Subject: Fort Worth

• Echoes & Reverberations: Van Halen’s “Almost Infamous”

  October 9, 2008

• Twenty Seven Years Later, Williams and Sears Are Still Serving Up Tuna

  October 21, 2008

• Blurry Vision

  John Holt Smith shows off in Fort Worth

  April 2, 2009

• So, What, It's Now The Dallas-Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegram News?

  November 7, 2008

• Want A Little More Cowbell? Let One Local Stomp-er Tell You How.

  November 11, 2008

• Green River Ordinance Signs With EMI/Virgin

  Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance, not to be confused with Mark Arm and Stone Gossard's recently reunited Sub Pop band, will release its major label debut early next year on EMI/Virgin, according to a press release from EMI music. Out Of My Hands, the follow-up to the band's independent 2006 release The Beauty of Letting Go, is due February 24, 2009. The band's slick Third-Eye-Blind-meets-Coldplay alt-rock earned them Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards for Best New Band of 2003, Best Live Band

  November 19, 2008

• The Mighty Mercantile

  Courtesy the mighty fine folks who contribute to the conversation on the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum comes this montage of Merc photos, some by familiar Friends. Also a bonus for fans of Daft Punk. --Robert WilonskyDallas | The Mercantile (Slideshow) from Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum on Vimeo.

  November 25, 2008

• Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets For MC Frontalot Saturday At The Double-Wide

  The popularity of nerdcore, a subgenre of hip-hop so steeped in irony that you can practically see the air quotes framing the stage, is a phenomenon I'll never understand. But for those who are into white dudes rapping about video games or whatever, Saturday night at the Double-Wide is practically Woodstock, as nerdcore titans MC Frontalot, MC Lars, YT Cracker and Fort Worth's Rivercrest Yacht Club will all perform. Double-Wide booking agent and DOMA-winning music advocate Chelsea Callahan has o

  November 26, 2008

• My Brightest, Brownest Christmas Compilation

  The weather outside is weather, which means, yep, we're being absolutely inundated with Christmas albums and compilations here at DC9 HQ. Anyone want not one, but two brand-new Brian Setzer Orchestra seasonal delights? Seriously, ask me for them. They're yours....What, no takers? Oh well...That being said, it's not all complete trash. Although, hey, how come no one sent us this one called I'll Stay 'Til After Christmas? The comp actually features some decent acts, like Blitzen Trapper (how fitt

  December 3, 2008

• The Best 15 Venues In DFW For Your Up-And-Coming Band? Epic Fail.

  Today, over at MadeLoud.com--a site that claims to "serve the bands", but probably not in a sexual way, I'm guessing--someone's decided that, sure, the bands in DFWd could use a little help in trying to figure out where to play around town.OK. We're fine with that. And the fact that it names 15 venues in total (six in Dallas, seven in Denton and two in Fort Worth). All that's golden.Till, of course, you look at the lists. No Cavern in Dallas? No Lounge? No Lola's in Fort Worth? No 8.0's, either?

  December 24, 2008

• Picture Show: The Toadies at the Ridglea New Year's Eve

  Toadies fans rang in the new year at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, and from the looks of things, this was one show that got everyone psyched for 2009.See the confetti, champagne, and a stray bra fly in our slideshow up here. --Patrick Michels

  January 2, 2009

• Arlington, Dallas Already 2011 Super Bowl Losers Thanks to NFL Hotel Picks

  The 2011 Super Bowl will be played at Jerryworld, of course, but the AFC and NFC champs won't be staying in Arlington or Dallas. Nope -- come February 2011, the AFC champs will stay at the Omni Fort Worth, which is pictured at right and scheduled to open this month, while the NFC title-holders in '11 will stay in the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas. And why the Fort Worth site?Well, that Omni is adjacent to the Fort Worth Convention Center, for starters, and the convention center may wind up

  January 7, 2009

• Cheer Up, Tommy Lee Jones! You're Now in the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame!

