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The Postal Service are Coming to Dallas: Presale Starts Tomorrow

Update, 2/20, 9:50 a.m. The pre sales have started for East Coast dates. The link goes live to the right of the date, where it currently says On Sale Soon. Once you click, you get put in a queue for tickets, so I'd try and click as close to 10 a.m. as you humanly can. As in, start refreshing your br ... More >>

Crossroads Audio's Ed Spoto: "It's Horrible To Go To A Concert With An Audio Engineer"

Ed Spoto helms Crossroads Audio, which provides many of the mics, PAs, lighting systems and rigs you see at local shows and festivals. Locally, his client list includes acts like Bowling For Soup, Erykah Badu, The Denton Blues Festival and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Nationally, Spoto, his wife ... More >>

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

Chef David Trubenbach at Asador on Sourcing Locally and Grass on the Side

Originally from Williamsburg, Virginia, Chef David Trubenbach got his first job at an IHOP when he was 17 as a way to save money for a car. However, it turned out to be the beginning of culinary career. After high school he enrolled at Johnson and Wales and from there moved to Orlando, Florida, whe ... More >>

A Giant Ferris Wheel Next to JFK Memorial? Great Idea. Finally We'll Be World-Class!

​Big disagreement. My house. Now. Ferris wheel next to Kennedy memorial. Wife, a Dallas native. Self, a carpetbagger. Wife, tasteful. Self, not. Wife says Yankees will criticize city. Self say, so what? Self know more about Yankees than wife. Screw Yankees. It's been almost 50 years. Can't Dallas ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys

Saturday, September 24, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton

Tonight, Tonight: Boyce Avenue at House of Blues, FUnk NUg at Hailey's Club, Heartless Bastards at Dan's Silverleaf and Genitorturers at Trees

It's a busy musical Monday with both touring acts and local shows aplenty. Get out and enjoy some good music to go along with the good weather.

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 23: DJ WISHFM

​Wade Randolph Hampton, aka DJ WISHFM, is seasoned at his craft. The DJ/booker/promoter and now, band manager, has been spinning for 25 years at this point. Never one to slow down, Hampton books for The W's rooftop club, Ghostbar, serves as that club's resident DJ, and manages popular local acts i ... More >>

Clearing Out the Mailroom: Wednesday, October 7, 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.Backstreet Boys (Orlando) This Is Us What's left to say about these guys? ... More >>

Do Two Rights Make a Wrong? (Cornerback, That Is)

Wonder if Orlando will be as cool as Craig? ​Back in 1971 a genius named Tom Landry decided it was a swell idea to alternate quarterbacks Roger Staubach and Craig Morton - on every friggin' play. But after his Dallas Cowboys bumbled along at 4-3, the coach decided on Staubach full-time ... More >>

Going Green While Making Green? WSJ Ponders Bush Turnpike's Toll Collection.

One day after the President George Bush Turnpike went to all-electronic toll collection, The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog takes note of one of the North Texas Tollway Authority's reasons for ditching the quarter-catchers: "Air Quality and Fuel Efficiency." As in: "Transitioning t ... More >>

All My Excess Lives in Texas

Fingers crossed, WE will duplicate this joy tonight. Right?So I'm watching the Channel 8 news Monday night at 6:29 and after a sparkling fill-in sportscast by Ted Madden he alerts viewers that: " ... in the game, Texas already trails, 1-0." To which anchor Gloria Campos valiantly responds, "A ... More >>

D.J. Mbenga 1, Dirk Nowitzki 0

Watching the Lakers party in Orlando last night - I was wrong about L.A. in 4, but just barely -was a reminder how cruel sports can be. While former Mavericks D.J. Mbenga and Josh Powell hugged and kissed the NBA's Larry O'Brien championship trophy, current Maverick Dirk Nowitzki is l ... More >>

10 Questions: Megyn Price

Yeah, she's one of those budding Hollywood stars. Price played in films good (Mystery, Alaska) and bad (Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector)...so clearly she's paid her dues.These days she's part of the ensemble driving the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement, set to begin its third season on Monday, M ... More >>

Mav. Wrecks.

Four straight losses. Four spots dropped in the standings. A four-game, East Coast road trip looming that ends at Detroit and Boston. Mark Cuban even lost his request for Denver's J.R. Smith to be disciplined by the league for throwing an elbow at Antoine Wright. In short, not a good week for your ... More >>

Gig Alert: Got the Hump Day Blues? Well, There's Actually A Ton of Good Shows Tonight...

Spend your Wednesday night under Eugene Chadbourne's gaze.With the fact that we're just two weeks off from Christmas, and, well, it being Wednesday and all, you'd think this would be a slow night for good shows. Well, you'd be mistaken. There's actually several acts playing about Metroplex tonight-- ... More >>

Vote First, Party Later: Presenting Your Election Night Music Options

Local Shock Rock Act Ghoultown Collaborates With Legendary Horror Hostess Elvira

"Yes, We Have Rooms Available."

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Homophobe Raises Dallas Dough to Fight Cali Same-Sex Marriages

Forbes Says Dallasites Waste 58 Hours a Year in Traffic. So, Please, Stay Home.

UFL Passing on '08 Start Date

Doug Dunbar Is Now Channel 11's Hardest-Working Anchorman

Orlando Julius| Tony Allen

Super Afro Soul (Vampisound)| Afro Disco Beat (Vampisound)

Wood on Woods (Or: Silver Balls)

Colombo's Big O

Sinking Ships | Fantasy Grill | Grotto Gripes | California Dreamin' | Freaked | 'Tis a Pity

Trivium, The Sword, Protest the Hero, Seemless

Sunday, November 5 at Ridglea Theater, Fort Worth

Texas de Kaching

Little Boy Blue

Believers say indigo kids are the next wave of evolution. Sort of like X-Men, but without the cool uniforms.

Wize Guys

Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

DJ Baby Anne and Jen Lasher

Assault & Battery (System Recordings)

Could Be Verse

A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again.

Porn Pawns

The kings of smut escape while the feds cook up small fry like former Dallas cop Garry Ragsdale

Bam Boo-boo

New operators revamp Bamboo Bamboo

AK1200

September 21

Durham Bull

In The Rookie, a middle-aged man throws heat but leaves us cold

The Living End

Swim with sharks and housewives in this effective psychological drama

The Backstreet Boys

Black and Blue (Jive)

Letters

Surfin' Texas; The Other Side; Hillbilly Justice; Willis Bashing; Death and Taxes; Superman Lives; Doomed to Fail

Body shots

Mariah Carey's new video is an insult to your intelligence, but it's much more than that

Hash Over

Tuscan lurch; Mixed hash

Homefires burning

Jimmy, Jimmy is quite contrary to Fornes' latest

Armchair Athletes Unite

Gamers give one for the thumb

Night & Day

June 3 - 9, 1999

Seagoing Italian

At Lombardi Mare, one of Dallas' top restaurateurs explores uncharted waters

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX