The human race will remember 2012 as the year that birthed a new kind of hologram, but that technology is just the jumping-off point in this exciting era of interactive music experience. New research allows us to look into technology that might shape the way we listen to music in…
It’s so hard to choose. What displays better showmanship: zombie Spider-Man or Phone Call Juggalo? This is one of the many questions that persisted following Dallas’ fantastic Comic Con, which is presented by the legendary Stan Lee. The Great Lee was on hand along with Summer Glau (from Serenity), the…
One of the many events the weekend was Taste Addison. The fest, which celebrated its 20th birthday, served up bites from sixty-plus restaurants in the metroplex. Rhett Miller and his Hair was on hand, but photographer Jay Barker just grabbed a whole beef-truck full of food porn. Enjoy…
Carl’s Jr., which has a location within a terrifying-close range to Observer headquarters, is testing the “Ice Cream Brrrger.” Now, now: keep calm. A “brrrger” isn’t actually an ice cream-flavored burger. That, sources say, is still a few months away, and will likely debut in Japan, where the really crazy…
The Box, if you haven’t been following along, is the Cheap Bastard’s brainchild, wherein chefs turn a box full o’ crap and turn it into foodstuffs. Between Brian C. Luscher’s weird-ass terrine of spam and quail eggs and the twinkie crowning inside a banana with homemade nutella, we’ve gotten some…
Better grab tickets for Van Halen’s June 20 show at the American Airlines Center while you still can. The band’s North American tour just got significantly lighter. Turns out the group (David Lee Roth’ll be on hand for the Dallas) has postponed 30 or so concert dates after June 26,…
Bros, aren’t you pumped? Let’s get effing pumped, bros. Why? Because Ruffles Ultimate Fucking Ruffles is “giving guys their first taste of the Ultimate party.” Whose biceps undulated when you heard that? Mine did, like a goddamn ocean. It’s gonna be unapologetic. You see, Ruffles Ultimate Potato Chips and Ruffles…
UPDATE 7/16: Turns out, The Dark Knight Rises will be showing in 15/70 format at the Cinemark 17. One caveat: the theater is a digital IMAX retrofit. Which means it’s big and badass, but the Omni theater in Fort Worth is a solid bet for seeing DKR in the optimum…
In addition to Texas Frightmare Weekend, May the Fourth Be With You Weekend, and Kill a Kodiak Bear Weekend (Okay, made up that one), there was a healthy dose of Cinco De Mayo celebrating in Dallas. Our steady-handed, contributing photographers were in it for the long haul, (sleepless and tireless…
Another tiresome food trend to add to the Valhalla-like halls of the Museum of Annoying Food Trends: the Taste of Whatever City/Country. Japan McDonald’s Big America campaign, which attempted to surmise the taste of entire American locale between the crusty buns of a meatburger, did roughly the same. Now comes…
The Edwardian, bizarro novelty in the fast-paced food industry continues. Just mere weeks after the announcement that tent-poling a hot dog into the crust of a big pizza was also food, Pizza Hut Middle East has a brand new thing. It’s a pizza with mini cheeseburgers in the crust! Also,…
Crawfish season, which if you’re not from the South is not when crustaceans fall from the sky, is one of the few documented times when it’s totally OK to suck the hot brains from a tiny crustracean head. Mark Andresen, the illustrator who’s no stranger to Not-Eating-This-Shit Properly, provides this…
For a few days at the end of April, the Hyatt Regency will temporarily become Cybertron. This fan convention, which is known throughout the known human multi-verse as BotCon 2012, serves as one big ol’ Transformers gush-a-thon. This year, Hasbro (the awesome toy company that makes awesome Transformers), is also…
You may have seen this week’s cover story, which is Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Being a Cheap Bastard in Dallas. If you read it, or are familiar with CB in anyway, you know that she has a black belt in Boobeuphemismskata. In honor of Bastard-y phrases like “your freezer will…
No, seriously. Can you?…
This is an important invention. It was hard not to assume this was some sort of early April Fools’ prank, but visiting the Italian source proved it (thankfully) true. Besides being City of Ate’s New Official Pant, we’re just thrilled there’s now a flap system that allows us to drop…
Torani — slogan: “You Know, That Syrup Pump That Makes Starbucks Coffee Less Shitty-Tasting” — is readying a new flavor for debut next month: Chicken ‘n Waffles. Super Hilarious Update 4/3/2012: Torani announced that this was an April Fool’s joke disguised a viral campaign. But wait, wasn’t it announced way…
Between The Hulk screaming at our faces in 3-D and Batman possibly breaking his spine in IMAX, it’s going to be a fairly epic year in blockbuster cinema. Yet, if you’re scheduling your year of movie patronage based solely on the trailers (and not the incessant Rotten Tomatoes picking), then…
Down at SXSW this past week, which was pretty well Cool Ranchified with junk-food advertisements, one of the day parties was sponsored by The Bell. They were giving away free Doritos Locos tacos by the crate. Sounds fantastic, right? The problem, of course, is the Doritos Locos taco shells carry…
When Observer web editor Nick Rallo and I shuffled down to South by Southwest last week, we both noticed the same thing: the somewhat icky marketing that seems to have inundated the Austin music festival, to the point where even the fans themselves were part of the brand. Here’s an…
Stephen Masker, one of our contributing photographers, sent along this stunner of a photo, taken Tuesday following the wicked storms in Dallas. Notable: It was shot with an iPhone 4S…
The last few days, our indefatigable music critic staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we’ve been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you’ll find their submissions…
