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Slayer Helped Get Me Through Chemotherapy

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for our sister paper OC Weekly on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places ... More >>

Caught Stealing 15 iPads? Avoid Arrest by Telling Police You Were Testing Store Security.

Stealing Apple products in bulk is always a dicey proposition. Short of brazen daylight raids on the Knox Street Apple Store, which actually seem to be fairly effective, products made by the world's leading producer of consumer electronics tend to be closely monitored by retailers. But here's a tip ... More >>

Efterklang at Dan's Silverleaf: Review

"Even though you think its cold, it's not cold", Efterklang's Casper Clausen admonished the full house at Dan's Silverleaf. Hailing from Denmark and having spent time above the Arctic Circle, he knows of what he speaks. The dapper Clausen and band mates Rasmus Stolberg on bass and Mads Bauer on el ... More >>

Why Are there So Many Douchebags at Dallas Shows? A Simple Guide to Etiquette

It occurs to me that, at Dallas gigs, there are a greater than average number of people who I would politely refer to as rapscallions. That is, they seem determined to waste the time, energy, and patience of the average gig-going person like me or you with a series of tiresome antics. None of these ... More >>

Meet the New American Airlines, Which is About Like the Old One but with a New Logo

American Airlines has had a rough go of it in recent years, what with its ongoing bankruptcy, a knock-down fight with its unions, and the general hatred of the flying public. Today, on the heels of its first quarterly profit in a while, American announced that it is turning over a new leaf. This is ... More >>

Cantor and Co. Wimped Out at the Cliff's Edge, but There's More Scary Terrain Ahead

New Year's Day was great -- saw The Hobbit with son and girlfriend, came home to prime rib, what could be better? -- but I also spent a hell of a lot of time on the iPad trying to find out if I had fallen off a cliff yet. I'm not sure which was more death-defying -- the movie or real life. The real ... More >>

Burglars Knock Hole in Wall of Knox Street Apple Store, Steal Computers

Early Saturday morning, about 6 a.m., the manager of the Knox Street Apple Store received a call from the alarm company: Someone had breached the store's inner sanctum, the Genius Room, tripping the alarm. The manager arrived within minutes, but he was too late. Checking the stockroom, he discovere ... More >>

Five Great 2012 Concerts in Non-Traditional Venues

Certainly, there will be lists coming forth that will discuss the wonderful local tour stops for many national and international bands in 2012, whether Radiohead at the AAC, Sharon Von Etten at Trees or Frank Ocean at South Side Music Hall. See also: - The top five musical resurrections of 2012 ... More >>

Chef John Tesar's Spoon Bar & Kitchen is Now Open in Preston Center

Chef John Tesar's latest culinary project, Spoon Bar & Kitchen (8220 Westchester Drive) is now open in Preston Center (directly across from Hopdoddy Burger Bar). The dinner menu offers raw caviar, oyster and crudo options, salads, pasta (including house-made fusilli with red wine braised octopus ser ... More >>

This Is Not a Love Song: Thoughts on Fun Fun Fun Fest 7

Fun Fun Fun Fest Auditorium Shores Friday, November 2-Sunday, November 4 In its seventh year, Fun Fun Fun Fest has settled into a very curious meta place. Standing in a crowd at any one of the four stages, you were often watching a show via someone's iPhone or iPad. That Terrence Malick has been f ... More >>

Happy Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day: City of Ate (and Friends) Pick the Best Spots

Ladies and Gentlemen, Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day is upon us. Today is the one day you can indulge without guilt, as it is clearly a national holiday that should be celebrated. Because America. See also: - 100 Favorite Dishes, No. 54: CFS At All Good Cafe - Peace, Love and Chicken-Fried Steak D ... More >>

Macdaddy's, a Macaroni and Cheese Bar, is Open in Denton (Photos)

For the past few weeks, the University of North Texas campus has been much abuzz with the anticipation of several new restaurants opening on the ground level of the new Fry Street development. Now occupying the former home of the Flying Tomato is a Chipotle with a spaceship-like study hall design, a ... More >>

Southlake Developer Wants to Put a Race Track in His Hotel. Like, For Cars.

