Frank Sinatra

If I Had a Trini

Dude Food: Farewell 2008

Six weeks of things fried and greasy, slopped in barbecue sauce or glopped from a buffet tub--damn it's been great.Mostly.This year was a short one, considering we started City of Ate less than two months ago. The Dude Food dudes return to action January 6, 2009, diving weekly into the pit of Dallas ... More >>

Idol worship

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars

Reviews

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars

Chestnuts and lumps of coal

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

Ghosts in the machine

When the vinyl jukebox dies, so will a little piece of the music it played

Austin's real lounge lizards

Down south, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

Buzz

Down south, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

The Voice goes silent

Sinatra fought time in Dallas, and it was a split decision

The Voice, The Spark, The Image

On film, on vinyl, and in print, the late Chairman of the Board offers pleasurable surprises

Letters

On film, on vinyl, and in print, the late Chairman of the Board offers pleasurable surprises

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Chairman of the bored

HBO's Rat Pack don't mean a thing, because it ain't got no swing

Night & Day

September 17 - 23, 1998

Baby, it's them

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach are not such unlikely partners

Maybe he's doing it wrong

But a new boxed set proves you can't keep Randy Newman down

Various Artists

Maybe This Christmas (Nettwerk)

Best Karaoke Night

Scaraoke at XPO Lounge

Elvis Costello

North (Deutsche Grammophon)

Quincy Jones Can't Help But Look Back on His Life and Legacy

North (Deutsche Grammophon)

Packin' Them In

Sinatra and friends jazz up the Majestic

Through the Night

Kristofferson helps Bass Hall make it

It's Tony, Baby

Kristofferson helps Bass Hall make it

Ricki Derek Does It His Way

Sinatra is dead. Long live Ricki Derek.

Against the wall

John Frankenheimer could have disappeared, but he refused to go away

Crappuccino

Starbucks pitchman Michael Bublé visits Fort Worth

New Blue Eyes

Starbucks pitchman Michael Bublé visits Fort Worth

The House Always Wins

Ocean's Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

CD Source

We pick out the best undiscovered albums so that you don't have to

Season's Bleatings

Thanks to these CDs, it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

Stand-up

Get yuk-yuk-yukked in Addison

Summer Camp

Demme goes for the knowing giggle in his Candidate overhaul

Miss Kittin

I Com (Astralwerks)

Bury Frank Already

Blade's needs an update

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

More Friends (Rhino)

Retro acted

Sinatra used to find pieces of guys like this in his stool

Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson

Sinatra used to find pieces of guys like this in his stool

From hereto eternity

Frank Sinatra isn't dead.He's just an 80-year-old man

Strait to hell

George Strait saved country music. Then he killed it

Today In Music News: Sinatra Gets A Biopic, Kajagoogoo Gets It Together, And You Can Get "Rare" Eminem

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 15, 2009... Martin Scorsesse is set to direct a feature film biopic of a music legend: Frank Sinatra, baby. Kajagoogoo are reuniting for the first time in 25 years. Something tells me it's not to promote a greatest hit collection. Wanna taste ... More >>

Acting Blue

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 15, 2009... Martin Scorsesse is set to direct a feature film biopic of a music legend: Frank Sinatra, baby. Kajagoogoo are reuniting for the first time in 25 years. Something tells me it's not to promote a greatest hit collection. Wanna taste ... More >>

Idol Rich: Blue-Eyed Prime Time with Sinatra and Harry Connick, Jr.

​The Idol competitors were challenged this week with the task of reinterpreting the classics of Frank Sinatra. Ol' Blue Eyes' daughters were even in the audience (no pressure, singers) and presented Sinatra fan Simon Cowell with a monogrammed FAS hankie. Awesomely cool. Made me really wish his shi ... More >>

Frank-ly, My Dear

​The Idol competitors were challenged this week with the task of reinterpreting the classics of Frank Sinatra. Ol' Blue Eyes' daughters were even in the audience (no pressure, singers) and presented Sinatra fan Simon Cowell with a monogrammed FAS hankie. Awesomely cool. Made me really wish his shi ... More >>

The 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

Comedy's Side Dish

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

Don't Cry for Me, Mexico: Why are Mexico's Macho Singers So Weepy?

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

For Your New Year's Eve Listening Pleasure: When Sinatra Did It His Way at Reunion Arena

​I know just where my folks were on October 24, 1987 -- sitting in the fifth row for Frank Sinatra's concert at Reunion Arena, as Mom boasted only this morning. And so we wrap this year with a sound track perfect for any New Year's Eve wingding. Or maybe I shouldn't have stopped to watch the end o ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton Can't Hear Enough Frank Sinatra, John Mellencamp or Third Eye Blind.

Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton​Delightfully catchy.That's exactly how you can describe the folk-flavored indie pop being made by the boy-girl duo Smile Smile. Members Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme are riding high on the success of their Kirtland Records-released sophomore offering Truth on Tape ... More >>

The Red, White and Croon

Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton​Delightfully catchy.That's exactly how you can describe the folk-flavored indie pop being made by the boy-girl duo Smile Smile. Members Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme are riding high on the success of their Kirtland Records-released sophomore offering Truth on Tape ... More >>

Do the Zoo, You

Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton​Delightfully catchy.That's exactly how you can describe the folk-flavored indie pop being made by the boy-girl duo Smile Smile. Members Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme are riding high on the success of their Kirtland Records-released sophomore offering Truth on Tape ... More >>