Subject: Jason Roberts

• Wide open spaces

  With his debut record, Ed Burleson may be too country for Nashville, but not for Texas

  October 28, 1999

• Hymns, Theater Fire

  Sunday, June 3, at the Double Wide

  May 31, 2007

• Open Secret

  Art Conspiracists try to establish a new Utopia

  November 30, 2006

• Odds & Ends

  As if the Combo wasn't Brave enough, now they have a symphony to contend with

  February 16, 2006

• Sell Out

  July 7, 2005

• Army of Two

  The Tah-Dahs and The Happy Bullets are such a cute couple

  March 31, 2005

• Record Setter

  Stuart Sikes has worked on albums by The White Stripes and Loretta Lynn. His next project? Dallas.

  February 24, 2005

• Around Hear

  The best 10 local albums of 2004

  December 30, 2004

• Hophead: Homebrew Competition At Eno's Sunday

  Hopefully entrants in Sunday's homebrew competition come up with something better than Skittlebrau.Whether you've got your own specialty beer you're dying to share with the world or you just like free mystery drinks, make sure you block out some time Sunday afternoon. From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 14, Eno's Tavern in the Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff will hold the Bishop Arts Summerfest featuring a homebrew competition. The restaurant has been accepting applications for several weeks.

  June 11, 2009

• Art Conspiracy Needs to Raise a Little Money in August So It Can Raise a Lot in December

  Art Conspiracy has raised a tall pile of cash in recent years for the likes of Preservation LINK, La Reunion TX and St. Anthony Community Center; now it has set its sights on Resolana, a nonprofit with an outpost in the Dallas County Jail that uses art "to empower women to break the cycle of incarceration." But to raise some dough for the big December blow-out, proceeds from which will go to Resolana, Year-One'r Cari Weinberg, AC's event coordinator, sends word of a summertime fundraiser schedul

  July 15, 2009

• So, That Dallas Streetcar Grant Application? It's Really the Oak Cliff Transit Authority, Sorry.

  Courtesy the Oak Cliff Transit AuthorityOne of the original streetcars that ran through Oak Cliff long, long agoJason Roberts -- a Happy Bullet, co-founder of the Art Conspiracy, Texas Theater-rehabber and, for the purposes of this item, Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member -- sends word that this morning's Dallas-Fort Worth streetcar item has (pretty much) nothing to do with downtown Dallas trolleys. Which is why Angela Hunt didn't know about the North Central Texas Council of Governments'

  July 20, 2009

• Dallas City Hall Needs a Bike Rack

  Photos by Kimberly ThorpeJason Roberts, organizer of today's bike ride to City Hall, and his official proclamation​This morning, Angela Hunt made a discovery: Dallas City Hall has no bicycle rack. "It's nuts!" said Hunt, who was standing with other bikers on a chilly morning in the plaza. "We're going to get us some bike racks for City Hall if I have to buy them myself." More than 100 musicians, artists, activists and city councilpersons rode to City Hall on their bicycles from Union Sta

  October 7, 2009

• DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 23: HYMNS

  ...and for the Youtube-inclined, here's your link.Fresh off a three-star review Rolling Stone review of its new EP, Appaloosa, Brooklyn-based retro-rock outfit HYMNS stopped by to participate in our ongoing DC9 in SPACE series last Wednesday night, offering up toned-down versions of the new EP's songs while also sharing a few tales of lost instruments and drinking games gone bad. It was the first stop on part of the band's 10-day visit to the region, which has become something of a second home

  October 7, 2009

• Bicycle Race: Angela Hunt Explains the Rift Over Separate Cyclist-Only Lanes

  Angela HuntJerry Allen was among those on the ride to City Hall Wednesday. Not as good as the Ann Margolin photo, but, still.​On Wednesday, we mentioned the city's plans to make Dallas more bike-friendly by creating separate cyclist-only lanes. And, as usually happens when the subject comes up, the conversation turned a little, well, contentious. And so we headed to the Texas Theatre last night for a movie screening to find out why bike lanes rub some the wrong way. "People are not upset," c

  October 9, 2009

• Over The Weekend: HYMNS, OK Sweetheart at Hailey's

  HYMNS, OK Sweetheart, My Empty PhantomHailey's ClubOctober 9, 2009Better Than: sitting at home on a Friday nightHYMNS at last week's DC9 in SPACE taping.​Playing to an unfortunately minuscule but, nonetheless, quite enthusiastic crowd on Friday night at Hailey's, HYMNS proved it knows how to have a good time. Even after a 10-day tour through Texas, the band, promoting its latest album, Appaloosa, still more than matched its crowd's enthusiasm, urging the audience to inch closer to the stage if

  October 12, 2009

• Oak Cliff Transit Authority Hopes City Will Still Consider Streetcars on Continental Bridge

  ​Like we said Friday, once upon a time the city had hoped to turn the Continental Bridge into a streetcar-pedestrian park mash-up -- that conceptual rendering you see above didn't come outta nowhere. But one anonymous $10-million donation later, and, as Jim noted upon his return from City Hall yesterday, that streetcar option's looking less viable than ever -- maybe the Houston Street or Commerce Street bridges, from the sound of it. So just you never mind that streetcar alignment map we showe

  November 4, 2009