  Speaking of Fort Worth, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inducted its class of 2009 last night with a wingding on E. Exchange Ave., and among those taking their bows were Tommy Lee Jones and the great Barry Corbin, who actually has a place in Fort Worth. Said Jones, a St. Mark's grad, "This is the first time in all my long years of award-winning that I wish my granddad could be here." As it turns out, Jones was not inducted for his work as the Barnett Shale's drillmaster or as a coffee-drink pitchm

  January 16, 2009

• Cliff Dweller

  June 4, 2009

• Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To See Hank III at the Longhorn Saloon Tonight

  In this week's print edition, Lance Lester talks some serious talk about the bloodlines of Hank III, who, along with Those Poor Bastards and his band Assjack, will be performing at the newly re-opened Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth tonight for--get this--a sold out show.Impressive? You bet, considering that the Saloon's not exactly a hole-in-the-wall when it comes to capacity...So many thanks then to Spune Productions for hooking a DC9 reader up with something you can't get anywhere else: a free

  February 20, 2009

• Road Trip: On the Set of Local Filmmaker Tom Huckabee's Carried Away

  Patrick MichelsFort Worth-based filmmaker Tom Huckabee's first feature was a post-apocalyptic William S. Burroughs adaptation, in which a 19-year-old Bill Paxton gets a brainwashing and a sex change from militant feminists.For his second feature now, 26 years later, Huckabee is tackling slightly milder themes, like family ties and caring for the elderly. In Carried Away, which has been filming around Dallas and Fort Worth over the past few weeks, a guy liberates his senile grandmother from her n

  March 2, 2009

• Six Locals Named As Finalists In International Songwriting Competition

  Salim NourallahYep. An international songwriting competition quite cleverly named the International Songwriting Competition, in fact. Anyway, as the header implies, six locals made the cut to get a "finalist" nod from the ISC. Who? For what songs? In what categories? And, just for good measure, where are these people from? Funny you should ask, as that's exactly the information I happen to have on this front:AAA: "1978" by Salim Nourallah from Dallas, TXDance/Electronica: "This Is A Test" by Rob

  March 3, 2009

• D-FW Acts Make a Strong Showing at SXSW

  March 19, 2009

• Bowling for Soup

  February 19, 2009

• The Me-Thinks

  The Make Mine a Double EP (Indian Casino)

  February 5, 2009

• Belly Up

  January 8, 2009

• Fort Worth's Chat Room Pub Talks a Big Game

  December 4, 2008

• Baby Wine

  November 20, 2008

• Laughingstock

  November 13, 2008

• Film, Texas Style

  November 6, 2008

• Green Cement Plants Could Mean Cleaner Air and Lower Costs

  Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  November 6, 2008

• Arting Around

  Fort Worth's best arts fest returns

  April 16, 2009

• As Bud Shrake Once Wrote, "Birth is Real, Death is Real, and All Between is a Game."

  Edwin "Bud" Shrake, the Fort Worth native and former Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News sportswriter, died this morning in Austin at the age of 77. He wrote a lot of essential books, including the best-selling sports tome of all time, but longtime fans will fondly recall his Willie Nelson and Barry Switzer bios and Songwriter screenplay his Fort Worth Press writing, some of which is collected in this must-read. Here, he spoke with Texas Monthly bossman Evan Smith about his life and care

  May 8, 2009

• So, See, Super Bowl XLV Really Is Coming to Dallas -- Fair Park and Downtown, Even

  The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee this morning issued this joint media release, along with the National Football League, announcing venue selections for "16 key events" that'll be associated with Super Bowl XLV. Dallas and Fort Worth each get five; Arlington, four (including, ahem, the game); Irving, two. A few of these events were announced in January, among them where the NFC and AFC champs would be staying -- the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas and the Omni Fort Worth, respecti

  May 12, 2009

• Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To Catch Junior Brown, 100 Damned Guns at Longhorn Saloon Tonight

