Austin Powers

Behn There, Done That: Echo Theatre Sets an Antique Farce in the Swingin' '60s

Aw, Nuts

In The Campaign, Hijinks and F-Bombs on the Trail with Will and Zach

Joshua Jones Keeps It Live and Local on KHYI

Aside from being a spitting image of actor Dermot Mulroney, KHYI-95.3 FMGeneral Manager Joshua Jones is quite the rising celeb. On a local level, anyway. He's taken advantage of the fact that he manages a station owned by true supporters of good, old-fashioned local and live radio, and the Jones fam ... More >>

The 20 Best Madonna Songs You Won't Hear at the Super Bowl

I've paid entirely too much attention to Madonna since the age of six, when I stood in front of a neighbor's TV, captivated by the "Lucky Star" video. And, no matter how annoying and schoolmarmish the artist has become in her 40s and 50s, part of me will always stop and stare when she's in my line o ... More >>

Ten Musicians' Ghosts That Still Stalk The Earth (And How To Dress Up As Them For Halloween)

​Now that the calendar has official turned to September and the back-to-school fervor is over, we've come upon that special time once again when big-box retailers to start rolling out their Halloween merchandise. Since we here at DC9 love Halloween, we think it's never too early to begin planning ... More >>

Twisted to the Root: Jason Boso on Kids' Jokes, Pantlessness and Steakhouses

Jason Boso, owner and chef at Twisted Root Burger Company and Cowboy Chow​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Jason Boso, owner and chef at Twisted Root Burger Company and Cowboy Chow. Today, we ask Boso to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. (Note Boso's ... More >>

Is It Better To Be Virgin or Take American from DFW to San Francisco? A Taste Test.

We tested out the new Virgin-American rivalry from D/FW to the West Coast so you don't have to.​Andrea Grimes: A month ago, Virgin America began flying direct out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to the West Coast -- specifically, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To announce their small- ... More >>

2010 ALCS Game 4 - Rangers 10, Yankees 3: My Top 10 Observer-ations

This guy is the Yankees' only hope. In other words, 'tis over.​10. And that, my friends, is why I wanted the New York Yankees. Between CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera, this is a flawed pitching staff. Just ask the Rangers, who in this series have posted 5, 7, 8 and 10 runs in building a comm ... More >>

Wherein Ian McCulloch, That Guy from Snatch And an Angry Mob of Liverpool FC Supporters Offer Some Not-So-Kind Words to Tom Hicks

Well, there's no Shaft of Austin Powers or James Bond after all. But filmmaker Mike Jefferies has, as promised, just posted to the YouTube his short film Dear Mr Hicks, aimed at you-know-who over you-know-what. There are some familiar faces mixed in there, not that that's important. But for some rea ... More >>

Samuel L. Jackson To Go After Tom Hicks (?), While Fred Willard Tackles Tony Romo

​Odd confluence of sports and celebrities today.Like, for instance, this item outta the U.K.: Liverpool native and soccer-movie screenwriter Mike Jefferies has decided to take on Tom Hicks, who, as you're no doubt aware, is still trying to keep hold of Liverpool FC. As Deadspin notes, Jefferies sa ... More >>

Dr. Bell's BBQ

Greenhill School Grad, Class of '88, Among the Latest Batch of Project Runway Contestants

Mila Hermanovski​Good Lord. Here we go again: Project Runway, which just ended its lifeless run on Lifetime, returns January 14 and brings with its two homegrowns. One's 40-year-old Mila Hermanovski, who boasts what's clearly become the favorite hairstyle among locally grown reality-TV show contes ... More >>

Year in Review: Way Down South With the Best Rap Albums of 2009

Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing; with a few exceptions like Raekwon and Kid Cudi, most of 2009's exciting, innovative rap records came from Southern artists. Sur ... More >>

Chickenfoot

Monday, September 21,at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Dude Food: Baby Back Shak

Merritt MartinBaby Back Shak1800 South Akard214-428-7427Dude Factor: 9, or "Bobby Patterson" on a scale of 1 (Cowboy Troy) to 10 (Freddie King)Remember those Chili's commercials with the "I want my baby back, baby back" song? Of course you do. They're burned into the memory of anyone who's ever been ... More >>

Visitor Q

Big D and Mr. Jones got a thing going on

Weird Science

Deuce Pimpin'

Eddie Griffin goes Undercover

Diagramming Modern English

With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock

Laughcast: Robert Hawkins, Steve Hirst, Backdoor Comedy Club

Raising Caine

Michael switches roles at the Modern

Johnette Napolitano

Saturday, November 3, at Poor David's Pub

Puck Rock

Under the stars, a disco-era Dream; unpleasant peasants mar murky Les Miz

Alien Eats

Kitchen 1924 fulfills its promise of unpretentious food that tastes good

Go Green

This festival is magically delicious

Funky Fresh

A white leading man in a black movie? That is something new.

Burt, Back Around

Fall in love with Bacharach

Saint Frances

Author Mayes boasts about her perfect life

Does He Make You Horny, Baby?

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Paddled Senseless

This send-up of Deliverance comes without a brain, too

The Happy Bullets

Blue Skies and Umbrellas (Jeez Louise Records)

Royal Screw-ups

Theatre Britain and Stage West offer English lessons in silly farce and fierce drama

Wanna Shag?

Here are the champions

Graham's Crackers

Plus: International Incident

That's Better

De Niro delights, even if this sequel's slight

Vroom Vroom

The Dallas Collector Car Auction kicks the tires on some oldies but goodies

Powers Off

In Goldmember, Myers' mojo is running low

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Porn to sell

Product placement comes to adult videos...hey, watch where you put that thing!

Hash Over

In the corner pocket

Northern lights

Alaska hockey romp is a successful mix of sweetness and irreverence

Cheers for Spears

A "rock star" writes an open letter to Britney Spears

It's awful, baby, yeah!

Austin Powers can go shag himself

I was a headlessteenage zombie

Thanks to Hollywood's endless pursuit of today's youth, horror movies are -- yes! -- fun again

Out Here

Night & Day

April 16 - 22, 1998

Roadshows

Why, spy?

It's no secret--Austin Powers is one swingin' mess