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The Alchemy of Vulgar Fashion: Patience, Magic and Blood

Denton death-synth duo Vulgar Fashion is about as enigmatic as it comes. If you're scouring their website or Facebook profile for a crisp, straightforward shot, you'll turn up empty-handed. The only real way to see and experience them--Julie Mckendrick and Andrew Michael, who fantastically go by the ... More >>

Texas Right to Life Pushes More Bunk Science on "Preborn Pain," Calls Observer "Anti-Life"

Over the past couple months, we've brought you periodic updates on Texas Right to Life's quest to help pass a bill banning all abortions after 20 weeks. They've finally found a sponsor to carry that bill: State Representative Jodie Laubenberg filed the "Preborn Pain Act" this time last week. Texas R ... More >>

TJ's Fresh Seafood To Pop-Up in East Dallas This Saturday

See also: *Jon Alexis of TJ's Seafood Market on Expansion, The Fishing Industry and Lobsters that Need a New Home Jon Alexis of TJ's Fresh Seafood Market is pitching his tent in East Dallas this weekend for another impromptu fish market at Urbano Café. Jimmy's Food Store, Tom Spicer's garden and ... More >>

Breaking Down Mooyah, Dallas' Second-Favorite Burger. Allegedly.

Last week the Dallas Morning News tallied the votes and crowned its burger king. Angry Dog, the Deep Ellum grease pit with a loyal following, beat out Mooyah Burger, the Dallas-based burger chain built on double-meat patties and french fries with a cooking process you need an engineering degree to u ... More >>

Thar She Blows: A Great Idea Rises at City Hall. Fetch the Harpoons.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. A huge idea turned up at City Hall yesterday. Huge. This is like a Blue whale beaching itself on the banks of the Trinity River. I'm afraid City Hall is going to send a crew out there and chop it into cat-food. We need to stop and take a big look at this ... More >>

How Hateful Was Robert Jeffress's Mormonism-Is-a-Cult Line? Very, If You Know History.

​Alfredo Corchado has a story in today's Dallas Morning News about Mitt Romney's Mexican relatives: "Mitt Romney's relatives in Mexico are supportive but wary." It's a topic that has been in the back of my mind ever since Dallas's own Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of Dallas First Baptist, tri ... More >>

Belo in Fee Dispute With DirecTV, Which is Warning Customers They Could Lose WFAA

​Saw this heads-up for the first time last night. As it turns out, according to DirecTV's website, the satellite provider and Belo Corp. are engaged in a tussle over broadcast fees. Belo, which signed its agreement with the carrier in February 2001, says DirecTV isn't paying enough for the rights ... More >>

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Breathe Carolina's Kyle Even Talks The Ups and Downs of Blending Dance Music with Metal

  Denver's Breathe Carolina is definitely a love 'em or hate 'em type of band. Blending pop friendly electronica, dance beats and screamo metal, the duo of Kyle Even and David Schmitt makes music that practically defines the phrase "acquired taste." Yet in spite of some backlash from critics, ... More >>

Kristy Kruger Takes a Nasty Spill While on Tour

Kristy Kruger has looked better...​Ever the road warrior, Dallas-based singer-songwriter Kristy Kruger recently found herself performing a gig in Victor, Idaho. The show went well enough, but the load out proved problematic. Check out that photo to the right. Yeesh."I'm not sure how exciting the s ... More >>

Three Shows Worth Investigating Tonight

Although not as busy as last night, there are still a few musical options in our area this Tuesday night that are well worth investigating.

