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Morrissey is Rescheduling his Dallas Show on Doctor's Orders

Morrissey, scheduled to play the Palladium on February 18, has just announced that he's rescheduling due to continued struggles with a bleeding ulcer and Barrett's esophagus. Medical issues already sidelined the songwriting legend in late January for six shows; he's expected to resume touring in Den ... More >>

A Dallas Lawmaker Wants to Put Texas Superintendents' Sky-High Salaries to Voters

When Mike Miles was hired last year as superintendent of Dallas ISD, he was rewarded handsomely. His base salary of $300,000 per year put him near the top of the list of the state's highest-paid superintendents. Meet all the metrics for his possible $200,000 annual bonus, and his place at the top of ... More >>

30 Essential Texas Restaurants to Visit Before You Die

Couple Suing Over False Reports of Mass Grave Say After Police Raid, They Came Home To a Trashed House and No Friends

Back in June, we told you about Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton, a couple in Hardin whose rural farmhouse was raided after law enforcement got a hot tip from a psychic named "Angel" about a mass grave on the property. The mass grave didn't exist, Angel quickly made herself scarce, and the half-dozen ... More >>

Best Texas Songs of All Time: #19-1

Songs #100-80 Songs #79-60 Songs #59-40 Songs #39-20 The Spotify playlist for songs #19-1 19. Billy Preston, "Nothing From Nothing" Houston pianist Billy Preston got to hang around some decent talent (The Beatles, The Stones), but his solo material went in another direction altogether. This is ... More >>

Five Country Albums To Drink Beer With

While there's certainly an eclectic mix at this weekend's third annual Homegrown Festival, you'll want to keep an eye on Robert Ellis. The Houston musician has been kicking around for a couple of years, but his 2010 New West debut, Photographs, provided the lengthy-maned Ellis a national profile, an ... More >>

Picture Show: Toadies, The Phuss and Sealion at Rockin' Rodeo

These three bands have been rolling around Texas on a mini-tour: They just got in from Beaumont, did last night's show in Denton, spent a couple hours in their own beds, then off to Abilene. The Toadies/Phuss collaboration goes beyond this small tour, as Toadie Vaden Todd Lewis helped produce the Ph ... More >>

Rex Emerson of Boxcar Bandits Talks Bob Dylan and Playing Gator Farms

Denton's Boxcar Bandits have been playing their warped version of Americana for just over half a decade. In that time, they've played countless shows and produced two albums: 2008's Smells Like Grass and the recently released Live at Dan's Silverleaf. And while live efforts are often perfunctory p ... More >>

Chef Tell: It Just Conch Be True

​I'll be kind to you people who will see this pop up but who haven't yet watched last night's episode of Top Chef All Stars, the conch-ed up episode resting listlessly in your DVR. I won't give anything away in this first paragraph where your eyes will involuntarily dart around as much as you wish ... More >>

Super Bowl Side Benefit: Lunch Downtown on a Weekend

​Dallas eaters who live downtown may be the unintended beneficiaries of this weekend's anticipated Super Bowl hubbub. While many downtown lunch spots typically shut down for the weekend, at least one sandwich shop has announced plans to stay open this Saturday. For the first time ever, Jason' ... More >>

Bonus MP3s: Grassfight Shares Some Songs And Sheds Some Light On Where It's Been Hiding.

Grassfight​ It's been a while since we'd heard anything on Denton's Grassfight. A little over two years, even--since back when Dave Sims wrote this glowing piece on the then-new-to-the-scene outfit. And then, out of nowhere, we saw that the band on a bill at The Cavern this past weekend and then, ... More >>

Chef Tell: Cooking for Buzz and Beyond

​First of all, TV fans, let me just throw you a cyber fist bump and wish you all a happy 9.02.10. Donna Martin graduates!But seriously, last night was the last set of "normal" challenges before the Final Four set off to cook their way through the finale. It was tense and yet surprisingly lackluste ... More >>

Chef Tell: Take Them Out To The Concession Stand

​Last night Top Chef opened with our fair Tiffany Derry's boisterous guffaws. Ed, the cheftestant who is her show BFF and who totally adores her, was parading around in one of her dresses. At that point, with just six left in the contest, a little unflattering cross-dressing seemed an appropriate ... More >>

A View From the Judges Table: Week 4 of The Shiner Rising Star contest.

