So it’s hot as hell outside. What do you do? Strip. Duh.M Street Club on Lower Greenville is featuring “Uncensored Saturdays” this month with King James on the Mic and video backup by DJ Ivy. Barcadia also held it’s two-year anniversary party Saturday, June 12, with DJ Redeye spinning a…
Dish this week features colorful dishes of Preston’s by Mark Stuertz. He pretty much enjoyed everything except the black cod. Too bad. The photo made us drool over our keyboards. Take a look at Sara Kerens photo coverage of Preston’s in our slideshow…
Cory Graves wrote in his review that the Granada audience was promised “a real treat visually and aurally.” For those of us who weren’t there, we can assume from Andrew Shepherd’s slideshow that Miike Snow’s promise came true. Storms of smoke and shafts of blue light were among the dazzling…
Texans will all remember this year in food news, as it marked three special occasions (so far). First, D Magazine’s announcement that west-coast based In-N-Out Burger will grace us with a Garland location. Secondly, as Unfair Park reported via QSR Magazine this morning, the shotgun-like expansion of Dickey’s across the…
Afterlife on Northwest Highway featured a bunch of young, over-heated space fans dancing at 3 a.m (turning a Saturday into Sunday) for the Abducted Party with headliner Spacemen. The only missing entity was a little green man with bulbous eyes. The Cavern on Lower Greenville also featured Leftroom/Cocoon’s (UK) Matt…
This week’s Dish Extra covers Cedars Mediterranean Mezza. The baklava seemed inviting to writer Jenny Block…see for yourself in Sara Kerens slideshow…
The Lek Brothers were very, very busy this Memorial Day Weekend. Along with their Friday efforts, they charged through sleep and Red Bulls for “Spring Affair” at Samuel Grand Park in East Dallas with DJs Scott Phrenetic and Brett Johnson. That was way too hot.Next, and indoors, they caught the…
Headliners Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, Forever the Sickest Kids and Good Charlotte played Six Flags in Arlington as part of a five-city tour in the Summer heat on Saturday.Was that it? Nope. Girls swarmed, threw signed bras on stage, and Hanson played. After all, what would summer be…
For Friday, the Lizard Lounge featured the Memorial Day-inspired “May Day” (hence the cannon props?) with DJ AK1200, Excision & Exceed–highlighting a night of Drum & Bass and Dubstep music.Next, Zubar featured JT Donaldson, Nekstone & Brett Johnson in the front room and DJ Jonene from Austin spinning house music…
The genius of Target advertising in one picture (thanks to Observerian Kelly Dearmore). Note to Target: Fat Tire is a beer from the New Belgium Brewing Co., which is located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Decidedly not local…
A few weeks ago, when Conan O’Brien rolled through town, he said to the packed crowd: “You people know how to drink.” Turns out, as Robert Wilonsky reported over on Unfair Park, Esquire is thinking the same thing. Well, at least they liked some of our bars. Featured in the…
Two years ago, then-Observer restaurant critic Dave Faries wasn’t exactly singing the praises of Go Fish Ocean Club (he was fairly distracted by the waiters’ chatter). You know who was impressed? Bravo TV. Beaumont native Tiffany Derry, named Exec Chef of Go Fish Ocean Club in 2008, will be one…
On Friday night, the trusty Lek Brothers checked out Cantina Dallas for some psychedelic dance music. The occasion? Dub ’til Dawn, with James Meadows, Josh Kynd, Opie, Atum & Aeon. From there, the duo ventured to the Lizard Lounge for DJ Klever (aka Josh Winkler) of Atlanta & B Rich…..
In some sort of reverse Manifest Destiny, In-N-Out is finally making its way to Texas. The City of Garland’s website, and Nancy Nichols at D who broke the story, showed seven yea votes for the building of the west coast burger chain. There’s a lot of hype about In ‘N…
As Jose Maldonado pointed out in this week’s Dish, Genroku sushi makes our tastes buds happy. To make your eye taste buds happy–we’re posting more photos of Genroku’s sushi madness. See more raw fish excitement in Sara Kerens’ slideshow …
This weekend, The Cavern on Lower Greenville featured 6Blocc vs. RAW from San Diego playing really heavy Dubstep and DnB along with MC Astro on the microphone. Upstairs, DJ Phooka spun some classic hip-hop.At Zubar, DJ Tyrone & Rob Viktum were in the front room, playing everything from funk to…
Right now, the force is with eating local. More and more documentaries, nutrition-based magazines and hard-hitting food journalists are attacking the mass-processed nonsense that floods major-chain grocery stores. So what’s the solution? Back in 2008, Jesse Hyde reported for us on the Slow Food Movement in Dallas and his attempt…
Harlem, Flight, PVC Street Gang May 15, 2010 City Tavern Better Than: Hangin’ with the dudes. Before PVC Street Gang, Flight and Harlem took the stage Saturday night, there was the issue of parking. If you didn’t know before, City Tavern sits quietly amidst the douchebag capital of Dallas–next to…
Named for that good ol’ 26th President of United States, Teddy’s Room officially opened its doors on Thursday in the Uptown Dallas in the fashion of a “sophisticated modern-day version of a burlesque club.” And that’s exactly what went down at the opening for Teddy’s–pasties and all. See the rest…
Heavy rain may have canceled the parade, but the palpable, hair-tearing excitement that came when Casey James arrived at Fort Worth Stockyards on Friday was as sunny as his golden locks. Among the “Casey is Hot” signs and beating teen hearts was the American Idol camera crew shooting some b-roll…
A moment after fluffy-haired beat-box comic Reggie Watts left SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium Thursday night, a video clip flickered briefly on the screen behind him: Walker, Texas Ranger — welcome back, old friend. There was this Andy Richter intro, in which he warned: “Tonight, the part of Conan O’Brien will be…
This week’s Appetite for Instruction features a holy-shit-I’m-gonna-die White Chocolate Berry Cake as demonstrated by Cara Vasquez of Bread Winners. Check out the recipe, as reported by Sarah, in this week’s AFI , and then watch how it’s done in the slideshow version…
