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Thursday, October 18 at Dada

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Madonna Saturday, October 20 and Sunday, October 21, at American Airlines Center, $48.50-$358.50 Get your outfits ready, Madonna is upon us. When she kicked off her world tour back in May, thus began her gigantic seven-month, 89-date trek through Europe before hitting North America, and she'll event ... More >>

The Top 10 Bands at Warped Tour

See also: The Warped Tour in review Judging by the horde at Gexa Energy Pavilion on Tuesday, the local economy is doing just fine. Out of the nearly 100 bands that performed at this year's fest, I've whittled it down to the 10 best that I literally stumbled across. As usual, I found the bands ear ... More >>

The Balls Keep Rolling

Back in December, we pointed out a podcast posted on NPR, which declared meatballs the next big trend. At that time meatballs were taking New York City by storm, and a standalone ball shop had taken root in D.C.'s Chinatown. Then in January, The New York Times reviewed a place called Parm. Pete Well ... More >>

Greatest Version of "Bingo" Ever Played? Ben Kweller and Two-Year-Old Son Collaborate

And Bingo was his name-o. Taken from a 2009 encore of Ben Kweller's set in Salt Lake City, Utah. At least that's what the Youtube tag says.

Fox & The Bird's Road to Tonight's Album Release Show at Sons of Hermann Hall

Sara KerensOn the road with Fox & The Bird...​For the past few weeks, the Family Band-ers in Dallas' Fox & The Bird have been on the road, taking part in their largest tour to date, all of which is meant to promote Floating Feather, the band's long-awaited debut release, which formally com ... More >>

Laryngitis Forces Adele To Cancel Remaining U.S. Tour Dates, Including June 15 Dallas Stop

Hope Adele's break-up songs have helped y'all learn how to cope with loss, because this one might hurt a little bit: After already having canceled five shows (Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland) due to problems with laryngitis, the singer, who is straight destroying the Billb ... More >>

Dredg, The Dear Hunter, Balance of Composure, The Trophy Fire

Saturday, May 28,at the Granada Theater

Dallas Chefs Emerge as Leaders in Food & Wine Poll

​With one voting weekend left in Food & Wine's People's Best New Chef online poll, the Southwest category's shaping up as a three-way contest, with DFW darlings Casey Thompson and Tim Byres leading the pack. As of this morning, Thompson and Byres were locked in a vise-tight race, with Thompso ... More >>

Two DFW Chefs in the Running For Food & Wine Prize

Brownstone's Casey Thompson​Proving once again that Austin has a Justin Bieber-like hold on culinary chroniclers' heartstrings, chefs from the capital city scored four of the ten slots in Food & Wine's online "The People's Best New Chef" competition. For the first time ever, Food & Wine's add ... More >>

Spill the Beans, Sister

Amazon Says That Frisco Is For Lovers ... Of Crappy Books and Movies

Click to embiggen. And em-heart-en. ​The people of Frisco buy so many romantic comedies, romance novels, relationship-help books and Barry White albums on Amazon.com that the website has ranked it the 20th "most romantic" city in the United States.Amazon's methodology was to ask a bunch of 12-year ... More >>

Smoke's Pork Jowls Get a Kiss

​Food & Wine has showered some of its list-love on Smoke's Tim Byres, naming his smoked pork jowls with pickles a best restaurant dish of 2010. As Editor Kate Krader describes the dish: "He slowly smokes cured pork jowl over pecan wood and serves thin slices of the luscious meat as an appetiz ... More >>

Staff Trax: Sleigh Bells, Against Me!, Velocity Girl, Sugar and Pere Ubu

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Q&A: Richie James Follin of The Willowz Talks Maturity and The Letter Z. Also: A Giveaway!

Anaheim, California's The Willowz have been doing the punk/soul/garage/blues thing since 2002--and to some fine results. In 2004, two of the band's songs added much-needed grit to the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Featuring Richie James Follin's screeching, J. Mascis-inspired sin ... More >>

Dirk is Worried About the Mavericks. Are You?

