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Cory Patrick Coleman Made Mundane Jobs and His Own Mistakes into One of the Area's Best Folk Albums

"Once, when I was a teen, I had a mom who had a mom who had a mom..." Cory Patrick Coleman has a part time gig that he landed a few months ago working for J.C. Penney retouching photos, a job that he shares with King Bucks musician Joe Butcher. Before that, he had a string of jobs, including workin ... More >>

Jazz Great Ronald Shannon Jackson Returns to DFW

"Commit!" to This Sneak Preview of Dallas Regional Chamber's Plan to Rescue DISD

Commit!'s no Dallas Achieves, swear​At its August 11 board briefing, Michael Casserly, executive director of the D.C.-based Council of the Great City Schools, told the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees: It could be a good, long while till you find a suitable replacement for Mi ... More >>

Warren Leslie May Be Dead Now, But His Book Dallas Public and Private Will Live Forever

​Of all the books written about Dallas, it's easily the one most often cited: Warren Leslie's 1964 Dallas Public and Private, with a later edition underscoring its heretofore subtle subtitle "Aspects of an American City." Subsequent histories-of -- from Patricia Evridge Hill's Dallas: The Making o ... More >>

Tony Harper Remembers Seeing KISS. His First Slobberbone Gig Memories Are A Little Hazier.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Tony Harper​Tony Harper has bee ... More >>

More Than 20 Years After Their Death, Eight-Tracks Are Resurrected In Dallas.

Do the Rangers' New Owners Have the Money and Will to Build on a Winning Formula?

Five Reasons Why Your Texas Rangers Will Keep Postseason Badass Cliff Lee Next Season

Photos by Sam MertenCliff Lee tosses in the outfield on July 11 following his first start with the Rangers.​Ever since New York Baseball Digest's Frank Russo posted his "Five Reasons Why the Yankees Will Sign Cliff Lee" on Monday, it has made the rounds, and several of my fellow Texas Rangers ... More >>

The Grand Theatre, Volume One, Earns Old 97's The Highest Billboard Chart Position of Career

​Good news out of Old 97's camp today, as the band has announced that The Grand Theatre, Volume One, has earned the band its career high marks in Billboard chart position. In its first week on the charts, the disc placed at No. 83 in the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, No. 25 in the Rock Chart, No, 15 ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Sufjan Stevens at McFarlin Auditorium, Gorillaz at the Verizon Theatre, The Script at the House of Blues and The Summer Set at the Prophet Bar

Sufjan Stevens​Quite the packed hump day evening we have tonight. Lots of cool choices...

A State Fair Summation From a Food-Loving Arkansawyer

Editor's Note: Of the gazillion people who yearly visit the State Fair of Texas, a good number of them are outlanders. One of those visitors this year offered to share her fair reflections with City of Ate. Kat Robinson, who blogs about food back in Arkansas, reveals here which fried dish she liked ... More >>

Last Night: Titus Andronicus, Soft Envoronmental Collapse, Bizarro Kids at Sons of Hermann Hall

Titus Andronicus, Soft Envirtonmental Collapse, Bizarro KidsSons of Hermann HallAugust 31, 2010Better than: sitting through Shakespeare, even at his goriest.Titus Andronicus​Titus Andronicus may have been the headliners at Sons of Hermann Hall last night, but even that band admitted while on stage ... More >>

Jacob Metcalf Prepares To Head South, Sets Final North Texas Performance For Next Week

Metcalf's keeping a keen eye on the horizon.​Dallas Family Band cohort Jacob Metcalf is leaving town. But is he off to NYC, like Norah Jones or Neon Indian? Or, perhaps, he's just fulfilling the old cliche and moving to Austin? Nope. But he is headed south."I'm going to Guadalajara," Metcalf says ... More >>

Rescued From the Pages of History, the '61 Desegregation Doc Dallas at the Crossroads

Someone has posted to YouTube a 1961 film about school desegregation in Dallas called Dallas at the Crossroads. (Parts Two and Three follow after the jump.) I forget what kind of hoops I had to jump through in order to see this thing back in the mid-1980s when I was working on my book, The Accommoda ... More >>

Parade of Flesh Preps a Bro Down

Midlake Sets Release Date, Moves Forward With New Album. Which May Explain Why Jason Lee Is In Town.

Looks like ritual day at the Midlake house...​Big news today from Midlake camp, as the band's publicity team has sent out a press release announcing the date (February 2, 2010) and cover art (see right) of the band's first release in three years (The Courage of Others)--not to mention the somewhat ... More >>

Buzz: Guess which Dallas City Council member is looking all establishment now?

Dem Souhernfolkz's Incredible Message

Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

Maverick Madness

Better late than never, let's hear it for U-T-Yay!

Darren McFadden to Dallas? Believe It.

The Truth About "The Truth About Tom"

Expenses Sure are Expensive

Country Hillary

Tell me she wasn't trying to sound like Ann Richards. Please.

On a Wing and a Prayer

Minister to despots across the globe, evangelist K.A. Paul just needs a few tons of jet fuel--and a safer plane--to keep up God’s work

Assist, Avery

Diminutive Mavs coach gives New Orleans evacuees a huge lift

Garbage to You

Homeless people, like all of us, own things that can't be replaced

War and Peace

Guns in an MLK parade? What's wrong with this picture?

Dig Dug

RCA unearths 100 "lost" Elvis recordings, just in time to celebrate his death day

Pine Bluffing

Joe Cripps spent the past couple of years trying to coax a new record out of Delta blues legend CeDell Davis. In August, he finally will.

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Union Labeled

Contract mail drivers win a long struggle to unionize

Scene, Heard

Robert Jenkins is getting the word out

Southern Comfort

The Gossip returns to the land of Dollar Store culture

Poo Poo

We Oui is a no-no

Across the Bar

Raise the Curtain; Experience Lift to Experience; Mazinga's Dissatisfied Customers ...

Singing in his sleep

The many bands of John Dufilho

Rocket from the Cripps

Joe Cripps leaves Brave Combo for brave new worlds

Direct Hit, or Miss

Mom and pop label says goodbye ... sort of

Get a life

Trekkies boldly peers into the Star Trek phenomenon

The sound of a musical

DTC's South Pacific should be heard and not seen

Joe Bob in Bloom

John Bloom has taken his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, and gone Hollywood. But watching America's favorite drive-in movie critic on television these days, a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself

Know 'em, Chomsky

These boys are like every other band in town you've never heard ofexcept better

Eyesight to the Blind

A historian and a playwright bring a Dallas blues legend's story to the stage

Corporate rock sucks

Or: Bobgoblin and Centro-matic prove why you should never sign to a record label, big or small

Attacking Macs with chopsticks

Yoshi's brings Japanese sensibilities to an American dining habit

Events for the week

The education of Michelle Shocked

Once portrayed as a bumpkin, she's finally wised up

Neander-Guy

Ray Audette hunts with a hawk and eats like a caveman. He says his meaty diet stopped his hair from falling out, cured his diabetes--and will make you healthy too

Death Row Granny

Bettie Beets killed two husbands. Now she's likely to become the first woman the state of Texas has ever executed