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Whiskey Folk Ramblers Have a New Album and a New Band -- Finally

Grapevine Craft Brewery Taps Friends and Fans (i.e. You?) for Final Funding Push

Previously we told you about the Grapevine Craft Brewery. Gary Humble fell in love with Grapevine about the same time he fell in love with craft beer, so he decided to open up a (rather swank) craft brewery, which they've recently broken ground on. It'll be the craft beer stop on the wine circuit. ... More >>

A Texas Filmmaker Working on Doc about the Dallas Exonerees Trying to Reform the System

A lot of men convicted by Dallas County have walked free over the past dozen years, 44 according to the University of Michigan's National Registry of Exonerations. District Attorney Craig Watkins has made the liberation of innocent prisoners his personal mission, as well as his ticket to national fa ... More >>

Could Craft Cider Join The Craft Beer Movement In Dallas?

It's already started. Joel Malone is well on his way to open up a cidery right in the heart of the Bishop Arts District. His brewing operations and storefront, which he expects to open in May, will be right next to Cretia's on Bishop Street behind Lockhart Smokehouse. Malone tells me he's working t ... More >>

The Painful Story of Spector 45 is Now a Documentary: Director Jonathan Buchner Talks

Last night, local filmmaker Jonathan Buchner announced to the world the project he's been working his ass off on: a documentary on Spector 45. Called 45, those who know the band's story know how incredibly emotional and sensitive this is to tell, but Buchner has captured something that should see th ... More >>

Looking Back on 15 of Our Favorite 2012 North Texas Releases

The Virgin Wolves Are Pretty Evil

Since 2009, the Denton-born Virgin Wolves have seen many incarnations, starting off as the husband-and-wife team of Chase and Jaimeson Robbins, armed only with a Macbook and a guitar. Three years and two EPs later, they have ditched the computer and added drums, bass and a second guitar, fleshing ou ... More >>

The Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase: A User's Guide

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A Guide to the 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

It occurred to me recently that, within the DFW music scene, people really love to draw county lines. So what we were trying to illustrate with our 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees is that Dallas, Fort Worth and Denton aren't three separate entities, but rather one big music community that ... More >>

Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Best Electronic, Experimental and None of the Above Nominees

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Best Electronic Act Black Market Pharmacy This la ... More >>

Get to Know Your 2012 DOMA Best Jazz and Latin Nominees

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Best Jazz Act Damon K. Clark Damon K. Clark might ... More >>

Former Cowboys Teammates Making Brain Trauma Documentary. Drew Pearson and Charlie Waters Already on Board.

Jeff Rohrer and Doug Cosbie played together on the consistently mediocre Cowboys teams of the 1980s, Rohrer as linebacker, Cosbie as tight end. Like their teammates and the rest of the NFL, they subjected their bodies to massive punishment each week -- the type of punishment now linked to all sorts ... More >>

Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Nominees: Vanessa Peters

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. This piece originally appeared on October 3. The ... More >>

New iPhone Gadget Will Determine if Food is Really Organic

Wondering about the true carbon footprint of that cauliflower? (Yeah, I stole that from a commercial. But, it's funny! Love Gallagher!) Does that weird slime around your organic baby carrots taste and feel like something from a chemical plant? Feel bamboozled at the farmers' market? (Feel like this ... More >>

Clint Niosi Shouldered The Pain To Make For Pleasure and Spite

Clint Niosi's 2008 LP, The Sound of Dead Horses Beaten Against Cold Shoulders, was a fine album built around his voice and acoustic guitar, but its spareness made it feel like a bookend on something bigger. Even the artist himself admits that: "I felt in hindsight that perhaps it could have been ... More >>

All of the Arguments About Digital Music, Summarized

Piracy is theft. Piracy isn't theft because nothing physical is being stolen. You are taking money out of the hands of artists. Artists were already being ripped off by labels. Artists can make the money back by touring. Kickstarter. Here is a bulleted list of numbers showing how much it costs ... More >>

Bachaaah! A Chicken and a Hedgehog Walk into a Bar, Inspire Storybooks

Well, not a chicken, so much as a "Chicken Boy," the protagonist of Gregory G. Allen's new kids' book of the same name. When we last spoke to Allen, he was still living the champagne dreams and caviar wishes (well, emotionally, if not literally) of an independent author's first big successes. His de ... More >>

