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Trophy Wives' Tony Ash: "Fugazi Was Actually My First Show Ever"

Louisville, Kentucky four-piece Trophy Wives are giving DFW a treat this week. Not only are they playing Andy's Bar in Denton tonight with Bad Design, they're also playing Double Wide on Thursday with Nervous Curtains and Descender. They'll be previewing material from their album Old Scratch, so don ... More >>

Max Anderson Shares His Un-Basic Instincts

Watch This: Rappers, Strippers and More in the Super Bowl Parking Lot

Austin-based photographer/documentarian Otis Ike captured this slice of life before the Super Bowl in Dallas last year, and it's getting some hits over at Funny or Die. Like most things Ike documents, it's a fascinating anthropological study of what happens when sports fans collide with Bible thumpe ... More >>

The Good and Bad News Contained Within MDHA's "2011 State of Homelessness" Report

Metro Dallas Homeless AllianceA look at Dallas County's homeless population from the "2011 Annual 'Point-In-Time' Homeless Count and Census"​Leslie's at Dallas City Hall at this very moment, where Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance is announcing the formation of the Greater Dallas Homeless Policy Alli ... More >>

EDM Continues Breaking Into Mainstream Culture

Suze's Jeffery Hobbs: Making Something New from the Familiar

Robert BostickSuze's Jeffery Hobbs.​Like many chefs, Jeffery Hobbs fell in love with the kitchen because both his grandmother and his mother were in it. Born in Indianapolis, the 40-year-old Hobbs spent much of his time as a kid in the kitchen peeling carrots and potatoes or in the family gard ... More >>

Erykah Badu to Join My Morning Jacket As Guest For Streaming Tuesday Night Concert

Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were t ... More >>

Which Musicians Will Die in 2011?

Pop Quiz: Can You Tell One City from Another By Menus?

​I recently had occasion to look up a menu from a town where I used to live, and was startled by how ostentatiously it flaunted the region's culinary biases. The menu was so obviously issued by a restaurant in this particular town that I'm pretty sure I could pick it out of a line-up of 100 me ... More >>

In Trinity Trust News: Calatrava Party Plans! And, the Promise of a "More Humane City."

Last night I espied this billboard in a TV trailer for Country Strong, which clearly takes place in the distant future. The Dallas Trinity Arena can be found next to Ray's Sporting Goods. Or Austin, home of Hornitos.​The Trinity Trust this morning sends further details concerning the grand opening ... More >>

Extended Q&A: Justin Townes Earle On The Importance of Fashion On Stage

Justin Townes Earle​Justin Townes Earle is making quite a name for himself. Sure, he has a couple of pretty famous names already -- his father is Steve Earle, and his middle name comes courtesy of Townes Van Zandt. But the younger Earle has been making headlines all on his own the past few months ... More >>

Welcome to the Rileys: Kristen Stewart and the Birth of an Anti-Star.

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To See Margot & the Nuclear So and So's at The Loft Tomorrow

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's​Marget & The Nuclear So and So's have been making their signature indie folk chamber pop since 2005, and although they have garnered critical acclaim and respect for their songwriting from us, they haven't been so successful financially. Considering that they ... More >>

The George W. Bush Institute's First Initiative: "The Alliance to Reform Education Leadership"

Courtesy Todd Overman/Dallas Independent School DistrictJade Esquivel, a North Dallas High School teacher and 7-year DISD vet, with Laura Bush following her announcement this morning​By now, perhaps, you've heard: Laura Bush was at North Dallas High School this morning to debut the George W. Bush ... More >>

Today In Music News: Kanye Gets Collegiate Tips, Phoenix Want You To Remix And Justin Townes Earle Gets Popped

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 21, 2010...Kanye West is apparently getting his life and style advise from a Yale sophomore.Fancy yourself a bit of a bedroom remix producer? Well, Phoenix is gonna scratch your itch to remix, it are making stems from Wolfgang Amadeus P ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Amo Joy, Little Birds and Man Factory at The Amsterdam Bar Tonight

​ Hey, remember those awesome shirts with wolves on them you used to buy from those pamphlets they'd hand out in elementary school? Of course you do. They are, after all, the new hipster chic. And, actually, they make for a pretty cool poster, too.

