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Attention New Bands: Chill, For These Are the Best of Times

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Brian Zenner of Belly & Trumpet on Dinner in Thailand, Bruno Davaillon, Chef-Driven Dining and the Best Time for Cheap Tacos

Chef Brian Zenner of Belly & Trumpet in Uptown has been around a bit. Born in Bangkok, his family moved to Dubai and London before finally settling in Texas. And while on paper his culinary career started at the Texas Culinary Academy, one might say the cooking wheels started churning on a dock in T ... More >>

A Giant Beer Barrel on Wheels Named Woody Will Be Rolling Through Dallas

Deschutes Brewery, the Portland, Oregon-based beer maker known for its delicious alcoholic beverages, is coming to Dallas in a big way this April. I can't even begin to tell you about each of the places they plan to hit, but it's one of the most comprehensive beer blitzes I've seen since taking this ... More >>

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 >>

A Sneak Peek into Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery

I have a bread baker on my holiday list, which means I've had a solid excuse for spending time researching various cookbooks the past few days. First, I landed on Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. It seemed a perfect fit for the baker who was not quite novice, but ... More >>

Five Years Ago, a Dallas Compounding Pharmacy's Mistake Killed Three People. Now, They Get a Slap on the Wrist

On March 30, 2007, 57-year-old Margrit Long went to the Center for Integrative Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She was given an intravenous dose of colchicine, a drug developed to treat gout but commonly prescribed, as in Long's case, to treat neck and back pain. She'd been receiving the treatment f ... More >>

Everclear's Art Alexakis: "I Can't Believe I Am Going to Be in a Red State on Election Day"

At 50, Everclear's Art Alexakis has just about seen it all. The guy has beat a drug addiction, formed a band, and was even elected a delegate at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Oh, he's also toured Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Maybe he really has seen it all. Speaking from a tour stop in New Je ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, November 1-4

Kreayshawn Friday, November 2, at The Palladium Ballroom, $17.50 With controversial 23-year-old rapper Kreayshawn's new album out, of course she's hitting the road. She takes the stage at the Palladium to deliver songs from debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay, and hopefully offer something that eclipses the ... More >>

Chef Dat is Having an Underground Dinner Based on His Culinary Road Trip

With school back in session, many kids will tell exciting stories about "what they did this summer." And while Underground dinner chef David (DAT) Temple might not look like a third grader with his fuzzy beard, he's as giddy as one and can't wait to tell everyone about his summer culinary road trip. ... More >>

Tracing the Hops in Deep Ellum Brewing Company's Newest Beer

See also: *Inside the Fermenting Mind of Drew Huerter, Head Brewer at DEBC When one thinks of fresh farm-to-market produce, it's usually in the vein of carrots and lettuce. And when food is flown across the country via special delivery, it's usually for fish that was swimming in an ocean one day an ... More >>

Ladies, Start Your Mammary Glands: Dallas is Sponsoring a Syncronized Breastfeeding Event

Back in December, the city of Dallas opened its Community Baby Cafe, which provides resources not for eating young children, as the easily confused might be led to believe, but for nursing them. Research has made the benefits of breastfeeding increasingly undeniable, so the city decided to launch CB ... More >>

Tonight at Texas Theatre: Beyond the Black Rainbow Will Make You Paranoid (Around Guys in Turtlenecks)

To follow up last weekend's screening of Urgh! A Music War, Texas Theatre is pulling out an even more obscure film, Beyond the Black Rainbow, a Canadian film released in 2010 that's getting its Texas premiere tonight. Directed by Panos Cosmatos, the film certainly borrows from the spare '70s sci- ... More >>

A Requiem for Cheap PBR

I got a kick out of this picture from Lauren's Love Shack burger story earlier today. Maybe a decade or so ago, I used to buy an occasional six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon at a Giant grocery store near my place. I think I paid $4-something for that sixer. I know I paid less than $5. Half a case wasn't ... More >>

