Cork the Wine For Another Time — Grapevine’s Main Street Fest Is All About Craft Beer
Grapevine is known for its annual wine fest GrapeFest, but who knew their beer festival, Main Street Fest, has been running even longer?
Grapevine is known for its annual wine fest GrapeFest, but who knew their beer festival, Main Street Fest, has been running even longer?
Truck Yard’s newest location, opening in July in The Colony, will host Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum and Beard Science, a brewery focused on wild and sour beers.
Deep Ellum Brewing Co. has opened the Funkytown Fermatorium in Fort Worth, and this brewery and taproom is funky in all the right ways.
Although times are certainly changing, when discussing mead around these parts, we must first dispense with the clichéd formalities: In North Texas, mead (aka, honey wine) has more or less been something that the one friend of yours who is way too into Scarborough Faire has insisted you try because,…
Nearing the halfway point of last weekend’s Velvet Hammer 5K at the Peticolas brewery inside the Dallas Design District, I caught a glorious glimpse of volunteers holding out small white cups of water just up ahead of me. As intensely needed as those life-giving helpers were, their usefulness paled in…
Florida dessert franchise Better Than Sex is bringing a candle-lit dessert bar — with dishes like “Rim Jobs” and “Gang Bangs” — to Plano this summer. But the restaurant’s owner says this salacious spot has a purpose: to rekindle the fire among Plano moms and dads.
When legendary rocker Tom Petty died on Oct. 2, 2017, the world lost one of the true greats of American music. As millions of fans around the world spent the days immediately following the shocking news by sharing cherished Petty memories on social media and listening to the four decades’…
Dallas’ Bishop Cider Co. has launched Uncommon Wines, a woman-led brand of fruity, low-ABV “session” wines that come in a can.
We’re not sure why it took so long, but it’s safe to say that we’re in the midst of a golden age when it comes to dine-in movie theaters. Sure, there have been a couple of chains offering less than stellar bar food with what has historically been a ho-hum…
Although it’s a craft beer hotbed these days, there was a time not too long ago that Dallas’ Design District at least seemed like an odd place for a craft brewery. Of course, the area, filled with all sorts of available warehouse space, makes sense for a new brewer to…
Admit it, you love playing online quizzes, the kind where you pick your favorite potato and find out which kind of ocean plankton you should be rinsing your colon with. We have something much better: a fun quiz that will also teach you something of value. Also, it’s the shortest…
A cursory glance at Bob Mould’s latest record Sunshine Rock almost tells you everything you need to know about where the alternative rock legend’s head is at these days. The album cover features a simple but bright, retro-riffic red and yellow swirl with his name and album title spelled out…
For its eighth annual edition, the Big Texas Beer Fest in Dallas felt like the biggest one ever. On Saturday afternoon, a sold-out crowd of 5,000 filled Fair Park’s Automotive Building to take a shot at around 100 brewers offering nearly 500 different beers. Add in the 2,100 that festival…
On her new self-titled EP, Kylie Rae Harris mines a wide swath of seriously adult terrain. Not that dealing with the sometimes-shocking twists and turns in life’s post-college road is anything new for the Wylie native, mind you. But more than even in the past, Harris is intent upon employing…
If you’re not paying close attention, you’ll drive right by the entrance for Outfit Brewing. Even with the help of your phone’s map app, it’s reasonable to wonder if you entered the wrong address as you pull into the parking lot for Standard Insurance just off of Highway 114 in…
You won’t find any trendy NEIPAs or spontaneously fermented sours on Steam Theory Brewing’s taproom menu, but what you will find is fantastic, straightforward Dallas craft beer.
Celestial Beerworks, which opened in fall 2018 in the Medical District, is a friendly little brewery on a rather pleasant trajectory. Along with its easily accessed, central location, the brains behind the beer offer enthusiasts plenty of reasons to put this place on their schedules. Owner Matt Reynolds is a…
Although they had performed in Dallas three times the year before, there was something different about the March 3, 1994, Green Day concert at Trees in Deep Ellum. The Bay Area punk trio had just released Dookie on Reprise Records, its first major label release. The fans, zines and artists…
Perhaps the most common question one can overhear from another table when visiting one of the dozens of local brewery taprooms is “Ooh, now what’s that I’m tasting here?” Thanks to the ever-expanding number of craft breweries in North Texas, each with its own ever-expanding list of selections both permanent…
With the release of Forever, Josh Fleming has now led the Vandoliers for four years, spanning three full-length albums of country punk raucousness. The twangy, genre-bending group has become one of the best countrified outfits in town, which is a considerable feat, given that before he created the Vandoliers, Fleming…
When a child of an accomplished musician makes his own leap into the artistic wild, it’s near impossible to keep from wondering how dear old dad influenced the music, and more functionally, did he lend a musical hand in any way? For Oscar DeLaughter, the 18-year-old son of Polyphonic Spree…
You don’t hear it often, but it’s kind of refreshing when a musician admits to something few fellow artists dare utter in public. “I actually like the business part of the music business,” admits country singer-songwriter Rob Baird. Chatting before his December concert at the Kessler in Oak Cliff, where…