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Robert O'Donnell stands rigidly in the courthouse hallway, his arms folded across his chest, trying to keep his rage in check. Like some Americans, O'Donnell is fed up with...
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We're screwed: Interesting story inside The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday about cuts in the federal budget for the Dallas Trinity River levee project. We're not saying the...
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If the Dallas Cowboys can do it, why can't the Texas Rangers?
Win a playoff game, that is.
In case you've been too fixated on Wade Phillips' contract, Jay Leno's limbo or...
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Dear Mexican: How can a formerly proud Latina like myself feel proud to be Mexican again after my beloved relative was murdered in Mexico by narcos while visiting? I still...
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He plopped down on one of the rickety chairs on the sidewalk in front of J & J's Pizza with a copy of the Dallas Observer, and after lighting his cigarette, he flipped through...
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As if being the son of legendary alt-country godfather Steve Earle wasn't pressure enough, young singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle also bears the name of the late, great...
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Sometimes a band's name can be immensely revealing—especially when wondering about the tunes that reside on a given album. Take, for an apt example, Me Timbers, the new...
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Bowerbirds emerged in 2006 as a back-to-basics act in more than one way: The band's debut LP, Hymns for a Dark Horse, surveyed a stark loping acoustic sound, enriched by...
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Just what makes a pub a "pub"?
If we're speaking of an English place, it should serve fish and chips. Most of them list a number of beers and perhaps a few interesting...
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Lesson I should've learned a long time ago: Check your order before leaving the drive-through. I never check—feels rude, like I am questioning the drive-through lady's...
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As personal assistant to the U.S. ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his terrific-looking kittenish...
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Sometimes the sweet nobility of a heartfelt community theater production can make its flaws forgivable. At all-volunteer playhouses such as Richardson Theatre Centre and...
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It shouldn't exactly be a surprise at this point. Tales of drinking beers and smoking drugs and getting through life (if not flat-out reveling in it), all set to a score of...
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While The Pogues may have minted the style, no one has done as much to popularize Celtic-punk as Flogging Molly—and the band's energetic playing of traditional Irish...
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At first, it appears the kind of local album we see all too often. Take, for instance, the terrible-looking presentation. The CD cover is laughable and silly: Stu's sitting on...
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They don't refer to Denton as Austin North for nothing. In a small college town that's rife with bands spanning all genres and any kind of indie sub-genre you can think...
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Motion City Soundtrack comes to Dallas supporting its newest record, My Dinosaur Life, in what will most definitely be a packed show. No surprise there: MCS has a sound that...
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Ames' voice, at the very least, is above average—and it certainly doesn't lack charm. But, to her detriment, her music has a bit of a more customary coffeehouse sound....
