Magazines

Dallas' Late Mike Scaccia Gets Inducted into Decibel's Hall of Fame, Talk Area History

It's probably fair to suggest that we here at DC9 have been on a bit of a metal kick as of late. But who can blame us, for this? Recent shows from The Deftones, Graveyard and Testament, to go along with ear-busting discoveries and all kinds of Mastodon news has made many of our metal jeans get extra ... More >>

Even The Economist Thinks Texas is too Fiscally Conservative

The Economist isn't conservative in the American sense of the word, which has come to be defined as much as by views on abortion and Jesus as by a desire for limited government, but it's consistent in its support of free market capitalism relatively unfettered by government. The magazine did endors ... More >>

Texas Dominates Forbes' List of Fastest Growing Cities Thanks to "Robust" Economic Growth

Every year, Forbes puts out a list. More accurately, the magazine puts out about a gazillion lists with varying degrees of credibility, one of which ranks the fastest growing cities in the nation. This year's results are in, and Texas managed to nab gold, silver and bronze, sweeping the top three s ... More >>

Find A Reason To Love Again

DeFord Calls The Shots

Southern Living Dubs SMU a Top Tailgating School, Citing Those Crazy Cake Stands

Both my parents went to SMU, and I even went to a few sporting events growing up. But I claim total ignorance of SMU's apparently proud tailgating tradition. Er, I mean Boulevarding tradition. Either way, the school does it well, according to Southern Living, which ranked SMU as one of 20 best tail ... More >>

So, About This Jessica Simpson Elle Cover...

There's much being said about the April issue of Elle magazine, which features Dallas' own Jessica Simpson as the latest star to pose nude and pregnant on the cover of a magazine. Because there's apparently no other way to photograph a woman with child than nude on the cover of a women's fashion mag ... More >>

Dallas is America's 25th Fattest City, Houston is the Fattest, and Austin? Screw Austin.

Men's Fitness has taken measure of our nation and, once again, growing girth is the trend. In the March issue, which is on newsstands but not online, the magazine uses fitness industry and CDC stats to compile a list of America's 25 fattest cities. Houston is the fattest, which the magazine partia ... More >>

Lumberjack Fest

Saturday, February 18, at Dan's Silverleaf

From Yelp to Food & Wine to Jonathon's Bottom Line: The Making of a Beer Cheese Soup Star

Jonathon's Oak Cliff continues to generate buzz. Just as Eater almost awarded Jonathon Erdeljac chef of the year, November's issue of Food & Wine featured the casual restaurant's "Beer-and-Cheddar Soup." I called Jonathon's wife Christine and asked her how the restaurant came to be featured in the ... More >>

No Matter How You Add It Up, Dallas ISD's Magnets Still Top Best High Schools Lists

Again, the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center houses some of the best individual high schools in the U.S.​Exactly one month ago we got a look at longtime Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews' list of the best public high schools in the country -- the same list that used to run in Ne ... More >>

Sarah Jaffe, Doug Burr Geek Out On One Another As Southern Living Discovers Denton.

Sarah Jaffe and Doug Burr​ Like The New York Times and Paste magazine before them, it looks like the folks at Southern Living magazine have gone and discovered Denton -- or, as they and everyone else says when first writing about the college town, "maybe the next Austin!"Ugh.At least the folks at ... More >>

The Best Performer of All at This Year's SXSW? Seryn, If You Ask Paste.

Seryn​ Regrettably, we didn't make it out to Paste's Thursday day party featuring North Texas' own Sarah Jaffe and Seryn (fellow North Texans Eisley played the magazine's Wednesday party), and, to hear Paste tell it, boy, did we miss out: The venerable and regrettably now online-only music rag cla ... More >>

That's It. We're Outta Here to Go Get a Burger.

​OK, next time I have to write a complicated story about genetically modified salmon or high-fructose corn syrup, I'm illustrating it with a picture of a hamburger. Because if I'm interpreting the results of the American Society of Magazine Editors' annual best magazine cover contest correctl ... More >>

Dixie Chicks and Old 97's Named to Texas Music's Best Albums Of The Decade List, Other Area Acts Named Among Its Artists Of The Decade

​The new Texas Music magazine popped up in the snail mail yesterday, and in a joint celebration of both the end of the '00s and start of the mag's 10th year in existence, the magazine, like many others before it, went ahead and listed its favorite albums and artists of the decade. And, of course, ... More >>

What Evan Smith Learned at Texas Monthly: Kelly Clarkson Doesn't Move Magazines

​It's been two months since Texas Monthly's president, Evan Smith, announced he was leaving the magazine to go into the virtual newspaper business as CEO of Texas Tribune. In the October issue of the Monthly, Smith offers his adios: "What I've Learned." And among those myriad lessons is this one: ... More >>

Health In Numbers

Arlington's Obsessed With Sports, Apparently

So says Men's Health in its July-August issue, in which the magazine ranks the top 100 major U.S. cities' "sports-obsessed citizenry" and puts Arlington at the very top o' the list with an "A " ranking. Says here that myriad factors went into the ranking -- everything from the number of folks who at ... More >>

Food For Thought 6.3.09

"No one seems to understand why iced coffee costs so much more than the regular stuff." (GQ magazine, pondering the expense added for steeping water and grounds overnight in a French press. As stated in their June issue.)

Food For Thought 4.22.09

"This is the movie that puts a happy face on alcoholism...and seems to imply that not only can a man make the right choices about life-altering matters when blind drunk but that sometimes it actually helps." (Playboy magazine on the 1981 Dudley Moore film Arthur. About the most succinct and accurate ... More >>

The Season For Magazines

Though the name might suggest otherwise, new magazine Edible Dallas & Fort Worth is not intended for Mothra. Rather, the publication--part of the Edible Communities chain--offers stories about North Texas chefs, farmers, retailers, vintners and brewers, all aimed squarely at "locavores," those w ... More >>

Paste Names Denton The "Best Music Scene Of 2008"

Take this with a grain of salt, Denton, as the magazine also lists She & Him's Volume One as the album of the year (sure, Zooey Deschanel's a looker, but is the album really that good?), but congratulations are in order: Paste magazine's December issue hit the stands this week with its year-end ... More >>

Please, Just Ask Yourself, Tony: What Would Roger Do?

Nothing Simple About Surrogacy

You and What Droid Army?

Trying To Make a Warehouse Story Sexy

Romo to Owens to Witten

Crime Does, In Fact, Pay

Girl in a Coma

Thursday, August 16, at Andy's, Denton

Praise God...Or At Least GodTube

In Dallas, There is a Business World "Man of Mystery"

"Chuckling With Irony"

Science is So Scientific

Real Funny

Laugh at masculinity

Read This Post or We'll Shoot Your Dog

Avant-Garde Gigolos

Art Prostitute makes a Move to the big city

Best Blog

D magazine's FrontBurner

Art, Ho!

Magazine pimps a good cause

Mag Light

Today's music magazines suck up to celebs--and just plain suck

Best place to buy old Life magazines

Forestwood Antique Mall

Mr. Smith arrives

Texas Monthly's new man has plan: long stories, pop culture, and don't suck

The last word

Stanley Tucci's Secret is a poignant look at a writer and his curious subject

Texas Monthly's Midlife Crisis

Buzz

I thought it would be fun to run a magazine

Ray Washburne's Texas Business is a case study in how not to run a business

Goofin' on God

Trinity Foundation to acquire religious satire magazine

Out of Africa

Two Ghana natives chronicle a continent few know about

Rushes

Rag trade

Robert Altman's surprisingly leaden look at the fashion industry is all dressed up with nowhere to go