On Saturday the Cotton Bowl converted to the 2013 Diwali Mela festival, and food booths flowed out from the stadium to the shimmery dreamscape of the Chinese Lantern Festival nearby. I arrived on a mission. Six years ago I went with two friends to Ahmedabad, in western India. For three…
East Hampton Sandwich Co. is opening its new location in Plano’s Shops at Legacy on Wednesday, just in time for you to don flannel, drink cider and do whatever else it is that people in the Hamptons do when they aren’t inhaling lobster rolls. Founder Hunter Pond hoped to open…
Back in 2011 a teenager allegedly stole celebrity chef and human au jus-blasted pizza roll Guy Fieri’s yellow Lamborghini from a California dealership. Then the teen allegedly tried to shoot his ex-girlfriend. Fast forward to this week and the teen in question, Mark Wade, is on trial. Fieri took the…
Science has never been cooler. We’re living in a time when “I fucking love science” is maybe the most popular thing on Facebook and Neil deGrasse Tyson is a universally accepted badass. So the popularity of a show like Radiolab, from WNYC, New York Public Radio, isn’t surprising. The show…
Earlier this week came news that Balls Hamburgers, the burger joint that presumably predates ball jokes, was suing its landlord for over $1 million for breach of contract. And now, to spice things up even more, the four entities that act as landlord of Balls’ North Dallas restaurant have issued…
Hot on the heels of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes Movember, a month-long event dedicated to raising awareness about prostate cancer. Officially, by presidential order, September 2013 was National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, but Movember is a tradition that comes to us from Australia, where their November is our…
If you haven’t heard of it, WNYC’s Radiolab is like This American Life’s cool little brother. As with This American Life, there are moving stories, freak phenomena, surprising coincidences — but with a lot more science. And sound effects. On their show, hosts Jad Abrumrad and Robert Krulwich have explored…
The period between Halloween and Thanksgiving can be a bleak spot in an otherwise holiday-laden season. Thankfully there’s still reason to be festive. The Dallas Observer Music Awards (don’t think about the initials) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and is officially old enough to get drunk or rent…
Herb and Dorothy Vogel are two New York civil servants, a postal clerk and a librarian, who managed to amass one of the biggest collections of contemporary and conceptual art of the last 50 years. All told they had nearly 5,000 pieces, including works by Picasso and John Chamberlain. In…
If you think the symphony isn’t for you — that it’s too snooty, too drowsy, too expensive — we urge you to reconsider. Not because it can’t sometimes be all of those things, but because on a good night going to a symphony can be completely thrilling, and the Dallas…
The first annual Halloween Hootenanny happens this Saturday, on the second day of November, which is obviously not Halloween. But the spooky season can always be a few days longer, and most of us will still be buzzing from sugar highs or breathing in the fumes of latex masks. So…
Sriracha is a condiment with a cult following. It’s inspired web comics, a Lay’s chip flavor, a documentary and a festival in downtown Los Angeles. It’s even worked its way onto NPR’s recipe blogs, space normally reserved for lentils, eggplants and handmade pickles. But no one can fly so high…
The world of Dallas hamburgers is rife with intrigue. CultureMap brings us the story of Balls Hamburgers in Preston Hollow, which is getting in deep litigation with its landlord. A million clams deep. Carol Hobrecht, owner of Backbone Corporations/Balls Hamburger, and her business partner, JDBurger Dallas, are suing four entities…
Kitchen LTO, the perennial pop-up restaurant in Trinity Groves, is now accepting applications for its second iteration. Every four months the restaurant gets overhauled by a new designer and chef, which depending on how you look at it is either promotional shtick or commentary on the transient, sand mandala-like nature…
The Pyramid Restaurant and Bar at the Fairmont Hotel has announced two new chefs to go along with the hotel’s $10 million renovation. Leigh Mills joins as chef de cuisine and Eric Burrell as the new pastry chef, the restaurant announced this week. Born in England in Kidderminster (new favorite…
One of the boons of living in such a large metropolitan area, a thing so big that it necessitates the grammatically inscrutable term “metroplex,” is that it gives you the chance to try food you wouldn’t find in smaller towns. Sometimes it gives you the chance to try food you…
For some people pizza is a simple question: pepperoni or meat lovers? Toppings are a source of unending variation and argument, but just as important is the style and preparation of the pizza. And to help clarify the differences in those styles (and to get some pretty slick marketing out…
Thai food is pretty ubiquitous now, and while a succulent pad see ew or a cozy tom kha gai are wonderful and mouth-watering, most Thai dishes have started to taste a little safe. Maybe it’s the fact that you can find red curries every few blocks, or that pad thai…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company has been attracting negative attention since Burnt Orange Report published a takedown of its logo promotions for its Dallas Blonde Ale, specifically the “goes down easy” tagline. Genevieve Cato and a slough of other responders have called the line sexist and a promotion of rape culture…
We once again surface from the depths of Craigslist to bring you news from the underscape. Well, not really the depths, since this doesn’t involve any weird sex or a dresser drawer you’ve had since college. Rather, we bring you more burger news. Specifically, Grub Burger Bar is looking to…
This Friday Whitney Cummings takes the stage at House of Blues on her first tour since launching two sitcoms back in 2011. Though the eponymous Whitney has been cancelled, 2 Broke Girls is still trucking, and Cummings talked to us about being back on the road and the inexplicable flak…
Storytelling as an art form has existed since primitive humans figured out how to articulate grunts to convey just how spectacularly bad their date last night was. So shows like This American Life and The Moth didn’t prove that even the most normal-seeming people have some hilarious, insightful and seriously…
