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Ultra 2013: Yeasayer Insulted the Ravers While Matt & Kim Charmed Them

On day one of Ultra Music Festival 2013, the main-stage DJ surprisingly played Red Hot Chili Peppers' "By the Way." It's not one of the Cali crew's early songs, but it's a hit that came out when about 60 percent of the crowd (now dancing in tutus, "Show Me Your Tits" tees, and beaded masks slathered ... More >>

A$AP Rocky

Friday, Novembmer 2, at House of Blues

After Conquering Central Expressway, Stunt Riders Take on Calatrava this Weekend

. Remember those motorcyclists who briefly took over Central Expressway last year to peel out, do wheelies, spraypaint tributes to fallen comrades, and generally distract commuters from their smart phones? NBC 5 does and reports today that they're coming back. But Central Expressway is so last yea ... More >>

Spoon, Jane's Addiction and This Week's Show Announcements

​It's been quite a few years since Austin's Spoon played an open-to-the-public show in Dallas. Odd considering that most notable Austin acts play in Dallas at least a few times a year. But that's what makes this show announcement so special. On Thursday, April 12, Spoon will perform at Granada The ... More >>

Flogging Molly - House of Blues - 3/4/12

Flogging Molly House of Blues Sunday, March 4 Sunday night's Flogging Molly show more or less served as the triumphant closing ceremony for what might have been the most Irish-intensive week in recent Metroplex history. Last Monday, Boston shamrockers Dropkick Murphys kicked things off, while the N ... More >>

"Our Rapping Is a Movement" -- Checking In With '90s Babies Yung Nation

Yung Nation, the Dallas duo of 19-year-old emcees Lil Faime and B. Reed, is seemingly primed for some national hype. The pair tirelessly records and plays shows, their YouTube channel has well over a million views, and backing from Dorrough Music has allowed Yung Nation and Nation Gang, the dance-c ... More >>

Hood Loved It: Kendrick Lamar Gets Intimate at Trees

Kendrick Lamar Trees Thursday, January 19 Since the last time Kendrick Lamar graced a Dallas stage, his star has only been on the rise. His most recent mix tape, Section.80, has garnered buzz, rave reviews and a spot on Drake's upcoming tour with ASAP Rocky. That's one buzzy tour, but the party las ... More >>

Lenny Kravitz, Gigantour With Megadeth and Motorhead and This Week's Show Announcements

Lenny Kravitz​The last time we heard from Lenny Kravitz, he was creating his own home video of an impromptu performance with a youth band from First Baptist Church of Lewisville on the streets of New Orleans. The people loved it, which is more than can be said of his 2011 funk album, Black and Whi ... More >>

It's all "Fa Shiggadow" to Hip-Hop Duo The Mohicans

City Hall's Giant Neighbor Has New Owners With Desire to Revive That End of Downtown

​Back in May, at the request of a City Hall worker who's been staring at the carnage next door for far too long, we peaked into 500 South Ervay and discovered the old Butler Brothers furniture warehouse wasn't just a 500,000-square foot mess, but also one tied up in litigation with ... dunh dunh d ... More >>

City's Still Struggling With Way to Keep Shopping Carts From Wandering Away

​Speaking of Quality of Life ...At the end of January, the council committee debuted a short film titled The Shopping Cart Menace!, which tallied up the number of abandoned carts in and around Vickery Meadow (spoiler alert: 40 espied during a 20-minute look-see) and demanded the council "pass an o ... More >>

A Beginner's Guide To Electronic Music: From Scratching to Dubstep and Everything Between

...among other things.​Electronica is an infant genre compared to most, its creation depending solely on tools and instruments designed in the last half of the 20th century. And its interpretation is constantly evolving. Because, even though it remains relatively new type of music, there remain so ... More >>

LA Burger: Korean, Mexican and American Food Make Grand Alliance in Irving

​After months of drooling over the hedonistically obscene images of burgers, tacos and other meat and carb pornography my friends had been sending me, I finally had the chance to check out the source of their obsession: LA Burger.Along with a whimsical selection of traditionally western burgers, ... More >>

It's Not Cheap to Mask Your Bank Robbery

​On the other side is the Richardson PD bulletin mentioned here this morning, in which police say they're looking for the "Handsome Guy" bandit who's hit six area banks, including ones in Dallas, Irving, Plano and Richardson beginning April 19. Says RPD, his most recent stick-em-up was July 14, wh ... More >>

140-Character SXSW 2011 Show Reviews: Mind Spiders, Bad Sports, Strange Boys, Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T., Odd Future (Yes, Again) and Z-Trip with LL Cool J

Pete FreedmanLL Cool J is hard as hell.​Well, we made it through another SXSW alive -- and not without seeing some of the best performances we'd seen all weekend on Saturday night.So, on that note, after the jump, we once more hit the ol' 140-character show review model we've been trusting all wee ... More >>

Lumi's Susie Bui On Holiday Stress and an Intriguing Burger Idea

Aaron YoungSusie Bui​Yesterday, we gave you the goods on Susie Bui, co-owner of Lumi Empanada and Dumpling Kitchen. Today, we asked Bui to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, she shares one of her small plate recipes. I was born and raised in... Fort Worth, and I went to school in Arlington. ... More >>

It's a Southern Thing: Who Gets Credit
For Introducing Vietnamese to Crawfish?

