Mississippi

Matthew McConaughey is On a Roll, and It Continues in Mud

The Corps Should Make Up Its Mind About the Levees and Explain Itself

Ruby Rogers of The Black Belles Says Jack White's Not a Puppeteer

Although they may look like rejects from the casting call for a sequel to The Craft, Nashville's The Black Belles are actually more original than their look suggests. The band was "discovered" by Jack White, but the four Belles see him more as mentor than Svengali. Speaking from Laredo and in anti ... More >>

Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson on Nerve Damage, Howlin' Wolf and Flying Nun

Unknown Mortal Orchestra's 2011 Fat Possum debut is one of those albums that sort of blindsides: Every song is a different texture, soul, hip-hop, funk and psych layered for maximum gonzo appeal. The vocals on every song are different too, to the point that the album almost plays out like a Nuggets ... More >>

Feds' Complaint Adds More Screenplay Details Leading to "Handsome Guy" Bandit's Arrest

​On Tuesday Mike Byrd provided us with his high-speed, first-hand account of how, along a rural stretch of Mississippi highway, the sheriff there used his .40-cal Sig Sauer to shoot out the tire of a fleeing Steven Milam, the Tyler casket salesmen better known as the "Handsome Guy" Bandit who poli ... More >>

Charlie Mars Remembers His Days in Dallas and Winning $26,000 in Shreveport

Singer/songwriter Charlie Mars has had an interesting life. Born and raised in Mississippi, Mars actually plied his craft in Dallas for a few years in the '90s. Some heavy duty partying landed him in rehab a few years after that and those internal demons forced Mars to retreat to an isolated islan ... More >>

Trinity Levees: Will the Feds' Money Crunch Leave Us Low and Wet?

​Am I in the happy-news business? Does a bear use air freshener in the woods? Look, I'm just bringing it to you like it is. As bad as the situation with the Trinity River levees may look locally, you should see what it looks like when you put it in perspective with national levee problems. We ... More >>

Method Man, Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA

Wednesday, November 9, at Granada Theater

Miracle Guile: Rick Perry Has an Odd Way of Measuring Success

Catfish Industry Fighting for New Labeling Laws in Texas

​The catfish industry is targeting Texas as the next state to adopt country-of-origin labeling legislation. The Catfish Institute's president Robert Barlow is now in Texas, rallying support for a bill introduced by state Senator Glenn Hegar. The proposed law, modeled after similar legislation ... More >>

Good Friday: Danielson, Black Eyed Peas, Dokken, Faster Pussycat, Venus Flytrap, Robert Deeble, Josh Alan Friedman, Mark Growden, Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, B.J. Thomas, Shannon McNully, Matthew Good, Automatic Loveletter, Off With Their Heads

​With Pete down in Austin attending to all things SXSW, it falls to me to come up with some show recommendations for our area. And there's a lot of stuff going on. Tomorrow brings a Dillinger Escape Plan show to The Granada Theater, and Sunday is especially busy with 97.9's Car Show in Fair Park ... More >>

Wondering What to Do With the Former First National on Elm Steet? Wonder No More.

Justin TerveenElm Place, once the largest building west of the Mississippi, in the shadow of Renaissance Tower​No need to mourn the demise of Elm Place, set to shutter for good on January 29 -- not when someone's already figured out what to do with the former First National Bank of Dallas, among G ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Catfish And Hush Puppies

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn twisted.I can say this without flinching: my dad made the best fried catfish and--especially--the best hush puppies ever.Every Sunday without fail he'd stand over the stove dredging and splattering. It was ... More >>

Ryan Bingham, Telegraph Canyon, The Orbans

Friday, November 27, at House of Blues

One More Try at Razing 508 Park Avenue, Even As Miss. Officials to Turn Robert Johnson's Birthplace Into Tourist Destination

Justin Terveen​On Thursday, the owners of 508 Park Avenue will ask the City Plan Commission for permission to demolish the building in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and Charlie Parker once recorded. Two months ago, the Landmark Commission denied the application, upholding ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To See Colour Revolt on Sunday at Hailey's

Mississippi's Colour Revolt is no stranger to shows in the DFW region having stopped through a couple of times in just the past year alone, if memory serves. But, each time they return, it seems the anticipation and excitement only increases. If the above video of the angsty indie rock act performi ... More >>

On The Range: Tamales

Pig's head tamales?Well, yes. Robb Walsh notes in his Tex-Mex cookbook that traditional emporiums use pig's heads as their base meat when making their husky creations. The head is boiled until the meat and lard cook away, then the broth is used to moisten the masa harina (corn meal infused with lime ... More >>

Mayor Tom Leppert's Stimulus Request for Convention Center Hotel Gains Little Support on Interwebs

Patrick MichelsDallas' convention center hotel made news in Denver today as the ABC affiliate out there featured StimulusWatch.org as its "Web Site of the Week." The site allows users to cast votes and comment on projects they feel to be most critical, or in the case of the hotel, least critical. ... More >>

Robert Johnson's Grandson Has the Blues Over What to Do With 508 Park Avenue

Dogwood Folk ArtSteven Johnson, grandson of Robert Johnson, contacted Unfair Park today after reading this week's cover story concerning the fate of 508 Park Ave. downtown, where the Mississippi bluesman recorded in June 1937. Says Johnson -- vice president of the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation in ... More >>

Tonight: Skip The Debate And Catch Jonezetta At The Loft

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

Twisted Sisters

See a Southern classic in Garland

Bridges and Blinking Lights, Colour Revolt, Handbrake

Wednesday, December 19, at Hailey's in Denton

Crackers & Cheese

Deep Ellum: Making Friends Far and Wide

Dan Aykroyd Came to Town, Poured Some Concrete, Left. But He'll Be Back With...Jim Belushi.

Familiar Chord

Blues rock duo intoxicates with Magic Potion

Ouch

Get slammed at UTD

Family Drama

Card Shark

Amateur collector making a killin'

Fat Boys

An elderly gang of seedy Mississippi bluesmen anchors Fat Possum Records and the label's documentary

Letters

The Black Keys

October 25

Best Challah

Empire Baking Company

Mystic Chords of Memory

The Burning Question crew looks back at 2002

3 Doors Down; 30 Seconds to Mars

December 5; December 7

Best Fishmonger

TJ's Seafood Market

Letters

For the Birds, Pure Outrage, Trinity's Good Deeds

Dirty South

For the North Mississippi Allstars, the blues ain't nothing but dance music

Southern cross

Gothic, God, and the working class meet in Buck-Nekkid

Take me to the river

PBS documentary goes on a bumpy ride down The Mississippi

Mose's better blues

A trip to Long Island reveals an Allison wonderland

Letters

Of mud and mental health

Roadshows

Sweet ode to convoy grub

But Truckers grinds the breakfast gears

Good to the bone

The ribs at Magnolia restore your faith in barbecue

A river runs through it

Extraordinary film celebrates the ethic of an ordinary man

Buzz

Bottom feeder, top cat

Natchez plumbs the subtle pleasures of America's favorite scavenger