Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. Well, hey, would you look at that? There’s an actual bona fide Dallas City Council election this Saturday. Sure doesn’t seem like that’s been getting a lot of…
Alice Laussade is now officially the funniest freakin’ food journalist in America. The James Beard Foundation just said so tonight at its 2013 food journalism awards. We knew this already, of course, still it’s nice to hear from other people. Or as Alice put it on Twitter: “Everyone please take…
They say the devil can quote scripture as well as the righteous, which helps explain the confusion sown by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who whipped out his New Testament this week and rained thunder down on Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles. Price is burning with holy…
Eric’s post this morning about the shit storm controversy stirred up by Molly Forthright, a columnist for Fort Worth, Texas Magazine who came down firmly against mothers breast feeding their babies in church — or pretty much anywhere else — drew the usual pro- and anti-nip commenters. Yeah, we expected…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. Awwww, man. Why Texas? Why must you always be the turd in the punch bowl of progress? Buzz is talking — this time — about Texas A&M, the…
The Observer’s very own Alice Laussade, who for years put her cast-iron stomach on the line as The Cheap Bastard to bring you reviews of Dallas’ low-cost lunch spots, was named a finalist in the humor-writing category of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Awards, which is like the Oscars of…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. The message that rolled into our inbox earlier this week was upbeat. A “juggernaut of marijuana bills” is rolling its way through legislatures across the nation, the Marijuana…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. OK, everybody relax and just breathe easy (though not too deeply). That whole global-warming, energy-supply, sooty-air thing is taken care of. We know this because unlike many, many,…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. Good news for those of you heartbroken when Big Tex, the 52-foot tall, 60-year-old icon of the State Fair of Texas, burned in a spectacular fire on the…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. Let’s kick this off with a couple of truisms: It’s hard to keep a good man down, and be careful what you wish for. We’re looking at you,…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. This week, Buzz has a familiar villain in his sights. Oh, man, Buzz is so depissed©. No, that’s not a typo. It’s our own neologism, a combination of…
So Mayor Mike Rawlings responded, sort of, to Schutze’s post this morning about City Manager Mary Suhm’s double-super-secret letter of understanding with gas drilling company Trinity East, in which she promised the city’s staff would do its level best to get the company the permits it needs to drill on…
Every true-blue Texan remembers where they were when the big man went up in flames. There in the heart of the carnival, stunned masses watched agape as an icon of the Lone Star State, whose squinty, handsome stare and vacuous drawl had represented the spirit of Texas for decades, disintegrated…
Well, sure the brew at the newly open Ascension Coffee is good. Really, really good, in fact. And, the shop’s Design District space is lovely. Broad windows send light flowing into a space filled with blond wood and open ceilings. The air is not saturated with the heavy aroma of…
A little mood music to get you in that City Hall frame of mind. Earlier this week Jim Schutze racked his shotgun and unloaded some righteous thunder on City Hall’s failure to adopt a whole bunch of auditor’s recommendations aimed at helping the city do little things — like making…
Lower down on this blog, you’ll find Observer staffers having a little fun at the expense of all those people — 97,463* as Buzz writes this — who signed a petition on a White House website calling for the federal government to allow Texas to “peacefully” secede from the union…
Food is art. It’s literature, TV, entertainment and competition. You can even consume it for, you know, sustenance, if you want. But hey, why be plebeian? Instead, get your RDA of fancy food blather at Good Vs. Evil: An Evening with Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert at Bass Performance Hall…
Let’s just cut to the chase: At least 14 months. That’s how long it will be before the first retail non-medical marijuana store in Colorado, our friendly neighbor to the northwest, might open. Not that anyone is counting. Looks like the nearest big town to Texas on an interstate in…
We don’t respect much here at the Dallas Observer, but when it comes to Texas barbecue, there’s one guy whose word is holy writ: BBQ Snob Daniel Vaughn, whose Full Custom Gospel BBQ blog is the go-to guide for sniffing out the best smoked meat in the state. So for…
Alice “Cheap Bastard” Laussade has spoken, so we have a winner in our Meat Fight caption contest. Apparently — and this surprises her co-bloggers, who pegged her as more of an Anthrax fan — Alice is into Peter Gabriel, ’cause she picked commenter mitchiswright’s entry. How … sensitive of her…
Tickets to Meat Fight, the barbecue competition and fundraiser being hosted by Alice “Cheap Bastard” Laussade at Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep Ellum, are sold out. Never fear, though, because City of Ate has a pair of tickets that will let some lucky duo gorge themselves on delicious dead…
Wind, sun and bullshit: Texas has plenty of all three, and we’ve done a good job converting wind to electricity. So, why hasn’t the sunny Lone Star State done more to create more power from the sun? Well, you could blame the bullshit. Today in Austin, The Clean Energy Works…
