New Hampshire

Governor Perry Signs Bill Requiring Drug Testing For Unemployment Benefits

Governor Rick Perry signed a bill into law today that will require people applying for unemployment benefits to submit to a drug test, if their responses to a screening questionnaire indicate possible drug use, the Texas Tribune reports. (Those questions will likely include: "Which Cheech and Chong ... More >>

Tips for Rick Perry's Next Campaign: Stop Being Such a Lefty

Good read by Jay Root in The Texas Tribune today about whether Governor Oops will run for re-election as governor of Texas or run for something else, who knows what, president of France, whatever. Root suggests it will be the governorship again for Oops, and he talks some about other Republican gube ... More >>

Here Are All The Reasons Why Texas Teenagers Can't Seem to Stop Getting Pregnant

Congratulations, Texas! After a lot of hard work and many long nights, we're number one in the nation for repeat teen births. According to the Centers for Disease Control, which released a new report on April 2, in 2010, 22 percent of Texas teenagers aged 15-19 who gave birth were delivering their ... More >>

If Freakin' Oklahoma Can Go Soft on Pot, Surely Texas Can, Too

Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. The message that rolled into our inbox earlier this week was upbeat. A "juggernaut of marijuana bills" is rolling its way through ... More >>

Meet the Mad Scientist Operating Pirate Radio Station KUNT out of a Denton Dorm Room

The Mad Scientist is 19, his breadth of technological knowledge seems somewhat prodigious, and he wishes to remain anonymous. From his dorm room he broadcasts his pirate radio station, KUNT, which he describes as a pulpit for great local bands mixed with some regional, national and international act ... More >>

Def Rain, Cool Womb - Macaroni Island - 10/7/12

Def Rain, Cool Womb, Know Nothing Party, Gravies and the Main Dish Sauce Macaroni Island Sunday, October 7 About 30 bodies huddled in the converted garage at 2311 Houston Place on Sunday night for Macaroni Island's second house show. With its concrete floors, track lighting and egg-crate foam paddi ... More >>

Years Later, Sea Breeze is Still (Lobster) Rolling

Coupling a fish counter with a restaurant is the best path to freshness.

Rick Perry's Not "a Talker." Little Late There.

Half the comments below are about Rick Perry's appearance in New Hampshire Friday, when it appeared our governor began his weekend a little too hard and a little too early; strange stuff, and the clip follows for those who've yet to see it. It's good for a contact buzz, if nothing else. It was follo ... More >>

Gov. Perry: We Teach Creationism in Texas Public Schools. The Rest of Texas: No, We Don't.

Perry: See, this hair doesn't just happen!​How does one explain the follicle-by-follicle perfection of Gov. Rick Perry's imperturbable man-mane? Where does his mega-watt smile and its rows of pearly whites come from? Braces? No, silly. They come from God. God spoke, and Perry was born a man of ... More >>

Small-Town Muckraker Joey Dauben Will Run the World Some Day. Just Ask Him.

In the little towns outside of Dallas, publisher and aspiring politician Joey Dauben is on a crusade to expose abuses of power, civic mischief and -- most of all -- himself.

The Reason Rod Picott's Workingman Songs Ring So True? Dude's Worked His Whole Life.

Joshua Black WilkinsRod Picott​Alt-country singer-songwriter Rod Picott writes songs about the working man because, well, the guy is the embodiment of the working man. For over 20 years, Picott held down a day job hanging sheetrock. At night, to perfect his songwriting, he would hit whatever coffe ... More >>

Putting Their Best Footes Forward for the Launch of Citywide Horton Foote Festival

Photo by Elaine LinerHorton Foote Jr. and siblings Hallie, Daisy and Walter celebrated what would've been their dad's 95th birthday at a party in the Winspear lobby Monday.​Monday, on what would have been their father's 95th birthday, the four children of Pulitzer- and two-time Academy Award-winni ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Octopus Project at South Side Music Haoll, Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience at the Fair Park Music Hall, The Queers at The Boiler Rom (in Denton), Corb Lund at The Granada and Robbie Fulks at All Good Café. Plus: A Few More!

By this busy line up of shows, you'd think it's already Friday.

