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Local Music 'Mericans: Chad Lovell Helped Spur Course of Empire; Now He's Working Hard To Make Your Band Sound Better and Get Heard.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily musicians, but more the behind-the-scenes people who make the scene move.Chad Lovell​Chad Lovell played drums for Course of Empire. Along with fellow percussionist MIke ... More >>

Attention incoming sports fans: If you're going to embrace our city during Super Bowl week, the first step is recognizing our Super Heroes.

New Year's Eve Round-Up: Where To Be and Who To See When The Ball Drops

​As always, Dallas music promoters are making every attempt to pack their venues to the gills for New Year's Eve shows. And, if the stacked bills all over town are any indication, you can be sure that the crowds at many of these shows will, no doubt, be nuts-to-butts. Never mind that tickets are g ... More >>

Show Announcements: Elephant 6 Holiday Extravaganza Tour 2011, Flogging Molly, STYX, Mini Mansions, My Chemical Romance, Kool Keith, Smith Westerns, Yann Teirsen & more

Christmas in March. Thanks Elephant 6!​Over the weekend, at a loft venue in Brooklyn called The Schoolhouse, Jeff Mangum, the man behind the Elephant 6 record label and the band Neutral Milk Hotel, performed a rare surprise set for about 75 onlookers. At the performance, which can be heard over at ... More >>

Q&A: Local Musician/Actor Billy Blair On Working With Robert DeNiro and Don Johnson in Machete, and Balancing His Two Careers

Billy Blair​For no apparent reason, not one, but two Dallas-based musicians made contributions to Robert Rodriguez's latest film, Machete: 17-year-old Tiger Darrow, a burgeoning local pop artist and Rodriguez intern was afforded the opportunity to score three different scenes in the film, and lo ... More >>

Days After Cheering TEA Ratings, DISD Misses Feds' Adequate Yearly Progress Standards

​One week ago today the Texas Education Agency sent word: With significant help from the state, the Dallas Independent School District racked up 63 exemplary schools, while several high schools long on the academically unacceptable list finally get a reprieve. Not all was well, as dropout and comp ... More >>

The Spookiest Joint in San Antonio

Given that the Cowboys last season won a playoff game and buried their ghosts of Decembers past, I have a hunch where these spirits now live: The Menger Hotel. It may or may not actually be haunted, but man is it creepy. The Menger is just across the street from The Alamo, where since the 185 ... More >>

Dallas ISD Scores With 63 Exemplary Schools. But Completion Rates Take Their Toll.

​We warned you in early June, when the Dallas Independent School District crunched some TAKS test scores and released its list of exemplary and recognized schools well ahead of the Texas Education Agency's official date of, well, today: Those numbers were very preliminary. As TEA spokesperson DeEt ... More >>

University of Texas at Austin to Help "Underserved" DISD High School Students

​The University of Texas at Austin sends word today that it's partnering with Dallas-based Education is Freedom -- the beneficiary of Mayor Tom's fund-raiser at the Dallas Zoo on June 26 -- on a pilot program intended to "support students who might not otherwise consider the university as an optio ... More >>

Tracklist: Local Hang with Playlister P, Vol. 9

​Many thanks to all who came out to the ninth rendition of the little monthly event I throw in conjunction with The Libertine every first Monday, The Local Hang. It's been a good time since the jump--and last night was no exception. I mean, c'mon, a legit crowded room of people sitting around, enj ... More >>

Former Local Track and Field Star Athlete, Now Homeless, Recognized by City Council

Patrick MichelsCouncil member Tennell Atkins, who honored an old friend at yesterday's council briefing​The pre-lunch portion of yesterday morning's Dallas City Council briefing offered up at least one heartwarming, non-yawn-inducing moment as one of Dallas's homeless was recognized, if at lea ... More >>

DPD Crime Scene Detective Sues City, Claims Selection Committee Segregated Minorities

Morrey TaylorRoosevelt Holiday​Back in August of '08, Sam wrote about the case of the Dallas Police Department's Roosevelt Holiday, who claimed at the time that he'd been pushed out of his job as a crime scene detective by higher-ups who didn't like the color of his skin. Holiday, who's black, ini ... More >>

DISD's Ranger on Graduation Rates and "The Disintegration of The Family Structure"

