Thursday evening “TexasHoss” was sittin’ on his porch pondering life. He had a sweet tea down by the legs of his chair, which was tilted back at an angle only a real cowboy could be comfortable with, while his dusty boots were perched upon the wooden rail in front of…

A new juicing bar, Nekter, is opening at 6712 Snider Plaza this Friday across from SMU in University Park. Originally founded in Newport Beach, California, Nekter is a vegan juice bar concept that offers all-natural, raw and vegan cold-pressed juices, smoothies, acai bowls, salads and skinny cocktail mixers along with…

If you’re bemoaning the fact that there are no good parties to crash this weekend, we’ve got your new revised plan. Craft beer events (What did we do before craft brewers? Nothing but sadness?) and a big party in Deep Ellum should keep you on your toes. And, listen, we’re…

Bert Vaux studies linguistics at the University of Cambridge and recently created a survey of 122-linguistic based questions and gathered responses from 11,500 people across the country. He then sent the files over to Joshua Katz at the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University, who created these fascinating…

Dora Rivas has a really important role at DISD. And though her curriculum doesn’t involve reading, writing or arithmetic, her job is as essential as all of those. She’s the executive director of Food and Child Nutrition Services, and she’s continually raising the bar on what’s acceptable in Dallas school…

Shawn “Flash” Parker is a travel writer who recently wrote a piece filed under Destination Unknown, a travel challenge from USA Today. This is how it worked: Flash packed his bags (for anything) and went to the Toronto Airport where he waited for an email from his editor. At about…

Alamo Drafthouse DFW NOW HIRING from Alamo Drafthouse DFW on Vimeo. Good news on the movie front. It appears Alamo Drafthouse is getting closer to opening, as it is now hiring. Founded in Austin in 1997, Alamo Drafthouse offers dinner, drinks and movies all under one roof, but in a…

Last year The Daily Meal published an “Ultimate BBQ Road Trip” that were fightin’ words here at the City of Ate. It included parts of Texas (Austin and Huntsville), but flew right through Dallas. Problem was they sent it to us, like “Hey, Mom! Look what we did.” There was…

The list for the 16th annual DFW Restaurant Week has been released. And starting today, restaurants will take reservations for the week of special-priced fine dining, which runs August 12-18. During the week, diners can enjoy special three-course meals at a set price of $35, or new this year, $45,…

To fully appreciate Waldron Lodge (408 W. Seventh St.) in the Bishop Arts District, you should pull up the one-minute video on their website titled “The Legend.” It’s an eerie symphony of thunder, rain, elk “bugling” and then BAM! No more elk noise. Just the untamed crackling of thunder in…

Community Beer Co. is opening their brand spankin’ new taproom every Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. The beer is so fresh it’s still mooing. No! Silly! Hops don’t moo. But, it’s just really fresh. This is all compliments of the five-pack of bills Governor Rick Perry signed in June,…

The Beer Institute (BI) released data on your drinking habits. (Yes, they’re watching you. Always watching you). In an annual state-by-state analysis, the BI found that overall beer consumption in the U.S. rose 1.5 percent in 2012, pointing to “above normal winter and spring temperatures” as the culprit to the…

Last Friday, 44,232 Rangers fans (along with a few Astros holdouts) gathered in the great Ballpark in Arlington for a little summer -time baseball. The seats were hot as the sun slowly sank behind home plate. Hotdogs were toted around like carry-on luggage and cold drinks flowed. In the second…

A few weeks ago NPR ran a highly scandalous and under-researched piece called “The Tragedy of the Piña Colada” and for once we didn’t feel bad for not pledging and thought, “There’s finally something that NPR just doesn’t get.” Now, while making love in the dunes on the cape might…

I realize that some of us are getting a wee bit tired of crowd sourcing campaigns, but this one is something we should all enthusiastically throw some weight behind. Local co-op and grocer Urban Acres is leasing a new space at the corner of Beckley Avenue and Greenbriar Lane and…

Dino Santonicola’s official title is “Master Pizzaiolo,” a degree of sorts that he started when he got his first job at a pizza restaurant down the street from his house in the Spanish Quarter of Naples, Italy. He’s certified as a Verace Pizzaiolo Napoletano, which literally translates to true Napoltano…

While many take summer vacations to all-inclusive resorts, last week we pointed the family covered wagon to an incredibly sleepy fishing village near East Matagorda Bay. Since we were out of arm’s reach of convenient fast food — the nearest drive-thru being a half-hour drive — I (jokingly) told the…

There’s certainly a lot of hullabaloo about craft beer these days. But is it all just a fad? As cupcakes so poignantly proved a few years ago, just because something is trendy, doesn’t mean it’s any good. Not to throw cupcakes under the bus, but, yeah, why the heck not…