Gandolfo's Attempts Franchising Magic Trick with Deli Sandwiches

​A new food truck is en route to Dallas. The mobile food vendor in question, Gandolfo's New York Delicatessen, is part of an ambitious plan by owner Pool's Restaurant Group for large-scale franchising of food trucks, and in the case of Randy Wolken, master franchiser for DFW, a way to build a ... More >>

McDonald's Japan Captures Texas on a Bun

​The Texas Burger, released last month at McDonald's restaurants across Japan, proved so popular that the fast food chain's already issued a sequel. Spokeswoman Melissa Daly describes the Texas 2 Burger, available now in Japan, as featuring "flavors of the Lone Star State with spicy chili bea ... More >>

Fake Chanukah, Real Potato Latkes:
An Accommodation

Photos by Adam DonaldContemplating the meaning of Fake Chanukah for a kid...presents​Deeply rooted in the rich traditions of the Jewish people is the potato latke. Born of the shtetl and carried to this country on the taste buds of immigrants, the potato latke, a.k.a. the potato pancake, is ... More >>

Eisley Has The Battle Scars to Prove Their Coming of Age.

Last Night: Built to Spill, Finn Riggins and Telegraph Canyon at the Granada Theater

Built to Spill, Finn Riggins, Telegraph CanyonGranada TheaterAugust 11, 2010Better than: your nephew's second birthday.Mattie StaffordSee the rest of Mattie's shots from last night's show here.​Last night's showcase at the Granada Theater, which featured performances from Boise's Built to Spill an ... More >>

Last Night: Josh Ritter at the Granada Theater

Josh Ritter, The MynabirdsThe Granada TheaterJune 15, 2010Better than: watching both hours of Hell's Kitchen on TV. Patrick MichelsFor more pictures from last night's show, check the slideshow.Six years and three additional, well-received studio albums can do wonders for a performer's attendance f ... More >>

Josh Ritter Gets All Shakespearean

Hector's On Henderson: "Date Night" Restaurant Fails to Arouse

Reckless Kelly Tries Someone Else's Songs For A Change.

Buyer Beware: Lil Wayne's Got a Crappy Record at Live Performances

Perfect

From Now On

Older, wiser, and

with a longer beard,

Doug Martsch spills his "Conventional Wisdom"

¡Ask a Mexican!

Proud Papa

Founding father may finally see Mavs baby grow up a champ

Tommy Who?

Uptown Players take on The Who's psychedelic sideshow; Echo Theater goes Sailing to Byzantium

Give Peace and Peppers a Chance

Chili cooks score one for multilateralism

Turning Japanese

What's up with Kobe beef?

Bawdy Romp

Chaucer and sushi--a match made in...well, somewhere

Plan 9 for Inner Space

Sound Tribe Sector 9 finds new ways to improvise

Okra Shock

Gumbo's grub could be addicting

Out & About

Built to Spill

The Great Divide

The Shins' James Mercer is just another underappreciated genius

Scene, Heard

It's a big fuckin' deal

Girl Power

The Gals of the Big "D" Jamboree remain the sweethearts of the wrestling ring

Killer Smile

Tommy Lynn Sells claims to have murdered dozens, and Texas Rangers fear he's telling the truth

The old old thing

Malvina Reynolds and Harry Smith argue for folk's historical authenticity. Whatever that is.

Critics' Picks

The Pinehurst Kids

Eat up

Vonnegut's unfilmable Breakfast of Champions is a magnificent movie after all

Lucky break

The O'Hair case gets a boost from a trio of hapless thieves

Perfect, now

Built to Spill makes a record too good to Keep It Like a Secret

Smoke gets in your eyes

Smoke Signals drifts away into a haze of ham-fisted storytelling

Kosher competition

Dallas' burgeoning Jewish community sparks a battle among markets hungry for their business

Events for the week

I love LAva

Volcano destroys Los Angeles with hot magma and cool affection

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

So close, yet so far away

Americans don't understand why Quebec wants to secede

Razing Hopes (Part II)

Thousands of people in Dallas need a cheap place to live. So why is the city destroying homes that could be saved?

Dangerous liaisons

To Die For is a witty, monochromatic look at media ambition

Hank, junior

Wayne Hancock rides shotgun down the Lost Highway

Fit to be fried

Idaho's potato king accuses a dead Dallas oilman and his sons of a multimillion-dollar scam