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Rex Brown is Ready to Talk About the Rise and Fall of Pantera

Pick up a copy of Official Truth 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera at any local bookstore or online at Amazon. Rex will be signing copies of the book at Barnes & Noble on Northwest Highway in Dallas on Tuesday night, March 19, at 7:00 p.m. Back in the Nineties, Panetra rocked venue after venu ... More >>

Pension Officials Have Done $1 Million of "Due Diligence" in Luxury Vacation Destinations

The Dallas Police & Fire Pension Fund stumbled into a PR disaster when it went all in on the allegedly-art destroying Museum Tower, but that was far from its only foray into real estate. At times, as Anna reported last year, as much of a third of the fund's $3 billion portfolio has been tied up in l ... More >>

Pension Officials Have Done $1 Million of "Due Diligence" in Luxury Vacation Destinations

The Dallas Police & Fire Pension Fund stumbled into a PR disaster when it went all in on the allegedly-art destroying Museum Tower, but that was far from its only foray into real estate. At times, as Anna reported last year, as much of a third of the fund's $3 billion portfolio has been tied up in l ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Week, November 12-15

The Sea and Cake Thursday, November 15, at Trees, $13/$16 Chicago's electro-jazz group The Sea and Cake has been around, in many forms, since the mid-'90s. The band just released its airy, tenth LP, Runner, a companion album to its 2011 release, The Moonlight Butterfly. The album's single, "Harps," ... More >>

Samuel Adams' 2012 Utopias Is Great or Awful, Depending on Whom You Ask

The Boston Beer Co. has released its 10th anniversary batch of Samuel Adams Utopias, and it's starting to turn up on shelves around town. I spotted some in the cooler at Goody Goody on Oak Lawn Avenue and had a private little beer-nerd laugh -- clearly, the staff there is uninitiated. Utopias is an ... More >>

Before His Improv Sets This Weekend, Prank Legend Tom Green Talks Cancer, New Projects And Why Owling is Complete Horseshit

Marleah Leslie and Associates​Tom Green is best known for livening up MTV with the weirdness of his Tom Green Show, tormenting his parents, strangers and, by having viewers request his "Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)" on the secretly-not-really-live Total Request Live, the network itself with p ... More >>

My First Show: Trashcan Sinatras Recall Seeing The Smiths and The Clash For The First Time and Share Memories Of Their Own Debut, Too.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Trashcan Sinatras​If you were involved with a college radio station in the 1990s, or casually listened to "The Adventure Club" on K ... More >>

The Eagle: A Neophyte Roman General Takes Flight.

The Super Bowl Prostitute Myth: 100,000 Hookers Won't Be Showing Up in Dallas

Where In Dallas To Taste Some of The World's Strongest Beers

Sink the Bismarck! from BrewDog on Vimeo.Scotland's Brewdog brewery made headlines early this year with Sink The Bismarck!, a 41-percent ABV quadruple IPA that surpassed German brewery Schorschbrau's 40-percent ABV Schorsbock 40% as the world's strongest beer. Schorsbock 40% had earlier one-upped Br ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, December 13, 2010

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Various ArtistsImus Ranch Record II (New West)With tunes from Jamey Johnson, Sa ... More >>

Eddie V's Decides Chilean Seabass Isn't Eco-Friendly

Chilean seabass, the poster fish for irresponsible seafood selection, is off the menu at Eddie V's Prime Seafood. ​The uptown steak-and-seafood restaurant is now serving Hawaiian seabass instead, citing customer clamor for "additional sustainable, eco-friendly practices." But the seabass aff ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Frightened Rabbits at The Loft, Javelina at The Nightmare and Bettie Serveert at The Prophet Bar

Triple-bills are the order of the day on this busy Tuesday evening.

The Vaselines

Friday, October 15 at The Loft

Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Show From Nirvana Influences The Vaselines at The Loft

​In this week's print edition, Darryl Smyers talks up tomorrow night's show at The Loft from The Vaselines, who, after bearing an influence over Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in the early '90s, took a 17-year break after their 1992 compilation release, All the Stuff and More..., before Sub Pop released an ... More >>

Frightened Rabbit's Less Scared These Days

It's Good To Make Time For A Bro, Even After SXSW and NX35.