Dallas Cowboys' Off-Season: Other Than Dance Lessons, What Do They Need?

The Cowboys have a couple needs this off-season, one of which is no longer a linebackers coach since yesterday they hired West Texas A&M assistant Bob King to replace the departed Dat Nguyen. Head coach Wade Phillips (who knew he had a fun, playful side?) and staff are off to the NFL Scou ... More >>

Lilith Fair To Return This Summer With Local Artists And A Dallas Stop

This logo wasn't lying. ​In yet another sign that the '90s are back, or perhaps never really ended, Lilith Fair is returning this summer with a 33-city schedule (including Dallas) revealed so far. Even better news: the lineup is strong enough that you won't have to promise your boyfriend a blowjob ... More >>

Dude Food: Willie's Place

Inside the Blue Skies Cafe at Willie's Place​Willie's Place101 Cornelius Rd. NorthCarl's CornerDude Factor: 8, or Grandpa Simpson, on a scale of 1 (Grandfather clauses) to 10 (Royal Tenenbaum)Our trip to Willie's Place was more than just dinner for my Grandpa Neudecker. It was nothing less than a ... More >>

Good Friday: Brent Best, Bridges & Blinking Lights, Days of the New, Babyface, Pitbull, Doug Burr, All That Remains, Binary Sunrise, Rhett Miller, RTB2, Saboteur, The Sounds, Shinedown

​The weekend's here, which is good news for anyone hoping to catch up on sleep and boost their immune systems so they don't catch that darn H1N1 virus going around. And good news for music fans, too, as there's enough rock going on to melt both your face and all potential germs it might be keeping ... More >>

Gig Alert: The Showdown, Armana Reign Tonight at the Prophet Bar

No word yet on if The Gun Show will be joining The Showdown tonight, too.​Normally, I find the terms "Christian" and "Metal" so mutually exclusive that I generally run from just about any band that uses both words in describing its music. Yet the generically named The Showdown are definitely a met ... More >>

Poster Of The Week: DOMA Showcase Saturday On Lower Greenville

Created by Dallas Observer art director Alex Flores, this might be the most beautiful poster I've ever seen. Created by old-fashioned cutting and pasting (not the kind you do with a mouse, but with actual paper), his masterpiece perfectly encapsulates the DIY house-party aesthetic that we're proudly ... More >>

A Bigger Boat

With More Than $315 Million in Profits Expected From the Convention Center Hotel, Why Don't We Build Two of These Suckers?

Now that we're one vote away from getting a convention center hotel, it looks like the College Football Hall of Fame is a done deal. At least that's what we gather seeing it across the street from Hotel Dallas in this rendering.The city council's Economic Development Committee this morning predicta ... More >>

Haste the Day, Sick Puppies

Saturday, April 5, at House of Blues

Dallas, Google Sees You

Dallas-Fort Worth Becoming Splitsville?

Steak n Shake Up

Chicago Loves Mark Cuban

Locals Buying Up Steak n Shake -- And We Don't Mean the Food, Neither

In the Inner City, An Alternative to Abortion

New, uh, Life in Deep Ellum

Blondie

Consolidated Restaurants falls for a stone cold Fox

Foreclosure? I Barely Even Knew Her.

Macon Greyson, Austin Collins

Saturday, May 28, at Double Wide

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Fretting

"We have mortgages, high cholesterol, and I swear I have arthritis in my fingers. Our sixth CD is due out this summer."

Crazy Eddie

Eddie Merlot's on its way to Frisco

Full Steam Ahead

Ship sinks, cast stays afloat in Titanic, the musical; Quad C steers clear of clichés in Boy Gets Girl

Best Dallas Maverick

Michael Finley

Go West for Wine

There are plenty of surprises at Sapristi!

Pumped Out

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Jaws of life

Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster finally receives the DVD treatment it deserves

Texas Monthly's Midlife Crisis

Hash Over

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Lex and Terry's wet dream

Can two transplants from the land of Lynyrd Skynyrd and fart smells find the key to radio fame at Dallas' Q102?

Pooped-out pony

Palomino blows its wad on style, forgets food

Out There

Escape from Indianapolis

Going All the Way in search of freedom during the Great Repression