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Holiday Gift Idea: A Craft Beer Mixed Six

On Wednesday the Beer Institute announced that the number of permitted breweries in the U.S. has reached an all-time high of 2,751, up from 2,309 in 2011. Not that we needed a stat to validate this craft beer resurgence, but it's reassuring nonetheless. "Resurgence", you say? Yes, our forefathers we ... More >>

California Wives on Vagrant Records and the Musée d'Orsay

Chicago's California Wives, featured most recently in a commercial for Sharpie, will grace Dallas on Saturday, when they open for Stars. Jayson Kramer took some time out to share with us about being on Vagrant Records, museums and touring with Stars. Since you're on Vagrant Records, I'm curious as ... More >>

Vinnie Kircher of Jaill On Driving To Denton And Not Puking

Milwaukee-based trio Jaill comes back to Dallas at Bryan Street Tavern this Friday, with the Coathangers and Sealion, in support of their latest album, Traps. We caught up with singer Vinnie Kircher last week while the band was in the middle of an eight-hour drive, and he shared plenty about the fi ... More >>

Dallas Security Agency Launches New Service For Victims of Domestic Violence

Before this morning, we had never heard of Reynolds Protection, a Dallas purveyor of bodyguards, or its owner, Chad Reynolds, who judging from his bio photo is roughly the size of a refrigerator. A very bald, imposing refrigerator. But this morning Reynolds Protection sent around a press release ann ... More >>

The Good and Bad News Contained Within MDHA's "2011 State of Homelessness" Report

Metro Dallas Homeless AllianceA look at Dallas County's homeless population from the "2011 Annual 'Point-In-Time' Homeless Count and Census"​Leslie's at Dallas City Hall at this very moment, where Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance is announcing the formation of the Greater Dallas Homeless Policy Alli ... More >>

As Fame Chases Him, Bon Iver Keeps Running

Rangers Partying Like it's, well, June 2010

​Your Rangers have done what good, potentially great teams do: Beat shitty opponents. When the Rangers begin their series in Anaheim against the second-place Angels Tuesday night, it will be their first opponent with a winning record in a month. Amazing. Since playing the Brav ... More >>

Erykah Badu to Join My Morning Jacket As Guest For Streaming Tuesday Night Concert

Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were t ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Kirby Brown and Whiskey Folk Ramblers at The Jack Daniel's Saloon, Acid Mothers Temple at The Loft, Bruce Hornsby at the House of Blues and Yelle at the Granada

Tonight's not quite as busy as last night, but there's a good selection of diverse musical acts this evening as well -- including the launch of our own free concert series.

Chefs Rally Around Paul Quinn College Urban Farm

Bolsa partner Chris Zielke hopes an upcoming fundraiser benefiting Paul Quinn College's Food For Good Farm will help change how people think about Oak Cliff. ​"From the Oak Cliff community standpoint, I want to show people it's more than just Davis Street," Zielke says. "There's a big area ou ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Unwed Sailor at Club Dada and Steve Miller at House of Blues

Besides Hayes Carll continuing his North Texas tour of clubs (tonight's stop is at The Aardvark in Cowtown), there are a couple of other interesting musical options also going on tonight.

Nana's Anthony Bombaci on Good Ice Cream, Sharp Knives and Bad G.M.Os

Nana's Anthony Bombaci​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Anthony C. Bombaci, executive chef at Nana. Today, we ask Bombaci to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. I was raised in...Central Wisconsin and the Milwaukee area.   My friends say...I am inten ... More >>

The Mavs Are Cratering. And, Yep, the Butler Did Indeed Do It.

​So me and Charles Barkley call the Dallas Mavericks the best team in the NBA, but when I come back from vacation the whole thing's in shambles. What the what?! I believe when I left they were 23-5 and had just completed a season sweep of the Miami Heat. Now? Entering tonight' ... More >>

Celebrating the Long and "Pretty Impressive" Career of Texas Legend Nancy Lieberman

Via.​It was quite the big deal back in '80, when the Dallas Diamonds of the fledgling Women's Professional Basketball League signed Old Dominion star and Olympic silver-medalist Nancy Lieberman to her first pro contract. I have a hazy memory of sitting among a few packed houses at Moody Coliseum, ... More >>

Dirk, Dallas Doing It Again. But Even Better.

