Daniel Rodrigue

The DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge #3: DJ Sober

See also: Our Gorilla vs. Bear II preview See also: The Mohicans' Good Records Challenge See also: Sarah Jaffe's Good Records Challenge We are back with another Good Records challenge! Did you miss us? We have presents for you because we care not only about winning your affection, but keeping i ... More >>

The DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge #2: The Mohicans

Aaaand we are back with the second DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge. Once again, we're making a sport out of shopping for art, finding any excuse we can to create our own version of Supermarket Sweep. For those who don't remember the rules, we give our favorite artists and Dallas personalities $5 ... More >>

Our Critics' Year-End Top Tens: Daniel Rodrigue Finds Something Happening About LCD Soundsystem's Promised Swan Song

In this week's paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers' choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn't run all of our writers' lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we're doing just that, right here.​ Former ... More >>

Last Night: Nitzer Ebb at the Granada Theater

Nitzer Ebb, //TENSE// Granada Theater November 23, 2010 Better Than: stomping the night away at the Lizard Lounge. Daniel Rodrigue​ With the strobe light pulsing around him and his bandmates furiously pounding the drums behind him, Nitzer Ebb's lead vocalist Douglas McCarthy's body convulsed li ... More >>

Q&A: Monotonix's Yonatan Gat Defends His Native Israel Against Bands That Boycott It, Describes Letting Himself Go During His Band's Notorious, Off-The-Wall Performances

Daniel RodrigueMonotonix's Ami Shalev​For astute music fans in the North Texas region, the name Monotonix has become quite familiar. In the last couple of years, the Israeli garage-punk trio has made a few stops here, including a 2009 NX35 slot that got the ball rolling pretty hard on their Metrop ... More >>

UT Arlington To Set Up Shop In Oak Cliff

Daniel RodrigueBob Stimson​The Oak Cliff spirit of urban development and community outreach, which we are physically incapable of not writing about here in the paper and online, continues -- this time, with an urban planning storefront that's the result of a partnership between the Oak Cliff Chamb ... More >>

Slowly, But Not Quite Surely, Dallas ISD Backs Off Efforts to Seize, Raze Jubilee Park Homes

Daniel RodrigueShawn Busari and her family grew up in this house, which DISD wanted to take for a mere $50,000.​It's been almost six months now since Jubilee Park residents began protesting the Dallas Independent School District's plans to seize their businesses and homes by any means necessary to ... More >>

DISD Spares Vickery Greenhouse in Jubilee Park. But Homeowners' Fates Still Uncertain.

Daniel RodriguePat Berry​Pat Berry, owner of Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse in Jubilee Park, got the call yesterday. On the other end was Dallas Independent School District trustee Bernadette Nutall, who told him the news he'd been hoping to hear for months: The district has shelved its plans to con ... More >>

Cliff Manor Task Force Demands "Good Faith Negotiations, Cooperation" In Letter to DHA

Daniel Rodrigue​In the end, it didn't matter whether the meeting was open or closed to the public -- because, in the end, there was no meeting at all. Yesterday we noted that council member Dave Neumann's hand-picked Cliff Manor task force was scheduled to meet with Dallas Housing Authority higher ... More >>

Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters Fresh-Roasted Beans Now Available At Two Local Central Markets

Daniel Rodrigue​On a recent grocery shopping excursion to Central Market Dallas, Roasted was pleasantly surprised when we rounded a corner near the bulk foods section and spotted a display on an end cap stocked with one-pound bags of fresh-roasted beans from Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters. The display ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Unexceptional food at the Common Table

Sara KerensThough this may look great, we were not impressed.​This week's Dallas food blog coverage is a sampling of Vietnamese feasts and uncommonly bad food, a stolen can of Whoopass and stale popcorn, an elaborate post-Gospel Last Supper and vegan barbecue, and more highlights. Check ... More >>

Inside Pre-Meeting Meeting With Businesses On Proposed Lowest Greenville Rezoning

Photos by Daniel RodrigueClick to embiggen this "Where's Waldo?" snapshot of Lower Greenville familiars at yesterday's Kush confab. Name 'em all?​Late last week, the newly formed Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue Business Association requested a meeting with council member Angela Hunt and Deputy Mayo ... More >>

Buzzbrews on Lemmon Gives Us the Buzz
On Plans for a Deep Ellum Location

Photos By Daniel Rodrigue​Monday morning, Roasted headed to Buzzbrews Kitchen to get our buzz on. And, now that we got that stale caffeine-addled joke out of the way, we really did get pretty jazzed up after repeatedly helping ourselves to the diner's "Drink 'til you Buzz" self-serve coffee bar. ... More >>

Pitchfork on Florene's Homemade Extacy: "It Sounds Terrible."

