Long Island

In Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby, a Different Brand of Great

20 Feet's Midas Touch

A new East Dallas seafood joint uses beer batter like a fabled king.

Larry Brown Just Can't Stop

The remaking of SMU basketball with the game's most persistent coach.

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

We Few, We Miserable Few: Jim Rallies the Troops With Words Fit for Henry V

Sometimes I think the dumbest people to talk to about the newspaper business are newspaper people, of which I am one, obviously. Is it possible to scream blindness? David Carr, The New York Times's media columnist -- one of the few media reporters on whose word I truly hang, often -- has a piece in ... More >>

The Feds Attack Online Poker

On Black Friday, The Justice Department killed a $2.5 billion industry.

Gang Gang Dance Laughs It All Off

Insanity Plea: 40 Songs That Will Make You Feel Like You've Chugged Seven Red Bulls

More or less the amount of Red Bull consumed at DC9 HQ on a daily basis.​Do you guys like Red Bull? Because we here at DC9 really like Red Bull. We drink Red Bull all the time. Helps us keep up with the crazy hours of the gig. Red Bull, in our humble opinion, has always been "the best." Red Bull, ... More >>

Bro Fest Offers Its Strongest Bill To Date

Gig Alert: Mindy Smith at the House of Blues

​It takes quite a bit of country/folk chutzpah to take on a song as legendary as Dolly Parton's "Jolene," but that's exactly what Mindy Smith, a 37-year-old singer/songwriter from Long Island, did in 2003. Smith's version of the song appeared on the Parton tribute record Because I'm a Woman.Seems ... More >>

Good Friday: Seemingly Endless SXSW Backwash, The Sex Pistols Experience, Dale Watson, As Tall as Lions, Or The Whale, Billy Joe Shaver, These Arms Are Snakes, Randy Travis, Asobi Seksu, Great Lakes Myth Society and The Pink Spiders

With what looks to be the entire Observer music staff getting wasted on vacation tirelessly covering the SXSW Music Conference, it looks as if recommending a few of this weekend's metroplex shows falls to this weary critic. Well, in this week's print edition, Pete, Jesse and others did a ... More >>

Robert Towne's Coming to Town to Get AFI Dallas Award. Also, More Films Added.

AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year's AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits in ... More >>

Girl Drink Drunk: Cosmos’ Hawaiian Punch

When a cosmo is "watered down" with vodka, even vision becomes slurred The original plan was to hit up the "upscale dive," Lakewood Landing. But I talked to one of our favorite bartenders there (well, that’s not fair—they all are our favorites) and he said to let him think about it…so he co ... More >>

Margot Shows Family's Prickly Side

Senioritis

In Social Security, Grandma's on the move and the family's in a tizz

AFI Fest Releases Lineup of Films and Guest List. Oh, Look: The Guy From Office Space

Because of Dixie Win

CSA envisions life today if the South had won the war

No Pants Belo

Morning News looks goofy on the circ fraud story

The Devil Next Door

The chilling story of Doug Havard, SMU'S Crime Boss

Frogs Gone Loco

Childhood games turn into obsession in Love Me If You Dare

Max Factors

Writer-director Menno Meyjes asks, "Would a Jew help Hitler?"

Romano Flies Solo

Eatzi's founder breaks from Brinker International

Tropic of Groceries

Dallas' pent-up lust for exotic foods has finally been met with the opening of Central Market. Will shopping ever be the same? Will our appetites?

Lesson Learned

Ghetto Fame-Us lost three members but gained much more

Methuselah's Night Out

This 40-year-old sets out to pick up a few babes

Mind Games

When 19-year-old UNT student Kelli Cox vanished, her desperate parents turned to a Florida "psychic" as their last hope. Hope was all he gave them.

Broad Strokes

Dutiful if not particularly insightful, Pollock doesn't drip with color

Dazed and Confused

Dallas' hockey junkies need to take a chill pill, 'cause it's only October

Paper Chase

Texas Jewish Post Publisher Jimmy Wisch says he's being run out of town by leaders of the community he has served for 54 years. They say he's overstayed his welcome.

Believing the Hype

Former Dallas artist Dan Rizzie disappears out East, then re-emerges as the real thing

Ego trip

Carrey channels Kaufman, but is it worth a trip to the Moon?

Out There

Rakim

The ponce

The sort-of true adventures of a kind-of real rock star and her not-made-up boyfriend

Radio Free Dallas

10 years ago, The Edge actually lived up to its name

Rubberneckin'

Leap-frogging through history with the Toadies

Tin men

Amid the pressure cooker of air traffic control, human foibles surface

Royal trix

Prince Paul used to be hip-hop's leading court jester. Now, he's dead serious.

Odd Man Out

Dallas-raised Terry Southern wrote Easy Rider, hung with the Beatles, and influenced a generation. But he died penniless, and now his son must pay off Terry's debts--and restore his father's legacy.

Back in the game

At 38, Public Enemy's Chuck D goes 'where no age has gone before'

I, Claudia; or, no going forward

Out There

Rambo Justice

Are bad-boy lawyers Bill Brewer and John Bickel building a bridge to Dallas' minority communities, or trying to sell them one?

Mr. Mayor, Meet Your Nightmare

Frustrated, fed up, and ready to fight, Laura Miller trades muckraking for a run at City Hall

Lex and Terry's wet dream

Can two transplants from the land of Lynyrd Skynyrd and fart smells find the key to radio fame at Dallas' Q102?

Holmes style

NY's Holmes Brothers are the Magi of soul

Feeling the Burn

Unpaid Taxes, missing money, and a bitter business divorce threaten the empire of fitness guru Larry North

Taking Howard Stern seriously

The last interview you'll ever need to read with radio's greatest, loudest talker--and, just maybe, Hollywood's newest movie star

Lou says

The soul of Velvet Underground stares into the Twilight

Heart-shaped box

Velvet Underground set charts the still-unknowable

Half there

Circle Theatre's Better Half Dead fails to convince