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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 >>

Heartless Bastards - Lola's Ft. Worth - 3/9/12

Heartless Bastards Lola's Friday, March 9 Before a sold-out Lola's in Ft. Worth on Friday night, Austin's Heartless Bastards simply dazzled, playing almost every song from their excellent new release, Arrow, as well as a few standouts from 2009 breakthrough The Mountain. While Wennerstrom was unde ... More >>

Vanilla Ice To Bring "Earthquakes With Aftershakes" at Gathering of the Juggalos '11

iTz VaNiLla IcE, y'ALl!​It's coming: This weekend, in a video starring Dallas' Own Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), the Insane Clown Posse announced the lineup for its annual Gathering of The Juggalos event, which this year will run August 11 - 14 in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.What's kind of crazy, t ... More >>

Now Seems Like As Good a Time As Any To Re-Visit Dez Bryant's Story

​Last September I penned a cover story in the Observer about you-know-who, better known as Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant. Looking back at it now, there are some interesting, relevant points that may shed some light on the receiver's current "dark place,' according to adviser David Wells. My ... More >>

Ron Natinsky is the Chosen One? What's Our Second Choice, Then?

"Olivella's: Greatest Pizza in Texas."
Them's Fightin' Words. Right?

We liked Olivella's black truffle pie enough to name it one of our 100 favorite dishes.​There might be more fight in the words "greatest pizza" back east, where folks tend to inherit their dough and sauce allegiances. But if Dallasites can get riled up about burgers and tacos, they can surely ... More >>

At 16, Ben Gold Was A Video Arcade Legend. But Only Now, 27 Years Later, Is He Being Recognized For It.

Game Boy

Rookie Receiver Dez Bryant Has The Talent To Take The Cowboys To The Championship. But Does He Also Possess The Temperament To Push Them Into Chaos?

Killswitch Engage, The Devil Wears Prada, Dark Tranquility

Friday, February 26, at the Palladium Ballroom

Hash Over: Drink Like A Millionaire, Eat Heart-Healthy, And More

​Golden Spirits has come up with an idea so perfectly suited to the artificial luxury embodied by Dallas ultra-lounges that you'd think the Madison, Wisconsin distillery was based here. Well, to use the old bumper-sticker phrase, Million Vodka wasn't born here, but it got here as fast as it could. ... More >>

American Baseball, the European Way

​Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America's pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn't be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn't be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer ... More >>

Pairing Off: Dunkin' Donuts

Patrick Michels​Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Back in 1982 I took off with a friend on summer long road trip up and down the east coast, from Montreal to Atlanta and many, many points in between.It was a good trip. We walked the rout ... More >>

Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

Heartless Bastards

Friday, February 27, at the Longhorn Saloon, Fort Worth

SXSW Announces First Round Of Scheduled Performers For '09 Fest

OK, so there's a clause at the bottom of the press release we just received--y'know "The list is subject to change" blah, blah blah--but lo and behold, here it is: The first round of announced performers for the 23rd SXSW festival, schedule to take place this year March 18-22. After the jump, the c ... More >>

Heartless Bastards, Black Joe Lewis & The Honey Bears, Les Americains

Friday, November 21, at Club Dada

Take a Progressive Tour of Dallas, More or Less

Kelly and Kim Deal Faced Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle Together in The Breeders and With Addiction at Home

Turning the Tables on Trinity Foundation

Hey, Ole, is that a mote or a beam in your eye?

The Cult of Ole

Ole Anthony anointed himself the watchdog of America's televangelists. But who was watching Ole Anthony?

Get Down With Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

Heartless Bastards

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Jesse Dayton

Country Soul Brother (Stag Records)

Contact

A half century later, witnesses insist little green—or maybe brown—men crashed in New Mexico

Democracy Inaction

Rotgut responses to questions from the discard pile

Deal With It

Almost a decade later, Kim, Kelley and the Breeders make their next splash

The Breeders

Title TK (Elektra)

Bang to Hype

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

The Great Divide

The Shins' James Mercer is just another underappreciated genius

Something about Stephan

After 25 years in Dallas' restaurant jungle, Stephan Pyles has come out respected and rich. How does he stay so clean?

Critics' Picks

Enon

Critics' Picks

Veruca Salt

His and hers

For Buddy and Julie Miller, love, God, and country music are all that matters

Power play

Coaches and parents in the area's elite youth hockey league say the Dallas Stars are trying to ice anyone who threatens their control of the kid hockey business

Fine-tuning

KERA's president has brought credibility back to local public broadcasting, but she's quitting her job anyway

Guided by songs

There's not enough time in the day to release all of Bob Pollard's music

Cardboard tombstones

In the wake of the Ellington 100, lesser zombie boxed sets walk among us

Beggars banquet

KERA makes a stab for its former glory with less wheedling and more programming

The other arena

With major arts players jockeying for position in a new performing arts center, will smaller groups be left out of the Arts District altogether?

Roadshows

Unreasonable Doubts

Justice may be blind, but Dallas jurors aren't--particularly when it comes to race

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Roadshows

Mind games

Kim Deal puts her rock together all wrong, all right?

Impostor

Capriccio moves into the old Routh Street Cafe location, but only conjures sad memories