Starfucker's Vowel-Free and on the Dancefloor

Five Best and Worst Album Covers of 2011

The actual artistry of the album cover has been making a comeback. Of course, over the years, the cheesy head shot has gradually (for the most part) faded away and been replaced by, well, art. Go figure. Anyhow, 2011 was a particularly good year for the album cover. Well, there were a few examples w ... More >>

Four Punk Rock Heroines Band Together to Raise a Wild Flag

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Album, Best Electronic Act, Best Punk Act

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Album, Best Electron ... More >>

Dollar Signs and EKG Lines: Dallas Heart Disease Study "Striking" For Poor Young People

​We hear a lot about income inequality these days, as we do about our collectively clogged arteries. But it's less often that we're reminded of how one affects the other. A study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal does just that, tracking the connection between cardiac arrest and ... More >>

Clang, Clang, Crunch: The Truth About Streetcars

Why should Dallas build a tiny, inefficient streetcar line when it's broke? Because trolleys are groovy.

A Guy's Guy: Food Network's Fieri is Awesome, Dude

Food NetworkYou go, Guy.​There may be no other Food Network personality worthy of not just one but, count 'em, two Screen Bites reviews than Guy Fieri. Already the raucous center of a previous appreciation of his kitchen-bound program, Guy's Big Bite, which single-handedly proved that Fieri p ... More >>

Two Tacos from Maple Avenue That Are Good Enough to Marry

The dearth of information on most taquerías and Mexican restaurants in the Dallas area means that often this weekly series relies heavily on leaps of faith (and stomach). Call it food cartography, because, baby, there is no map. It's what barbecue expert Daniel Vaughn does at Full Custom Gospel BBQ ... More >>

Can We Get a Fish Sandwich Around Here?

Jenny Block​Sadly, these are not available in Dallas yet, but they were too cool not to share. No Fish! Go Fish! is a groovy restaurant that my little sister introduced me to in Portland, Oregon. It serves homemade soup (a constantly rotating menu of flavors) and "fish." The joint is owned by ... More >>

Cold Weather: Take a Trip to the Mysterious World of Mumble-Noir.

How A Portland Label Became Denton Punk Rock's Biggest Advocate

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, September 20, 2010.

​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 a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Amy Cook (Austin, TX)Let the Light In (Root House)It's easy to assume that Dall ... More >>

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Dallas' Former Bike Czar Tells Newbie Riders to Go Play in Traffic

Blind Pilot, Low Anthem

Wednesday, October 28, at the Granada Theater

Handle The Proof: An Oregon Grappa

​Most people first encounter grappa in the form of a cheap, punishing brand--the taste of cleaning fluids and jet exhaust being the gentler characteristics.Generally it's also their last encounter with the spirit conjured from the pulpy leftovers of wine pressings. That's right, the unique flavor ... More >>

Will studios go down with the rest of the industry?

Starfucker

Starfucker (Badman Records)

Hair Gel Hurts?

From gasoline to guitar picks, musician necessities get hit by high oil prices

It Took a Baghead to Prove Dallas is Hipper Than New York City

Last Night: The Whigs, What Made Milwaukee Famous, The Dead Trees and Collin Herring

Untraceable Rehashes Other Torture Flicks

Following the film's lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

You'll Laugh Dying

Is a Portland Company a True Guardian of Two Low-Income Dallas Complexes?

Sarah Reddington, New Science Projects, Daniel Folmer and Chris Garver

Wednesday, August 15, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio, Denton

¡Ask a Mexican!

O'Hare of the Dog

Why Plan?

If citywide planning means more apartments and strip retail, let's not plan

Suicide Is Painless

How I learned to stop worrying and love naked women

Girls on Film

Annie Leibovitz presents some remarkable Women

The Whole Boot

Eccolo rises from the asphalt

Crit and Shap 2000

The worst of the worst

Hash Over

Too cool for us

According to Spin, Columbus, Ohio, is more of a music town than Dallas-Fort Worth

Everything's just fine

Coming down with the Dandy Warhols

The shaman and his savior

Documentary Arts preserves the lost music of the Hmong