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The 5 Best DFW Hip-Hop Videos of 2013 (So Far)

As we approach the half way mark of 2013, it's time to recap the five most interesting local hip-hop music videos released so far. There were plenty of releases to choose from, so to keep things diplomatic, I kept it one per artist. Although lyrical content and beat played a part in the decision, th ... More >>

What to Do When it All Happens on One Night in Dallas: End Your Night in A Hip-Hop Video

Some weekends are just an exercise in multiplicity. When the raining turns to pouring there is really only one decision to make: stay in and away from water or jump right in the puddle? In 2013, if we are to keep Dallas excessive, we might have to jump in more puddles. The trick to a menu like las ... More >>

A.Dd Packed 776 People into the Granada: Dallas Hip-Hop Has Arrived

On Sunday night I found myself huddled in a group around a computer monitor at Jesse Porter's two story walk up apartment on the East side. It was around 10:30 p.m. and the Cool Beings founder was hosting a small recovery get-together of sorts. To my left was Cash'mir of Brain Gang and Slim Gravy of ... More >>

A.Dd 's DiveHiFlyLo is Here: Slim Gravy and Paris Pershun Tell Us What it Sounds Like

This Saturday night, The Granada is hosting what will surely be one of the biggest nights of 2013 in Dallas rap. For the release of their highly anticipated new project, DiveHiFlyLo, hometown heroes A.Dd are bringing out -topic, Tunk, and Brain Gang to throw a drop party that is 100% Triple D. In a ... More >>

Dallas’ Four Must-See Art Shows

Tum Tum and Big Tuck - Dada - 11/8/12

Tum Tum, Big Tuck, A.Dd , Dustin Cavazos Dada Thursday, November 8 While Top Shelf Shows has plenty to be proud of lately, last night really proved the fairly new local booking upstart a force to be reckoned with. Though marketed as "The Day Dallas Stood Still," Dallas rap fans did anything but at ... More >>

Rambo Romney Should Call for Restarting the Draft

Make us believe you mean it, Mitt. Bring back the draft. For the better part of a week, I have been reading all these thinly veiled suggestions by Mitt Romney that President Obama isn't enough of an ass-kicker in the Middle East. His aides have been telling reporters that a President Romney right n ... More >>

Where To Blow Your Cash On Fashion’s Night Out

Keystone Pipeline Protesters Tie Themselves to Construction Equipment, Halt Work

Three protesters tied themselves to logging equipment clearing trees for the southern portion of the Keystone pipeline early Wednesday morning. A representative of the group, which calls itself the Tar Sands Blockade, says work on the East Texas site is currently halted. "A caravan of between seven ... More >>

Bi-Biennials, Each Non-Repeating and Fleeting

A.Dd+ Can't Sit Still

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

T-n-A, Done the Right Way

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Bess Yet

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

Helium High

Sci-Fi Paree

Where's Wicko?

Wake Up

David LaChapelle's work Rizes in the Goss Gallery

Good Hunter

Cowtown Twist

Saporé is easy to love

Knockoff

A German new waver resorts to tired old tricks

Swords and Swashes

Men in tights take the stage

Paris, Texas

Wednesday, September 8

Happy Wanderer

Avner Samuel gets the creative juices flowing with Aurora

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Copycat

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

Not Necessarily New

Low culture meets high concept at Plush and Purple Orchid

Wim Wenders

The Director’s Cut

Pele and Tristeza

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

Home movies

Deep Ellum Film Festival debuts

Hash Over

Get real

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

Bar chords

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

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