​The Dallas Mavericks fell apart in the fourth quarter last night in Utah. In the last 12 minutes they had more turnovers (7) than baskets (5). Not good. A lead vanished into a four-point deficit and, ultimately, a blowout loss to a Jazz team playing without Carlos Boozer. Yikes. That's three ... More >>

Lilith Fair To Return This Summer With Local Artists And A Dallas Stop

This logo wasn't lying. ​In yet another sign that the '90s are back, or perhaps never really ended, Lilith Fair is returning this summer with a 33-city schedule (including Dallas) revealed so far. Even better news: the lineup is strong enough that you won't have to promise your boyfriend a blowjob ... More >>

Inside Dallas News's Price-Hike Strategy

​The Dallas Morning News's circulation is way down -- by 30 percent since 2007 -- which is just what A.H. Belo higher-ups expected when they decided to start upping the price of the paper. In a "special report," Editor & Publisher details just how the News came up with the decision to charge $ ... More >>

Q&A: Moneen's Kenny Bridges Doesn't Worry About Being Called Emo; He Just Wants to Make it to The Show

Moneen, interestingly framed.​Canadian indie rock band Moneen has sometimes been tagged as an emo outfit--but such a descriptor hasn't necessarily rankled the five guys who make up the band. Founding member Kenny Bridges says he's more worried about Moneen actually making it to the venue and not l ... More >>

Gig Alert: Neon Indian at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

No need to be shy, Alan.​At the risk of beating you over the head with this information, it seems worth our while to remind you that tonight marks the much-anticipated debut of Alan Palomo's newest project, Neon Indian, which has garnered praise from outlets far beyond us and the normal local musi ... More >>

From One Civil Rights Movement To Another, A Same-Sex Kiss-In At Rosa Parks Plaza

Patrick Michels​Check out this photo set for more photos from the kiss-in.It wasn't quite the complete and total kiss-o-rama the posters suggested, but toss in the pecks on the cheek, the hugs and the still-awkward bro-pats between strangers, and there was plenty of same-sex affection out in the o ... More >>

Dallas, So Much Like Pittsburgh

We're awaiting our very copy of John F. Wasik's new book Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream, due to arrive shortly, in which he documents how the housing boom went bust and how walkable cities died a slow death, surprise surprise. And while Dallas and the surroundin ... More >>

No Sympathy for Deserters|Dallas: A Great Place for Worship (And Titty Bars)

10 Questions: Megan Henderson

An era ends today as Megan Henderson waves goodbye to Fox 4's Good Day--and to Dallas.The California native joined the popular morning show in August of 2003, after stints in Wichita Falls (of all places) and Salt Lake City. As the perfect foil for stolid veteran Tim Ryan, she helped turn Good Day i ... More >>

Guantanamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

In Utah, Accused Freeway Shooter's Ex-Colleagues Recall "A Great Guy"

From KSL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, comes this piece about former Utah state trooper Brian Smith, accused of the Monday-night shootings on LBJ Freeway that left two dead. So happens Smith had given the station's crew a highway tour in his cruiser in March 2007, 14 months months before ... More >>

Polygamy and Me

Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but for one mainstream Mormon, the effects linger

Ask a Mexican

In corn vs. flour, wheat gets a smackdown

Stone Temple Pilots, Black Francis

Sunday, June 29, at Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie

An Unprecedented Peek into the Life of the FLDS, Courtesy Portfolio

Murder By Death kills on Red of Tooth and Claw

When Bad Religion Is Much, Much More Than a Punk Band's Name

The Road to Eldorado's Paved With Good Intentions -- Still, Questions Remain

Hot for Hombres

Dallas' Tap Water No Fave Today

Ask a Mexican! Logo Debate Continues

"Eat My Bush" and Other Likely Signs

RE: The Unfriendly Skies

Torino It Off

This horrible Winter Olympics game doesn't even medal.

Truly Alarming

Thank an obscure, unelected city board for gutting the alarm ordinance

The Dwarves

Thursday, November 3, at Galaxy Club

The Polygamists Are Coming!

Nervous West Texas townsfolk brace for the arrival of a sect of Mormon fundamentalists and their many wives

Hush Mush

A teen girl with issues keeps secrets for 50 cents a pop--and who cares?

For Love of The Game

Bumper-car warriors take to the courts in WhirlyBall, a new sport blending hockey, polo, and lots of beer

Earth Crisis

Harsh words

My other secret garden

Garden China needs more than a good weeding

Even punks get the blues

Reliving not-so-happy days in Salt Lake City, 1985

Hoop dreams

Kevin Sullivan devoted 18 years to working for the Mavs. So, was it worth it?

Shameless in Seattle

A breach-of-contract lawsuit dogs A.H. Belo's bid to join the media big leagues

Making schools smarter

Lege fiddles, with results unknown