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The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Week, February 11-14

The xx Wednesday, February 13, and Thursday, February 14, at The Granada Theater Achingly hip Londoners the xx have a two-night stay at The Granada this week, meaning twice as many Dallasites will be swept away by songs from their now-ubiquitous debut album and the recently released Coexist. We're k ... More >>

Calatrava "Bridge" No. 2: We're Spending an Extra $7 mil to put Lipstick on a Pig

The Dallas City Council yesterday voted to spend some $7 million of your money to cover the latest cost overruns for the second Calatrava suspension bridge over the Trinity River. The city already had to cheap down the first Calatrava suspension bridge so much that now it's not even a real suspensi ... More >>

Eight of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Blowfly, South by So What?!, Alt-J and More

Blowfly Saturday, February 9, at Dada, $11/$15 Clarence Reid is better known as the gonzo performer Blowfly, a caped and masked X-rated rapper who is now in his 70s, and still releasing albums with titles like Black in the Sack. Watch the trailer for his upcoming documentary, The Weird World of Blow ... More >>

Bryan Street Tavern's Big Fucking Anniversary Party - 10/6/12

Bryan Street Tavern's Big Fucking Anniversary Party Bryan Street Tavern Saturday, October 6 For what was billed the "big fucking anniversary party" at Bryan Street Tavern on Saturday, a host of local acts, mixed in with a handful of bands from Tennessee and Brooklyn, had the attention of plenty as ... More >>

The City Has Three Finalists for Library System Director, and Two Come with Some Baggage

​Back in late August we mentioned that the city had hired a search firm to find a permanent (well, you know what I mean) director of the Dallas Public Library System. Corinne Hill's been serving as interim director since Laurie Evans retired in June 2010, and by all accounts she's done a bang-up j ... More >>

Closer To Your Side

Reunited Jayhawks just glad to be playing, and a wide range of new fans are happy too.

Peter Wolf Crier's All-Time Top Five Winning Priceline Bids While on Tour

With their second album, Peter Wolf Crier has established themselves as a legit indie-band and not the mere side-project they seemed to be when they released last year's well-done Inter-Be. The new album, Garden of Arms, isn't just another stellar release from Jagjaguwar this year, but it's a major ... More >>

Summer Slaughter Fest

Sunday, August 21, at the House of Blues

Last Night: Dolly Parton at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie

Dolly PartonVerizon Theatre in Grand PrairieTuesday, July 19, 2011Better than: Reality. Rachel ParkerDolly Parton at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie​Dolly Parton inhabits her stardom as fully as she fills out her glittering outfits. "I buy 'em two sizes too small and take 'em in," she joked. Sh ... More >>

In Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Bridesmaids From Hell Heat Up Contemporary Theatre

Plus: A dead soldier brings Second Thought to life in Dying City.

Tony Edwards Wants To Help Build Your Band's Brand With His Growing Street-Team Company

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Tony Edwards​Tony Edwards was almost certainly a hummingbird in a past life. He darts, moves, and ... More >>

Five Pretty Great Shows Worth Seeing Around the Region Tonight

Is it just us, or has this week been a deceptively awesome one for shows around town?

Tonight, Tonight: Busiest Wednesday Ever?

Holy crap! We have a shitload of killer shows in our area tonight!

Fair To Midland Officially Sets June 14 Release Date For New Album, Arrows and Anchors.

Fair to Midland​ Back in November, the Sulphur Springs-sprung progressive hard rock act Fair to Midland announced a new label home and promised its fourth full-length come springtime. Well, clearly, they really meant summertime. A new press released issued late yesterday announces a new release da ... More >>

A wacky Daytona 500 is won by a young driver who cut his NASCAR teeth in Texas.

Royal Bangs Ready A New Explosion.

Show Announcements: Sorta Reunion, Bitter End, Fair To Midland, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Sarah Jaffe, Murder By Death, Ozomatli, Sevendust, Jeff Beck, Yanni and More.

Sorta​It's no secret that the folks over at AllGood Cafe have always loved the band Sorta, the now-defunct Dallas supergroup that called it quits shortly after the untimely and shocking death of Dallas music legend Carter Albrecht. Since that breakup, the band's members haven't disappeared from th ... More >>

Cho 'Nough

An Innovative Court Offers New Tricks to Turn Ex-Prostitutes into Real Working Girls

SXSW Announces First Round Of Scheduled Performers For '09 Fest

OK, so there's a clause at the bottom of the press release we just received--y'know "The list is subject to change" blah, blah blah--but lo and behold, here it is: The first round of announced performers for the 23rd SXSW festival, schedule to take place this year March 18-22. After the jump, the c ... More >>

Cornerback Dwayne Goodrich: "The Cowboy Who Killed Those Kids"

Former cornerback Dwayne Goodrich comes to grips with his hit-and-run of three Good Samaritans as he plans for life after prison

Getting to Know Edgefest Bands Via Haikus

Poetry about the acts on Edgefest 17's bill? It's music to our ears.

Peter Case Spreads the News

Boning Up in Fort Worth, Baby

Blade Runner

Larry Neal has invented a flying motorcycle, and he wants you to try it

MediaWeak

Far East Bubba

Henry Cho hits the Improv

On the Download

Some of the best music of 2006 wasn't exactly officially released (wink, wink)

No Cheese, Please

Kenny Chesney and crew hit Frisco

Incredible Journey

Bid the butterflies adieu

What a Boob

Andy Rooney says female sideline reporters are no good. Well, they're OK by me!

Unlocking the Gong

A group of Falun Gong, the outlawed Chinese spiritual movement, travel from Dallas to D.C. on an urgent rescue mission, sending out righteous thoughts and cultivating Xing Xing along the way

Out & About

Superdrag

What a Jem

Cohen plays Fugazi like an Instrument

Me, myself, and why

Fred Curchack, one of America's foremost performance artists, whips up an orgy of self-confrontation with Live Love Acts

Roadshows

The Learning Curve

Earnest eggheads came to Texas with an idea that for-profit schools can save public education. So far, it ain't working.

Little mascara

The wages of Lollapalooza's sin is Metallica and make-up