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The Place Beyond the Pines Makes a Heavy-Handed Grab at being a Masterpiece. It Isn't.

A Dozen of Our Favorite Posts and Stories of 2012

As the sands in the hourglass run out here at DC9 HQ, and making year-end lists feels more like penance than pleasurable mental exercise, we thought we'd take a break from quantifying albums and concerts, and instead qualify some of our favorite posts from the last year with an, "Oh man, that was a ... More >>

A Dispatch From the Untapped Beer and Music Festival

See also: The people of Untapped Festival Listen: Dallas, Texas has become unstuck in time. At least that's how it felt in the short break between the shot glass full of beer and the guy in front of me wearing a Vonnegut jersey that bore the number five. That's a Slaughterhouse Five reference, rig ... More >>

Trespass: Nicole Kidman Says "I Don't Give a Fuck Anymore," Everyone Nods in Agreement

Oktoberbest 2011 Round One: Samuel Adams Speared By Harpoon, Paulaner Pounds Ayinger And More

We can only hope Hoppy The Clown brings as much drunken hilarity and pathos to The Common Table tomorrow as Shakes The Clown did to our VCR years ago.​The first round of Oktoberbest 2011 is halfway over, with a couple of surprising upsets and a couple of shocking, bit-spitting failures by favored ... More >>

Franconia Preparing To Bottle, Host Donnie Nelson Meet-and-Greet Saturday, and More Beer News

His dad may be banned from bringing beers to press conferences, but Donnie Nelson can have one with you.​Dirk Nowitzki may have grown up just a few minutes away from Franconia brewmaster Dennis Wehrmann's hometown in the Franconia region of Germany, but it will be a different Dallas Mavericks pers ... More >>

Texas Beer Fest Announces Lineup, Moth to Release '07 Dogfish Head Brews, American Craft Beer Week And More

​May is shaping up to be an eventful month, beerwise. First off, don't forget about the Belgian Tea Party at The Common Table Saturday, May 14, or about the two previously mentioned festivals, the Spring Beer Festival noon to 10 p.m. Saturday at Flying Saucer on the Lake and the North Texas Beer F ... More >>

Season-Ale Events Of Note At Some Of Our Favorite Beer Joints

Some brief programming notes before we get into the deets of a few upcoming beer events...​On tap for the next few weeks in Hophead are tasting notes on numerous beers, including some great holiday and winter seasonal brews as well as a hop-heavy Belgian import that is so far unavailable in Texas. ... More >>

Rahr Reopening To The Public Soon, Announces Oktoberfest 5K and Upcoming Seasonals

​Great news for fans of Fort Worth's Rahr & Sons Brewing Company this week, as the brewery is just about ready to open up to the public again for its raucously fun brewery tours. The news comes more than six months after February's snowstorm collapsed the brewery roof, temporarily halting prod ... More >>

Over the Weekend: The Vans Warped Tour at Superpages.com Center

Van's Warped TourSuperpages.com CenterJuly 3rd, 2010Better than: last year's Warped date. Alexander FloresWe already showed you the fans. Now check Alex's slideshow of Andrew WK and the rest of Warped's bands.​Thank you, Hurricane Alex. Were it not for your rain and wind, the thousands of folks at ... More >>

GAME 6: Spurs 97, Mavs 87. My Top 10 Observations.

Another year, another painful playoff loss.​10. The Mavericks are now the only NBA team to lose in the first round of the playoffs as a No. 1 and No. 2 seed. Granted the four-time champion Spurs aren't your pedestrian No. 7 seed, but it's still an ugly epitaph to have etched on your tombsto ... More >>

Dirk Nowitzki: In His Own Words

Danny Bollinger​I wish Fox Sports Southwest did more of these because they're usually pretty damn good. If his 33 points and 8 rebounds in last night's victory over the Phoenix Suns merely left you wanting more of Dirk Nowitzki, tune in to FSSW Friday at 10 p.m. for In My Own Words. Du ... More >>

Your Dallas Mavericks: Now What?

Danny Bollinger Was this block/fall Jason Kidd's last stand as a Maverick? The body was still warm. The emotions, still raw. But when it comes to the Dallas Mavericks, Charles Barkley doesn't give a damn. "They got problems," the rotund, ridiculous TNT analyst said last night in the min ... More >>

Pinch Yourself: Mavericks 106, Spurs 93

In hindsight, Dirk Nowitzki vs. Matt Bonner was a laugher.On second thought, forget The Alamo. And the San Antonio Spurs. What began as a competitive series that some of us skeptics thought the Spurs would win in seven games magically morphed into a hockey power play. Afforded basically a 5-o ... More >>

Whitt's End

 Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week - even the end of the year -  welcome to Whitt's End: *Hold your horses if you thought tonight's concert by Russ Martin and his band at Joe Avezzano's joint up in Frisco was going to A) turn into a bashfest o ... More >>

Good Friday: Rockett Queen, The O's, Blackheart Society, Miser, Menkena, Odis, Calhoun, Dan Dyer, The King Bucks, Chris Masterson of Son Volt, Here in Arms, Sunward, Fight Bite, Nicholas Altobelli

It's a big big BIG couple nights and days of shows all around the DFWd region this weekend. So, no point in pussyfootin' around. Let's jump right in. First, the show's we've already dropped on ya...On Friday night, there's the Eagles of Death Metal show (sans Josh Homme, remember) at the Prophet Bar ... More >>

Overhauled and Underrated, the Mavericks Are Priced to Sell

Nobody Knows What They're Doing|Kidd Is done, You Betcha

After the Season Is Torched and the Coach Fired, Mavericks Begin an Overhaul

Dallas' Only Daily Fudges the Facts in Butting Cyber Noggins with Mark Cuban

The Beginning of the End?

I Love Devean George?

Giant Disgust with Dallas Cowboys

Tony Romo and the Cowboys piss away a Super opportunity

Warriors In Six

May Day! May Day!

Suits Him Fine

Jay Lombardo designs sports' spiffiest uniforms

Golden Opportunity

Killer Instinct

David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off in Zodiac

How You Like Me Now?

Premature Evacuation

Caution: Knee jerks hopping off Mavs' bandwagon

On the Rebound

Mavs dragging old heartache into new season

All's Fair

Haven't been to a local show lately? Keep your calendar clear for these seven stellar live acts

The Missing Link: KeithVan Croshere?

On Your Mark

Win or lose, Reunion Rowdies are now officially Cuban Crazies

Thanks for Everything. And for Nothing.

Chumps to Champs

Remarkable journey takes Mavs from worst to--finally--first

The Dallas Donuts

Can Dampier finally fill Mavs' middle?

Told You So

Nellie retires--you read it here first, sort of

The Understudy

Avery Johnson will make a fine coach someday, but why today?

Letters

Re: Your New Job!

Plus: Winning is Fun; Ethan Makes a Funny

Out There

The King of Creep

The 28th Annual USA Film Festival Artist Profile

Emotional rescue

There's paradise found and innocence regained in the music of Neutral Milk Hotel