When Jeff Medici was a financial advisor for Fidelity in Boston, he took his corporate team to a place called F1 Boston, a sort of racing-themed conference center where they learned to work together and trust each other by doing things like changing tires on Formula 1 race cars. When he moved to N ... More >>

Jampact Works Out Some Glitches at the Nasher

Last night I attended a new improvisational night at the Nasher Sculpture Center, led by SMU's Meadows School of the Arts Dean and pianist José Bowen. He and his band, Jampact, played for close to an hour, dipping in and out of free jazz, funk and electronic pockets. In addition, dancer Jennifer Ma ... More >>

LMFAO - American Airlines Center - 6/15/12

See also: 20 shots from LMFAO at American Airlines Center At least 57* opening acts preceded LMFAO's RedFoo and SkyBlu at the American Airlines Center on Friday night. They brought with them a live band (shocking, right?), a DJ, the show-stealing Quest Crew dancers, several scantily clad female boo ... More >>

Here's All Those True Crime Yarns in One Fancy E-Book: Seven Sins

Every week writers for Dallas Observer and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True ... More >>

Dallas Restaurateurs Debate Whether a Cell Phone Ban Could Work, and How

A comment in my story a while back about phone stacking caught my attention. "In Japan they have 'No Phone Areas' in restaurants, bars and even the subway," Wagner Gui Tronolone wrote. "I think it's awesome!" It does sound sort of awesome. Sometimes a cell phone feels like a leash. At the other end ... More >>

A $12 Minimum Hourly Wage: Trading Cheap Happy Meals for a Happier Future

All right, I've got my lanyard whistle around my neck, and I'm set for a session here. Let's hustle up out there, Lawners. Time for today's knee-jerk calisthenics. Remember our interim motto: A knee-jerk reaction is better than not being able to feel your feet. (I'm working on shortening that.) I ... More >>

Denton Artist's Show Celebrates Hijacked Images

Like most modern romances, Irby Pace fell in love in a Mac store. It happened when he was sliding his way across the photo roll on a demo Ipod, and there she was. He just knew. "I saw this one," said Pace while directing his eyes to the photo exhibition's flagship piece, an image of a girl's fac ... More >>

Townhouse Kitchen Bar Now Open at the Galleria (Photos)

​ Imagine walking into a restaurant to the sounds of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me." Now imagine walking into a restaurant to the sounds of Lady Gaga's latest hit. Were they the same places? Of course not. Which is why it may behoove Townhouse Kitchen Bar at the Galleria to recons ... More >>

Best Musical Trends of 2011

OK, Sexy Sax Man. Just 15 more minutes. ​Tell the world, rock is coming home This year saw a wave of rock bands catching up to a new generation. We got Soundgarden touring again, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blink-182 and even less renowned bands like Urge Overkill and Bush releasing new albums. Aft ... More >>

The Return of the Lively Lane Prowler, Who, Turns Out, May Be a Serial Burglar

No doubt you recall the bald-headed, back-packing gent last seen peering into a Northwest Dallas home -- the so-called "Lively Lane Prowler," per Dallas PD's heads-up at the beginning of the month. Well, he's back in the sequel you see above, which was just dispatched by the police department:Turns ... More >>

In East Dallas, Hoping the "Tablet Claw" is the First Crop on a Million-Dollar Idea Farm

Those ideas, the ones you can't shake and would love to invent, the ones you imagine would make a cool million in an instant -- they're the ones Buddy DiFonzo and Mike Solow are looking for. Friends from their software sales jobs, they started a company called Idea Harvest, which matches idea people ... More >>

Offering Something for Everyone, The Dallas Video Festival Returns For Its 24th Year

Bart Weiss​Tonight at the Texas Theatre, the Dallas Video Festival kicks off its five-day run at the Texas and Angelika with screenings of Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme ("filled with sensuous pleasures," insists our J. Hoberman) and Slacker 2011, wherein 24 Austin-based filmmakers pay homage t ... More >>