​This morning, the folks over at Pitchfork posted scribe Larry Fitzmaurice's take on Homemade Extacy, the debut full-length from Denton-based, Waaga-signed Florene, onto its page. And, uh, well, Fitzmaurice isn't a fan. He gives the disc a 5.4 out of 10. Writes the reviewer: Despite the small bits ... More >>

Is Dunn Bros Coffee's Iced Infinite Black™ Worth Making A U-Turn For?

Photos By Daniel Rodrigue​Unless someone knows exactly where to find the Dunn Bros Coffee in Dallas, then the first time they visit that branch of the award-winning coffee franchise there's a good chance they'll drive right past the drive-through coffee house and coffee roaster -- even Dunn Bros' ... More >>

That's Not An Eyesore. That's Evidence. Or: Charred Remains to Remain For a While.

Daniel Rodrigue​Daniel will be along shortly with notes from an Avi-free meeting last night of Lower Greenvillians, but till then, here's an update concerning Tuesday's post about the charred ruins formerly known as Terilli's, Mick's, Greenville Bar and Grill and Hurricane Grill. I finally spoke w ... More >>

So Much For Not Having to Look at a Burned-Out Building For Months

Photos by Daniel Rodrigue​I've been trying for several days to reach Jon duPerier, the owner of the burned-out block of Greenville Avenue that was once home to, among others, Terilli's and Greenville Bar and Grill. No luck. I've also left several messages for attorney Robert Miller, who's defendin ... More >>

Spokesperson Explains How DISD Found Itself In "Landlocked Situation" In Jubilee Park

Daniel RodrigueOne of several homes the DISD is hoping to seize with eminent domain to make room for the new O.M. Roberts Elementary School.​After reading yesterday's editorial in The Dallas Morning News about the Dallas Independent School District's use of eminent domain to shore up land for a ne ... More >>

Just Because Dunkin' Donuts Sells A Boatload of Coffee, Doesn't Mean Roasted Has to Like It

Photos By Daniel Rodrigue​About two weeks back, Roasted was knee-deep in a mostly interesting coffee-biz conversation between an area coffee roaster and the owner of a local coffee shop when the two started talking about the coffee at Dunkin Donuts. And that's when a realization of apparently epi ... More >>

Roasted Gets Buzzed On Danny's Motor Oil

Photos By Daniel Rodrigue​When it comes to getting a major jolt from a single cup of straight, black coffee, there's really nothing in Dallas that gives you a bigger caffeine bang for a buck than a 12 oz Styrofoam cup full of what's known around the Lakewood/Lower Greenville area as "Danny's Moto ... More >>

Beware the Evil Eye: Colin Ross, Still Blinding Science With Tin-Foil Goggles

Daniel RodrigueRichardson's Colin Ross, in a photo that we really should have framed somewhere in the office​Most Unfair Park items come and go, but a fortunate few last forever. Take this one from August 1, 2008, about Richardson's Colin Ross, who claimed that with the use of swimming goggles, el ... More >>

Sure, Fuel City's Tacos are Legendary, But How Does the Truck Stop's Coffee Stack Up?

Photos By Daniel Rodrigue​The truck stop/car wash/taco stand known as Fuel City has earned local and national attention for its tiny, tasty tacos that Texas Monthly named the best tacos in the Lone Star State. Of course, not everyone agrees that the tacos are all that. But, whether you think Fuel ... More >>

Scared of DISD Taking Homes, Jubilee Park-ers Take Their Case to County

Daniel RodrigueJubilee Park resident Jewel Floyd addressing the court. ​Today's standing-room-only meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court was uneventful for the most part, with all the juicy talk about pay raises and surety bond increases saved for closed session. But just before the mee ... More >>

Expo Park and Deep Ellum Residents Made It Very Clear How They Feel About Low-Income Housing Development

Photos by Daniel RodrigueKen Maxwell of the Exposition Park Association, behind the podium, was among last night's speakers.​Last night, at that public hearing we previewed about yesterday, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs heard feedback on some applications for Competitive H ... More >>

A Big Green Thumbs Down: Council Sends Staff "Back to The Drawing Board" on Neighborhood Farmers Markets

Daniel RodrigueFarmers, bakers and lotion makers -- all wanting to voice their concerns to council member Delia Jasso and assistant city manager Jill Jordan. ​More than two dozen folks -- several of whom broke meeting protocol by talking to council members and city staff -- showed up yesterday a ... More >>

In Search of the Divine at the Divine Coffee Shop

Photos By Daniel Rodrigue​Roasted first noticed the signs for Divine Coffee Shop while driving to White Rock Coffee on Northwest Highway, and figured that any coffee shop called "divine" was worth checking out. More on the divine part later. For now, let's deal with the coffee-shop portion of the ... More >>

Notes from Last Night's Methodist Hospital Meeting, or: Hey, Oak Cliff, You're So Great. Why Are You So Great?

