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Ana da Silva on The Raincoats' Legacy

Ana da Silva on The Raincoats' Legacy

When guitarist Ana da Silva met bassist Gina Birch in art school and started going to gigs in London in the late '70s, their fate was already sealed. The Raincoats' 1979 self-titled debut and 1981's Odyshape, both on Rough Trade, were products of that creatively and politically off-center time, and ... More >>

The "Casually Pepper Spraying Cop" Strikes Again: Five More Photos

By know you've probably seen it: the campus police member John Pike has become a web sensation after being caught on camera hosing down Occupy protesters with a coarse, red pepper spray. The brilliant men and women of the Interwebs have, of course, taken to the photoshops to insert the "casually p ... More >>

Dude, Sweet's Katherine Clapner: One Saucy Chocolatier

​In the final segment of our three-part interview with Katherine Clapner of Dude, Sweet Chocolate, we discuss how she runs her little shop of wonder, plus her take on foods in different cities. Check Part 1 for some of her background and Part 2 for her take on the Dallas food scene. How has ... More >>

A Mod Revival

​In the final segment of our three-part interview with Katherine Clapner of Dude, Sweet Chocolate, we discuss how she runs her little shop of wonder, plus her take on foods in different cities. Check Part 1 for some of her background and Part 2 for her take on the Dallas food scene. How has ... More >>

Shoot, We Didn't Know You Could Put
Lap Dances on a Tab

The real reason men go to strip clubs.​Newspaper readers in places as far away as London are today laughing at the hapless Dallas duo that opted to flee a Northwest Highway strip club when they couldn't pay their $5,000 tab. But folks have thus far failed to praise Micah Boswell and Elizabeth ... More >>

The Top 10 Things I Learned on Staycation

​10. Going to Vegas, London, Mexico, etc. is nice and all, but sometimes staying put feels right. 9. 36 holes of golf in one day is plenty. 8. SMU worked hard to attract a special coach like June Jones. I hope they work just as hard to keep him. 7. We're finally about to find out what ha ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 17: DJ Left/Right

​From spinning at a 7th grade dance to numerous shows around town and now a deal with Swedish label Sound Of Habib, Dallas DJ and producer Left/Right's passion for electronic music has carried him far in the last decade."I also am serious about creating original music and steady, charting releases ... More >>

Do You Think Mum Will Be Mad?

​From spinning at a 7th grade dance to numerous shows around town and now a deal with Swedish label Sound Of Habib, Dallas DJ and producer Left/Right's passion for electronic music has carried him far in the last decade."I also am serious about creating original music and steady, charting releases ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Travel Guides

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn warped.I wrote the restaurant section to a travel guide while I lived in Prague--and if I could remember which one I'd advise you to stick it back on the shelf and pick up another.It wasn't for Lonely Plan ... More >>

Today In Music News: Leona Lewis Gets Punched, Editors Gets Googled And Sufjan Stevens Gets Contemplative

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 15, 2009...Leona Lewis took a right hook to the dome--for literacy--when a "fan" punched her in the head at a book signing.Care to know what the Editors are up to in London? Check out their very own Google Earth.Sufjan Stevens is contempl ... More >>

Today In Music News: Buy Elvis' Hair, London Gets All The Good Residencies and Medieval Times Brings Super Groups Together

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 8, 2009... Have you ever sat around, wishing you could buy a tuft of Elvis' hair? Well now is your chance! What's the deal with London getting all the band residencies lately? The Pixies kicked off their residency by playing Doolitt ... More >>

Today In Music News: Eminem Brings The Substance, Prince Ups The iPod and Lil Wayne Talks His Game

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 15, 2009... Eminem is back, and he felt like hip-hop was going downhill during his absence like music was "lacking substance." Yeah, substance like jokes about Lindsey Lohan, Sarah Palin and Jessica Simpson. That's substance. If you hav ... More >>

Question: How Can You Get A Big-Budget Video Made On The Cheap?

Answer: Get a London-based company to make your video as part of a test-run. Because that seems to be how Dallas-based Canadian rapper Freeky T got this video (screen grab above) made for his song "Tipspell (feat. S Davis)". The London-based company Eye Revolution filmed Freeky T and S Davis (and a ... More >>

Florene's 'Transphysic Galactic Jam' Gets Trans-Atlantic Plug

Another Denton-reppin' experimental band got some love from overseas. This time it's Florene, which caught the ear of No Pain In Pop, a London record label and music blog. The duo's "Room 5" was yesterday's featured download track. NPIP's Tom King described the group's music as "soothing and balming ... More >>

Crash, Bang, Boom

A London dance troupe Stomps into the Bass

Coldplay

Viva la Vida (Capitol)

You Won't Find Don Rickles on GodTube

Viva la Vida (Capitol)

Bug Bends

Tripsichore stretches into Dallas

Is You Izzie?

Tripsichore stretches into Dallas

Lincoln Slog

At Kitchen Dog, Man From Nebraska offers a muted vision of midlife angst

Put On Yer Boots, People

At Kitchen Dog, Man From Nebraska offers a muted vision of midlife angst

Affordable Art, Served by the Kettle

At Kitchen Dog, Man From Nebraska offers a muted vision of midlife angst

Heart Attack

Attempting romantic comedy, Sir Ridley Scott conquers neither

London Fog

Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy

Kitsch in Sync

Serial killer, masked man and ghetto diva--but, dang it, not in the same show

The Beatdown

If you wanna hear Denton's best-kept national dance secret, then get to the Party

Flotation Toy Warning

Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck (Misra)

Best Hip Men's Clothing Store

Premium 93

Dance Dance Revolution

Yes, there is a way to make yoga even more arty and difficult

Dead to Rights

Stripped of pretention, Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in the zombie flick 28 Days Later

Past Due

Plus: Hell by Numbers

Like Bill

Ex-prime minister's trip to Dallas prompts a British invasion

Various Artists

In Our Lifetime Vol. 2 (Fenway Recordings)

Drawing the Line

Leon Kossoff's copies from old masters plumb the power of the artist's mark

Various Artists

Off-Centre: A Riot on Old Street (BBE), Beats & Pieces Volume Two (BBE), Funk Rock (BBE)

Consider the Copycat

They're not all bad, as 500X's crop of new artists makes abundantly clear

Scene, Heard

London ain't so great

Reefer Madness

Brenda Blethyn carries on in the best tradition of British movie humor in the pot-centric Saving Grace

London Calling

Lovelorn misfits across the pond go walking through an insightful Wonderland

Young guns

Julien Temple and The Sex Pistols set their record straight in The Filth and the Fury

Louder than bombs

An emotional minefield lies beneath the jocularity of Beautiful People

The redcoat is coming!

Art critic Matthew Collins delivers quite a Sensation

You Beta, you bet

The elusive Beta Band turns cuckoo clocks and laser gunshots into definition-dodging sounds that -- somehow -- make perfect sense

Through a glass darkly

Up close and intimate, Francis Bacon's work transcends the clichés and introduces you to the real man

Two From Column B

The 28th Annual USA Film Festival Artist Profile

Reef's herbal remedy

Another sign of the end of the Brit-pop invasion?

The plague years

Gryphon Players' The Living can't face the feeling of wholesale suffering

Distant thunder

A powerful film from war-torn Macedonia brings faraway bloodshed terrifyingly close