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Muslim Hunting

David Horowitz has made taunting college students a spectator sport. Sometimes he's actually right.

Up To 11 Entertainment Puts DFW Bands On the Books

Josh Pitts and Ben Piche were in the punk band Captain Incredible a ways back, and got so frustrated with the way their band was getting booked, they decided to concentrate on doing it themselves, hence their five-man outfit, Up To 11 Entertainment. Pitts has performed with DFW notables Darstar, He ... More >>

Lumberjack 8 - Dan's Silverleaf - 2/18/12

Lumberjack 8 Dan's Silverleaf Saturday, February 18 This yearly mini music festival is Harlan Anderson's brainchild, and he was the one grilling on the back patio, cheerfully putting up with the rain in his "Meat Guns" apron, hob-knobbing with attendees and shooting the shit with Dan Mojica, owner ... More >>

Lumberjack Fest

Saturday, February 18, at Dan's Silverleaf

Chuck Ragan Knows Good Road Music, Plugged or Unplugged

Scott ToepferChuck Ragan.​Gainesville, Florida's Chuck Ragan is one of those dudes who just can't go wrong. His more-than-a-decade's work with the still-revered punk act Hot Water Music is often cited by younger punk bands as a key motivator for their own punk-ish endeavors. In the more recen ... More >>

Sore Losers and Mind Spiders Among First Round Of Bands Announced For SXSW 2012

​Considering that pre-South by Southwest bash 35 Denton announced its first round of performers last week, I guess it makes sense, then, that the Austin fest would announce its own first round of performers this week -- and that their list is indeed larger than 35 Denton's list of 17 names, clocki ... More >>

The Long, Dry Fall of the Texas Rancher

Ranchers are struggling to hold on to their herds during the driest year in Texas history.

My First Show: Chuck Ragan Snuck Out of His Parents' House to See Sick Of It All.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Jill RaganChuck Ragan​Chuck Ragan may be best known as one of the frontmen of Hot Water Music, but for the past few years, he's tou ... More >>

Why Mohamed Elhassan, the Dallas Imam Who Played Defense Attorney in Quran-Torching Church, Says He "Admires" Terry Jones

Mohamed Elhassan, a Sufi imam and business owner here in Dallas, lost his case for the Koran last month in Terry Jones' Florida church.When Florida pastor Terry Jones finally made good on the threat he'd been toying with in the press for months, to burn a Quran in his church, it set off days of dead ... More >>

Red Mango Pushes Back at Competition With Self-Serve

Red Mango: Help yourself.​Starting July 19, the Red Mango on Lovers Lane will convert into a self-service frozen yogurt format. Depending on the outcome of the Lovers Lane location, several other Dallas locations of the frozen yogurt chain may be following suit soon after. If the success of Pl ... More >>

Silversun Pickups, Against Me!, The Henry Clay People

Wednesday, July 21, at the Palladium Ballroom

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Thursday, June 3, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Los Lobos (Los Angeles, California)Los Lobos Goes Disney (Disney Sound)It's har ... More >>

Do You Like to Helpy-Selfy? Well, They Sure Did In Dallas Back in the 1920s and '30s.

​It's too late to bid on the photo above -- it's a couple days past closing time. But good news for those of who don't tire of these detours into Dallas's ancient history: No one bought this picture (going for a lousy $24.99) of a grocery I'd never heard of till Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent i ... More >>

From OKC to Fort Worth, Heartland Flyer's Cow Fat Test Run Gets Nod in U.K.

​Meant to point this out last week, when I first saw the story on Salon. But now it's made its way to the U.K. -- this story of the little train that could ... run on cow fat, that is, all the way from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth every single day. (Though "with stops along the way in Norman, Purce ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Less Than Jake Tomorrow Night at the Granada Theater

Once upon a time, Less Than Jake was a ska band--horns, the whole deal. Then something happened; the band went pop-punk. And while 2006's In with the Out Crowd wasn't a terrible record by any means, by that point it was clear that this was a band that had evolved. Nonetheless, 2008's release from t ... More >>

Less Is More

I Got Yer Feel-Good Super Bowl Story Right Here

One of our football coaches is headed to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. Surprise, he has nothing to do with your Dallas Cowboys. I blogged, oh-so briefly, about Grapevine Faith's Nov. 7 high-school game against the Gainesville State Tornadoes. Ring a bell? Rick Reilly's terriffic ESPN The ... More >>

Against Me! at ACL Fest

Bonus MP3: Audrey Auld -- "Last Seen in Gainesville"

Airline Gets Some College Radio Love

What Felled Oakley?| The M Word| Rounding the Cape| Its a Crying Shame| Correction

Nowhere But In Your Own Backyard

Honky-Tonk Men

Drink from Eleven Hundred Springs

Dallas is Good for Two Things: Jobs and Cheap Houses. Well, Damn, Ain't That Enough?

True Lies

An online dating service goes after fibbing sex offenders and married folk

Holopaw

Quit +/or Fight (Sub Pop)

Fast Times at MotorSport Ranch

Jack Farr's performance-car playground redefines the country club

Hot Water Music and Bouncing Souls

February 20

Return of the Black Widow

Death and rumors have followed Sandra Bridewell for decades. But no one could predict the strange turn her life has taken today.

Letters

Hot Water Music

November 12

A Few Good Dogs

September 11 creates a bull market for dogs with a nose for explosives

Lost Son

The Vietnamese son of a black American soldier faces a long trip "home"

Mind Games

When 19-year-old UNT student Kelli Cox vanished, her desperate parents turned to a Florida "psychic" as their last hope. Hope was all he gave them.

The Untouchable

Complaints of racism, dirty politics, and other fishy business simply roll off Denton County's Teflon sheriff, Weldon Lucas

Good to Go!

From Kid Chaos to collective anarchy, Chad Ferman wants us all to just get along

Punk You

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that proves there isn't always room for Jello

Out There

Macha men

More than a decade after fronting one of Dallas' first new-wave bands, Joshua and Mischo McKay go out of this world

Souled out

After 25 years of Texas' best rock, Q102 bids a tearless farewell

Hash Over

Real cuisine--or gator bait?

Blue Conch brings Florida fare to Dallas

Less than a stranger

She said it was abuse. He said it was manipulation. By the time a Denton court got through with this messy custody battle, a good mother would lose her kids forever.

God and mammon

Kathy and Richard Kingsmore seemed like such nice church folk. But the Feds say their greed trumped their gospel.

Why Dallas Can't Dance

Ballet Dallas may finally succumb to years of self-inflicted mediocrity