Paris (Texas)

Good Hunter

Where's Wicko?

Events for the week

Bar chords

Harry Dean Stanton sings--but then, he always has

Get real

Arena shills say only tourists will get soaked by a new tax on rental cars. They're lying.

Guts 'R' us

Trenton Hancock is crossing the color line with his visceral works of art

Helium High

Trenton Hancock is crossing the color line with his visceral works of art

Sci-Fi Paree

Trenton Hancock is crossing the color line with his visceral works of art

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Swords and Swashes

Men in tights take the stage

Wake Up

David LaChapelle's work Rizes in the Goss Gallery

Cowtown Twist

Saporé is easy to love

Knockoff

A German new waver resorts to tired old tricks

Paris, Texas

Wednesday, September 8

Happy Wanderer

Avner Samuel gets the creative juices flowing with Aurora

Country in Crisis

Plus: War,the Sequel; French? Toast!

Beer Bust

It's better to come to BJ's with a thirst than an appetite

Copycat

Check out the wine program at Sonoma, but you should probably eat before you go

Kitchen Prism

Food is art at Mirabelle

Not Necessarily New

Low culture meets high concept at Plush and Purple Orchid

Wim Wenders

The Director’s Cut

The Sundance Kidder

With his own movie in tow, Dallas' indie-film guru goes to Robert Redford's festival, falls in love with the First-Timer, and embraces the hype

Pele and Tristeza

The Nudes (Polyvinyl Records) | Dream Signals in Full Circles (Tigerstyle Records)

Home movies

Deep Ellum Film Festival debuts

Speed trap

Stay way, way out of Happy, Texas

Ru-Fi-No! Ru-Fi-No!

Stay way, way out of Happy, Texas

Bess Yet

Stay way, way out of Happy, Texas

A Long-Lost Twain Comedy Comes to Life in Addison, and T2 Burps Up an AA Play

Stay way, way out of Happy, Texas

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 10: DJ Red Eye

​ DJ Red Eye has been DJing professionally for 20 years and was exposed to the art of spinning at an early age. "My uncle was a big disco DJ in Austin back in the day," he says. "His record collection always fascinated me as a kid. I've always leaned toward electronic music as well. DJing was just ... More >>

Bon Appetit Sends Readers Running to Fort Worth For Pie

igougo.comParis' Famous Chocolate Pie ​Dallas continues to be slighted by culinary bigwigs. This time, Dallas has narrowly missed getting hit by a cream pie thrown by New York fine food arbiters - and that's not a good thing. Said pie landed smack dab in the middle of Paris Coffee Shop in Fort ... More >>

Last Night: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the Palladium Showroom

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Grace Potter and the NocturnalsPalladium ShowroomSeptember 23, 2010Better than: well, not beholding the power of music that can make a white man try to dance.Sharon Jones and her Dap-Kings​Last night, an audience of about 600 people at the Palladium Showroom (former ... More >>

Bonus MP3: A.Dd feat. Brown of Sore Losers -- "Likeamug"

Blue from Sore Losers and A.Dd 's Flaco and Paris.​Back in March, the last time we passed along a track for download from A.Dd 's debut mixtape, When Pigs Fly, we announced with great anticipation that the disc was "due out in the next few weeks." Now, almost six months after the fact, the disc i ... More >>

Prepare for a Journey...

Blue from Sore Losers and A.Dd 's Flaco and Paris.​Back in March, the last time we passed along a track for download from A.Dd 's debut mixtape, When Pigs Fly, we announced with great anticipation that the disc was "due out in the next few weeks." Now, almost six months after the fact, the disc i ... More >>

T-n-A, Done the Right Way

Blue from Sore Losers and A.Dd 's Flaco and Paris.​Back in March, the last time we passed along a track for download from A.Dd 's debut mixtape, When Pigs Fly, we announced with great anticipation that the disc was "due out in the next few weeks." Now, almost six months after the fact, the disc i ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: A.Dd Explains Its Love For Cee-Lo, Gorillaz and Maroon 5

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. We're calling it Unexpected Influences -- because, we hope, that's what it will show.A.Dd ​Local hip-hop duo A.Dd , rappers Paris P and Slim Gravy, has been on our radar ever si ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: A.Dd , Picnic and Sore Losers' Brown Are Out To Prove That They're Ready To Blow Up at No. 18

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 18 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to grab the song as a free do ... More >>

The Tunnels Didn't Kill Downtown. The Lack of People Downtown Killed Downtown.

