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May 24, 2012
Five Local Songs Worth Checking Out Right Now: Blackstone Rangers, Picnictyme, Mystery Skulls, Lincoln Durham and New Science Projects
We've reached the halftime portion of 2012, where everyone's scrambling to tally their faves from the past six months. Instead of looking back, we thought it'd be more productive to address what you should be listening to in the future. Here are a few DFW songs to check out, as you ease into Memoria ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
As If You Needed to Be Reminded What a Jewel the Kessler Has Become in a Short Time ...
Doesn't seem all that long ago that Edwin Cabaniss first told us about his plans for the old Kessler Theater on W. Davis; sweet fancy mayor, has it really been more than two years since Tom Leppert put his shovel into the dirt? From risky concept to necessity to institution in such a short time, I'm ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Experimental/Avant Garde Act, Best Talent Buyer, Best Local Music Advocate
Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Experimental/Avant G ... More >>
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August 25, 2011
A Piping Hot Cup of Tig
Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Experimental/Avant G ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Deep Ellum Blues: How Come These Influential Dallas Acts Don't Have Deep Ellum Murals?
Deep Ellum is in many ways the music capital of Dallas. Yes, the area has had its ups and downs. No, it hasn't always been the center of the music scene, especially with Denton consistently pumping out artists at a rapid rate. But, fact is, without a doubt, Deep Ellum has for over a century now b ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Is It Too Loud in the AAC? What?
Flickr user CameliaTWUThis is how loud Mavs playoffs games were at Reunion Arena. And this is how regular season games sound at the American Airlines Center, where, writes The New York Times's Alan Schwartz, "it is hard to tell if the Mavericks' favorite machine during these playoffs is Dirk Nowi ... More >>
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June 5, 2011
What Do The Kessler, the Trinity River Toll Road, Forest Lane Have In Common? This Item.
Photo by Dylan HollingsworthA certain "sleepy-eyed Dr Pepper addict with grizzled blond dreadlocks"That's a mighty nice piece about The Kessler in The New York Times this morning; nice illustration too, courtesy the great Paul Rogers. The story's by local boy Ben Fountain, the att'y-turned-author ... More >>
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April 16, 2011
Return to Return to the Starck Club
"Warriors Of The Discotheque" Trailer from simile productions on Vimeo.There is no pinned-down time line for The Official Release of Michael Cain's The Starck Project, his long-in-the-works look at Blake Woodall's opened-in-'84 dance-dance-danceteria on McKinney. "Let's say late 2011, early 2012," w ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Misery and Gin and Merle Haggard at the Longhorn
A couple of years back, in his Echoes & Reverberations piece about the Longhorn, Jeff Liles ran the picture you see here -- good God, that must have been quite the back-to-back. But that's from January 1978. This week's offering comes later, in February 1982, when Merle Haggard and the Strang ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
Texas Cookin', or: Joe Nick Patoski Gets Guy Clark to Spill the Secret to Songwriting
Joe Nick Patoski's a friend -- a hero also. One of the sharpest, wisest, wittiest and warmest nonfiction writers Texas has ever produced; one could do worse than attempt to emulate the Fort Worth native and UTEP'er presently at work on that book about the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Texans. Certainly, ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Rubble Is Now All that Remains Of Oak Cliff Christian Church
Photos by Melissa HenningsThere's no need to recap the recent history of the Oak Cliff Christian Church -- that's all been well-documented here, beginning with the initial December '09 post warning of its inevitable demise. At this late date I'll say only this: Last weekend, I was out with the 7- ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
At the Corner of Preston and Spring Valley Roads, What Remains of Mount Pisgah Baptist
Photos by Jeffrey LilesMount Pisgah Baptist built its first church at the corner of what's now Preston and Spring Valley in the late 1800s; the structure that sits there now is a rebuild that dates back to 1945. But in 1981 the church bought property on Webb Chapel near Forest, a stone's throw fr ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
Go Oak Cliff Shares Details on Sunday's "Ethical Meat" Barbecue Contest and Festival
Teams have been practicing and judges (including two City of Ate contributors) are advised to begin fasting as Oak Cliff is about to get smoked out this weekend for the Blues, Bandits & Barbeque street party.The festival takes place outside and inside the Kessler Theater and surrounding neigh ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Picture Show(s): The Dallas Observer Music Award Ceremony (Parts One and Two)
Patrick MichelsRTB2's Ryan Thomas Becker gets a big hug from The Kessler's Jeff Liles after winning Best InstrumentalistThe DOMAXXII Winners have been announced, as you might have seen from Pete earlier, but that's not the only thing we did last night. In some sort of web 2.0ish exercise in being ... More >>
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June 28, 2010
This Week In Dallas Music History: Street Beat Archives Yield Timeline On Deep Ellum's "Alleged Heyday"
For reasons unknown, 4 Reasons Unknown was the first of the Deep Ellum bands to land on MTVSure, this week's selection from the June 17-23 edition of the Observer is a bit of a calendar stretch that would have been better suited for last week, but, whatever, these archived issues don't tend to fa ... More >>
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March 19, 2010
It Took Less Than a Year to Resurrect the 68-Year-Old Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff
James BlandBack when Mark Griffin was better known as MC 900 Ft JesusIt was but 10 months ago we first told you about Edwin Cabaniss's efforts to resurrect the Kessler Theater on W. Davis Street in Oak Cliff. How time flies, as tomorrow night it makes its formal bow with, among other events, Jame ... More >>
