Halloween

Drive-By Haunting

Ten Raver Tips on How to Dress for Ultra 2013

They danced. They rolled. They yelled: Glitter! Yes, these are ten talkative fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013. Certainly, there were some better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed. But the following folks found during night one of 2013's three-day shit fest -- they were the ones who ... More >>

A Chat With Randy Brooks, the Guy Who Wrote "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer"

I attended the Oral Fixation "Cold Turkey" show at the MAC last Tuesday night, mainly because Observer copy editor and beer enthusiast Jesse Hughey was going to be reading, and he ended up getting some of the biggest laughs of the night, from a crowd that took in some pretty dark tales. Also notable ... More >>

A Supernatural Stage

Carnival of Souls with Pinkish Black and Mind Spiders

Friday, November 2, at Texas Theatre

Woman Says 8-Year-Old Mauled By Her Pit Bull Kind of Had It Coming

On Halloween night, an 8-year-old boy walked to the front door of the house at 1703 Danube Drive, a couple of blocks from the Cedar Crest Golf Course. It's not clear from a police report whether he was trick-or-treating or simply visiting the home, as he did from time to time. Whatever the case, th ... More >>

Fun Size, the Teen Comedy That's Not Bad for You

Necro Tonz

Wednesday, October 31, at LaGrange

Good Records' Halloween Party

Saturday, October 27, at Good Records

The Art Of Crossing Over

Good Sons, Pinkish Black

Saturday, October 20 at Double Wide

Last Night: The Misfits, Juicehead, Hood Rat, Electric Vengeance, The Hammercocks

Shigeo Jones Kikuchi: Photo AssassinThe Misfits.​Last Night: The Misfits, Juicehead, Hood Rat, Electric Vengeance, The Hammercocks Trees November 14 Better than: carving Crimson Ghost jack-o-lanterns with Evilive on. The Misfits might have delivered a much more satisfying set last night than ... More >>

Mayor Mike Rawlings Gets Rowdy as City Hall's Halloween Party Also Gets Occupied

Photos by Anna MerlanNo, I can't imagine we'll ever see this photo at right ever again. Not at all. No, never.​My most terrifying night at Dallas City Hall involved a six-hour Redistricting Commission meeting, during which I was forced to eat 1,000-year-old, partially fossilized peanut butter ... More >>

Taste of Greenville Avenue to be Very Tasty This Weeekend

​Among many other things going on this weekend is the 3rd annual Taste of Greenville Avenue (TOGA), this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Energy Square, 4925 Greenville Ave. More than two dozen Greenville area restaurants will be on hand to serve small portions of signatures dishes that co ... More >>

Ten Musicians' Ghosts That Still Stalk The Earth (And How To Dress Up As Them For Halloween)

​Now that the calendar has official turned to September and the back-to-school fervor is over, we've come upon that special time once again when big-box retailers to start rolling out their Halloween merchandise. Since we here at DC9 love Halloween, we think it's never too early to begin planning ... More >>

He’s the Second Coming, Baby

Get Your Freaks On

For Your Spring Break Listening Pleasure: The Nuge at the Electric Ballroom in October '75

​Still waiting for a call from City Hall, which is worth sticking around for. So with some time to kill, let's go to the vaults -- specifically, this gem suggested by a Friend of Unfair Park who's cranked that Frampton set up to 11. Our Friend insists he was there, man, on Halloween night '75 when ... More >>

Food Trucks in the Arts District Parked on City Plan Commission's Agenda This Week

The Hot Box parked on Flora Street back on October 31, when it went as A Row of Food Trucks on Halloween​At year's end, Veletta Lill, former city council member and executive director of the Dallas Arts District, told Unfair Park: "We will have food trucks in the Arts District by the spring," cou ... More >>

Bad Hands

Local Music 'Mericans : "Sean Wayne" Leseman, aka The Door Guy

Welcome to Local Music'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk. ​If you've ever gone to see a rock band in Deep Ellum, he was likely your maitre' d, of sorts. He's one of those guys that often finds himsel ... More >>

By George I Think He's Done It! Yep, He Definitely Did It.

