, and her husband, Mike. It’s more meat than you realize, I cautioned. You don’t want to finish…
It’s not quite as sexy as the last one, but LOOK AT THAT FANCY BRIDGE LET’S MOVE THERE. See also: The Brand-New, Sorta Inspiring, Slightly Overwrought, Kinda Horny Dallas CVB Promo H/T: FrontBurner…
Dallas’ Truck Yard: A Guided Tour from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. We asked Leslie Brenner to give us a video tour of the Truck Yard but she was too busy Googling “Los Angeles food critic openings West Side please mmmmmm the beach,” so we settled for crack video intern,…
Mr. Martinez knew it was coming, was bracing for it, was already crafting how he might respond in the office and the halls and the parking lot at morning drop-off. Still, when it hit on Sunday, it had to hurt. Martinez — first name Hector, not that it gets used…
If you’re in Deep Ellum on Thursday and you see a hammered dude stumbling across the street with a bar stool and mic, you should know in advance that it’s not Zombie Carlin, as welcome a sight as that would be. It’s the Dallas Observer’s first-ever Comedy Crawl. We got…
A.C. Gonzales, the interim Dallas City Manager, has nearly completed his triple-lux fall onto the proverbial sword in the city’s attempt to marginalize Uber at the behest of the taxi industry. A short while ago, Mayor Mike Rawlings released and reacted to the findings of former Dallas County District Attorney…
If you’re in Deep Ellum on Thursday, October 24, and you see a hammered dude stumbling across the street with a barstool and mic, you should know in advance that it’s not Zombie Carlin, as welcome a sight as that would be. It’s the Dallas Observer’s first-ever Comedy Crawl. We…
Add comedian and Huell running mate Bill Burr to the list of people who aren’t blaming Tony Romo for Sunday’s loss to the Broncos. Related: Did anyone outside Theoretical Call-In Dumbasses actually blame Romo for the loss?…
AMC’s original-drama wave crested over the weekend, when a record 10 million people bid a Badfinger-scored farewell to Walter White and Breaking Bad. Walking Dead (which returns next weekend) and Mad Men (next year) will keep things going, but fans will of course want more-more-more. The network is hoping a…
The Winspear Opera House’s underground parking can be a mess, but it doesn’t exactly sneak up on you. From the moment you pull your car in for a big performance, you’re reminded, Oh yeah, this is three-act: Two acts in the theater, one in the garage. It’s maddening, but you…
Occasionally our long-time managing editor, Patrick Williams, sends emails to the staff lauding their prose, gently encouraging them, and otherwise helping them along in their journeys as reporters, writers and, well, people. Today was one of those days. I share this with you because you, as readers and commenters, deserve…
A few years back, our Cheap Bastard Alice Laussade, winner of the prestigious James Beard Award and narrowly regarded as the best columnist in Dallas, threw a barbecue competition in her backyard and called it, logically, Meat Fight. Last year, she invited some of Dallas’ best chefs, opened it to…
Summer is almost out, which in many locales means the end is nigh for both camp and barbecue. But this is Texas, when meat-torching season never ends and camping is year-round, presuming meat and fire are available. So it’s no surprise that even in January, you can go to meat…
One way or the other, it seems, the folks behind Prime Prep Academy, Deion Sanders’ taxpayer-funded charter school, are going to make some money off it. It’s just a matter of how — and how much. The “how” is a little clearer today, after Oprah Winfrey’s cable network announced plans…
The above trailer is for an actual movie about old guys partying in Vegas, coming to your local cineplex on November 1. (Sample joke: “Do you have any drugs?” “Does Lipitor count?”) (Sample reaction: throws self into nearest sinkhole.) But Last Vegas isn’t the last Vegas movie coming your way…