Tonight, Tonight: Levon Helm at Verizon Theatre, Dr. Dog at South Side Music Hall, Every Time I Die at The Loft, Bear Hands at The Nightmare, The Room Sounds at Doublewide, Salim Nourallah at Bar Belmont and Nadia Washington at The Kessler

It's another hopping musical Thursday evening around town with a show for just about everyone.

WaterTower Theatre's Stunning Our Town Reveals Timeless Truths, Raw Emotions

Whose Town?

Taste of Downtown Plano: Too Hot for Chili? Not in the 'Burbs.

Photos by Conner HowellOne of the judges at the Jack Daniels Chili Cook-off helps himself to another taste.​Sometime it seems like the favorite pastime in Texas during summer is to find the nearest open building with AC. But while you were enjoying your daily dose of AC this weekend, you could ... More >>

Down on the Farm: Are Women Being Denied Credit for Changes to Eating Habits?

In a less patriarchal and oppressive society, she'd be holding the pitchfork.​Ms. Magazine took on food politics this month, arguing in a cover story that women aren't getting enough credit for their contributions to the changing culinary landscape. Author Jennifer Cognard-Black fingers a "fa ... More >>

Samuel Adams LongShot Six Packs Let Homebrewers Shine, Plus Flying Saucer Events Info

Jesse HugheyMile High Barley Wine, one of three beers available in the Samuel Adams LongShot six pack.​Homebrewing is a labor of love, the creative pursuit of some new twist on beer or refinement on a standard style. Few homebrewers expect anything more than a fresh supply of tasty beer and perhap ... 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 >>

Please Stop Listening To Classic Rock

Last Night: Tapes 'N Tapes, Wild Light and Les Americains at Club Dada

Tapes n' Tapes, Wild Light, Les AmericainsClub DadaFriday, January 30, 2009 Better Than: Watching Ghostbusters on the big screen at the Inwood? Maybe. Download: We had a couple photographers at this show, so expect a slideshow by Monday. Before the Minnesotan indie-band Tapes 'n Tapes sta ... More >>

Tapes 'n Tapes, Wild Light, Les Americains

Friday, January 30, at Club Dada

Why Should Legal Immigrants Care About Illegals?

Fair is fair, and bigotry is bigotry. Don't confuse the two

Clearing Out the Mailroom: Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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 four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. Wild Light (New Hampshire)Adult NightsWe received this one recently to ... More >>

In the Bishop Arts District Last Night, Cautious Optimism Gave Way to Joy

The Queers, The Independents, The Lash Outs

Monday, September 22, at The Double Wide

An Update: We're Off To Catch Some Day Shows

What It Was Like: The Remolon, Florence and the Machine, Wild Lights, MGMT, Drug Rug, Yeasayer

Nothing Wise About Black-Brown Conventional Wisdom, Turns Out

Fox Me? No, Fox U.

Dallas Children's Theater Goes to New Hampshire. Bad Grown-Up Things Happen.

The Queers, The Heart Attacks, The Riptides

Thursday, February 1, at the Darkside Lounge

A House Divided

Matt Pond PA

Friday, March 10, at Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Okkervil River, The Elected

Friday, January 28, at Hailey's

Gallo's Pole

The weirdo auteur drives morbidly toward his own money shot in The Brown Bunny

Asch Wipe

You will like Elephant Bar, whether you like it or not

Roots

Pretend your heritage is colorful with the Dallas International Festival

Little people

A Bush victory in November could mean big bucks for small Dallas entrepreneurs

Buzz

Image is everything; Death watch; Miracle cure

Buzz

Now you don't see it...Rumor patrol; Signing off; Flicked up; Study hall; Wyoming, we think

Celluloid as sedative

In a perfect world, movies as dull as Random Hearts wouldn't get made

Nothing ventured

The end of the 1999 legislative session proves that, for Gov. Bush at least, it's better to look good than to do good

Soul of the matter

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

Tear jerks

Simon Birch plays the audience for saps

Feeling small

Pat Buchanan ponders his puny conscience

Lost in loonyland

Pat Buchanan waves the bigot's banner in New Hampshire

The rise and fall of Phil Gramm

Texas' former presidential candidate never learned the art of compromise

'Johnny B' is a good choice

Bryant's announcement should give Gramm a real race