Email Author Jonanna Widner

2007 Stories by Jonanna Widner

• Autopsying the Monkey Bar

  published November 15, 2007

  About 100 people sat in the gallery of the city council chambers last Thursday at the city plan commission meeting—an oddly high number,... More >>

• Sondre Lerche, Dan Wilson

  published November 15, 2007

  Sondre Lerche. Club Dada: To call it a coup would be like calling the Trinity toll road a country lane. After all, the Norwegian wunderkind... More >>

• Dooney da Priest's Fight Against Sagging Pants Won't Work

  published November 8, 2007

  You've probably heard about southern Dallas rapper Dooney da Priest (real name: Duwayne Brown), who has produced two songs of note in... More >>

• Ghost Mice, The Dauntless Elite, Off Shore Radio, Can Kickers, Denton County Revelators

  published November 8, 2007

  They call themselves "a jug band without the jugs," which might sound like "a Hooters without the hooters," but what the Denton County... More >>

• The Ex-Gay Way

  published November 1, 2007

  Heels: Buzz doesn't discriminate. Sometimes Buzz is black, sometimes Asian, sometimes white. Buzz can be tall or short, or, um,... More >>

• Beard-a-Fit was All Whiskey and Whiskers

  published November 1, 2007

  Q: What does it take to get Dallas hipsters to do the hokey-pokey? A: A large bald man with a Santa Claus beard and earrings... More >>

• Deep Ellum Still Keeps It Real

  published November 1, 2007

  Two pillars—one an old stalwart, one a new roustabout—of Deep Ellum were Q&A'd on local Web sites last week. The stalwart was... More >>

• Halloween Best Bets

  published October 25, 2007

  Welcome to the Halloween edition of And Another Thing. Why is it the Halloween edition? Because it's back from the dead. Boo,... More >>

• Parata (CD release), Sean Kirkpatrick, Silk Stocking, New Science Projects

  published October 25, 2007

  There was once a day when synth-y pop could be both polished and vaguely eerie, coated in scuzz but also featuring a metallic sheen: Early- and... More >>

• The Faces of Def show, with Sivion, T-Wrex, M.E.G.A., Cooley Fly, Subchronicles and Swishaman

  published October 25, 2007

  Live hip-hop is always hit or miss. A sample or rhyme that comes through loud and clear on CD or vinyl can all of a sudden get muddled and drip... More >>

• Funky Big J Rocks the Party

  published October 25, 2007

  It's Friday night. The Cavern is packed for the Fresh party that happens once a month. The room seems oddly bright for 11 p.m. on a party... More >>

• Opposites Attract

  published October 25, 2007

  It all began with a pile of wires and cables, configured onstage in what looked like a visual manifestation of every preposition, as... More >>

• Halloween Huntin'

  published October 25, 2007

  Maybe I've been listening to a little too much Art Bell, but I'm a believer, baby. There are just too many people with spooky stories, too many... More >>

• Beauxregard, MC Router

  published October 18, 2007

  I caught MC Router a while back at Club Dada for a much-hyped "nerdcore" show, which I had been anticipating with sweaty pits and baited... More >>

• Sparklepussy Barbie, Red Moscow, RTB2, the Red Herrings

  published October 18, 2007

  It's a damn good thing the Deathray Davies rock the way they do; otherwise, they would be eclipsed by their own side project, and we'd have to... More >>

• Annie Lennox Goes Mild at SMU

  published October 18, 2007

  I wasn't planning on writing anything on Annie Lennox's concert that took place last Sunday at McFarland Auditorium. I figured I'd just... More >>

• Ghosthustler Resurrects '80s Synth Beats

  published October 11, 2007

  Rock 'n' roll is dead. It was crushed under the leathery $400 heel of a record exec as he blithely made his way out of a Los Angeles... More >>

• Indie Women Unite at GoGirls Fest

  published October 11, 2007

  Remember Cinder Calhoun? A feminist comedienne, she was the opening act for the Lilith Fair in the '90s. She was fond of... More >>

• Horns vs. Howl

  published October 11, 2007

  The last time I attended a Brahmas hockey game, I witnessed a bench-clearing fight—it seemed there were more people duking it out on the ice... More >>

• Devendra meets Jana

  published October 4, 2007

  We here at the Dallas Observer have been reading a lot about the days of disco. We're not sure why. In any case, we've become... More >>

• Funeral Drive, with Hand of Onan, Agents of Goldstein and Seis Pistos

  published October 4, 2007

  "The world is full of children/But I ain't ever had none/Cuz that means it's time to settle down/And give up all my fun"—such go the... More >>

• Myth of Sid

  published October 4, 2007

  Recently, while researching a story, I stumbled upon an essay by seminal rock writer Lester Bangs, called "Bye, Bye, Sidney, Be Good,"... More >>

• Suck Suck Suck

  published September 27, 2007

  Ya know, there are worse things in the world than naming your band something annoying—things like killing people, or donning a diaper and... More >>

• Blog Log

  published September 27, 2007

  So, you might have noticed, we've launched a new Dallas Observer music blog, titled More >>

• Jenny Hoyston's Paradise Island

  published September 27, 2007

  Jenny Hoyston's street cred is impeccable. She's the frontwoman for the crazed post-math-nu-rock-whatever groundbreakers Erase Errata, whose... More >>