Cincinnati

White Rock Local Market Hosts 3rd Annual Chili Cook-Off Saturday, April 27.

The White Rock Local Market has gotten off to a robust start this spring. Every year the size, selection and general merriment grows for the "Only Growers, Only Makers, Only Local," market. And that makes us happy. In a few weekends, Saturday, April 27 to be exact, the market will hold the 3rd Annua ... More >>

Examining the NFL Playoffs Through Food

It's that time of year again. Every January my food-perverse mind converts professional football teams into dishes as a way to explore great food from around the country. Last year we enjoyed a lively discussion as different teams jockeyed for a chance to play in the Superbowl, and I'm hoping this y ... 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 >>

The North Dallas Plot to Take Over DISD

Rich, white, North Dallas businessmen are plotting to take over Dallas' schools. Maybe this time it'll work.

Preview: Heartless Bastards at Lola's Saloon

Friday, March 9, at Lola's Saloon, Fort Worth

Introducing the NFL Playoffs of Food

I've been looking forward to this series of posts since mid-fall, when our new Sportatorium folks joined the City of Ate fray. You see, I can think of no more perfect marriage than sports and food. And I consummate this union every year with an annual football-themed degustation. Before you skewer ... More >>

Not-So-Quiet Riots: The Ten Worst Riots In Music Event History

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday's NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route -- and in the sweltering heat, no less -- there were only five arrests. B ... More >>

Erykah Badu to Join My Morning Jacket As Guest For Streaming Tuesday Night Concert

Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were t ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Lady Gaga at the AAC, The Small Ponds at Dan's, The Lonely Forest at Dada, Muffalo at The Double Wide, Babar at Rubber Gloves and Milktooth at La Grange

Eek! It's time for SXSW spillover, the yearly event in which the hoards of bands heading to Austin collect a little gas money by playing our fair area. But I'm not one to complain: Good music is good music, no matter where or when it's played.

Tonight, Tonight: Frightened Rabbits at The Loft, Javelina at The Nightmare and Bettie Serveert at The Prophet Bar

Triple-bills are the order of the day on this busy Tuesday evening.

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Frightened Rabbit Show at The Loft

It's a tough week to make a case for a rock show--what with some baseball team clogging up most locals' night-time plans and all--but The Loft's got a compelling argument tomorrow night when it hosts Frightened Rabbit in its friendly confines. The Scottish indie rock outfit made quite the splash wit ... More >>

The National Can't Write Happy Songs

Listen: The Riverboat Gamblers Cover Bad Religion's "Heaven Is Falling" For Spin

​The punk rockin' Denton ex-pats in the Riverboat Gamblers are no strangers to the folks at Spin--not, at least, since the music mag vaulted the band from small regional clubs and the pages of Alternative Press and into the limelight by naming the band one of the best live acts in America. And the ... More >>

Today In Music News: Scott Weiland Needs A Backup, Drake And Nicki Minaj May Have Gotten Married And Axl Gets The Plug Pulled On Him

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 30, 2010...Scott Weiland was not only humiliated from falling off the stage in Cincinnati, but he also inadvertently revealed the fact that he uses "backing" vocal tracks.Did Drake and Nicki Minaj get married? Their tweets say they did.Readi ... More >>

Chad Lacerte, the Man Behind Watersports Complex, Isn't Going to Sue the DHA. Yet.

