Subject: Gloria Levario

• Picture Show: Kevin Costner and Modern West at the Granada

  Gloria Levario Yes, Kevin Costner is a musician. No, we weren't kidding. Yes, he played the Granada Theater on Friday night. And, yes, out of sheer curiosity, you will click this link, which will take you to Gloria Levario's slideshow of the evening. Because you're a complete sucker, really.

  February 9, 2009

• Picture Show: Devin the Dude at the Lounge on Elm

  Gloria LevarioDevin the Dude played a smoky set at the Lounge on Elm Street on Friday night, and Gloria Levario was there to get shots for us. Check them out in our slideshow here.

  March 16, 2009

• Picture Show: Black Tie Dynasty Says Goodbye at the Granada

  Gloria LevarioBlack Tie Dynasty threw in the towel Saturday night at the Granada Theater, and fans threw flowers and panties right back. With hugs, cake and drinks onstage, the band's exit was full of memorable moments, two months after they announced they'd be breaking up.Photographer Gloria Levario was right there in the thick of it, and has more great shots from the night in our slideshow here.

  March 30, 2009

• Weekend Roundup: Chris Cornell, The Academy Is..., Mudvayne and Black Tie Dynasty

  Chris Cornell @ The House of Blues, Saturday, Mar. 28Dude has been making music for 25 years!  A pioneer of grunge, Cornell was the vocalist (and drummer up until 1986) for Seattle-based band Soundgarden. After the group disbanded in 1997, Cornell went on to work with former Rage Against the Machine members (sans vocalist Zack de la Rocha) in Audioslave. Today, he's doing his own thang.  Meanwhile, did you know that Soundgarden was named after a public work of art in Seattle made of pi

  March 30, 2009

• At Least for a Day, Dallas Filmmakers Get Priorities Straight at 24-Hour Video Race

  Gloria LevarioCheck out our slide show for a look behind the scenes on race day.Now in its eighth running, Dallas' 24 Hour Video Race is built on harnessing that special brand of creativity that only surfaces under extreme deadlines. This year's racers had no idea what theme or elements will be required when they turned up at the Angelika Dallas last Friday night, but once midnight rolled around, they began an all-night, all-day shooting spree around Dallas before hunkering down to edit.For the

  May 29, 2009

• Dallas Police Again Shut Down An Area Record Store Celebration

  Gloria LevarioNow that's taking your punishment in stride... Less than a month after noise complaints eventually led to Good Records' annual birthday bash/National Record Store Day celebration getting shut down by the police, the Dallas Police Department again shut down a record store customer appreciation party on Lower Greenville, this time taking to task the four-year-old, DJ- and skateboard-centric Rec Shop, located just down the street, south of Ross Avenue. And what a shame, too: It was qu

  May 18, 2009

• Rec Shop Wreck: The Story Behind Sunday Afternoon's Busted-Up Customer Appreciation Celebration On Lower Greenville

  Gloria LevarioPolice took down Rec Shop owner Ben Sharon's information, but never served him a ticket for hosting his Sunday afternoon party without a permit.A couple days after the customer appreciation celebration at his Rec Shop skateboard and DJ store was unceremoniously broken up by a caravan of Dallas Police Department squad cars and officers (see video of the party being broken up here), the store's owner, Ben Sharon, seems to be taking all that went down on Sunday afternoon in stride: th

  May 20, 2009

• CBS 11: Your Source For Local Music News.

  Major props to CBS 11 and "award-winning reporter" J.D. Miles for following up on our Rec Shop coverage from earlier this week by a) adding nothing new to the story, b) blatantly filming a computer logged onto DC9 without giving any credit to the paper (although, score, you can like totally see my byline), and c) using freelance photographer Gloria Levario's images from the event, shot on assignment for us, without permission from either us or her. Also: Way to spell the name of your story's ma

  May 22, 2009

• Pitcure Show: B-Hamp Celebrates The Release Of His Debut Full-Length With A Party, Signing Session

  Gloria LevarioB-Hamp celebrated the release of B Dash at Aura Lounge on Tuesday night.On Tuesday night, local D-Town Boogie-er B-Hamp celebrated the release of his debut disc, B Dash, by hosting a signing session at the Southwest Center Mall (Formerly Red Bird Mall) Eargazum location and, later, by taking to Aura Lounge to celebrate with local hip-hop and professional sports celebrities. Observer contributing photographer Gloria Levario stopped by Aura to talk in the red carpet festivities and r

  May 21, 2009

• Picture Show: The Flatlanders at the HOB

  Gloria Levario In last week's paper, Noah wrote about The Flatlanders' enduring relevance and knack for writing about the times we're living in--and, on Friday night at the House of Blues, Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore put on a show to prove it.Check out more photos in our slideshow from photographer Gloria Levario.

  June 9, 2009

• From Love Field, an Unhappy Father's Day

  Gloria Levario'Round 3 yesterday, one of my oldest friends called from Dallas Love Field with the breaking news: The airport was shut down, no one allowed in our out -- including my friend, who'd put his son on a Southwest flight bound for Corpus Christi mere moments before Dallas police descended and locked the doors. Turns out there'd been a bomb scare in baggage claim courtesy a bomb-sniffing pup who got a little too excited over a big bag of nothing; my friend received updates from his son s

  June 22, 2009

• Picture Show: Remembering MJ at Zubar

  Gloria LevarioWe already mentioned the candlelight vigil for Michael Jackson in Duncanville Thursday night here on DC9. Later that night, though, Dallas DJs did their part to keep the pop legend on everyone's mind, while plenty of folks turned up in their vintage MJ-wear.As Tyrone Smiley & DJ Niro spun old Michael Jackson favorites at Zubar and DJ A1 spun at Barcadia, photographer Gloria Levario out and about taking the shots you'll find here in our slideshow.