  Country music traditionalist Junior Brown stops by the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth tonight for a set that'll be opened by local alt-country rabble-rousers 100 Damned Guns (who, it just so happens, have a new disc to promote--catch our review of said disc in next week's paper, won't you?).And we've got a pair of tickets to give away to the event, courtesy Spune Productions. Want the pair? OK. Drop me an email with "Junior Mint" in the subject line. First person to do so gets the tickets. It's

  May 15, 2009

• Fort Worth: Walkable and Bikeable

  Cafe PressVia StreetsBlog New York City, we find this morning on Bike Friendly Oak Cliff an interview with Don Koski, the man charged with making Fort Worth cyclist-friendly -- got that? Good. What BFOC really wants to know, of course, is what Dallas can learn from Fort Worth's plans. To which Koski replies, in short: Dunno.Dallas will obviously be following closely the changes that Fort Worth adopts due to the similarities we share in density and temperature. How do you feel that this type of p

  June 15, 2009

• The Shorts of Texas Are Upon You

  June 18, 2009

• Dirt Don't Hurt

  June 18, 2009

• On 40th Anniversary of Stonewall Raid, Anger Over Arrests at Fort Worth's Rainbow Lounge

  Chuck Potter, via Instant TeaOne of the few photos taken from last night's police raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort WorthForty years to the day after the raid on the Stonewall Inn, the unofficial birthplace of the gay-rights movement, the Dallas Voice's Instant Tea blog has been full of updates Sunday concerning last night's Fort Worth police raid on the Rainbow Lounge on 615 S. Jennings Ave. There are myriad first-hand accounts, including one from former Star-Telegram critic Todd Camp, who hap

  June 28, 2009

• As Rainbow Lounge Raid Story Spreads Across Country, Many Interviews with Chad Gibson

  Courtesy KXAS-Channel 5Chad Gibson, hospitalized for a week after the Rainbow Lounge raid in Fort Worth, tells local TV stations he wants the officers involved prosecuted.More than a week later, the Rainbow Lounge raid continues to make national headlines.Yesterday, The New York Times revisited the Rainbow Lounge raid; this morning, the Los Angeles Times pays a visit to Fort Worth, where residents are still coming to terms with the impact of the incident. Making a cameo is former Dallas Times He

  July 6, 2009

• KXAS Is Streaming Brett Johnson's Funeral

  Brett JohnsonGreg Janda at KXAS-Channel 5 sends word that the NBC affiliate's Web site is carrying live Brett Johnson's funeral in its entirety; you can watch it here. Services for the 48-year-old Fort Worth native -- who died suddenly Sunday of pancreatitis after being admitted to the hospital one week ago today --  will be held at First United Methodist Church in downtown Fort Worth, followed by graveside services at Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth. Greg says the services are exp

  July 15, 2009

• Dance Machines

  July 16, 2009

• Red-White-and-Blue Balls: More About the Dallas Generals and the Return of the ABA

  Taurian FontenetteSo, yes, Jay Bowdy and I have made peace. If you haven't been playing along this morning, the owner of the North Texas Fresh -- that'd be Fort Worth's new entry into the American Basketball Association -- called me out this morning for ugh-ing the name of the franchise. (Wonders one Friend of Unfair Park, "Is this the first time an adjective is the official mascot of a team?") Bowdy took thought I was bad-mouthing the ABA in general and Fort Worth specifically, when I meant no

  July 16, 2009

• Owners Of Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater File For Bankruptcy

  ​For a while there, it appeared as if this morning could be something of a judgment day for Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater. Today, after all, was the day that the venue was set to face foreclosure, after the loan that the owners had received from a Dallas lender last year when facing foreclosure had defaulted.But, today, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, comes the news that the venue has again fought off foreclosure, at least for the time being, this time by filing for bankruptcy. In its Chapter

  August 4, 2009

• Just Eat It

  August 13, 2009

• Watch: The Burning Hotels -- "Austin's Birthday"