​Here's another thing. Have you read all this crap about how the city is going to plug up the tunnel system downtown because some waffle-brow bow-tie city planner told them that's why nobody's on the sidewalks? Downtown has pedestrian tunnels between many of the buildings. Originally they wer ... More >>

Dallas, a Polka City in a Rock and Roll World

​A couple weeks ago in my guise as Jim Schutze, really cool hipster (instead of crazy old man with gun), I wrote a post for DC9 At Night about Michael Seman, a research associate and doctoral candidate at University of North Texas' Center for Economic Development and Research, who is developin ... More >>

nib chocolate's Stephen Smith on the Sweet Life

​Here's some hopeful news for all you C students out there: At the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris, Stephen Smith's "worst subject of everything was chocolate." Apparently, he got better. In fact, he got good enough to operate his own wholesale chocolate business, nib cho ... More >>

Wherein We Talk to the Realtor Trying to Sell Two of Downtown's Greatest Assets

Justin TerveenInside 1401 Elm Place, the George Dahl-designed former First National Bank tower​John Crawford and I just had a long talk about downtown -- since, ya know, it is his thing. And later today I'll get to some of newsier items he revealed during the course of our chitchat. But I'd origin ... More >>

The Six Best Fleet Foxes Concert Videos on YouTube

YoutubeSweet fancy moses, listen to those harmonies.​Fresh off climbing Billboard's charts -- and, y'know, selling a planet-size chunk of records -- Fleet Foxes will be stopping by Dallas tomorrow night. Like you didn't already know. But here's something you might not be aware of: Tonight at 8:30 ... More >>

Will Johnson Releases Solo EP, Josh T. Pearon Gets Daytrotted and Robert Gomez Gets Smart.

​Three dudes who were once local but aren't any longer -- Will Johnson (Austin), Josh T. Pearson (Paris) and Robert Gomez (Seattle) -- are up to some cool things of late. One just released a new EP. Another gets some lingering post-SXSW. And the third needs your help in putting out a whole bunch o ... More >>

Vanilla Ice To Bring "Earthquakes With Aftershakes" at Gathering of the Juggalos '11

iTz VaNiLla IcE, y'ALl!​It's coming: This weekend, in a video starring Dallas' Own Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), the Insane Clown Posse announced the lineup for its annual Gathering of The Juggalos event, which this year will run August 11 - 14 in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.What's kind of crazy, t ... More >>

Four Decades After L.M. Kit Carson Birthed Dallas's Modern Film Scene, His Diary Returns

L.M. Kit Carson in David Holzman's Diary​From time to time we'll name-drop L.M. Kit Carson, perhaps the most influential local-born filmmaker, with good reason: The Irving-born actor (Running on Empty, great on Miami Vice) and writer (Paris, Texas with Sam Shepard; that Breathless remake) was co-f ... More >>

Taking a Look at the Best Local Releases in 2011 So Far

L.M. Kit Carson in David Holzman's Diary​From time to time we'll name-drop L.M. Kit Carson, perhaps the most influential local-born filmmaker, with good reason: The Irving-born actor (Running on Empty, great on Miami Vice) and writer (Paris, Texas with Sam Shepard; that Breathless remake) was co-f ... More >>

Chromeo Postpones House of Blues Gig, But It's Still a Crazy Busy Wednesday Night of Shows...

Sad news out of Paris yesterday, as French electronic producer Dj Mehdi died at the age of 34 after a roof collapsed in his home. The Ed Banger Records-backed DJ had collaborated with a number of big names over the years, including works with Daft Punk and Chromeo (see above). Tonight, Dallas will f ... More >>

Arts Light the Night

Sad news out of Paris yesterday, as French electronic producer Dj Mehdi died at the age of 34 after a roof collapsed in his home. The Ed Banger Records-backed DJ had collaborated with a number of big names over the years, including works with Daft Punk and Chromeo (see above). Tonight, Dallas will f ... More >>

Now Open: Seafood Grill Lazaranda in Addison Walk

​Lazaranda had its soft opening Tuesday in the Addison Walk complex at Beltline and the Tollway. It's a beautiful spot with a large dining room, patio, outdoor and indoor bar, and a lively vibe. The extensive menu is full of fish, shrimp, ceviches, tostados, tacos, enchiladas and soups, all w ... More >>

Wrappin' With Diane von Furstenberg

​Lazaranda had its soft opening Tuesday in the Addison Walk complex at Beltline and the Tollway. It's a beautiful spot with a large dining room, patio, outdoor and indoor bar, and a lively vibe. The extensive menu is full of fish, shrimp, ceviches, tostados, tacos, enchiladas and soups, all w ... More >>

Descendants Ascends to Top of DFW Crix List

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>