Short Orders: Canary Cafe

​Canary Cafe5100 Belt Line, Addison972-503-7080I seem to remember a time, shortly after engineer-turned-chef Mansour Gorji bought the Canary Cafe space, when he served sushi at lunch.The previous occupant had been a Japanese restaurant and so many of that venue's regulars dropped by hoping for a r ... More >>

Owl City: The Latest In A Long Line Of Rip-Offs

Paolo Nutini

Sunday, September 6, at House of Blues

On The Range: Menudo

On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Why in the world would anyone crave a bowl cow or sheep stomach soup? They do a stuffed stomach dish in Scotland, but that's just to get through Burns Night and all that Scotch...Oh. Great for hangovers.Of course, a gl ... More >>

SXSW Dispatches: Telegraph Canyon Shares All The Good News From Its First SXSW Trip

[Last week, we asked a few bands to check in with us from time to time over the course of the week to tell us about their SXSW experiences. Now, with the fest over, those diatribes are starting to show. Here's Telegraph Canyon frontman Chris Johnson's SXSW diary, for your reading pleasure...] Hal S ... More >>

10 Questions: Jay Liddell

Patrick MichelsThe Dallas-based brand ambassador for Macallan's single malt Scotch line is charged with an important mission: introducing whisky to a younger generation...of drinking age, of course.Before moving to this city, he spent seven years in the Big Apple as an events manager (with a small b ... More >>

Charles Darwin, His Name is My Name Too

Dallas's Charles DarwinLate yesterday, as the world was celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, we spoke to, um, Charles Darwin -- by which we mean the pastoral counselor and life coach with a practice in Dallas. Unfair Park wasn't the first and won't be the last to approach Darwin about the re ... More >>

Burning Question: What Is Burns Night?

The people from Glenliv...Glenlivesh came thish morning wit' foor bottles of Scotsh--foor bottle!!!! An it wash at work, sho our editor jus hadto shut his fat mouf and watch us drink Scotsh. Foor bottle... four. An tol' him to fugg off...Wilonsky too.[Editor's note: What they are trying to say is th ... More >>

Ask a Mexican

Yeah, but can you imagine a macho Mexican man wearing a skirt?

Lone Star Funds' Co-Founder Owns a Castle. Everyone Should, Just Once.

The Dogcatcher

See Ice Cube's dad in Addison

Absolute Power

A chameleonic Forest Whitaker dominates Idi Amin biopic

Hogwarts, North Texas Division

Do you believe in magic? Then we have a school for you, Harry.

Jingle Hell

A holiday truce quells the horrors of war in the masterful Merry Christmas

Maltiple Choice

What's wrong with blended Scotch?

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Plus: The Glasgow School, History Lesson

Back to Africa

Live 8 makes some noise. Hopefully, eight world leaders were listening.

Sweltering Belts

What are the best summertime drinks?

From the East

The DMA's culture bash

Dance, Dance Revolution

This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past.

After the Fall

Temptation flourishes in the garden of Young Adam

What the Devil?

Another comic-book movie goes straight to Hellboy

Tippling Tips

Can you please solve all our alcohol-related mysteries?

Buzz

Spell it out, Double-ya; Name game; American Atheists

His good name

Former FBI honcho Oliver "Buck" Revell fights against conspiracy buffs who accuse him of mass murder

Better Scotch

Adopt these Orphans, before they get in any more trouble

The holler dwellers

The photographs of Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia are so honest, they make you wince

Swing this

Women at war

A battle of ideas sinks Bucket Productions' uneven premiere of Wrens

Of haggis, hairy legs, and plaid

Guerrillas in their midst

Neil Jordan's passion fuels Michael Collins

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Mel Gibson talks about Braveheart, movie stardom, and media treachery