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March 19, 2010
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Slobberbone's, Ahem, Last Waltz in '05
The Kessler Theater has yet to offer it formal how-do's to W. Davis -- remember, tomorrow night it throws open its doors -- but already Jeff Liles has assembled an impressive concert calendar. And for this work week's adios we need look no further than next Friday's Kessler lineup, featuring old ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
So, Looks Like the Historic Oak Cliff Christian Church Has About Three Weeks Left
Photos by Jeffrey LilesInside Oak Cliff Christian Church, crews are removing asbestos in advance of the building's imminent demolition.Oak Cliff's own Jeff Liles is out in front of the Oak Cliff Christian Church at this very moment, and he reports that workers for Ponce Contractors are inside the ... More >>
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December 31, 2009
A One-Night Stand With the Past
No doubt we'll call it an early day -- I can tell the Friends of Unfair Park have better things to do, and good for you. But before we say, "Till next year," a few words, very few, about a night spent in Deep Ellum -- my first since, well, I can't really can't recall. At first blush, standing amongs ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Peter Schmidt Recalls How Three on a Hill Got Don Ivan Punchatz to Do Its First Album Cover
In this morning's item about the late, great Don Ivan Punchatz, Jeff Liles drops a comment to remind us of the TCU illustration prof's estimable contribution to the local music scene. Writes Jeff, he "also created that amazing cover illustration for Biting on Tin Foil, the first Three on a Hill ... More >>
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June 24, 2009
An Old Friend and An Old Favorite: Spyche Does Slobberbone at the Kessler Theater
Technically I shouldn't even be posting here--too old, so I'm told. So I'll keep this quick and just tell Jeff Liles thanks for posting Spyche's rendition of Slobberbone's "Get Gone Again," a standout from the band's '97 sophomore effort Barrel Chested. The clip was recorded, natch, at the Kessler T ... More >>
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June 20, 2009
Groundbreaking Developments at the Kessler
Barry KoodaMayor Tom Leppert, far left, and Edwin Cabaniss, in the white shirt fourth from left, put shovel to cement at the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff.Family obligations kept me away from the official groundbreaking at the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff, about which we first told you in early May. ... More >>
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May 6, 2009
In Oak Cliff, An Effort to Resurrect the Kessler
View Larger MapSome of you may have noticed that yesterday, in the item about Kidd Springs in Oak Cliff, Jeff Liles posted a link to a video you'll find after the jump, along with the rather cryptic note: "Speakin' of the OC, we have this to look forward to next year:" Ah, but what, precisely, is th ... More >>
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March 6, 2009
Echoes and Reverberations: Our Radio Heads Are Waxing Nostalgic
The staff of the Zoo, as seen on Liles' bedroom wall poster.I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called "The Zoo". A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles' W ... More >>
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January 9, 2009
A Reel Good Time Promised Tomorrow Night at Kettle Art
It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>
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October 24, 2008
Echoes And Reverberations: Speed Dating With Rush
It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>
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June 25, 2008
DOMA XX: And The Nominees Are...
It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>
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July 27, 2007
Them Deep Elem Blues
It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>
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February 2, 2007
Obituary for a Storefront
It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>
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January 30, 2007
When Will Bills Open? As Soon as Possible.
It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>
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October 20, 2006
Smells Like 15 Years Later
It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>
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June 16, 2006
Loco for Loco Gringos?
It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>
Music
October 20, 2005
Back From the Dead
Rigor Mortis were once "Condemned to Hell"--and irrelevance--but the Dallas metal legends have risen
Music
June 24, 2004
Odds & Ends
OHNO's demise, Vans Warped Tour and an interview with Scott Beggs
News
September 26, 2002
Stoopid
Plus: On Top of the World, True Colors, Miller on a Mission
News
September 19, 2002
New, Improved Michael Irvin
Plus: Defending Cheryl Smith, Ouch, Straight Outta Fiction
News
June 20, 2002
The Last Meow
Plus: No More Mega-Mayors, Fading Fast, Mean Shtick
Music
November 2, 2000
Scene, Heard
Persistence pays
Music
May 18, 2000
Scene, heard
All the music news that's fit to print, and some that isn't
Music
August 26, 1999
Across the Bar
Deep-sixing Deep Ellum Records; The Tomorrowpeople play every song they know; Pleasant Grove gets Last Beat; Adventures of Jet hopes to be Born on the World Wide Web
Music
July 22, 1999
Across the Bar
Rockville Music closes shop; Puerto Rico gets DJ Nature's call; Rubber Gloves still waiting for the Old 97's other shoe to fall; Pantera plays Detroit Rock City; Buck Jones Blushes
Calendar
January 14, 1999
Night & Day
January 14 - 20, 1999
Music
December 31, 1998
Homewardsounds
Picking the best locally made records of 1998 was easy. Who knew?
Music
October 30, 1997
Hassle class
Roadcrew tries to ease the rigors of playing live
Music
March 20, 1997
Pop mart
South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no
Music
December 21, 1995
Grading on a curve
This was the year local music broke, but was it fixed?
Music
November 30, 1995
Out Here
This was the year local music broke, but was it fixed?
Music
November 16, 1995
Station to station
Ranger Rita tries to find a new voice of and for the people
Music
October 12, 1995
Love indie style
The new Caulk album signals make-or-break time for Aden Holt's One Ton label
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