Don’t ever underestimate the power of pissed-off bakers. Gov. Rick Perry knows. That’s why he signed Senate Bill 81 last week. (Because no candidate wants chocolate cake with thick butter cream icing thrown at his campaign bus in Iowa.) The new law allows home bakers around the state to peddle…
It’s a bad year to be a peach in the Lone Star State. A lot of North Texas orchards lost their crops this season to freezing weather and hail storms. Perusing the PickYourOwn.org website for the area, many farmers have thrown in the peach towel for this summer, but promise…
Being bored for extended amounts of time builds character. Everyone (kids, in particular) needs to stare at the wall so long that it makes them crazy. Then go outside and stare at the hot grass. Then lie on the floor and throw a ball in the air 100 times. Rinse…
In 1940’s Belfast, Ireland, there lived the Magee family. Six daughters were born one after the other, followed by five sons all squeezed into a two-bedroom row house. The neighbors on one side were the McCormicks, who had 10 kids. On the other side were the Dunnigans, also with 10…
It’s a beautiful thing when elected legislative officials take cues from their constituents and act on them. That’s how state government functions, right? People need or want a change in regard to a particular issue, so they start calling their senators or representatives, who then draw up the plans, debate…
Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum has trumped Tom Hanks and his high-tech Da Vinci Code shenanigans by using Apple’s iPad as a virtual museum guide for their Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 exhibition. The Kimbell supplies the iPads preloaded with an application called iCubist, created specifically for this…
Since Silkwood was the first major motion production filmed at The Studios at Las Colinas, the Muller Film and Television Education Foundation is hosting a mixer and special screening tonight. And by mixer they mean the 1983 drama will be playing in the background while you sip a drink, nibble…
Boy, that was a doozy. Nothing like stuffing yourself in a closet with five other people plus a dog to put apple pie and mopping floors in perspective. (Of the former: Life’s short and I should eat more; of the latter: extremely overrated when your house is about to get…
The line started 10 feet away from a table in the back of the store, snaked around long rows of wine, out the front doors, all the way to the back of the building, then past another building and into a parking lot, which was so jam-packed with cars tow…
Madrid was a little lighter this past weekend and Dallas a little fuller as chef Sergi Arola of Spain traveled here to dispense his passion for food, music, Harley Davidsons and life in general. Through Central Market’s Passporte España event, Arola hosted three cooking classes locally and one in San…
I’m a huge fan of ballpark food. In my fantasy world where I inherent a fortune from an obscure king of a remote island in which I am somehow unknowingly the sole survivor of the royal lineage, I travel to ballparks across the United States to try out the grub…
It is on like Donkey Kong! Don’t get too crazy about this, kids, but Arby’s has just unleashed a throw-down with Subway. I am so on this. See, they are both promoting their seasonal chicken salad sandwiches. And now Arby’s has an official “Chicken Salad Taste-off” on its website where…
The first concert I went to without a parent was the Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill, at the Summit in Houston, circa 1986. I was 11 and my brother was 16. We had floor seats, and I remember it being a crazy show. Afterward, we walked to a hotel across…
So, two guys are sitting at a bar — one is a priest, the other is a carpenter. A guy in a starched shirt hands them each a shot of rum, which they drink… This past Wednesday, DonQ Rum hosted a little event at The Cedars Social to find Dallas’…
I love me some Beyoncé. Her video for “Single Ladies” is mesmerizing. Kanye was right — it should have won Female Video of the Year (even though it went on to win Video of the Year). Beyoncé has this ease in her style — she’s like Sporty Spice the Exotic…
Remember the last time you were in central Arlington and you wanted a good burger? No, really, serious starts now: Suppose you are in central Arlington and you find yourself in need of a great burger. Well, you’re in luck. You actually now have a reason to drive to there…
Well, everyone played nice. There were no incidents of belligerence to report. No picket lines were formed. No stones were thrown. Instead Dallas Cowboys players and coaches joined local chefs on Sunday night at the Glass Cactus in Grapevine for the Taste of the NFL: The Ultimate Cowboys Tailgate Party…
Recently I took the chickens out to Denny’s to try their new Maple Bacon Sundae. When I was a kid I went to Denny’s on occasion, but in the past 15 years I think I’ve been twice, and I had no idea what I’d been missing. From customers to the…
Shama lama ding dong! It’s Passover time again. North Texas Jewish families who are preparing for the holiday, which begins Monday at sundown, will sit down for a ceremonial Seder dinner that is full of symbolism. Unfortunately for many, that means jarred gefilte. These spam-like fish balls are the Thanksgiving…
Remember the last scene of Casablanca in which Rick and Renault come together in the end for the good of humanity then walk off into the fog contemplating “…the beginning of a beautiful friendship”? Well, that’s basically what’s happening between the NFL owners and players this weekend at the Glass…
For years I hated Starbucks. I sensed they were plotting a world takeover starting with the invention of their own sizing scheme, which to this day I refuse to adhere to (it’s a small not a tall). I would accuse anyone who drank their coffee as a co-conspirator and kept…
Since 1924, the Luna family has been selling chips, tortillas, tamales and such through The Luna Tortilla Factory. And now, almost 86 years later, they have finally opened a family restaurant. And, guess what? They’ve been holding out on us. Shame, shame. It all started back in 1923 when María…
