Russell Hobbs

Deep Ellum Blues: How Come These Influential Dallas Acts Don't Have Deep Ellum Murals?

​Deep Ellum is in many ways the music capital of Dallas. Yes, the area has had its ups and downs. No, it hasn't always been the center of the music scene, especially with Denton consistently pumping out artists at a rapid rate. But, fact is, without a doubt, Deep Ellum has for over a century now b ... More >>

Prophet Bar to Debut New Kitchen on Friday, Plans Other Renovations for Near Future

​It's only been a few years since The Prophet Bar started serving booze -- a change that took place when the long-running Christian rock venue The Door changed its name to The Prophet Bar and moved into the space once occupied by The Gypsy Tea Room. The new space for the venue also came equipped w ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Russell Hobbs Remembers Deep Ellum's Beginnings

Russell Hobbs​This is the week that the Dallas Observer will release its annual Best Of issue, so it seems appropriate to open the vault and look back at a Best Of issue from September 2000. During this week 10 years ago, staff writer Jimmy Fowler shed light on Russell Hobbs' then 15-year legacy a ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Street Beat Archives Yield Timeline On Deep Ellum's "Alleged Heyday"

For reasons unknown, 4 Reasons Unknown was the first of the Deep Ellum bands to land on MTV​Sure, this week's selection from the June 17-23 edition of the Observer is a bit of a calendar stretch that would have been better suited for last week, but, whatever, these archived issues don't tend to fa ... More >>

Shallow Reign, The Cush, Mike Graff

Saturday, June 19, at the Kessler Theatre

Fort Worth's The Door Will Now Sometimes Be Called The Bandwagon

​Earlier this week, the Fort Worth location of Russell Hobbs' The Door franchise announced a name change to The Bandwagon. Well, sort of. As Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram learned earlier this week when he broke the news, it's more of a half name-change. Just as is the case with the ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: When 'The Summer of Love' Meant Sex In a Club

"Are you one of the beautiful people? Is my name on the list? I want to be with the beautiful people... I wanna feel like I'm missed..." Eels - "Guest List" I went to high school with a kid named Greg Holman. His father was a painter named George, who lived in the old Expo Park space that l ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Karen Finley and the Delicate Art of Disgust

In the summer of 1986, the Theatre Gallery was all about confronting the established aesthetic sensibilities of the comfortable arts patron. Basically, we loved to shock the shit out of people. Our venue existed to raise the bar on outrageousness and freedom of expression. Example: One of our ... More >>

More Potentially Embarassing Footage Of A Young Rhett MIller

Yep, that's a young pre-97's Rhett MIller in the video from 1987, posted above--just part one of a two-part Hi-Res Diner interview (part deux is after the jump) Dragon Street Records' David Dennard posted to Youtube last week. It's a continuation of this performance, which we showed you last month. ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Anthony and Flea's Tube Sock Diaries

When you're 23 years old, it's all about smoking dope out of an empty beer can, having sex in the backseat of your car, and watching Soul Train the next morning with a hammer-to-the-forehead hangover. At least, it would've been for me, if I had actually owned my own automobile. That period of my lif ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

Echoes and Reverberations: The Trouble With Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Is The Prophet Bar Backsliding? Potentially! Or So Says New Part-Time Booking Agent

Back in the Day, He Was Da Nu Man

The Door and Prophet Bar Owner Russell Hobbs Deserves Credit for Booking Brother Ali

Mokah Music Summit: The Morning After

One Door Closes, Another Door Opens

Life and Death

A Christian venue hopes to resurrect Deep Ellum

Grandpunk

Cynicism is a disease that only the Reverend can heal

Loco for Loco Gringos?

Deep Sixed

Reports of Deep Ellum's death are exaggerated, but not by much

Out of the Closet

With Trees' fate nearly sealed, we look back at its brave beginnings--and, of course, the blood

Coasters for Christ

The One Voice concert series at Six Flags Over Texas is all about Jesus. Unless, of course, you ask Six Flags Over Texas.

Down With the Ship

"Big Steve" Shein ready to make his departure

Kings of Clubs

The coke-drenched era of nightclubs is over, but now a new group of entrepreneurs is ready to reinvent the scene

The Force is With Them

MossEisley is young and talented. Will that be enough to keep these four siblings and the boy next door away from the music industry's dark side?

Even Handed

Lewis makes more progress with Deep Elm Records

Scene, Heard

Robert Jenkins is getting the word out

Plush Comes to Shove

A new alternative gallery gives the status quo a heave-ho

Letters

Falling down; One deluded man; Family matters; The Stick Men speak

Some things he did

Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more

Letters to the Editor

Published January 20, 1999

Still prophesying

Russell Hobbs is born-again as a club owner

Art and Commerce Street

Jeff Swaney and Delphi Group are encouraging people to "take a walk on the fun side" of Deep Ellum

Anywhere but here

Lewis doesn't care if it's really good or really bad, as long as it's not middle-of-the-road

Still life

The Deep Ellum Center for the Arts is celebrating its first year. If it can't figure out what it wants to be, it may also be its last.

Across the Bar

Deep-sixing Deep Ellum Records; The Tomorrowpeople play every song they know; Pleasant Grove gets Last Beat; Adventures of Jet hopes to be Born on the World Wide Web

Tripping over new albums

Daisy makes Good Records

Scene, Heard

Quality Park Records doubles; Pinkston plans to bow; Doni Blair avoids the monkey suit; Charlie Gilder celebrates; Who is A Quick One; Punk rock lives in Arlington

Lip service

The Flaming Lips come back from outer space to deliver The Soft Bulletin

The preacher and the Prophet

Why can't we all just get along? The history, or not, of Russell and Jeff's Deep Ellum

Liberation front

Two local Web sites hope to bring Dallas music to the world

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Want out

Jeff Whittington has moved away from Adam's Farm and built his own brand-new thing

Rhett's exploding

Rhett Miller wanted to be famous for as long as he can remember. Will the Old 97's upcoming Fight Songs finally make him a star?

The artful dodger

Deep Ellum's legendary Theatre Gallery will reopen as the Center for the Arts. The question is, which arts?

Schmidt happens

After 10 years of being told he was the Next Big Thing, former Three on a Hill and Funland frontman Peter Schmidt makes the best record of his career. And he did it, for the most part, all by himself.

Home, sweat, home

New Bohemians reunion heals old and new wounds