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Friday, August 10, at Dada

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How Banksy Forced Hal Samples to Finish Doc About Homeless Man Living Outside L.A.

Tachowa Covington and his former home in a still from Hal Samples's in-progress Something From Nothing. The whole trailer's after the jump.​Over the years photographer Hal Samples has shown me bits and pieces of his in-progress documentary about Tachowa Covington, who turned an abandoned water tan ... More >>

Notes on The Second Homegrown Festival. Plus: Video of Neon Indian Debuting A New Song.

Danny HurleySeryn's Trenton Wheeler. For more of Danny Hurley's shots from the event, check the slideshow.​In this week's print edition of the Observer, we'll have more -- much, much more -- on this past weekend's Homegrown Music and Art Festival in downtown Dallas' Main Street Garden Park. But, f ... More >>

What We Missed While Our Servers Crashed (Again): Hunt on Tax Hike, Lone Star in Trouble

Hal SamplesOn the set of Lone Star. Sure hope we get to see this episode.​Well I'll be damned. We're up and running again. For now. How ... surprising. Again, data was corrupted, but at least everyone got a scholarship (thanks, Congressional Black Caucus!). My apologies, of course -- you couldn't ... More >>

A Visit With Jon Voight About Lone Star

Photos by Hal SamplesAdrianne Palicki, left, and Jon Voight on the set of Lone Star​As you're no doubt aware by now, Lone Star premieres tonight on FOX at 8 p.m. It's shot here but set in Houston and Midland, between which James Wolk's Bob/Robert bounces while leading the con man's double life. An ... More >>

The Top Ten Stage Faces From Billy Idol's Show at the Palladium Ballroom Last Night

Hal SamplesBilly Idol's drummer gets an honorable mention for this one.​What a week: Between Heart on Monday night and Meat Loaf on Thursday, we might have to break out our Van Halen t-shirts and the Hall & Oates tapes just to get into the mood.Billy Idol added himself to the mix last night fo ... More >>

Picture Show: New Pornographers, The Dodos at Gilley's

Hal SamplesThe Dodos ​Neko Case joined the New Pornographers at Gilley's Saturday July 24, making the indie pop group look more like a team of Marvel Super Heroes than a great band. As always, the Pornographers were exacto-knife pitch perfect for songs like "Challengers" and "Sing Me Spanish T ... More >>

One More Reason We Love Dirk Nowitzki (and the Rest of Your Dallas Mavericks)

Hal SamplesAlso highly recommended: our old pal Zac Crain's oral history of Dirk's career in the December D. Thanks, Zac!​Yesterday, after practice at the American Airlines Center, the Mavs hosted their 13th annual Turkey Dunk, attended by some 125 homeless and "at-risk" kids. We sent the great Ha ... More >>

Listomania: 5 Local, Music Related Things We Should All Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Patrick Michels​ 1. The Granada Theater's early (or just plain thought out) starting times Opening band at 9:00, headliner just after 10:00. What's not perfect about that? I get all these excuses from other club owners about alcohol sales and whatnot, but every time I exit the Granada at just ... More >>

Picture Show: Rhett Miller and The O's at The Granada

Hal Samples​ Rhett Miller's benefit show in the Cystic Fibrosis Concert Series took the stage at The Granada Saturday night, with The O's opening the night, and Gordon Keith playing host.There's some video of Keith and Miller onstage at the end of the night over on Unfair Park, but for a complete ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To Chameleon Chamber Group's Live Recording Tonight In SPACE

​The members of Audrey Easley's bewigged and electrified classical gas Chameleon Chamber Group certainly looked like they were having a blast at its DC9 In SPACE taping back in July. They must have liked the results, too, as they'll be recording a live album from 7 to 10 tonight at Hal Samples' ga ... More >>

Protesters Gathered Across Street From Buju Banton's Performance--But Was There Anything To It?

Hal SamplesProtesters gathered across the street from Trincity last night.​Reggae artist Buju Banton didn't realize "faggot" had become a bad word. At least, that's the story according to friends and colleagues of the artist, who stood in front of Trincity/Palm Beach Club last night, watching the ... More >>

Last Night: Slowride at Elm Street Tattoo

SlowrideElm Street TattooOctober 15, 2009Better than: going under the needle. Hal SamplesSlowride reunited at Oliver Peck's Elm Street Tattoo last night.​ It'd been some time since the fellas in Slowride had played an actual show together--but with an upcoming gig slated at local tattoo artist Ol ... More >>

Last Night: U2, Muse at Cowboys Stadium

U2, MuseCowboys StadiumOctober 12, 2009Better than: Half-time at the proper name spelling bee.Hal SamplesFor more photos from last night's performance, check out Hal Samples' slideshow.​The first thing everyone noticed, of course, was the much ballyhooed stage, a spider-looking contraption that ho ... More >>

Even Better Than the Real Thing

Hal Samples​The great Hal Samples shot the U2 show at Cowboys Stadium, as evidenced by this most wondermous slide show that looks far better than a good hunk of what I heard last night. Pete reviewed the show on DC9; in the comments, I re-reviewed it. Let's rumble, kid.

