Email Author Kelly Dearmore

2012 Stories by Kelly Dearmore

• Canadian Comedy Plus Duct Tape Equals Funny

  published May 17, 2012

  The Canadian’s sure know how to turn in some decent sketch comedy, eh? For the many American comedy fans who have missed it on PBS,... More >>

• Mmmm...Beer

  published May 10, 2012

  Last year’s inaugural North Texas Beer Festival showed signs of an event with the right idea and a good heart, but still wasn’t... More >>

• Tell 'Em About That Time You Lit The Lawn On Fire

  published May 10, 2012

  If honesty and authenticity is required for art to truly blossom, then Nicole Stewart’s Oral Fixation series of open-chested... More >>

• Meat Puppets at Dan's Silverleaf

  published April 26, 2012

  It's hard to gauge how influential an album truly is. The Meat Puppets' 1984 LP, Meat Puppets II, is often cited by musicians as a seminal... More >>

• Turkey Legs, Blown Glass And Falconry, Huzzah!

  published April 26, 2012

  Oh, good morrow, ye turkey leg and man with non-ironic leggings and non-ironic, odd beret-like cap upon his furry face! It’s that time of... More >>

• Dallas Film Fest Brings More Wattage

  published April 19, 2012

  The Dallas international Film Festival has earned a respectable spot among American film fests. Recent years have seen stars old and new... More >>

• A Family Affair

  published April 19, 2012

  The largest accomplishment for Modern Family, the best sitcom to emerge on network television over the past few years, isn’t... More >>

• Bongos Bring Good Karma for Food Trucks

  published April 5, 2012

  Hah! Food trucks. Those'll never take off. They're just a fad that will be forgotten in a few weeks. C'mon, it’s not like any new ones are... More >>

• Moore Gogh-s To Great Lengths For Laughs

  published April 5, 2012

  Wit and intelligence are a couple of characteristics that many claim to have, or at least wish they possessed. Novelist Christopher Moore seems to... More >>

• Ray Wylie Hubbard Through the Lens of a New Generation

  published March 29, 2012

  Country icon George Jones famously asked "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" back in 1985. For the most part, modern Top 40 country isn't terribly... More >>

• If Liking Sinbad is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right

  published March 29, 2012

  Pop culture has a way of overdoing it when it comes to ridiculing various temporary touchstones that helped define a certain point in time... More >>

• Nothing's Wrong With Sebastion Maniscalco (Sort Of)

  published March 29, 2012

  While comedian and “Funny or Die” vet Sebastian Maniscalco’s question “What’s Wrong With People?” (also the... More >>

• Cody Canada Talks About The Past and Present

  published March 22, 2012

  Former Cross Canadian Ragweed singer Cody Canada's current band, The Departed, is a properly named one. In May of 2010, Ragweed, or CCR as many... More >>

• Run In Spite Of The Rock

  published March 22, 2012

  When a recreational runner tackles a 5K “fun run,” it’s the overly cheery providers of false encouragement wielding cups of... More >>

• Business Class Theater

  published March 22, 2012

  While The Office or the film Office Space provide laughs through the everyday happenings inside of generically stale workplaces,... More >>

• Run, Watch, Get Sloshed. St. Patty's!

  published March 15, 2012

  Wake up early, stretch, run three miles or so, drink to impressive excess, wave and holler at the fellow inebriated revelers atop parade floats,... More >>

• Preview: Heartless Bastards at Lola's Saloon

  published March 8, 2012

  With the release of their second album since moving to Austin, the self-assured Arrow, Erika Wennerstrom's Heartless Bastards should be able to... More >>

• Lucero Continue to Evolve

  published March 8, 2012

  For Lucero's Ben Nichols, the development of his band's sound has been a matter of mere evolution, not a purposeful attempt to piss off... More >>

• Our 34 picks for 35 Denton

  published March 8, 2012

  Read more: 35 Denton... More >>

• Consider That Myth Busted

  published March 8, 2012

  Quirky, curious quasi-intellectuals, gird up your non-ironic berets: Stuff’s going to get busted. The Mythbusters themselves, Adam Savage... More >>

• Grant Jones at the Magnolia Motor Lounge

  published March 1, 2012

  Regular readers of DC9 and regular drinkers at just about any North Texas honky-tonk are likely familiar with Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos... More >>

• GIVE UP PUNS FOR LIN-T

  published March 1, 2012

  Whether it’s Mark “The Bird” Fidrych from the '70s, or William “The Fridge” Perry from the '80s, we can not get... More >>

• Preview: Dropkick Murphys at House of Blues

  published February 23, 2012

  At the end of the 2005 movie Sideways, Paul Giamatti's character Miles decides to create a special event by drinking a bottle of high-dollar... More >>

• Bring It On! They Need Our Help.

  published February 23, 2012

  Look. We can’t all bring it on. We can’t all sit in the back of the bus with the football studs. Some of us have to haul the water... More >>

• Scott Kelly Strips Down to His Vulnerable Core

  published February 16, 2012

  To apply the term "hardcore" in describing the sounds and vibes of Bay Area titans Neurosis is to miss the point. Whether the Scott Kelly-led... More >>