Dallas (Texas)

Kolaches and Shiner Bock: A Benefit in Brooklyn for West, Texas

Food lovers may be familiar with West, Texas, a beloved town off the highway between Dallas and Austin. It's home to Czech Stop and the Village Bakery, famous for their kolaches, the regional pastries that traveled and flourished with the state's Czech immigrants. Last week, a massive explosion of ... More >>

Absu - Saint Vitus - 4/11/13

Better Than: Most black metal. "Brooklyn, New York, we have arrived at this town of destiny! Good evening!" These words by Absu drummer Proscriptor McGovern (a.k.a. Russley Randell Givens) were the final ones spoken last night at Saint Vitus after a 90 minute set of pulverizing extreme metal from ... More >>

Hunters Sign to Mom Pop, Announce Tour With JEFF the Brotherhood

File Under: BIG THANGS POPPIN'! Brooklyn cool kids and Voice cover subjects Hunters have just inked a deal with the Mom Pop record label, the home of Big Deal bands like Sleigh Bells, Wavves, Metric, Tokyo Police Club, FIDLAR, Neon Indian, Freelance Whales, etc. etc., so on and so forth. They've a ... More >>

The Relatives Want to Save Your Psychedelic Soul

A swirl of gritty, psychedelic guitars and screaming fans with their hands raised to the heavens isn't what you typically think of when you hear gospel. But Dallas-bred group the Relatives have no concern about your or anyone else's preconceived notions of the Lord's music. They weren't concerned in ... More >>

Big Tex, Icon of Texas State Fair, Burns to the Ground

Burn, baby, burn Big Tex, the 52-foot-tall symbol of the Texas State Fair, smoldered, caught fire, and was finally engulfed in flames late last week at the fairgrounds in Dallas before firefighters could arrive and put it out. As the above video demonstrates, the process took only six minutes. The ... More >>

Bucks Burnett's Very Cool Eight Track Museum Opens This Weekend

Tiny Tim's 1996 album Girl concludes with "Fourteen," a song that declares, "I'm just an ordinary man." The author of "Fourteen," though, is anything but average. A lifelong resident of Dallas, Texas, James "Bucks" Burnett has written ad copy for Warner Bros., worked as a butler for Small Faces bass ... More >>

Update: Multiple Shooting Victims at Texas A&M University; Gunman, Two Others Dead

Update 4:10 p.m.: KBTX is reporting the College Station Police Department has confirmed three people dead. Officials now say that Constable Brian Bachmann has been shot dead, as well as the gunman and a male civilian. CSPD is now reporting that one officer was shot in the leg, one female civilian is ... More >>

Hydraulic Fracturing: Is There Bad Science in The Fracking Debate?

Does fracking make people sick? The jury is largely still out on that one. However, new info indicates that some claims about hydraulic fracturing's reportedly significant health risks appear to have been based on bad science.

The Story of Kolaches

The apricot version at Brooklyn Kolache Co. After high school in Dallas I went to college in Austin, so for the first couple of years I hitched rides between the two places several times a year. For UT students, there were several popular stopovers on the four-hour ride, including a little bakery ... More >>

New York: Enemy of Newlyweds?

If you have just gotten hitched, congrats and STAY OUT of New York! In a recent study, Rent.com looked at 25 American cities to figure out which were best for newlyweds. New York didn't even make the top ten. The cities that did? Austin, Texas; Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Kans ... More >>

Rick Perry's Texas Fantasyland

Rick Perry's Texas is a job-makin', low-taxin' oasis of economic growth. It's also a fantasy.

Ron Suhanosky 'Out' at Stuzzicheria; Marcellus Coleman 'In' at Alias

​Ex-Sfoglia chef Ron Suhanosky has left Stuzzicheria after just four months, due to creative differences with owner Gerard Renny. Paul Di Bari, who worked at sister restaurant Stuzzi has taken over. [Grub Street] James Kent, who competed a in Bocuse d'Or this year, has been promoted to chef d ... More >>

Food Scandal Exploding -- Literally -- in China; Previewing Smorgasburg

​Recipe search engines, such as the one Google launched earlier this year, are useful for finding recipes. But just how good the recipes are is debatable. [NY Times] Murray's Cheese, which already has a store in Houston, Tex., has signed a deal with supermarket chain Kroger to distribute its ... More >>

Mable's Smokehouse—We Meat Again

Williamsburg gets itself another good barbecue joint

Super Bowling for Dollars

The great American game is another chance to foist false research on a gullible media

New York Bike-Licensing Bills are Weird and Probably Won't Pass, Experts Say

​Monday, Runnin' Scared reported on Assemblyman Michael DenDekker's new bicycle bills. If his proposals pass, riders across the state would have to register and tack license plates on their bikes, and submit them to yearly inspections. First-time registration would cost $25, with a yearly re ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, And Nicki Minaj Are Invading Long Island In March

​If ever you wanted an excuse to truck out to Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, home to perennial NHL doormats the New York Islanders, this'd be it: Lil Wayne's I Am Music II tour, costarring Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Mixmaster Mike, and indomitable rapper accessory Travis Barker, is coming to town ... More >>

In Texas, Ranch Dressing Is Serious Business. Three New York Restaurants Don Their Best.