Girls Rock! Doc Screens at LaGrange on Wednesday, Benefits Girls Rock Dallas

So I fell down one of those Internet rabbit holes a few nights ago -- you know, when YouTube proves itself to be a Rube Goldberg machine -- and ended up at this clip, which I very clearly remember watching on 120 Minutes as a 13-year-old, and knowing then that it would be a formative experience. I w ... More >>

Local Theater Company Raising Money for Loop Festival Entry

WaterTower Theatre puts on a splendidly versatile showcase for the performing arts each year called Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. It was given Best Theater Festival in Dallas for a reason, namely because its organizers have curated a menu of talent that is so delightfully experimental that you, t ... More >>

If City Can't Pay for Bike Lanes on Jefferson Viaduct, BFOC Will Try to Find the Money

Bike Friendly Oak CliffClick to enlarge Jason Roberts's look at the problems cyclists face when trying to ride the Jefferson Viaduct.​Jason Roberts broke the news yesterday: Israel "Dallas" Torres, 32 years old and an experienced cyclist, was hit by a car Saturday afternoon while riding on the Jef ... More >>

Best Local Hip-Hop of 2011

A.Dd When we heard Paris Pershun and Slim Gravy teamed up with super producer PicnicTyme and DJ Sober for When Pigs Fly, we couldn't help but be excited for A.Dd 's 2011. They confidently took the city by storm, and When Pigs Fly achieved local legend status thanks to a Kickstarter campaign. Add t ... More >>

In East Dallas, Hoping the "Tablet Claw" is the First Crop on a Million-Dollar Idea Farm

Those ideas, the ones you can't shake and would love to invent, the ones you imagine would make a cool million in an instant -- they're the ones Buddy DiFonzo and Mike Solow are looking for. Friends from their software sales jobs, they started a company called Idea Harvest, which matches idea people ... More >>

In About an Hour, Mark Stroman Will More Than Likely Be Put to Death

​Rais Bhuiyan's attempts to spare the life of Mark Stroman, the white supremacist who shot him in the face and killed two other men he believed to be Muslim in the days following September 11, 2001, have failed: A federal judge down in Austin denied the Dallas man's petition for clemency that woul ... More >>

Last Night: R. Stevie Moore at Hailey's Club in Denton

R. Stevie Moore, Tropical Ooze, Marriage Material, Hares on the MountainHailey's Club, DentonJune 30, 2011Better than: waiting in line to see Santa in the mallChild DetectiveR. Stevie Moore and Tropical Ooze​Last night at Hailey's, R. Stevie Moore really lived up to his reputation. The singe ... More >>

Former Dentonites Help Pull R. Stevie Moore Out of the Bedroom

Armadillo Ale Works Serving Craft Beers For A Good Cause: Survival

Anthony MarksArmadillo Ale Works' Bobby Mullins and Yianni Arestis.​If you're interested in helping a pair of local entrepreneurs get a microbrewery off the ground, you should plan on being at Denton's Simone Lounge around 8 p.m. Saturday. When you get there, look for the two guys in brown shi ... More >>

How Banksy Forced Hal Samples to Finish Doc About Homeless Man Living Outside L.A.

Tachowa Covington and his former home in a still from Hal Samples's in-progress Something From Nothing. The whole trailer's after the jump.​Over the years photographer Hal Samples has shown me bits and pieces of his in-progress documentary about Tachowa Covington, who turned an abandoned water tan ... More >>

Bobby Jack Pack Takes Aim at Dealey Plaza

A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that the great Bobby Jack Pack, a Best of Dallas winner and local film-making institution, is this close to wrapping a documentary on Dealey Plaza and, more specifically, those populate the site where President John Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. He des ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Datahowler -- "Prophet"

​Regular DC9 readers should know the name Datahowler. Or, if not Datahowler, then Objektiv One. As you might recall, they're the same person -- one Ross Edman. Edman used to go by the name of Objektiv One, back when he was making waves around the Internet as a mashup artist. Back in June, though, ... More >>

Sunnybrook Passes Along New MP3, Asks For Help In Releasing Long-Awaited Full-Length

Sunnybrook​Like Green River Ordinance, A.Dd and The Debut before him, Denton's Sunnybrook has now turned to Kickstarter.com and is asking fans to help fund his new release. The brainchild of Paul North, who also performs with his older brother Joel in Sleep Whale, Sunnybrook has long been a Pitch ... More >>