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Rex Brown is Ready to Talk About the Rise and Fall of Pantera

Pick up a copy of Official Truth 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera at any local bookstore or online at Amazon. Rex will be signing copies of the book at Barnes & Noble on Northwest Highway in Dallas on Tuesday night, March 19, at 7:00 p.m. Back in the Nineties, Panetra rocked venue after venu ... More >>

What You Need to Know From Sundance

The fest's best are the films to watch in the year ahead.

Patent Trolls and the War on Innovation

On the front line of the costliest battle in the high-tech world.

The Feds Attack Online Poker

On Black Friday, The Justice Department killed a $2.5 billion industry.

Kessler Theater To Highlight Crate-Digging With Film Screening and DJ Sets Tomorrow

​Vinyl records are an interesting phenomenon. Those who are into collecting vinyl, are especially passionate about it. And Bill's Records, now in its fifth year on South Side on Lamar, is one of the few places in Dallas where vinyl-philes can find rare recordings. "[Bill]'s got almost a million p ... More >>

Act Fast, Because I Have an Extra Copy of Epic Swindle, That Book About Hicks and Liverpool

From the back cover of An Epic Swindle​Took a couple of weeks, but I just received my copy of  An Epic Swindle: 44 Months With a Pair of Cowboys, Daily Mirror columnist Brian Reade's just-published-in-the-U.K. 338-page recap of Tom Hicks' disastrous run as co-owner of Liverpool FC. So far, so ... More >>

Q&A Giveaway: No Age Drummer and Lead Vocalist Dean Spunt Talks Never Fitting In, Earning Rave Reviews and Tossing Out Takes

How the hell does a DIY, eff-it-all-if-it's-not-art duo birthed out of Los Angeles' famed DIY-venue The Smell come to grips with the pressure of following up a critically successful debut album on Sup Pop? Well, according to lead vocalist and drummer Dean Spunt, if the band's No Age, then it records ... More >>

Can WikiLeaks info dump of state secrets make for a more just society? Well, that's what Russell Fish thinks.

Q&A: The Old 97's Rhett Miller Talks The Grand Theatre, Accepting The Band's Alt-Country Tag and The Trouble With Releasing Double Discs.

Piper FergusonThe Old 97's are looking sharp once more.​In tomorrow's print issue of DC9, I take a long hard look at the Old 97's eighth studio release, The Grand Theatre, Volume One, which earns its release on Tuesday, October 12. And I find, as we've been saying since we first heard the disc bac ... More >>

Less Than Two Years After It Opened, It's Time To Close the Book on Indie Legacy Books

​Kyle Hall, who handles marketing and promotions for Legacy Books up in Plano, hadn't taken a vacation since the mammoth indie bookseller opened its doors in November 2008. He was ready for his very first on July 25 when, the night before, he got a call from Teri Tanner, who manages and operates t ... More >>

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

Staff Trax: Slayer, Future Islands, The Lilys, Dinosaur Jr, Be Your Own Pet and Captain Beefheart

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

The Tweet Life Inspires People to Make Friends and Adopt Causes in Person. It Can Also Cause a lot of Trouble, 140 Characters at a Time.

For A Former Video Store Giant, Blockbuster Is Not Having Such A Blockbuster Decade

Wanz Dover Offers Free Download Of Blixaboy EP

Wanz Dover, a.k.a. Blixaboy. Stereo On Strike's Wanz Dover is on pace to digitally release six EPs of his dub-influenced Blixaboy project in advance of a planned June album release for The Geek. They're all available for purchase through Amazon, iTunes, Digital Tunes and Emusic; the album will be re ... More >>

The Dallas Myth: One Professor's Love-Hate Relationship With His Former Hometown

That's an Osgood: Thursday Night With CBS' Sunday Morning Man

Ever Seen a Ghost?

Spirit hunters like Lisa Olive prowl local historic sites, searching for haunted souls

Peeling Back John Peel's Dallas Daze

People Magazine Finds a "Hero Among Us"

Maim That Tune

Sour notes (on purpose!) at Theatre Three; at DCT's Rabbit, the paw that refreshes

Will Clarke: He's Officially Hot!

The Other Brother

Attend Stephen Baldwin's literary comunion

Read This Post or We'll Shoot Your Dog

Without Prejudice

Berdoll signs her Austen fanfic follow-up

Burning the Faithful

New copy-protected CDs screw over the only honest customers the music industry has left

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Crapped Out

After Pat Green's last album, few of his fans are feeling like Lucky Ones

The Importance of Being Ernesto

Motorcycle Diaries explores Ché Guevara's formative years

Queer Eye for the Country Guys

Have today's country and western stars been consulting with the Fab Five?

N.E.R.D. Alert

Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams plan for the revenge of the N.E.R.D.

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Buzz

Crimson-faced

Scene, Heard

A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox

Twisp of the Tale

When C.D. Payne stopped writing ad copy, he created a revolutionary teenage hero

Fart of the Deal

We told you so

The Content Partners

Any major dude will tell you a Steely Dan story is not to be trusted

Holiday road

Three good bands + one great tour = rock-and-roll fun

The King of the road

Photographic proof of Elvis in Texas...more than 40 years ago

His good name

Former FBI honcho Oliver "Buck" Revell fights against conspiracy buffs who accuse him of mass murder

The truth is way out there

Jim Marrs believes that Kennedy was murdered as part of a vast conspiracy, that aliens vist us regularly, and that the Trialateral Commission controls our governement. So, what if he's right?

Who'll buy my memories?

Anyone, as long as you sell them on eBay

Mommy's little angel

Marshall Ball can't talk. So he listens to God. Everyone else listens to Marshall.

Buzz

What's the frequency, Abby?; The buck stops here

Out There

Snoopy dogged

A Charlie Brown Christmas doesn't come without its (good) grief

Letters

Letters