Dallas model Ann, tethered so she won’t blow away in a slight breezeWe found the chosen girls from the America’s Next Top Model premiere talking themselves up something crazy and strolling Venice Beach, which, if I’m not mistaken, go hand in hand. A Venice street performer rolled up, and they…
It’s the second week of the regular season, which either means we’re all collectively breathing a sigh of relief because this shit actually counts, or we’re all burying our faces in bags of Fritos Scoops and bean dip because this shit really does count. Either way, seems like a win-win,…
Mark Sheinkman’s ability to represent an organic curve is lyrical, urban and damn sexy. His exhibition, Manhattanville, named for the area near West Harlem in which he works, conveys a smoky city quality that seems like a perfectly natural product of New York. At times, his works read like the…
Ann from Dallas: hater of holiday sweaters, according to her bioThe newest season (Cycle 15, for those counting or interested) of America’s Next Top Model kicked off last night, and since I’m posting this here, you know we have at least one contestant from our fair city. Oh, but wait,…
The owner of Scardello Artisan Cheese, 3511 Oak Lawn Ave., might be named Rich Rogers, but Scardello is indeed a family name (his grandfather’s) and clearly, Italy is in his blood. This Thursday, Rogers wants to share some of the Old World’s bounties with Dallas’ cheese fans, wine drinkers and…
First of all, TV fans, let me just throw you a cyber fist bump and wish you all a happy 9.02.10. Donna Martin graduates!But seriously, last night was the last set of “normal” challenges before the Final Four set off to cook their way through the finale. It was tense…
I’ve been totally jazzed about telling all you drinkers, girl and otherwise, about how bad ass Geeks Who Drink on Mondays at the Barley House is. It is just 2 weeks old, but it is outstanding. Geeks Who Drink, for those who don’t know, is an organized pub quiz for…
Last night Top Chef opened with our fair Tiffany Derry’s boisterous guffaws. Ed, the cheftestant who is her show BFF and who totally adores her, was parading around in one of her dresses. At that point, with just six left in the contest, a little unflattering cross-dressing seemed an appropriate…
Previously, our fair Frisco RoughRiders have maintained a fairly even win-loss record with the Midland RockHounds this season. The Riders were the first half division winners, but recently their Ls seem to be creeping up in number. This is concerning as I see it, because there are just way more…
Too often, art is considered an exclusive thing, something for the in-crowd–established artists and their cohorts, collectors and such. But TCU’s Department of Art and Art History presents a juried exhibition featuring the work of the public, so to speak. The only requirements for the paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos and…
Last night’s episode of Top Chef provided A) the best text messages sent by friends watching the show before I was, and B) the most quality “sheesh”-inducing insults during tasting and Judges’ Table so far this season.I knew the Quickfire was going to be good because well, I got a…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Ah, yes. The Top Chef fan’s most beloved and anticipated episode: restaurant wars.But first, there was the tag team cook-off — which, personally, I adore without restraint. It’s stressful, it’s frantic and it’s a guaranteed opportunity for me to shout near simultaneous cheers and jeers at the television. And how!The chefs…
What? Don’t tell us you’re not familiar with the easy, breezy, laid-back songstylings of Jack Mother-Lovin’ Johnson. The pro-surfer turned casual-rock icon somewhere around the time he put the board down, kicked off his flippy-floppies and picked up an acoustic guitar. We can’t be bothered with an exact date, though,…
Crowded House, Lawrence ArabiaHouse of BluesAugust 5, 2010Better than: Seeing Crowded House on an Edgefest bill in 1994 and only getting 45 minutes of greatness… Oh, and um, all my expectations. Because, people, I’m not pretending this is an unbiased work, or, howyousay, an objective review. I bought my tickets…
Right away, we knew this would be a big week for our Tiffany Derry. They started off the show with her smoothing toner all over her face and neck (so that’s how she gets that awesome skin!) and talking about how she was planning her wedding before hopping on the…
On a hot summer day last month, I played the “international calling game” with Crowded House’s bassist Nick Seymour. I harassed operators and PR reps to no avail: The number I was dialing was not in service. I wondered what in the hell I was mis-dialing or if I got…
Crowded House have been rushing about playing and promoting Intriguer, their follow-up to 2007’s Time on Earth. And rightfully so, because, well, Time may have been printed with the Crowded name, but it was—and bassist Nick Seymour concurs—truly a Neil Finn solo album that reunited the band in the studio,…
Cruised on over to a certain Buckner Road taco joint’s Facebook page today to check out the menu board postings — as we are wont to do — and was reminded that tonight it’ll finally be time to see that one episode of The Best Thing I Ever Ate. The…
We’ve gotten sort of nostalgic this week. Not sure if it’s hormonal or the fact that we at pizza yesterday and haven’t gotten a whole helluva lot of sleep, but something made us start reflecting on all the old eateries we luuuuuuuuuuved going to as a young adult/teen/kid/infant/speck, but can’t…
Bring out the politicians! Well, I wish they hadn’t, actually, but they did. And man, do those people smile and nod, smile and nod. It’s really sort of infuriating. In the beginning — during the requisite mourning time of the last man lost — everyone was talking about Tamesha leaving and…
