What am I supposed to feel here? Grief? Wrath? A strong desire to go fishing? I wish I could remember my Greek mythology better. What was that guy’s name? Sissy Fuss? Last week the Dallas City auditor gave a committee of the City Council a deeply depressing analysis of how…
By now, you’ve heard about the artisanal toast trend that is taking Dallas by toast storm — and by “by storm,” I mean making everyone on Facebook raise their artisanal toast-hating pitchforks. But there’s more: There’s Artisan Vapor. I drove past their store yesterday, and I really feel like the whole “artisanal…
CultureMap recently published a blog post entitled, “Meet the 10 best Dallas chefs defining good taste.” The list is an announcement of their nominees for Dallas Chef of the Year for the Tastemakers Awards, an annual event that intends to “shine a spotlight on the people making the city’s restaurant…
Post Malone’s first mixtape has been a long-time coming. It’s hard to believe, but after everything the Grapevine native has accomplished since his song, “White Iverson”, went viral early in 2015 — working with Kanye West, touring with Fetty Wap and Justin Bieber, and making stops at festivals like Coachella —…
In what may very well be the saddest last-ditch attempt to maintain relevancy in the history of American dining, Applebee’s announced on Monday the “biggest investment in culinary excellence in the company’s history,” part of its efforts to “to take back America’s neighborhoods.” As Americans become more educated about the…
Yesterday, The Dallas Morning News’ GuideLive posted a link to a new Leslie Brenner review of Lucia to their Facebook page with the following words: “Dallas now has just two 5-star restaurants.” In the review, Brenner gushes over and over about how much she adores Lucia, then notes that several dishes were…
Bucks Burnett isn’t a journalist. He’s a namedropper. He may not have met every one of his music idols, but he’s met 90 percent of them. And he’s here to tell you all about it, however he sees fit. I met my first rock star — Neal Smith, drummer for…
According to repeated public statements from Dallas oilman Ray Hunt and his son Hunter, the main benefit to me of letting them take over Oncor, the big state-regulated electrical transmission utility, will be, “…to keep control of Oncor here in Texas where it belongs.” Is that where it belongs? I…
When I saw people promoting the De La Terre dinner at CBD Provisions on Facebook, I thought, Awesome. Dinner that benefits a charity, plus tons of fancy chefs: Janice Provost, Misti Norris, Anastacia Quinones — this’ll be great. And then I read the headline of the flyer. “Twelve Dallas female…
This has been a busy week on the Fair Park/State Fair of Texas news front, as the City Council approaches a vote this summer on competing plans for the park. Steve Thompson in The Dallas Morning News told readers how the fair had refused to pony up any straightforward data…
The men of country music have always exuded a distinct brand of masculinity. From Bob Wills to George Strait, these are the Marlboro Men of the music world — rugged, tough and stoic. It’s so ingrained that no one ever questioned the rhinestones that were popular for so much of…
In the weeks since Sturgill Simpson gave his first glimpse of his new album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, much has been made about the country star’s change of direction. Ordained by many as the savior of country music after his 2014 breakout, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, the Kentucky…
There are so many reasons to admire Merle Haggard and so few words to describe them. The country music legend, who passed away Wednesday on his 79th birthday, was the working man’s hero, a scrappy, rough and tumble boy done good. An unmatchable songwriter, Haggard released 71 singles and penned…
Every cool kid movement sells out in the end. Hippie protest icon Jerry Rubin became a Wall Street stockbroker. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth and Metallica supported Rick Santorum for president. And at the Dallas Grilled Cheese Co., hipsters are slinging $9 grilled cheese sandwiches. When I started the “How Hipster…
You could say that country fans are too damn picky. From George Strait’s arrival in the 1980s to the pop-heavy acts that pushed the genre past its breaking point in the early 2000s, fans have continually worried that, come the next dilution of the genre, it will disappear forever. So…
It’s been a good couple months for Dalton Rapattoni. The Sunnyvale native has rocketed to fame thanks to his breakout performances on the final season American Idol, helped in part by the extra attention that’s been paid to the long-running reality TV show’s swan song. But will the extra attention…
The highly-anticipated reunion of At the Drive-In hit a big snag last week. Via a Facebook post, the band announced co-founder, vocalist and guitarist Jim Ward is not in the band anymore. This news came only a few days before the band heads out on an extensive tour of the…
Erik Highter is a writer based in Dallas. He and musician Nevada Hill met in early 2013 at one of Nevada’s Bludded Head shows. While they worked together to craft press releases and marketing ideas for Nevada’s band, it was the hundreds and hundreds of hours of listening to music…
Another new music festival, another OK lineup with a mediocre concept. Welcome to DFW. Earlier this week, first-time Dallas festival Bulladora Music Experience announced its full lineup of bands, complemented by the rather bizarre theme of the “pugasus” — that is, a pug dressed up with a pair of wings. If…
If you’ve spent any time at all on Facebook in the last year, you’ve been subjected to an endless stream of recipe videos, the short, peppy little videos that break down recipes into a visual step-by-step. Bacon-guacamole “chicken bombs,” biscuit and gravy casserole, Nutella cream cheese turnovers — thanks to Buzzfeed’s…
I’m a genius. I thought of it just now — the whole solution. The Dallas Morning News has been making me feel like an incompetent guttersnipe for years, telling me about all the historic preservation that doesn’t get done in Dallas, and I could never think of one single thing…
Sturgill Simpson never said he was a country artist. In fact, he’s long insisted that he isn’t. Proclaimed the savior of country music ever since the release of 2014’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Simpson’s always been a moving target, an artist whose mind moves in so many different directions that…
