Retail Trade

The O's Beat Out Phoenix at Local Record Stores

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops; how ... More >>

The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Record Store Day was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

Disappearing Ink

What will happen to all the books?

All of the Arguments About Digital Music, Summarized

Piracy is theft. Piracy isn't theft because nothing physical is being stolen. You are taking money out of the hands of artists. Artists were already being ripped off by labels. Artists can make the money back by touring. Kickstarter. Here is a bulleted list of numbers showing how much it costs ... More >>

11 Shows to See This Marijauna Day Weekend

Paul OakenfoldFriday, April 20, at ZoukZouk's had some controversy surrounding appearances of certain celebrities as of late, but one can expect that super DJ Paul Oakenfold will most likely be there to perform tonight.Jason Isbell & The 400 UnitFriday, April 20, at DadaI'm surprised Jason Isbel ... More >>

After 48 Years, DPD Honors Clerk Who Alerted Them to Lee Harvey Oswald's Whereabouts

Photo by Leslie MinoraJohnny Calvin Brewer, left, led officers to Lee Harvey Oswald after Kennedy's assassination. Pictured with historian Farris Rookstool III, center, and former DPD officer Ray Hawkins, who cuffed Oswald at the Texas Theatre.​After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Erv Karwelis Has Kept Idol Records Going For 18 Years At This Point

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Erv Karwelis​You know who needs a serious set of stones? The person who chooses to run an independ ... More >>

RaceTrac to Help Get Your Coffee Buzz On
To Face the Black Friday Hordes

​Atlanta-based RaceTrac gas station and convenience store chain wants to energize consumers by offering free coffee on Black Friday, November 26. Those touched enough to wake up at an ungodly hour for silly deals now have another one to take advantage of. The promotion will be available from m ... More >>

The Curious Price-Fixing Case of Kay's Kloset Makes a Return to the Supreme Court

Harvard prof Einer Elhauge ​A couple of years back we noted that the price-fix was back in, thanks in large part to a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that eventually put a Flower Mound business out of business. Perhaps you recall that case: Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. Kay's Kloset -- ... More >>

Concessionaire Gilbert Aranza Sues D/FW Airport Board and Files Restraining Order to Stop Them From Kicking Him Out

Brandon ThibodeauxGilbert Aranza​Longtime food-and-beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza filed a temporary restraining order and lawsuit against the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport board late this afternoon, stemming from a disagreement regarding approximately $279,000 the board claims he owes in b ... More >>

Told You: H&M Is Coming to Dallas.

​OK, so the announcement didn't come "early next week," as I wrote in September. And the opening date's a few months away. Still. The hip-n-affordable clothier's a-comin'. To NorthPark Center, specifically. (You were right!) No one's saying just where in the mall, but you can guess. The just-sent ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To See The Gourds Tomorrow Night at the Granada Theater

First time I interviewed The Gourds' Kevin Russell I asked him, of course, about his band's "Gin and Juice" cover. I think it's a requirement actually. Fair enough: The band's had some great moments--and probably more musically impressive ones--over the course of its career, but there's little doubt ... More >>

Picture Show: Celebrating National Record Store Day at Good Records

Sara KerensDoug Burr, live from the AstroTurf.​Three things present at Record Store Day at Good Records--beards, BBQ and a despondent. chicken-suited man. On this rainy Saturday afternoon in the Good Records parking lot, the National Record Store Day mood was calm, for the most part. Not much ... More >>

Good Records, Good Neighbors: Before Record Store Day, a Letter Goes Out

​We all remember what happened during last year's Record Store Day at Good Records -- that was the first time the Dallas police got involved when Erykah Badu didn't have the proper permits. But with Record Store Day a week from tomorrow, Good hasn't soured on the event: On Monday Pete posted the l ... More >>

Another Effort to do Away With Some Antiquated Dry Laws Gets Under Way

What'll Save Radio Shack? The iPhone, Duh.

​On Friday, Radio Shack issued this terse press release: "As part of its ongoing mobility strategy, RadioShack is pleased to announce that it will introduce Apple's iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in a limited number of company-owned stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City metropolitan areas be ... More >>

Food For Thought 5.4.09

"[Sales] may have been negatively impacted by media surrounding swine flu." (Chuck E. Cheese executive Michael Magusiak on the effect of the "pandemic" on the family friendly pizza chain's fortunes, The restaurants suffered a 20 percent drop in same-store sales during the first three days last week. ... More >>

From Memphis, a Local Comic Book Retailer Offers Good(ish) News for the Superhero Biz

It's new-comics Wednesday ... not so's I'd know, um, swear. But it does provide this opportunity to point out that Lone Star Comics' general manager Chris Powell is among those cited at length in a new Publishers Weekly report from the just-wrapped ComicsPRO convention in Memphis, where comic-book r ... More >>

Dallas' Victory Park Struggles to Deliver a Win

Blame it on a bad economy, a bad idea or both. Ross Perot Jr.'s glitzy downtown district is in big trouble

Could Cell Phones Topple iPods?

Could your cellphone's ability to stream music render the iPod obsolete? Quite possibly.

Chaos Control Draws Punks of All Ages to Downtown Denton

But can the new venue weather business without liquor sales?

Baby Chicks

La Reunion hosts a Hatch-ing

Woot: Now Part of "the American Vernacular." Also: Makin' Lots of Money.

Shocking

Good Records Eighth Birthday Party with The Black Angels, Colourmusic, Record Hop and more

Saturday, April 19, at Good Records

Brownie Points

Buy some art, do some good

Sit Down and Watch

Buy the Friendly Skies

Best Kids Clothing Store

Janie and Jack

Out of the Frying Pan

Monica Greene tries her hand at vote-getting

Going, Going, Gone

Lord & Taylor shuffles off into the night

Best Place to Buy Sweet Jeans

Jean Connection

Best Cheap Grocery Store

Grocery Outlet

Best Children's Bookstore

Barnes & Noble

Best Latin Club

Escapade 2001

System of a Down

Steal This Album (Sony)

Various Artists

Sounds Eclectic Too (Palm Pictures)

Empire Strikes Back

The record industry counters piracy in the courts and on CDs. But has it gone too far?

Best Sporting Goods Store

Run On!

Best Strip Mall

Mockingbird Station

Buzz

We shall overcome

With Friends Like These...

CompUSA and Latin America's richest man get a $450 million lesson from a Dallas jury: Friendship and business don't mix.

Blind Man's Bluff

Six things you have to hear

Best place for great junk bargains

Sarah's Thrift Store

Best sushi to go

Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy

Letters

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

Cyber bore

The DotComGuy gets loads of publicity just like this for being a zero

Running hooch

Quick, someone call Walker, Texas Ranger -- there may be bootlegging going on

Buzz