​After Dirk Nowitzki's one-legged, fadeaway, high-arcing, 18-foot shot - off the glass, no less - Friday night in Utah, TV analyst Hubie Brown was almost speechless. "C'mon!' he exclaimed. "Some of the things this guy does at seven feet is just unfair." Nowitzki was again brilliant over the w ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, October 18, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Buckcherry (Los Angeles, CA)All Night Long (Eleven Seven Music)You know when yo ... More >>

Those Wisconsin Folk are Lightweights
When it Comes to Fair Eating

Sauerkraut balls: Wasn't that a nickname for Hitler?​A Milwaukee filmmaker who chronicled one man's annual quest to eat every deep-fried and "on a stick" food served at the Wisconsin State Fair has a few tips for fair-goers contemplating similar missions. Mark Irving, whose 13-minute "documen ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Robert Gomez at Dan's, Sarah Jaffe DJ Set at the Double Wide, Crystal Castles at House of Blues, Coliseum and Burning Love at Rubber Gloves

We're about to see a sudden void in daily show lists, so, from here on out, each and every Monday through Thursday, I'll do my best to point the readers of DC9 in the right musical direction for each particular evening.Oh, sweet Tuesday, the second step towards another blissful weekend. And actua ... More >>

God, I Hope I Get It: As Hamlisch Takes Over DSO's Pops, A Talent Search at Arts Magnet

Elaine LinerSing us a song, you're the Piano Man, Marvin Hamlisch!​Marvin Hamlisch has his EGOT. That's Emmys (four of 'em), Grammys (four), Oscars (three) and a Tony. The composer of A Chorus Line and the film score for The Way We Were also has a Pulitzer Prize and three Golden Globes. So he's go ... More >>

Jay Reatard Is Pronounced Dead at 29--And His Second-To-Last Show Was In Dallas.

Bill EllisonThis December 10, 2009, performance at the Granada Theater was Jay Reatard's second-to-last.​The details behind it, at this point, are pretty vague but, after spreading like wildfire throughout the Internet this afternoon, it's been confirmed: Fast-rising indie garage rock hero Jay Rea ... More >>

American Baseball, the European Way

​Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America's pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn't be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn't be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer ... More >>

Conversions with God (aka Lemmy)

Good Friday: Peaches, Viva Voce, Malford Milligan, David Byrne, International Waters, Oliver's Army, Airline, Jonathan Byrd, The Phuss, Gaelic Storm, Todd Sarvies

This particular weekend offers an interesting mix of local and national talents, many of which are playing unheralded venues scattered about the Metroplex. The mix of genres represented in our area in the coming days is quite remarkable.First off the shows that were already covered in print or onlin ... More >>

How Can They Call It Mexican Food If It Doesn’t Bring the Heat?

Gig Alerts: A Busy Musical Thursday Across North Texas

Jeff Hanson plays Rubber Gloves in Denton tonight.Judging by the amount of quality acts performing in and around our fair city tonight, you might think it was the week before SXSW. Well maybe not quite, but you get the idea: There's a lot more going on than the sure-to-be-emotional Carter Albrecht C ... More >>

Bully or Bodyguard? The WSJ Looks at Mayors Who Take Over Schools.

Alexander FloresTill Mayor Tom Leppert decides to talk for himself about his thinking about maybe one day possibly taking over the Dallas Independent School District we'll see not sure for sure who knows, it's all one big guessing game. Which doesn't stop the Dallas mayor's name from appearing in th ... More >>

10 Questions: Joel Harloff

He cooked professionally for six years in Milwaukee before finally taking a break...to study at the Culinary Institute of America.Harloff then headed a string of highly rated restaurants in Wisconsin before heading south. Since arriving in Dallas just over a decade ago, he's developed quite a legacy ... More >>

Semester's End Marked by a Great Night of Denton Music

Touring "Texas on Tour," or: How Not to Get in a Lone Star State of Mind

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Doctors In Dallas

How the West Was Lost (Hint: It Rhymes With "Suck")

Free Tickets! Don't Thank Us.

Calatrava is Spanish for "Over Budget"

Bridges to Nowhere

The Team-wrecker

Look Away

The Hills Have Eyes gets a bloody overhaul, but nothing to recommend it

Proficient Slackers

Fort Worth's The Cut*Off plow the fertile ground between part-time and professional

Hardy Har Mar

Har Mar Superstar insists that his ribald R&B is no joke--it just sounds like one

The Thin Line

Jurassic 5 knows the difference between hip-hop and rap

Homies

Home Movie looks inside some eccentric domiciles

Bilbao Envy

Meadows' show of Santiago Calatrava's designs is one big missed opportunity

Freaks of the industry

A guide to music on the Web that the RIAA isn't worried about

Grand illusion

In this hysterical American Movie, an ingenious and not very talented filmmaker presses on

Into the groovy

Raving about Simon Reynolds' techno history, Generation Ecstasy

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Out There

Hard lesson

Dreams of an African-American prep school wane

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Lip glossy

Valley of the Dolls proves life doesn't imitate art--it imitates bad movies