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Shreveport

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    If Amtrak and TxDOT Can Swing It, You'll Be Able to Take Train From Dallas to Shreveport

    ​Saw that AP piece this morning about how Amtrak and the Texas Department of Transportation are looking at connecting Dallas-Fort Worth to Shreveport-Bossier City, which would involve inserting a stop at the Trinity Railway Express's CentrePort/DFW Airport station. But the piece isn't clear: Shoul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    PETA Ends Meat-Eating Forever With Brave Public Make-Out Session Downtown

    Photos by Jay Barker​Let's give credit where it's due: you can't ever accuse PETA of letting cold weather, common sense or good taste ruin the opportunity for a perfectly good publicity stunt. As promised, the group returned to their favorite downtown street corner, Main and Akard, this morn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    He Co-Designed DART's Traveling Man. Now, Brandon Oldenburg Is Up For an Oscar.

    While browsing this morning's list of Academy Award nominees, I came across one very familiar name: Brandon Oldenburg, beneath the heading Short Film (Animated). For years, of course, he was best known as one of the bright young minds behind Deep Ellum-based Reel FX. Then he became known as the man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    The Master List: The Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, January 13-15

    If there's ever a zombie attack or outbreak of some mutated virus that turns most of the population into blood-thirsty cannibals, we hope we don't survive because we're not equipped to kill the undead. Plus we've learned from movies that no one usually lasts too long. Who knows how many people will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Going Underground for a Good Meal

    ​I had the luck to attend one of chef David Anthony Temple's Underground Dinners. Temple began his career in Louisiana and traveled around the world before settling here in Dallas, where he started working with Tom Spicer. His passion is using the best local and regional ingredients to make di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Mark Your Calendars: The Residents To Make a Rare Appearance at The Granada Theater on February 3

    The Residents​A couple of days ago, Jesse Hughey did a great job cluing you in on all the great concerts coming to our area in the coming weeks, but if I may take a moment to point you in the direction of one he missed: Avant-garde legends The Residents are playing the Granada Theater on February ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Giveaway: Six Pairs of Tickets to Catch Fair to Midland at the Granada Theater on Saturday. Plus: A Fair to Midland Prize Pack!

    ​ With the calendar year about to turn, we're coming up on three years of Fair to Midland promising new material and not coming out with it. So when I spotted frontman Darroh Sudderth not too long ago at Trees, I asked him what was up.His response? "It's a process," he said with a shrug.Lucky for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Year in Review: Way Down South With the Best Rap Albums of 2009

    Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing; with a few exceptions like Raekwon and Kid Cudi, most of 2009's exciting, innovative rap records came from Southern artists. Sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Video: SHO.--"Stick N Move"

    Along with live performances by Peer Pressure, Loose Cannons, Fritz Floyd and the DOMA-nominated Dem Southernfolkz, this month's Final Friday showcase at the Liquid Lounge also features SHO. SHO., born Justin Hill, is a relative newcomer to the local hip-hop scene, having moved from his native Loui ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2009

    The Dallas Diesel Give Football Has-Beens and Hopefuls One More Shot at the Gridiron

    Along with live performances by Peer Pressure, Loose Cannons, Fritz Floyd and the DOMA-nominated Dem Southernfolkz, this month's Final Friday showcase at the Liquid Lounge also features SHO. SHO., born Justin Hill, is a relative newcomer to the local hip-hop scene, having moved from his native Loui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Download: DJ A Bay Bay -- "I Stay (feat. Dorrough, Fat Pimp, Trai'D and Tum Tum)"

    ​ KKDA 104.5-FM afternoon drive-time jock DJ A Bay Bay is a pretty big deal--and not just locally, but, y'know, nationally. The former Shreveport DJ is, after all, the namesake behind the Shreveport rapper Hurricane Chris' 2007 massive 2007 single "A Bay Bay". So, there's that.Since moving to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Would You Like to Play for Dallas's New ABA Team? No, Seriously. And, No, It's Not 1967.

    Says here that on August 22 at Mountain View College, the American Basketball Association's Dallas Generals will hold it final tryouts and a combine -- seriously, the ABA returneth? Dunno how we missed it, and I've yet to find mention made anywhere else, but at the end of May, the ABA announced that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    10 Questions: Jon Bryan

    Patrick MichelsHell with all this 'mixologist' talk. After 16 years behind a bar, Bryan calls himself an inebriation specialist.The Grapevine's longstanding early shift bartender--he signed on in 1998--knows most people in the joint by name...or he will, if you show up again. His casual, chatty and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Good Friday: Vance Gilbert, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Patrice Pike, Eleven Hundred Springs, Salim Nourallah, Hendrick, John Lewis Band

    Weekend time!First, the shows we already hipped you to...Tonight, there's Marcia Ball at the Granada, Dale Watson at the Pearl Dancehall and Saloon in Fort Worth, Lou Gramm at the House of Blues, and, finally, at the Double Wide, there's a nice bill with Johnny Lloyd Rollins, Bridges & Blinking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Whitt's End

    Welcome to my dark, dank, little out-of-the-way catch-all corner.In here every Friday  afternoon you'll find those cumbersome little pieces parts, fleeting thoughts and mind crumbs I couldn't crowbar into other posts. It's where I'll come to clear my head, and to clean out my notebooks.Whether ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2008

