Grand Prairie

Amongst The New Rave Children: An Old Person's Review of Saturday's Dayglow Party

"What initially began as a college tradition has transformed into a world-renowned live concert, featuring spectacular DJs, soaring aerial acts, stilt-walkers, contortion acts, fire shows, and cannons to deliver the famous "Paint Blast," along with many other unforgettable live performances." That' ... More >>

Racing With Class

Preview: South by So What?! at QuikTrip Park

Saturday, March 17, at QuikTrip Park, Grand Prairie

My Morning Jacket's Tom Blankenship on Record Stores: "We Need That Sense of Community"

​ Few bands have risen from the stale, beer-stained stages of America's dingiest dives only to entertain majestic crowds at some of the world's largest festivals more naturally than My Morning Jacket. Formed in Louisville in 1998, the Jim James-fronted group has undergone a series of personnel ... More >>

Demi Lovato, Ray Benson and This Weekend's Top Shows

​A lot of people are home for Thanksgiving nursing food hangovers and hanging out with family, which explains why most of this weekend's shows are from local acts. That doesn't mean there aren't some big shows happening this weekend, like the one from Dallas' own Demi Lovato tomorrow at Verizon Th ... More >>

Gas Drilling Task Force Begins Deliberations, Opts to Stick with Current Approval Process

Photo by Taryn WalkerThe task force toured a drill site this summer, getting an education before entering the deliberation process.​The city council-appointed gas drilling task force stopped listening to The Experts yesterday and got down to the business of discussing just what it'll suggest t ... More >>

The Family That Hops Together ...

Lenny White of Return to Forever: "Anything That Is Great Will Last An Eternity."

Along with Weather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea's Return to Forever brought jazz music to a rock audience. And though the "jazz fusion" label seemed to piss off the purists, Corea and the other talented musicians didn't mind the increased profile and accompanying profits. Nearly ... More >>

Last Night: Dolly Parton at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie

Dolly PartonVerizon Theatre in Grand PrairieTuesday, July 19, 2011Better than: Reality. Rachel ParkerDolly Parton at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie​Dolly Parton inhabits her stardom as fully as she fills out her glittering outfits. "I buy 'em two sizes too small and take 'em in," she joked. Sh ... More >>

Following Arrests, Feds Outline Vast Cocaine, Heroin Ring Operating Out of Dallas, Fort Worth

​The U.S. Attorney's Office sends word: Federal authorities have rounded up dozens suspected of trafficking heroin and cocaine from Dallas to Atlanta to Baltimore to Philadelphia to Nashville and all points in between. Those arrested yesterday come from all over, including Dallas and Fort Worth an ... More >>

Gorillaz Release "The Snake in Dallas," A Song Recorded Here in October, On New Album

"We wrote a song about you."​Yes, as promised, Damon Albarn's Gorillaz did indeed put out a new album on Christmas. only, turns out, it wasn't a free download as anticipated, but rather a free stream (the download option, apparently, is only available for the band's fan club members).So, sure, a b ... More >>

Way to Go, Frisco, You're the 14th-Safest City In the United States of America!

​We can look at CQ Press's just-released City Crime Rankings 2010-2011 two ways: from safest to most dangerous or vice-versa. But either way -- based upon the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports that include "the violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the property crimes of bu ... More >>

The Assumed Product of Celtic Lightning

Even In The Face Of All These Suburban Efforts To Go Indie, Mall Punk Rages On...

​Once upon a time--a whole 14 months ago--if you were in the suburbs and listening to music, chances were you were listening to mall punk.These days, though, that's a little different, thanks to the efforts of the folks in Frisco, Carrollton and Grand Prairie.But lest you thought that spelled the ... More >>

She's All Growns Up and She's All Growns Up: Watch Selena Gomez's New Music Video, "A Year Without Rain." (She's 18, Swear.)

Grand Prairie's Own Selena Gomez has a new album called A Year Without Rain due out later this month, and, late last week, she debuted the new music video for that album's lead single and title track. And, in case there was any doubt as to whether Disney was gonna change up its marketing of is one-t ... More >>

Tell Me A Story (Cuento)

MMA - But Not UFC - Comes Back to Metroplex

​No way it will be bigger than last summer when UFC took over American Airlines Center, but Mixed Martial Arts - in the form of Bellator - invades the metroplex again tonight. The BFC XIX will hold seven fights at the Nokia Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, headlined by lightweight champ Joe ... More >>

For Asians in Dallas, There's No place Like Home--Other Than an Asian Market

Last week, my friend Rona hosted her parents who where visiting from Maui. They were staying for the whole week, and being of Filipino descent, they wanted to know where the nearest Asian supermarket was. And when my aunt from Taiwan arrives next month, she will be asking me to take her to the neare ... More >>

Betting on the Ponies

Next Top Model Behavior: Because, Sometimes, It's Just Nice to Wear a Hat

"Ren is from Grand Prairie." This will be the first line in our next novel.​We knew at the end of the last episode that this week's America's Next Top Model would start off with some nakedness. So it was really no surprise when silver-haired "TV personality" Jay Manuel told the girls to choose one ... More >>

Midlake's New, Limited Edition Vinyl EP Earns Release Today, Available at Forever Young and Good Records

​Midlake's new,two-song, 12'', 45 rpm release, Acts of Man, which features two songs off the bands upcoming full-length release The Courage of Others ("Acts of Man" and "Rulers, Ruling All Things"), earned its release today.And though the release is available for online purchase--via insound.com, ... More >>

Giveaway! Or: Amazingly Enough, I've Never Owned a Star Trek Tee Till, Oh, Today.

Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up 'round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they've gone ... extreme! Which is to say, Star Trek starts screening ... More >>

Dallas Desire Prospects: Lookin' Good!

Patrick Michels Because I'm home making elaborate plans for my sweetie's Valentine's dinner - or something - I had to (grudgingly) send intern Kelly Knickerbocker out to scope the Dallas Desire wannabes in Grand Prairie. Kelly, what'd I miss? Today at QuikTrip Park a group of beautiful - ... More >>

Like an Episode of Dragnet

The Other Bailout: Donors Spending Big Bucks on Texas GOP This Week

Spectacular Rat

New Tang celebrates at Nokia

Grand Prairie Granny Gets Around

When Getting Screwed on a New Car Takes on a Whole New Meaning

World Party

Go global with cultural festivals

Even Without Power, the Boss Blogs

Juke Box Heroes

Foreigner races to the stage at Lone Star Park

Wanna Be Entertained?

Tickle Me Impressed

Get Your Gore On

Loose Is Fast

Get a lesson in racing at Lone Star Park

Before the Fourth

Options for pre-holiday festivities

Before the Fourth

Options for pre-holiday festivities

Thunderdome

Motorcycles take Grand Prairie

Oh Say, Can You?

If you wanna sing out, sing out

A Day at the Races

Plus: D-Day at the DMN; Dirty Deed

Hilary Duff, Simple Plan and Black Eyed Peas

December 3

Busy Schedule

NextStage has a full dance card

The Garden of Angels

With statues, crosses and Christmas ornaments, parents mourn and celebrate the memory of children taken by violence

Short and Sweet

Lone Star Park shows off a horse of a different color

X Marks the Spot

Xtreme sports hit the mainstream

Buzz

Spell it out, Double-ya; Name game; American Atheists

Night & Day

October 1 - 7, 1998

Cheap speed

Silks' reach for culinary respectability fades in the stretch

Letters

Racetracks lament

Trinity Meadows may show whether Texas racing industry can get past the gate