​Last week I noted that a fairly significant wakeboard event -- scheduled to be held at the long-in-the-works Dallas Watersports Complex on Fish Trap Lake -- had to find a new home, after the Dallas Housing Authority pulled a Sybil and told Chad Lacerte thanks but no thanks after giving him the ok ... More >>

Q&A: Cincinatti's 500 Miles To Memphis Talks Working With John Pedigo of The O's, Offers Up A Free Download

500 Miles to Memphis​500 Miles to Memphis may not be a local Dallas band, but five of the band's 36 listed upcoming shows will be played in the region--three this weekend, then one more in August and yet another in October. The Cincinnati-based rock country punk band has been connected with Dallas ... More >>

Good Friday: Actual Good Friday Edition

Jesus? Or Frank Zappa?​Given recent goings-on (which, I hope, also helps to explain the tardiness of this posting) the top pick of place for you to be this weekend is pretty obvious: Stop on by Good Records on Saturday at 3:33 p.m., when Erykah Badu stops by the Lower Greenville record store to si ... More >>

Yesterday at NX35: Pomegranates at Hailey's Club

Pomegranates​Band: PomegranatesVenue: Hailey's ClubTime: 9:30 p.m.Hailing out of Cincinnati, the youthful quartet known as Pomegranates made one of my favorite records of 2009, the wonderfully chaotic Everybody, Come Outside. This evening was my first chance to catch the band live, though--and it ... More >>

Headlights, Pomegranates

Thursday, November 19, at RubberGloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton

Pomegranates

Everybody, Come Outside! (Lujo)

Gig Alert: Moving Mountains Tonight at The Prophet Bar

​The guys in Moving Mountains prefer the terms "indie rock" and "post rock" instead of "emo" in describing their sound. And why shouldn't they? Gregory Dunn and Frank Graniero lead Moving Mountains into sonic territory never imagined by most bands of the emo contingent. Hell, the guys in Movi ... More >>

Giveaway: One Pair Of Tickets To Wye Oak And Pomegranates At Lola's Sixth Tomorrow Night

Tomorrow night, Baltimore folk rockers Wye Oak and Cincinnati indie-poppers Pomegranates will join Fort Worth house outfit Shuttle at Lola's Sixth in Cowtown. Tickets to the Spune Productions show are $8 for everyone--and we do mean everyone, as this is an all-ages show. Everyone, that is, except fo ... More >>

Now, R.I.P. Dallas Has a Dream

I don't know -- stripped of Rage Against the Machine, the latest R.I.P. Dallas ad doesn't have the, ya know, punch. Still, though, I'd be interested to hear how the pro-hotel group came up with its second choice: Cincinnati-born Christian artist Nicole C. Mullen's "I Have a Dream," off her 2008 Word ... More >>

Union Puts the Squeeze on Tax Breaks

The only thing worse than giving developers subsidies is a union’s threat to stop the giveaways

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 >>

FJ Cruiser

Good Times Are in the Bag! Or Not, As Ice Investigation Continues.

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Friday, May 16, 2008

Ask a Mexican

Where’s the Mexican love for the Motor City?

Hentai Lacerator

Thursday, October 18, at House of Tinnitus, Denton

Dallas-Based Kimberly-Clark Makes Procter & Gamble Want Its Mommy

T.O. Takes Time to Answer 10 Questions

Hip, Hip, Euripides

Clapton Calls it "Stormy Monday" in 1970

The Cut*off

Saturday, October 14, at the Wreckroom

Staggering Statistics

All of This and More (Shake It)

Swearing In

Year of the R-Rated Comedy

Odds & Ends

Who says you need to go to Austin this weekend for a good concert or four?

Good Ideas

When SMU alum Astronautalis stopped rap-battling, he finally figured out how to win

Muse

Saturday, August 14

House of Cards

The Mavs fell, but does that mean they're not playing with a full deck?

Mush and Anticon Records tours

May 24 / May 25

Flaming Wreck

Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines and lands in familiar terrain

Southern Breezes

Even in death, Terry Southern remains larger than life

High Times

Once dismissed as novelty, G. Love & Special Sauce find a serious niche with Electric Mile

...And Jewison for all

Heat of the Night and Hurricane director needs a balance

Feel his pain

Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli is the unsexiest sexy mutha you'll ever meet

A fan's sour notes

Were yesterday's heroes better than today's?

He stole the soul

Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli exposes his big Black heart

Smut patrol

Cincinnati stamps out sin--and civil rights, besides