New Texas Education Law Could Help Render Board of Ed Culture Wars Obsolete

The State Board tried to save McCarthy's legacy, and this is how we treat them?​The jury's still out, but the fact fetishists at the Texas Freedom Network seem to think that the recently enacted Senate Bill 6 may help neuter the historically science-averse state Board of Education. The law pr ... More >>

We'll Take Baylor ( 6) and the Accompanying Kick to the Adrenal Gland

​Okay, let's do this. And by "this" I mean let's make some moolah. The good ol' illegal fun way, shall we?  In 2008 I lost every penny of my virtual $10,000. In 2009 I wound up losing only $150. In 2010 I netted a cool $5,000. By my math, that's a bottom line of ... oh, who's coun ... More >>

There's Oddness at Oddfellows, But It's the Execution That Makes It Shine

The culinary diversions at this Bishop Arts restaurant are interesting -- as is the crowd -- but it's simplicity that makes it stand out.

Polyphonic Spree Releases "Bullseye," Its First Single in Four Years, As Interactive App

​ Back in June, we got word that an interactive-app-as-music-video for the Polyphonic Spree's first single in four years, "Bullseye," was en route. And, indeed, said app comes today, the first single on frontman Tim Delaughter's recently relaunched Good Records Recordings label via Louisiana's Moo ... More >>

Dirk Nowitzki Celebrates Birthday The Way All NBA Stars Surely Do: Vintage Wine and a Nobel Laureate

Mike Mezeul​So what do you give the man who -- all the sudden -- has everything? You throw him a surprise birthday party at a discreet wine room and invite 41 guests, including a Nobel Prize winner he's never met. After getting serenaded with "Happy Birthday" by a post-parade American Ai ... More >>

Looking At The Pros and Cons of Apple's iCloud

​Well, the big announcement came yesterday -- that Apple would be getting into cloud technology, rendering all of its current devices compatible with new iCloud service. With CEO Steve Jobs at the helm, Apple hopes the announcement will drastically change how Mac users store their information. In ... More >>

Pop-ups, Food Trucks, iPads and Alchoholic Chocolate Milk the Hot Trends at NRA Show

The rapture didn't happen, but iPads as restaurant menus will.​Every year, chefs, restaurant owners and vendors take a week off, dust off the old expense accounts and meet in one of America's larger cities for a few days of snacking, drinking and pretending to be interested in a 3000W blender ... More >>

First!: Apple Camper Justin Wagoner's Been Waiting All Week for An iPad2 -- And For The Missing Line to Form Behind Him

Patrick MichelsJustin Wagoner in his home-for-the-week on McKinney Avenue, where he's been waiting. This here is Justin Wagoner. Maybe you've read his name this week in The News. Maybe you the name mentioned in HuffPo: "Justin Wagoner Reportedly Forms First iPad 2 Line In Texas." Or on FrontBurner, ... More >>

More Layoffs at Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Print Media Rally Slow to Start

​As The Buggles famously sang in 1979, video, in fact, killed the radio star. As The Fort Worth Star-Telegram continues to share content with Dallas' Only Daily and slice positions and send talented writers out into the cold in 2011, it's apparent that the Internet is choking out newspap ... More >>

I Tried Using New News Site ...

​... but half the site didn't load this morning. Instead, I kept getting the message, "Sorry you are experiencing a delay. Please try your request again." And it won't verify my subscriber account -- now I have to call just so I can read that story about how "Carrollton councilman urges residents ... More >>

Why Price of The Dallas News Just Went Up

​First, The Dallas Morning News was going to begin charging for online content December 14; then came a delay. But this morning comes The Official Word, via online story (still free!) and press release, outlining the "The Next Generation" in A.H. Belo news delivery.What the story says that the rel ... More >>

Gorillaz Release "The Snake in Dallas," A Song Recorded Here in October, On New Album

