Jack Kerouac

Borders is Just Loving This

On the road...still

An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Road

Naked eye

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

In next week's paper, we'll unveil our national package on the best music of the year (the following week, we'll tackle the best in DFWd music). But, as a teaser, here's our paper's contribution to the national package: Noah W. Bailey's picks for the best Americana/folk releases of '08. Picking the ... More >>

The importance of being Pauly

Pauly Shore, the crown prince of Valley Dudes, ponders the secret of his success

Reviews

Pauly Shore, the crown prince of Valley Dudes, ponders the secret of his success

Events for the week

Pauly Shore, the crown prince of Valley Dudes, ponders the secret of his success

Heart-shaped box

Velvet Underground set charts the still-unknowable

Paint it Black

Haunted by his mother's suicide, Dallas-born artist barron Storey has won fame drawing the darkness

Rhyme and Reason

Leaning House Records puts a new slant on poetry

Out Here

Leaning House Records puts a new slant on poetry

Slam dance

Leaning House Records puts a new slant on poetry

Odd Man Out

Dallas-raised Terry Southern wrote Easy Rider, hung with the Beatles, and influenced a generation. But he died penniless, and now his son must pay off Terry's debts--and restore his father's legacy.

The variations of Tom Waits

Or: What do Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and a one-armed pianist have in common?

Night & Day

May 13-19, 1999

Letters

May 13-19, 1999

Hobo Historian

Ramblin' Jack steams into Fort Worth

Some things he did

Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more

Maverick rides again

Democratic media whiz Mark McKinnon left partisan politics behind until George W. Bush swept him off his feet

Find the River

Smog's Bill Callahan discovers new sounds and voices...and cleans up with Chloe Sevigny

Road Rules

The Deathray Davies remember a few of 500 shows

20 Bands 7 Days

For one week, Sarah Hepola saw every band that invited her. God help her.

10,000 Maniacs

Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings (Elektra/Asylum)

Nobody's Fool

He has three Oscars, co-wrote Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Newman digs him. So why don't you know Dallas-born filmmaker Robert Benton?

A Grand Guy

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

War on War

Almost four decades later, The Fugs' Ed Sanders is still fighting

Confess, Greg

For years, Fletch was out of print. Now, his father explains why.

Trick Town

Boys will be boys, especially in Nuevo Laredo, Where legal prostitution draws generations of Texas men across the border for cheap, sleazy and anonymous sex

Blues Valentine

Tom Waits for no one--except guitarist-singer John Hammond

Momma's boy

Mighty humorous tall tales

Guy Clark

Mighty humorous tall tales

On the Road, again

Two CDs devoted to Kerouac and Ferlinghetti give history a Beating

Book 'em

Separating the wheat from the chaff in this year's crop of rock-and-roll tomes

Today In Music News: Yellow Submarine Getting Remade, The Gallagher's Hate Each Other and Ben Gibbard Love Jack Kerouac

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, August 21, 2009...Robert Zemeckis is planning on remaking the Yellow Submarine movie for Disney. Since it's Disney, there will probably be plenty of vampy teens in it. Liam Gallagher says he and brother Noel do not speak to each other anymore. Soun ... More >>

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Saturday, November 7, at The Loft

Bonus MP3: Black Stone Rangers -- "Plug It In"

Black Stone Rangers​A couple weeks back, we caught the very tail end of a performance from new local duo called Black Stone Rangers. It wasn't much, but it was enough to pique our interest in the outfit, which, apparently, is named after an infamous 1960s Chicago gang. So we did as we do, and we c ... More >>

The Fighter Falls Through the Ropes.

Black Stone Rangers​A couple weeks back, we caught the very tail end of a performance from new local duo called Black Stone Rangers. It wasn't much, but it was enough to pique our interest in the outfit, which, apparently, is named after an infamous 1960s Chicago gang. So we did as we do, and we c ... More >>

High-Octane Road Ruscha

Black Stone Rangers​A couple weeks back, we caught the very tail end of a performance from new local duo called Black Stone Rangers. It wasn't much, but it was enough to pique our interest in the outfit, which, apparently, is named after an infamous 1960s Chicago gang. So we did as we do, and we c ... More >>

Couch Potato: What Is It With This Guy?

Matthew McConaughey (left) and Guy Fieri​Everything about Guy Fieri is big and boisterous, and has been that way ever since he walked off a winner in the Food Network's second season of the Next Food Network Star. His voice's volume and rasp call to mind an overworked cattle-auctioneer. His sh ... More >>