A ranch dressing fountain a Southern wedding.​ In New York and much of the rest of the country, ranch dressing is the white zinfandel of condiments. Most often found in squeezable bottles or individual packets for not-quite-healthy salads, the tangy, creamy dressing seems to have been spawned ... More >>

George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" Sign to Make the Presidential Library?

​In an otherwise softball-filled sit-down with Jay Leno, former President George W. Bush said he regretted speaking about the Iraq war in front of a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" (in addition to flying over the Hurricane Katrina damage and some "blunt" language). He probably says the ... More >>

The Short, Sad History of the Corn Dog

​What's the mustard hiding? Read on to find out. When I was a little kid in Minnesota and went to the state fair, one of the main gastronomic attractions were corn dogs, and my brothers and I would beg to have one the minute we hit the fairgrounds on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul. Except they ... More >>

Sorting Out Post-Loss Rangers Fans Sensibilities

We can thank Daily News writer John Harper for staying in top of the Texas Ranger CEO's comments on Yankees fans yesterday on ESPN radio - you know by now, Chuck Greenberg's remarks that fans at Yankee Stadium were "violent, apathetic, and an embarrassment." "Let's face it," Harpers says, "there is ... More >>

New York Women Like Their Men to Smell Like the Inside of a Starbucks

​Well, this is interesting. Smell purveyor AXE body spray took it upon themselves to survey ladies in various cities to find out how they'd like their menfolk to smell. (Note to men: Two of three women say they are actually more likely to make out with a guy on the first date if he smells good ... More >>

Stressed-Out New Yorkers Perhaps Not as Stressed as They'd Have You Believe

​While you may think you're stressed (who's stressed? It's Friday!), and spend a lot of money telling your therapist you're stressed, New York is actually way less stressed than a number of other cities, according to a Forbes report that analyzed U.S. metropolitan areas based on high unemploym ... More >>

1965 Arizona wax museum not much creepier than Arizona today

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Wax Museum Souvenir Guides from Miami, Dallas, and Scottsdale, Arizona Date: 1960s & ... More >>

A NY Super Bowl in February Goes from "Stupid" to "Done Deal"

​Remember several months ago when you heard for the first time that the Giants and Jets owners were putting in a bid for the 2014 Super Bowl? Remember how stupid that sounded at the time? What exactly happened in the meantime to make that idea sound less stupid? When, exactly, did having th ... More >>

Studies in Crap: '30s Texas History Textbook on Lazy Indians, Idle Negroes, and Awesome White Folks!

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ The Lone Star State: A School History Author: C.R. Wharton Date: 1932 ... More >>

Pete Hamill's Eyewitness Account of Robert Kennedy's Assassination

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 13, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 35 Two Minutes to Midnight: The Very Last Hurrah by Pete Hamill LOS ANGELES -- It was, of course, two minutes to midnight an the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel was rowdy with triumph. Red and blue ba ... More >>

Handicapping the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party

The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party has grown to be one of the great culinary events of the summer. This year the 7th annual edition will be held on June 13th and June 14th in Madison Square, from 11 am till 7 pm, which is two hours longer than the previous year. As usual, the collection of barbecues ... More >>

Eating Kids at Cabrito

New Carmine cantina reverently replicates Mexican dishes

Spanker's Delight

Booty whackers unleash their greatest hits

Meat and Greet

New Fort Worth joint raids the zoo for inspiration

The Bush Doctrine: 'No Illegal Alien Left Behind'

A counter-rally in Dallas sends a different message on immigration reform

Harriet Miers, We Hardly Knew Ye

Battered Bush accepts withdrawal of flagging Supreme Court nominee

Boring From Within

Harriet Miers: This is your life

Sleepwalking in Washington

Katrina looting, despair no match for holiday weekend

Yoo-hoo, Osama!

Letters

Dancers From New Zealand, Dallas, and Brooklyn Share the Spirit

Theater

NY Mirror

Muff Diving in Our Time

Lesbian Public Sex Beyond the Bars

Is Nothing Sacred?

The Church vs. the Irreverent Media

Dallas Dildo Defiance

Legends of the Mall

'Waydowntown' Director Gary Burns Braves the Great Indoors

Ugly America

Letters

Rev That Azz Up

Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

Tracts of My Tears

Bikini Kill

Technology Begins at the Roots

This Precious Right

A Veteran of the Abortion Struggle Looks Back