Last week was spent building tolerance: It was the annual week of the Dallas Observer Music Awards. The tolerance of which I speak really has nothing to do with music, but of crowds, heat and hooch.Allow me to elaborate: The DOMAXXII (the 22nd year of the DOMAs) showcase took place…
At show’s open, everyone’s pretending they miss Timothy. It’s hard to say who really does miss him and who just wants to look more sensitive after weeks of acting like a prick [cough, Angelo, cough].For the Quickfire, there was some weirdness — and I’m not talking about the exotic proteins…
There’s a little over an hour to get your Bravo-loving ass to Sigel’s (5757 Greenville Ave.) to taste the latest in one of the few libations appropriate for a proper reality TV-watching Wednesday night: Top Chef wines. The swirl-fest features Quickfire Cabernet and Quickfire Sauvignon and is free to the…
Apparently, some of this Top Chef season’s chefs have enough time on their hands they can give motivational talks. At least that’s what super-confident Angelo likes to do with young Tamesha. Less-bitchy Kelly called him a Tony Robbins impersonator. I call him creepy.And while the beginning of the show examined…
This week, Top Chef finally got interesting. That’s not to say it wasn’t totally bassackwards, but it was almost intense, and I officially started my yelling at the screen. I still haven’t gotten the names of all the cheftestants straight, but that time is nearing.At QuickFire, the chefs found Tom…
After a full-belly dinner at Smoke, girl drinker Marla and I headed off to meet other girl drinkers Sarah, Lindsey and Amy, and some other homies at the Kessler Theater. The Beaten Sea and The Naptime Shake were playing (full-disclosure: dude fooder Noah W. Bailey and my hubs-to-be are in…
After two episodes with chefs deucing out thanks to shitty dessert offerings, it came as no shock — to me or any sane person watching Top Chef — that last night’s Quickfire Challenge would be for sweet teeth. But somehow the cheftestants were surprised. My first instinct was to desire any chef…
Sam Kass is the assistant White House chef, so OF COURSE he’d preside over a “bi-parti-sandwich” Quickfire Challenge. And of course, super cocky Angelo was really dramatic about the sandwich showdown because he owns a sandwich shop. But see, in TV-land, a talking head showing you’re concerned about a challenge –…
Just look at him. He is so lovely. His silvery hair is perfection. His French accent is startling considering the time he’s lived stateside. And the way he cooks a fish…my word.Used to be, I’d see Ripert pop up on an Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations or as a guest on…
At a party recently, I was given a taste of one of the most refreshing vodka cocktails I’ve had in a great while.Josh — who wears a Canadian tuxedo with more style than anyone else I know, but that’s not really important right now — handed me his cup and…
Oh, what’s that? You wanted to know how Go Fish’s Tiffany Derry fared on last night’s Season premiere of Top Chef D.C.? Wish I could tell you.Derry was just off-screen for most of the show following her introduction. But, at least she did get the first intro. The show opened with her…
OK, so we’re all really stoked about the start of Top Chef, D.C. tonight. Even Bravo producer and Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen is venturing into fanboy-level excitement, as proven by his repeated tweets on the subject today. (So cute. Love that guy.)Glad to have some Dallas representation…
Apple released its list for the Apple Design Award’s top 10 applications for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Among them were sweetly addictive time-killing games (what, no Angry Birds? At least they included Doodle Jump), creative tools (Brushes for iPhone, TabToolKit) and yes, Jamie Oliver’s 20-Minute Meals.It seems that even…
When we were just knee-high to a grasshopper, Granny and Mamaw would make us special drinks that made us feel like grown-ups. As the ‘dults drank from the ever-ready pot of hot coffee, we’d get a tiny cup containing milk, sugar and really, just a splash of coffee.We weren’t missing…
Most everyone–of legal drinking and deeding age, anyway–has experienced a lapse in memory concerning the proverbial night before. Of course, an actual split personality, a la Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, would make that blackout all the more mysterious…whether you’re the one with said split or just a seemingly innocent…
We’ve all seen the stereotypical dragonfly–the little stick bug with four wings that resides on juice glasses or pillows or wallpaper or garden stakes. Seems like unfairly limited representation when you consider that in Dallas alone there are 75 species of the “winged jewel.” Texas Discovery Gardens in Fair Park…
With all of the variety found in Fair Park over the years–opera, ShamWow demonstrations, women’s history, funnel cakes, that bizarre Magnum P.I. ride on the midway, musical theater, auto shows, educational gardens, science and history exhibitions, Big Tex, etc.–it should be no surprise that the newly reopened Band Shell Amphitheater…
As many of our Internet-savvy readers have figured out by now, Andrea Grimes is back at ye ol’ Dallas Observer. After less than a week back on the beat, Grimes and I had enjoyed way more than one alcoholic beverage together — holy effers, someone alert the Dallas Marketing Group!…
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…
Have you seen the sketches and notes of the writer or director of a movie you truly love? It can make the movie deeper, clearer or more personal. The same goes for a song and its songwriter, or in this case, sculptures and their artist. Rachel Whiteread is a contemporary…
Pink will forever be associated with not only the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, but the entire full-fledged fight against breast cancer. But let’s be honest: A pink ribbon only spreads the message to the people who see you wearing it. Plants and flowers can spread a message…
This is, essentially, a “closure” post. I think we all have to come terms with the fact that Fort Worth/Cool’s Casey James was let go in favor of the inferior Lee DeWyze. Whether or not I think CJ should be the American Idol, I’ve blogged the finale because he and…
