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Rachel Behring Tells Rock Star Hospitality Stories and Explains her Love for Local Music

Ever been backstage at House of Blues Dallas? Rachel Behring painted the cool murals you see on the walls back there of some of rock and soul's legends. But hell, that's just her showing she loves where she works ... and who wouldn't? Behring spent a good stretch of time managing backstage at HOB, a ... More >>

Meet Jacob King, the 18-Year Old City Council Candidate Who Wants to Shake Up Dallas

In the race to replace Ann Margolin as District 13's representative on the City Council, Jennifer Gates has Staubach as a maiden name and the backing of the establishment; Leland Burke, a real estate investor, has the business experience that plays well in the district's Preston Hollow core; and Jac ... More >>

First Round of SXSW 2013 Acts Announced, Including Blackstone Rangers and The Relatives

With the announcement of 35 Denton's initial lineup, it was only a matter of time before you felt that tightening in your chest, aka the first round of SXSW acts. North Texas' Blackstone Rangers, Ronnie Fauss, the Relatives, Somebody's Darling, Sarah Jaffe and Tedashii are all represented. Thurston ... More >>

Chris Galt's All Up In Your Venue, Recording Your Bands

Jill NoelChris Galt​Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. Chris Galt isn't always the most welcome person in a venue. He comes rolling in with his own console, often unplugging everything and rewiring the systems togeth ... More >>

My First Show: Beau Wagener Tells Us About Seeing Weird Al in '87 In Advance of His Debut With People on Vacation This Weekend

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Beau Wagener​Beau Wagener might be best known around town as the bassist for Macavity and, more recently, as one of three guitarist ... More >>

Video Premiere: People On Vacation -- "Better Off Dead"

Scott ColePeople on Vacation​We've spent a good chunk of space here in the past few weeks talking about People on Vacation, the new collaborative project from Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton and Bowling for Soup's Jaret Reddick -- probably too much space, considering that the band has yet even to make ... More >>

Narnia: An Ailing Franchise Gets Another Chance

Next Week at SMU, the Discovery Institute's Finally Nailing Darwin For Good

​If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>

The Town: Ben Affleck, Caught Between Redemption, Action and Hometown.

Last Night: Cadillac Sky, Seryn at House of Blues' Cambidge Room

Cadillac Sky, Seryn House of Blues July 8, 2010 Better Than: a hoot--it was a hoot and a half.Cadillac Sky performing "Born Lonesome" last night at the House of Blues.Cadillac Sky guitarist David Mayfield took a sweaty pause from his emphatic playing to  patiently teach the crowd at the Hou ... More >>

Today In Music News: Miley Cyrus Gets Defensive, Ozzy Gets Studied And Tim Bachman Gets Pinched

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 16, 2010...Miley Cyrus and her tiny teeth say she's not trying to look like a slut with her slutty looking stage outfits.  I guess some things come naturally to us and we really don't have to try, right?Cambridge researchers want to st ... More >>

Gig Alert: Kevin So and Emily White at Opening Bell Coffee

So what!?!?!?! Really, these captions write themselves sometimes.​Feeling like a little mellow, acoustic tunage before the assault of NX35 and SXSW? Opening Bell Coffee offers up a nice bill of singer/songwriters this evening with Kevin So and Emily White.Hailing out of Boston, So actually toured ... More >>

Live Nation Goes Bonkers With More Giveaways, Deals

​In case you haven't noticed, we, and everyone else (including Subway) have been kinda inundated with ticket offers and discounts from Live Nation all summer long.Well, this week, the folks at the national booking/promotions superpower have put a few more worth-mentioning doozies into the pot.Firs ... More >>

Frank Rich Says It's Lupe Valdez Who Really Scares the Heck Outta Glenn, Rush and Newt

​In his New York Times op-ed this morning, Frank Rich pours one out for Henry Louis-Gate. And as he moves from Cambridge to the White House (for the free beer), Rich stops to huff the Brit Humes at FOX News, where everyone's calling everyone else a racist these days (oh, that Glenn Beck!). So, why ... More >>

So Tonight's Kinda Crazy-Packed, Huh?

Not that you needed the reminders, I'm sure, but, seriously, check out tonight's schedule:Tallest Man on Earth and John Vanderslice at the House of Blues' Cambridge Room. (Which, hilariously enough, is no longer called the Pontiac Garage. Shocking, I know.)Paul van Dyk at the Lizard Lounge.Starlight ... More >>

Teacher-Turned-Author Questions How Dallas Landed Two Schools at Top of Newsweek List

Newsweek has yet again released its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in the U.S. -- and Dallas, with six on the list, has dropped one from the '08 scorecard: poor ol' Hillcrest High School, which last year came in at No. 547, dang. The School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell T ... More >>

Passion Pit Puts Its Mind over Manners

Making History

Uptown Players stage an academic romp

The History Boys earns top grades at Uptown Players

Apt Pupils

Eric from Cincinnati, the Kimbell's New Boss

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth officially announced this morning that it has appointed Eric McCauley Lee as its new director. Lee's moving to Fort Worth from Cincinnati, where he's been director of the Taft Museum of Art for only two years. Notes the Kimbell's release, which follows in full af ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To Catch Bishop Allen Tonight At Hailey's

Good Friday: Eli Young Band, The Doc Marshalls, The Presidents, Ghostland Observatory, Leon Russell, Mad Mexicans, Destroy Dallas Metal Fest, Radiant, Trey Johnson and Friends, The Happy Bullets, Dear and The Headlights, And, Well, A Crapload More...

Ain't No (Apollo) Sunshine

Michelle Shocked Isn't A Lesbian, Loves God...Basically, This Is A Bible Girl Column.

Ukulele Virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro Doesn't Sing. But He Does Talk.

How Porterdavis is Like Organic Hummus

Best Bets for New Year's Eve Concerts

Your Time Is Gonna Come

Livin' and lovin' maybe, but don't call them maids

SMU and A&M are Damned Liberal Anti-Bush Bastions. Sure, Prof, Whatever You Sez.

Blues News

Dallas music heads for the House

That Jim Schutze is Always Makin' Friends

Beeing There

Humble Boy, based on Hamlet, stings the heart; Scapino beats itself to bits

The Beatdown

Lee Coombs' funky-fried beats are Finger Lickin' good

Double Decherd

The Dallas Morning News owner sounded smart, so it had to be an impersonator

Mighty and Young No More

Plus: Time To Talk; Only Rock and Roll

Mother Love

Going to St. Ives takes two women on a troubling journey between good and evil

In the Wolf's Mouth

SMU's Bryan Mark Rigg uncovers the story of Hitler's Jewish soldiers

Fished Out

Samurai Japanese Cuisine & Sushi Bar is just a little fishy

Shaw Business

Quaint scandals at Theatre Three; shrieks of horror fill the night at Teatro Dallas

Love and Death

Christine Jeffs and Gwyneth Paltrow imbue Sylvia Plath with new life...uh, and death

Well Versed

Same state, different worlds for two Texas poet laureates

Sexual Healing

In Laurel Canyon, a little erotic temptation proves good for the soul

Bad Trip

Harvard Man does LSD right but can't get us to care

Dead Wrong

How consummate con artist Henry Lee Lucas resurrected the dead and went looking for a sucker. He almost found one.

The old new media blues

The singer-songwriter hasn't died. He's just gone online.

Soft touch in the head

Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting is all heart, no brain

The plague years

Gryphon Players' The Living can't face the feeling of wholesale suffering

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