Beirut

Arturo Sandoval

Thursday, October 18 at the Kessler Theater

Hey UTA! Here's Your Guide to Cheap Grub in Arlington

Classes at UT Arlington started late last week and everyone is excited about the new fancy-pants $160 million College Park District, which includes a 7,000-seat center for sports, concerts and general hoopla (like commencement ceremonies). The 20-acre area on the east side of campus also has new dor ... More >>

Emblematic College Drinks and Drinking Games

We'd be remiss to allow an entire College Week to pass without mention of the college life's main goal (well, you know except for the main-main one): procuring, hoarding and drinking booze. It's a universal feeling, the simultaneous confusion and wistful nostalgia that comes with the memory of one ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 69: Bolognese At Princi Italia

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. While Princi Italia failed to inspire me with many of their dishes, this Bolognese cap ... More >>

Ask Indie Grandpa: The Coachella Lineup

With the release of Coachella's lineup yesterday, we decided to ask our resident curmudgeon and "good old days" music expert, Indie Grandpa, what he thought of the annual desert festival, which has now expanded to two weekends. What do you think about Coachella's lineup? First of all, morning ever ... More >>

Demi Lovato, Ray Benson and This Weekend's Top Shows

​A lot of people are home for Thanksgiving nursing food hangovers and hanging out with family, which explains why most of this weekend's shows are from local acts. That doesn't mean there aren't some big shows happening this weekend, like the one from Dallas' own Demi Lovato tomorrow at Verizon Th ... More >>

Princi Italia's Tuscan Trip Up

Princi Italia tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing -- everyone but us, it seems.

Five Sad Bastard Songs From 2011 (And When To Use Them)

Make sure you're alone, cold and in the dark before listening to these songs.​We're just on the cusp of a time change. Oh, you know what that means. You know. It means: it'll get darker soon, the clouds will hang gray and low in the sky, and it'll be bone cold. Unless it's not cold because Tex ... More >>

73-Year-Old Dallas Man Convicted In International Telecom Swindle Worth $60 Mil

​Michael Signoretto is 73, and as of today the Dallas man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for his role in defrauding two British telecommunications companies out of of more than $60 million. Signoretto, who was just found guilty by a federal jury, didn't do this alone. He had plenty of co-c ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Experimental/Avant Garde Act, Best Talent Buyer, Best Local Music Advocate

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Experimental/Avant G ... More >>

Loft and South Side Music Hall Talent Buyer Kris Youmans Launches Independent Company

Dylan HollingsworthKris Youmans​ After a year and a half spent working as talent buyer for the Gilley's Complex on South Lamar, focusing on South Side Music Hall, The Loft and the Jack Daniel's Saloon, Kris Youmans has announced today the formation of his own, independent talent buying agency. In ... More >>

Picture Show: Locals Only with Bravo, Max! and Analog Rebellion

All photos by Alex ScottCaption this photo in the comments below, and the most interesting one will win some Beirut tickets.​Around 9 p.m. last night, the Mavericks were finishing up the first half, warm peanuts sat in a barrel at Jack Daniels Saloon, and Bravo, Max! began tuning up for Locals Onl ... More >>

Show Announcements: Arcade Fire, Beirut, Josh Groban, Gruff Rhys, Alejandro Escovedo, Gogol Bordello, Bruce Hornsby, Big K.R.I.T., Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae & More!

Who is this band, and why are they holding a Grammy?​Since the Grammys, the general population has been mostly dumbfounded that Arcade Fire could win in the category of Best Album. All over the web, the question resounds: "Who is Arcade Fire?" You'd think that a band that's sold as many albums as ... More >>

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

Yann Tiersen

Thursday, April 22, at the Granada Theater

Dallas-based Techno Artist Convextion Gets Named To Fact Magazine 's Best Albums of the '00s List

​British-based Fact Magazine recently released it's best albums of the decade list (everyone's doing it!) and here's an interesting inclusion of note: Coming in at No. 21 on the taste-making mag's list is Dallas-based electro artist Gerard Hanson, who scores with the 2006, self-titled album he rel ... More >>

Giveaway: One Pair of Tickets To Tonight's Bowerbirds Show At Hailey's

​It's about time Bowerbirds paid a visit to Denton. Bowerbirds' organic rhythms -- not to be confused with crude strumming, but rather subtle arrangements and raw energy, easily surpass those of Devendra Banhart or Beirut Inspiration must come easy for founding members, Phil Moore and Beth Tacul ... More >>

Blood ties between Arabs and Mexicans? Oh, man, that’ll drive Lou Dobbs really nuts.

Yesterday at NX35: Spooky Folk and The Baptist Generals at The Hydrant

BAND(s): Spooky Folk and The Baptist GeneralsVENUE: The Hydrant Café TIME: 9:30 & 10:30 p.m. Having already raved about the living-room-vibe of The Hydrant's upstairs room, I'll leave that alone--other than mentioning that, as far as intimate performance spaces in Denton (not including DIY hous ... More >>

Devotchka, Crooked Fingers

Tuesday, February 10, at House of Blues' Pontiac Garage

Dogs of War

Waltz With Bashir is documentary and animated feature—andA bubbling up of repressed violence

Febrifuge

A Short Instance Of Separation (Self-released)

Sweet Silver Screen

Guiding Big D's Sonic Pilgrims

Enough with the turkeys, now for a little locally baked dessert

Rooms at War

Good Friday: Carter Albrecht Memorial, Jucifer

Light Dining

No Reservations is sweet and savory fare. Without the foam.

More Shriek Than Shrek

On the Download

Linking you to the best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives

Alone, Together

Give Peace a Dishtowel

Think peace protesters are lame? So, what are you doing with your life?

Beirut Ain't Got Jack on Woodrow

Leaving Beirut

A Living Crisis

Could Be Verse

A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again.

Crusaders

In another holy war, the battle plan is to turn Muslims into Bible believers

Touchy Subject

Federal judge strikes down Dallas' two-rubs-and-you're-out rule for strip clubs

Chief, It's Chaos

Tony Scott, with Redford and Pitt, plays a mad but vigorous Spy Game

The Home Stretch

From A-Rod to Z-routes, the year that was in Big D sports

The Cider House Rules rules

Joe Bob in Bloom

John Bloom has taken his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, and gone Hollywood. But watching America's favorite drive-in movie critic on television these days, a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself

Bugged By the Millennium

A computer glitch has some Dallasites predicting an apocalyptic meltdown. They may not be that crazy.

Hole-in-the-wall treasure

Tasty Greek is disheveled, but the food cleans up

Keeping the pita puffed

Hedary's Lebanese Oven & Grill offers reverent interpretations of ancient dishes

Goofy golf

Out among the fiberglass elephants, Putt-Putt pro Jeffery Smith searches for his zone

Last in the Class

Why nobody will erase the board at Wilmer-Hutchins, the worst-run school district in Texas

Charity Gall

Crippled children are the latest fund-raising ticket for a controversial Palestinian foundation

Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Local hero

Disaster-relief expert Fred Cuny disappears while rendering aid in Russia