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Last Night: Alejandro Escovedo and The Strange Boys at Sons of Hermann Hall

Alejandro Escovedo, The Strange BoysSons of Hermann HallJune 4, 2009Better than: Putting up with the crowds at the House of Blues for the Animal Collective show. (A review of that show should be up shortly)The Strange Boys and Alejandro EscovedoIt wasn't exactly an energetic start to the evening at ... More >>

Plastic explosives

Push the Tripping Daisy and make them come up

Jessica Simpson Demoted, No Longer a Major Movie Star. Gee, Ya Think?

I missed the October 30 episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien during which the Cone-Zone screened some pirated footage from Major Movie Star, which was then in release only in Russia and Bulgaria -- where Jessica Simpson is great success. O'Brien then brought out professional prattler James Lipto ... More >>

'Toon Man

Robert Smigel is the hottest animator you've never heard of

Night & Day

March 11 - 17, 1999

The keys of time

Red Garland played with legends and then became one. So why is he barely known in his hometown?

Scene, heard

Red Garland played with legends and then became one. So why is he barely known in his hometown?

Ask the Guru

The Met's Bad Habits

Paying His Dues

Ralph Harris slums it at the Improv

Laughing Force

Gaffigan is fair and funny

Kink Lit

Gaffigan is fair and funny

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Gaffigan is fair and funny

The Kids

The dynamic duo of Rock and Hank Jr.

Pitch a FIT

A dozen troupes act up

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

June 20

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner

Scene, Heard

Disaster strikes. Or does it?

Second to None

The famous Second City alumni may be missing, but their wit isn't

Del McCoury Band

The famous Second City alumni may be missing, but their wit isn't

Girl trouble

Rock and roll is still a man's, man's, man's, man's world

Live from New York?

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

Appreciative And Lucky Louie

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

This Week in Dallas Music History: The Blonde Bomber Rebounds

Ronnie Dawson​Names like Gene Summers and Kim Lenz & her Jaguars are decades apart, but these artists follow a unique style of rockabilly that can only come from the Dallas area.The April 16, 1992 edition of the Observer profiled local rockabilly favorite Ronnie Dawson, who benefited from the ... More >>

Mr. Important

Ronnie Dawson​Names like Gene Summers and Kim Lenz & her Jaguars are decades apart, but these artists follow a unique style of rockabilly that can only come from the Dallas area.The April 16, 1992 edition of the Observer profiled local rockabilly favorite Ronnie Dawson, who benefited from the ... More >>

A Blast From the Past: When Ronnie Dawson Took "Monkey Beat City" to Conan O'Brien

Patrick's at the mayor's How to Save Park and Rec press conference, and while we wait for word about that big-time initiative we were promised this morning, here's a little lunchtime respite: The late, great Ronnie Dawson on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in '95. Somewhere amongst my stash of videos ... More >>