    Quincy Carter to Reunite With Bill Parcells, At Least for An Afternoon

    Welcome to my dark, dank, little out-of-the-way catch-all corner.In here every Friday  afternoon you'll find those cumbersome little pieces parts, fleeting thoughts and mind crumbs I couldn't crowbar into other posts. It's where I'll come to clear my head, and to clean out my notebooks.Whether ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    Beating the Bushes With Ollie Stone

    Welcome to my dark, dank, little out-of-the-way catch-all corner.In here every Friday  afternoon you'll find those cumbersome little pieces parts, fleeting thoughts and mind crumbs I couldn't crowbar into other posts. It's where I'll come to clear my head, and to clean out my notebooks.Whether ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    In Case You Missed It: Two Killed At Garland's Zion Gate Recording Studio

    Welcome to my dark, dank, little out-of-the-way catch-all corner.In here every Friday  afternoon you'll find those cumbersome little pieces parts, fleeting thoughts and mind crumbs I couldn't crowbar into other posts. It's where I'll come to clear my head, and to clean out my notebooks.Whether ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2008

    Local Percussionist Dies In Wreck

    Welcome to my dark, dank, little out-of-the-way catch-all corner.In here every Friday  afternoon you'll find those cumbersome little pieces parts, fleeting thoughts and mind crumbs I couldn't crowbar into other posts. It's where I'll come to clear my head, and to clean out my notebooks.Whether ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Quincy Carter Will Never, Ever Run Out of Chances to Throw a Football

    Welcome to my dark, dank, little out-of-the-way catch-all corner.In here every Friday  afternoon you'll find those cumbersome little pieces parts, fleeting thoughts and mind crumbs I couldn't crowbar into other posts. It's where I'll come to clear my head, and to clean out my notebooks.Whether ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Headline Coming Soon: Quincy Carter’s Career Goes to Pot. Again.

    Welcome to my dark, dank, little out-of-the-way catch-all corner.In here every Friday  afternoon you'll find those cumbersome little pieces parts, fleeting thoughts and mind crumbs I couldn't crowbar into other posts. It's where I'll come to clear my head, and to clean out my notebooks.Whether ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 7, 2008

    Gossip Girls

    See Sally Struthers in Steel Magnolias

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2007

    Quincy Carter's Career Goes to Pot, Again

    See Sally Struthers in Steel Magnolias

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2007

    But What's the Resale Value?

    See Sally Struthers in Steel Magnolias

  • Summer Guide

    May 24, 2007

    Dirty Dancing With Lady Luck

    Take a trip north or east on the road to riches, maybe

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2007

    A Setback in Quincy Carter's Latest Comeback

    Take a trip north or east on the road to riches, maybe

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    Hard Time With Jesus| No Tears for Quincy

    Take a trip north or east on the road to riches, maybe

  • News

    April 19, 2007

    The Hangin' Judge | Quincy Comes Clean | Pull Up Your Pants

    Take a trip north or east on the road to riches, maybe

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Amazing Disgrace

    Quincy Carter's fall from America's Team to Shreveport sideshow

  • Film

    February 8, 2007

    Edie Made Easy

    Queen of the Factory and '60s Beauty #1 gets the superficial biopic treatment

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2006

    Romo Wins Job!

    Queen of the Factory and '60s Beauty #1 gets the superficial biopic treatment

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2006

    Bridge Over Troubled Waters

    Queen of the Factory and '60s Beauty #1 gets the superficial biopic treatment

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2006

    It's All About Perspective

    Queen of the Factory and '60s Beauty #1 gets the superficial biopic treatment

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2006

    Scouting Dallas...in Louisiana

    Queen of the Factory and '60s Beauty #1 gets the superficial biopic treatment

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    Stuff It

    Plus: Liberal Libations

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2005

    Lion Around

    Celebrate the Year of the Rooster with Team White Leopard

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2004

    L.A. Law

    If the talk doesn't rock, then you must walk

  • News

    July 24, 2003

    Decked

    More square than Rounders, our columnist finds new friends who'll take his poker money

  • News

    February 6, 2003

    Off the Hizzle

    Plus: Double D'oh, Bolly Wanna Poppadum?

  • Calendar

    August 1, 2002

    Lovin' in the Oven

    Tanya Holland puts soul into her cooking at Central Market

  • News

    August 1, 2002

    The Ex-Con Game

    How do we deal with the staggering number of prisoners re-entering society? Ned Rollo thinks he knows. He should. He's been there.

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    The Player

    Dallas' T.J. Cloutier may be the best tournament poker player in the world--even though he's never won the "big one." You can bet on it.

  • Dining

    July 5, 2001

    Bebop Pabulum

    Sambuca has all the requirements of a jazz club

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    The Phantom Menace

    In 1946, a serial killer haunted sleepy Texarkana, stalking his victims under the cover of night. Investigators wonder if he died decades later in a Dallas rest home--or simply disappeared.

  • Music

    August 12, 1999

    Spin city

    On Edgeclub and a new compilation, DJ Merritt proves he is one of electronic music's Torchbearers

  • News

    May 20, 1999

    Letters

    On Edgeclub and a new compilation, DJ Merritt proves he is one of electronic music's Torchbearers

  • Dining

    October 1, 1998

    Swat it!

    Dragonfly darts with a tedious buzz

  • Music

    January 8, 1998

    Roadshows

    Dragonfly darts with a tedious buzz

  • News

    April 4, 1996

    Fouled nest

    Chicken king Bo Pilgrim meets his critics on his home turf

  • Music

    January 18, 1996

    T.C.B. or T.Y.A.

    Bobby Patterson, Dallas' great unsung soul singer, gets his Second chance

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