Brooklyn

Hophead: Do Right By The Pilgrims And Have Beer With Your Thanksgiving Meal

​If barley be wanting to make into maltWe must be content and think it no fault For we can make liquor to sweeten our lipsOf pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips. --Anonymous colonist, 1630Though some dispute the story, many beer lovers cling to the legend that the Pilgrims landed at Plymou ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To Tomorrow Night's Bishop Allen Show At Lola's Sixth in Fort Worth

The Brooklyn-based indie poppers in Bishop Allen stop through Lola's Sixth in Fort Worth tomorrow night as part of a tour in support of its March-released Grrr..., the band's third full-length since its Charm School debut in 2003--and, surely, its more ubiquitous. Take, for instance, "The Ancient C ... More >>

Hophead: Brooklyn Brewmaster Says In Food Pairing, Beer Is The Answer

Jesse HugheyBrooklyn Local 1 with honey-pepper salmon.​Brooklyn Beer brewmaster Garrett Oliver's visit to Whole Foods yesterday afternoon was first and foremost a cooking demonstration with beer pairing suggestions. But as Oliver described how the flavors of each brew complemented each course, he ... More >>

Hash Over: Beer Hero Makes Dallas Stops, Fair Food A Grind, Five-Sixty For Happy Hour And More

Garrett Oliver​Author, beer judge and Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver will be in town Wednesday for a couple of Brooklyn Beer-related events. One is free, while the other costs $58 per person plus tax and tip. Guess which one we'll be attending. First, Oliver will offer samples with foo ... More >>

ACL: The Dirty Projectors Clean Up Quite Nice

​ The Dirty Projectors may have been around since 2002, but make no mistake: 2009 is the Brooklyn-based act's breakthrough year, thanks tot he success of the band's phenomenal earlier-this-year-released Bitte Orca, a true gem of a folktronipop of a record, riff with lush instrumentations and as im ... More >>

(Kinda) Announcing DC9 at Night Presents: Deep Cover

​Perhaps you've seen the above ad in the past couple issues of our dead tree publication about a new monthly happening down in Deep Ellum, brought to you by seven of the neighborhood's venue's, one of its art galleries and us here at DC9? Yeah? Well, as the above image implies, the deal's called D ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan

Wu-Tang Chamber Music (E1 Music)

Sloppy Seconds: Who Got the Hooch?

Whether driven by an asinine Constitutional amendment, grand notions of urban planning or draconian dietary shackles, folks who find they have to suck it up, tug at their bootstraps and get down to business -- they're the ones who make the real innovations. This week, one way or another, from hooch ... More >>

Hophead: Brooklyn Beer In 'The Brooklyn Of Dallas,' And A Question For Local Beer Lovers

At the Kessler groundbreaking ceremony last weekend, a music critic was overheard calling Oak Cliff "the Brooklyn of Dallas." It's not a new sentiment. According to an 1890 flyer by Dallas Land & Loan Co., "Oak Cliff is to Dallas what Brooklyn is to New York." Whether or not the analogy is ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To Saturday's Telepathe Show At Hailey's In Denton

If there's one thing that's for certain about Brooklyn's Telepathe, it's that the girl-fronted electro-dance act sure has it's finger on the pulse of what the kids are digging today. The above single, "So Fine," pretty much cuts its '80s influences from the same cloth as many of the other popular am ... More >>

The 10th Annual Latin Alternative Music Conference is Looking for Dallas Bands

Just got an email from Paul Dryden, a real nice fellow who runs Nacional Records and is one of the organizers for the Latin Alternative Music Conference. This year, the conference is taking place in New York City, July 7 - 11. Dryden is looking for some Dallas-area bands that fall into the Latin cat ... More >>

Gang Gang Dance, Rainbow Arabia, Sydney Confirm

Thursday, November 20, at Lola's Saloon, Fort Worth

Parts and Labor, Lipstick Terror, True Widow

Sunday, November 9, at The Lounge on Elm Street

News Of Jay Reatard's Cancellation's Making The Rounds Today

Cancelled: Emmylou Harris At Majestic Theatre Tonight

Bits: The Feds, Opium Symphony, The Fieros, Black Tie Dynasty

You Have Been Warned

An Update: We're Off To Catch Some Day Shows

Architecture in Helsinki, Glass Candy, Panther

Tuesday, November 13, at Hailey's, Denton

DJ Vadim, Abstract Rude, Yarah Bravo

Sunday, October 28, at Granada Theater

Bishop Allen, Page France, The Teeth

Saturday, July 28, at Hailey's, Denton

Her Lips Are Red. Red, Damn It, Red

Adult, Parts & Labor

Saturday, April 21, at Hailey's, Denton

Fractured Fairy Tales

Three merry musicals sing their way to happy endings (wink, wink)

Dirty on Purpose

Wednesday, August 9, at Hailey's

Radio 4, Small Sins

Friday, June 9, at the Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Essex Green

Friday, May 12, at the Cavern

USA Film Fest Gets the Shaft

We Are Scientists

Tuesday, March 21, at the Granada Theatre

Hold, Please

How 34-year-old Craig Finn became famous singing about drug-huffing 20-somethings

Japanther

Wednesday, December 7, at Rubber Gloves

Best Jazz Club

Brooklyn

Black Dice

Creature Comforts (DFA)

Clem Snide and Califone

October 12

Best New York-Style Italian Family Grocery

Jimmy's Food Store

Time Warp

Believe it or not, it's 2003 in Highland Park, too

Toy Soldiers

Computer game designers in Bedford re-create the greatest generation online

Trashy Dreams

The city hopes its new "eco-park" will mean jobs and business. That may take some luck.

Various Artists

In Our Lifetime Vol. 2 (Fenway Recordings)

Hope in Hell

Cameron Park, Texas, is the poorest town in the U.S.A. But its residents say life has never been better.

I Am the World Trade Center, VHS or Beta

June 20

Trans Am, Oneida / The Fucking Champs

May 23 / May 27

The Machines Are Winning

Secret Machines have conquered NYC. Sort of.

Hours of Power

Theatre Three makes a joyful noise with a good play about preachin'

Pi in Your Face

Director Darren Aronofsky makes films that resemble himself: smart and abrasive

Best outing with the kids

Dallas Museum of Art

The Bit Player

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Lack of confidence

Highland Park officers would like to get rid of their chief, if they could only figure out how

Buzz

The price of privilege

Highland Park ISD's expansion plans target the homes of the district's less affluent residents