DISD trustee Carla Ranger​As we mentioned Monday, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will discuss at tomorrow's meeting its contingency plans for Kimball, Roosevelt, Pinkston and Seagoville high schools should the Texas Education Agency deem them academically unacceptable for ... More >>

While DISD Waits for Word From TEA, Board Considers Contingency Plans For Four Schools

​On Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees will have their "second reading" of contingency plans for four high schools at risk of being labeled academically unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency for a fifth straight year. The at-risk campuses are Kimball, Pinksto ... More >>

Tracklist: The Local Hang With Playlister P, Vol. 1

​Thanks to all the area musicians, DJs, loacl music fans, and, well, everyone else who stopped on in The Libertine last night to check out the little experiment we're calling The Local Hang with Playlister P. It was a night not without flaws--I'll admit that it took me a while to figure out the so ... More >>

Short Orders: Bob's Steak & Chop House

​Bob's Steak & Chop House4300 Lemmon Avenue214-528-9446Quite a number of those who dine out on a regular basis are still in the dark as to Bob Sambol and his legal difficulties. Talk at surrounding tables on a recent visit centered on some encounter with Jerry Jones' bodyguard Roosevelt ("he d ... More >>

Trees' Opening Weekend Lineup Is Now Completely Settled. Plus: More Booking News.

Later this week, we'll have a slideshow of photos taken from inside the building as renovations are being completed, but in the meantime, we can pass along the below info in reference to the goings-on at Trees, as it plans for its Friday, August 14, re-opening..First and foremost: There will be no ... More >>

Trees Settles Opening Weekend Confusion (Maybe), Announces More Shows, And Offers Up Some Redecoration Insights

Trees: Branching out enough?Drove by Trees this morning on the way into the office--and, gotta say, the place looks pretty great. The building's been painted a dark gray color and the outdoor trim on the windows and garage door now boast a bright green. needless to say, it catches the eye. But owner ... More >>

Fair To Midland And Slow Roosevelt To Play Trees' Opening Weekend

We've had the date of August 14 circled on our calendars for some time now--and with good reason; that's when the revered Deep Ellum rock club Trees is set to re-open its doors after after a three-and-a-half year hiatus. And while we've heard rumors of what's to come from Clint Barlow's new club--a ... More >>

Hey DISD Trustees! Do the Math on Magnet Schools.

Magnets just aren’t the budget-busters trustees are pretending they are.

Slow Roosevelt Joins The Reunion Trend

Weight of Evidence

Police detective alleges discrimination and cronyism pushed him out of elite unit

Hallelujah Chorus

God in the Details

For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.

Tim-berrrrr!

A report from the final night at Trees

2004 Dallas Observer Music Awards

You voted. We counted. It's your favorite local acts, amplified.

Lancing Plano

Plus: Wish You Were Here; Clues for Camp

Back and Blue

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” made a lot of people sick to their stomachs. Can Todd and Toby Pipes make them forget?

It's De-Lovely

With Anything Goes, Theatre Arlington makes a Cole Porter musical classic easy to love

Crossing Division Street

How do white people learn what to think about race? It's best not to think about it.

Open Doors

Buzz-Oven is cooking up a new audience for local music. One 16-year-old at a time.

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Scene, Heard

Full disclosure

2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner

Tale of the Tapes

With headliners like Mike Judge and an impressive list of films, the Dallas Video Festival once again wins by knockout

Raising the roof

Dallas' PTAs send a message to school administrators -- listen to us

Russia without love

East-West fails twice, as historical portrait and human-interest tale

Blink

Home for homeless art; Going south

Barnes, Hokkanen & Rubin

aka the mad cat trio (LumpyDisc)

Joe Henry

No monkeying around

Baboon finally gets free of its label and releases its best, most grown-up record yet

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Merry what?

Bleeding arts

When an alcoholic, a schizophrenic, and a homeless man get together and draw, the Stewpot calls it group therapy. Christina Rees calls it art.

Vote the rock

Just call these the Old 97's Observer Music Awards

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

Roadshows

Eighth place in your face

Some sticky PR won't hold Slow Roosevelt back

Should auld acquaintance be forgot

Two area favorites are back--one returning, the other reborn

Losing Faith

Dallas Area Interfaith wants to give the city's poor and disenfranchised a voice in politics. But all critics see is another grab for power.