Would you rather your football team - like the Dallas Cowboys - implode during a 1-7 start, fire its head coach and be done by Halloween? Or would you rather your football team - like FC Dallas - make it all the way to the Super Bowl only to dramatically lose in the 107th minute of play on an ... More >>

The Dresden Dolls Have Their Hands Full.

Jason Kidd Has Extended His Shooting Range

Hey, at least one of our teams won on Halloween. Prediction: Just three games into the season and Jason Kidd's swish from inside the Clippers' 3-point line will be the longest shot made in the NBA this season.

Hash Over: Movember, Mojito Monday,
Melting Pot and More

October is long gone folks, and we here at City of Ate couldn't be happier. Thanksgiving is around the corner, and we've almost recovered from yesterday's sugar high. So let's all put away the Halloween costumes and get ready for a week of food events, many of which are benefiting charitable causes. ... More >>

Top 5 Things To Do With Halloween Candy
After October 31

​This year, we saw no more than 15 trick-or-treaters come to the door -- at that wasn't even at our own house, but an an organized trick-or-treat event. At home, there were seriously, zero children out roaming the streets for sweet treats. Now we're left with a bucket of pre-packaged sugar and not ... More >>

Turns Out, It Takes Two Bushes to Throw Out One Opening Pitch for World Series Game Four

​This just in from John Blake and Major League Baseball: Yet again, Nolan Ryan will toss out the first pitch at the Ballpark in Arlington for a post-season game, when, tomorrow evening, he takes the mound for Game Three of the World Series. (And, no, apparently he's unavailable to work a few innin ... More >>

Liam Roybal, Just Blame Gordon Keith

​Yesterday -- thanks to Gordon Keith, thanks to Midwest Sports Fans, thanks to Deadspin, geez -- we met Lil' Ron Washington, otherwise known as Liam Roybal of Keller, poor feller. Turns out, the 7-year-old had no intention whatsoever of going as the Rangers' skipper's Mini-Me for Halloween. He was ... More >>

Good Friday: Halloween Weekend Edition

A Baptist General headlines We Shot JR is Dead​This weekend marks the end of an era: After a five-year run, the most critical critics in North Texas over at We Shot JR are calling it quits. We suspect it's only a matter of days until the comments on DC9 increase in anonymity and negativity, but, b ... More >>

They're Not Just Stories, You Know

Party! Walt's Bringing The Ice

A Triple Order of Frank 'N' Furters Makes for a Rocky Horror Halloween on Area Stages.

Less Talk, More Action

Puddle In the Back Seat

Halloween Observatory

Feeling Bookish

Phoenix Project Lets You Listen To Improv Lottery Recordings, Then Walk Like A Zombie

Click to enlarge​The DIY space Phoenix Project has a busy weekend, with Saturday's lineup of Big Fiction, Muhammadali, Leg Sweeper and The Sleepies followed by Sunday's show with Dysrhythmia, Four Days To Burn, Waste Burai and Baring Teeth. But the capper is an early Halloween treat Sunday afterno ... More >>

Today In Music News: Eddie Van Halen Gets Surgery, Phish Gets Their Own Festival (Again) and Celine Dion Goes On Sale

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 24 2009... Eddie Van Halen is recovering from surgery on his left hand. "Eruption" just can't play itself ya know. Phish is staging a Halloween festival at the Indio polo grounds...y'know where they hold Coachella. Ever wanted to have you ver ... More >>

Sister Act

The RTC's nuns get crackin'

Trick Or Tits

Strangers In The Night

Experts talk nightmares

Pumpkinhead

CATS does Sleepy Hollow

It's A Dance-Off!

A Loaded Plan

Classic Fun

The Innocents earns a Lone Star

Jungleween

Kids find tails and treats at the zoo

Racing for Boobs

Run a 5K for breast cancer

Puck Off

The lock on hockey could be a big blow to Dallas restaurants

Look at Our Briefs

A page of stuff that didn't fit elsewhere