Saturday, Feb. 25, at The Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS MONSTER JAM- An Automotive Bedlam
By Carl Foster
There is a history of sorts playing out in Arlington this weekend, on weighty mounds of loose dirt that have been emptied haphazardly all over the main stage of Cowboys Stadium.
Gravedigger, the roaring behemoth truck of unfathomable wrath, turns 30 years old this year. That means it will soon be time for him to find a career, settle down, and start making responsible payment on a home.
AND HE IS NOT PLEASED ABOUT THAT.
Watch this fiery, evil vehicle go out in style as He takes out all his wrath on a multitude of lowly, common cars. Watch Gravedigger scalp the hoods off of mazdas, chase jeeps into the corner and mash them up good; most importantly, see the ballet of gods unfold as Gravedigger takes on other monsters to find out who leaves the automotive jungle wearing a necklace made of rearview mirrors.
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Mucky Duck Reborn in Addison Circle
Bar with strange name burns all night Addison flame
By Carl Foster
http://dfwnl.com/articles/mucky_duck
If you are looking for a place to smoke indoors, enjoy live music, or scooch up as close to the brink of unhinged wildness as is permitted on Addison Circle, you must step into the Mucky Duck before midnight during a full moon.
Many denizens of Addison are afraid of the Mucky Duck; some just don't understand it. It resembles the bars closer to the small airport down the road-the dives where the karaoke brings in many employees of the Addison night-life who are looking to croon anonymously outside their workplace scene. You will find them at the Mucky Duck too, smoking and nodding at each other over the music.
The bar is inspired by a piece of North Texas history, sort of a modern cultural equivalent of London's absurd fixation on Charles Dickens. There was another Mucky Duck, long ago, in the Prestonwood area: the owner remembers it alongside the Tilt arcades that have disappeared from malls like magicians have disappeared from children's birthday parties... so much have the people stopped believing.
There is a sweet sentiment in this resurrected piece of DFW drinking society, and there is a drop of history in every moderately priced cocktail. Come park on Addison circle, careening slow around the corners until you see a small place, a dark place, a place which does not invite the superficial visitors. Like some adventurers have admitted, you may find the appearance deceiving if you cross over the threshold.
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Carnival Sighting on IH-635 and Preston
by Carl Foster
In the parking lot of the Valley View Mall, at the northwest corner of Preston and 635, there has been erected a colorful carnival for-who knows how long?
Open until 10 P.M. Open late on weekends.
The Zipper, shown above. The Ferris Wheel. That ride that suddenly drops you several stories. You remember these.
The wafting aroma of fried dough, carried through the air over shrill screams, shrill laughter: all paid for with perforated strips of yellow currency. Who among us can deny the lure of dropping by a carnival, and paying the $20 it will take to eat a funnel cake, attempt a highly suspect ring toss game, and mount some uncomfortable metal apparatus that will make you scream like you mean it?
If the weather clears during the next week, try the carnival.
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS MONSTER JAM- An Automotive Bedlam
By Carl Foster
There is a history of sorts playing out in Arlington this weekend, on weighty mounds of loose dirt that have been emptied haphazardly all over the main stage of Cowboys Stadium.
Gravedigger, the roaring behemoth truck of unfathomable wrath, turns 30 years old this year. That means it will soon be time for him to find a career, settle down, and start making responsible payment on a home.
AND HE IS NOT PLEASED ABOUT THAT.
Watch this fiery, evil vehicle go out in style as He takes out all his wrath on a multitude of lowly, common cars. Watch Gravedigger scalp the hoods off of mazdas, chase jeeps into the corner and mash them up good; most importantly, see the ballet of gods unfold as Gravedigger takes on other monsters to find out who leaves the automotive jungle wearing a necklace made of rearview mirrors.
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Mucky Duck Reborn in Addison Circle
Bar with strange name burns all night Addison flame
By Carl Foster
http://dfwnl.com/articles/mucky_duck
If you are looking for a place to smoke indoors, enjoy live music, or scooch up as close to the brink of unhinged wildness as is permitted on Addison Circle, you must step into the Mucky Duck before midnight during a full moon.
Many denizens of Addison are afraid of the Mucky Duck; some just don't understand it. It resembles the bars closer to the small airport down the road-the dives where the karaoke brings in many employees of the Addison night-life who are looking to croon anonymously outside their workplace scene. You will find them at the Mucky Duck too, smoking and nodding at each other over the music.
The bar is inspired by a piece of North Texas history, sort of a modern cultural equivalent of London's absurd fixation on Charles Dickens. There was another Mucky Duck, long ago, in the Prestonwood area: the owner remembers it alongside the Tilt arcades that have disappeared from malls like magicians have disappeared from children's birthday parties... so much have the people stopped believing.
There is a sweet sentiment in this resurrected piece of DFW drinking society, and there is a drop of history in every moderately priced cocktail. Come park on Addison circle, careening slow around the corners until you see a small place, a dark place, a place which does not invite the superficial visitors. Like some adventurers have admitted, you may find the appearance deceiving if you cross over the threshold.
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Carnival Sighting on IH-635 and Preston
by Carl Foster
In the parking lot of the Valley View Mall, at the northwest corner of Preston and 635, there has been erected a colorful carnival for-who knows how long?
Open until 10 P.M. Open late on weekends.
The Zipper, shown above. The Ferris Wheel. That ride that suddenly drops you several stories. You remember these.
The wafting aroma of fried dough, carried through the air over shrill screams, shrill laughter: all paid for with perforated strips of yellow currency. Who among us can deny the lure of dropping by a carnival, and paying the $20 it will take to eat a funnel cake, attempt a highly suspect ring toss game, and mount some uncomfortable metal apparatus that will make you scream like you mean it?
If the weather clears during the next week, try the carnival.