Presenting! The Best of Dallas Readers’ Poll for 2011

A few weeks ago, we asked you to help us (help you) on the subject of the Best of Dallas Readers’ Picks Categories. Your suggestions didn’t disappoint. After throwing your advice in the hopper and giving them a test run, we now have chemically tested, FDA-approved poll for you. A…

And Now, We Present: The Readers’ Poll for Best of Dallas 2011

A few weeks ago, we asked you to help us (help you) on the subject of the Best of Dallas Readers’ Picks Categories. Your suggestions were as supremely helpful. After throwing your additions in the hopper and giving them a test run, we now have a chemically tested, FDA-approved poll…

Picture Show: Ten Best Concert Shots of July ’11

A few weeks ago, you may recall, we listed the top 20 concert photos of the year so far. But those photos were just the start of the visual evidence we’ve got of what a great music year its been in North Texas. July alone was insanely impressive. From Britney…

Dallas’ Best Food Needs You: A Plea For Ater Input

Earlier this month we teased the launch of our big ol’ issue: Best of Dallas. Since the Rapture is rapidly approaching, we wanted your feedback on how to improve our Readers Picks’ categories. We asked which food nerd categories you liked, and which needed to be thrown to the curb.Turns…

Picture Show: Hayes Carll at House of Blues

Last time we ran into singer Hayes Carll, he put on a special little two-stepping show at the Double Wide in the midst of a small-club tour throughout Texas. On Saturday at House of Blues, photographer Roger Caldwell caught Hayes armed with new songs from KMAG YOYO (Kiss My Ass…

The 10 Most Amazing Damn Movie Deaths Ever

The End had a good weekend. According to BoxOffice.com, Harry Potter’s final, holy-shit-epic installment has already made astonishing 168 million dollars in the United States ($475.5 million worldwide). That’s a new record. On its midnight screening, Harry Potter raked in over $43 million. And there was some good movie dying…

Burger Experts Eating Burgers: Dallas’ Meat Mavens Test Fast Food

In the paper version of City of Ate this week, Alice Laussade writes of the patty smackdown we ordered between Whataburger and In-N-Out burger. We got Grape owner Brian Luscher, Angry Dog owner Todd Dickerson and Jack Perkins of Maple Motor–all burger mavens in this here Dallas, TX–to compare the…

Now You Can Crack Open a Beer With Your iPhone

In the department of tech-additions-you-must-have … Two Australian geniuses (Rob Ward and Chris Peters) have invented the perfect iPhone case: one that can open your beer. They’re calling it “the Opena,” and, according to the fancy pants video, it slides out of the back of the case like a box-cutter…

Our Five Favorite Taco Shots from Taste of Dallas 2011

Unless you literally just unstuck your arm from under a rock in a canyon somewhere, you’d know we City of Ate-rs love us some tacos. We’ve shot them, mapped them, and shoveled them into our tortilla-holes.You’d also know, unless you’ve been in the canyon again, that Taste of Dallas took…

The 20 Best Dallas Concert Photos of the Year (So Far, Anyway)

Here we are at the midway point of the year, or something. The heat’s at blow-torch temperatures, The Rapture’s well on the way (not the 2012 one), and DOMA’s gonna rear it’s wicked head soon.In honor of this half-year-ish thing, we’d like to share with you our favorite concert shots…

Cheerio! McDonald’s Tests “English Pub” Burger

Like Clark Griswold, McDonald’s is making a bold trip to Europe by testing a new burger: the English Pub Burger. Burger Business reports that Her Majesty’s burger will have hickory-smoked bacon, white cheddar and American cheeses (?), grilled onions and steak sauce on an “artisan roll.” Besides the irritating marketing,…

Best Of Dallas 2011: Help Us Dish Up Some of Dallas’ Best Food

Yes, we’re already there again. Even now, in these Venus temperatures, we’re gearing up for our big ol’ issue: Best Of Dallas. If the Rapture goes on as predicted, we’re looking at one of the last, great Best Of’s ever. So, naturally, we want your feedback. After the jump, you’ll…

The Top 3 Inventive Recipes in Our Blue Ribbon Contest

A few weeks ago, we announced a Blue Ribbon recipe contest to see what foodie innovations you could throw our way for Taste of Dallas. The idea was: You send us the recipes; we study them, drool profusely, and the winners get to cook live at this weekend’s Dallas Food…

Dallas Comedy House Flash Mobs Half Price Books, Creates Smiles

For some July 4th weekend pure happiness: The Dallas Comedy House flash-mobbed Half Price Books, and there’s smile-inducing video to prove it. Comedy House mob leader Clay Barton has confirmed the DCH performed the number this month at Half Price Books on Northwest highway. We’re certain this needs to happen…

Five Photos from Patio Sessions with Bosque Brown and Chris Johnson

Yesterday eve’s Patio Sessions was a doozy: Chris Johnson of Telegraph Canyon and Bosque Brown laid down some tunes at the AT&T PAC. If you missed Johnson yesterday, he’s a total Observer fave and an immersive concert experience. Mara Lee Miller of Bosque Brown is no different with her smoky…

Lebron James Sandwich Renamed Dirk Nowitzki Sandwich in Ballsy Deli Move

Speaking of Ohioans (in today’s sandwich smack-down news)… The Cleveland, Ohio, deli Corky and Lenny’s is changing the name of their $10.50, “King Size Corned Beef Sandwich,” according to TMZ. Moments ago, the sandwich was known as the “King James.” What did they rename it, you ask? Why, it’s now…