Edgar Allan Poe

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

By Jason Roche Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside...

McKinney Can Fight the Future All it Wants, But the Future's Coming, and It's Sockless

OK, we start with a cartoon on the web site of the McKinney Tea Party, depicting President Obama as a high-stepping, vaguely simian character dressed as a trumpeter in a marching band. The headline is "McKinney Sustainability Plan." A label over the president identifies him as, "Dear Leader Obama." ... More >>

Jazz Great Ronald Shannon Jackson Returns to DFW

Doomtree's Group Think at Dan's Silverleaf

Deb Doing DallasP.O.S. ​Doomtree Dan's Silverleaf Tuesday, February 7 In a year spent throne-watching, Doomtree's 2011 release, No Kings, was an interesting comment on hip-hop's climate. Excessive in its own right, the Minneapolis collective has no less than seven official collaborators contr ... More >>

Remembering Jerry Leiber

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

The Felice Brothers, Adam Haworth Stevens

Saturday, November 13, at The Loft

"Dear Provost Ludden": Novelists, Poets, Profs and Publishers Step Up to Support SMU Press

Liliana CastilloBen Fountain​Before she went home yesterday to soak in a large glass of well-deserved wine, SMU Press Senior Editor Kathryn Lang forwarded to Unfair Park a rather large stack of missives she'd received yesterday following the news that SMU Provost Paul Ludden had decided to save th ... More >>

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Saturday, November 7, at The Loft

Intent for Suspense

Woods signs his latest Barrington novel

Christmas Brawls

Quad C and DTC do well with cruel Yules; only Poe perks up FIT's variety show

Fifteen Stooges

The Dallas City Council does a comedy campaign for its critics

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey's in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is less fortunate

Diet Riot

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Surveillance Footage

Suzanne Weaver unmasks Matthew Buckingham

Pimp Daddy of Video

Matthew Buckingham's foxy photoplay brings a vibrant vision to video

Dead Dance

Ballerinas rattle their bones

Old Souls

Old City Park promises a scary Dark Night. We wish.

Mo Funny

Plus: Sack of Kittens; A Gay Scam Robs Now

He, Fellini

Documentary revisits the life and art of the cinematic womanizer

The Dead Zone

Thanks to TV, crime scene investigating is the new hot profession, but Max Courtney knows it's more science than art

Poe Lou

It's a perfect day to let Lou Reed talk about going a little bit crazy

Crazy/Beautiful

Brian Jonestown Massacre would rather be insane than average

The Great Depression

Brett and Rennie Sparks usher The Handsome Family into its Twilight years

Poe Boy

East Texas author Joe Lansdale rises to the top of a bloody literary heap

Ape Escape

Monkeybone, like a dream, is best when half-remembered

Burden of proof

Serial killer Faryion Wardrip would have gotten away with murder if bricklayer-turned-investigator John Little hadn't stolen his coffee cup

The Handsome Family

In the line of fire

When a gunman terrorized worshipers at Wedgwood Baptist Church, one unlikely hero summoned the courage and faith to challenge a killer

I, somebody

Three decades later, the Residents are still anonymous -- and still butchering sacred cows

Odd Man Out

Dallas-raised Terry Southern wrote Easy Rider, hung with the Beatles, and influenced a generation. But he died penniless, and now his son must pay off Terry's debts--and restore his father's legacy.

De Sade lite

Stage West presents a lighthearted romp through incest, bestiality, and necrophilia

Bed head

An unsung intellectual giant rules from the mattress in Wingspan's sparkling production

Metal's crimson King

The mellow Satanism of King Diamond

Out Here

And then there were some

A friendly, disorganized guide to what won't be checked out at your local video store

The perfect crime

The Coens' dazzling new Fargo rediscovers the horrible, prosaic allure of crime

'They wanted to destroy me'

The truth about a troubled teacher--and why DISD deserves the blame

Beautiful nightmare

The Mystery of Rampo dives into the dark heart of a troubled master

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Out of ashes

Undermain's challenging Sarajevo captures the soul of a lost city

Events for the week

Bloodlust

Interview with the Vampire and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein try to invigorate the horror genre