Grand Prairie

The Postal Service are Coming to Dallas: Presale Starts Tomorrow

Update, 2/20, 9:50 a.m. The pre sales have started for East Coast dates. The link goes live to the right of the date, where it currently says On Sale Soon. Once you click, you get put in a queue for tickets, so I'd try and click as close to 10 a.m. as you humanly can. As in, start refreshing your br ... More >>

Gojira

Thursday, January 31, at The Granada Theater

Tammy Lowe, the Grand Prairie Teacher Who Allegedly Ran Over a 6-Year-Old and Drove Away, Turned Herself In Today

On Thursday night, 6-year-old John Raidy was walking a few paces ahead of his mother and younger sister as they returned home from buying candy. He stepped onto North Carrier Parkway about the same time a small black SUV was running a red light. "He got a few steps out in front of me and the car ho ... More >>

Baseball + Margaritas = America!

Meaty Baseball Match-up

Beat the Heat While Copping a Buzz with SocialIce Winesicles

Go ahead and thank me now, because I've discovered the perfect summer hangover treatment: winesicles. They're called SocialIce, and they're made in Grand Prairie with fruit purchased from local farmers markets. The pops come in two flavors, Mimosa Orange and Sangria Grape (I don't think oranges or ... More >>

With Arms Wide Shut: Creed To Play Verizon Theatre

​Looks like the 2012 apocalypse predicted by the Mayans is taking a completely unexpected form. That's right: Creed has announced a tour that will come to Grand Prairie's Verizon Theatre on Wednesday, May 12 -- right around the time their forthcoming record is rumored to be released.Ticket prices ... More >>

Manic Monday: Five Awesome Shows To Get Your Week Started Off Just Right.

Quite the extra busy start to the week we have here. Gotta be something for just about everyone music wise this particular evening...

Check Out Jonsi's Bizarre Setlist From Last Night's Show at the Verizon Theatre

​ Sigur Ros singer Jonsi is known for his solemn and somber stage demeanor, but the setlist for his solo show last night at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie offers a peak behind the curtain. It features a series of inside jokes aimed at his backing band and crew, and it's actually pretty funny. ... More >>

Good Friday: Kiss, Pixies, Daughtry, Drowning Pool, Harlem, Dungen, Lazer, Rusko, Sleepy Sun, STEW, Derek Webb, Cas Haley, Shonen Knife and More!

Harlem. Just your average pirate/cowboy/federale, rock band​This weekend sees a pretty stacked list of local shows and touring shows alike, but the biggest of all is probably the extravaganza happening in Frisco on Saturday. As we mentioned yesterday, Kiss, Daughtry, Pat Green, The Academy Is..., ... More >>

Dancing Industrial Complex at AAC?

Oh Oh, We're Jamming

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To See The Pixies at Grand Prairie's Verizon Theatre On September 19

Eleven days ago today, our month was made with the announcement that the Pixies (DC9's favorite band ever, so you know) are coming to Grand Prairie's Verizon Theatre on September 19 to their seminal album, Doolittle, in full. Today, tickets for that show go on sale--at the top of the hour, actually, ... More >>

Pony Love

Watch: A Fan Video For LehtMoJoe's "Tunered"

It's been far too long since we check in on Grand Prairie's Vincent Sliva, better known by his Dallas Stars-themed stage handle as mashup DJ, remix artist and electro act LehtMoJoe. Surely, you remember that he put out an album of dance cuts last summer called Spaghetti Western? Maybe? No?Well, allo ... More >>

Hairy Stuff: Local Girl Vying to Be America's Next Top Model Is the Pits

​Cleared out the TiVo last night after watching American Idol for DC9 and realized I just haven't been watching enough of the CW of late. I had totally missed that the 14th cycle of America's Next Top Model was set to premiere. And that, Friends, is unheard of in my reality-recapping world. So ... ... More >>