  This past weekend was a big one for Fort Worth's The Burning Hotels. On Friday, Vanessa Hudgens-driven battle of the bands flick, Bandslam, in which The Burning Hotels' members make an appearance as, well, themselves, debuted in theaters. And though the film did quite poorly at the box office--pulling in a pretty weak $2.3 million and failing to crack the weekend's top ten earners--that's still quite the coup for the rock outfit. Especially, since, on Friday night, the band played something of

  August 18, 2009

• The police raid on the Rainbow Lounge has rocked the world of Fort Worth gays

  August 20, 2009

• Watch: The Burning Hotels -- "Stuck In The Middle (Baron Von Luxxury Controls Everything Remix)"

  Fort Worth's The Burning Hotels are on a serious roll of late, what with their Bandslam performance and their song appearing on the movie soundtrack and all that. And now come the perks. As the song "Stuck in the Middle" appears on the soundtrack, in the movie, and on the band's debut EP, the song is a Bravery-esque dance-rock jam that's pretty catchy in its own right. But as NYC/LA/SF-based remix producer Baron Von Luxxury re-imagines it, though, it's a VEGA-esque nu-disco dance jam. Same goes

  September 2, 2009

• A Bridge to Somewhere | Up the Sleazy River | Dead Man Coaching | Music of the Not | Josh vs. Josh | Gay Panic in Cowtown

  September 10, 2009

• Today's Important Advice Comes From ...

  ​... William "Tex" Moncrief Jr., the Fort Worth oilman and Internal Revenue Service fan who comes in at No. 366 on Forbes' latest list of the 400 Richest Americans. So, what does the man in possession of 20,000 acres of undeveloped Barnett Shale property have to say in the magazine's 22-question sidebar? Just this.You have $100 million to spend in real estate, what do you buy and where?I would get within 60 miles of Dallas and Fort Worth, especially ranch land if you can find it. The second pl

  October 1, 2009

• Gordita Run

  October 15, 2009

• Lowe Blow: Get Motivated! Co-Founder Says Dubya Was "Inspirational," Not a "Caricature"

  ​Seems Tamara Lowe, one half of the couple behind Monday's Get Motivated! sell-or-be-sold hoedown at the Fort Worth Convention Center, isn't too keen on the coverage of the event. Her peoples have sent word that Lowe wants to right the media's wrongs: Per the press release freshly landed in the Unfair Park in-box: "President George W. Bush delivered an inspirational, articulate and engaging speech at a Get Motivated seminar in Fort Worth, Texas on Monday afternoon. The crowd of 15,000 gave him

  October 29, 2009

• The Entire TABC Use of Force Report

  As promised earlier, here's the full 75-page report from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission concerning use of force during the Rainbow Lounge raid in Fort Worth in June. Per the agency's Open Records Coordinator, driver's license information and vehicle license plate numbers have been redacted from the documents; hence, the occasional black marks.c09-012 Report Uof Redacted

  November 5, 2009

• Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To See Lucero Tomorrow Night at the Longhorn Saloon

  Tomorrow night at the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth, Memphis alt-country favorites Lucero stop on in for a performance as part of its tour in support of the recently released album, 1372 Overton Park. To a degree, the new release is a change of pace from the bar-rock fare the band's release in the past. For one, it's the band's major label debut, this release coming by way of Universal Motown Republic. And, maybe, in a way, that label's history's been an inspiration for the act, as 1372 Overton

  November 6, 2009

• Good Friday: The Party, Preston Grey, James McMurtry, The Fox and The Bird, GWAR, Snoop Dogg and David Cook

  After an almost year-long hiatus, The Party makes its triumphant return tonight at The Loft.​Lots happening this weekend--a surprising amount, actually--so let's cut all semantics and jump right into the shows that need to be added to your weekend calendar considerations. First, some reminders of the shows we've already mentioned in this week's coverage.Tonight's especially packed, with the show at The Lounge on Elm Street leading the way, featuring performances from HEALTH, Times New Viking,

  November 6, 2009