Picture Show: The Dead Weather at the House of Blues

Hal Samples​ Fresh off a killer performance at Austin City Limits, The Dead Weather crawled north for a House of Blues show last night--which you may have read about in Cory's review here on DC9.For another look at the show, Jack White, Allison Mosshart, a giraffe's head and all, check out this st ... More >>

With Clock About to Start Ticking on Federal Homeless Dough, Dallas City Council Spreads $5.3 Million Among 14 Nonprofits

Hal SamplesLearn more about The Bridge, the city's homeless assistance center, in this week's Observer.The city council this morning approved three-year contracts totaling $5.3 million with 14 area nonprofit groups -- including The Salvation Army and Central Dallas Ministries -- to provide assistan ... More >>

Picture Show: Slow Roosevelt And Trees Rise From The Grave Together.

Hal SamplesSlow Ro shakes some limbs. The tree jokes are endless, really.​Know what sucks about planning vacations in advance? You're screwed as far as events that get planned for the week you're gone after your flight and all that's been booked. Hence my regrettably missing out on a weekend full ... More >>

Deep Ellum, Once More a Work of Art

Hal Samples​This is but a sample of Hal Samples's photos taken Saturday afternoon and evening, as Frank Campagna and his band of artists were wrapping up the Deep Ellum Mural Project just a few weeks after kick-off. (The tunnel's gone; long live the tunnel!) Patrick M. is compiling the whole wingd ... More >>

Telegraph Canyon Preps For The Current and The Tide

Hal Samples On Tuesday, August 18, Fort Worth's Telegraph Canyon will release its highly anticipated sophomore release, the Will Johnson-produced The Tide and The Current--a disc I can, having heard it, say is definitely worth the hype and the wait since 2007's excellent debut, All The Good News. Oh ... More >>

Picture Show: Jenny Lewis at the Granada Theater

Hal Samples Our own Melissa Crowe already offered her take on last night's Jenny Lewis show and, by that account, with Lewis cruising the stage in a pair of Daisy Dukes, you needed a heart of stone not to find religion out in the Granada crowd.Thankfully these are 90 minutes that'll live on for post ... More >>

Picture Show: Grizzly Bear at the Granada

Hal SamplesDoug Davis had the last word on last night's Grizzly Bear show at the Granada... until now. Because Hal Samples was there to document the show from the front row--maybe even closer, from the looks of it--and we'll close out the day on DC9 with his look at the show.You can check out more s ... More >>

Last Night's Carter Albrecht CD Release Show Filled the Granada with Fans and Friends

Hal SamplesTrey Carmichael of Sorta performs at the Granada Thursday night.Check out more photos by Hal Samples in our slideshow.Last night a steadily growing crowd kept the Granada staff on its hospitable feet as well-wishers, friends and music lovers in general (and yeah, a news crew or two) celeb ... More >>

Picture Show: Erykah Badu Teaches The Kids About The Music

Hal Samples Yesterday morning, Erykah Badu and a few friends treated the students of St. Philip's School, Prestonwood Elementary and Holy Trinity Catholic School to quite the music lesson at the House of Blues: While mixing in live performance with powerpoint slideshow and lecture, Badu and Co. scho ... More >>

Erykah Badu Sings (and Teaches) the Blues

Hal SamplesWe sent Hal Samples to the House of Blues this morning to shoot Erykah Badu and friends offering a lengthy discourse on blues history to students from St. Philip's School, Prestonwood Elementary and Holy Trinity Catholic School. More photos and some video are to come tomorrow, after we ge ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets For Eleven Hundred Springs At The Longhorn Saloon Friday

Hal SamplesBy now you've probably had it up to here with our coverage of Eleven Hundred Springs. Thanks to fiercely loyal fans, the country band swept nearly every 2008 DOMA category for which it was eligible, even snagging bass player Steven "DJ Burlap" Berg best DJ. If you're a die-hard fan or mem ... More >>

Picture Show: Lykke Li at the Granada

Hal SamplesAs Pete wrote in his Last Night review, Lykke Li left fans at the Granada Theater completely transfixed Wednesday -- and Hal Samples has shots from the show to prove it.See the Swedish siren thrashing around onstage, and and the fans staring dreamily up at her, in our slideshow here.

Good Friday: Caleb Jones, Dan Dyer, Dallas' Hidden Talents, The Demigs, Titus Andronicus, Dove Hunter, Mount Righteous, King Bucks and More

So you already know about tonight's shows, which include Tapes 'n Tapes at Dada and Nervous Curtains and Dust Congress opening for Daniel Folmer's CD release at 7 p.m. at Good Records. And Saturday night, Los Campesinos and Titus Andronicus play at Club Dada, Somebody's Darling celebrates a CD relea ... More >>

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What’s Wrong With This Picture?

For Hal Samples, who uses photos to help the homeless, nothing—and everything