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Five Country Albums To Drink Beer With

While there's certainly an eclectic mix at this weekend's third annual Homegrown Festival, you'll want to keep an eye on Robert Ellis. The Houston musician has been kicking around for a couple of years, but his 2010 New West debut, Photographs, provided the lengthy-maned Ellis a national profile, an ... More >>

Hayes Carll on Hecklers, Hate Mail and Spending "A Lot of Years Playing Shows For Ten People"

With or without the controversy surrounding his song "She Left Me for Jesus", Hayes Carll would still be considered one of our state's greatest songwriters. Over the course of a decade, Carll has released four superb country/rock albums, each one better and more successful than the last. Speaking w ... More >>

Whole Foods Market to Close Local Bakehouse and Ship from Houston Instead

Whole Foods Market​Whole Foods Market announced recently that it will close its Dallas bakehouse, located on University near Central, which for the past 12 years has produced breads and pastries for its eight area stores, as well as Little Rock, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. After the spring closur ... More >>

The Conversation: North Texas Bands on Tour!

Time to load up the van and hit the road, bros.​Going on tour is pretty much the funnest thing that a band can do, ever. On the road with your bros, drinking during the day, making tons of money, and so on and so on.Well, probably not that part about making money. Not early on in a band's career, ... More >>

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 >>

Last Night: Leg Sweeper, B L A C K I E and Xry at Canton Co-Op

Leg Sweeper, B L A C K I E, XryCanton Co-OpJanuary 18, 2010Better than: seeing a show at a venue that actually makes me pay for beer.Josh RobertsonLeg Sweeper's Justin "Boots" Gomez crowd surfs during his band's final song of the night.​ Tuesdays sometimes seem like the neglected middle child day ... More >>

Dallas ISD One of Five U.S. Districts to See Slice of $3 Mil Aimed at Feeding Kids Breakfast

​This morning, the D.C.-based Food Research and Action Center released a report -- School Breakfast in America's Big Cities 2011 -- that takes a look at the free-breakfast programs in 29 of the nation's largest school districts, including the Dallas Independent School District. Says the study, dur ... More >>

Whitt's End: 12.10.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *In the ALCS, the Rangers beat the Yankees in six games. In the pursuit of Cliff Lee, looks like the Yankees will beat the Rangers in seven years. *I've been rough on the Rangers, who at one point ... More >>

What It Was Like: Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp 2010

​Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp is a chance for musicians to get a crash course in playing in a rock band. Whether your drumming skills are on par with Meg White's or somebody who can play "Pride & Joy" note-for-note in a dark corner of a Guitar Center, the intent of the camp is to become a better ... More >>

Found, Finally: One Team Photo Of the 1953 Dallas Eagles, Champions of the Texas League

​There was a time -- 12 years ago, say -- when I could have named each man in this photo by sight. Even, at the far right in the middle row, PR man Jerry Doggett, ex of WRR and, after his stint in Dallas, the longtime voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (with, natch, Vin Scully). But, se ... More >>

How Dallas Could Help Spread Cheese Dip Love

The recent purchase of a Little Rock institution by the restaurant group that owns Burger Girl and Lemon Bar could help push cheese dip into the national mainstream. Kraft Foods​Steve Davis, who partnered with Jast Partners to re-open Browning's after a short hiatus, last week told the Arkansas T ... More >>

Born Again

Parade Of Flesh Announces Initial Bro Fest 2010 Lineup

​We're big fans of what John Iskander is doing around town with the shows that he's booking under his Parade of Flesh moniker. But you already knew that.What you might not have known, however, is that Iskander's been planning another post-SXSW bash--as he's been known to do in the past. Won't be c ... More >>

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More Arguing Over Viability of Hypothetical Dallas-Houston High-Speed Rail Link

​Earlier this month, Harvard economic pro Ed Glaeser wrote a series of pieces for The New York Times's Economix blog in which he argued that a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston wouldn't be economically viable. (Keep in mind, this was all hypothetical, since the Obama administration's ... More >>

Travelin' Ballers

The RoughRiders take on Arkansas' best

Diggin' the Dirt

Clang, Clang, Clang Goes the Downtown Trolley, Just Maybe?

The Biggest Upset in the History of March Madness …

Mavs Win! Mavs Win!

D-Notes: On Thursday, February 14

Engine Trouble? What Engine Trouble?

Bejeweled and Bedeviled

La Joya makes boilerplate Mexican transcendent

Spam-a-lot

Who would you party with?

Man From Hope

Clinton comes calling at Nokia

Tia's Tex-Nixed

Bush's Books

How the library could affect the ledger

One for the Show

Our critics' top 10 albums

Pirates of Conspiracy

The artists of Oh6 turn assassination into comic revelry

Hayes Carll

Saturday, August 6, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Hayes Carll

Little Rock (Highway 97 Music)

Riding Coattails

Plus: The Snub; A Dog’s Life

Type Cast

Texas authors talk about their state and the arts

Uptown Strikes Back

Medici and Il Mulino founders join forces

Fish Not Foul

Shannon Wynne scores with downscale seafood at Flying Fish

The Flatlanders

June 26

Eat to Live

New seafood spot to open this spring

AOJ is AOK

The Adventures of Jet are alive and kicking. And recording.

Scene, Heard

Deep Ellum's club owners and retailers set aside egos in the name of charity

Band on the Run

With an army of fans behind them and a new album in front, the members of Chomsky are ready to take the next step. They're just not sure where it will take them.

Scene, Heard

London ain't so great

Across the Bar

Hagfish meets Bobgoblin; Touring the giglist; Toadies just might hatch

Across the Bar

Gatti's back; Pagan's out; 900 Ft Jesus bathes; Records due for release

Legendary stardust cowboy

"Groovy" Joe Poovey dies just as his Greatest Grooves are set for release

Good clean feed

Spotless Rigatoni offers ample helpings of fresh Italian food

The Jones Boys

How a troupe of button-down Dallas lawyers breathed life into Jones vs. Clinton and found themselves the nation's most unlikely feminist heroes

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Test Pattern

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