Santa Monica

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Warren Zevon at Club Dada and Deep Ellum Live in '92

​That record you see at right, signed by Warren Zevon, was given to me by Craig DePoi the night Warren played Club Dada -- July 27, 1992, to be exact. I remember it like it was yesterday. Craig, then working behind the bar at Trees, knew of my fondness for Warren, and after his set asked him to si ... More >>

Big Sean, Now Really Big

Arts Light the Night

Johnette Napolitano Recalls Her Band's First Gig, Before They Were Ever Concrete Blonde

Johnette Napolitano​Johnette Napolitano leads Concrete Blonde back to Dallas later this week for a Friday night gig at the Granada Theater that will no doubt stand as one of the best shows in town. With only a string of shows slated -- three in Texas and all around Halloween time, no less -- Napol ... More >>

Police Officers Flock to Dallas to Learn How to Tweet Like Professionals (#thisisahashtagguys)

​If you're planning on doing anything illegal in the next three days (not that you would), may we suggest keeping well away from the Aloft Hotel on Young Street? That place is crawling with cops. This morning marked the start of the SMILE Conference -- Social Media Internet Law Enforcement -- whic ... More >>

California Dreaming

Tally Hall's Rob Cantor Estimates That His Band's Cult Following Counts 200 Billion Fans

Tally Hall​Michigan's Tally Hall has been together for over a decade, yet has only released two proper, full-length efforts. That's because, like many bands, Tally Hall has been plagued by the major label blues.Seems the folks at Atlantic Records were happy to sign and record the band, just not to ... More >>

A Beautiful Short Film Made in Downtown Dallas Starring the Less Shotgunny Schutze

Jim's on vacation this week. So I'll use that opportunity to highlight a short film starring his boy Will, the Woodrow Wildcat presently residing in Los Angeles, where, between acting jobs, he's busking on Venice Beach, in Santa Monica and in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard ... More >>

T Bone Burnett To Be Honored By The Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy In Ramp-Up To 2011 Grammy Awards

T Bone Burnett​The Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy swears it's kind of a big deal, having created a "best practices guideline" and leading various charges, etc., since forming 10 years ago. OK, whatever. Doesn't really matter.Because, if nothing else, what it's doing in the ... More >>

Lion-Serving Restaurateur is King of the Bungle

What kind of fool offers to serve Americans lion burgers? Bet he resembles this extinct species.​Food lovers, many of whom aren't inclined to get worked up about disallowed goals, have saved their World Cup-related outrage for an act of culinary one-upmanship that unfolded last week in Arizona ... More >>

Is Another TV Show About to Start Shooting in Dallas? Right Now, No One's Saying. Officially.

​Rumor 'round town is that another TV show's setting up production offices in Dallas -- this one, from the man responsible for everything from Armageddon and Top Gun to the C.S.I. franchise, among his myriad hit teevee shows. And, yes, that's one Jerry Bruckheinmer, the man who once told me he mak ... More >>

Gig Alert: Everclear at The House of Blues Tonight

Wrong everclear?​Way back in 1995, Everclear's "Santa Monica" (off the album Sparkle and Fade) was one of the best songs on the radio. And, although often unfairly accused of being Nirvana-lite, Art Alexakis and his revolving cast of backup musicians were capable of channeling a lot more than grun ... More >>

Roy G. and The Biv Chats with LP33.TV

LP33.tv, a music site out of Santa Monica, California, recently interviewed the sometimes Denton-based electro-pop duo Roy G. and the Biv for a short featurette about the band's jazz background, pop sensibilities and the "pretty solid" grasp the duo has of its futuristic, uh, future. Check it out in ... More >>

That Bottle Rocket DVD's Everything We Could Have Hoped For

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

Smile Smile's "Sad Song" Earns Some Happy Radio Play

Attention, All Shoppers, It's Cancellation Day at The Last Mall

Review: Cafe R&D

Café R&D serves up pretty, tasty dishes, but where's the meow mix?

Not Taylor-Made

Owen Wilson's a bad fit for an ass-kicking bodyguard

The Museum of Nature's Mayne Man

Who's Building the New Museum of Nature & Science? Find Out Tuesday.

Nothing Left Behind in Southland Tales

Satan's Playlist

Never fear—we've got your Halloween mixtape here

Free Movie, Free Wine -- Outside Too!

Because No One's Complained About This Subject in a Few Weeks

The Sundance Kids

For alumni of America's most prestigious film festival, winning is less than half the battle

So Very Beck-cellent!

Gaelic Storm

Adios, Entravision

Land Banks

Syriana II: Bee County

Wize Guys

Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

Avant-Garde Gigolos

Art Prostitute makes a Move to the big city

Buzz in the Biz

See the cover of Business Week? That's local promoter Aden Holt's face square in the middle--and for good reason.

Various Artists

Sounds Eclectico (Nacional)

The Nanny Diarios

At WaterTower Theatre, Living Out shines; The Nerd's life of leisure suits the Pocket

Wet Kisses

Riding Giants gushes over the legends of "big wave" surfing

Five Golden Reels

The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

Various Artists

Sounds Eclectic Too (Palm Pictures)

Skate or Die

In the 1970s, the Z-Boys were hell on wheels. Today, they're shredding the big screen.

Boom

Plus: She's a Keepie, The Fix Is In, Kill Us With Crap

Industrial Evolution

The record industry crippled Napster with litigation. But has it made things worse for itself?

California Dreaming

Los Angeles artists bring their defiantly difficult work to Dallas

Oswald's folly

The city wants us to spend millions for a buddy-buddy deal at the Texas Theater

The naked guy

The oldest story in the world

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

Roadshows

Born again

Rickie Lee Jones leaves Chuck E. behind and looks toward tentative tomorrows

Born again

Sam Phillips might be pop music's savior

Roadshows

Letters