Daniel RodrigueBob Stimson and Schutze find common ground: Oak Cliff kicks ass.​The Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce offered up a smorgasbord of presentations last night focusing on various initiatives from parks and the arts to bicycles and trolleys, and the community turned out in droves. An es ... More >>

Crooked Tree Coffeehouse Provides A Home Away From Home, If Only You Can Find A Seat

Photos By Daniel RodrigueOnly adding to the residential feel of the coffee house, a well-worn chest of drawers serves as the shop's condiment bar .​Yesterday, Roasted woke up craving a fresh cup of something different--a steaming-hot cup of new from a coffee house that we had yet to try. But, ... More >>

Despite Concerns About New Centennial Planned For Lower Greenville, Hunt Says She'll Give It the Benefit of the Doubt

Daniel Rodrigue​After grabbing a pint at Ship's Lounge the other night, we noticed plans for a new Centennial on the corner of Greenville and Ross Avenues. Turns out, the Dallas-based purveyors of fine wine, spirits and beer are opening a 7,800 square foot booze-and-food emporium, complete wit ... More >>

Getting Your Morning Shot of Kinky Friedman at Urban Dog Coffee

Photos by Daniel RodrigueUrban Dog owner Brady Cottle doses a shot for Kinky.​Whether it's a morning cup of wake-up, a mid-day java jolt or a final fix of fresh-brewed for the drive home, many of us rely on our regular close-to-home/office coffee haunts to fuel us through our daily grind. And, whe ... More >>

Oak Cliff League's Prez Amonett on Mediation With DISD: "At Least We Have Hope Now."

Daniel RodrigueJohn McCall Jr. (right) and Gus Galanis discuss how best to tarp the roof.​As we mentioned yesterday, members of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and John McCall Jr., its attorney and former president, met on the sidewalk in front of the Oak Cliff Christian Church on 10th S ... More >>

Because, Look, Everything Looks Better When Covered in Snow, Especially Dallas

Patrick MichelsLooking across Main Street Garden this morning​This weather update from Unfair Park HQ: Yes it's still snowing. Walking through downtown this morning was like taking a stroll around Minneapolis: steaming, snow-caked trucks kicking up road slush and huddled smokers hiding under umbre ... More >>

North of the Dial

Aural Ambush: David Bazan

Today, we welcome back an old friend to the blog. That's right: It's the return of Aural Ambush, a feature we hope will be back and running regularly in these confines we call DC9. It's been a while, though, so, for those who may have forgotten the concept, a quick refresher: We grab an mp3 from an ... More >>

Picture Show: Sonic Youth at House of Blues

Gloria Levario Daniel Rodrigue already offered up his take on last night's enjoyable show from seminal rock act Sonic Youth at the House of Blues. But maybe you're more of the visual type?That's cool: We've just uploaded Gloria Levario's slideshow from the concert. Check out her photos right here.

School's Out For Summer

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Photos: Of Montreal at the House of Blues

Mattie Stafford Of Montreal's confettied Kevin Barnes Elephant 6 collective alum of Montreal brought its erratic and wildly entertaining stage show to House of Blues over the weekend. We already posted a review of the concert. (For which, by the way, I’ve received a bit of in-office criticism. I ... More >>

Colin Ross and Unfair Park Insulted During the Same Podcast

Colin Ross Has An Eyebeam of Energy He'd Like You to Hear

Hunting for Facts: State Department Looking Into Ray Hunt's Oil Deal

"Puck at Reunion Tower"? Now, We Like the Sound of That.

Shareholders' Proposals Run Out of Gas at Exxon Shindig at Meyerson

Fishboy To Perform Free Homecoming Show At J&J's Pizza In Denton Tonight

Now PETA's Chokin' the Chicken at Brinker International

Dallas Developer Finds Out, the Hard Way, That L.A.'s Angelyne Is No Boob

Ranger Danger: DISD Trustee Suggests Altering Board Policies