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My First Show: THe BAcksliders' Chris Bonner Saw KISS in '79. Years Later, He Took His Kids To See KISS, Too.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. THe BAcksliders' Kim and Chris.​Chris Bonner and his wife Kim Pendleton-Bonner have led The BAcksliders through four albums of swea ... More >>

Kitchen Dog's Tina Parker puts the shine on Charm; gods are not great at Theatre Too's Tales From Mount Olympus.

Q&A: Exodus' Gary Holt On Re-Recording, Wikipedia and Coping With Bandmate Deaths.

The venerable San Francisco-based trash metal act Exodus has been around for nearly 30 years at this point. And they haven't all been easy: Over this time, guitarist and founding member Gary Holt has seen the deaths of two former members and, twice, he's put the band on extended hiatus. Even though ... More >>

Staff Trax: Crystal Castles, Galaxie 500, BrakesBrakesBrakes, Christina Aguilera Covering John Lennon and The Bouncing Souls.

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Rex's Lobster Roll

​As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eaten on the ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: Howard Johnson's Fried Clams

​In the '60s and '70s it was almost impossible to travel any distance without spotting a bright orange roof and that Simple Simon weathervane. There were close to 1,000 Howard Johnson's restaurants back then, each of them serving 28 flavors of ice cream and platefuls of fried clams.The clams were ... More >>

Boston Burger Has Little to Do Wth Boston and Everything to Do With Burgers: Delicious, Sloppy and On the Cheap

Short Orders: Kenny's Burger Joint

Kenny's Burger Joint1377 Legacy Dr. (Stonebriar Commons)Frisco214-618-8001One thing about Kenny's really, truly irked me.Years ago, chef Kenny Bowers served batch after batch of fantastic French fries at his Addison restaurant. Blanched and finished in beef tallow, they were crisp, rich and reminisc ... More >>

Short Orders: Daddy Jack's

Daddy Jack's 1916 Greenville Ave. 214-826-4910 If you could travel back in time to, say, New England, Baltimore, or even the bayous of Louisiana in the 1950s, you'd expect to find dozens of places like this. The now venerable seafood shanty on lower Greenville has it all: doo-wop bopping from the, ... More >>

10 Questions: Kenny Bowers

Tom JenkinsBowers (left) with his vodka-pouring bartenders in a 2006 photoHe is synonymous with seafood in this market, having been associated with, oh, Daddy Jack's and Rockfish and Big Fish Little Fish before opening his own multi-purpose place, Kenny's Wood Fired Grill.Recently the Boston native ... More >>

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Talks Killers, John Hughes

In last week's print product, we spoke with M83 frontman, founder and brainchild Anthony Gonzalez about the major influences on his latest release, 2008's stellar synth-heavy Saturdays=Youth.But what ran in the print issue was only a piece of the conversation--we also spoke with the Frenchman about ... More >>

Cadillac Ranch Offers a Bumpy Ride for Diners

Cold Hands, Warm Hearts in Almost, Maine

Also: Young lovers bore in Kitchen Dog's Trestle

Home Again and Again and Again

The Parent Trap

Joshua gets it: Your kid is a monster

That's Not Fair

As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and bro

Mayflower Complex

Winners and Losers

Nick & Sam's courts perfection but doesn't quite pull it off

Send Out the Clowns

Freedomland rounds up unusual suspects; DTC tickles the tootsies with Bad Dates

Focking Wonderful

Streisand and Hoffman save a family--and a movie, too

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

A Whisper in the Crowd

Hip-hop rediscovers minimalism, thanks to a sea of surprisingly great singles

Fair Game

Don't stand up Big Tex

Dead All Over

There's something funny, not scary, about Cold Creek Manor

Le Fromage

Hudson and Watts cheese it up in France

Delusions of Grandma

Contemporary Theatre finds warmth in Close Ties; a tight FIT of plays at the Bath House

Beef Brawl

The beef is good, but other things are better at Smith & Wollensky

Crap Out

Loosely based on The Gambler, Alex and Emma, sadly, takes no risks at all

Dino-myte

Plus: Soy-lent Green; Player’s Ball

Lobster Crypt

Romano closes Lobster Ranch

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its stars

Everybody Loves Romano

How can Phil Romano, the "Steven Spielberg of the food business," become even more successful? By opening more restaurants, making more money--and feeding the homeless.

Setting Son

In the Bedroom, a couple's anguish turns to rage turns to rational madness

Sexual Perversity in Vermont

In a small town, folks swallow Hollywood's American bull

Working out the bugs

Lorca's Butterfly may have too much color

Missive as catalyst

The Love Letter is a sunny romance with roots in an earlier era

Hash Over

Soul of the matter

Paul Schrader wades into the deep end with his adaptation of Russell Banks' Affliction

Objection overruled

Travolta, Duvall, and filmmaker Steven Zaillian make a strong case for A Civil Action

Into the groovy

Raving about Simon Reynolds' techno history, Generation Ecstasy

The frightener

The family that frays together

Wrestling with mom and dad and familial dysfunction in One True Thing

Tear jerks

Simon Birch plays the audience for saps

Comfortable comfort food

Traci's successfully sophisticates home-cooking

Letters

Catch and release

Fish hits some rough seas in satisfying Dallas' craving for quality seafood

Crocodile tears

Despite its lofty aims, The Spitfire Grill never reaches the level of real tragedy

Brave New World

Addison Cafe offers superb French food in a (gasp) strip mall

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Forward to the Past

Grapevine Lake project takes aim at the automobile