​Shing Rising Star Competition: Week 4August 12, 2010City TavernAnother Thursday night in the Metroplex meant another evening of the Shiner Rising Star contest last night. Whereas the majority of the competing bands in the previous weeks have been North Texas products, last night featured a couple ... More >>

Chef Tell: Tiffany, Official Food Ambassador

​Right away, we knew this would be a big week for our Tiffany Derry. They started off the show with her smoothing toner all over her face and neck (so that's how she gets that awesome skin!) and talking about how she was planning her wedding before hopping on the Top Chef train. But it was also wo ... More >>

Like frontier scouts, we picked up his trail

Tracking Skills

Chef Tell: This Show is No Picnic

​After two episodes with chefs deucing out thanks to shitty dessert offerings, it came as no shock -- to me or any sane person watching Top Chef -- that last night's Quickfire Challenge would be for sweet teeth. But somehow the cheftestants were surprised. My first instinct was to desire ... More >>

Chef Tell: Tiffany Derry, Where Were You?

www.bravotv.comTiffany Derry​Oh, what's that? You wanted to know how Go Fish's Tiffany Derry fared on last night's Season premiere of Top Chef D.C.? Wish I could tell you.Derry was just off-screen for most of the show following her introduction. But, at least she did get the first intro.  ... More >>

Top Chef To Go Fish

​Two years ago, then-Observer restaurant critic Dave Faries wasn't exactly singing the praises of  Go Fish Ocean Club (he was fairly distracted by the waiters' chatter). You know who was impressed? Bravo TV. Beaumont native Tiffany Derry, named Exec Chef of Go Fish Ocean Club in 2008, will ... More >>

Uptown's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Plays Naughty Con Games; PFamily Arts Theatre's I Do! I Do! Doesn't

The Dallas Diesel Give Football Has-Beens and Hopefuls One More Shot at the Gridiron

Would You Like to Play for Dallas's New ABA Team? No, Seriously. And, No, It's Not 1967.

Says here that on August 22 at Mountain View College, the American Basketball Association's Dallas Generals will hold it final tryouts and a combine -- seriously, the ABA returneth? Dunno how we missed it, and I've yet to find mention made anywhere else, but at the end of May, the ABA announced that ... More >>

Blown Over: Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast Struggle After Hurricane Ike

Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston residents try to put the pieces back together

Pulp Charity: Holiday Food Drive Horror Stories

Holiday giving is all around us now. If you're not already the generous type, you're being guilted into it by a bell-ringing Santa, or Will Smith, or even Wal-Mart.If you think you can get away with tossing another can of creamed spinach into the bin -- the one in your kitchen cabinet, back where yo ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

Weekend Roundup: R.E.M., Breve Eternidad, Kessler, Edgefest

Under a Paper Moon

College Newspaper Gaga Over Unsigned Artist Damian Giglio

Clinton's Coming to Town. Not That One.

Nickeled, Dimed and Screwed

Hard-sell coin dealers make chump change

Bow to Your Partner

Wendorf honors the Texas dances

High on the Hog

In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

Deep Picks

The North Texas New Music Festival overwhelms Dallas this weekend; make sense of it with our suggestions.

Basic Instinct

Plus: Move Over, Swifties; Thanks A Lot, Pal

You Say Somalia

What is a sommelier?

A Girl Named Suicide

Texas' Valerie Mahfood--last seen getting clobbered by Laila Ali--could change the pretty face of women's boxing

Free of Expression

Two phases of John Alexander's work show what happens when an expressionist loses the fire

The Way of the Gun

The untold story of why Lenell Geter was freed

For God and Country

For a South Oak Cliff church considered a model for mixing faith and government, the line between church and state is thin indeeda

:cueless

Buzz hacks through the past in search of the cool cats and fools of the year that was

Letters

The turkey leg goes to...; Funny lady; Hanging on a KLIF; More epistles to the Jews; Dry summer days

Hey, Mr. Spaceman

Drew Daleo's toys-for-boys images evolve from World War II to Star Wars

Lost legends

Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

The Moses of baseball

Hank Greenberg documentary hits a home run

Dysfunction junction

11th Street Theater Project revives a Pulitzer play with mixed results

Publicity Paul

U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins loves feeding his name to the papers. But what's he done that's news?

Tasting the rainbow

Even if its service is Dallas monochrome--Lavendou offers a superb palette of Provencal

To be or not to bop

Texan Jazz unveils the Lone Star contribution to jazz

Lonely Hunter

After a self-imposed exile in Mexico and obscurity, a Texas bluesman comes home

Bad lawyer joke

'Tort reform' is a misleading euphemism--an excusefor insurance companies to gouge more