Local Designers Somehow Cram More Character Into Grand Prairie's Nokia Theatre

Patrick MichelsA look back inside two of the Nokia Theatre's newly remodeled suites. Check back soon for a slide show with more photos.​Nobody's ever accused the Nokia Theatre of having too much character, but thanks to a down-to-the-guts remodeling of its luxury suites, the Grand Prairie venue is ... More >>

Jesse Holley Makes a Fine Catch

​As promised, I ventured to Grand Prairie's Quick Trip Park Friday night for some Dallas Desire Lingerie Football. In a word: Loved it. And not just the toned female physiques running around in their bras and panties. (Though, if you haven't seen Erin Marie Garrett in and/or out of "uniform" ... More >>

Minor League, Major Fun

Gig Alert: Band Night Saturday At Alliance Skate Park, Grand Prairie

​Hey, skater dude--pissed off about having to go back to school next week? Work out that anger in the mosh pit Saturday at Alliance Skate Park (1002 Lonestar Pkwy. in Grand Prairie). Left Hand Salute, Television City, The Hollow Empire and Silver Fox will rock the suburbs starting at 8 p.m. Cover ... More >>

Two Area Halloween Shows Get Scary Early Announcements

​Halloween's a good two months away--almost two-and-a-half months off, actually--but, since area booking agents never seem to sleep, we're already seeing some pretty impressive lineups get tossed together for the holiday.Among them? A hipster's delight at the Granada, for one, featuring two Austin ... More >>

Dollars for Dime

In Your Face

Spikefest invades Grand Prairie

Playing The Ponies

Lone Star Park kicks off another season

Picture Show: Slipknot and Coheed and Cambria at the Nokia

Roger CaldwellSlipknot did some serious damage out in Grand Prairie last night, as Kelly wrote here earlier, along with openers Coheed & Cambria and Trivium.For more scenes from the show, check our photographer Roger Caldwell's work covering the scene in our slideshow here.

Local Lingerie Hopefuls Bring Game, Tight Pants to Dallas Desire Tryouts

Patrick MichelsToday was tryout day for the Dallas Desire -- which, as we mentioned way back in October, is the local franchise in the new Lingerie Football League. And around 30 women turned up at Grand Prairie's Quick Stop Park hoping to make the final cut -- 12, all told. Over on Sportatorium, In ... More >>

It's Gonna Be Business Time On May 5 at Nokia Theatre

...which is to say that Flight of the Conchords will be migrating to Grand Prairie that night. I mention this because foreplay is very important... in love.

Drive-Thru Xmas

Pitch Perfect

The Grand Prairie AirHogs are willing to do whatever it takes to make you a fan. And that includes win.

Sailing Gracefully

Beauty is in Ainsworth's punch lines

Hey, Dallas Jazzheads: Get Ready To Party

You and What Droid Army?

Light It Up

Grand Prairie is all aglow

Shop Till You Bop at Forever Young Records

Not to drop hints or anything, but Xmas is coming, and Forever Young is open, sooo...

Greek Pit

Nokia hosts a kegger

Freedom Isn't Free

Your ears will pay at Nokia

Girl on a Motorcycle

Like Father, Like Son

Dweezil brings Frank to Nokia

Merry SeXmas

Get ready for a new jack holiday

Thief! Thief!

That radio station's stealing Christmas!

It's Snowing Crap

To Put It Bluntly

Best Wings

Buffalo Wild Wings

Good Muck

You gotta know when to hold ’em

Best Scenic Drive

FM 1382 in Southern Dallas County

Native Sons

Tribes put the wow in powwow

Best Proof that Talent Scouts Have Been Ignoring the D-FW Area for Too Long

American Idol

Down on Sherman Street

In the old neighborhood, Joe Lee Calloway played dominoes and hung out with his buddies. Until a Grand Prairie cop killed him right there

Letters

Video downs

Grand Prairie's horseless Lone Star Park offers the seedy side of the sport of kings