​Andrea Nguyen's presentation at the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium this weekend was bound to be a bit contentious, as the award-winning cookbook author was slated to explain to a roomful of proud Southern eaters and cooks that the Vietnamese crawfish tradition rightly belongs to Califor ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, October 18, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Buckcherry (Los Angeles, CA)All Night Long (Eleven Seven Music)You know when yo ... More >>

The D-Town Boogie Isn't Dead, It Just Moved To California. For Now, At Least.

Just a few months after we openly pondered what will surely go down as great question of our time ("Is the D-Town Boogie dead?") it seems as if we've received a temporary answer, courtesy of a collective of west coast rappers known as the Cali Swag District. In short: No, not just yet.Proof on the ... More >>

Q&A: Sore Losers Tells Us Why It's Running For The Hollywood Hills

The past year or so has seen a tremendous upswing in the quality and skill in the Dallas area underground hip-hop scene. But one of the brightest gems in that group, Sore Losers, is now taking its show on the road. The duo plans to move to Los Angeles next week, and, on Sunday night, will host a goi ... More >>

KTVT Now Has a News Director Who's Also a "Protector of Ethics and Ideals"

​KTVT-Channel 11 just sent word: The CBS affiliate, and KTXA-Channel 21, has a new news director and vice president, Adrienne Roark, who comes to Dallas from South Florida. Roark replaces Scott Diener, who was summoned to Cali in January and who, in 2007, replaced the not-well-liked Regent Ducas. ... More >>

Before You Can Re-Install Walking to the Sky, You Must First De-Install Nasher's Sculpture

Patrick MichelsThis morning, crews were removing the most famous sculpture at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Don't worry, kids: It returns in a year or so.​On his way into the office this morning, downtown dweller Patrick Michels stopped by the Nasher Sculpture Center, where he espied crews with cra ... More >>

Pho From Home: Hanoi Style

Pho Hung, Ho Chi Minh City.​In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho--authentic, Texified, good and bad--available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area. This time, we wrap up our excursion through Vietnam. Next week, we ... More >>

Hash Over: California Wines Featured In Dinners, Executive Chef Changes And Free Whataburgers

The 2002 Super T-Rex, one of the wines to be featured in Tuesday's dinner at Tre Amici.​This is a good week to be a Dallas fan of California wines, as two restaurants will feature the products of Cali vineyards in wine dinners beginning tonight. Bolsa has a wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. today featuring ... More >>

Over The Weekend: De La Soul at House of Blues

De La Soul with Kenan Bell and Rhythm Roots AllstarsHouse of BluesJuly 31, 2009Better than: shows from performers ten years younger than these headliners.​It was interesting to see what the scene would look like for a rap act celebrating 20 years since its debut album; it seemed like it'd be the p ... More >>

It's a Grind in Deep Ellum is more than just a coffee shop, it's a sanctuary for second chances.

Texas AG Tells Cali Women to Take Their Fuel Magnets and Blow 'Em Out Their Gas Tank

Three years ago, we ran a piece in the paper version of Unfair Park about a scam called BioPerformance Fuel -- otherwise known as mothballs you were supposed to drop into your gas tank to rev up mileage per gallon. The Texas Attorney General didn't take kindly to that. Which didn't stop two Californ ... More >>

New York State Of Mind

Last Night: The Roots, Gym Class Heroes And Estelle At The Palladium Ballroom

Good Friday: Bleach Boys, Eleven Hundred Springs, Shiny Around the Edges

Spearmint Rhino Charging Into Dallas

Gold Needles in the Pop-Rock Haystack

The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

In Dallas, the Real Estate Biz is Real Estate Good

Birdmonster, Division Day

Wednesday, August 23, at the Double Wide

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Groovy, Far Out and Monkee Business

West Elm Pops its Cherry

L.A. Company Buys Dallas, er, Landmark

Yee-haw, Y'all!

Goy Gevalt

In Her Shoes is pretty but useless, a Prada with a broken heel

Blackalicious

Wednesday, September 21, at Hailey's

Old News

The second verse sounds the same as the first for Parcells' Cowboys

First-String Divas

Girls in underwear playing football. Nice.

Mark Cuban Going Broke

Plus: Jabari Sought Own Death; Who Saw This Coming?

Young's Town

Texas' popular new shortstop is the man of the moment

Sounds of Liberty for All

Seventies punk band T.S.O.L. refuses to fade away

Blowin' Smoke

Biker Boyz is furious, but it ain't fast, which is a real drag

Absolute Smash

Or: Sometimes, writing A Hit Single is as easy as it looks

Free Radish

Mercury Records will be making a huge mistake if it doesn't release Sha Sha

Throw your hands in the air

Beatin' down hip-hop in 1998 like a stepchild