Barbra Streisand

Phil Ramone Made Crappy Music the Right Way

Phil Ramone, who died Saturday following an aneurysm, produced an astonishing number of albums it's not cool to enjoy. Wikipedia helpfully provides a category full of them. He was in on Rod Stewart's first pop standards album; he did the Sinead O'Connor album after the one Sinead O'Connor album; he ... More >>

Modern Prematurity

Seth Rogen takes his Centrum Silver in The Guilt Trip.

Marriage Proposals, $16 Margaritas and Other Things Seen and Overheard at Chris Botti's Verizon Theatre Show

​Let me make myself clear: I love Chris Botti's music. Not in an ironic or tongue-in-cheek way. Yes, Botti, the trumpet player who's played with everyone from Sting to Josh Groban to Steven Tyler. He's the kind of guy your parents love, along with Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand. This admis ... More >>

Last Night: A-Trak, Kid Sister and The Gaslamp Killer at Trees

A-Trak, Kid Sister, The Gaslamp KillerTreesApril 19, 2011Better than: a rousing game of DJ Hero.Pete FreedmanA-Trak at Trees last night.​ There weren't any grand entrances at Trees last night. Mostly, there were just transitions.And, in many regards, that was fitting. This show, after all, was cur ... More >>

Q&A: DJ A-Trak On The Importance Of Bringing DJ Culture Out of Clubs and Into Live Venues

A-Trak​For over a decade now, Alain Macklovitch has been a prominent name in the DJ world. But winning the Disco Mix Club's Wold DJ Championship in 1997 as a 15-year-old prodigy was just the start of what was to come from the guy who performs under the name of A-Trak. In 2004, Kanye West, after ha ... More >>

Little Fockers: The Franchise Has Seen Better Days.

Today In Music News: Songs That Make Men Cry, Vampire Weekend Get Covered And Hipsters Love Babs

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 30, 2010...I can't say that I know any man that would actually cry to a song on the top 10 list of "Songs That Make Men Cry." The guys who sang on Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? are offering up a free download of their version o ... More >>

God, I Hope I Get It: As Hamlisch Takes Over DSO's Pops, A Talent Search at Arts Magnet

Elaine LinerSing us a song, you're the Piano Man, Marvin Hamlisch!​Marvin Hamlisch has his EGOT. That's Emmys (four of 'em), Grammys (four), Oscars (three) and a Tony. The composer of A Chorus Line and the film score for The Way We Were also has a Pulitzer Prize and three Golden Globes. So he's go ... More >>

Another Year, Another Baffling Year-End List From DMN Music Critic Mario Tarradell...

The second-best album of the year? Obviously.​Dallas Morning News music critic Mario Tarradell did us all a solid and posted his always highly anticipated year-end list of top albums and concerts yesterday morning. And, true to form, this year's list is every bit as mind-blowing as last year's off ... More >>

Listomania: Eight Jewish Musical Icons To Celebrate On This Final Night of Chanukah

​When the sun sets this evening, the final night of Chanukah will commence, ending an eight-day spree of phone calls from nagging Jewish mothers and the always pleasant gifting and receiving of holiday socks. Also coming to its unfortunate annual close? The (adorable) singing of the Chanukah praye ... More >>

Like Glee, If It Was Set in Carrollton In '74

​Waiting on a call back from Steve Leach, the so-called "buy guy" at Half Price Books, about something entirely unrelated to this point. But, to kill a little time, let me share with you a couple of items I picked up at the Northwest Highway mothership Sunday morning and converted from vinyl to di ... More >>

ValleyGirls

See the Divas of Uptown

Beefed Up

Is there such a thing as steakhouse saturation?

Extra! Read All About It

Owens' Sausage

The Real Lady Marmalade

Patti LaBelle visits the Nokia

Barbra's Boy

Broadway Bound

The Uptown Players get their makeovers for diva-dom

Oh, Joy

The Family Stone is hard to like, harder still to hate

Neil Diamond

12 Songs (Columbia)

Erasure

Nightbird (Mute)

Focking Wonderful

Streisand and Hoffman save a family--and a movie, too

Method Rocking

Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Crooked As They Come

Criminal swipes its story from a far superior movie

Just Like Heaven

The Cure's extensive boxed set joins the dots on the band's evolution

Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico

Le Bataclan '72 (Alchemy Entertainment)

Caw! Caw!

Take flight to the gallery night

GoGoGo Airheart; The Warlocks

July 3; June 29 and June 30

Say It, Don't Sing It

IFC's new documentary, Crossover

My Name Is

Who is Jill Scott? Why is anyone still asking that?

Dying of Laughter

Sweet November is bad all year long

Various Artists

Electric Ornaments: An Idol Records Christmas Collection (Idol records)

Good Intentions

Harold Ramis paves an uneven road to hell over the classic Bedazzled

The talking penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight

Yule be sorry

All we want for Xmas is Jessica's two front teats

The best Bette

Stop the presses: Gay man raves about the Divine Miss M

Out There

Maybe he's doing it wrong

But a new boxed set proves you can't keep Randy Newman down

'Blue' it

If she isn't careful, LeAnn Rimes could fade away before she's old enough to vote

Out There

Closet case

In & Out goes both ways--funny and funnier

Events for the week

Drawn-blinds blues

Laura Nyro, 1948-1997

Secondhand Rose

Streisand's fun-house Mirror warps her strengths into rare weaknesses

Thank Heaven for Little Country Girls

She's only 14, but child star LeAnn Rimes knows what she wants. Can Nashville handle it?

They shoot movies, don't they?

Sydney Pollack does -- and his reliable, sturdy movies earn him this year's Great Director Award

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Class act

Dallas Theater Center snags four Leon Rabin Awards in inaugural contest

Keys to the kingdom

Local new age piano sensation Danny Wright ponders the secret of his success

Farewell from Cracker Eden

Texas journalism loses a great writer and friend in Grover Lewis