  June 29, 2009

• Deep Ellum's Facelift Starts Tomorrow

  Gloria LevarioCathey Miller is among the artists chosen by Frank Campagna to participate in the Deep Ellum Mural Project.Apologies for taking a few days too long to post our slide show from the Deep Ellum Mural Project kick-off, held Saturday night at Kettle Art in Deep Ellum, but better to post now than to ... um ... not post. Gloria Lovario captured this terrific two-fer from Cathey Miller, among those involved in the project destined to give Deep Ellum a facelift in coming days, as painting s

  June 30, 2009

• Picture Show: Sonic Youth at House of Blues

  Gloria Levario Daniel Rodrigue already offered up his take on last night's enjoyable show from seminal rock act Sonic Youth at the House of Blues. But maybe you're more of the visual type?That's cool: We've just uploaded Gloria Levario's slideshow from the concert. Check out her photos right here.

  July 16, 2009

• Erykah Badu Is 'Super Excited' About Her Return Of The Ankh.

  Gloria LevarioErykah Badu stopped by Kidrobot's grand opening yesterday. For more on the opening, check Robert's take. And keep an eye out for a slideshow from the festivities, which should be up shortly.​She waltzed into the room's back entrance, quickly set a trail to the checkout counter and excitedly showed the few employees crowded around her the customizations she'd made to the mini-Munny she'd purchased after stumbling upon the new Mockingbird Station store on Wednesday afternoon--a qui

  July 31, 2009

• Picture Show: You! Los Campesinos! Dancing!

  Gloria Levario​ If Trees was the place to be on Friday night, Saturday was owned by the Granada Theater as it played host to Los Campesinos! and a hyped-up undercard of Girls and The Smith Westerns.From the looks of our photo pal Gloria Levario's slideshow of the night, it appears as if it was a good time. But was it worthy of the buzz? Sure seems that way. Hands just don't thrust themselves into the air on their own, you know.

  August 17, 2009

• Picture Show: The Mars Volta at the Palladium Ballroom

  Gloria LevarioCedric Bixler-Zavala screams for ice cream.​You've read the review. Now check out photographer Gloria Levario's slideshow set from Wednesday night's performance right here...

  September 18, 2009

• Bonus MP3: Chucky Sly -- "Jimmy Is About To Die"

  Gloria Levario Your favorite local rapper's favorite local rapper. As Nic Hernandez explains in this week's dead tree version of DC9, the full-length solo debut from Dallas raapper Chucky Sly is some 15 years in the making. And ir's all the better for it, Hernandez explains:  The feel-good hip-hop popularized by groups such as A Tribe Called Quest gets a prominent nod, sure, but so too does a smattering of dub influence, funk samples and even soulful singing (Sly himself b

  October 2, 2009

• Picture Show: Dead Prez Pops Into The Prophet Bar Jam

  Gloria LevarioDead Prez's stic.man at The Prophet Bar on Wednesday night.​As promised, Dead Prez stopped in to perform at the Prophet Bar and participate in the Deep Ellum venue's phenomenal weekly Wednesday night hip-hop jam session this week. No, really, we've can prove it--in the form of a slideshow from Gloria Levario, who dutifully stopped in on the event to document it for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.

  October 23, 2009

• A Halloween Party Retrospective, In Two Parts

  Justin TerveenZombies, take a seat.​Gloria LevarioA relatively tame moment from Oak Lawn Saturday night.​Halloween's still a few days off, but last weekend there were plenty of chances to take the costume for a spin, especially for zombies in Deep Ellum last night, and for every other thing you can imagine (and a few you might rather not) Saturday night in Oak Lawn.Get a double dose of Halloween spirit in our pair of slide shows from the weekend's festivities -- the Oak Lawn Halloween Street

  October 26, 2009

• Picture Show: Dorrough's Combined Birthday and 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards Viewing Party at Eight Lounge

  Gloria LevarioIf you think Dorrough put that gold record down for one second last night, you're crazy.​ Last night, while he watched the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards at Eight Lounge, Dorrough also hosted a party to celebrate his birthday. (Speaking of which: Happy 23rd, Mr. D-O-double-R.)And though Dorrrough may have walked winless at the awards, the night wasn't a complete loss: As you'll see in the above shot--and the accompanying slideshow provided by Gloria Levario, who stopped by to take in th

  October 28, 2009

• Blockbuster, The Final Frontier

  Gloria LevarioThis was so not logical: Mr. Spock's actually a Blockbuster marketing guy.​Blockbuster's torn: Stores or kiosks? Kiosks or stores? Says one analyst this week, Not stores, no friggin' way. But how else will the Dallas-based videotailer host a release party? Our Gloria Levario was out and about early this a.m. and happened by the Star Trek DVD and Blu-ray shindig at the near-West Village location on McKinney Ave., one of 20 Blockbusters in the U.S. to stay open till the wee small h

  November 17, 2009