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Jägermeister: Only for The Manliest of Men

Have you had the pleasure of viewing the new Jägermeister television ad? No? Allow me to set the scene for you. The setting is some unknown snowy landscape; the wind howls as we spot the signature Jäger deer in the distance. A dude who may or may not be a...
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Five Ways We Might Be Listening To Music In the Future

The human race will remember 2012 as the year that birthed a new kind of hologram, but that technology is just the jumping-off point in this exciting era of interactive music experience. New research allows us to look into technology that might shape the way we listen to music in...
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100 Favorite Dishes, No. 97: Jalapeno Poppers at City Tavern

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Too often, bar snacks are relegated to frozen staples, dropped in...
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UT-Dallas: Way Less Fun and Way More Expensive than UT-Austin

It wasn't without some pride that I saw last week that my alma mater, the University of Texas at Dallas, had earned what may be its first superlative. (OK, maybe its second, but the most-hideous-architecture label was unofficial.) The Texas Tribune has helpfully compiled a list of average tuition and...
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The Top Ten North Texas Blues Albums

See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #100-80 See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #79-60 Alex Moore, Alex Moore Barrelhouse pianist "Whistling" Alex Moore spent all of his life in Dallas, recording for Columbia in 1929, Decca in 1937, and RPM/Kent in 1951. During the...
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EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

Christopher VictorioEDC ravers[Update at 2:48 a.m]: Also see: - Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival 2012: Day One - Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival: More From Day One - Slide show: Electric Daisy Carnival 2012: Day Two EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out...
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Spraying to Stop West Nile – Is It Safe?

Not trying to be obnoxious. This is not I-told-you-so. But I did told you so. In a column published December 29, I did point out that North Texas was taking all kinds of wild chances with its water supply by refusing to adopt the type of strict safety measures in...
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Michael Peticolas: The People’s Brewer

I recently caught up with Michael Peticolas, owner of Peticolas Brewing Company, after a private tour for a one-on-one chat. Here's what he had to say ... You just finished up with a private tour. Talk about your tours; what type of experience are you trying to create? My tours...
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Daniel Folmer Strikes a Balance With New Album Brown and Blue

"My aunt once told me the cure to writer's block is to put yourself in an incredibly precarious situation and then write about it," says Denton singer-songwriter Daniel Folmer at J&Js. "Then, people ask me if I put myself in those precarious situations on purpose just to give me something...
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What Erykah and Wayne Taught Us About Social Networking

As the dramatic tension of the Erykah Badu-Wayne Coyne Twitter "feud" escalated last week, I started thinking about the question of collaboration and consent. I spoke with Coyne on Wednesday, May 30 — the day he allegedly tweeted nude photos from the set of the video for "The First Time...
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The Eight Worst NBA/Music Crossovers

Listen, we know most of you aren't paying attention to the NBA finals like you were last year, but for those of who are (some out of Heat Hate, some out of love for the game), we've been treated to some rather abysmal NBA promos featuring Linkin Park's shitty, shitty...
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The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

A year ago Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, studied the tax returns of 280 corporations. What it found was a Beltway version of a Mafia protection scheme. From 2008 to 2010, at least 30 Fortune 500 companies — including PepsiCo, Verizon, Wells Fargo and DuPont — paid...
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The Olympics of British Food: A User’s Guide from a British Guy

When the Observer emailed me with the offer to, and I quote, "continue our gross exploitation of your heritage" by somehow shoehorning together the two subjects of the Olympics and food, how could I possibly resist? I suppose this allows me to tackle that thorniest of subjects, British "cuisine". While...