"We wrote a song about you."​Yes, as promised, Damon Albarn's Gorillaz did indeed put out a new album on Christmas. only, turns out, it wasn't a free download as anticipated, but rather a free stream (the download option, apparently, is only available for the band's fan club members).So, sure, a b ... More >>

Pour Your Own Beer: A Gimmick That Works...At Least in Tampa

​Craft-beer bar chains are nothing new. As a matter of fact, they might be the most beloved chains of all. Relatively small in size, like local fave Flying Saucer, they offer a consistent quality par excellence. When I learned from my brother-in-law in Florida that a craft-beer restaurant-bar ... More >>

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News Delays Launch of iPhone, iPad Apps and "Subscriber Content." Till When? Dunno.

​A couple of weeks back we noticed that The Dallas Morning News would begin offering very special "subscriber content"on December 14, the same date the paper intended to launch its new iPhone and iPad apps. Publisher Jim Moroney wouldn't offer any further details about DallasNews.com's banner anno ... More >>

Dallas News to Erect Paywall Next Month

​At the end of August there was that report noting that The Dallas Morning News was about to put much of its staff-written content behind a paywall, leaving only Associated Press pieces and 150-word breaking-news briefs as gratis offerings. Publisher and CEO Jim Moroney told us that wasn't quite a ... More >>

Restaurateurs Struggle to Match App to Appetite

​The website for Fearing's is a pretty good model of restaurant website design. It doesn't sing, or waste time on Flash graphics that never load properly. It helpfully provides menus and hours and allows patrons to make online reservations. Fearing's iPhone app is somewhat less impressive. Th ... More >>

This Is What It Looks Like When Janitors Take a Laptop from a Surveillance Industry Convention

Two weeks ago, I suggested that with the ASIS International security industry expo around -- with a few million surveillance cameras lining a showroom full of lasers, booby traps bodyguards -- the Dallas Convention Center was easily the safest place in town. At the time, though, I had no idea that j ... More >>

Samar Makes Esquire's Cut,
But Is Dallas Not As Trendy as it Thinks?

Samar​The accompanying text for Esquire's much-hyped list of best new restaurants is finally online, which means eaters can now follow author John Mariani's logic for anointing Samar a top 10 stand-out (He was apparently smitten with the patio, hookah selection and "women in painted-on blue jeans ... More >>

Puppy-Dog Grins, Chest-High Water and a New Perspective at This Weekend's Jailbreak Race

Photos by Man O'The HourHordes this size and larger took off to run the Jailbreak every half hour for two long days this weekend.​The thing that people like me -- people who hate running -- say about running is that they don't do it unless they're being chased. But I'm not even sure that being cha ... More >>

Listomania: Five Music-Related Applications Steve Jobs Could Have Debuted Today.

Apple teased us with this image.​Earlier today, Steve Jobs unveiled "Ping," a new social media platform within iTunes. We think it's going to really take off--as well as solidify Apple's burgeoning reputation as the future Cyberdyne systems. In this light, we propose a few apps that Jobs could-hav ... More >>

When The Dallas Morning News Introduces Its iPad App, You Can Thank The NY Times

​Forthcoming at the beginning of 2011: The Dallas Morning News's iPad app. Only, per the press release this morning, it'll be a New York Times-made product via its new Press Engine offshoot, which is spitting out iPad and iPhone products for smaller publications without the resources to do it them ... More >>

Shake(s) the Summer Blues

Apple Loves a Food App

​Apple released its list for the Apple Design Award's top 10 applications for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Among them were sweetly addictive time-killing games (what, no Angry Birds? At least they included Doodle Jump), creative tools (Brushes for iPhone, TabToolKit) and yes, Jamie Oliver's 20-Min ... More >>

Dallas Public Libraries Finally Getting Into the Digital Download Bidness This Month

​So says a memo from Assistant City Manager Forest Tucker to the city council sent last night: On May 11, the Dallas Public Library will go into OverDrive, the Cleveland, Ohio-based company that builds Web sites for libraries and allows users 24/7 download access to, so far, about 100,000 audioboo ... More >>

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