Santa Claus

The 10 Best Metal Songs of 2012

Compiling a list of the best metal songs of the Apocalypse nearly drove us insane, especially when the tiny devils swarmed our offices, screaming, "We said Warbeast, assholes!" But we ignored their irritating voices and came up with a list that would make David Letterman's original body turn over in ... More >>

A Reader's Christmas Wish for the Dallas Dining Scene

Every once in a while someone mistakes Scott for a food expert and risks ruining dinner by trusting him to answer to a burning question. Got a question about food or restaurants? Send it via Twitter @scottreitz, email or in the comments. An email I received last week has me in a Christmas funk. A r ... More >>

Where's The Ghost of Christmas Presents?

Lights Now. Turkey Later.

My First Show: 2011 Edition

Mike BrooksScratch Acid at Trees​ Since this Sunday is Christmas, we decided to do something a little different with this week's edition of My First Show. Checking back in with a number of the people we interviewed this year, we wanted their takes on the best shows they saw, and to also get a ... More >>

Revisiting the Tragic Tale of Christmas at Porter Chevrolet in '53, For the First Time in Color

Photos by Roy Addis, courtesy Ron HartJack Bridges's Santa perched atop Porter Chevrolet on Mockingbird, taken December 27, 1953​It was around this time last year I stumbled across a photo of a giant Santa Claus sitting atop Porter Chevrolet on Mockingbird, across from the old Dr Pepper plant. Not ... More >>

Symphony Brings A World of Joy

Please, No More Coal

Shudder at Christmas Spirits

Sure, Simmons May Bury Nuclear Waste in West Texas. But It Has To Get There Somehow.

Nuke-Free Texas​We've noted a couple of times in recent days that Gov. Rick Perry's appointees to the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission are but days away from closing comment on Harold Simmons's permit application to bury 36 states' nuclear waste out in West Texas. Ah, ... More >>

There Goes Scroogey Claus

There Goes Scroogey Claus

Souped-Up Sleighs

Yule Have A Ball

Kris Can See You

The Winspear Goes Nuts

Here Comes Santa Claus

Tinsel Author Hank Stuever Pays One Last Visit to Frisco and Does Not Sit On Santa's Lap

​I sent Hank Stuever, author of Tinsel, an e-mail this morning to see how his trip back to Frisco had gone this week (he wraps up a three-day stay with a signing in Fort Worth tonight before he heads down to Austin). He responded thusly: "It was great -- no effigy-burning or anything. People came ... More >>

Last Night: Rodrigo y Gabriela at House of Blues

Rodrigo y GabrielaHouse of BluesOctober 19, 2009 Better than: anything else in the flamenco-meets-rock-meets-mariachi wheelhouse ​ I'd heard about Rodrigo y Gabriela's ability to harness the power of a six-piece band with just two acoustic guitars, but seeing the phenomenon live was nothing sh ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Roti Grill

Roti Grill 4438 McKinney Ave., Suite 100 214-521-3655 (Ordered through Diningin.com) Promised Delivery Time: 60 minutes Actual Delivery Time: 50 minutes and the driver got lost The Score:Outsourced call center efficiency (only problem was that the Canada-based representative misspelled my street, t ... More >>

Christmas Comes More Than Once a Year for Mexicans

Frozen In Time

Make some holiday memories at the Gaylord Texan

Candy, Candy Canes, Candy Corns and Syrup

Get your fill of sweetness with Elf

Eight Lights

Relive Christmas in Deep Noellum

I see over on DC9 Pete's linked to an old holiday fave, the Old 97's performing "Holly Jolly Christmas," taken from the 1995 Big Iron release Honkey-Tonk Holidays: Christmas in Deep Noellum. The disc -- which also features the likes of Cowboys and Indians, Liberty Valence, the Mutineers, the Sutclif ... More >>

Turtle Creek Sparkle

Dallas: Now, The 23rd-Best City in the Whole U.S.A. in Which to Rent a Home

Christmas Party Hop

Rock out to the tunes at the WaterTower

Ho, Ho, Hoe

Santa takes to the frontier

Holiday With The Lollies

Get Scrooged

The master of puppets picks at patrons

Beard-a-Fit was All Whiskey and Whiskers

Reverend Horton Heat

Saturday, December 23, at Gypsy Tea Room

Our top DVD picks for the week of December 12

Lost No Longer

C'mon, but Lubbock?

Odds & Ends

Arm your lyrical swords and prepare your Suge Knight jokes--it's rap battle time at TexasGigs.com

A Very Freeky Christmas with the Freek Out, Ghost of Monkshood, B-Minor Harmonic

Thursday, December 8, at the Cavern

Street Scene

Get the holidays in motion

Trick Treats

The Globetrotters win again and again and again

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Tights Fit

Elf has all the trimmings of a holiday standard

West Bank Story

From Palestine comes an absurdist look at life under Intifada

Cube Attitude

Plus: Folked Up and Holiday Graft Guide

Deck the Malls

Celebrate the holidays at the Galleria

Dreck the halls

Why are most Christmas albums so bad?

Out Here

NIGHT & DAY,

1998 December 3-9

Yuletide resuscitation

Big Iron comes back for another round

The new voodoo

Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility--and, yes, there is a Santa Claus